404 I\Jr. T. Vcriion Wollaston on 



tate, and the interstices minutely rugulose, by its less foveolated 

 foreliead, and by the antennas of its females arising just percep- 

 tibly nearer to the extreme base of the rostrum. 



38. Meshes proxhnus, n. sp. 



M. ina^qualiter badio-piceus, depressus, subopacus, fere calvus, 

 fronte inter oculos profunde foveolata ; ])rotliorace dis- 

 tinctius alutaceo, in disco parce et minus profunde punctato, 

 carinato necnon postice in medio impresso et ibidem punctis 

 maximis notato, ad latera votundato-ampliato ; elytris vix 

 pubescentioribus, per suturani nigrescentibus, profunde cre- 

 nato-striatis (striis latis), interstitiis subconvcxis ; antennis 

 pedibus([ue rufescentioribus, funiculi articulis brcviusculis. 



Alas. — Rostro pnnctulato, ad antcnnarum inscrtionem paulo 

 rotundato-ampliato. 



Fccm. — Adhuc latet. 

 Long. corp. lin. 2| — 3-^. 



Habitat Teneriffam, ad "Taganana" niense Maio a.d. 1859, a 

 meipso repertus. 



Of this insect I can at present find but two specimens amongst 

 my Canarian material, tliough it is very probable that more may 

 be brought to light when I have had time to overhaul my 

 numerous boxes more completely. They offer such decided 

 characters of their own, that, although unwilling to erect ad- 

 ditional species without a large number of examples for compari- 

 son, I cannot possibly refer them to any of the Atlantic Mcsilcs 

 hitherto detected ; though I think they have a greater aflinity 

 with the Madeiran M. Euphorbice than with anything else. They 

 were taken by myself at Taganana, in the north of TeneriHe, 

 during May, 1859; but whether in the laurel- woods on the 

 mountains above the village, or in the EiipJtorbia-siem^ towards 

 the coast, I am unfortunately unable to recall, though I am in- 

 clined to suspect that they were brushed from off the foliage of 

 Euphorbias in t!ie sylvan region on the ascent to the Cumbrc. 



In outline the M. proximus is a trifle less parallel than the 

 preceding members of this section, though its elytra have only a 

 faint tendency to the posterior-attenuation wliich is so very 

 evident in the two exponents of the following one ; their male- 

 femora, however, have not any appearance of that obtuse, sub- 

 dentiform projection, on their under si.le, which characterizes 

 the M.fusiform'is and piihipciuus. It is a little smaller and more 

 depressed than the pers'unUis, its colour is more cloudy, or w/j- 



