474 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



with its elytra less rounded at the edges, less raised along the suture, 

 and with their costse relatively broader and more obtuse ; and with 

 its limbs less robust — the antennae and tarsi being also rufo-piceous 

 instead of black. 



714. Pimelia radula. 



P. proecedenti similis, sed minus oblonga (elytris rotundatioribus et 

 postice mag-is desilienti-truncatis) ; prothorace apice baud sinuato ; 

 elytris tuberculis paulo minoribus sed sensim magis asperatis ob- 

 sitis, in limbo paulo minus grosse serratis, singulis costis tribus 

 angustioribus minus elevatis (sed sublaterali et discali magis tuber- 

 culato-serratis, subsuturali antice laevi subevanescente sed postice 

 in tuberculam parvam gradatim mergente) instructis. 



a. Elytrorum tuberculis, praesertim versus sutui-am, minus distinctis. 

 [Circa Orotavam vulgaris.] 



ft {granidata'l , Lat., ined.). Elytrorum tuberculis grossius asj^eratis. 

 [Circa et supra Sanctum Crucem prsecipue degens.] — Long. corp. 

 lin. 7|-10. 



Pimelia radiila, DeJ., ined. 



, Sol, Ann. de la Soc. E)d. de Franci; v. 136 (183G). 



Habitat Tenerifiam, prsecipue in inferioribus occurrens. 



Whilst the last Pimelia is peculiar to the higher elevations of Tene- 

 riffe, this one occurs principally in the lowest (even on the level of 

 the sea-shore), though occasionally ascending into the intermediate 

 districts. I have taken the state " a " (which has its elytral tuber- 

 cles less strongly defined) around the Puerto Orotava, and the " ft " 

 in the vicinity of S'" Cruz ; the latter has also been communicated by 

 the Barao do Castello de Paiva. That it is truly conspecific with the 

 P. radula of Solier I can vouch for certain — having, through the 

 kindness of M. Deyrolle, received the loan of two specimens which 

 have been compared with Solier's tj'pes in the collection of the Conat 

 Breme at Turin. Curiously enough, one of these, which he regards 

 as " tout-a-fait tyinque," is identical with my state "a," as enun- 

 ciated above ; whilst the other, which was labelled in the original 

 collection of Dejean as " radida, var." (though with the erroneous 

 habitat of the Cape of Good Hope), is a small example of my state 

 " ft." And this is the more satisfactory, inasmuch as I had drawn 

 out the above diagnosis before I had even glanced at M. Deyrolle's 

 individucils. 



The P. radula is less oblong than the ascendens, its elytra being 

 more rounded at the sides and more bent downwards (or truncated) 

 towards their apex ; its prothorax is straighter along the anterior 

 edge ; and its elytra have their tubercles rather smaller, but a little 

 more obliqtiehj-im/tin</ed (or asperate), and their three costa) less clc- 



