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seems mainly to differ in its elytra being a little more densely and 

 evidently punctulated, and free (as in the C. variabilis) from the ob- 

 scure longitudinal costae which are always traceable (though occa- 

 sionally indistinct) in that species. Its antennae, also, are perhaps a 

 trifle slenderer, I am very doubtful, however, whether it is more 

 than a geographical phasis of that insect. It is far from uncommon 

 in damp sylvan (and subsylvan) spots of the intermediate altitudes 

 of Grand Canary and Teneriffe. In the former I have taken it 

 throughout the region of El Monte, and elsewhere ; and in the latter, 

 at Taganana, Las Mercedes, the Agua Garcia, &c. And I have ex- 

 amined specimens which were found by Dr. Crotch in Gomera. 



Genus 141. EUCINETUS. 



Schiippel, in Germ. Mag. iii. 255 (1818). 



336. Eucinetus ovum. 



Eucinetus ovum, Woll, Ins. Mad. 242 (1854). 

 , Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 85 (1857). 



Habitat in excelsis sylvaticis Teneriffge, rarissimus. 



A single specimen only of this very distinct Eucinetus (the differ- 

 ential characters of which, as compared with those of the European 

 E. Jio'morrJioidulis, are fully pointed out in my ' Ins. Mad.') has hi- 

 therto come beneath my observation in these islands. It was taken 

 by myself on the wooded mountains above Point Anaga, in the north- 

 eastern extremity of Teneriffe, during May 1859. In Madeira it is 

 not uncommon in certain spots, though exceedingly local. 



Fam. 34. DRILID^. 



Genus 142. MALACOGASTER. 

 Bassi, Maff. de Zool. (Ins.) pi. 99 (1832). 



337. Malacogaster tilloides, n. sp. 



M. angustulus, niger, nitidus, pilis longissimis erectis fulvis obsitus ; 

 capite prothoraceque rufis (hoc interdum postice, sed baud inter 

 antennas, obscuriore), hoc leviter sed illo vix punctulatis ; elytris 

 postice valde rugulosis, antice paulo la^vioribus ; antennis paUide 

 rufo-fuscis ; pedibus rufo-testaceis, femoribus (apicibus exceptis) 

 obscurioribus. — Long. corp. liu. 2i-vix 3. 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, rarissimus ; mense Aprili ineunte a.d. 

 1859 specimina septem inter Arundines ad Rio Palmas deprehendi. 



The present insect differs from the European M. Passerinii (of 



