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29. Melyrosoma hirtum, n. sp. 



M. atrum, pilis elongatis erectis mollibus vix dilutioribus vestitum ; capite 

 protlioraceque profunde et densissime rugoso-pimctatis, hoc transverse, 

 in medio leviter caualiculato ; elytris valde profunde rugoso-punctatis, 

 sutura costisque tribus in singido obscure elevatis ; antennis brevi- 

 usculis, gi-acilibus, ad basin vix picescentioribus. 

 Mas adhuc latet. 

 Long. Corp. lin. If. 



Habitat Teneriffam, in montibus excelsis supra Agua Mansa ad flores 

 Cytisi mense Maio, a.d. 1859, specimen unicum collegi. 

 Unfortunately I have but a single example of this Melyrosoma, 

 and that a female one, to describe from ; nevertheless it may be 

 known immediately from the M. costipenne by the very long, erect, 

 and fine hairs with which it is densely clothed ; by its still coarser 

 sculpture ; by its prothorax being shorter and more transverse, and 

 with a lightly impressed channel down the disk (instead of merely 

 an abbreviated one, or fovea, behind) ; by its elytral costse being less 

 developed ; and by its antennte being perhaps somewhat shorter and 

 slenderer. It bears about the same relation to the Madeiran M. 

 ahdominale as the last species does to the oceanicum of those islands ; 

 nevertheless its elongated pubescence is stiU denser, its prothorax is 

 altogether wider (particularly behind), and, together with the head, 

 much more deeply and closely sculptured, its elytral punctures are 

 larger and more confused or roughened (having no tendency what- 

 ever to be disposed in longitudinal rows) ; and although I have not yet 

 seen the male sex, I have but little doubt (judging fi-om the specimen 

 now before me) that its antennae will be found to be considerably 

 shorter. My unique specimen was captured at a lofty elevation on 

 the ascent to the Cumbre, above the Agua Mansa, in Teneriffe, 

 during May 1859, from off the blossoms of a Cytisus. 



30. Melyrosoma flavescens, n. sp. 



M. gracile, nigrum, pilis robustis demissis fiavo-cmereis vestitmn ; capite 

 prothoracequo profunde et densissime punctato-rugosis, hoc aiigusto, 

 subconico ; elytris profimde punctatis, sutm-a costisquo tribus in utro- 

 que sat fortiter elevatis ; antennis pedibusque gracilibus, illis ad basin 

 tarsisque paulo dilutioribus. 

 Mas antennis vix longioribus. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1-1^^. 

 Habitat in montibus Palmae, Junio ineunte, a.d. 1858, ad flores captum. 



The comparatively small size and narrow outline of this interest- 

 ing little Melyrosoma, in conjunction with the rather robust but 

 nearly decumbent ijeUowish-cmeieoviB pile with which it is densely 



