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five joints to their funiculus, instead of only four, and a rounder 
club, will at once, apart from minor differences, remove it therefrom. 
The line of separation between the first and second joints of its feet 
is (on account of their being of the same breadth) not very readily 
detected, except under a high magnifying power ; nevertheless when 
viewed beneath the microscope, it is sufficiently apparent. In this 
respect, also, it recedes from Leiparthrum, in which I cannot distin- 
guish more than four articulations,—the basal one being obsolete ; 
or, at any rate, if not positively absent, so far absorbed within the 
spinose apex of the tibize as to be completely inappreciable. 
270. Hypoborus Ficus*. 
H. subcylindricus nigro-fuscus et setis rigidis griseis erectis obsitus, 
prothorace ad latera rotundato, elytris rugulosis striato-punctatis, 
antennis lete testaceis, pedibus ferrugineis. 
Long. corp. ln, 3. 
Bostrichus Fici, De7. Cat. (edit. 1) 101 (1821). 
Hypoborus Ficus, Erich., in Wiegm. Archiv, 11. 62 (1836). 
, Lucas, Col. del Algérie, 462. pl. 39. f. 2 (1849). 
H. subcylindrical, but rather short and thick, blackish-brown, and 
beset all over (though especially on the elytra) with rigid, more or 
less erect, griseous sete. Prothoraxv large and rather rough, but 
very obscurely punctured; narrowed in front, and with the sides 
rounded behind,—where it is a little wider than the elytra. Elytra 
obscurely striate-punctate ; with the robust scale-like sets dis- 
posed in very evident longitudinal rows, and with longer and more 
erect ones implanted remotely on the interstices ; with their basal 
margin considerably raised in the centre (even more so than in 
the Leiparthra), where it is sometimes rufescent. Antenne bright 
testaceous. Legs piceo-ferruginous. 


Very closely resembling, at first sight, the Lecparthrum bitubercu- 
latum ; nevertheless, apart from the structural differences in its an- 
tenn and feet, already pointed out (but which require the microscope 
to be appreciated), it may be at once known from that insect by its 
shorter and thicker outline, its more laterally-rounded and basally 
wider prothorax, by the longer and more erect sete with which it is 
beset, and by the brightly testaceous hue of its antenne. Two spe- 
cimens of it were detected by myself near the low vineyard-distriet 
behind the sea-beach of Porto Santo during April 1855 ; and a third 
in Madeira proper (in a garden at Funchal) in the autumn of the 
same year. It is a species of Mediterranean latitudes (occurring 
throughout the south of Europe and the north of Africa), and would 
appear to reside normally beneath the bark of the Fig-tree (Ficus 
carica, Linn.). 
