102 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Canarian Longicorns. 
2. *Blabinotus spinicolls. 
Blabinotus spinicollis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 426, tab. 9. f. 1 (1854). 
, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 126 (1857). 
Habitat in lauretis parum excelsis Teneriffe et Palme, rarissimus. 
This insect, which occurs sparingly (but generally) throughout the 
laurel-regions of Madeira, is of the greatest rarity at the Canaries, 
where, in like manner, it appears to be confined to the laurel-woods. 
I took a single example of it high up in the Barranco de Galga, in 
the island of Palma, at the end of May 1858; and another at the 
end of June of the same year, in a similar position, at Las Mercedes, 
in Teneriffe, from beneath the dead, loosened bark of an old tree. 
The latter of these, however, I afterwards lost. 
Genus OxyPLEURUS. 
Mulsant, Longic. de France, 57 (1840). 
After what has just been stated concerning the distinctive cha- 
racters of Blabinotus and Oxypleurus, in the respective construction 
of their eyes, prothorax, and antennee, it will be unnecessary to add 
more here than that the insect enunciated below is a most typical 
exponent of the latter. 
3. *Oxypleurus pincola, n. sp. 
O. cylindricus, rufo-brunneus, pube fulvescenti-cinerea demissa parce 
vestitus; capite convexo, quali, profunde punctato; prothorace con- 
vexo, subzequali, paulo profundius punctato, utrinque in spinam brevem 
robustam subanguliformem mediam producto et pone hance angustato 
oblique recto; elytris profunde punctatis, punctis postice minoribus. 
Long. corp. lin. 6. 
Habitat Palmam, tempore vernali a.p. 1858 exemplar unicum (mortuum) 
in cono quodam Pini canariensis desiccato in montibus supra Sanctam 
Crucem inveni. 
The single example described above was taken (dead) by myself 
in the island of Palma during the spring of 1858, from out of a dried 
cone of a Pinus canariensis, high up in the Barranco above S* Cruz. 
It is probably therefore peculiar to the Pinals, and may be expected 
to occur generally (though perhaps rarely) throughout the central 
and western portions of the archipelago. Judging from the type of 
the O. Nodiert (from southern Europe) now in my possession, which 
has been kindly lent me by Mr. Pascoe, the present species is most 
closely akin to that insect. It is, however, a little less pubescent ; 
its prothorax is altogether a trifle narrower, somewhat more attenu- 
ated behind (where the sides are rather straighter, though very 
