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elytra are not quite so parallel at the sides, its colour is less black 

 (the elytra being more or less fusccscent, and the femora and tibia} 

 pale rufo-ferruginous), its prothorax is somewhat more roughly and 

 closely punctured, its entire surface is much more sparingly clothed 

 with scales, though proportionally perhaps a trifle more variegated, 

 and the scales themselves, in which the brown ones preponderate, 

 will be seen (when viewed beneath the microscope) to be narrower 

 and less robust. 



Genus 199. PROCAS. 

 Stephens, III. Brit. Ent. iv. 90 (IS-Sl). 



503. Procas Steveni. 



Curculio picipes?, 3Islim, Ent. Brit. 272 (1802). 

 Procas picipes ?, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. iv. 91 (18.31). 

 Erirhinus Steveni, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. iii. 287 (183G). 

 Procas Steveni, Schon., Id. vi. 387 (1842). 



Habitat in Fuerteventura et Palma, rarissimus. 



Although widely distributed over the Group, the present insect 

 appears to be of the greatest rarity in these islands, the only two 

 Canarian examples which I have seen having been captured in Palma 

 and Fuerteventura respectively, — one by the Rev, E.. T. Lowe, at 

 the end of May 1858, high up in the Barranco de Nogales, near the 

 village of Galga, in the former ; and the other by myself, on the 31st 

 of the following March, at Oliva, in the latter. It seems probable 

 that the P. Steveni is not specifically distinct from 'Marsham^s 2^ icipcs 

 (which of course is the prior name) ; nevertheless, since the former 

 is at any rate the title imder which the individuals from southerii 

 Europe are usually quoted, I have thought it safer, in the absence 

 of further material for a more critical examination, to cite it accord- 

 ingly. 



(Subfam. CLEONIDES.) 



Genus 200, LIXUS, 

 Fabricius, Si/st. Ent. ii. 498 (1775). 



504. Lixus anguinns, 



Lixus anguimis, Linn., Si/st. Kat. i. ii. 010 (17G7). 



, SeJio/i., Gen. et Spec. Cure. iii. 11 (1836). 



, Bru/le, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 72 (1838). 



Hahitat in Canaria et Teiieriffa, rarissimus. 



The only two Canarian examples which I have seen of the present 

 Li.viis are not very typical of the anguimis (of southei-n Europe and 

 northern Africa), being not only smaller than specimens (from Sicily 

 and Algeria) now before me. but having likewise the produced apices 



