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la Lucia diclae Majo exeunte A. D. 1849 inveni, alque duo spe- 

 cimina ad Säo Vincente aeslate A. D. 1851 capta nuper commu- 

 nicavil Rev.^ Dom. Lowe. 



C. cylindric-oval, a litlle dcpressed, very slighlly shining 

 (sonielimes nearly opake) and testaceous. Head and piolhorax 

 rather coarsely punclured, and subrugulose, more or less clou- 

 ded or infuscate, Ihe lallcr short, transverse, and rather waved 

 beilind. Elytra deeply crenalo-striated, vvith the sniall, thickened 

 callosily wilhin the shouhler, of each shlighlly dusky. 



A niost dislinct htlle Crypiocephalus, and, allhough related 

 in sizc and general aspect to tlie Cr. minutiis and signaticollis 

 of higher latitudes, yet wilh abundanl charactors of its own which 

 allogelher separate it, specifically; il recedes froni every Crypto- 

 cepliakis wilh which I am acquainled, whilst its almost opake 

 surface, its deeply punctured, comparatively short prolhorax, and 

 its subdepressed form, enlirely remove it from any of the smali 

 European species, of which the common C. minutus niay be re- 

 aarded as the type. U is apparently extremely rare. During 

 my conslanl researches I have mel with only a single example, 

 — captured towards the end of May 1840 at the extreme head of 

 the Ribeiro de Santa Lucia, by brushing the rank Vegetation at 

 Ihe foot of the perpendicular rocks on the steep bank immedia- 

 tely lo the left of the great walerfall. Two more specimens 

 howewer have been subsequentiy communicated to nie by the 

 Rev. R. T. Lowe, by whom the werc taken in the north of the 

 island (during the Sommer of 1851), at Sao Vincente." 



If'oUaston Insect. M-idi-rcnsia [>■ 456. 



Nach dieser ausführlichen Beschreibung scheint es mir kei- 

 nem Zweifel zu unterliegen, dass diese Art in die IGte Rotte 

 gehöre, und dem dort beschriebenen Cr. JV. itigrum m. sehr 

 nahe verwandt sei. 



V. Cr. Wagneri Küst. „Cr. niger, thorace globoso- 

 convexo, nitidissimo, ruguloso-punclato; elylris flavis, punctalis, 

 puncto humerali nigro. Long. 2'", lat. ['". 



In der Regentschaft Algier von Wagner entdeckt." 



Küster Käf. Europ. IF, 95. 



Die ausführliche deutsche Beschreibung, deren Wiederholung 

 es bei der allgemeinen Verbreitung und Zugiinglichkeit des 



