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CATALOGUE 


COLEOPTEROUS    INSECTS 


THE     CANARIES 


COLLECTION 


BRITISH    MUSEUM. 


T.  VERNON  WOLLASTON,  M.A.,  RL.S. 


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PRINTED  BY  TAYLOR  AND  FRANCIS, 
RED  LION  COURT,  FLEET  STREET. 


PHEEACE. 


This  Catalogue  contains  tlie  description  of  the  Coleopterous 
Insects  collected  by  Mr.  WoUaston  and  some  of  his  friends 
in  the  Canary  Islands. 

The  Collection  has  been  arranged  by  Mr.  Wollaston,  and 
lias  been  purchased  by  the  Trustees  of  the  British  Museum. 

JOHN  EDWARD  GRAY. 

Jan.  30,  18G4. 


INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS. 


1  HE  material  from  which  the  following  Catalogue  has  been  compiled 
is  mainly  the  result  of  an  expedition  to  the  Canaries  undertaken  by 
John  Gray,  Esq.,  and  myself,  in  his  yacht '  The  Miranda,'  at  the  com- 
mencement of  1858,  in  which  we  visited  all  the  islands  of  the  archi- 
pelago except  Grand  Canary.  We  reached  Teneriffe  on  the  8th  of 
January,  and  were  immediately  joined  by  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe  (who 
was  passing  the  winter  at  Orotava),  and  set  sail  at  once  for  Lanza- 
rote.  As  it  was  part  of  Mr.  Gray's  programme  to  make  a  detour  by 
the  West  Indies  on  his  homeward  route,  he  left  us  at  the  end  of  Feb- 
ruary ;  from  which  date,  until  the  following  July,  Mr.  Lowe  and  I 
continued  incessantly  at  our  respective  vocations  (which  were,  chiefly, 
Botany  and  Coleoptera) — at  first  in  Tenerifie,  but  afterwards  in  Grand 
Canary  and  Palma,  exploring  many  remote  regions  (more  or  less  diffi- 
cult of  access)  which  abundantly  repaid  us  for  the  many  obstacles 
which  were  sure  to  beset  the  progress  of  English  travellers  in  such 
little-frequented  spots. 

Encouraged  by  the  success  I  met  with  during  this  first  trip,  I  again 
left  England  at  the  end  of  the  same  year,  and,  joining  the  Rev.  R.  T. 
Lowe  at  Madeira,  arrived  once  more  (in  company  with  him)  at  Tene- 
rifie, on  the  5th  of  February  1859  ;  and,  after  a  fortnight's  delay  at 
S**  Cruz,  a  second  time  embarked  for  Lanzarote.  Our  researches, 
now,  were  continued  principally  in  that  island  and  Fuerteventura ; 
though,  after  Mr.  Lowe's  departure  for  England  on  April  the  19th, 


VI  IITTEODUCTOKY  REMARKS. 

I  spent  six  weeks  by  myself  in  Teneriffe — principally  in  the  higher 
districts  towards  the  Peak,  and  ascending  to  the  lower  limits  of  the 
snow.  It  was  during  this  short  interval  that  some  of  my  most  valu- 
able material  was  accumulated ;  and  I  look  back  to  that  brief  sojoiirn 
in  those  wild  upland  tracts — amongst  full-blown  "  Eetamas  "  of  de- 
licious fragrance,  far  above  the  cloud-line,  in  what  an  entomologist 
might  strictly  call  "  an  apiarian  heaven  " — as  embodjang  reminis- 
cences, of  sight  and  sense,  which  none  but  those  who  have  revelled  in 
such  scenes  can  truly  appreciate. 

In  addition  to  my  own  material  thus  amassed  (including,  at  least, 
some  20,000  specimens),  and  that  obtained  by  Mr.  Gray  in  January 
and  February  of  1858,  I  have  had  the  advantage,  while  compiling 
this  Catalogue,  of  several  smaller  collections  which  have  been  sub- 
mitted to  me.  Of  these,  by  far  the  most  valuable  and  important  was 
formed  by  Dr.  Crotch  during  the  spring  of  1862  ;  and  to  his  accurate 
and  indefatigable  researches  (to  which  I  shall  often  have  occasion  to 
allude)  nearly  50  additions  to  the  fauna  are  entirely  due.  Much 
useful  material  has  likewise  been  communicated,  from  time  to  time, 
by  my  excellent  and  worthy  friend  the  Barjio  do  Castello  de  Paiva  of 
Lisbon,  who  has  spared  no  pains  to  prociu'e  specimens,  which  he  has 
on  every  occasion,  with  characteristic  generosity,  placed  at  my  imme- 
diate disposal.  From  Professor  Heer  also,  of  Zurich,  I  have  received 
many  types  of  the  species  from  which  he  prepared  the  list  for 
M.  Hartung's  volume  on  Lanzarote  and  Fuertevcntura  ;  and,  indeed, 
M.  Hartung  himself  allowed  me  to  select  a  certain  number  of  them 
from  his  boxes,  when  I  chanced  to  meet  him  in  Madeira,  on  his 
return  from  his  Canarian  explorations.  And  I  am  happy  to  be  able 
to  add  that  the  various  novelties  which  have  been  brought  to  hght 
from  these  different  sources  I  have  been  permitted,  through  the 
liberality  of  their  several  possessors,  to  place  in  the  National  Col- 
lection. 

Feeling  the  paramount  importance,  in  a  Catalogue  like  the  present 
one,  of  themos^  thorough  accuracy  in  the  faunas  of  the  separate  parts 
of  the  Group,  I  should  state  that  I  have  used  the  utmost  caution  in 
the  insular  distribution  of  the  various  species  enumerated.  In  all 
cases  where  the  existence  of  the  latter  in  any  particular  island  rested 
upon  doubtful  evidence,  I  have  preferred  theirnon-admission  into  that 
island's  fauna  to  the  risl-  of  a  possible  error  (even  though  that  risk 
were,  practically,  almost  nil).  And  I  hope  it  will  not  be  considered 
presumptuous  if  I  record  my  conscientious  belief  that  no  single  mis- 
take has  occurred  in  the  Topographical  Index  of  this  volume.     Indeed 


IXTRODUCTORY  REMARKS.  Vll 

by  far  the  greater  proportion  of  the  species  have  been  entered  into 
its  cohimns  on  the  evidence  supplied  by  my  own  acti;al  experience ; 
and  I  would  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  I  adopted  a  method  of 
annotation  of  every  specimen  which  I  collected  so  as  effectually  to 
pi'event  even  the  possihUity  of  after- confusion  as  to  the  exact  island 
in  which  it  was  found.  And  since  the  same  mode  was  carried  out  (I 
am  satisfied,  with  equal  care  and  honesty)  by  Dr.  Crotch,  whilst  the 
captures  of  Mr.  Gray  were  made  whilst  we  were  together,  and  were 
entered  daily  in  a  list  prepared  roughly  at  the  time,  there  seems 
scarcely  an  opening  for  anything  appi'oaching  to  a  serious  topogra- 
phical blunder.  I  lay  such  great  stress  upon  the  complete  accuracy 
of  the  habitats  because  observation  has  cojivinced  me  how  widely 
some  parts  of  the  Group  differ  in  their  Coleopterous  population  from 
others ;  and  that  consequently,  if  any  soiTnd  deductions  are  to  be 
ventured  upon  from  the  local  distribution  of  the  several  forms,  the 
very  ground  work  on  which  they  must  be  based  will  be  worse  than 
useless  unless  established  with  the  most  perfect  tnithfulness  and 
precision* . 

Of  the  930  species  enumerated  in  this  Catalogue,  only  77  have 
escaped  my  own  personal  observation  ;  and  of  these  77,  no  less  than 
44  are  (as  lately  stated)  due  to  the  researches  of  Dr.  Crotch,  Of  the 
remaining  33,  four'  were  taken  solely  by  Mr.  Gray,  one^  by  my  late 

*  It  would  be  a  happy  thing  if  this  principle  were  more  strictly  adliered  to  by 
naturalists,  as  a  rule  ;  for  many  grievous  geographical  misstatements,  which  when 
once  publislied  can  seldom  be  absolutely  disproved  (even  though  acknowledged 
afterwards  as  false  on  mere  negative  evidence),  would  have  been  thus  avoided.  I 
need  not  adduce  instances  of  this,  for  our  Catalogues  teem  with  them  :  but,  as  a 
case  which  closely  concerns  us  here.  I  may  just  add  that  I  have  myself  received 
from  the  continent,  as  "  Teneriffan"  insects  which  I  am  quite  satisfied  were  never 
found  except  in  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  archipelago — Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventura — in  which  the  fauna,  as  a  whole,  is  very  f)eculiar,  and  has  m^re  of  an 
African  element  in  it  than  is  the  case  in  the  other  portions  of  the  Grroup.  Yet 
these  species  were  pronounced  unhesitatingly  to  be  Teneriffan  (and  have  perhaps 
been  disseminated  throughout  Europe  as  such)  simply  because  they  had  hcen  sent 
from  Teneriffc.  And  thus,  in  all  probability,  the  present  Catalogue,  which  defines 
their  range  in  accordance  with  the  plainest  facts,  will  be  at  once  regarded  by  the 
possessors  of  those  insects  as  guilty  of  a  very  serious  error  of  omission.  Surely 
it  would  be  far  wiser,  where  specimens  are  received  unaccompanied  by  any  posi- 
tive assertion  of  the  exact  localities  in  which  they  were  taken,  not  to  attempt  to 
define  the  latter  too  rigidly.  For,  in  the  instance  just  alluded  to,  would  it  not 
have  been  better  to  have  called  them  simply  "  Canarian  "  (which  would  have  been 
strictly  true)  than  "  Teneriffan  "  (wliich  happens  to  be  entirely  false)  ?  I  entreat 
entomologists  to  consider  for  themselves  whether  a  slight  omission  of  precise 
habitat  (which  is  of  no  moment  in  a  general  collection)  is  not  at  all  times  pi-efer- 
able  to  a  downright  misstatement. 

1  Symhiotes  fygmceus,  Hampe ;  Apion  ceuthorhynchoidcs,  W. ;  Helops  rimosus, 
W.,  and  Anthiciis  angustntus.  Curt. 

^  CUvnus  Armiiacfii,  W. 


