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subrugulosus, pube brevi squatntcformi deraissa grisca vestitus 

 iiccnon hinc indc cinorco-pictus ; capite distinctius ruguloso (fero 

 etiam punctato), oculis raagiiis sod baud prominciitibus ; ])ro- 

 thorace linca subbasali utiiaquc regulariter subcurvata inipresso 

 2)lagi.sqiie '3 longitudinalibus, plus iiiinus obsolelis, t'ractis, cincreo- 

 8(|uamosis picto ; elytris argute impunctato-striatis, maculis mi- 

 nutis phirimis cinereo-squamosis irroratis, ad basin et bumeros 

 intcrdum obsolete rufescentioribus ; aiitennis gracilibus, rufo- 

 testaceis, ai)icem versus infuscatis ; pedibus fusco-piccis, geuibus 

 rufestentioribus, tarsis picescenti-testaceis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. circa 3. 



Notioxenus Beicicki'i, Well., loc, cit. 213, pi. xiv. f. 1 (18G1). 



A most remarkable species, differing from the other Notioxeni 

 hitherto detected not only in its much hirgcr size and in its 

 griseous-bhick, densely clothed surface, which appears to be 

 obscm*ely ornamented with small and indistinct dull cinereous 

 patches, but likewise (which is an extremely anomalous fea- 

 ture) in its subbasal prothoracic line being imjjressed, instead 

 of raised. With the exception of the head, which is more 

 coarsely sculptured, its sui-lace is impunctate, though rather 

 alutaceous and subopaque (as may be seen when the pubes- 

 cence is removed) ; and its elytral strias are also perfectly 

 simple. The only two examples of this Notioxenus which 

 have yet come under my notice were taken — one, in 1860, 

 by the late Mr. Bewicke (to whom the species is dedicated), 

 " amongst native vegetation on the extreme summit of the 

 island," and the other, more recently, by Mr. Melliss. 



■^ II. Linea jyrothoracica elevata, carinulam efficiens. 



54. Xotioxenus riifojyictus. 



N. ater, nitidus, subcalvns (so. pube brevi demissa fulvo-cinerea 

 parcissime irroratus) ; capite prothoraceque sat mgulose punc- 

 tatis, hujus linea subbasali elevata subrecta (i. e. utrinque vix 

 curvata) ; elytris profunde crenato-striatis, interstitiis convexis, 

 parce, minutissime et ii-regulariter punctulatis, maculis jiarvis 

 plurimis (pra^sertim ad basin et versus latera) rufis aut tcstaceo- 

 rufis (plus minus confluentibus) ornatis ; antennis breviusculis, 

 rufo-testaceis, apicem versus infuscatis ; pedibus nigro-piceis, 

 femoribus apicem versus genibusque rufescentioribus, tarsis pices- 

 centi-testaceis. 



Long. Corp. lin. circa 1|. 



Notioxenus rufopidus, Woll., loc. cit. 213, pi. xiv. f. 2 (18G1). 



The only example of this beautiful Xotioxenus which I have 

 yet seen was ca])tured by the late ]\Ir. Bewicke, during his 

 few hours' collecting at St. Helena, on the 21st of July 18G0, 

 amongst native vegetation, on the extreme summit of the 



