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pilisque plus minus elongatis ereetis fulvescentibus praesertim in 

 elytris parce obsitus ; prothoraee parvo, angusto, subcylindi'ico- 

 conico, sat grosse sed vix profunde punetato punctulisque minu- 

 tissimis intermediis dense irrorato ; elytris latiusculis, subquadrato- 

 oblongis, punctato-striatis, interstitiis alternis valde taberculato- 

 inaequalibus, tuberculis paulo fulvescenti-squamoso-fasciculatis ; 

 antennis, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis, femoribus ferrugineo-piceis. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 3-4. 



Laparocerus inrequalis, Wall., Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 220 (1863). 

 Habitat Teneriffam sylvaticam, in lauretis editioribus supra Taga- 

 nanam Maio exeunte a.d. 1859 sat copiose deprehensus. 



This distinct and beautiful Laparocenis appears to be confined to 

 the damp laurel-clad regions of a high elevation in Teneriffe. It 

 may readily be known by its distinctly jenescent tinge ; by its surface 

 being more or less sparingly clothed with dull metalKc-yellow, or 

 brownish-golden, scales, as well as studded (particularly on the ely- 

 tra) with distant and suberect fulvescent hairs ; by its narrow, sub- 

 cylindric- conical pro thorax being beset with rather large but not 

 very deep punctures, and with the intermediate punctules close and 

 apparent ; and by its wide, squarish-oblong elytra having their 

 alternate interstices more powerfully undulated (and fasciculated) 

 with large squamose tubercles than is the case in the L. Jiirtiis — an 

 arrangement which causes them to be, also, for the most part, more 

 conspicuously tessellated with small tufts of fulvescent, or brownish- 

 golden, scales. 



The specimens (34 in number) which I have examined hitherto 

 of the L. incequaUs were all brushed from out of the rank fern, and 

 other vegetation, at the edges of the Vueltas leading down to Taga- 

 nana, through the dense forest of laurels, from the Cumbre above it, 

 during May 1859. 



542. Laparocerus globulipennis, n. sp. 



L. speciei praecedenti similis, sed colore squamisque omnino obscimo- 

 ribus, elytris sensim rotmidatioribus (/. e. paulo minus oblongis), 

 ad humeros vix magis prominentibus, profimdius punctato-striatis, 

 pilis paulo longioribus, magis mollibus ac minus fulvescentibus 

 obsitis, necnon in interstitiis alternis minus conspicue faseiculato- 

 tuberculatis. — Long. corp. lin. 4. 



Habitat in locis similibus ac prsecedens, sed in Palma (nee Tene- 

 riffa). 



The only two examples of this species which I have seen were 

 taken by myself, during May 1858, in the damp laurel-woods towards 

 the upper extremity of the Barranco de Galga, in Palma. It would 



