CANARIAN COLEOPTEllA. 3-11 



apex, whilst in Atlantis that portion of the antennae is robust and 

 thick throughout, it being gradvAxlly incrassated from its base. 



530. Laparocerus morio. 



Laparocerus morio, Schon., Gen. et S^jec. Cure. ii. 531 (1834). 



, Woll, Ins. 3Iad. 360. tab. vii. f. 1 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 113 (1857). 



Habitat in Teneriffa et Gomera, mihi baud obvius, a Barone " Cas- 

 tello de Paiva " benigne communicatus. 



The L. morio, which absolutely swarms througbout every portion 

 of the Madeiran Group, has not yet come beneatb my own observa- 

 tion in these islands. Nevertheless three specimens of it have been 

 communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva which I can have 

 no doubt are (as they profess to be) truly Canarian, so that I have 

 not any hesitation in admitting the species into this Catalogue. Two 

 of these, he informs me, were captured by himself on a dry cindery 

 hill near Orotava in Teneriffe, whilst the other was sent to him by 

 a Spanish correspondent from Gomera. 



The L. morio may be known from all the other Laparoceri here 

 enumerated by its dark hue and dull, most minutely pubescent (but 

 often obscurely subtessellated) surface; by its convex, subglobose 

 prothorax (which is regularly punctured and densely beset with ex- 

 tremely diminutive punctules between the larger ones) ; and by the 

 structure of its tibiae — the anterior four of which are more evidently 

 armed with a minute horizontal spine at their inner apex, whilst the 

 hinder pair of the males have their internal angle largely scooped 

 out, or emarginated, so as to form an obtuse and slightly prominent 

 heel at a considerable distance behind the extremity, 



531. Laparocerus sculptus. 



L. brunneo-niger (immaturus rufo-brunneus), subopacus, minute et 

 densissime sculpturatus necnon pube minutissima brevissima de- 

 missa ubique eonfertim obsitus ; prothorace angustulo, minute et 

 densissime punctulato ; elytris convexis, basi subrecte truncatis, 

 callo humerah incrassato, crenato-striatis, interstitiis minutissime 

 et densissime transversim substriguloso-rugatis ; antennis pedibus- 

 que rufo-ferrugineis. — Long. corp. Hn. 5|. 



Otiorhynchus sculptus, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 71 (1838). 

 Habitat Palmam, in lauretis editioribus humidis, rarissimus. 

 The nearly opake and very minutely pubescent surface of this large 

 Laparocerus, in conjunction with its exceedingly dense but extremely 

 fine sculpture (the head and prothorax being most closely and deli- 



