of the Cajye- Verde Islands. 249 



Fam. Scauridse. 



Genus ScAUEUS (Col. Hesp. p. 178). 



Scaurus variolosus. 



Mr. G. E. Crotch has recently informed me that he believes 

 this Scaurus to he identical with the European 8. punctatus. 

 Although it is quite possible that it may in reality be but a 

 geographical modification of that species, I cannot but think 

 that the much less poAverfully developed processes, even in 

 the males, of its anterior femora and tibite (the hinder tooth of 

 the former being reduced to a mere anguliform prominence, 

 whilst that on the posterior edge of the latter is almost obsolete 

 — indeed, completely so in the opposite sex) is sufficient, apart 

 from its rather smaller size and its somewhat more deeply and 

 sharply punctured surface, to separate it from its Mediterranean 

 ally. Nevertheless it is clear that 8. punctatus is the spe- 

 cies whicli it tlie most nearly resembles ] and naturalists must 

 therefore judge for themselves whether or not they feel bound 

 to regard it as a southern and altered phasis of that insect. 



Fam. Tenebrionidse. 



Genus Tenebrio, Linn. 



Tenehrio Paivce^ n. sp. 



T. subcyHndricus, crassus, niger, subopacus, ubique densissime ar- 

 guteqne punctatus ; prothorace transverso, basi fortiter bisinuato, 

 ad latera (ajquaHtcr facile rotundata) et basin tenuiter margiuato, 

 subasquali (i. e. ad basin ipsam nee transversim impresso, nee 

 bifoveolato) ; mesosterno triangulariter concavo (lobum proster- 

 nalem crassiim recipiente), scutcllo magno transverso subpenta- 

 gono-triangulari ; metasterno breviusculo ; elytris ad basin valde 

 sinuatis, vix omnino parallelis (sc. pone medium plerumque ob- 

 solete sublatioribus), nee sohim punctis ubique obsitis sed argute 

 substriato-punctatis punctisque pcrpaucis majoribus jira^cipuo in 

 interstitiis alternis parcissime irroratis ; antennis pcdibusque 

 longiusculis robustis et dense punctatis, illarum art" 3''" elongato, 

 reliquis obsolete subserratis (i. e. intiis apice subproductis), ult™" 

 penultimo sensim longiore, tarsorum posteriorum art" basali 

 elongato, 



Mas tibiis (pra)sertim posterioribus) subarcuatis, necuon intus tu- 

 berculis subdenticuHformibus remotis parce armatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 6-9. 



Hahiiat ins. Fogo, a cl. Barone Castello de Paiva nuper communi- 

 catus. 



Several examples of this large Tenehrio have been commu- 

 nicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, by whom they 



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