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even of Euphorbia-infesting' habits. It is larger, broader, less 

 shining, more depressed, and rather less coarsely pubescent than 

 the C. hemipterus ; its punctation is sharper, and perhaps still more 

 dense ; its prothorax is wider, and more rounded at the sides ; its 

 limbs are rather darker and longer ; and each of its elytra has a 

 large central, oblique reddish spot in the middle of the disk. 



Fam. COLYDIADJE. 



Genus TAEPHIUS. 

 (Germar) Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch, iii. 256 (1848). 



Tarphius angustulus. 



T. angustus, rufo-piceus vel piceo-ferrugineus, fere calvus (oculo 

 fortissimo armato minute et parce fulvo-cinereo pubescens) ; pro- 

 thorace elongate, postice gradatim ac leviter angustiore, ad latera 

 oblique subrecto, granulis maximis depressis obsito ; elytris paral- 

 lelis, minus sculpturatis, nee nodosis nee carinatis, concoloribus ; 

 antennis pedibusque vix clarioribus. Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Tarphius angustulus, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. x. 289 (1862). 



Habitat in montibus Maderae australis, a Dom. Moniz in castanetis 

 supra urbem Funchalensem repertus. 



Tarphius angusticollis. 



T. subrotundato-ovatus, subnitidus, niger; prothorace angusto, an- 

 tice et postice attenuate, angulis anticis valde acutis porrectis, 

 granulis crebris maximis depressis obsito ; elytris rotundatis, con- 

 vexis, concoloribus, profunde seriatim punctatis, interstitiis alternis 

 leviter elevatis interruptis nodos distinctos (plus minus aureo- 

 setosos) efformantibus ; femoribus tibiisque nigrescenti-piceis ; 

 tarsis antennisque picescenti-ferrugineis, harum capitulo sensim 

 majusculo. Long. corp. lin. 1|-1^. 



Tarphius angusticollis, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 252 (1860). 



Habitat Maderam sylvaticam, in regione excelsa Fanalensi a Dom. 

 Bewicke, aestate A.D. 1859, parce captus. 



Tarphius setosus, n. sp. 



T. sublate oblongus, granulis squamisque fuscis vestitus et setis 

 longiusculis erectis fuscis pallidioribusque obsitus ; prothorace ad 

 latera regulariter et subeequaliter rotundato; elytris subnodosis 

 (nodis vix exstantibus, valde obtusis, sed ssepius late rufescentibus) ; 

 antennis pedibusque rufo-ferrugineis. Long. corp. lin. 1-1 2|. 



Habitat Gomeram, in lauretis humidis excelsis a DD. Crotch sestate 



b 



