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CURCULIONID.E. 



Pour specimens of this insect were taken by myself, at a high 

 elevation, on the mountains of Grand Canary. In their curiously 

 compact and rather parallel outline and basally subemarginated elytra, 

 as well as in their thick, subtriangular rostra and their small and 

 comparatively sunken eyes, both the present species and the following 

 one differ considerably from the whole of the Laparoceri with which 

 they are here associated, and would seem to approach the larger 

 members at the commencement of the genus, or even the Cyphoscelis 

 distorta ; nevertheless, upon the whole, I think perhaps that it is 

 better to place them amongst the smaller forms than elsewhere. 



907. Laparocerus sulcirostris. 

 Laparocerus sulcirostris, Wall., Cat. Can. Col. 359 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), rarissimus; in locis similibus ac prae- 

 cedens. 



Hitherto unique, a single specimen having been taken by myself 

 on the mountains of Grand Canary (in company with the preceding 

 species). It is indeed closely allied to the comjpactus, though I 

 believe that the many small distinctions which were pointed out in 

 my diagnosis will more than suffice to separate it from that insect. 



(Subfam. XXIII. TBACHYPHLGEIDES.) 



Genus 271. ANEMOPHILUS. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 385 (1854). 



908. Anemophilus crassus. 



Anemophilus crassus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 386, tab. vii. f. 7 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 117 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to }, inter lapillos lichenesque in rupium 

 fissuris editiorum tempore hiemali hinc inde vulgaris. 



Observed only in Porto Santo, of the Madeiran Group, where I 

 have met with it rather commonly during the winter months, 

 harbouring amongst lichen and small stones, within the crevices of 

 the exposed rocks of a tolerably high elevation. 



909. Anemophilus subtessellatus. 



Anemophilus subtessellatus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 387 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 117 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), una, cum specie prsecedente degens. 



