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Genus 339. METOPSIA. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. G16 (1854). 



930. Metopsia cimicoides, n. sp. 



M. oblonga, depressa, utrinque explanato-coneava sed per medium 

 subcarinata, pallide ferruginea, subopaca, grosse aspei-ato-punc- 

 tulata et antice granulis superadditis obsita ; capite transverse, 

 apice recta truncate et utrinque incise, pestice in medio ocelle in- 

 structo ; protberace canalicubi polita notate, basi intra angides 

 utrinque late excise ; antennis nigre-fuscis, afticido ultimo ferru- 

 gineo, articulis prime et secunde pedibusque rufe-testaceis. — Long. 

 Corp. lin, 1|. 



Habitat in lauretis excelsis Teneriffie, in mentibus supra Taga- 

 nanam Maio a.d. 1859 semel reperta. 



One of the rarest of the Canarian Coleeptera — the only specimen 

 which I have seen having been obtained in the damp laurel-vroods 

 of a high elevation in Teneriffe, en the mountains above Taganana, 

 during May of 1859, It has consequently the same habits as the 

 Madeiran M. ampliata, to which indeed it is closely allied. It is, 

 however, unquestionably distinct from that species — being net only 

 smaller and more oblong, but likewise paler and more coarsely punc- 

 tured, with its prothorax more deeply bilebed in front (causing the 

 anterior angles to be more perrect), and with its legs rather shorter, 

 besides numerous miner differences which are better seen than de- 

 scribed. Its prima facie aspect and colour are so curiously sugges- 

 tive of the common Cimex Uetularius, that I have chosen the above 

 trivial name as peculiarly appropriate. 



COERIGENDITM. 



P. 229. Cephaloncus. — Not having seen Prof. Westwood's dia- 

 gnosis, when I prepared the MS. of this portion of the Catalogue, I 

 was not aware that he had SiQiwally puhlished the genus under the 

 name (originally proposed by him) of " Ogcocephalus,^'' — he ha\dng 

 merely informed me that the latter title (which I erroneously con- 

 cluded ivas still in litteris) being apparently preoccupied, the name 

 might be altered to Cephaloncus. And I consequently assumed that 

 he had himself made the change previous to pjublication. 



