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profunde punctate ; elytris vix nitidioribus, profunde crena 

 striatis, in interstitiis minutissime transversim striguloso-rugatis ; 

 femoribus muticis. Long. corp. lin. If. 



Rhina barbicornis, Lat., Hist. Nat. xi. 103 (1803). 

 Magdalis barbicornis, Germ., Ins. Spec. i. 192 (1824). 



Habitat Maderam, ad folia pomorum a C. Wolif, M.D., reperta. 



Lgatis ; 



Two examples of this European Magdalis have been taken in 

 Madeira proper by Dr. C. Wolif, of Bonn, who informed me that he 

 obtained them by beating the foliage of some pear-trees at about 

 two miles from Funchal. In general contour and aspect, as well as 

 in its totally unarmed femora, the M. barbicornis is closely allied to 

 the common M. pruni but, apart from minor distinctions, it may 

 easily be known from that insect by its antenna? having their 

 funiculus (as well as the scape) rufo-testaceous, and the male clava 

 greatly elongated and more pubescent. Its elytra likewise have 

 their stria? rather less coarsely punctured, or crenated, and their 

 interstices (when viewed under a high magnifying power) densely 

 strigulose transversely *. 



Genus ALOPHUS. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 166 (1826). 



(Subgenus Rhytidoma, WoU.) 



Alophus alternans, n. sp. 



A. fusco-niger, squamulis flavo-fuscis dense tectus, et setulis brevibus 

 demissis pallidioribus parcissime (in elytris in interstitiis solum, 

 praBsertim alternis) irroratus ; rostro elongato, supra necnon ad 

 latera longitudinaliter sulcato ; prothorace parvo, subcylindrico- 

 conico, profunde sed parce punctate (punctis magnis), canalicula 

 centrali valde profunda (in medio lata, sed antice et postice attenu- 

 ata) impresso, versus latera subdensius squamoso ; elytris oblongis 

 (ad latera in medio subparallelis), prothorace parum latioribus, 

 profunde seriatim punctatis (punctis maximis), interstitiis alternis 

 valde elevato-costatis, ante apicem (subretusum) macula magna 

 communi transversa dentata paulo pallidiore ornatis ; funiculi 

 articulo 2 do primo sensim longiore. Long. corp. lin. 4|. 



Habitat in montibus excelsis GomeraB, a DD. Crotch semel captus. 



The single example from which the above diagnosis has been 



* I am indebted to Mr. Eye for well-examined types of two of the allied 

 species of Magdalis, and also for the suggestion that the Madeiran one was pro- 

 bably identical with the barbicornis of Latreille. A careful comparison of it 

 with Schonherr's diagnosis of the latter leaves no doubt whatever that Mr. Eye's 

 supposition is correct. 



