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sometimes (though rarely) distinct and well defined, whilst at others 

 they are almost, or even entirely, suffused inter se and lost sight of 

 — under which cii'cumstances the elytra are simply of a dull dirty- 

 white, with scarcely any indications of markings at all. 



390. Piotes vestita. 



Piotes vestita, Woll., Tram. Ent. Soc. Lmd. (3rd series) i. 213. pi. viii. 

 f. 9 (18G2). 



Habitat Palmam, in locis intermediis sub lapidibus, rarissima. 



The very short and perfectly decumbent yellowish-brown pile with 

 which the entire surface of this large Piotes is uniformly and densely 

 clothed, combined with the two greatly elevated and parallel ridges 

 of its laterally-compressed prothorax, and its very oval elytra (which 

 are much rounded-off about the shoulders), will sufficiently charac- 

 terize it. It is apparently peculiar to Palm a, and of excessive rarity. 

 I have taken it, very sparingly, high up in the Barranco above S*"* 

 Cruz ; as also on the sylvan slopes above Buenavista, on the ascent 

 to the Cumbre ; and I have examined a specimen which was captured 

 in Palma by Dr. Crotch. 



Fam. 40. ANOBIAD^. 



Genus 163. STAGETUS. 

 Wollaston, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) vii. 11 (1861). 

 After comparing my Star/eti (published on the 1st of January 1861, 

 and re-enumerated below) with a specimen of the Theca hyrrhoides 

 of Aube, which has been lent me by Mr. Pascoe, and which was cap- 

 tured by him in the south of France, I feel almost certain that the two 

 genera are identical; though, as I have not been in a position to dissect 

 the latter, perhaps I ought to speak with some little hesitation, seeing 

 that there are undoubtedly a few points even externally in which the 

 members of them do not exactly coincide. Upon the whole, I should 

 say that Theca was rather more on the true Anohimn-i^'-pc than Sta- 

 fjctus, — its entire outline being less orbicular and its prothorax less 

 strictly conical : its scutellum, also, is considerably larger, and less 

 triangular ; and its antennte are slenderer, except the club, which, 

 on the contrary, is rather more developed — its first and second joints 

 being more produced internally (whOst in Stagetus the whole three 

 are comparatively parallel at the sides, or elongate-quadrate). Still, 

 whether these modifications are indicative of others, of at least equal 

 importance, in the oral organs, I am of course unable to say ; though. 



