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any constant diiFerence which would constitute them a separate 

 species. 



A common insect in the neighbourhood of Moreton Bay. In the 

 collections of the British Museum, Mr. BakeweU, and the Rev. Hamlet 

 Clark. 



27. H. gemellus, n. sp. 



H. subparallelus, confertim punctulatus, flavo-rufus. 



Long. Corp. \\ lin., lat. f lin. 



More parallel, more elongate, and narrower than H. amahilis ; more 

 thickly pimctate on the elytra; of a flavo-rufous rather than rufo- 

 fuscous colour : head pale rufous, impimctate : thorax flavous, the base 

 being fusco-flavous and perceptibly punctate : elytra parallel, finely 

 punctate, in colour rufo-flavous : legs and antennce flavous. 



I think, quite distinct specifically from H. amahilis ; it is more 

 parallel, nari'ower in proportion, and more minutely and closely 

 punctate. 



South Australia. Received by me some years ago from Mr. S. 

 Stevens. In the collections of Mr. BakeweU and the Rev. Hamlet 

 Clark. 



28. H. compacttis, n. sp. 



H. ovalis, punctatus, thorace flavo, elytris rufo-flavis. 



Long. Corp. 1 lin., lat. \ lin. 



A much smaller insect than the preceding, and more oval in form : 

 head impunctate, rufo-flavous : thorax finely punctate at the base, rufo- 

 flavous : elytra ovate, and subattenuated at the apex, punctate, in colour 

 rufous or rufo-flavous : legs and antennce rufous. 



To be distinguished chiefly from H. amahilis and H. gemellus by 

 its smaller size ; it is also, though closely resembling them in general 

 appearance, more oval in form. 



Received by Mr. BakeweU from Adelaide. 



XXXI. — On the Canarian Malacoderms. By T. Vehnon 

 WOLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S. 

 In the foUowing Paper I propose to give a descriptive enumeration 

 of the various Malacoderms which have been detected, up to the 

 present date, in the several islands of the Canarian archipelago. And 

 I may add, briefly, that I have regarded the Malacodermata as re- 

 stricted to the purely flower-infesting members of the Priocerata, 

 comprised in the families Tclephoridce, MalacMidce, and Melyridce, 

 but as e.rcluding the (nevertheless soft-bodied) Drilidm and Cy- 



