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Fam. ULOMID^. 



Genus Hypophlceus. 



Fabricius, Scrivt. af Natiir. Selsk. (1790). 



39. Hypophlceus Euphorhice,* n. sp. 



H, lineari-elongatus, rufo-fernigineus, subnitidus ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque dense punctatis, hoc elongato-snbquadrato; elytris 

 paiilo pallidioribus, subfusiformibus basi truncatis, levissime 

 punctato-striatis, interstitiis minutissime uniseriatim punctu- 

 latis ; pedibus rufo-testaceis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1 — ]|. 



Habitat ins. Lanzarota, Canaria, TenerifFa et Hierro, sub cortice 

 Euphorbiarura emortuo, rarius. 



The present Hypophloeus appears to be quite peculiar, so far as 

 I have observed hitherto, to the dead stems of the various Eu- 

 phorbias, — beneath the loose outer bark of which I have captured 

 it in the north of Lanzarote, as also in Grand Canary, on the 

 mountains above Santa Cruz of TenerifFe, and in the district of 

 El Golfo on the west of Hierro. It is allied to the Madeiran H. 

 amUguiiSj which in all probability will be found to possess similar 

 habits. Indeed, having no longer a type of that insect in my col- 

 lection, I had supposed that it might possibly be identical with it; 

 but having forwarded lately an example of the Canarian species 

 to Mr. Waterhouse, for comparison with the original Madeiran 

 one (now in the British Museum), I have received from him the 

 following observations : " The two insects are certainly quite dis- 

 tinct : in the head there is very little difference, though the punc- 

 tuation is a trifle finer and a little more dense, and the reflected 

 fore-part is somewhat less reflected, in the Teneriffe species than 

 in that from Madeira ; but in the antennae there is a marked dis- 

 crepancy, — those of the Canarian one being relatively larger and 

 more elongated. The prothorax in the H. ainbiguus is quadrate, 

 or even slightly transverse ; whereas in the other it is rather 

 longer than broad: the punctures, too, of the latter are perceptibly 

 finer and more dense. The elytra are distinctly punctate-striated 

 in the Madeiran insect (the punctures of the striae being much 

 larger than those of the interstices), whereas in its ally they 

 are very faintly so ; and, moreover, the Canarian species has its 

 elytra and legs decidedly longer than is the case in the Madeiran 



