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moratis (albidis parcius adspersis, sed in macula communi media 

 transverso-subquadrata, ante banc per suturam, nccnon versus 

 basin, densius condensatis) ; antcunis pedibusque breviusculis, 

 robustis, iUis rufo-piceis, his plus minus albido atroque squamosis. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 3|-4. 



Baridius sellatus, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. viii. 124 (1844). 

 , Lucas, Col. cle VAlgerie, 452 (1849). 



Habitat in aridis arenosis Fuerteventurse, rarissimus. 



This large and beautiful Baridius is at once remarkable for its 

 coarsely punctured, longitudinally strigulose prothorax, and for its 

 intensely black surface being prettily variegated with snowy-white 

 scales, particularly on the elytra — where they are irregularly 

 sprinkled towards the base, sides, and apex, but more densely con- 

 centrated along the anterior portion of the suture and in a large 

 transverse-quadrate medial patch common to both. I cannot detect 

 any real difference between the Canarian examples now before me 

 and a North- African type of the B. sellatus which has been commu- 

 nicated by M. Chevrolat, though the latter has its prothorax a little 

 more coarsely sculptured — caused by the punctures being more de- 

 cidedly confluent, so as to make the oblique longitudinal strigce better 

 defined. It is apparently of the greatest rarity in these islands — the 

 only two specimens which I have seen having been captured by my- 

 self, during the spring of 1859, on the hillocks of loose drifting sand 

 in the baiTen region of Corralejo, at the extreme north of Puerte- 

 vcntura. 



(Subfam. CIONIDES.) 



Genus 193. NANOPHYES. 



Schciuherr, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 780 (18.38). 



§ I. Antemice ante medium rostri insertee, clavd laxd. Rostrum pone 

 antennas distincte striatum. Femora suhtus hispinosa {spina inte- 

 riore longitiscidd, acuta). 



477. Nanophyes longulus, n. sp. 



N. oblongo-ovalis, angustulus, rufo-ferrugineus, nitidus flavescenti- 

 albido- et fulvescenti-pubescens ; elytris sat profunde subpunctato- 

 striatis, fasciis duabus dentatis (antica in medio profunde arcuata 

 necnon ibidem parte suturali obscuriore terminata), plus minus 

 obsoletis suffusis, pallido-ornatis ; anteunis pedibusque elongatis, 

 gracilibus, illarum clava saepius obscuriore ; tarsorum articulo primo 

 longiusculo, subgracili. — Long. corp. lin. 1-1^. 



Habitat Canariam et Teneriffam, super folia plantarum in humidi- 

 usculis, rarissimus. 



