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the Rev. R. T, Lowe, on the summit of the Monte Famara, more than 

 2000 feet above the sea. 



The L. rasus may be known by {inter alia) its surface being densely 

 tessellated with fine and sericeous (though metallic) scales, but alto- 

 gether free from additional erect hairs ; by its rostrum (which is only 

 minutely and lightly punctulated, and usually subrufescent) being 

 comparative! 1/ subcylindric, though flattish above and but obscurely 

 channeled ; by its (small) prothorax being delicately and faintly punc- 

 tiu'ed (though with a few somewhat larger, but shallow, punctures 

 intermixed) ; and by the oval outline of its elytra. 



549. Laparocerus mendicus, n. sp. 



L. fusco-niger, subnitidus, parce cinereo- (vix siibmetallico-) squa- 

 moso-tessellatus setulisque brevissimis subereetis in elytris obsitus ; 

 rostro nitidiore, angustulo, concavo-canaliculato, parce et leviter 

 punctate, oculis rotundatis, prominentibus ; prothorace parce et 

 profunde punctato punctulisque minutissimis le-\-ibus intermediis 

 dense irrorato ; elytris ovalibus, profunde punctato-striatis ; an- 

 tennis pedibusque rufo-fcrrugineis, his plus minus obscurioribus ; 

 fimiculi art" 2'^" prime sensim longiore. 



Mas tibiis anticis vix magis sinuatis ; posticis intus versus apicem 

 obsolete subserratis. 



Fcem. tibiis simplicibus. — Long. corp. lin. 3-3|. 



Habitat in ins. Hierro, sub lapidibus in montibus haud infrequens. 



The brownish -black surface of this Laparocerris, which is sparingly 

 clouded with didl-cinereous scales (which are almost free from any 

 metallic tinge), and has its elytra beset with very short and rather 

 stiff hairs, which are extremely abbreviated, and subdecumbent, an- 

 teriorly, in conjunction with its narrowish, concave, somewhat polished 

 and remotelj^ sculptured rostrum, its prominent eyes, its deep and 

 distantly punctured prothorax, and its coarsely punctate-striated ely- 

 tra, will sufficiently characterize it. As in the case of the last species 

 and the four following ones, the second joint of its funiculus is very 

 distinctly longer than the first. The L. vrendicus appears to be pe- 

 culiar to the mountains of Hierro ; in which island I captured it, 

 during February 1858, from beneath stones, on the hills around Val- 

 verde, as well as on the open grassy Cumbre to the south of S. Andre. 



550. Laparocerus obscurus, n. sp. 



L, niger, stibopacus, minute et parce cinereo-squamoso-irroratus sed 

 pilis erectis carens (versus apicem elytrorum setulis bre\"ibus sub- 

 demissis parce obsitus); rostro minute et leviter punctato, concavo- 

 canaliculato, oculis sat parvis, rotundatis ; prothorace subconvexo, 

 parum profunde punctato punctulisque minutissimis intermediis 



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