54 Dr. E. P. Wright on Dunlopea. 
highly polished: the former narrow and oblong, with a small 
punctule on either side of the disk behind, and with about four 
more on each side, placed in a longitudinal row from the inner 
margin of the eye: the /atter a good deal narrowed or laterally 
compressed in front, with the anterior angles somewhat deflexed, 
and the hinder ones rounded off; with a large and rather deep 
puncture towards either side on the hinder disk, and with an- 
other (rather smaller and more central) on each side of the fore- 
disk, besides a few obscure ones on the extreme margins. Llytra 
and abdomen much less shining, and more pubescent, than the 
head and prothorax, being somewhat densely clothed with a 
long, decumbent, and slightly paler pile, with a few darker and 
erect hairs intermixed : the former less black than the rest of the 
surface, being more or less obscurely piceous, and with their 
apical margin rather brightly diluted in colouring, or rufo-testa- 
ceous: the latter with its apex and the extreme posterior edge 
of each segment obscurely rufescent. Antenne rather slender 
and fragile; their two basal joints and the legs diluted rufo- 
testaceous. 
Two specimens only of the present Heterothops have as yet 
come under my observation, the first of which was captured by 
myself, from beneath dead leaves and vegetable refuse, in Mr. 
Bewicke’s garden at the Palmeira, above Funchal, in the spring 
of 1859; and the second, I believe in the same locality, by Mr. 
Bewicke himself. It will probably be found identical with a 
species which I have taken abundantly in the Canary Islands, 
and is most allied, at first sight, to the common European H. 
dissimilis ; nevertheless its head and prothorax are distinctly 
narrower than in that insect (the former being more oblong, and 
the latter more laterally compressed in front, and with the discal 
punctures more evident), its elytra are a trifle longer, and its 
antenn are rather more slender and fragile, with their basal 
joints more brightly testaceous. In their general facies, the 
species of Heterothops very much resemble diminutive Philonth 
or Quedii; nevertheless, apart from less important differences, 
the minute, subulated terminal joint of their palpi will imme- 
diately separate them from both of those groups. 
[To be continued. } 
XIII.—Notes on Dunlopea. By Dr.E.PercevatWaicent, F.L.S., 
Lecturer on Zoology, Dublin University. 
Dr. E. Percevat Wricut exhibited to the Meeting* an annu- 
lose animal, which had been taken in India by Mr. Dunlop, one 
* Communicated by the author; having been read at the Meeting of the 
Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association on March 16, 1860, 
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