VIU  INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS. 

friend  the  Rev.  W.  J.  Armitage,  one^  by  M.  Hartung,  seven*  have 
been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  one'  by  Mr. 
A.  Fry  of  London,  four*'  were  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch, 
one''  by  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe  and  Dr.  Crotch,  one^  by  M.  de  la  Per- 
raudiere  and  Dr.  Crotch,  two"  have  been  inserted  on  the  evidence  of 
specimens  received  from  Paris  (from  MM.  Chevrolat  and  DeyroUe, 
respectively),  and  eleven"  have  been  added  from  the  meagre  list 
of  M,  Brulle  given  in  the  '  Histoire  Naturelle  des  lies  Canaries '  of 
MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot. 

As  regards  this  work,  I  may  be  permitted  to  advert  to  the  poverty 
of  the  catalogue  of  the  Canarian  Coleoptera  (numbering  in  all  but 
179  species !) ;  to  the  inaccuracies,  which  I  have  been  compelled  to 
advert  to  seriatim  ;  to  the  discrepancy  of  the  names  of  many  of  the  in- 
sects as  given  in  the  letter-press  and  on  the  Plates  (the  latter  of  which 
are  not  alluded  to  in  the  former) ;  to  the  wrong  identification  of  the 
majority  of  the  already-known  species;  to  the  complete  silence  through- 
out respecting  the  various  habitats ;  to  the  absence  of  any  remark  of 
local  interest,  and  to  the  almost  conclusive  evidence  which  I  possess 
of  some  few  of  even  those  179  species  not  being  Canarian  at  all* 
(but  having  been  brought  from  Madeira  by  Mr.  Webb).  When  we 
consider  that  the  insect-population,  in  the  Canarian  islands,  at  least 
trebles  in  extent  the  rej^resentatives  of  aU  the  other  departments  of 


3  Arthrodcs  Hartungii. 

*  Lixus  anguicuhis,  Schon. ;  Laparocerus  mor/o,  Schon. ;  Hesperophanes  senex, 
W.;  Zophosin  ■i-curinafa,  Dejr. ;  Carabus  faustus,  Br. ;  Biq^resfis  BcrtheJoti,  Br., 
and  Cossypliui^  //t.si/ln>-/s,  Lap., — the  last  tliree  of  which  are  also  included  in  MM. 
Webb  and  Berthelot's  work. 

^  Silpha  figurata,  Br.  (likewise  recorded  by  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot). 
i  ;  ^  Oxyomus  hrevicolHs,  W. ;  Notiomimus  holosericens,  W. ;  Arthrodes parcepunc- 
tatus,  W.,  and  Lithocharis  debilicornis,  W. 

^  Liparthrum  Lowei,  W. 

*  Hololepfa  Perraudieri,  de  Mars. 

^  Acallcs  Monti  (Chev.),  W.,  and  Pimelia  amhigua,  W. 

1°  The  evidence  for  the  admission  of  these  eleven  species  will  be  found  under 
each  of  them.  But  as  M.  Brulle  does  not  indicate  the  localifies  of  the  insects  in- 
cluded in  his  list,  they  are  all,  except  one  (the  habitat  of  wliich  I  ascertained  in 
Paris,  from  a  note  appended  to  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  type),  unmarked  (as 
regards  their  respective  islands)  in  my  '  Topographical  Catalogue,'  though  ad- 
mitted into  the  general  list.  The  "one"  referred  to  is  the  Pimelia  canariensis,  Br. : 
and  the  remaining  ten  (concerning  wliich  further  evidence  is  required)  are  as 
follows : — Bt/fiscui  circionJicaKs,  F.;  Berosus  spinosus,  Ahr. ;  Aftagemus pellio,  L. ; 
Oofoina  obscHra,^v. ;  Hcspierophancs  roridus,  Br.;  Clytus  Wcbbii,Ijefp.;  Tentyria 
interrupta,  Lat.;  Pimelia  fornicata,  Hbst;  Pimelia  spar sa,  Br.,  and  Ischnomera 
melanura,  L. 

'*  With  respect  to  this  last  assertion,  I  must  refer  f o  my  foot-not«  on  p.  7 ; 
though,  did  space  permit,  I  miglit  add  much  more  on  the  same  subject. 


INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS.  IX 

organic  nature  *,  it  is  impossible  to  avoid  surprise  that  the  Coleoptera 
should  have  been  thus  dealt  with  in  so  voluminous  a  History  as  that  of 
MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot.  I  would  by  no  means,  however,  wish  it  to 
be  assumed  that  I  consider  the  present  enumeration  as  even  approach- 
ing to  a  complete  one.  On  the  contrary,  indeed,  I  do  not  venture  to 
suppose  that  I  have  gleaned  more  than  the  firstfruits  ;  yet  I  hope  that 
it  will  at  least  constitute  a  basis  (sufficiently  accurate,  as  far  as  it 
goes)  for  a  more  perfect  treatise  to  be  built  upon.  And  although  I  feel 
that  there  is  yet  much,  very  much,  to  be  done  in  every  island  of  the 
cluster,  I  think  nevertheless  I  may  safely  anticipate  that  the  general 
catalogue,  at  all  events,  will  be  found  to  give  a  really  true  (though 
approximate)  idea  of  the  Canarian  Coleoptera  as  a  ivTiole.  With  re- 
spect to  the  separate  lists  of  each  island,  the  great  practical  difficulty 
of  filling  them  up  should  be  borne  in  mind.  Indeed  to  reach  the  re- 
moter islands  at  all,  and  to  omit  none  of  them  moreover  in  a  widelj^ 
scattered  assemblage,  the  extremes  of  which  are  removed  from  each 
other  by  nearly  200  miles  of  stormy  ocean,  is  no  easy  taskf;  there- 
fore how  much  more  to  deal  with  each  of  them  as  a  distinct  country, 
and  to  begin  afresh  in  every  case  (which  necessarily  involves  a  con- 
siderable amount  of  time)  to  collect  its  commonest  productions  !  In 
the  Canarian  Group,  where  the  islands  are  seven  in  number,  the  labour 
has  been  the  same  as  in  the  exploration  of  seven  countries  (of  similar 
extent) ;  and  it  will  consequently  be  seen  that,  whilst  the  species 
which  I  have  recorded  for  the  entire  archipelago  is  930,  the  asterisks 
(in  the  Topographical  Index)  for  the  islands  collectively — which,  so 
far  as  the  ivorlc  of  observation  is  concerned,  might  have  been  indicative 
of  so  many  separate  species — amount  to  2043.  It  may  be  interesting 
to  notice  the  proportions  thus  arrived  at  for  the  species  hitherto  ob- 
served in  the  several  islands  : — 

*  There  is,  in  the  '  Histoire  Naturelle  des  lies  Canaries'  above  cited,  a 
Chapter,  devoted  to  what  are  called  "philosophical  speculations,"  in  which 
reasons  are  given  why  insects  cannot  be  common  at  the  Canaries.  A  great  deal 
is  there  said  about  the  trade-winds,  moisture,  the  general  state  of  the  atmosphere, 
&c. ;  but  I  must  profess  myself  quite  incompetent  to  understand  it.  It  would 
have  been  better  to  have  gone  out  into  the  open  country  and  observed  facts.  I 
can  only  say  that  I  chose  this  plan,  unA  found  insects  in  profusion. 

t  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot  appear  never  to  have  set  foot  on  Hierro ;  and  so 
dispose  of  it  summarily  by  saying  that  it  has  no  harbours,  no  rivers,  no  water 
of  any  kind — a  mere  barren  rock,  insignificant  and  devoid  of  interest.  For  mv 
own  part  I  found  it  (in  proportion  to  its  size)  the  most  remarkable  island  of  the 
seven  ;  and  the  noble  forests  with  which  it  is  clothed  on  its  western  slopes  are 
not  to  be  equalled  elsewhere  throughout  the  archipelago.  Indeed,  apart  from 
every  other  circumstance,  its  mere  topographical  position  with  respect  to  the  re- 
mainder of  the  Group  invests  Hierro  with  a  charm  peculiarly  its  own. 


X  INTRODrrCTORY  REMAKKS, 

J^auzai'ote 277 

Fuertevputura 261 

( I  rand  Canary 325 

Teueiifle    539 

Gomei-a 222 

Palma    254 

HieiTo    165 

2043 
Although  I  have  good  reason  for  suspecting  that  a  small  number 
of  even  the  179  species  recorded  by  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot  were 
(as  just  stated)  brought  from  Madeira,  whilst  others  (as,  for  instance, 
the  Erodkis  europceus,  the  Akls  acuminata,  and  perhaps  also  the 
Tentyria  interrupta)  were  accidental  importations  from  the  coast  of 
Africa  [on  which  subject  vide  my  remarks  at  pages  438  and  469] ; 
I  have  nevertheless  alluded  to  them  briefly  in  foot-notes  (in  their 
proper  positions),  though  without  further  evidence  I  could  not  admit 
them  into  the  body  of  this  volume.  There  are  three,  however,  which 
I  believe  I  have  passed  over  in  toted  silence, — namely,  the  Cicindela 
nilotica,  Dej.,  the  Mononyx  varieyatus,  Br.,  and  the  Colaspis  har- 
bara,  Fab.  It  is  certainly  possible  that  a  Cicindela  may  exist  in 
some  of  the  sandy  regions  of  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  or  Grand 
Canarj' ;  yet  the  singular  absence,  so  far  as  my  own  observations  are 
concerned,  of  that  -wddely  spread  genus  both  at  the  Madeiras  and 
Canaries  inclines  me  to  look  with  unbounded  suspicion  on  its  sup- 
posed occurrence  in  these  islands ;  and  I  shall  at  aU  events  require 
stronger  evidence  than  that  supplied  by  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot, 
who  give  lis  no  vestige  of  infoi'mation  about  it,  before  I  acknowledge 
it  as  Canarian.  The  Mononyx  varieyatus  may  perhaps  be  a  small 
Curculionid  from  some  portion  of  the  Oroup ;  but  I  could  get  no 
sight  of  it  in  Paris ;  and  as  no  genus  has  ever  been  enunciated  (so 
far  as  I  am  aware)  under  the  title  of  Mononyx,  it  is  impossible  even 
to  guess  at  its  affinities  (so  that  no  position  coidd  be  assigned  to  it  in 
this  Catalogue).  If,  however.  M.  Brulle  intended  himself  to  establish 
the  group,  there  and  then,  ivitJwut  a  diagnosis  (which  is  the  only 
solution  that  occurs  to  me),  he  has  at  least  chosen  a  most  unfor- 
tunate name — for  the  insect  figured  has  decidedly  two  claws.  The 
Colaspis  harbara  is  a  north-African  form ;  and  although,  in  like 
manner,  it  too  may  be  Canarian,  I  cannot  possibly  treat  it  as  such — 
without  a  single  published  remark  either  as  to  its  identification  or 
habitat,  and  with  the  well-founded  suspicion  (above  alhided  to)  that 
a  certain  proportion  of  MM.  Webl)  and  Bcrthelot's  recorded  species 


INTROBTJCTORY  REAIARKS.  XI 

were  chance  introductions  (such  as  have  occurred,  to  my  own  certain 
knowledge,  in  trading-vessels)  from  the  opposite  coast  of  Morocco. 

