86 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Coleoptera of the Salvages. 



ipsis acutis ; elytris subtilissime alutaceis crenato-striatis, interstitiis 

 distiucte punctiilatis, testaceis, maculis duabus communibus (una sc. 

 minore transversa ad basin sita, et altera maxima dentata postmedia) 

 nigris omatis ; antennis palpisque piceo-ferrugiueis ; pedibus testaceis ; 

 palporum labialium articulo idtimo baud securifoniii (leviter sub- 

 clavato). 



Long. Corp. lin. S^-Sf. 



T. head dark-piceous, and ratber deeply punctm'ed. Prothorax a sbade 

 paler, and more strictly piceous, and -^vath tbe lateral edges more or less 

 sligbtly rufescent ; a little less deeply punctured tban the bead, but 

 ratber more rugose, especially about the hinder angles ; abruptly trun- 

 cated both before and behind, and much naiTowed posteriorly, — the 

 extreme hinder angles, however, being acute and prominent. Elytra 

 subovate, much shortened behind, but nevertheless rather produced in 

 the middle (i. e. at their apical point of jmiction) ; somewhat acute at 

 their humeral angles, much depressed, and most mruutely and delicately 

 alutaceous all over, — causing their surface to be a little less shining 

 than that of the head and prothorax; regularly crenate-striate, and 

 with the interstices rather distinctly punctulated ; testaceous, but orna- 

 mented with two black or dark-piceous patches (common to both 

 elytra) which cover the greater portion of the sm-face, — the first being 

 comparatively small and transverse, placed at the centre of the extreme 

 base, behind the scutelliun, and reaching on each side to about (or a little 

 beyond) the fovu'th stria, its portion between the third and fourth stria 

 being more or less backwardly produced ; and the second being im- 

 mensely larger, postmedial, sometimes much suffused, and of a zigzag 

 form, being produced both before and behind along the suture, and 

 extending on either side to about the seventh stria. Antennce and 

 palpi piceo-ferruginous ; and with the terminal joint of the labial palpi 

 only very slightly enlarged and subclavate (instead of securiform, as in 

 the ordinary Tari). Legs testaceous. 



The three specimens from which the above description is com- 

 piled have been lately communicated to me by the Barao do Castello 

 de Paiva, to whom I have great pleasure in dedicating the species. 

 From the close resemblance of their elytral patches and coloming to 

 those of the Canarian examples of the T. discoideus, Dej., I had at 

 first supposed them to be the exponents of a merely depauperated 

 and slightly altered form of that insect, from (perhaps) a long isola- 

 tion on the small and remote rocks of the Salvages ; but a more 

 careful inspection has proved that such an opinion (as is too often 

 the case in like instances) is only a superficial one, and that the two 

 species are not only altogether distinct in their minor features, but 

 even in their structural ones. Indeed, were it not that the speci- 

 mens from the Salvages are essentially Tari in everything else, I 



