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angulari, densius albido-squamoso sed ad apicem niido polito, te- 

 nuiter carinato ; prothorace seqiiali, apice bisinnato, miniitissime 

 punctixlato puncttsque majoribiis parcius adsperso, ad latora (sub- 

 recta) paulo densius pallidiore ; elytris striato-punctatis, squamulis 

 in interstitiis lineas obscuras necuon etiam in stria suturali linea 

 interrupta efficieutibus, ntroqne ad apicem minute divaricato nee- 

 non longe ante apicem macula parva media ornato ; antennis basi 

 rufo-piceis. — Long. corp. lin. 3|-5|. 



Cleonus Jekelii, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 441 (1862). 



Habitat Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram et Canariam, in aridis infe- 

 rioribus sub lapidibus degens. 



In its short, conical rostrum and the elongate second joint of its 

 funiculus this insect belongs to Schonherr's subgenus Bothynoderes 

 (recently elevated to a genus by Lacordaire), of which the European 

 Cleonus h'evirostris is the type. I have named it after M. Jekel, who 

 informs me that it is unquestionably new, — differing, inter alia, fi'om 

 its cognate species " in having its rostrum more deeply emarginated 

 at the tip, so as to expose a larger portion of the mandibles." It 

 occurs for the most part in low and sandy positions, particularly near 

 the coast, — under which circumstances I have taken it, in profusion, 

 in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura ; as also, though more rarely, at San 

 Juan, in the south-east of Grand Canary. In Lanzarote it was found 

 likewise by Mr, Gray and M. Hartung ; and from Fuerteventura it 

 has been obtained by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 



The B. Jel-eUi is at once remarkable for its cylindrical outline, and 

 for its surface being sparingly clothed with excessively minute cine- 

 reous scales, or pubescence ; by its' prothorax being subcylindrical 

 and almost even, though densely sculptured with a double system of 

 small and larger punctures, and considerably bisinuated along the 

 anterior edge ; and by its elytra (which are but very minutely diva- 

 ricated at their apex) having the delicate pubescence of their inter- 

 stices obscurely condensed into dull longitudinal lines, whilst even 

 the stria of each next to the suture is likewise squamose, but at the 

 same time interrupted by the punctures so as to form (in unrubbed 

 specimens) a broken-up line. 



Genus 202. CLEONUS. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 145 (1826). 



509. Cleonus Armitagii, n. sp. 



C. cylindrico-fusiforrais, niger, subnitidus, parcissime albido-squa- 

 moso-pictus ; rostro cylindrico, subarcuato, minute punctulato, 

 postice utrinque longitudinaliter impresso ; prothorace subtequali 



