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Garcia, Ycod el Alto, and at the Agua Man.sa ; as well as, in pro- 

 fusion, on the ascent to the Cumbre above the last of these localities. 

 Although M. Brulle's description and figure are alike absolutely- 

 worthless, I am induced to refer his Omias tessellatus to the present 

 species through the simple fact of the small size which he records for 

 it; for I know of no Canarian Laparoceri which would so well tally 

 with it in that respect as this common Teneriffan one and the L. oh- 

 situs ; whilst if it had been the latter to which he wished to allude, 

 he could scarcely have failed to notice the suberect setae with which 

 that insect is densely studded. 



The L. tessellatus varies a little according to the region in which 

 it occurs, — being, on the average, somewhat larger, and with the 

 limbs correspondingly a little more developed, within the sylvan dis- 

 tricts than elsewhere ; though I believe I am able to connect its two 

 extremes of form most completely. As compared with the other La- 

 IKtroceri here described, it may be known by its small size and ovate 

 outline ; by its more or less strongly punctured j)rothorax ; and by 

 its (frequently subsenescent) surface being obscurely tessellated with 

 cinereous-brown scales (which have often a yellowish, as well as 

 slightly submetaUic, tinge), but free from additional erect hairs — it 

 being merely beset with short and subdccimibent setae which are only 

 traceable beneath a lens. 



557. Laparocerus obsitus, n. sp. 

 L. praecedenti similis, sed plerumque paiilo minor, setulis suberectis 

 in elytris obsitus ; prothorace minus profunde punctate, postice ad 

 latera \'ix magis rotundato ; elytris sensim oblongioribus, ergo ad 

 latera subrectioribus necnon ad humeros paulo minus rotundatis. — 

 Long. Corp. lin. lf-2J^. 



Habitat in montibus Canarioe Grandis, hinc inde parum vulgaris. 



I am not altogether satisfied that this Laparocerus is more than an 

 extreme insular state of the last one ; nevertheless, since the L. tessel- 

 latus seems to remain sufiiciently constant in the three islands of Te- 

 neriffe, Palma, and Hierro, I can scarcely assume that the decided 

 (even though not very important) differences which the Grand-Ca- 

 narian insect presents can be in any way the result of mere isolation. 

 The main points, however, in which the L. ohsitus appears to recede 

 from its ally are in its elytra being rather more oblong (or straighter 

 at the sides, and with the shoulders less falling away), and densely 

 beset with suberect seta?, or short stiffish hairs. Its prothorax is 

 a little more finely punctured, and, if anything, perhaps a trifle rounder 

 laterally. It is widely spread over, and somewhat abundant in, the 



