332 CANARIAN COLEOPXERA. 



Apparently extremely rare, and confined (so far as I have obsei'ved 

 hitherto) to the moist sylvan regions in Teneriffe and Palma, of a 

 rather lofty elevation. Thus, during May of 1858, I captured it in 

 the latter — from amongst damp herbage in the Barranco da Agua ; 

 and, exactly a year afterwards, in the former — on the densely wooded 

 mountains above Taganana. Its elytra are more or less obscurely 

 brassy (occasionally with even a greenish tinge) ; and, when imma- 

 ture, its head and prothorax are sometimes rufosccnt. 



(Subfam. BYIISOPSIDES.) 



Genus 209. GRONOPS. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 157 (1826). 

 Although placed so mdely apart from each other in Schonherr's 

 most artificial classification, that they are treated as members of dif- 

 ferent /Subfamilies, I am nevertheless persuaded that the present 

 genus and Ehytidorhinus are intimately related. Indeed it appears to 

 me that they are but just separable ; for after the most careful com- 

 parison of the various details of their structure, the only real difi'er- 

 ential features which I can detect arc, that, whilst Gronops is winged 

 and has only the basal joint of its funiculus enlarged, Ehytidorhinus, on 

 the contrary, is apterous and has its first and second funiculus- joints 

 elongated. Nearly all the other details of the genera, although made 

 to sound diifurent in the respective diagnoses, are, when actually ex- 

 amined, found to be identical, — those characters oiRhytidorhinus which 

 are based upon the larger size and more uneven surfaces of the several 

 representatives being merely in degree, and not in kind. My own 

 belief is that they should be regarded as Sections of a single group ; 

 nevertheless, since the smallness, in Gronops, of the second articula- 

 tion of the funiculus, which is quite as short and transverse as the 

 third, and its developed wings are real and structural differences 

 (whatever value may be attached to them), it will perhaps be desi- 

 rable to consider the genus, however nearly allied to Mhytidorhinits, as 

 at any rate distinct from it, and, thus far at least, to endorse the ordi- 

 nary ideas on the subject*. 



522. Gronops lunatus. 



Curculio lunatus, Fab., Syst. Ent. 148 (1775). 

 Rhynchsenus costatus, Gyll., Lis. Suec. iii. 89 (1813). 

 Gronops lunatus, Schon., Gen. et Spec, Cure. ii. 253 (1834). 



* Since the above remarks vpere written, I am happy to perceive that tliey have 

 been fully borne out by Lacordaii'e, who places the two genera referred to in juita- 

 position. 