Although  many  widely  spread  genera  (such  as  Carahus,  SUpha, 
Tentyria,  and  Pimelia)  are  represented  at  the  Canaries  which  are 
absent  from  the  Madeiras,  nevertheless,  on  the  whole,  I  think  that 
the  latter  Group  is,  in  proj)ortion  to  the  aggregate  superficies  of  its 
separate  parts,  the  more  productive  of  the  two.  Probably,  however, 
this  is  merely  owing  to  the  greater  depauperation  of  the  former 
through  the  destruction  of  the  timber,  and  (as  a  necessary  conse- 
quence) the  gradual  drying  up  of  the  pools  and  streams — which 
there  is  abundant  evidence  to  show  were  once  numerous.  But,  be 
this  as  it  may,  the  fact  itself  seems  plainly  indicated  by  the  relative 
extent  of  their  Coleopterous  faunas — that  of  the  Madeiran  archi- 
pelago numbering,  up  to  the  present  date,  660  species,  whilst  that  of 
the  Canarian  one  (the  product  of  seven  large  islands)  includes  hitherto 
but  930.  We  must  undoubtedly  bear  in  mind  that  the  Madeiras 
have  been  more  thoroughly  examined  than  the  Canaries ;  yet,  even 
whilst  making  a  liberal  allowance  for  this  consideration,  I  do  not 
believe  that  the  Canarian  Coleoptera  will  ever  prove  to  be  so  nume- 
rous in  species,  in  proportion  to  the  area  ranged  over,  as  the  Madeiran. 
Nor  have  the  two  faunas  quite  so  decided  a  resemblance  as  I  should 
have  a  priori  anticipated,  seeing  that  224  species  is  all  that  they 
have  yet  been  demonstrated  to  possess  in  common.  There  are,  how- 
ever, a  certain  number  of  ordinary  (perhaps  naturalized)  forms,  in 
both  cases,  which  we  may  feel  quite  sure  will  be  shown,  sooner  or 
later,  to  be  mutual ;  therefore  we  may  safely  imagine  the  above 
number  as  raised,  at  all  events,  to  250.  Yet  even  that  proportion  is 
but  a  small  one,  in  islands  so  manifestly  belonging  to  the  same  geo- 
graphical system,  and  with  their  many  physical  peculiarities  nearly 
similar. 

Adverting  to  the  general  statistics,  it  is  interesting  to  observe 
that  the  great  Sections  (whatever  their  relative  positions  may  be,  in 
a  system  of  classification)  into  which  the  Coleoptera  are  usually 
supposed,  either  by  acknowledgment  or  tacit  assumption,  to  be  sub- 
divided bear  pretty  nearly  the  same  numerical  proportions  amongst 
themselves  in  the  two  Groups.  Thus,  in  both  instances,  the  Bhyncho- 
phora  exceeds  every  other  department  in  the  nimiber  of  its  representa- 
tives ;  whilst  the  next  in  order  is  the  Bracheh/tra  :  and  the  Eucerata 
and  Hydradephaga  occupy,  either  actually  or  almost,  the  lowest  posi- 
tions. The  Heteromera  at  the  Canaries  follows  third  in  numerical 
succession,  and  is  more  pronounced  than  at  Madeira ;  whilst  the 


Xll  INTRODUOTOKY  REMARKS. 

Geodephaga,  on  the  contrary,  is,  in  proportion  to  the  area,  rather 
less  so.  The  following  Table,  as  compared  with  the  corresponding 
one  in  the  Madeiran  Catalogue,  will  show  this  more  clearly  : — 

HJn/iicJwphoi-a 17(5 

Brachchjtra 141 

Heteromera   125 

Necrophaga 114 

Gcodephaga ll-> 

Priocerata 89 

Cordylocerata    51 

Phijtopliaga   44 

Hydraclephaga 22 

Philhi/dnda   21 

Pseiulotrimera   19 

Eucerata    15 

930 

Of  the  genera,  as  yet  detected  at  the  Canaries,  the  largest  (and  by 
far  the  most  characteristic)  is  Lajicirocerus — of  which  no  less  than 
35  exponents  have  already  been  brought  to  light  (and  there  ai-e  pro- 
bably many  yet  to  be  found)*.  The  next  is  Homalota  ;  but  as  a 
considerable  proportion  of  the  minute  Staphylinids  which  compose 
that  immense  group  are  erninently  liable  to  accidental  diffusion 
(through  indirect  human  agencies)  over  the  civilized  world,  I  lay  but 
little  stress  upon  this  fact.  But  the  third  in  order,  namely  Hegeter, 
is  quite  as  significant  as  the  first — numbering  no  less  than  19  species  f. 
Then  follow  Calatlius  and  Attalus — both  of  which  are  largely  ex- 
pressed, and  have  17  representatives  (manifestly  quite  indigenous). 
Apion  has  15,  but  some  of  them  may  perhaps  have  been  introduced. 
Bemhid'uim,  Artlirodes,  and  PMlonthus  have  each  14;  Accdies  and 
Longitarsus  13  (the  former  being  equally  developed,  or  even  more  so, 
at  Madeira)  :  Sa2ynmis,  Phnelia,  Helops,  and  Anthicus  number,  each 
of  them,  12;  Aphanarthrum  W  (all  («7</'rt-indigenous)  ;  Hgdroponis 
10  ;  and  Tarpliius  (likewise  positively  endemic,  and  of  which  more 
will  doubtless  yet  be  found)  9.  Indeed  Tarphius,  as  I  have  elsewhere 
shown,  is  almost  characteristic  of  the  intermediate  sylvan  districts  of 
the  whole  of  these  Atlantic  Islands  ;  nevertheless  it  is  decidedly  more 
dominant  at  Madeira  (where  no  less  than  20  exponents  have  already 
been  observed)  than  at  the  Canaries. 

*  I  include  with  Laparoccrus  my  genus  Athinfis. 

t  I  include  ThalpophUa  and  Gnophota  (which  arc  scarcely  more  than  sub- 
genera) with  Hegctcr. 


INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS,  XUl 

But  space  will  not  permit  me  to  enter  into  further  details.  Suf- 
fice it  to  add  that  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  archipelago,  Lanza- 
rote  and  Fuerte Ventura,  seem  to  possess  more  of  an  African  element 
than  the  central  and  western  ones — as  is  evinced  by  their  very 
peculiar  fauna,  which  has  a  good  deal  in  common  with  that  of  the 
opj)osite  coast  of  Morocco ;  and  they  appear  to  me  to  bear  about  the 
same  relation  to  the  remainder  as,  in  the  neighbouring  Group,  Porto 
Santo  does  to  Madeira  proper.  The  entire  Canarian  Catalogue,  how- 
ever, is  not  more  indicative  of  a  southern  latitude  than  is  the  case  with 
that  of  Madeii'a  (at  any  rate  not  more  so  than  would  be  naturally 
anticipated  were  the  slight  additional  distance  to  the  south  measured 
over  a  continuous  tract) — its  general  character  being  much  what  we 
should  a  jpriorl  expect  to  find  on  the  southern  Mediterranean  limits  ; 
though  at  the  same  time  there  is,  as  in  Madeira,  so  large  an  assort- 
ment of  purely  endemic  forms  as  perhaps  to  be  suggestive  rather 
of  a  sejiarate  "  Atlantic  province." 

Although  only  a  portion  of  them  have  been  described  in  this 
volume,  I  believe  that  about  30  genera  and  540  species  have  been 
established  by  myself  (partly  in  detached  Papers,  severally  referred 
to)  amongst  the  Canarian  Coleoptera  here  enumerated.  Whatever 
other  forms  there  are  (in  addition  to  these)  which  it  has  fallen  to 
my  lot  to  be  the  first  to  enunciate  are  found  at  Madeira  likewise,  and 
were  therefore  published  amongst  the  novelties  of  that  Group. 

Teignmouth,  Jan.  2.3,  1864. 


#  J 


CATALOGUE 


CANARIAN    COLEOPTEIU 


Fam.  1.  CARABID^. 

(Subfam.  I.  ELAPHRIDES.) 

Gemxs  1.  NOTIOPHILUS. 

Dumeril,  Consid.  gen.  sur  les  Ins.  169  (1823). 

1.  Notiophilus  geminatus. 

Notiophilus  geminatus,  Def.,  Spec,  des  Col.  v.  589  (1831). 

,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  17  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  9  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Goraera 
et  Hierro,  passim. 

The  NotiopMlus  geminatus  (which  I  have  detected  in  three,  out 
of  the  five,  Madeii-a  islands,  and  which  occurs  throughout  southern 
Europe  and  the  north  of  Africa)  is  almost  certaioly  universal,  though 
nowhere  very  common,  at  the  Canaries.  I  have  taken  it  in  Lanza- 
rote,  Fuerteventui-a,  Grand  Canary,  Tenerifife,  and  Hierro  (in  which 
last  island  it  was  captured  equally  by  Mr.  Gray) ;  and  it  was  found 
by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  There  can  be  but  little  doubt,  I  should 
imagine,  that  it  must  exist  in  Palma  likewise.  From  TenerifFe  it 
has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

(Subfam.  II.  CARABIDES.) 

Genus  2.  LEISTUS. 
Froblich,  Naturf.  xviii.  9  (1794). 

2.  Leistus  nubivagus,  n.  sp. 

L.  oblougus,  depressus,   castaneo-ferrugineus,   nitidus  ;    prothorace 
brevi,  transverse,  ad  latera  (prsesertim  postice)  explanato  et  sub- 


^ 


2  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

sequaliter  rotundato,  per  basin  profunde  sed  parce  pimctato  necnon 
etiam  antice  in  medio  pimctis  perpaucis  minoribns  notato,  postice 
utrinqiie  fovea  magna  impresso ;  elytris  depressis,  profunde  cre- 
nato-striatis,  stria  tertia  in  singulo  punctis  quatuor  aueta  ;  an- 
tennis,  palpis  pedibusque  (femoribus  plus  minus  obscurioribus  ex- 
ceptis)  testaceis  vel  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  rarissimus ;  sub  lapidibus  humidis  in  mon- 
tibus  sylvaticis  excelsis  circa  Agua  Mansa  tempore  vernali  captus. 

