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1017. Longitarsus inconspicuus. 



Longitarsus inconspicuus, WolL, Journ. of Ent. i. 9 (1860). 

 Teinodactyla inconspicua, AIL, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 317 (1861). 

 Longitarsus inconspicuus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 414 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in intermediis et praacipue editioribus 

 rarior. 



A Canarian species which has been observed hitherto only in the 

 intermediate and lofty districts of Teneriffe, where moreover it would 

 appear to be scarce *. 



1018. Longitarsus vilis. 



Longitarsus vilis, WolL, Cat. Can. Col 415 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten.), adhuc parcissime lectus. 



A rather insignificant little Lonyitarsus which has been taken only 

 in Grand Canary and Teneriffe namely, by myself in the former, 

 and by the Messrs. Crotch in the latter. 



1019. Longitarsus maderensis. 



Teinodactyla Maderensis, AIL, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 659 (1863). 

 Longitarsus maderensis, Woll. Append, huj. op. 56. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), a Dom. F. A. Anderson in graminosis 

 editioribus detectus. 



A few examples of this small Longitarsus were captured by the 

 late Mr. F. A. Anderson in Madeira proper by brushing some grass 

 at the Palheiro, on the mountains to the eastward of Funchal. It 

 appears to be allied to the obliterata of Rosenhauer. 



* Eight individuals are now before me, taken by the Messrs. Crotch in Tene- 

 riffe, which may possibly be the representatives of a distinct (though closely 

 allied) species. I do not believe, however, that they are more than a slight local 

 phasis of the inconspicuus ; though this question can be decided only when 

 further, and more satisfactory, examples of the latter have been obtained. Un- 

 fortunately the two specimens of the inconspicuus to which I have access are 

 females, so that I am unable to tell whether the males have the first joint of their 

 anterior tarsi as greatly dilated as is here the case. And moreover, as these eight 

 examples are more uniformly brown than the only mature one of the incon- 

 spicuus with which I have compared them, and since also they have their elytra 

 a trifle more elliptical and convex, the punctures being a little coarser and with 

 a rather more evident tendency to arrange themselves in oblique longitudinal 

 rows, I think perhaps it will be desirable just to record the form of which they 

 are the exponents in the following diagnosis lest it should prove ultimately to 

 be specifically distinct. Var. f3. ellipsodes. Fere concolor, plus minus testaceo- 

 brunneus ; ely tris subconvexioribus atque etiam magis ellipticis, sensim profundius 

 punctatis, punctis vix magis subseriatim dispositis ; tarsis anterioribus (sed prae- 

 sertim anticis) in maribus articulo basilari valde incrassato. Long. corp. lin. 1. 



