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of the speciinens which I possess of the 0. Grypus from Portugal, 

 Spain, and the south of France. Thus, it is rather smaller (its male 

 prothorax being more particularly diminished) ; and its body beneath, 

 as also its pygidium and propygidium, are more pilose, — the two lat- 

 ter moreover being less developed, so that the elytra cover either the 

 whole or nearly the whole of the propygidium (which also has its 

 minute transverse strigae, used for the purpose of stridulating, very 

 much coarser). In other respects, the beak-like process of the cly- 

 peus is rather shorter, more triangular, and usually more recurved 

 (though less evidently excavated) at the apex ; its f/ence are much less 

 porrect in front and less produced behind (where they do not ex- 

 tend below the middle of either eye) ; the large prothoracic excava- 

 tion of its males is more ividely polished posteriorly, and has the 

 hinder supplemental depression at either side deeper and better de- 

 fined, whilst the elevated middle portion at the base is much less 

 convex and has its edge acuter and differently formed — being obscurely 

 trisinuate, with the centre minutely and obsoletely bifid and rather 

 more advanced than the lateral angles (instead of being obtusely tri- 

 dentate, with the outer projections greatly developed) ; and the 

 punctures of its elytra immediately outside the subsutural series are 

 larger*. 



The 0. prolixus appears to be decidedly rare. I took a single 

 specimen of it in Hierro, during February of 1858 ; and another, at 

 Taganana, in Teneriffe, towards the end of May 1859, — from which 

 latter island a male has lately been communicated by the Barao do 

 CasteUo de Paiva ; and a fourth example was captured by the Eev. 

 E.. T. Lowe at Hermigua, in Gomera, during April of 1861. So that 

 it probably exists throughout at any rate the central and western 

 portions of the archipelago. 



Fam. 29. CETONIAD^. 



Genus 134. EPICOMETIS. 

 Burmeister, Handb. der Ent. iii. 434 (1842). 



320. Epicometis squalida. 



Scaraboeus squalidus, Linn., Si/st. Nat. i. 2. 556 (1767). 

 Cetonia crinita, Charp., Horce Ent. 213 (1825). 



* It will be seen at once that the^'rm^'erjzMmSer of these characters distinguish 

 it eqvially from the 0. naskornis (which has very much in common with the 

 0. Grypua). 