This  interesting  little  Leistus,  remarkable  prima  facie  for  its  small 
size  and  flattened  surface,  appears  to  be  of  the  greatest  possible 
rarity,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  the  damp 
sylvan  regions,  of  a  high  elevation,  in  Teneriffe.  I  first  captured  it, 
in  May  1858,  beneath  moist  stones  at  the  Agua  Mansa ;  and  subse- 
quently (during  May  of  the  following  year)  in  the  same  locality  and 
at  the  foot  of  the  lofty  Organo  Rocks. 

Genus  3.  NEBKIA. 
Latreille,  Om.  Crust,  et  Ins.  i.  225  (1806). 

3.  Nebria  dilatata. 

N.  picea,  latiuscula ;  prothorace  subcordato,  ad  latera  late  explanato 
et  valde  reflexo,  antice  valde  profunde  emarginato,  angulis  anticis 
valde  porrectis  acutiuscuHs ;  elytris  ellipticis,  postice  subacumi- 
natis,  alutaceis,  subcrenato-striatis ;  palpis,  antennis  pedibusque 
clare  ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  6-6|. 

Nebria  dilatata,  DeJ.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  v.  580  (1831). 
,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  58.  pi.  ii.  f.  7  (1838). 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  humidis  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriffse, 
rarissima,  inter  4000'  et  6000'  s.  m.  prsecipue  degens. 

The  superb  Nebria  v^hich  I  have  redescribed  above  (and  which 
was  wrongly  stated  by  Dejean,  in  his  '  Species  Gen.  des  Coleopt.,'  to 
come  from  Madeira)  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  the  lofty  elevations  of 
Teneriffe, — where  it  occurs  principally  at  the  base  of  wet  rocks  and 
near  trickling  streams  from  about  4000  to  6000  feet  above  the  sea. 
It  is,  however,  extremely  rare  ;  and,  from  its  inhabiting  ledges  and 
spots  often  all  but  inaccessible,  very  difficult  to  find.  I  first  ob- 
tained it,  on  the  30th  of  April  1859,  in  the  ravines  of  the  great 
Pinal  which  clothes  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas, 
above  Ycod  el  Alto ;  and  during  the  following  month  I  met  with  it, 
more  abundantly,  on  the  damp  mountain-ridges  around  the  Agua 
Mansa  and  the  Organo  Rocks. 


CAXARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  3 

4.  Nebria  currax,  n.  sp, 

N.  nigra,  angustiila,  nitida  ;  prothorace  subcordato,  ad  latera  anguste 
explanato  et  paiilo  reflexo,  antice  sat  profimde  emarginato,  an- 
gulis  anticis  sat  porrectis ;  elytris  ovalibus,  striatis,  stria  tertia  in 
singulo  punctis  circa  quatiior  aucta ;  palpis,  antennis  (articnlis 
tertio  quartoque  obscurioribus  exceptis)  tarsisque  ferrugineis, 
femoribus  tibiisque  piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5|. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem ;  inter  lapides  juxta  rivulnm  prope 
oppidum  Teror  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  duo  specimina  deprehendi. 

The  only  two  examples  of  this  very  rare  and  distinct  Nehria  which 
I  have  hitherto  seen  were  captured  by  myself  among-st  the  wet  stones 
and  rubbish  of  a  small  stream,  in  the  island  of  Grand  Canary,  which 
joins  the  little  river  at  Teror,  within  half  a  mile  of  the  town — 
during  my  residence  there,  with  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  in  April  1858. 
It  belongs  to  the  same  type  as  the  N.  dilatata ;  but  its  narrower 
outline,  less  elliptic,  brighter  elytra  (the  strife  of  which  are  less  per- 
ceptibly crenulated),  rather  smaller  size  and  darker  hue,  in  con- 
junction with  its  less  widely  margined  and  less  deeply  excavated 
pro  thorax,  will  (apart  from  other  differences)  at  once  separate  it 
from  that  insect. 

Genus  4.  CALOSOMA. 
Webev,  Observat.  Entom.  20  [script.  CalUsomci]  (1801). 

5.  Calosoma  indagator. 

Carabus  Maderte,  Fab.,  Si/st  Ent.  2.37  (1775). 

Indagator,  Fab.,  Mant.  Ins.  i.  197  (1787). 

Calosoma  Indagator,  Dcj.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  ii.  205  (1826). 

Maderrn,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 

,  TFoll.,  Im.  Mad.  15  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  7  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  passim. 

Although  not  the  older  of  the  two,  I  have  preferred  the  name  of 
indagator  for  the  present  Calosoma  to  that  of  Maderce,  since  it  is  the 
one  under  which  the  insect  is  almost  universally  known,  and  since 
the  author  of  them  both  is  the  same.  In  this  particular  instance  it 
would  seem  better  not  to  retain  the  specific  title  of  Maderce ;  for  the 
insect  is  widely  spread  over  Mediterranean  latitudes  (being  by  no 
means  peculiar  to  Madeira),  and  is  usually  recognized  as  the  C.  in- 
dagatot.  It  is  out  of  deference  to  the  opinion  of  my  friend  Dr.  Schaum 
that  I  have  thought  it  desirable  to  make  this  slight  change ;  for  it 
will  be  seen,  on  reference  to  my  '  Ins.  Mad.,'  that  I  adhered  in  that 
volume  strictly  to  priority,  and  quoted  the  species  by  the  name  (irre- 
spective of  its  a2ipropriateness)  under  which  it  was  first  published  by 

1!  2 


4  CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA. 

Fabricius— who  afterwards  redescribed  it  under  a  fresh  title,  which 
has  nevertheless  been  generally  adopted. 

The  C.  indagator,  which  is  rather  common  in  the  Madeiran  Group 
(being  found  in  Madeira  proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  even  on  the 
Desertas),  is  decidedly  scarce  at  the  Canaries, — where  nevertheless 
it  is  probably  universal  throughout  the  central  and  western  portions 
of  the  archipelago  ;  for,  although  hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in 
Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma,  there  can  be  but  little  doubt 
that  it  must  exist  in  Gomera  and  Hierro  likewise.  In  the  two  eastern 
islands,  hoAvever,  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  it  apparently  does 
not  occiir, — its  place  being  there  supplied  by  the  following  species, 
which  I  have  referred  to  the  C.  azoricum  of  Heer.  In  TeneriiFe  it 
was  taken  also  by  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva, 
and  Dr.  Crotch. 

6.  Calosoma  azoricum. 
C.  prsecedenti  simile,  sed  vix  nitidius  ;  prothorace  subminore,  postice 
paulo  angustiore  (quare  ad  latera  in  medio  vix  magis  subangulato- 
ampliato),  angtdis  posticis  sensim  acutioribus  ac  magis  productis, 
fovea  magna  profundiore  utrinque  impresso ;  elytris  rugosius  et 
vix  densius  imbrieatis,  ad  humeros  subrectioribus,  et  punctis  in 
seriebus  tribus  paulo  magis  numerosis  ;  tibiis  sublongioribus  gra- 
cilioribusque,  omnibus  in  foemina  (forsan  in  utroque  sexu?)  rec- 
tioribus. 
Mas  adhuc  latet. — Long.  corp.  lin.  10-11. 

Calosoma  azoricum  ?,  Heer,  Fossil.  Calosom.  5  {note). 
Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  rarissimum. 

Two  specimens  of  Calosoma,  captured  by  myself  in  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerteventura  respectively,  seem  to  be  distinct  from  the  C.  indagator, 
so  widely  spread  over  the  other  islands  of  the  archipelago,  and  to  be 
better  referred  to  the  azoricum  of  Heer.  At  least,  after  a  careful  com- 
parison of  them,  recently,  by  Dr.  Schaum  and  myself,  wdth  types  from 
the  Azores,  we  could  neither  of  us  detect  any  differences  of  sufficient 
importance  to  be  regarded  as  specific  ones, — though  in  a  few  minor 
particulars  they  do  not  e.vacthj  agree  with  the  latter  ;  and,  moreover, 
being  unfortunately  females,  we  were  unable  to  say  for  certain  whether 
the  intermediate  tibiae  of  their  male  sex  are  in  any  degree  ciu'ved  as 
in  the  indagator.  Be  this  however  as  it  may,  it  seems  pretty  evident 
(on  other  accounts)  that  they  cannot  be  identified  with  the  indagator  ; 
whilst  the  characters  of  at  all  events  the  female  sex  differ  so  very 
slightly  from  the  corresponchng  ones  of  the  azorimm  that  there  seems 
the  gveatest  iJrofiahiliti/,  even  in  the  absence  of  the  male  to  judge  from, 
that  all  their  features  will  be  found  to  be  so  far  identical  with  those 


CANARIAN  COLEOrXERA.  O 

of  that  insect  that  it  will  not  be  possible  to  treat  them,  at  the  utmost, 
as  indicative  of  more  than  a  mere  geographical  variety  (and  that  too 
an  exceedingly  trifling  one)  of  the  same  species.  But,  whilst  thus 
expressing  my  conviction  that  it  will  be  found,  when  further  material 
has  been  obtained,  to  be  coincident  with  the  azoricum,  I  do  not  wish 
to  ignore  the  fact  that,  in  the  Canarian  insect  (judging  from  the 
examples  now  before  me),  the  prothorax  is  not  quite  so  straightened 
(obliquely)  behind,  and  therefore  not  quite  so  preceptibly  subangu- 
lated  on  either  side  in  the  middle  ;  and  that  the  elytra  are  somewhat 
less  closely  reticulated,  a  trifle  more  rectangular  at  their  shoulders, 
and  with  the  punctui-es  of  their  triple  series  apparently  rather  more 
numerous.  Pei'haps  also  its  intermediate  (female)  tibiae  are  not  quite 
so  straight,  though  the  difference  (if  any)  is  scarcely  perceptible. 
If,  when  the  male  sex  has  been  discovered,  it  should  prove  to  be 
distinct  from  the  azoricum  (which,  however,  I  think  is  very  unlikely), 
I  would  propose  for  it  the  trivial  name  of  canariense. 

