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funde canaliculato ; prothorace angustulo, profunde punctato punc- 

 tulisque minutis intermediis irrorato, in medio obsolete carinato, 

 per basin anguste sensim marginato ; elytris callo humerali fere 

 obsoleto, profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctis valde per- 

 paucis levibus notatis et pilis brevibus suberectis remotis prsesertim 

 postice obsitis ; aji tennis rufo-ferrugineis, pedibus rufo-piceis. 



Mas tibiis anticis intus versus apicem vix sinuato-excavatis, posticis 

 intus rectis et minutissime subcrenulatis. 



Foem. tibiis fere simplicibus. — Long, corp, lin. 3^4. 



Otiorhynchus squamosus, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. ( Col.) 71 (1838). 



Habitat in sylvaticis intermediis Teneriffae, rarissimus. 



The rather small, deeply and somewhat densely punctured pro- 

 thorax of this species, which is obsoletely keeled down the middle and 

 narrowly (but conspicuously) margined along its basal edge, combined 

 with its roughly longitudinally-sculptured, rather deeply channeled 

 rostrum, and its coarsely punctate-striated elytra, which (even in 

 unrubbed examples) seem to be but sparingly squamose and studded 

 (particularly on their posterior half) with a few short, very distant, 

 and suberect bail's, will serve to distinguish it from its allies. Its in- 

 terstices are most remotely besprinkled with a very few shallow punc- 

 tures, which are nearly evanescent towards the suture ; and its pos- 

 terior male tibire are rather sharp and straightened along their inner 

 edge, where they are very minutely and obscurely crenulated. I 

 have little hesitation in identifjing it with M. Brulle's Otiorhynchus 

 squamosus, since the type of that insect, which I examined in Paris, 

 although a very unsatisfactory one, appeared to agree sufficiently weU 

 \vith the few examples (captured by myself in the intermediate ele- 

 vations of Teneriffe, namely at the Agua Garcia, the A.gua Mansa, and 

 Ycod el Alto) from which the above diagnosis has been drawn out. 

 M. Brulle's descrijition applies equally to the whole of these imme- 

 diate species, containing no allusion to any single feature which could 

 possibly be regarded as diagnostic. 



536. Laparocerus crassirostris, n. sp. 



L. angustulo-elongatus, subdepressus, fusco-piceus, subnitidus, parce 

 metaUico-squamoso-tessellatus sed pilis superadditis fere carens ; 

 capite crasso, minutissime et dense punctulato, rostro brevi crasso 

 subquadrato vix canaliculato sed postice inter oculos fovea magna 

 profunda impresso ; prothorace brevi, apice subsinuato-truncato, 

 minute et dense punctulato pimctisque majoribus (sed hand magnis) 

 sat crebre obsito ; elytris elongato-suboblongis, pimctato-striatis ; 

 antennis rufo-ferrugineis ; pedibus rufo-piceis. 



Mas (nisi fallor) tibiis (etiam posticis) intus simplicibus. 



Fosm. adhuc latct. — Long. corp. lin. 3|. 



