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696. Hegeter subrotundatus, n. sp. 



H. affinis //. impresso, sed brevior, paiilo rotundatior (sc, subovalis) 

 et sensim minus opacus ; capite prothoraceque distinetius punctu- 

 latis, hoc subbreviore, magis transverso, ante medium sensim la- 

 tiore, angulis omnibus paulo obtusioribus ; elytris distincte granu- 

 latis, regulariter sed obsolete longitudinaliter sulcatis et paulo mi- 

 nus grosse transversim corrugatis ; antennis breviusculis, robus- 

 tioribus. 

 Variat [an distinctio sexualis ?] prothorace antice ad latera subex- 

 planato-marginato, aut potius juxta marginem longitudinaliter im- 

 presso (impressione ad angulos anticos oblique incurvci). — Long. 

 Corp. lin. 3|. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, ad Arguiniguin deprehensus. 

 Out of a large series of the H. impressus captured by myself at 

 Arguinigaiin, in the south of Grand Canary, I find three examples 

 which recede so much from the remainder that I can scarcely regard 

 them as a mere variety of that species — at all events not a local one, 

 inasmuch as they were found in the same locality as the others. 

 Judging from the types now before me, the H. suhrotimdatus would 

 seem to differ from its ally in being of a shorter and rounder outline, 

 and rather less opake ; in its head and prothorax being very much 

 more distinctly, and rather more remotely, punctured — the latter, 

 also, being somewhat shorter and more transverse, more evidently 

 widened before the middle, with the angles less acute, and not so 

 deeply bisinuated along the basal edge ; and in its antennae being 

 thicker, with their third joint perhaps a trifle less elongated. Its 

 elytra are perceptibly granulate, and obsoletely sulcated — causing 

 the interstices generally (and not merely the alternate ones), as in 

 the variety indicated above of the -impressus, to appear slightly ele- 

 vated. If anything, however, they are perhaps a little less corru- 

 gated transversely than is the case in that insect. 



697. Hegeter tenuipunctatus. 



H. subopacus, subdepressus, ubique dense ct minute, sed tamen di- 

 stincte, punctulatus (punctuhs in elytris minutissimis) ; prothorace 

 transverso -subquadrato, ad latera a^qualiter subrotundato, angulis 

 posticis vix obtusis ; elytris planiusculis, fere simplicibus. — Long, 

 corp. lin. 3-4. 



Hegeter tenuipunctatus?, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 65 (18.38). 



Habitat in montibus valde excelsis Teneriffse, usque ad 9000' vel 

 10,000' s. m. ascendens : Maio ineunte a.d. 1859 sub lapidibus prope 

 Caiiadas abundabat. 



M. Brulle's tyjjes of his H. tenuipimctatus, which I examined in 

 Paris, do not perfectlij accord with this Heyeter, but I thought them 