From  the  C.  indagator  the  present  Calosoma  may  be  known  by  its 
prothorax  being  a  little  smaller  and  rather  more  narrowed  behind 
(which  causes  it  to  be  a  trifle  less  obtusely  rounded,  or  more  sub- 
angulated,  on  either  side  in  the  middle),  with  its  posterior  angles 
perceptibly  acuter,  or  more  downwardly-produced,  and  with  its  basal 
fovese  larger  and  deeper ;  by  its  elytra  being  somewhat  more  roughly 
and  closely  imbricated,  a  little  more  rectangular'  at  the  shoulders, 
and  with  the  metallic  points  of  their  three  longitudinal  series  rather 
more  numerous ;  and  by  all  its  tibiae,  at  any  rate  in  the  female  sex 
(for  which  I  can  alone  speak),  being  straighter,  and  perhaps  a  trifle 
longer  and  slenderer. 

Genus  5.  CARABUS. 

Linnaeus,  Syst.  Nat.  ii.  668  (1767). 

7.  Carabus  coarctatus. 

C.  cupreo-aeneus  vel  subaenesccnti-  (interdum  vii-escenti-)  niger, 
nitidus  ;  prothorace  postice  subito  et  valde  coarctato,  angulis  ipsis 
posticis  longe  exstantibus  ;  elytris  ovalibits,  limbo  plus  minus  Itete 
virescente,  longitudinaliter  triseriatim  parce  tuberculatis(tuberculis 
elongatis)  necnon  obsolete  costatis  ;  antennis  longiusculis  pedibus- 
que  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  9-10. 

Carabus  coarctatus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  57.  pi.  ii.  f.  2  (1838). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  sub  lapidibus  in  locis  plus  minus  edi- 
tioribus,  rarissime. 

The   C.  coarctatus  (so  well  distinguished  prima  facie  by  its  pro- 


h  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

thorax  being  suddenly  and  greatly  constricted  behind,  but  with  the 
posterior  angles  themselves  exceedingly  prominent)  would  appear,  so 
far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  to  be  peculiar  to  the  intermediate  and 
higher  elevations  of  Grand  Canary, — where,  dui'ing  March  and  April 
of  1858, 1  took  it  sparingly  beneath  stones  throughout  the  dry,  cindery 
district  of  El  Monte  ;  as  well  as  on  the  summit  of  the  Bandama  moun- 
tain, and  on  the  ascent  to  the  Roca  del  8oucilho,  above  San  Mateo. 

8.  Carabus  faustus. 

G,  cupreo-aeneus  vel  subaenescenti-  (interdum  virescenti-)  niger, 
nitidus ;  prothorace  elongato-subquadrato  (postice  paulo  et  aqua- 
hter  angustiore)  ;  elytris  elongato-ovatis  (versus  basin  ad  latera 
oblique  subrectis  et  pone  medium  paulo  latioribus),  limbo  plus 
minus  Isete  virescenti,  longitudinaliter  triseriatim  tuberculatis  nec- 
non  plus  minus  distincte  costatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  elongatis, 
robustis,  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  12-13. 

Carabus  faustus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  BeHh.  ( Col.)  57.  pi.  ii.  f.  3  (1838). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  rarissimus. 

I  have  not,  myself,  ever  taken  this  Carabus ;  but  I  have  received 
it  from  Dr.  Heer  of  Zurich,  captured  by  M.  Hartung  in  Teneriffe, 
and  it  has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva 
from  (the  Agua  Garcia  of)  the  same  island.  If  therefore  the  few 
specimens  which  I  have  seen  be  typical  of  the  species,  I  may  add 
that  it  may  be  known  from  the  C.  interruptns  by  its  considerably 
larger  size  and  more  shining  surface,  by  its  longer  and  robuster  limbs, 
and  by  its  prothorax  and  elytra  being  each  of  them  more  elongated, — 
the  former  being  more  (obliquely)  straightened  behind,  and  the  latter 
more  so  in  front.  The  posterior  thoracic  angles,  also,  are  a  little 
more  backwardly-produced.  It  is  evidently  extremely  rare,  and  is 
j)robably  attached  to  a  rather  lower  elevation  within  the  sylvan  dis- 
tricts than  its  ally. 

9.  Carabus  interruptus. 

C.  cupreo-teneus  vel  subajnescenti-  (interdum  virescenti-)  niger,  sub- 
nitidus ;  prothorace  subquadrato  (postice  paulo  et  a^qualiter  an- 
gustiore) ;  elytris  ovatis,  limbo  plus  minus  Isete  virescente,  longi- 
tudinaliter triseriatim  tuberculatis  necnon  plus  minus  distincte 
costatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  8^- 
vix  10. 

Carabus  interruptus  (Lat.),  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  v.  547  (1831). 
abbreviatus,  Brulle,  in  Silb.  Her.  Ent.  iii.  298  (1835). 

Habitat  in  regionibus  humidis  cxcelsis  TenerifFae,  usque  ad  6000' 
s.  m.  ascendens. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  / 

The  smaller  size,  somewhat  less  shining  surface  (particularly  of 
the  female  sex),  and  more  rounded  elytra  of  the  C.  interruptus,  in 
conjunction  with  its  more  abbreviated  pro  thorax  and  shorter  limbs, 
will,  apart  from  minor  characters,  at  once  separate  it  from  the  pre- 
ceding species.  It  was  erroneously  stated  by  Dejean  to  be  a  native 
of  Madeira, — being  confined,  apparently,  to  the  intermediate  and 
lofty  elevations  of  Teneriffe ;  where  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agnia 
Mansa,  and  on  the  damp  and  almost  inaccessible  slopes  above  the 
Organo  Rocks,  abutting  on  the  Cumbre.  It  was  also  captured 
above  Ycod  el  Alto  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  has  likewise  been  communi- 
cated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

As  regards  the  synonymy  of  this  Carahus,  it  seems  that  M.  Brulle 
changed  the  name  of  interruptus,  under  which  it  was  described  by 
Dejean,  into  that  of  abbreviatus, — on  account  of  the  former  having 
been  preoccupied  by  Say  for  a  North  American  species.  But  since 
it  would  appear  (from  information  which  I  have  received  from  Dr. 
Schaum)  that  Say's  insect  is  undoubtedly  conspecific  with  the  vinctus 
of  Weber  (and  is  so  acknowledged  by  the  modern  American  Coleopte- 
rists),  it  follows  that  Say's  title  (for  the  vhictus)  has  to  be  suppressed, 
and  that  M.  Brulle  had  consequently  no  sufficient  reason  for  altering 
the  name  which  Dejean  proposed  for  the  Canarian  species*. 

(Subfam.  III.  SCAEITIDES.) 

Genus  6.  SCAEITES  f. 
Fabricius,  Syst.  Ent.  249  (1775). 

10.  Scarites  gigas. 

Scarites  gigas,  Fab.,  Spec.  Ins.  i.  314  (1781). 

,  OUv.,  Ent.  iii.  36.  i.  1  (1795). 

Pyracmon,  Bon.,  Obs.  Ent.  ii.  33  (1813). 

,  De/.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  i.  367  (1825). 

,  Hartnng,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  unci  Ftiert.  140. 

Habitat  in  arenosis  Lanzarotae  et  Canarise,  rarissimus. 
The  S.  gigcis  (which  occiu's  in  the  south  of  Europe  and  the  north 
of  Africa,  and  which  I  have  myself  taken  at  Mogadore  on  the  coast 

*  I  sliould  however  add,  in  M.  BruUe's  defence,  that  he  believed  the  C.  inters 
ruptus  of  Say  to  be  distinct  from  Weber's  (and  Dejean's)  vinctus ;  but  in  this  he 
was  apparently  mistaken. 

t  As  I  am  determined  not  to  include  any  species  in  this  Catalogue  which  rests 
upon  e\'idence  altogether  unsatisfactory,  I  do  not  apologize  for  refusing  admission 
to  a  Scarites  figured  by  M.  Brulle  (I  cannot  say  "  described,"  for  the  few  words 
in  which  he  alludes  to  it  amount  to  no  description  at  all)  under  the  name  of 
S.  dimidiatus.  Judging  from  the  figure,  wliich  is  really  a  very  tolerable  one,  I 
have  no  hesitation  whatever  in  identifying  it  with  the  Madeiran  S.  abbreviatios, 


8  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

of  Morocco)  appears  to  be  very  rare  at  the  Canaries,— where  it  was 
found  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  January  1858,  near  Arrecife 
in  Lanzarote  :  and  subsequently,  by  myself,  in  the  little  island  of 
Graciosa,  off  the  north  of  Lanzarote  ;  as  well  as  at  the  extreme  south- 
ern, sandy  point  of  Grand  Canary,  in  the  district  of  Maspalomas. 
It  was  likewise  captured  in  Lanzarote  by  M.  Hartung. 

Genus  7.  DYSCHIRIUS. 

Bonelli,  Observat.  Entom.  i.  (1809). 

11.  Dyschirius  armatus,  n.  sp. 

D.  isnco-piccus,  clypeo  tridcntato ;  elytris  ovato-oblongis,  profunde 
punctato-striatis,  punctis  postice  evanescentibus  ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque  rufo-ferrugincis  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  longissime  denticu- 
latis. — Long,  coi'p.  lin.  vix  2. 

Habitat  in  arenosis  maritimis  Lanzarota^  rarissimus ;  per  litora 
lacus  ejus  salini  "  Januvio  '"  dicti,  sub  ulvis  ejectis,  mouse  Martio  a.d. 
1850,  tria  specimina  collegi. 

