348 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



tennis tarsisque fcrrugineis ; femoribns tibiisquc piceo-nigris, ge- 

 nibus nifescentioribus. — Long. corj). lin. 35-4. 



Habitat in montibus ins. Hierro, sub lapidibus in graminosis apertis 

 degens. 



The bald, shining, and intensely black surface of this species, com- 

 bined with its rather excavated, or concave, rostrum, its evenly 

 punctured and laterally-rounded prothorax and the excessively minute 

 punctules of its interstices, wiU serve to separate it from all the other 

 Laparoceri here enumerated. So far as I have observed hitherto, it 

 is confined to the lofty elevations of Hierro — where, on the 21st of 

 February 1858, I met with it, beneath stones, on the open grassy 

 Cumbre immediately above the district of El Golfo, whilst crossing 

 the (comparatively flat) mountain-region which constitutes the cen- 

 tral ridge, or backbone, of that remote island. 



540. Laparocerus hirtus, n. sp. 



L. nigcr, vix sxiboenescens, nitidus, parce submetallico-squamoso-tes- 

 sellatus pilisque longissimis mollibus crectis prasscrtim in elj'tris 

 obsitus ; prothorace parvo, breviusculo, subconvexo, grosse punc- 

 tato sed punctulis intermediis minutissimis fere obsoletis ; elytris 

 oblongis, profunda punetato-striatis, interstitiis altcrnis (prajsertim 

 postice et ad latera)tubcrciJato-ina3qualibus,tubercuHs paulo squa- 

 moso-fasciculatis ; antennis tarsisque ferrugineis, femoribus tibiis- 

 que ferrugineo-piceis. — Long. corp. lin. vix 4, 



Habitat in montibus Cauaria3 Grandis, semel tantum lectus. 



The exceedingly elongate, soft, and erect hairs with which this 

 LajMrocerus is rather densely studded (particularly on its elytra), in 

 conj miction with the large but not very deep jmnctui'es of its small 

 and transverse prothorax (on which the intermediate punctules ap- 

 pear to be almost obsolete), and its oblong and deeply pimctate-stri- 

 ated elji;ra, which have their alternate interstices (at any rate towards 

 the sides and behind) undulated with large and slightly squamose 

 tubercles, will sufficiently characterize it. It is barely possible that 

 it may be but an insular modification (peculiar to Grand Canary) of 

 the following species, — a question, however, which can be decided 

 only by the inspection of further material. The unique example 

 from which the above diagnosis has been drawn out was captured 

 by myself on the mountains of Grand Canary (I believe, in the lofty 

 Pinal above San Bartolome, in the district of Tarajana), during the 

 spring of 1858. 



541. Laparocerus insequalis. 

 L. a;ncscenti-nigcr, nitidus, parce submetallico-squamoso-tessellatus 



