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and with a zigzag line of still larger prominences clown the disc, as 

 well as along the outer margins of each) ; by its immense occipital 

 humps (which constitute a ridge above either eye) almost touchinr/ 

 anteriorly the smaller, though svffi,ciently large, backwardly-produced 

 one on each side of the base of the rostrum ; and by the two longi- 

 tudinal folds of its (laterally angulated) prothorax being considerably 

 raised, and comparatively well defined. Its elytra, although thus 

 fringed with enormous notches, or remote, unequally shaped teeth, 

 are nearly square in outline. 



(Subfam. OTIORHYNCHIDES.) 



Genus 212. ATLANTIS. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 361 (1854). 

 Whether the five insects described below be strictly referable to 

 the same genus as the ordinary Madeiran Atlantkles I will not under- 

 take, in my present doubt as to the actual value of certain structural 

 characters in this immediate department of the CurcuUonidce, to pro- 

 nounce for certain. But that they cannot be assigned to Laparocerus 

 proper (of which the L. morio was Schonherr's acknowledged type) 

 I am satisfied, — seeing that their 7nvch tludcer antenna3 (the scajie 

 of which is rather less ahrnptly clavated at its tip) and the different 

 proportions of their more obconical funiculus-joints (of which the 

 second is conspicuously longer than the first) will of themselves, I 

 think, more than suffice to prevent such an amalgamation. It is, 

 however, no less true that in several particulars they do not tally 

 with the normal members of Atlantis ; nevertheless the features in 

 which they agree with the latter, I am inclined to believe, are more 

 important than those which would tend to affiliate them with Lapa- 

 roeerus (and, a fortiori, with Eremnus, of southern Africa) ; so that 

 I prefer, for the present, treating them as Atlcmtides to the risk of 

 erecting a new genus (or — which would rather be necessary — two 

 new genera) for their reception in this extensive and obscure division 

 of the Rhynchopliora. 



§ I. Corpus parviim ; scrohe valde 2^'>'ofundd, brevi, auriculiformi, 

 siirsum (^supra marginetn oculi superiorent) ascendente ; ocidis mi- 

 nutis, ohlique stibconicis, postice alte prominentihus. Fades sexualis 

 valde dissimilis, sed ptedibus in iitroque sexu fere similibus. (Subg. 

 Amphora, Woll.) 



525. Atlantis canariensis. 



A. piceo- vel fusco-nigra, subnitida, subcinereo- (vix submetaUico-) 

 squamoso-tesseUata setisque suberectis in elytris obsita ; rostro 



