352 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



by its peculiar outline, — the prothorax being extremely smaU and 

 narrow, whilst the elytra are inflated and convex (being much rounded- 

 off at the shoulders, gradually widened to behind the middle, and 

 then suddenly contracted so as to cause the apex to be pointed and 

 acute). In minor respects, it may be known by its large (but not 

 particularly prominent) eyes ; by its prothorax (which is subemargi- 

 nated along its posterior edge) having its punctures rather fine and 

 tolerably distant ; by its elytra (which are somewhat trisinuated at 

 their base) having their alternate interstices more or less conspi- 

 cuously tessellated, and their apical portion beset with a few long 

 and suberect hairs ; and by its antennae being a trifle thicker than 

 is the case in the ordinary Laparoceri . 



Although by no means common, the L. elJipticus appears to be uni- 

 versal throughout the wooded regions of Teneriffe, particularly in the 

 laurel-forests of a rather high elevation. I have taken it by brush- 

 ing the dense herbage in the rankest and dampest spots, and also from 

 amongst the moss and lichen growing on the trunks of trees, as well 

 as from beneath dead, loosened bark (where it delights to secrete 

 itself). In such situations I have frequently met with it at Las 

 Mercedes, Taganana, the Agua Garcia, &c. It was also captured by 

 the Rev. R. T. Lowe at a lofty altitude on the mountains above the 

 Agua Mansa ; and it has recently been communicated by the Barao 

 do Castello de Paiva. During May of 1858 I obtained it, in similar 

 situations, in the island of Palma. 



546. Laparocerus lepidopterus, n. sp. 



L. niger vel piceo-niger, subopacus, dense submetallico-squamoso- 

 tessellatus piHsque plus minus elongatis mollibus erectis in elytris 

 obsitus ; rostro crassiusculo, subdepresso, leviter canaliculate, ocuhs 

 magnis, oblongis, hand valde promincntibus ; prothorace ad latera 

 rotundato, in disco leviter scd utrinque profundius subremote pune- 

 tato punctulisque intermediis valde distinctis dense irrorato, obso- 

 lete carinato ; elytris oblongo-ovalibus, punctato-striatis ; antennis 

 tarsisque rufo-ferrugineis ; femoribus tibiisque sajpius obscuriori- 

 bus. 



Var. /3 [an species ?]. Vix minor, colore obscuriore, nitidior, protho- 

 race paulo levins punctato, elytrorum pilis brevioribus. [/».s. Ca- 

 naria Grandis.] — Long. corp. lin. 4- 4i. 



Habitat in Teneriff'a, Palma et Hierro, in sylvaticis rarissimus : 

 " var. ft " ad Canariam Grandem pertinet. 



The four examples from which the above diagnosis has been com- 

 piled, collected in widely distant localities (indeed, each of them, in 

 different islands), have perhaps fewer distinguishing characteristics 