The  comparatively  large  size  and  more  piceous  hue  of  this  fine 
Dyschirius,  in  conjunction  with  its  tridentate  clypcus  and  the  greatly 
developed  spines  of  its  fore  tibite,  will  at  once  distinguish  it  from  the 
following  two  species.  It  has  been  examined  by  my  friend  Dr. 
Schaum,  of  Berlin,  who  has  paid  much  attention  to  the  genus,  and 
Avho  returned  it  with  the  observation  :  "  It  is  probably  allied  to  the 
D.  falvipes,  Dej.  (unknoAvn  to  me)  ;  but  in  that  insect  the  marginal 

and  have  but  little  doubt  that  it  was  brought  from  Madeira  by  Mr.  Webb  (along 
with  the  Hmyalus  consenfanens  and  distinguendus,  and  possibly  also  the  Lionis 
angustatus),  and  mixed-up  by  him  with  liis  Canarian  collection.  I  have  the 
most  positive  assurance  from  a  personal  friend  of  Mr.  Webb,  that  the  latter  col- 
lected in  Madeira  before  he  went  to  Teneriife,  and  that  he  was  exceedingly  care- 
less and  inaccm-ate  with  respect  to  the  material  which  he  was  in  the  habit  of 
amassing : — a  fact  indeed  which  is  proved  to  a  demonstration  tlu'ough  the  cir- 
cumstance of  one  of  his  Land-Shells  (an  Achafma)  having  been  described  by 
D'Orbigny  (in  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  work)  as  a  new  Canarian  species,  but 
which  011  reference  to  the  type  may  be  seen  to  have  in  Mr.  Webb's  own  hand- 
writing a  label  attached  to  it  bearing  the  words  '•  Pico  de  Facho," — which  Pico 
de  Facho  (as  the  shell  itseh'' would  in  fact  testify)  is  one  of  the  mountains  of  Porto 
Santo  (an  island  in  which  Mr.  Webb  sojourned  during  May  of  1828) ! !  Now  it 
so  happens  that  the  only  character  of  any  significance  which  M.  Brulle  alludes 
to  in  his  (so-called)  description  of  the  6'.  dimidiatus  is  to  the  etfect  that  its  elytral 
stria'  are  punctured.  In  the  ahltreriatus  the  stria;  are  usually  impunctate  ;  never- 
theless they  have  sometimes  a  tendency  to  be  very  faintly  pimctured  even  in  Ma- 
deira proper  and  on  tine  Desertas.  but  in  Porto  Santo  they  are  nearly  always  very 
perceptibly  punctate.  So  that  I  conclude,  first,  that  M.  Brulle's  »S'.  dimidiatus 
is  founded  upon  an  example  (since  lost — for  it  does  not  now  exist  in  the  collec- 
tion at  the  Jardin  des  Plantes,  in  Paris)  of  the  ahhrcviatifs  brought  by  Mr.  Webb 
from  Madeira  ;  and  secondly,  that  the  specimen  was,  like  the  Land-Shell  above 
referred  to,  a  Porto-Santan  one. 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


9 


stria  is  said  to  be  scarcely  visible  at  the  base."  It  is  apparently 
very  rare,  the  only  three  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been 
captured  by  myself,  beneath  cast-np  sea-weed,  on  the  sandy  shores 
of  the  curious  salt-water  lake  known  as  "  Januvio,''  towards  the 
south-western  extremity  of  Lanzarote, — during  my  visit  to  that  re- 
markable spot,  in  company  with  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  on  the  26th 
of  March  1859.  I  may  add  that,  as  has  been  so  often  observed  in 
the  Dyschiril  of  more  northern  latitudes,  it  was,  even  in  that  remote 
locality,  associated  mth  a  Bledius, — a  noble  species  somewhat  akin 
to  the  European  bicomis,  and  which  I  shall  hope  to  describe  under 
the  name  of  B.  Januvianus. 

12.  Dyschirius  suhaeneus,  n.  sp. 

D.  seneo-  (vel  subpiceo-)  niger,  clypeo  simplici ;  elytris  ovato-ob- 
longis,  profunde  punctato-striatis,  punctis  postice  evanescentibus  ; 
antennis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  breviter  den- 
ticulatis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  l|^-lg. 

Habitat  in  Canaria  Grandi,  per  litora  paludis  lutosas  (nee  salinsB) 
ad  Arguiniguin  d.  14.  Ap.  a.d.  1858  deprehensus. 

The  present  Dyschirius  has  very  much  the  size  and  general  aspect 
of  the  common  European  Z>.  ameus,  with  wliich  indeed  before  exami- 
nation I  had  regarded  it  as  coincident,  A  more  careful  inspection, 
however,  has  brought  to  light  several  small  differential  features, 
which  it  is  the  opinion  of  Dr.  Schaum  must  separate  it  specifically 
from  that  insect,  "It  is  distinct,"  says  he,  "from  the  ceneus  (to 
which  it  is  closely  allied)  by  the  first  and  second  striae  commencing 
in  a  deep  point  at  the  base,  by  the  first  stria  being  much  deeper,  and 
by  the  stronger  teeth  of  its  anterior  tibiae.  It  belongs  to  my  Section 
B.  2.  (j.  aa.  (p.  201)."  I  captured  thirteen  examples  of  it  by  brush- 
ing the  fine  grass  along  the  muddy  edges  of  the  freshwater  lake  at 
Arguiniguin,  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary,  during  my  visit  there,  with 
the  Rev.  R.  T,  Lowe,  on  the  14th  of  April  1858. 

13.  Dyschirius  pauxillus,  n.  sp. 

D.  aeneo-niger,  clypeo  simplici ;  elytris  subovato-oblongis,  profunde 
punctato-striatis,  punctis  postice  evanescentibus  ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque rufo-piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  vix  denticulatis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  ;  duo  specimina  (per  aerem  volitantia)  prope 
"  Puerto  Orotava,"  mense  Maio  a.d.  1858,  cepi. 

The  smaller  size  of  this  little  Di/schirius,  combined  with  its  fore 
tibite  being  almost  unarmed  along  their  outer  edge,  will  suffice  to 


10  CANARIAX  COLEOPTERA. 

distinguish  it  from  the  preceding  ones.  "  It  belongs,"  says  Dr. 
Schaum,  "  to  the  same  group  as  the  D.  misellus  (p.  217  of  my  work) ; 
indeed  it  closely  resembles  the  latter,  but  is  distinct  by  the  first  stria 
beginning  with  a  deeper  impression  at  the  base  of  the  elytra."  Two 
specimens  only  have  as  yet  come  under  my  observation, — captured 
(on  the  wing)  immediately  outside  the  Puerto  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe, 
during  May  1858. 

(Subfam.  IV.  BRACHINIDES.) 

Genus  8.  PHEROPSOPHUS. 
Solier,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  ii.  461  (1833). 

14.  Pheropsophus  hispanicus. 

Brachinus  hispanicus,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  i.  303  (1825). 

(Kollar),  Dej.,  Icon.  ii.  104.  tab.  8.  fig.  5  (1830). 

,  Brulle,  In  I'Vebb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  55  (1838). 

Hahitat  Canariam  Grandem,  per  litora  paludis  ad  Arguiniguin  a 
meipso  captus ;  necnon  etiam  ex  Tenei'iiFa  exemplar  antiquum  nuper 
communicavit  cl.  Dom.  Chevrolat. 

This  noble  insect,  which  is  found  also  in  the  south  of  Spain  (and 
which  is  the  only  one  of  the  larger  Bracliinkles  which  has  hitherto 
been  recorded  in  Europe),  occurs,  though  very  rarely,  at  the  Canaries. 
The  only  spot  in  which  I  have  myself  detected  it  is  at  the  edges  of 
the  freshwater  lake  at  Arguiniguin  (the  same  locality  in  which  I 
captured  the  Dyschirius  suhcenetis),  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary  ; 
but  I  could  only  obtain  seven  specimens.  I  have  an  old  example 
lately  forwarded  by  M.  Chevrolat,  of  Paris,  which  is  labelled  "  Tene- 
riffe"; and  as  it  is  highly  probable  that  it  may  exist  in  that  island 
also,  I  think  we  may,  without  much  risk,  quote  it  accordingly. 

(Subfam.  V.  DEYPTIDES.) 

Genus  9.  POLYSTICHUS. 
Bonelli,  Observat.  Entom.  tab.  (1809). 

15.  Polystichus  brunneus. 

P.  apterus,  paUide  rufo-brunneus,  ubique  pubescens ;  capite  protho- 
raceque  nitidis  ;  hoc  profunde  sed  parce  punctate  ;  iUo  confertius 
et  paulo  densius  punctato,  postice  valde  angustato,  basi  apiceque 
recte  truncato,  in  medio  profunde  canaliculato  necnon  utrinque 
versus  angulum  posticum  longitudin'aliter  imprcsso  ;  elytris  minus 
nitidis,   depressis,  profunde   subcrenato-striatis,  intcrstitiis  sub- 


CANABIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  11 

convexis  et  minutissime  punctulaiis  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque 
rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4—4^. 

Polisticlius  bnmneus,  Dej.,  Sjjec.  Gen.  des  Col.  v.  298  (1831). 
iinicolor,  £>:,  Hist.  Nat.  des  Ins.  iv.  179.  pi.  6.  f.  2  (1834). 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  regionibus  excelsis  Teneriffse,  usque  ad 
9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

Judging  from  the  description,  there  can,  I  think,  be  but  little 
doubt  that  the  present  Pohjstichus  is  identical  with  the  P.  hvunneus 
of  Dejean  (whose  habitat  for  it,  of  "  Brazil,"  was  consequently  al- 
together erroneous) :  and  such,  I  may  add,  is  likewise  the  opinion 
both  of  the  Baron  Chaudoir  and  Dr.  Schaum.  Hence  the  name  pro- 
posed for  it,  subsequently,  by  M.  Brulle  must  of  necessity  be  can- 
celled. It  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  the  Canarian  Coleoptera, 
and  is  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  the  higher 
elevations  of  Teneriffe.  Indeed  the  only  spot  in  which  I  have  cap- 
tured it  (and  even  there  but  very  sparingly)  is  the  lofty  Cumbre  (on 
the  ascent  to  the  Peak)  adjoining  the  Canadas, — from  about  8000  to 
9000  feet  above  the  sea ;  where,  at  the  beginning  of  May  1859,  I 
took  it  from  under  stones  (occasionally  within  a  short  distance  of 
the  snow) ;  in  which  locality  it  has  subsequently  been  found  by 
Dr.  Crotch,  A  single  example,  however,  from  an  old  collection  at 
S'*  Cruz,  has  lately  been  forwarded  to  me  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo 
de  Paiva,  purporting  to  have  been  taken  in  the  "  Barranco  de  San 
Domingo,  near  Laguna." 

(Subfam.  VI.  LEBIADES.) 

Genus  10.  DROMIUS. 

Bonelli,  Observat.  Entom.  i.  tab.  syn.  (1813). 

16.  Dromius  agilis. 

Carabus  agilis,  Fab.,  But.  Si/st.  i.  139  (1792). 
Labia  agilis,  Gi/IL,  Ins.  Suec.  ii.  186  (1810). 
Dromius  agilis,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  i.  240  (1825). 
,  Schmmi,  Nat.  der  Lis.  Deutsch.  i.  268  (1860). 

Habitat  in  ins.  Fuerteventura,  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859  semel  captus. 

