from the Cape de Verde Islands. 505 



Monocrepidius ? Grayii. 



M. linearis, fasco-nigcr, pilis brcvibiis cincreis dcpressis ubique dense 

 vestitus ; i)rothoracc convcxo, crebcrriine subtilissimequc punctu- 

 lato pnnctulisque majorii)US iindique crcbre obsito ; clytris sub- 

 punctato-striatis, interstitiis vix punctulatis ; antcimis, palpis (lon- 

 giusculis) pi'diljusque laetc rufo-ferrugineis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 6. 



It was found beneath a stone on one of the highest points of 

 the island; and I have much pleasure in dedicating it to my 

 friend John Gray, Esq., to whose kindness I am shortly about 

 to be indebted for the opportunity of investigating, under the 

 best of auspices, the various ])ortions of the Canarian Group. 



The representative of the RhyncJiophora is a curious insect allied 

 to (though scarcely, I think, identical with) Brachytarsus, of 

 which there is a solitary specimen ; and it is worthy of remark 

 that it aj)])ears to coincide, even as regards the species, with one 

 taken by iMr. CJark at Blidah, in Algeria, during the previous 

 June of the same year. 



And, lastly, with res})eet to the Heteromera above referred to, 

 the eight species are as follows : 



1. A very beautiful, but variable, Phaleria, with a black dorsal 

 patch behind the middle (and common to both) of its elytra ; 

 in some examples of which the patch is so largely developed as 

 to cover the entire surface of the elytra, except the shoulders 

 and extreme lateral margin. I would thus characterize it : — 



Phalei'ia Clarkii. 



P. ovata, ferruginea ; capite plus minus infuscato ; prothorace trans- 

 verso-subquadrato, liasi utrinque fovcola brevi longitudinaUter im- 

 presso ; coleopteris Icete testaccis, macula magna discali subluuata 

 nigra vix pone medium ornatis. 



Far. jD. Prothoracis disco elytrorumque regione scutellari ac 

 sutura (una cum macula discali) plus minus suffuse nigrescentibus. 

 Far. y. Capite, prothoracis disco, elytrisque (humeris et limbo 

 pallidiore exceptis) nigrescentibus. 

 Long. corp. lin. 2|-3. 



It was discovered by INIessrs. Gray and Clark (to the latter 

 of whom I have dedicated the species) sub stercure kiunano, on 

 the sea-beach ; having buried itself in considerable numbers, at 

 some distance below the excrement, — in the same manner as is 

 the case with the Phaleria (when under such circumstances) 

 generally. 



2. A small insect allied to Cerandria, Dej., but generically 

 distinct from it. 



3. The common Opatrum fuscum, Hbst, — so universal in 

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