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Habitat in Hierro, hand procul ab oppido Yalverde semel captus. 



I do not think that the single specimen from which the above 

 diagnosis has been drawn can safely be referred to any of the other 

 species here enumerated, particularly when the remoteness of its 

 habitat is taken into account. It was captiu'cd, by myself, near 

 Valverde, in the island of Hierro, on the 11th of February 1858 ; 

 and it may be known by the cinereous scales with which it is densely 

 clouded, by its postmedial fascia being suffused behind almost into 

 the apex of the elytra, but bounded anteriorly by three darker fas- 

 cicles of setae, and by its limbs being rather short. 



464. Acalles brevitarsis, n. sp. 



A. squamis brunneis et flavo-brunneis densissime nebulosus ; pro- 

 thorace postice angustato (ad latera valde rotundato), ante medium 

 setoso-bi~ (vel etiam quatuor-) tuberculato ; elytris postice bre- 

 viter et subito coarctatis, apice sat obtusis, carinis interruptis no- 

 duHsque duobus orauino elevatis et valde setosis pone medium in- 

 .structis, ibidem vix faseiatis sed antice pone scutellum plus minus 

 dilutioribus ; pedibus crassis, squamoso-variegatis, tarsis postieis 

 breviusculis.^ — Long, eoip. lin. 2-2|. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, in subsylvaticis regionis El Monte 

 tempore vernali a.d. 1858 repertus. 



The present Acalles, which I have taken hitherto only in the 

 region of El Monte in Grand Canary, may be known by the yellowish- 

 brown scales with which it is thickly mottled, and by its much de- 

 veloped and greatly setose nodules. It is nearly allied to the acutus, 

 but is rather larger and of a paler brown ; with its general surface 

 less setose, though with its nodules (which are altogether consi- 

 derably elevated) more so ; with its prothorax wider in the middle 

 and considerably rounder at the sides ; with its elytra (which have 

 their fascia apparently obsolete) somewhat more shortly constricted 

 posteriorly, and obtuser at their extreme apex ; with its legs a trifle 

 more robust ; and with its two hinder tarsi more abbreviated. 



465. AcaUes acutus, n. sp. 



A. fere ut A. brevitarsis, sed obscurior (minus brunneus) squamisque 

 albidioribus irroratus, magis aequaliter setosus ; prothorace an- 

 gustiore, ad latera minus rottmdato ; elytris ad apicem coarctato- 

 acutioribus, fascia postmedia plerumque magis determinata sod 

 nodulis minus elevatis ; pedibus paulo minus incrassatis, tarsis 

 gracilioribus et (pi-aesertim posticis) sensim longioribus. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. 2-2 1. 



Habitat in sylvaticjs Teneriffae, passim. 



