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having been received by him from the Salvages ; though I must add 

 that I think it is far more likely that the L. morio should occur on 

 those remote (intermediate) rocks than in the Canaries, where so 

 many naturalists have failed entirely to detect any traces of it. 5Tet, 

 considering that the Coleoptera obtained at the Salvages were brought 

 to Punched before they were delivered to the Baron Paiva, and like- 

 wise that they were kept there for some time by the latter before 

 they were transmitted to me in England, I consider it safer to query 

 the species for those islands also even whilst feeling it far from 

 improbable that the specimens may truly have come from thence. 



875. Laparocerus sculptus. 



Otiorhynchus sculptus, Brulti, in Webb et Berth. (Col) 71 (1838). 

 Laparocerus sculptus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 341 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), in lauretis humidis editioribus raris- 

 simus. 



A large Canarian species which I have observed hitherto only in 

 the island of Palma, where it appears to be rare and to occur in the 

 damp sylvan districts of a rather high elevation. 



876. Laparocerus undatus. 

 Laparocerus undatus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 342 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), rarissimus; in locis similibus ac praa- 

 cedens. 



Likewise a very large species, and Canarian, the few examples 

 which I have seen having been captured by myself in Teneriffe, in 

 the damp laurel-woods on the mountains above Taganana. 



877. Laparocerus excavatus. 



Laparocerus excavatus, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 219 (1863). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 343 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), in intermediis editioribusque prac- 

 sertim sylvaticis humidis occurrens. 



A large and black Canarian Laparocerus which is found in the 

 damp sylvan regions of Teneriffe and Gromera, in the latter of which 

 islands it has been met with lately by the Messrs. Crotch. It is a 

 variable insect in nearly all its characters being either shining or 

 comparatively opake, bald or conspicuously studded on its elytra 

 with remote hairs, with the punctures of its interstices either large 



