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sissime punctato-rugulosis ; antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis tarsisque 



saepius dilutioribus. 

 3Ias paulo longior, antennis longioribus. 

 Long. corp. lin. lf-2f. 



Dasytes nigricomis? Brulle [nee. Fab.] in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 60 

 (1838). 

 Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura, Canaria, Teneriffa et Palma, ad 



flores, ab ora maritima usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendens. 



The present Dasytes is closely allied to the common European D. 

 flavipes. It differs, however, in being a little larger and more 

 pilose, in its prothorax being less abbreviated, or somewhat more 

 produced anteriorly, and more transversely constricted behind the 

 apex, in its antennae and tarsi being relatively a little longer, and 

 in its entire sculpture being more coarse. It is probably universal 

 throughout the archipelago, though hitherto I do not happen to have 

 observed it in either Gomera or Hierro. But about Haria, in the 

 north of Lanzarote, and in the Rio Palmas of Fuerteventnra, I have 

 taken it commonly ; as also throughout the region of El Monte, in 

 Grand Canary ; at Orotava, Taganana, the Agua Garcia, the Agua 

 Mansa and on the lofty Cumbre above it, as well as on the opposite 

 one (adjoining the Caiiadas) of Teneriffe ; and in the Barranco da 

 Agua, and the Barranco above S ta Cruz, in Palma. The Palman 

 examples seem to have their legs more uniformly dark than is 

 generally the case in those from the other islands, the tibiae and 

 tarsi (judging from the specimens now before me) being scarcely, if 

 indeed at all, diluted in hue. Lanzarotan examples, which were 

 collected by M. Hartung, have been communicated by Dr. Heer, 

 and one from Teneriffe by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 



24. Dasytes dispar, n. sp. 



D. sp. praecedenti similis, sed vix obscurior angustior necnon pilis erectis 

 suberectisque deusius obsitus ; prothorace (praesertim in maribus) an- 

 gustiore et in fceminis minus dense punctata ; elytris in foeminis paulo 

 magis rugosis ; antennis pedibusque in maribus longioribus et paulo 

 gracilioribus, illarum articulis multo magis elongatis. 



Long. corp. lin. lf-2{. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, in regione " El Monte" tempore vernali a. d. 

 1858, ad flores parce captus. 



Were it not for the structural dissimilarity between the male 

 antennae of the present Dasytes and the last one, I might perhaps 

 have regarded them as but states of the same insect ; but since those 

 organs in the species now under consideration are longer and slen- 

 derer than in the D. stibcenescens, their last five joints being con- 



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