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cately pvuictulated, whilst the elytra are roughened by diminutive, 

 transversely-confluent punctules which form as it were irregidar 

 strigce), will sufficiently characterize it. Its prothorax, like that of 

 the L. undatus, is rather narrow and slightly conical ; and its entire 

 colour when immature is of a more or less reddish brown — except 

 the limbs, which are pale rufo -ferruginous. Hitherto I have met 

 with it only in the laurel-districts of the island of Palma, where it 

 would seem to be extremely rare in damp spots of intermediate and 

 rather lofty elevations. I captured the four specimens (female ones) 

 from which the diagnosis has been compiled towards the upper ex- 

 tremity of the Barranco de Galga, and on the ascent of the Cumbre 

 above Buenavista*. 



532. Laparocerus undatus, n. sp. 



L. subellipticus, niger, obsoletissime subfenesceus, subnitidus ; rostro 

 longiusculo ; prothorace angustido, inajqualiter subpunctulato-ru- 

 guloso et punctis majoribus levibus parce adsperso ; elytris basi 

 subrecte truncatis, postice subproducto-acutiusculis, callo humerali 

 incrassato, punctato-striatis, interstitiis undulato-insequahbus, sub- 

 rugulosis, punctis perpaucis magnis sed valde levibus notatis et 

 pilis brevibus suberectis cinereis valde remotis obsitis ; antennis 

 tarsisque ferrugineis ; femoribus tibiisque nigro-piceis. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. 5|-5|^. 



Habitat in humidis sylvaticis TenerifiPae, supra Tagananam captus. 



This is perhaps, on the average, the largest of the Canarian Lapa- 

 roceri as yet detected ; and it may at once be known by its somewhat 

 elliptic outline (it being rather acute both before and behind) ; by 

 its only slightly shining, dull-black surface, which has a just percep- 

 tible senescent tinge ; and by its elytral interstices being waved (or 

 undulated) , less evidently transversely- strigulose than in the L. sculp- 

 tus, but with a few very large though extremely shallow punctures, 

 as well as a few exceedingly distant, suberect haii's, down each. 

 Like the L. scidptus it is of the greatest rarity, being attached to 

 similar spots as that insect, though in Teneriife instead of Palma, 

 Indeed the only region in which I have observed it hitherto is, at a 

 high elevation, on the damp laurel-clad mountains above Taganana 

 — where during May of 1859 I met with the four specimens (all 

 females) from which my diagnosis has been drawn out. 



* Althougli M. Brulle's " description " does not indicate a single character by 

 which his Otiorhynchus scidptiin could by any possibility be identified, I am 

 nevertheless enabled to state for certain that the present Laparocerus is the species 

 to which he referred, having myself examined his type, which still exists at Paris, 

 in the collection at the Jardin des Plantes. 



