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patches towards the apex which are seldom absent in the opposite 

 sex), and its antennae and legs are longer ; — added to which, the two 

 hinder tibiae are perceptibly slenderer, and perhaps a trifle less evi- 

 dently subserrated along their outer edge, than is the case in the 

 females. 



584. Bruchus floricola, n. sp. 



B. minutus, ovatus, niger, subtns dense cinereo-, supra insequaliter 

 cinereo- et fusco-squamosus, antennarum (robustarum) basi pedi- 

 busque rufo-testaceis ; femoribus (praesertim posticis, subtus den- 

 ticulo minutissimo vix observando armatis) tibiisque posticis basi 

 nigris ; cajjite prothoraceqne subconico dense punctiilatis ; elytris 

 striatis, interstitiis subnitidis, leviter subreticulato-rugulosis; tibiis 

 posticis robustis. 



Variat antennis vel omnino rufo-testaceis, vel versus apicem obscu- 

 rioribus. — Long. Corp. lin. |-1. 



Habitat insulas Canarienses, in Gomera et Palma solis baud obser- 

 vatus. 



This excessively minute Brucfms would seem to be the represen- 

 tative in these islands of the Madeiran B. lichenicola, which at first 

 sight it very closely resembles. Nevertheless, when accurately in- 

 spected, it will be seen to differ from that insect in many particulars. 

 Thus, its antennae and legs are a httle longer and thicker ; its femora 

 and two hinder tibiae are black at their respective bases ; the latter 

 are very perceptibly broader and rather less straightened ; and the 

 third joint of its four anterior feet is somewhat more expanded. Its 

 elytra, also, are a trifle convexer and less opake ; and its prothorax 

 perhaps is a little more deeply sinuated posteriorly. 



The B. floricola is probably universal throughout the Group, though 

 I did not happen to observe it in either Gomera or Palma ; but in 

 Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Hierro I 

 have captured it, more or less abundantly. It occurs more espe- 

 cially, on flowers, in calcareous spots of intermediate elevations. My 

 Fuerteventuran examples are from Agua Bueyes and the Rio Palmas ; 

 the Canarian ones from the vicinity of Tafira (adjoining the region 

 of El Monte) ; and the Teneriffan ones from the mountains above 

 gta (jj.u2. Those from Lanzarote were, I think, taken at Haria, and 

 the Hierro ones in the neighbourhood of Valverde. 



585. Bruchus antennatus, n. sp. 

 B. ater sed minute subflavescenti-pubescens, subopacus ; eapite pro- 

 thoraceqne conico densissime ruguloso-punctulatis ; elytris sub- 

 crenato-striatis, interstitiis densissime et minute subpunctulato- 

 rugulosis ; antennis pedibusque vix dilutioribus ; illis in maribus 



