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compiled being slightly rubbed, I cannot tell whether it ought not 

 to have a patch of paler scales (of the same colour as the subapical 

 fascia) on the fore disk of each elytron ; for, judging from the 

 analogy of allied forms, I should conclude such to be the case. 

 Whether, also, it be a true Moplius may perhaps be doubtful, its 

 much larger size, very deeply sculptured surface, and longitudinally 

 sulcated rostrum seeming to separate it from, at all events, the 

 European A. triguttatus : but, be this as it may, I think that it is at 

 any rate congeneric with the A. maynificus of Teneriffe ; so that I 

 have given them a subgeneric name, in the event of it being found 

 desirable hereafter to regard them as members of a distinct group. 



The A. alternans was captured by the Messrs. Crotch at a very 

 high elevation in Gomera, during the summer of 1864, " by beating 

 Sedum on Monte Fuerte (above Hermigua)." 



Genus LAPAROCERUS. 

 Schonherr, Gen. et Spec. Cure, ii. 530 (1834). 



Laparocerus undulatus. 



L. subgracilis, niger, pube brevi demissa viridi-cinerea parce varie- 

 gatus sed pilis superadditis fere carens ; capite vix sculpturato, 

 oculis ovalibus prominentibus, rostro longiusculo subgracili apicem 

 versus sensim dilatato ; prothorace parce et profunde punctato, 

 obsolete carinato, in disco postico leviter biimpresso ; elytris pro- 

 funde punctato-striatis, obsolete undulato-insequalibus ; antennis 

 ferrugineis, elongatis, gracillimis, articulo 2 do tertio sensim lon- 

 giore. Long. corp. lin. 3|. 



Mas -pedibus robustis ; tibiis longissime pilosis, anticis ad apicem 

 valde et subito incurvis, posticis apicem versus facile dilatatis, 

 intus pone medium usque ad apicem late emarginatis, angulo in- 

 terno exstante, externo rotundato valde setuloso ; tarsis latis. 



Fcem. adhuc latet. 



Laparocerus undulatus, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. x. 332 (1862). 

 Habitat in sylvaticis MaderaB excelsis, adhuc semel captus. 



Laparocerus inflatus, n. sp. 



L. piceus, subnitidus, dense et grosse submetallico-squamoso tessel- 

 latus pilisque longissimis erectis in elytris ubique obsitus ; rostro 

 latiusculo, postice profunde canaliculate, oculis magnis, prominen- 

 tibus ; prothorace ad latera rotundato, profunde et remote punc- 

 tato punctulisque interjectis minutissimis irrorato ; elytris con- 

 vexis, oblongo-ellipticis basi truncatis, postice acutiusculis, punc- 

 tato-striatis ; antennis pedibusque Ia3te rufo-ferrugineis, femoribus 

 paulo obscurioribus. Long. corp. lin. 4|. 



Habitat in montibus Gomerae, a JDD. Crotch semel tantum lectus. 



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