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The L. sidmodosus is widely spread over the wooded districts of 

 TenerifFe. I have taken it on the laurel-clad mountains above Ta- 

 ganana, at Las Mercedes, La Esperanza, the Agua Garcia, and the 

 Agua Mansa. 



565. Liclieiiophagiis sculptipennis, n. sp. 



L. species inter L. suhnodosum et impressicollem aliquo mode sita sod 

 (nisi fallor) vere distincta ; pra)sertim elytris multo grossius sculp- 

 turatis (punctis striarura maximis, inter se fere subconfluentibus 

 quasi arete adpressis) bene dignoscitur. Forma genei-ali et colore, 

 f route minus profunde excavata, prothorace aequali necnon elj'tro- 

 rum setis hand longissimis cum illo congruit, sed antennis rostro- 

 que sublongioribus, sculptura omnino grossiore et nodis elevatiori- 

 bus differt. 



Var. jS [an species distincta? — forsan L. st(b7iodosi mera varictas]. 

 Minor, elytris paulo minus profunde sculp turatis. — Long. eorp. lin. 

 (var. ft excepta) 2|-3. 



Habitat Palmam, in intermediis (praesertim sylvaticis) rarior. 



In certain respects the present Lichenopliagns is intermediate be- 

 tween the L, subnodosus and impressicollts ; nevertheless, apart from 

 minor distinctions, the enormous size of its elytral punctures, which 

 are consequently (even whilst somewhat fewer in number) more 

 closely packed together, will serve, prima facie, to separate it from 

 them both. In the majority of its details, however (as, for instance, 

 its general outline and hue, its less deeply excavated forehead, its 

 unimpressed prothorax, and its shorter setae), it agrees better with the 

 former of those species than it does with the latter ; yet its very much 

 coarser sculpturfe, in conjunction with its just perceptibly longer an- 

 tennae and rostrum and its more developed nodes, would seem to 

 imply that it cannot be referred to it. But what I have regarded 

 as the " var. /3 " I am more doubtful about, being far from sure that 

 at any rate the few specimens of it which I have examined are more 

 than the exponents of a mere insular state of the subnodosus — from 

 which they seem mainly to differ in the rather more coarsely punc- 

 tured striae of their elytra. Until, however, further material has been 

 obtained, I prefer keeping them in their present position — though 

 their smaller size and less deeply sculptured sxu'faee do apparently 

 tend to remove them from their assumed type. 



The L. sculptipennis (both in its normal state and the " var. ft ") 

 I have met with hitherto only in the intermediate elevations of 

 Palma — in which island I captured it sparingly, duiing June of 

 1858, in the Barranco above S*'' Cruz, as well as in the laurel-woods 

 on the ascent to the Cumbre above Buenavista. 



