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according to the sex) that I do not think it can be regarded, struc- 

 turally, as of much importance. 



Genus ANOBIUM. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 62 (1775). 



Anobium impressum, n. sp. 



A. clongato-ovatum, nigrum elytris rufo-brunneis, subnitidum, 

 grosse et parce fulvo-cinereo pilosum ; prothorace laavi, leviter 

 granulato, in disco postico obsolete carinato, ad latera subex- 

 plaiiate marginato, postice in medio linea transversa impresso; 

 elytris subasperato-punctulatis (nee striatis), pone basin sensim 

 impressis; antennis pedibusque gracilibus, rufo-ferrugineis, illis 

 praesertim in elava paulo obscurioribus. Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Habitat in Hierro, a DD. Crotch semel tantum deprehensum. 



A single example of this very distinct little Anobium was taken 

 by the Messrs. Crotch in Hierro, of the Canariaii Group. Its elon- 

 gate-ovate outline, added to its head and prothorax being black 

 whilst its elytra are reddish-brown, in conjunction with its rather 

 shining surface (which is sparingly clothed with a coarse fulvo- 

 cinereous pubescence), the short transverse line with which its pro- 

 thorax is impressed in the centre behind, its conspicuously punctured 

 but twstriated elytra, and its somewhat slender limbs, will at once 

 separate it from every other species hitherto detected in these At- 

 lantic islands. 



Anobium lyctoides, n. sp. 



A. angustum, cylindricum, rufo-brunneum, opacum ubique minu- 

 tissime et deiisissime rugulosum (sed haud punctatum), breviter 

 cinereo-sericeum ; capite obscuriore, oculis magnis sed haud pro- 

 minentibus ; prothorace antice valde product et ibidem gibboso 

 subasperato, utrinque in medio lateraliter compresso, ad latera 

 sinuato et anguste marginato ; elytris fere simplicibus (sc. obso- 

 letissime, vix perspicue, substriatis) ; antennis, articulo basali ex- 

 cepto, tarsisque testaceis. Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Habitat Gomeram, rarissimum. Exemplar unicum ceperunt DD. 

 Crotch. 



The single example from which the above diagnosis has been 

 drawn out was captured by the Messrs. Crotch in Gomera, during 

 their late sojourn at the Canaries; and in its extremely narrow, 

 cylindric form, the greatly produced anterior portion of its pronotum, 

 and its unpunctured surface, it offers so many peculiarities that at 

 first sight it might almost be supposed to be generically distinct 



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