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(Subfam. Cryptoriiynchides.) 



Genus Acalles. 



SchonheiT, Cure. Disp. Meth. 295 (1826). 



Acalles cinereus, n. sp. 



A. oblongo-ovatus, squamis albido-cinereis dense tectus ; prothoraee 

 subintegro fere concolore, ad apiceni leviter setuloso ; elytris sat 

 profunde punctato-striatis, ad latera rotundatis, carinis interniptis 

 nodulisque majoribus subsetosis instructis, plaga communi post- 

 media albidiore obscurissima (antiee in medio iudistincte fusco- 

 termiuata) ornatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 3. 



Habitat in sylvaticis editioribus Maderae, a Rev. Dom. Lowe De- 

 cembri ineunte a.d. 1858 repertus. 



A. oblong-ovate, and densely clothed with whitish-cinereous 

 scales. Rostrum piceous ; opake, and very coarsely punctured, 

 in the males ; a little slenderer, shining, and less punctured in 

 the females. Prothorox rather less expanded in the middle than 

 is the case in most of the sylvan sjjecies, and with its surface 

 almost entire, there being scarcely any indications of tubercles, 

 and only a few small setaj at its apex. Elytra rather deeply 

 punctate-striate ; with the interru])ted ridges and nodules only 

 moderately developed ; and with a very faint and ill-defined trans- 

 verse postmedial paler patch, conmion to both — almost suffused 

 behind, but terminated in front by a more evident brownish 

 portion, colouring the central tubercles. Limbs as in most of 

 the other species. 



A single specimen (and that a male) of this rather large and 

 almost uniformly cinei-eous or whitish-cinereous Acalles, which 

 has its prothorax nearly free from nodules and setse, and its 

 (slightly paler) elytral patch very obscure and ill-defined (j)arti- 

 cularly behind), was captured by the Rev. K. T. Lowe, during 

 our encampment at the head of the Boa Ventura, in December 

 1858, in the crevices of a dead stem of the Euphorbia mellifera, 

 at a very lofty elevation below the Boca das Torrinhas. There 

 were two more of them in coni])any with it, but these he unfor- 

 tunately did not secure. A second example (a female) has 

 lately been coninnuiicated by Mr. Bewicke, taken by himself (I 

 believe at the Lonibo das V'acas) during the summer of the fol- 

 lowing year. It belongs to tlie section of the genus in which 

 the scutellum is not distinguishable. 



Genus Torneuma, nov. gen. 

 Corpus parvum, fusiformi-ovatiim, subtus late longitudinalitcr im- 