A  single  specimen  (somewhat  immature)  of  what  appears  voa.- 
doubtedly  to  be  the  common  European  D.  agilis  was  captured  by 
myself,  beneath  a  stone,  in  a  small,  dry,  rocky  ravine  immediately 
outside  the  little  town  of  S'"  Maria  Betancuria,  of  Fuerteventura, 
during  my  sojourn  there,  with  the  Eev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  at  the  begin- 
ning of  April  1859. 


12  OANARIAN  COLKOPTERA. 

17.  Dromius  amcenus,  n.  sp. 
D.  elongatus,  nitidus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  rufo-ferrugineis,  illo 
magno  elongato,  hoc  elongato,  postice  angustiore  sxibrecto,  in 
medio  profunde  eanalicixlato,  limbo  plus  mimis  dilutiore  ;  elytris 
elongato-ovatis,  le^dter  striatis,  testaceis,  siitiira  fasciaque  pone 
medium  dentata  (necnon  interdum  limbo)  nigro-fuscis  ;  antennis 
palpisque  testaceis  ;  pedibus  pallido-testaceis.  —  Long.  corp.  lin. 
2-21. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  excelsioribus  TenerifFse,  sub  cortice  arbonim 
laxo  latitans.     In  sylva  Las  Mercedes,  necnon  supra  Taganana  cepi. 

This  large  and  beautiful  Dromius  may  be  regarded  as  the  Canarian 
representative  of  the  Madeiran  D.  insularis, — to  which,  although  ex- 
ceedingly distinct  from  it  specifically,  it  is  closely  allied.  Apart, 
however,  from  the  somewhat  darker  hue  of  its  head  and  prothorax 
(the  former  of  which  is  less  strigulose  in  the  centre,  whilst  the  latter 
is  more  elongate  and  straighter  behind),  it  differs  from  that  insect 
in  its  brighter  surface,  and  convexer  and  more  rounded  elytra — 
which  have  their  striae  less  impressed,  and  their  postmedial  fascia 
broader  (extending  in  fact  to  the  outer  margin,  which  is  itself  also 
usually  more  or  less  blackened  or  infuscated).  It  is  apparently 
very  rare,  or  at  any  rate  local,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  ob- 
served hitherto)  to  the  sylvan  regions  on  the  north-eastern  mountains 
of  Teneriffe,  from  the  wood  of  Las  Mercedes  to  Point  Anaga.  In 
the  former  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  from  beneath  damp  loosened 
bark,  during  June  1858 ;  and,  at  the  end  of  May  of  the  following 
year,  I  met  with  it  in  similar  spots  in  the  laurel-district  above 
Taganana. 

18.  Dromius  elliptipennis,  n.  sp. 

D.  nitidus ;  capite  piceo,  latiusculo,  oculis  magnis,  prominentibus  ; 
prothorace  nifo-testaceo,  subquadrato  postice  angustiore,  ad  an- 
gulos  posticos  late  explanato ;  elytris  ellipticis,  ad  latera  rotundatis, 
testaceis,  pone  scutellum  necnon  per  suturam  obscure  sed  in  fascia 
communi  media  maxima  dentata  distincte  nigro-fuscis  ;  antennis, 
palpis  pedibusque  testaceis ;  tarsis  posticis  longiusculis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  1|— If. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  excelsis  Teneriffse,  Gomerse  et  Hierro,  raris- 
simus. 

Until  lately  I  had  regarded  this  Dromius  as  a  "  var.  /3  "  (pecuKar 
to  the  sylvan  regions)  of  the  D.  sigma  ;  but  the  opinion  (recently)  of 
Dr.  Schaum  that  it  is  certainly  distinct  has  induced  me  to  examine 
it  with  greater  care,  and  I  now  believe  with  him  that  it  cannot  be 
I'cferred  to  that  species.     It  may  be  known  readily  from  the  sigma 


CAXARIAX  COLEOPTERA.  13 

by  its  rather  wider  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of  which  has  the 
eyes  a  Httle  more  prominent,  whilst  the  latter  is  more  broadly 
margined  towards  the  basal  angles),  by  its  rounder  or  more  ellip- 
tical elytra  (which  have  their  zigzag  fascia  very  much  deeper  or 
more  developed,  and  an  evident,  though  never  very  conspicuous, 
cloud  immediately  behind  the  scutellum),  and  by  its  posterior  feet 
being  a  trifle  longer. 

The  D.  elliptipennis  appears  to  be  extremely  rare,  and  confined 
(so  far  as  observed  hitherto)  to  the  damp  sylvan  regions  of  Teneriffe, 
Gomera,  and  Hierro, — in  the  former  of  which  I  captured  it  in  the 
laurel-woods  above  Taganana,  and  in  the  latter  at  El  Golfo  (on  the 
western  side  of  the  island).  Its  detection  in  Gomera  is  due  to  the 
recent  researches  of  Dr.  Crotch,  who  obtained  it  on  the  mountains 
above  Hermigua. 

19.  Dromius  sigma. 

D.  angustulus,  nitidiusculus  ;  capite  nigro-piceo  vel  piceo  ;  protho- 
race  elytrisque  testaceis,  his  subparallelis,  sutura  fasciaque  media 
dentata  nigro-fuscis  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  pallido- testaceis. 

Var.  /3.  Capite  prothoraceque  (rufo-brunneo)  angustioribus,  illo  ob- 
longo  oculis  paulo  minus  prominentibus.  [/n  excelsioribus  Tene- 
riffse.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^-vix  l^.. 

Carabus  sigma,  Rossi,  Fna  Etrus.  i.  226  (1790). 
Dromius  sigma,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  5  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad  Col.  3  (1857). 

,  Schaum,  Kat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  273  (1860). 

Habitat  Canariam  et  Teneriffam,  sub  lapidibus,  rarior ;  fere  ad 
9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  European  D.  sigma,  which  occurs  sparingly  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  is  decidedly  rare  in  these  islands,  where  however  it  is  vridely 
spread  at  intermediate  and  lofty  altitudes.  I  have  taken  it  in  the 
region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary ;  and  on  the  exposed  mountain - 
slopes  above  the  plain  of  Laguna  in  Teneriffe,  as  well  as  on  the 
elevated  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas  (nearly  9000  feet  above  the 
sea) — where  the  specimens  (var.  /3)  have  their  head  and  prothorax, 
apparently,  a  little  narrower,  and  their  eyes  somewhat  less  promi- 
nent.    In  Teneriffe  it  was  found,  also,  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

20.  Dromius  incertus,  n.  sp. 

D.  subnitidus  ;  capite  sat  magno,  nigro-piceo  ;  prothorace  piceo  (vel 
rufo-piceo),  subquadrato  postice  paulo  angustiore,  sat  convexo,  in 
medio  profunde  canaliculato  ;  elytris  substriatis,  fusco-piceis,  ver- 


J  4  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

sus  basin  neciion  ad  apicem  ipsum  vix  dilutioribus  ;  antennis,  pal- 
pis  pedibusque  subrobustis,  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|-1|. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  d.  9.  Mart.  a.d.  1859  duo  speciraina 
collegi. 

The  present  Dromius  is  nearly  allied  to  the  European  D.  nigriven- 
tr'is,  Thorn,  (fasciatus,  Dej.),  from  which  indeed  Dr.  Schaum,  to  whom 
I  forwarded  a  single  specimen  for  examination,  professed  himself 
scarcely  able  (except  in  colour)  to  detect  a  satisfactory  difference. 
But,  after  a  most  careful  comparison  of  two  examples  which  I  cap- 
tured in  the  island  of  Lanzarote  with  an  English  series  of  the  D. 
nigriventris,  I  am  quite  satisfied  that  they  cannot  be  specifically  iden- 
tical with  the  latter.  Thus,  they  are  not  only  altogether  a  little 
larger,  wider,  and  more  robust  than  the  nigriventris,  but  the  head 
and  prothorax  are  verg  perceptihhj  larger  (the  latter,  also,  being  more 
convex),  the  legs  are  thicker,  and  the  colour  of  the  elytra  is  almost 
uniformly  of  a  dark  piceous-brown, — there  being  only  the  faintest 
possible  trace  of  a  more  diluted  portion  towards  the  base  and  at  the 
extreme  hinder  margin.  My  two  examples  were  taken  amongst  dry 
earth  and  rubbish  on  some  rocks  at  Ye,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote, 
whilst  encamped  there,  with  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  on  the  9th  of 
March  1859. 

21.  Dromius  pervenustus,  n.  sp. 

D.  nitidus  ;  capite  nigro-piceo  (vel  piceo)  ;  prothorace  rufo-testaceo, 
brevissimo ;  elytris  leviter  punctiilato-striatis,  testaceis,  fascia 
media  maxima  transversa  (hand  dentata)  necnon  interdum  sutura 
nigris ;  antennis  palj)isque  testaceis,  pedibus  pallido-testaceis. — 
Long.  corf),  lin.  1-vix  1^. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  rarissimus. 

In  general  coloimng  this  beautiful  little  Dromius  is  very  similar 
to  the  D.  Sigma ;  nevertheless  its  comparatively  minute  size  and  ex- 
ceedingly short  prothorax,  in  conjunction  with  its  more  oblong  and 
distinctly  striated  elytra,  with  their  relatively  larger,  darker,  and  less 
dentate  fascia,  will  at  once  separate  it  from  that  insect.  It  is  appa- 
rently one  of  the  rarest  of  the  Canarian  Coleoptera, — foxir  out  of  the 
only  five  specimens  which  I  have  myself  taken  having  been  captured 
at  the  base  of  perpendicular  rocks  high  up  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua 
of  Palma,  and  the  remaining  one  in  the  dry  cindery  region  imme- 
diately above  the  Puerto  Orotava  of  Teneiiffe.  A  single  example 
was  obtained  also  in  Gomera,  by  Dr.  Crotch. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  15 

Genus  11.  BLECHRUS. 

Motschulsky,  Bull,  de  Mosc.  iii.  219  (1847). 

22.  Blechrus  glabratus. 

Lebia  glabrata  {Meg.)  Diifts.,  Fna  Austr.  ii.  248  (1812). 
Dromius  glabratus,  Brulli,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  55  (1838). 

negrita,  Woll,  Lis.  Mad.  9  (1854). 

glabratus,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  4  (1857). 

Blecbrus  glabratus,  Schaum,  Nat.  dei'  Ins.  Deictsch.  i.  275  (1860). 

