300 CANARTAN COLEOPTEBA. 



This distinct and beautiful Nanophyes may easily be known by its 

 rather narrow and oblong-oval outline, rufo-ferruginous hue, and by 

 the two zigzag (but more or less obscure or suffused) paler fasciae 

 with which its elytra are adorned. It is further remarkable for its 

 antennae being inserted considerahhj before the middle of its (basally 

 striated) rostrum ; for its femora being, all of them, 6/spinulose 

 underneath (the outer tooth being very minute, but the inner one 

 comparatively large) ; and for its tarsi having their first joint longer 

 and slenderer than is usually the case in the members of this geims. 

 Its antennal clava is much more lax, or perfoliated, than that of the 

 following species. 



The N. lomjulus is apparently of gTeat rarity, and occurs amongst 

 rank vegetation in rather damj) spots. I have observed it hitherto 

 only in Grand Canary and Teneriife, — namely at Mogan, and at the 

 edges of a small watercourse in the region of El Monte, of the for- 

 mer; and at Souzal of the latter. In Teneriffe it was taken also 

 (though only a single example) by Dr. Crotch. 



§ II. Antenna', vLv ante medium rostri insertee, davd compactd. lios- 

 tramj)one antennas piinctato-sidistfiatum. Femora subtiis spina mi- 

 n utiss imd arma ta . 



478. Nanophyes hmulatus. 



N. ovatus, pallide testaceus, flavescenti-albido-pubesceus ; elytris pro- 

 fundc subpunctato-striatis, fascia media parva subluniformi utrin- 

 que valde abbreviata (interdum per suturam fracta), necnon in in- 

 terstitio quinto sa^pe maculis (una vel duabus) parvis, nigro-ornatis. 



Variat elytris omnino pallidis (fascia centrali obsoleta). — Long. eorp. 

 lin. f-|. 



Nanophyes hmulatus, Wall., Ann. Kat. Hist. (.3rd series) xi. 218 ( 1863). 

 Habitat Canariam Grandem, in foliis arbuscularum Tamaricis r/al- 

 liccc per margines rivuli ad Mogan crescentium deprehensus. 



Known immediately from the preceding species by its smaller size, 

 more ovate outline, and pale-testaceous hue, — the elytra being orna- 

 mented with only a minute, central, laterally-abbreviated, sublunate 

 fascia, or patch, which is occasionally interrupted at the suture so as 

 to form two detached spots, and in rare instances is altogether obso- 

 lete : and there are geuci-aUy, moreover, two very obscure dashes, or 

 abbreviated streaks, on the posterior portion of the fifth interstice. 

 In other respects, the whole of its femora are fui'nished beneath with 

 an extremely diminutive spine ; and its antennae are more medialli/ 

 inserted than is the case in the last species, and have their club 

 shorter and more compact. 



