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punctate ") ; in its prothorax being a little more decidedly bisinuated 

 along the basal edge, and consequently mth the posterior angles 

 somewhat acuter (or less evidently right angles) ; in its limbs (par- 

 ticularly the tarsi) being just perceptibly slenderer ; and in its ante- 

 rior tibiae being a little less roughened, or serrated. The only region 

 in. which I have myself observed it is the mountains of Grand Canary, 

 where, during April 1858, I took it, not imcommonly, on the ascent 

 to the Pinal above San Bartolome. 



689. Hegeter glaber. 

 H. affinis H. Wehbiano, quasi (etiam oculo fortissimo armato) im- 

 punctatus, prothorace apice paulo minus profunde emarginato, per 

 basin sensim grossius mai-ginato ; scutello etiam magis transverse ; 

 elytris subconvexioribus et minus evidenter subsidcatis (ssepe om- 

 nino simplicibus) ; antennis pedibusque vix rninus gracilibus. 

 Variat interdum subnitidus. — Long. corp. lin. 4-6. 



Hegeter glaber, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 65. pi. 1. f. 9 (1838). 

 Habitat Palmam, hinc inde sub lapidibus. 



This Hegeter, which I have observed hitherto only in Palma, agrees 

 with the two preceding ones in its comparatively elliptic elytra (which 

 are rather more narrowed before and behind, and therefore somewhat 

 more rounded in the middle), and it is of about the same size as the 

 H. Webhianus ; nevertheless its prothorax is a little less scooped-out 

 at the apex and somewhat more broadly margined along the basal 

 edge, its scutellum is just perceptibly more transverse, its elytra are 

 less sulcated (indeed often quite simple) and if anything more convex, 

 and its limbs (especially the anterior tibiae) are perhaps a trifle less 

 slender. Of M. Brulle's types, one pertained to this species, and the 

 other was the large variety of the H. amaroides ; I have therefore 

 regarded the present one as the insect he intended to describe. 



690. Hegeter amaroides. 



H. parum similis H. tristi, sed minor (plerumque multo minor), punc- 

 tm-a paulo distinctiore (sed tamen minutissima) ; prothorace sub- 

 breviore, antice vix angustiore ; elytris sensim oblongioribus (vix 

 eUipticis) et plerumque minus evidenter sulcatis ; antennis pedi- 

 busque minus elongatis. 



Variat elytris interdum (praesertim in speciminibus majoribus) paulo 

 magis eUipticis et fere hand sulcatis [=ir. polito, Br.], necnon in 

 ins. Hierro punctura subdistinctiore : in Oomera prothorax ad basin 

 est paulo magis bisinuatus, angulis anticis vix magis porrectis. 



Var. ft. subglabra [an species?]. Multo minor, elytris simplicibus 

 (sulcis ouinino obsoletis). — Long. corp. lin. 3-5|. 



Hegeter amaroides, Sol., Ann. dela Soc. Ent. de France, iv. 378 (1835). 



