232 CANARIAlSr COLEOITERA. 



is, however, unaccompanied by any description ; and even if it had 

 been characterized, the name could not have been retained, it having 

 been employed by Greutzer for the type of the genus — the D. linearis 

 of Fabricius. 



Genus 151. HAPLOCNEMUS. 

 Stepliens, Bl. Brit. Ent. iii. 310 [script. Aplocnemus] (1830). 



36 G. Haplocnemus sculpturatus. 



Ilaplocueums sculptiu-atus, Woll, he. cit. 447 (1862). 

 Habitat Teneriffam, Gomeram et Palmam, in locis intermediis et 

 elevatis (prajsertim his) ; rarissimus. 



This large Haplocnemus is remarkable for its brassj' -brown surface 

 and very deeply sculptured elytra. Its head and prothorax arc clothed 

 with a line silken decumbent pile ; but its elytra are comparativelt/ 

 bald, the hairs (likewise decumbent ones) with which they are studded 

 being short and few. Its prothorax is convex, with the extreme lateral 

 edges rather pale and minutely crennlated ; its legs are testaceous, 

 with the tibiie sometimes a little darkened ; and the last joint of its 

 maxillary palpi is distinctly securiform. It is apparently extremely 

 rare, though widely distributed over Teneriife, occurring at interme- 

 diate and lofty elevations. I have taken it in the wood at La Espe- 

 ranza, at the Agua Garcia, the Agua Mansa, and from beneath the 

 dead sticks (as well as on the blossoms) of the " Eetamas " on the 

 Cumbro overlooking the Cafiadas — more than 8000 feet above the 

 sea. I also observed the mutilated remains of it (for they were un- 

 questionably referable to this species) in Palma ; and have examined 

 an individual which was captured by Dr. Crotch, during the spring 

 of 1862, in Gomera. 



307. Haplocnemus vestitus. 



Ilaplocuemus vestitus, IFolL, loc. cit. 447 (1862). 

 Habitat in Hierro, in regione El Golfo parce depi-ehensus. 



The present Haplocnetnus differs from the precechng one (which 

 at tirst sight it much resembles) in being densely beset all over (in 

 addition to the decumbent under-pile of its head and prothorax) with 

 very long, fine, and erect hairs, of which there is no indication what- 

 soever in the H. sculpturatus. Its elytra are perhaps a trifle less 

 deeply punctured ; and the antennoB of its male sex are somewhat 

 longer and thicker. Hitherto I have observed it only in Hierro, 

 where, during February 1858, I captured five specimens of it in the 

 sylvan district of El Golfo, on the western side of that island. 



