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tured by myself at a high elevation (I believe at the Fanal) on the 

 mountains of Madeira proper. In their comparatively narrow, elon- 

 gate, apically subdilated rostra the present species and the preceding 

 one are somewhat removed from the other Laparoceri here enumerated, 

 and are thus far allied inter se ; nevertheless the undulatus is not 

 only larger than the clavatus, and of a different colour (its legs being 

 dark instead of testaceous, and its pubescence more or less opal, or 

 greenish-cinereous, instead of golden-brown), but its head and ros- 

 trum also are nearly unsculptured, its eyes are a little larger, more 

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

 and sparingly punctured, and more uneven on the hinder disk, and 

 the first joint of its funiculus is perceptibly longer than the second. 

 The sexual characters, likewise, of the legs (as indicated in my 

 diagnosis) appear to be different in the two species. 



874. Laparocerus morio. 



Laparocerus morio, ScJwn., Gen. et Spec. Cure. ii. 351 (1834). 



, Wott., Ins. Mad. 300, tab. vii. f. 1 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col 113 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 341 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (ins. omnes), ab ora maritima usque ad summos 

 montes copiosissime ascender) s; Salvages? (ins. majoreml bore- 

 alem) et Canarienses? (Ten.1, 6rom.?), sub lapidibus congregans. 



The universal Laparocerus of the Madeiran Group, abounding on 

 every island and rock from the sea-level to the summits of the 

 peaks. I have not myself detected it at the Canaries, nor was it 

 included in the extensive material of the Messrs. Crotch, neither 

 was it met with by Messrs. Gray, Lowe, Hartung, Perraudiere, or 

 "Webb and Berthelot ; so that I can scarcely believe that it extends 

 beyond the limits of the Madeiran archipelago. Yet two specimens 

 were communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, one of which 

 was professedly from Teneriife and the other from Gomera, differing 

 in no appreciable particular from the ordinary Madeiran type. And 

 since moreover the Baron Paiva's Canarian Coleoptera were all sent 

 to me (at intervals) from Madeira, I cannot but feel a little doubtful 

 whether the examples referred to may not have found their way into 

 his boxes by some unintentional mistake. At any rate I think that 

 further evidence must certainly be obtained before the L. morio 

 should be regarded as even probably existing at the Canaries. 



The same remark will apply, but scarcely with equal force, to cer- 

 tain specimens which the Baron Paiva has also communicated as 



