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globular of the two ; its pubescence is somewhat longer, and its 

 elytra are more lightly striated, — the strise, except the ones to- 

 wards either side (and even those very obsoletely so), having no 

 tendency to be crenulated. I captured several specimens of it 

 in Hierro, during my sojourn there with the Rev. R. T. Lowe 

 and Mr. Gray in February 1858, both near the town of Val- 

 verde and in the sylvan region of El Golfo, on the west of the 

 island. 



2. Stagetus crenatus, n. sp. 



S. niger, pube flavo-cinerea paulo breviore depressiore vestitus ; pro- 

 thorace antice distinctius remote punctate ; elytris distincte crenato- 

 striatis ; antennis piceo-testaceis ; pedibus rufo-piceis. 



Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Teneriffam, ad Souzal et " Ycod de los Vinhos" inter lichenes 

 in truncis arborum crescentes coUegi. 



The more deeply striated and distinctly crenated elytra of the 

 present species, in conjunction with its rather shorter pile, will 

 (as already stated) distinguish it from the S. hirtulus. I have 

 hitherto only observed it in Teneriffe, where I have captured it 

 at Ycod de los Vinhos, and from out of lichens growing on the 

 trunk of an old tree at Souzal. 



Genus Xyletinus. 



Latreille, Cuv. Regne Anim. (ed. 2) iv. 483 (1829). 



Whether the four insects described below should not properly 

 be detached from the Xyletini, I will not at present undertake to 

 pronounce for certain; nevertheless it must be admitted that 

 their softer, less ovate [i. e. more cylindric) and pilose bodies, 

 posteriorly-rounded and less sinuated prothorax, and unstriated 

 elytra, in conjunction with the more or less perceptibly longer 

 second articulation of their feet, would give them a primd facie 

 claim for separation ; nevertheless, since the ultimate joint of 

 their palpi is decidedly securiform, I would not magnify the 

 above discrepancies more than is necessary. From the Notio- 

 mimi (which have a more evidently elongate second tarsal joint) 

 they may be known by, inter alia, the securiform termination of 

 their palpi, and their less strictly sericeotbs (or more properly 

 pilose) surfaces. 



§ I. Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo securiformi, simplici. 



3. Xyletinus desectus, n. sp. 



X. rufo-brunneus, sat crebre punctulatus et pube breviuscula sub- 

 depressa flavo-cinerea dense tectus ; elytris obsoletissime subseriatim 

 pubescentibus, ad humeros rotundato-desectis {i. e. oblique trun- 



