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S3. Meshes puMpennis* Woll. 



M. prsecedenti similis, sed lurido-pubescens, prothorace (prge- 

 $ertim in sexu foemineo) densius rugosiusque punctato, ely- 

 trorum interstitiis convexioribus et magis distincte punctulatis, 

 necnon striis latioribus et magis profundis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1| — 2h. 



Mesites pubipemiis, Woll., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (New Series), 

 V. 406 (1861). 



Habitat Palmam, in Euphorbiis supra Sanctam Crucem cres- 

 centibus parce repertus. 



As already stated, the Cew specimens which I have yet seen of this 

 Mesites were captured by Mr. Gray and myself in Palma (about two 

 miles up the Barranco de Santa Cruz), — where the species may per- 

 haps represent the M. fusiformis, which is so abundant through- 

 out the remainder of the archipelago. At the same time, how- 

 ever, I cannot conceive it probable that so common an insect 

 as the M.fusiformis should be absent from Palma, — our visit to that 

 island having been somewhat too late in the season for the gene- 

 rality of the Euphorbia-'m^es.t\ng Coleoptera. The M. puh'ipennis 

 differs from its ally in being clothed (particularly on the elytra) 

 with a lurid pubescence, by its prothorax (especially of the female 

 sex) being more densely and coarsely punctured, as well as by its 

 elytra having their interstices convexer and more evidently punc- 

 tulated, and their striae both broader and deeper. 



Fam. LAMIAD^. 



(Sub-fam. DORCADIONIDES.) 



Genus Leprosoma. 



(Dej. Cat.) Thomson, Essai d'une Classif. de la Ceramb. 23 (1 860). 



The remarkable insect for which the present genus was pro- 

 posed in Dejean's Catalogue, and which "has lately been charac- 

 terized by M. Thomson, is unquestionably the Lamia gihba of 

 BruUe, — described and figured in Webb and Berthelot's " His- 

 toire Naturelle des lies Canaries," in 1838. It is very closely 

 related to my genus Deucalion (particularly, however, to the D. 

 oceanicus from the Salvages, rather than to the D. Desertarum) ; 

 but I am assured by M. Thomson that it cannot be actually ad- 

 mitted into that group. In the Zoological Gallery at the Jardin 

 des Plantes, where I have lately inspected the original type, it 

 stands under the generic name of Brullaria ; but as no such 



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