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tinct ; whilst its elytra have their striae very much narrower and less 

 deeply crenated, and their interstices (proportionally) broader and 

 less convex, 



" Both the present Mesites and the last one belong more particu- 

 larly to the same type as the 31. niaderensis and the British 31. Tard'd; 

 and, indeed, the pershnilis is very closely allied to the former, with 

 which I had at first imagined it to be identical. It may, however, 

 be at once known from it through its almost entirely wanting (as is 

 the case also with the 31. complmuitus) the fine elytral pubescence 

 which is so conspicuous in the Madeiran species ; its prothoracic 

 keel, also, is more obscure ; and its elytra are less convex, with their 

 strife much broader, deeper, and more coarsely crenidated. In both 

 of these Canarian species the eyes are rather smaller, and more ob- 

 long, than in the M. maderensis." [he. cit. pp. 402, 403.] Tene- 

 riffan examples of the 31. pcrsimilis have also been communicated by 

 Dr. Crotch. 



446. Mesites proximus. 

 Mesites proximus, Woll., Tram. Ent. Soc. Land. v. 404 (1861). 

 Habitat TenerifFam, ad Taganana Maio a.d. 1859 parce repertus. 

 " In outline the 31. prox'unus is a trifle less parallel than the pi'e- 

 ceding members of this Section, though its elytra have only a faint 

 tendency to the posterior attenuation which is so very evident in the 

 two exponents of the following one ; its male femora, however, have 

 not any appearance of that obtuse, subdentiform projection on their 

 underside which characterizes the M. fusiformis and puhipennis. It 

 is a little smaller and more depressed than the pefsim'dis, its colour 

 is more cloudy, or unequal (after the fashion of tortoiseshell), its 

 pro thorax is more rounded at the sides, rather coarsely alutaceous, 

 and very much more finely and remotely punctured (and with com- 

 paratively larger additional punctures in its central basal depression), 

 its elytra are more evidently (though very slightly) subpubescent and 

 with their striae proportionally broader and deeper, and its funiculus- 

 joints are altogether somewhat shorter and more compact. From 

 the Madeiran 31. euphorhicH it may be known by its darker hue, 

 more lateraUy-rounded prothorax (which has its hinder central punc- 

 tures much more coarse), by its larger frontal fovea, and by its elytral 

 striae being very much broader, deeper, and more distinctly crenated." 

 \loc. cit. pp. 404, 405.] 



Hitherto I have seen but two examples of this species, both of 

 which I captured at Taganana, in the north of TenerifFc, during May 

 1859. 



