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abdomen, the unique insect from which the above structural cha- 

 racters have been drawn has much the appearance of a large Autalia 

 or Falagria (especially the former) ; nevertheless all its tarsi are 

 most unquestionably 5-articulate, and it has no visible paraglossae. 

 In both of these latter respects, and in the narrow, parallel, greatly 

 produced anterior portion of its Hgula, it agrees with Ocalea ; but 

 the majority of its external features are so completely on the Autalia- 

 type that I cannot but think that it would be unnatiu'al to remove it 

 far from that group. "With the exception of its extremely elongated 

 and straightened ligula, its oi-al organs are nearly similar to those of 

 Homalota ; but its front feet are (like the remainder) pentamerous, 

 and in its general fades it is totally different from the members of 

 that genus. 



796. Echidnoglossa constricta, n. sp. 

 E. rufo-ferruginea, subnitida, alutacea (vix punctulata), parce pu- 

 bescens ; capite paulo obscuriore ; prothorace angusto, ante me- 

 dium angulatim sublatiore, canaliculate (canalicula in disco obso- 

 leta, sed postice in foveam latiorem mergente) ; elytris brevissimis, 

 subconvexis, ad latera vix obscurioribus ; abdomine postice obscu- 

 riore ; antennis pedibusque infuscato-testaceis, illis versus apicem 

 nigrescentibus. — Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Habitat TenerifFajn, prope oppidulum Guia a W. D. Crotch reperta. 



Apparently extremely rare, the only specimen which I have seen 



having been captured by Dr. Crotch (during the spring of 1862) near 



the little town of Guia (opposite to Gomera) o]i the western side of 



Teneriffe. 



Genus 301. PHYTOSUS*. 

 (Rudd) Curtis, Brit. Ent. xv. 718 (1838). 



797. Phytosus minyops, n. sp. 



P. angustissimus, testaceus, opaeus, dense cinereo-pubescens ; capite 

 vix rufescentiore ; elytris brevissimis ; abdomine in medio nigri- 

 cante. — Long. corp. hn. vix Ig. 



Ohs. — Species nigriventri Chev. affinis, sed angustior, capite pal- 

 lidiore oculisque minoribus magis rotundatis. A haltico Kraatzii 

 differt corpore majore pallidiore, abdomine densius subtiliusque 

 punctulato et basi pallido (nee nigrescente). 



Phytosus nigriventris, WoU. [nee Chev.], Cat. 3fad. Col. 169 (1857). 

 Habitat Fuerteventuram, sub fucis per oram maritimam semel 

 captus. 



* Lacordaire and Kraatz, following Erichson, have defined Phytosus as having 

 merely its front feet 4-articiilate ; but, after mounting in balsam the whole six 

 legs both of the nigriventris and spinosus. I am quite satisfied that the four ante- 

 rior tarsi are tetramerous (as indeed was originally, and correctly, stated by Curtis). 



