CURCULIONID^E. 309 



(Subfam. XXII. LAPAROCERIDES.) 



Genus 268. ATLANTIS. 

 Wollafiton,/wa. Mad. 361 (1854). 



(Subgenus Amphora, Woll.) 



851. Atlantis canariensis. 



Laparocerus canariensis (Chevr.), Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. vii. 228 



(1843). 

 Atlantis canariensis, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 336 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), ultra regiones sylvaticas usque ad 9000' 

 s. m. ascendens. Sub lapidibus scoriisque inter arbusculas 

 Spartii nubiyence tempore vernali abundat. 



This singular Canarian Curculionid, so remarkable for the con- 

 struction of its eyes and rostral scrobs, and for the strongly carinated 

 pronotum of its female sex, seems to be peculiar to the higher ele- 

 vations of Teneriffe (beyond the upper limits of the sylvan districts) 

 where it abounds, during the spring months, beneath stones and 

 scorise on the lofty Cumbres from about 7000 to 9000 feet above 

 the sea. 



(Subgenus Canopus, Woll.) 



852. Atlantis subnebulosa. 



Atlantis subnebulosa, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 337 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, semel tantum deprehensa. 



Hitherto unique, a single example which I obtained in Grand 

 Canary being all that I have yet seen of the species. Although 

 allied in general contour to the tibialis, I scarcely think that it can 

 be regarded as any insular modification of that insect. 



853. Atlantis tibialis. 



Atlantis tibialis, Woll., Cat. Can. Col 338 (1864). 

 Lichenophagus incomptus, Id., Append, huj. op. 55. 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma, Hierro), sub lapidibus scoriisque 

 praecipue in aridis inferioribus degens. 



A large and black species which is probably universal throughout 

 at any rate the central and western portions of the Canarian archi- 

 pelago, where it occurs beneath stones and scoriae generally in dry 



