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relatively, a little more convex and ovate than its allies, having a 

 somewhat more evident tendency to be faintly widened beliind the 

 middle of the elytra ; at which point it is also a trifle more snddenly 

 curved downwards, or truncated — at any rate more so than is the 

 case in any of the following species, though scarcely so much so as in 

 the preceding one. 



667. Zophosis vagans. 



Z. praecedenti sirailis, sed plerumque paulo minor angustior oblongior 

 (versus apicem nullo modo latior et ibidem panlo minus evidentius 

 desilienti-subtruncata), sensim minus nitida (evidentius alutacea), 

 minus convexa et minus atorrima (interdum obsoletissime subasnes- 

 cens); capite prothorace(|ue profundius punctatis ; elytris densius, 

 profundius ac magis asperato-punctatis, sat minus malleato-in- 

 aeqxialibus, singulis brcvius ac minus alte 3-costatis, costa quarta 

 (versus suturam) obsoleta. — Long. corp. lin. 2^-2^. 



Zophosis vagans, BndU, in Wehb et Berth. (Col.) 64 (1838). 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, proesertim in montibus interioris de- 

 gens. 



Whilst the last species is peculiar to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, 

 the present one seems to be found only in Grand Canary — occurring 

 more particularly, I believe, in the central districts (as Tarajana, tfec.) 

 of that island. It differs from the plicata in being, on the average, 

 a little smaller, narrower, and more oblong (it having apparently no 

 tendency to be slightly widened behind the middle, where also it is 

 just perceptibly less truncated, or ^vith the apical region somewhat 

 more drawn out); in its surface being less shining (or more coarsely 

 alutaceous), a little more strongly punctured, and not quite so in- 

 tensely black (there being often a barely traceable senescent tinge); 

 and in its elytra being less uneven, and with their costse veri/ much 

 less raised — the three outer ones being also somewhat shorter, and 

 the fourth one (towards the suture) obsolete. It agreed sufficiently 

 well with the tyijes of M. Brullo's Z. vagans, which I examined in 

 Paris, to leave little doubt on my mind that it was conspecific with it. 



668. Zophosis Clarkii. 



Z. prsecedenti (sc. Z. var/anti) valde affinis, sed paulo magis regularitcr 

 ovalis (antice vix sublatior) et obsoletissime subcyanescenti- (potius 

 (juam subtenescenti-) atra ; elytris vix minus malleato-ina^quali- 

 bus, costis sensim angustioribus, costa secunda in singulis antice 

 magis abbreviata, tertia in disco sensim argutius et rectius deter- 

 minatji (sed hand magis elevata).- — Long, coi'p. lin. 2-2^. 



Zophosis Clarkii, Deyrolle {in hoc opusculo citatci). 

 Habitat in iutei-mediis Canariae Grandis, passim. 



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