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tion of the ridges causes the spaces between them to appear some- 

 what concave. 



718. Pimelia laevigata. 



P. praecedenti simiKs, sed nitidior (saepius laete nitida), elytrorum 

 tuberculis obsoletis (versus apicem necnon in spatio lateral! solum 

 observandis, et etiam ibidem minutissimis, granuliformibus) nec- 

 non costis antice subevanescentibus et etiam postice paulo minus 

 elevatis, antennis pedibusque Isetius rutb-piceis. 



Variat elytris leviter transversim malleatis. — Long. corp. lin. 7-10. 



Pimelia levigata, Brulle, in Webb ct Berth. (Col.) 67 (1838). 



Habitat TenerifFam et Palmam ; in ilia mihi baud obvia, sed in 

 hac vulgaris. 



I have not myself observed this Pimelia except in Palma — where 

 I captured it abundantly, during May and June of 1858, in the 

 Barranco above S'" Cruz ; nevertheless, as Messrs. Webb and Berthe- 

 lot's examples are labelled as coming from Teneriffe, and since I 

 have others before me, both from M. Hartung and Dr. Crotch, which 

 were professedly taken in that island, I can scarcely disallow it, in 

 my Topographical Catalogue, as a Teneriffan insect likewise. It is 

 a well-defined species, and one which may easily be recognized by its 

 shining and comparatively unsculptured surface and by the more 

 rufescent hue of its limbs. Its elytral tubercles are quite obsolete, 

 except towards the apex and along the lateral interval — where they 

 are excessively minute, distant, and granuliform ; and its costae, al- 

 though considerably raised behind, are indistinct (or subevanescent) 

 anteriorly. 



719. Pimelia serrimargo. 



P. nitida vel subnitida ; capite parcissime (apice distincte, postice mi- 

 nutissime) punctate ; prothorace apice saepius subsinuato, utrinque 

 tuberculis magnis remotis obsito necnon minoribus etiam antice et 

 postice (vix in disco ipso) irrorato ; elytris ovalibus, in limbo valde 

 et acute serratis, singulis costis tribus (praeter lateralem) plus 

 minus distinctis (sed saepius sublateraU acute serrata, discali multo 

 minus elevata postice parce serrata, et subsuturali simplici, vel 

 omnino vel antice solum obsoleta) instructis, interstitiis valde re- 

 mote subseriatim tubereulatis, tuberculis in spatio laterali parvis, 

 sed versus suturam gradatim majoribus (nunc maximis verrucifor- 

 mibus, nunc obsoletis) ; tibiis in facie superiore baud concavis. — 

 Long. Corp. Hn. 4|-8. 



Pimelia verrucosa, Br. [nee Fisch. de Waldh., 1821], in Webb et Berth. 

 (Col.) 67 (1838). 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, late diffusa : species in statura, necnon 

 in elytrorum tuberculis, valde instabilis. 



