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from Anobium. Nevertheless its structural characters are essentially 

 those of that genus*, though its primd facie aspect has something 

 in common with the Lycti. Apart from its small size and its very 

 narrow and cylindrical outline, it is further remarkahle for its sur- 

 face being nearly opake though sericeous, and most densely and 

 minutely roughened (but impunctured), and for its elytra being 

 nearly simple (only the very faintest possible indications of longi- 

 tudinal stria3 being just traceable when the insect is viewed obliquely. 

 Its eyes are extremely large, but not prominent (at least in the sex 

 now before me) ; and its prothorax is laterally compressed on either 

 side in the middle, with its front portion gibbous and much produced 

 over the forehead. 



Anobium oculatum, n. sp. 



A. cylindricum, nigrum vel fusco-nigrum, brevissime et densissime 

 (in elytris cinereo-) sericeum ; oculis magnis ; prothorace dense 

 granulate, in disco postico obsolete gibboso, ad latera marginato ; 

 elytris levissime striato-crenatis ; antennis pedibusque elongatis, 

 robustis, picescentioribus. Long. corp. lin. 2^. 



Habitat Gomeram, in EupJwrHd emortua a DD. Crotch semel captum. 



This large, dark, and very cylindrical Anobium which has its 

 eyes greatly developed, its elytra most lightly crenate-striated and 

 densely clothed with a very minute cinereous pubescence, and its 

 limbs rather long and robust was detected in Gomera by the 

 Messrs. Crotch, during their late Canarian expedition. It appears, 

 from a note now before me, to have been taken out of a " sweet 

 Euphorbia." 



Fam. BOSTKICHID.E. 



Genus XYLOPEKTHA. 



Guerin, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, Bull. 17 (1845). 



Xylopertha ficicola, n. sp. 



X. in medio glabra, postice flavescenti-pubescens ; capite nigro, in 

 limbo longissime fulvo-barbato ; prothorace clare rufo-ferrugineo, 

 antice mucronibus magnis asperato et ibidem pilis tenuibus lon- 

 gissimis erectis obsito, postice nitidissimo, fere quasi impunctato 

 (sed oculo fortiter armato parcissime et minute asperato -punctu- 



* In the (sole remaining) antenna of the specimen before me I can count but 

 five minute joints (instead of six) between the second one and the elongate tri- 

 articulated club ; but as the antenna is broken, I have little doubt that the first 

 of these diminutive articulations (at which point the fracture occurred) has been 

 lost. 



