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than is the case with any of the other Lcqiaroceri here enumerated ; 

 and I feel therefore that fiu'ther material must be obtained before we 

 are able to pronounce satisfactorily on the limits of the species, and 

 to decide whether or not what I have now regarded as the " var. /3 " 

 (from Grand Canary) should rank as a separate though nearly allied 

 form. The L. lepidopterus appears to be a sylvan insect ; and its 

 most marked features seem to consist in its surface being somewhat 

 opake, of a dull ijiceous-black, and densely tessellated with brownish- 

 or fulvo-metallic scales, whilst its elytra are additionally beset with 

 fine, erect, elongate hairs ; in its rostrum being thickish and flat- 

 tened, and with the central channel but lightly impressed anteriorly ; 

 in its eyes being large and oblong, but not very prominent ; in its 

 prothorax being rather sparingly punctured (finely so on the disc), 

 but with the intermediate punctules dense and conspicuous ; and in 

 its oblong-ovate elytra not being very coarsely punctate-sti'iated. 

 Whether the males present any tibial modifications I am unable to 

 state, the female sex only having come hitherto beneath my notice. 



Of the specimens now before me, the first (" var. (3 ") was taken 

 in the lofty Pinal of Grand Canary above San Bartolome (in the dis- 

 trict of Tarajana) ; the second at the Agua Garcia in Tenerift'e ; the 

 third in Palm a (I believe, in one of the wooded Barrancos in the east 

 of the island) ; and the fourth in the forest-region of El Golfo, on the 

 western slopes of Hierro. The last one has the additional erect pile 

 of its elytra rather shorter than is the case with the second and third ; 

 but it does not appear to dififer from them in anything essential. 

 The Grand-Canarian one, ho^^'ever, is a trifle smaller, darker, and 

 more shining than the rest, with its prothorax a little more finely 

 punctured and the hairs of its elytra less developed ; and it is pos- 

 sible therefore (as already intimated) that it, at all events, may be 

 specifically distinct. 



547. Laparocerus seniculus, n. sp. 



L. niger vel piceo-niger, subopacus, sat dense cinereo-metallico-squa- 

 moso-tesscllatus pilisque longiusculis erectis ad elytronim apicem 

 solum obsitus ; prothorace dense et minutissime punctulato punc- 

 tisque majoribus sed levissimis, valde remotis (in disco antico fere 

 obsoletis) parce adsperso, carina loevi tenui sensim (prsesertim pos- 

 tice) instructo, per basin distincte marginato ; elytris oblongis, 

 valde profunde punctato-striatis (punctis magnis) ; pedibus rufo- 

 piceis. — Long. corp. lin. -4. 



Habitat in Canaria Grandi, hand procul ab urbe Las Palmas captus. 



Although I have but two, imperfect examples of this Laixirocerus 



