Mr. T, V. WoUaston on the Canarian Malacoderms. 447 



around the Puerto Orotava, in TencrifFe. In Lanzarote and Fuerte- 

 ventura it was captured likewise by M. Hartung ; and that it is the 

 Dr. Heer, who prepared the list. It is, however, unaccompanied by 

 insect referred to in his volume under the title of Dasytes fiViformis I 

 can state for certain, ha\-ing received a specimen, thus identified, from 

 any description ; and even if it had been characterized, the name 

 could not have been retained, it having been employed by Creutzer 

 for the type of the genus — the D. linearis of Fabricius. I have 

 therefore much pleasure in dedicating it to M. Hartung. 



Genus Haplocnemus. 

 Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. iii. 316 [script. Aplocnemm'] (1830). 



26. Haj^hciiemus sculpturatus, n. sp. 



H. oblongus, convexus ; capite prothoraceque fusco-seneis, nitidis, sat 

 dense piinctulatis, pube demissa sericea vestitis, hoc convexo, margine 

 lateral! pallidiore crenulato ; elytris a^neo-fuscis, dense et valde profunda 

 punctato-rugosis, pube brevi demissa parce irroratis ; antenuis nigro- 

 fuscis, basin versus vix dilutioribus ; pedibus testaceis, tibiis interdum 

 paulo infuscatis. 



3Ias paulo minor, antennis longioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 2i-3. 



Habitat Teneriftam et Palmam, in locis intermediis et elevatia, rarissimus. 



This large Haplocnemus is remarkable for its brassy-brown surface 

 and very deeply sculptured elytra. Its head and prothorax are 

 clothed with a fine silken deciunbent pile ; but its elytra are com- 

 paratively glabroxis, the hairs (likewise decumbent ones) with which 

 they are studded being short and few. Its prothorax is convex, 

 vnih. the extreme lateral edges rather pale and minutely crenulated ; 

 its legs are testaceous, with the tibiae sometimes a little darkened ; 

 and the last joint of its maxillary palpi is distinctly secmnform. It 

 is apparently extremely rare, though widely distributed over Tene- 

 riffe, occurring at intermediate and lofty elevations. I have taken 

 it in the wood of La Esperanza, at the Agua Garcia, the Agua 

 Mansa, and beneath the dead sticks, as well as on the blossoms, of 

 the Retamas on the Cumbre adjoining the Caiiadas — more than 

 8000 feet above the sea. And I also observed the mutilated re- 

 mains of it (for they were, clearly referable to this species) in Palma. 



27. Haplocnemus vestitus, n. sp. 



H. prsecedenti similis, sed supra ubique pilis erectis elongatis moUibus 

 dense vestitus ; elytris vix minus profunde sculpturatis ; antennis in 



