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both sexes ; but the males are further remarkable for having the inner 

 edge of their tibiae most delicately serrated, the anterior pair being 

 additionally armed (at a considerable distance behind the apex) with 

 an infinitesimal spinule (both it and the serrations being so small as 

 to be barely traceable except beneath a high magnifying power) . The 

 anterior male feet are broadly dilated, sparingly pilose above, and 

 most densely spongiose below. 



727. Melasma lineatum. 

 M. pieeo-nigrum, subnitidum, ubique densissime punctatum, punctis 

 in capite prothoraceque majoribus et ibidem plus minus longitu- 

 dinaliter subcoiifluentibus ; prothorace transverso-quadrato, teniiis- 

 sime marginato, anguHs posticis obtusiusculis(nullo modo productis) 

 sed argute determinatis, ad latera sequaliter subrotundato ; elytris 

 oblongo-ovalibus (antice et postice subaequaHter angustioribus), le- 

 viter costatis; antennis pedibusque piceis. — Long, corp.lin. 2^-21. 



Phylax ? lineatus, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) G9 (1838). 

 , Hartimg, Geolog. Verhdltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, necnon etiam in insula 

 parva adjacente Graciosa, sub lapidibus vulgaris. 



A common insect throughout Lanzarote and Fuerteventura — occur- 

 ring beneath stones at most elevations, though particularly at inter- 

 mediate ones ; and I have taken it also in the little island of Graciosa, 

 ofi^ the extreme north of the former. In Lanzarote it was captured 

 likewise by Mr. Gray and M. Hartung ; and from Fuerteventura it 

 has been communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 



Fam. 69. OPATRID^. 



Genus 270. CNEMEPLATIA. 

 Costa, Ann. Aspir. Nat. Nap. (ser. 2) i. 146 (1847). . 



728. Cnemeplatia laticeps. 



Autocera laticeps, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 155. fig. 2 (1857). 



Habitat TenerifiFam, a cl. W. D. Crotch semel tantum lecta. 



A single example of this curious and minute insect was found by 

 Dr. Crotch in Teneriffe, during the spring of 1862, and it is the only 

 one which I have as yet seen from these islands. It occurs sparingly 

 in Madeira, and was described by myself from a specimen which I 

 captured, in June of 18-55, on the ascent from S*" Cruz to S. Antonio 

 da Serra (in the latter of which localities it has subsequently been re- 

 discovered by Mr. Bewicke) . It is very closely allied to the Italian 



