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terstitiis latiusculis et puuctulis minutissimis distantibus longitudi- 



naliter obsitis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1^-vix 1|. 

 Habitat Maderam australem ; in horto quodam Funchalensi inter 



lignum antiquum copiose legit Dom. Moniz, cujus in honorem 



speciem stabilivi. 



P. piceous or rufo-piceous^ shining, and free from pubescence. 

 Rostrum rather long, deeply punctured, and a little expanded 

 about the insertion of the antennae. Prothorax ovate, and 

 straightly truncated behind, the broadest part being almost at 

 the extreme base ; deeply and regularly punctured. Elytra 

 elliptical, being much rounded off at the shoulders, and with 

 their broadest part about the middle ; very lightly, but regularly, 

 striate-punctate (the punctures being small) ; the interstices 

 broad, and with a series of excessively minute and distant punc- 

 tules down each. Limbs, except the antennal club, scarcely paler 

 than the rest of the surface. 



Detected, in abundance, by S^ Moniz, during the spring of 

 1858, in old boards lying on the damp earth, in his garden at 

 Funchal. It was, however, first captured by myselt" in the 

 Canary Islands, where I took a single specimen in a house at 

 Orotava, in the north of Teneriffe, during March of the previous 

 year. 



§ II. Antenna breviusculae robustce, ante medium rostri inserta, 

 articulis funiculi transvejsis inter se arete compressis, capitulo 

 minus abrupto oblongiore. Rostrum ad antennarum insertionem 

 vix latins. 



Pent ar thrum Beicickianum, n. sp. 



P. rufo-piceum, nitidum ; prothorace sat profunda et paulo crebrius 

 punctata ; elytris subi)arallelo-ellipticis, rugulosis, sat profunde et 

 dense substriato-punctatis (punctis majoribus). 



Long. Corp. lin. 1-vix. lif. 



Habitat Maderam australem ; in liguo antique ad " Praia Formosa" 

 detexit Dom. Bewicke insectorum Madercnsium scrutator inde- 

 fessus, qui pauca specimina jcgre conservata niiper niihi benigne 

 commuuicavit. 



P. like the last species, but ])erhaj)s a shade more rufescent, 

 and with its rostrum a tritie broader and shorter, and less evi- 

 dently widened at the insertion of the antennse (which are shorter 

 and comparatively thicker, with the joints of their funiculus 

 more compressed iitter se,^i\& their club less abrupt than in that 

 insect ; and which moreover do not arise cpiite so near to the 

 apex). Prothorax as in the P. Moniziunurn, but a trifle less 

 convex on its hinder disk, and just perceptibly less deeply and 

 more closelv punctured. Elytra a little more parallel (or less 



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