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clypeo reeiirvo ad latera ampliato, a fronte linea obsoletissima di- 

 viso ; prothorace bre^d, ^ax dense punctato ; elytris parcius sub- 

 rugoso-pimctatis, singulis strici suturali lineisque tribus obsoletis- 

 simis instructis ; pedibus rufo-pieeis, tarsis darioribus ; palpis an- 

 tennisque rufo-testaceis, clava pallidiore. 



Mas jilerumque minor, pygidio propygidioque subtilius punctatis, an- 

 tennarum clava elongata, palporum maxillarium articulo ultimo 

 latissimo obovato-ovali. 



Foem. plerumque major, pygidio propygidioque profundius punctatis, 

 antennarum clava breviore, palporum maxillarium articulo ultimo 

 subovali (in medio paulo latiore). — Long. corp. lin. 0-8. 



Melolontha fuscipennis, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 61, pi. 1, f. 1 



(1838). 

 Ootoma fuscipennis, Blanch., Cat. Col. Mtis. de Paris, 120 (1850). 



Habitat Fuerteventuram et Teneriffam, in iisdem loeis ac praecedens 

 degens. 



As may be gathered from what has been said, the dull, brownish- 

 castaneous, more or less concolorous hue of this insect (in which, 

 however, occasionaUy the prothorax and ocmsionally the elytra are 

 somewhat more rufescent than the rest of the surface), combined wdth 

 its just perceptibly less densely punctured pronotum, and the enor- 

 mously developed last joint of the maxillary palpi of its males, whilst 

 that even of its females is slightly wider (and less ci/Undrlc) than is 

 the case in the corresponding sex of the hipartita, will serve to dis- 

 tinguish it from that species. I have taken it, from out of burrows 

 in the soil beneath camels' dung, in the Rio Palmas of Fuerteventui'a ; 

 as also, though more sparingly, in Teneriife : and I captured two dead 

 specimens in Palma which are in all probability referable to this 

 species ; but they were in such a mutilated condition (having been 

 extracted from a cobweb) that I cannot state this for certain. 



§ II. Scutellum puree punctatum, sed lineis dimhus ohliquis 

 vix impressimi. 



314. Ootoma Integra, n. sp. 



0. fusco-castanea, nitida, subtus (abdomine excepto) necnon supra 

 ad margines subfulvescenti-pilosa ; capite densissime et profunde 

 punctato, clypeo recurvo ad latera ampliato, a fronte linea obsoleta 

 diviso ; prothorace valde profunde rugoso-pimctato ; scutello pos- 

 tice rotundato-obtuso, ad basin ipsam punctis perpaucis (et vix 

 lineis duabus brevissimis rudimentaribus) notato ; elytris paulo 

 rufescentioribus parciusque rugoso-punctatis, singulis stria suturali 

 obsoleta lineisque tribus obsoletissimis instructis ; pedibus rufo-pi- 

 ceis, tarsis clarioribus, tibiis anticis extus fere integris (i. e. dentibus 

 obsoletis) ; palpis antennisque rufo-testaceis, clava pallidiore. 



Mas adhuc latet. 



