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verso, grossius rugoso et versus latera reticulato, intra angulos 

 posticos subrectos late impresso ; elytris (prseeipue ad basin) paulo 

 insequalibus, sutura margineque leviter incrassatis, hoc versus 

 apicem minutissime serratulo ; antennis pedibusque gracilibus, vix 

 metallicis. — Long. corp. lin. 2^-3. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, in pineto quodam in montibus excelsis 

 sito pauca speeimina inter flores Clstorum volantia mense Aprili 

 ineunte a.d. 1858 deprehendi. 



The present Anthraxia is a little larger than, and relatively not 

 quite so broad as, the A. sepulchralis and morio of southern Europe. 

 It is, however, considerably brighter and more metallic ; its sculp- 

 ture is less dense, and on the pronotum reticulose (and very widely 

 so) only towards either side ; its prothorax is straighter at the edges, 

 and much more deeply impressed within the posterior angles (which 

 are nearly right angles) ; its scutellum is unsculptured and highly 

 polished ; the margins of its elytra behind are minutely serrated ; 

 and its entire upper surface is clothed with very much longer, sub- 

 erect, and whitish-cinereous hairs. The few specimens which I have 

 seen were taken by myself in the lofty Pinal above San Bartolome, 

 in the district of Tarajana, of Grand Canary, at the beginning of 

 April 1858. They were exceedingly active on the wing, — flying, in 

 the hot sunshine, amongst the flowers of the Cistus monspeliensis and 

 vayans, to which they seemed to be specially attached. 



Fam. 31. THROSCID^. 



Genus 138. THROSCUS. 

 Latreille, Prec. ties Caract. Gen. des Ins. 42 (1796). 



328. Throscus integer. 



Trixagus integer, WuU., Cat. Mad. Col. 82 (1857). 



Habitat in sylvaticis excelsis Teneriffae et Palmae, rarissimus. 



Although I no longer possess a specimen of the Madeiran T. integer 

 for comparison, I nevertheless refer the few examples of Throscus 

 which I have hitherto seen from these islands to that insect, inas- 

 much as I can detect nothing in my original diagnosis to warrant the 

 suspicion that the two species are distinct. Perhaps the elytral in- 

 terstices may be a little more evidently punctulated in the Canarian 

 one ; but the eyes are totally ungrooved, as in the T. integer, — though 

 with the faintest possible tendency to be truncated-off (scarcely sub- 

 emarginated) at that particular point of their anterior edge (close to 



