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funde punctato-striatis, obsolete uiidulato-Insequalibus ; antennis 

 ferrugineis, elongatis, gracillimis, articulo secundo tertio sensim 

 longiore. 



Mas pedibus robustis; tibiis longissime pilosis, .anticis ad 

 apicem valde et subito incurvis, posticis apicem versus facile dila- 

 tatis, intus pone medium usque ad apicem late emarginatis, angulo 

 interno angulato-exstante, exteruo rotuudato valde setuloso j tarsis 

 latis. 



Foem. adhuc latet. 



Long. Corp. lin. 3|, 



Habitat in montibus Maderse, a meipso olim captus. 



L, rather narrow, elongate-ovate, black, sparingly variegated 

 with an exceedingly minute, decumbent, greenish-cinereous or 

 opaline pubescence, but almost free from additional erect hairs. 

 Head nearly unsculptured, with the rostrum, however, slightly 

 rugulose and also rather long and narrow, though perceptibly 

 widened at its apex ; eyes oval and prominent. Frotliorax very 

 deeply and sparingly punctured, most obsoletely keeled, and 

 unequal or bifoveolated on its hinder disk. Elytra deeply punc- 

 tate-striate, and with the interstices rather undulated. AntenncB 

 long, slender, and ferruginous ; the scape nearly straight, very 

 slender at the base and very suddenly thickened at its apex, 

 where it is somewhat darker ; funiculus with the first joint ex- 

 tremely long, being perceptibly longer than the second. 



Male with the le(/s thick and robust : the tibice with extremely 

 long pile internally, and the anterior pair greatly and suddenly 

 incurved at their apex ; the hinder pair gradually dilated, but 

 scooped-out internally from a little beyond the middle to the 

 inner apical angle, which is anguliform and prominent; the 

 outer angle densely setose and slightly rounded or obtuse (not 

 being prominent) : the tarsi broad. 



Female as yet undetected. 



The excessively slender scape of this insect, which is suddenly 

 clubbed at its extreme tip (instead of being gradually thickened), 

 will immediately assign it to Laparocerus rather than to Atlantis; 

 whilst its comparatively elongate, anteriorly subdilated rostrum, 

 narrowish outline, and somewhat undulated interstices point to 

 the L. clavatus (which in my 'Ins. Mad/ I had regarded, 

 wrongly, as an aberrant Atlantis) as its nearest ally. Specifically, 

 however, it is abundantly distinct from that insect, being not 

 merely larger and of a different colour (its legs being dark in- 

 stead of testaceous, and its pubescence more or less opal or 

 gi-eenish-cinereous instead of golden-brown), but also having its 

 head and rostrum nearly unsculptured, its eyes a little larger, 

 more oval, and less prominent, its prothorax very much more 

 deeply and sparingly punctured, and more unequal (or bi- 



