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" Phytonomus Daucl " I am enabled to state for certain, having exam- 

 ined his specimens in the Collection at the Jardin des Plantes. But 

 as he gives neither any authoritij for the specific title nor so much as 

 a single word of description or diagnosis (merely adding " Espece 

 du midi de I'Europe "), it has of course no claim for consideration. 

 Indeed I can find no notice, in any M^ork to v^hich I have access, of 

 a Phytonomus^Y\n.Gh. has ever been published under that name. The 

 H. lunata, which is universal in the Madeiran Group (occurring in 

 Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and on the Desertas), there can be no 

 doubt is also universal at the Canaries, — Gomera being the only one 

 out of the seven islands in which, hitherto, I have not met with it. 

 Nevertheless we may feel pretty certain that it exists in Gomera like- 

 wise. In Fuerteventura and Palma it was taken also by Mr. Gray. 

 It is usually found beneath stones, in the driest and most arid spots ; 

 particularly in calcareous ones of a rather low elevation. 



515. Hyper a irrorata, n. sp. 



//. scjuamis fuscis, albidis et albido-fuscis densissime irrorata et se- 

 tulis brevibus subdemissis obsita ; rostro gracih, subcylindrico ; pro- 

 thorace parvo, angusto, postice vix angustiore, plus minus indi- 

 stincte trilineato (lined media tenui); elytris latis, subquadrato-ob- 

 longis, punctato-striatis, interstitiis (proesertim alternis) plus minus 

 irrorato-tessellatis, in limbo albidioribus, per sutiiram (ad apicem 

 nigro-terminatam) latins fulvo-tiiictis ; antennis jjedibusque gra- 

 cihbus, his albido-variegatis, tarsorum articulis primo, secundo et 

 prsesertim tertio (\-ix dilatato-bilobo) sat pai-vis. — Long. corp. lin. 

 3i-4. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuertevcnturam, in arenosis et calcariis de- 

 gens. 



Although in its large size and general (though, at the same time, 

 more variegated) hue this fine Hypera is a little suggestive at first 

 sight of the common European H. punctatay it does nevertheless, in 

 reality, belong to a totally different Section (of which the R. isabel- 

 Una, from Egypt, may perhaps be regarded as the type) ; its nar- 

 rower and more cylindrical rostrum, in conjunction with its much 

 slenderer antennae and legs (the latter of which have their feet very 

 consideralAy narrower, with the third articulation hardly at all en- 

 larged) and the less develoijed second joint of its funiculus, will at 

 once serve, apart from other conspicuous characters, to remove it 

 from that insect. In minor details, I may just mention that its 

 rather small and subcylindrical prothorax, combined with its some- 

 what broad and squarish-oblong elytra, which have their interstices 

 (especially the alternate ones) more or less sprinkled, or tessellated. 



