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the suture) whicli is considerably shorter and less distinct ; from 

 which it would appear that one of the three lateral ones is entirely 

 absent. It is more oblong, rather less convex, much less shining, 

 and a little more coarsely punctured than the Z. plicata ; it is also of 

 a somewhat less intense black (being often just perceptibly subtencs- 

 cent) ; and its elytra, although without any tendency to be obscurely 

 widened behind, are nevertheless rather more decidedly subtruncated, 

 or lent downwards, before the apex. The few specimens of the Z. 

 4-carinata which I have seen were communicated from Teneriffe by 

 the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 



66G. Zophosis plicata. 



Z. subovalis, (prsesertim postice) latiuscula, convexa, nitida, aterrima ; 

 capite iDrothoraceque minute (epistomate densius et distinctius) 

 punctatis ; elytris ante apicem subtruncato-desilientibus, parcius 

 minute subasperato-punctulatis, grosse maUcato-ina?quaHbus, sin- 

 gulis costis tribus latiusculis elevatis (antice et jira^sertim postice 

 evanescentibus), necnon quarta versus suturam minus distincta sed 

 hand obsoleta, longitudinaHter instructis. — Long. corp. lin. 2-3. 



Zophosis plicata, BruUe, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 64 pi. i. f. 8 (18,38). 



vagans, Hartung* [nee Br.\ Geolog. Verhdltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 



140, 141. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, necnon etiam in insulis 

 parvis adjacentibus (sc. Graciosa et Lobos), ubique vulgaris. 



This is the common Zophosis of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, where 

 it abounds at nearly all elevations, occurring likewise in the small 

 adjacent islands of Graciosa and Lobos (off the extreme north of the 

 former, and latter, respectively). It was taken also by Mr. Gray and 

 M. Hartung, and has been communicated by the Barao do Castello de 

 Paiva. I think there can bo no doubt that it does not extend further 

 westward in the archipelago, unless indeed the Z. vagans, from Grand 

 Canary, should be regarded (which, however, is scarcely possible) as 

 an insular modification of it. 



The Z. plicata differs in being rather more shining than the other 

 species here enumerated, and in having its elytra very uneven (or mal- 

 leated) and furnished with broader and more elevated longitudinal 

 plicae — the three outer ones (on each elytron) being considerably 

 raised, whilst even the more anteriorly-abbreviated one, nearer to 

 the suture, is sufficiently consiDicuous on the hinder disc. It is also, 



* Dr. Heer having sent me a type of what he regarded (though erroneously) as 

 the Z. vagans, in the list whicli he ]3repared for M. Hartung's volume, I can state 

 for certain that his species there alluded to is in reality tlie Z. j^Hcafa. Indeed, 

 that being apparently the only Zophms found in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, 

 such a conclusion would in any case have been inevitable. 



