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for although in mere colouring it scarcely differs from certain pale 

 (though spotted) individuals of the canariensis (such as are often met 

 with in barren districts, in Fnerteventxira and elsewhere), still its 

 more oblong outline and rather less convex upper surface do not 

 seem to be paralleled in any of the numerous phases of its ally which 

 I possess from so many remote parts of the archipelago. So that 

 when I consider the immense altitude at which the two examples 

 now before me were taken (they having been captured by myself on 

 the Cumbre, overlooking the Canadas, above Ycod el Alto — upwards 

 of 9000 feet above the sea), I am inclined to suspect that they may 

 prove to be the exponents of a separate species having a very elevated 

 range. 



656. Scymnus cercyonides, n. sp. 

 S. species S. ccinariensi affinis, sed multo minor, paulo oblongior, paulo 

 minus convexus, sensim brevius pubescens densiusque punctulatus ; 

 prothorace antice subangustiore ; elytris rufis, in parte basali tri- 

 angulari (per suturam, uscjue ad medium, obscure suffiisis), et in- 

 terdum obsoletissime mox ante apicem, nigrescontibiis. 

 Mas i)rothorace ad latera paulo dilutiore ; capite (nisi fallor), ut in 

 sexu foemineo, nigro. — Long. corp. Hn. -J. 



Habitat in Teneriffa, Gomera et Palma, passim. 



It is scarcely possible, I think, that this small Scymnus (which is 

 curiously suggestive, at first sight, of a minute Cercyon with rufous 

 elytra) can be any modification (even the most extreme one) of the 

 S. canarieiisis ; nevertheless it occurs often in company with that 

 insect, though very much the rarer of the two. It differs from it in 

 being considerably smaller and a little more oblong, somewhat less 

 convex and more closely punctulated, and in its elytra being rufous, 

 with only a triangular basal patch (which is generally prolonged a 

 little, though in a diffused manner, along the suture) black. There 

 is sometimes, however, a slight trace of an obsolete infuscated jiortion 

 immediately before their extreme apex ; and I believe that its head is 

 black in both sexes, — merely the prothoracic edges being rather di- 

 luted in the males. I have taken it sparingly in Tencriffe and Palma, 

 and it was found in Gomera by Dr. Crotch. My Teneriffan specimens 

 are principally from S*'' Cruz and the mountains above it, and from 

 the vicinity of the Puerto Orotava. 



657. Scymnus maculosus, n. sp. 



S. rotundato-ovalis, minute pimctulatus, cinereo -pubescens, nitidus, 

 piceo-niger ; prothorace ad latera paulo dilutiore ; elytris singulis 

 ad apicem necnon in maculis sex (tribus sc. confluentibus in disco 

 postico sitis, fasciam dentatam transversam efficientibus, una sub- 