Habitat  Teneriifam,  rarior ;  in  sylvis  ad  Agua  Garcia  et  Taganana 
captus. 

Amongst  the  few  specimens  of  the  B.  maurus  which  I  have  taken 
at  the  Canaries,  I  find  one  which  must  certainly  be  referred  to  the 
nearly  allied  species  glabratus.  It  was  captured  in  Teneriffe, — at 
the  Agua  Garcia. 

23.  Blechrus  maurus. 

Dromius  maurus,  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fna,  vii.  55.  t.  171.  f.  D  (1827). 

glabratus,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  9  (1854). 

maurus.  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  5  (1857). 

Blechrus  maurus,  Schaum,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  276  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

The  common  European  B.  maurus,  although  rather  abundant  at 
Madeira,  appears  to  be  somewhat  rare,  or  at  all  events  very  local,  in 
these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary ;  at  Laguna,  the 
Agua  Garcia,  Souzal,  and  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe ;  and  in  Palma ;  and 
it  was  captured  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

24.  Blechrus  plagiatus. 

Lebia  plagiata  {Meg.),  Dufts.,  Fna  Austr.  ii.  249  (1812). 
Dromius  plagiatus,  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fna,  vii.  49.  t.  170.  f.  D  (1827). 

,  Woll,  Cut.  Mad.  Col.  5  (1857). 

Blechrus  plagiatus,  Schaum,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  277  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera, 
hinc  inde  baud  infrequens. 

The  B.  plagiatus  (which  is  of  the  greatest  rarity  in  the  Madeiran 
Group)  would  seem  to  be  more  common  at  the  Canaries  than  the 
preceding  species  :  nevertheless  it  is  undoubtedly  scarce,  though  very 
widely  distributed  over  the  archipelago.  I  have  taken  it  in  Lanza- 
rote,  Fuerteventiu'a,  (at  San  Mateo  of)  Grand  Canary  and  (at  Souzal 
arid  the  Agua  Garcia  of)  Teneriffe  ;  and  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
at  Hermigua,  in  Gomera.  All  my  specimens  from  Lanzarote  (ten 
in  number)  belong  to  a  dark  variety  of  the  insect  in  which  the  tes- 
taceous elytral  dash  is  obsolete — or,  at  any  rate,  so  completely  suf- 


If)  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

fused  as  merely  to  impart  a  just  perceptibly  paler  tint  to  the  disk 
of  the  elytra :  and  at  first  sight,  therefore,  they  might  be  taken  for 
the  B.  manrus ;  nevertheless  their  slightly  larger  size  and  somewhat 
longer  antenna3,  in  conjunction  with  their  less  shining  surface  and 
less  blackened  tibisc  and  feet  (the  latter  of  which  have  their  tarsal 
claws  almost  simple  internally),  prevent  their  being  confounded  with 
that  species.  I  shonld  add,  however,  that  two  examples  which  were 
taken  in  the  same  island  (Lanzarote)  by  John  Gray,  Esq.,  have  their 
discal  patches  well  developed. 

Genus  12.  METABLETUS. 

Schm.-Gobel,  Ent.  Zeit.  S.  390  (1846). 

25.  Metabletus  patruelis. 

Dromius  patruelis,  Chaud.,  Eninn.  ties  Carab.  de  Cane.  60  (1846). 

exclamationis,  Meneir.,  Ins.  rcc.  p.  Lehm.  i.  6.  f.  4  (1849). 

arenicolus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  6  (1854). 

areuicola,  Id.,  Vat.  Mad.  Col.  4  (1857). 

obscuroguttatus.  Hart,  [nee  Duffs.],  Geolog.  J'erhaHn.  Lanz.  und 

Fuert.  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  prsesertim  in  arenosis, 
vulgaris. 

The  i¥.  patmelis  (which  is  common  in  Porto  Santo,  and  which 
occurs,  though  very  rarely,  in  Madeira  likewise)  abounds  throughout 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  Cana- 
rian  archipelago ;  but  I  have  not  yet  observed  it  in  any  other  por- 
tions of  the  Group.  It  is  found  more  especially  in  the  driest  regions, 
and  delights  in  sandy  and  calcareous  spots.  It  was  taken,  also,  in 
Lanzarote  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Fuerteventura  by  M.  Hartung ;  the 
latter  of  whom  wrongly  identified  it  (as  I  can  vouch  from  the  pos- 
session of  one  of  his  specimens)  with  the  M.  obscuror/iittatns,  Dufts. 

26.  Metabletus  insequalis. 

M.  seneus,  distincte  alutaceus,  sat  nitidus  ;  prothorace  eordato ;  ely- 
tris  plus  minus  insequalibus,  distincte  striatis,  singulo  foveis  duabus 
magnis  notato  ;  antennis  femoribusque  nigro-piceis,  iUis  ad  basin, 
tibiis  tarsisque  plus  minus  pieeo-fuscis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^lf- 

Metabletus  inajqualis,  Woll.,Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (.3rd  series)  xi.  214  (1863). 
Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  prEesertim  in  syl- 
vaticis,  sat  frequens. 

The  present  species  and  the  following  one  are  very  closely  allied, 
but  I  believe  that  they  are  truly  distinct ;  and  such  also  was  the 
opinion  of  Dr.  Schaum.  to  whom  I  sent  them  for  examination.    They 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEPvA.  17 

belong  to  the  same  type  as  the  European  M.  foveola ;  and  are  still 
more  nearly  akin  to  the  31.  foveolatus,  Dej.  (cupreiis,  Waltl),  found 
in  the  south  of  Spain  and  at  Tangiers,  and  which  I  have  myself  taken 
in  the  sandy  district  at  Mogadore,  on  the  west  coast  of  Morocco. 
Nevertheless  from  the  latter  they  may,  both  of  them,  be  immediately 
known  by  their  entirely  wanting  the  paler  humeral  patch  which  is 
always  more  or  less  evident  in  that  insect.  Touching  their  differences 
inter  se,  Dr.  Schaum  remarks :  "  The  species  from  Palma  and  Tene- 
riffe  [i.  e.  incequalis]  I  consider  certainly  new ;  the  one  from  Lanza- 
rote  [lancerotensis]  seems  to  me  to  be  a  second  species,  and  no  local 
state  of  the  other.  The  Palman  specimens  not  only  have  more  un- 
even, and  more  distinctly  stiiated,  elytra,  but  also  larger  fovece  both 
on  the  disk  and  in  the  lateral  series  ;  whilst  the  Lanzarotan  ones  are 
more  shining  and  almost  free  from  striae.  From  foveola  the  Palman 
species  is  distinguished  by  its  uneven  elytra  and  large  fovese  (both 
discal  and  at  the  sides) :  the  Lanzarotan  species,  on  the  other  hand, 
has  the  small  foveae  of  foveola,  but  its  elytra  are  almost  smooth  and 
brilliant  (whereas  in  foveola  they  are  opake  and  finely  striated)." 

I  have  observed  the  M.  incequalis  hitherto  only  in  the  islands  of 
Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma ;  but  it  has  recently  been  cap- 
tured by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera  also.  The  Palman  examples  have 
perhaps,  on  the  whole,  the  distinctive  characters  of  the  species  best 
expressed,  their  elytra  being  always  exceedingly  uneven  and  their 
discal  impressions  very  large.  Those  from  Teneriffe  can  scarcely  be 
regarded  as  in  reality  less  t}q3ical,  though  occasionally  they  may 
appear  just  perceptibly  smoother.  But  the  only  three  which  I  have 
as  yet  captured  in  Grand  Canary  (during  my  sojourn  at  El  Monte,  in 
March  1858),  although  quite  as  conspicuously  striated  as  those  from 
Teneriffe  and  Palma,  have  their  fovese  less  developed.  It  is  eminently 
a  sylvan  insect,  the  few  specimens  which  I  have  observed  in  compa- 
ratively open  spots  being  probably  the  remains  of  a  fauna  which  has 
more  or  less  died -out  since  the  timber  has  been  destroyed.  In  Palma 
it  abounds  in  most  of  the  wooded  ravines,  such  as  the  Barranco  d:i 
Agua,  the  Barranco  de  Galga,  &c. ;  whilst  in  Teneriffe  I  have  cap- 
tured it  above  Taganana,  at  Las  Mercedes,  La  Espcranza,  the  Agua 
Garcia,  Souzal,  the  Agua  Mansa,  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  even  on  the 
Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas  (upwards  of  8000  feet  above  the  sea). 

27.  Metabletiis  lancerotensis,  n.  sp. 
M.  seneus,  minute  alutaceiis,  nitidus  ;  prothoraee  suboordato  ;  elytris 
subco7)vexis,  obsolete  substriatis,  utrinque  foveis  duabus  minoribus 
(sed  sat  magnis)  notatis  ;  an  tennis  femoribusque  nigro-piceis,  illis 


lb  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

ad  basin,  tibiis  tarsisque  plus  minus  piceo-fuscis. — Long.  corj).  lin. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  (proesertim  borealem),  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

As  already  implied,  the  somewhat  more  shining,  and  rather  less 
coarsely  alutaceous,  surface  of  the  present  MetahJetus,  in  conjunction 
with  its  slightly  more  convex,  less  uneven,  and  more  obsoletely  stri- 
ated elytra  (which  have  the  fovea;,  both  of  their  disk  and  sides,  dis- 
tinctly smaller),  will  serve  to  separate  it  from  the  M.  inaquaUs. 
In  habits,  too,  it  is  different  from  that  species,  being  confined  (so  far 
as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  the  dry  and  barren  island  of  Lanza- 
rote, — where,  dui'ing  January  of  1858  and  March  of  the  following 
year,  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  from  beneath  stones,  in  various 
localities ;  and  where  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Mr.  Gray. 

28.  Metabletus  brevipennis,  n.  sp. 

M.  incequali  similis  sed  vix  minor,  pallidior  (?'.  e.  magis  fuscescens), 
opacior  (^.  e.  paulo  grossius  alutaceus)  ;  fronte  inter  oculos  magis 
deprcssa ;  prothorace  sensim  quadratiore  {l.  e.  postice  vix  minus 
angustato)  ;  elytris  magis  aequalibus,  densius  et  multo  levins  (sc. 
levissime)  striatis  punctisque  duobus  discalibus  multo  minoribus 
notatis,  brevioribus  (apice  magis  truncatis) ;  antennis  pedibusque 
palHdioribus  (rufo-brunneis). — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1862  de- 
prehensus. 

The  specimen  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled 
was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Tenerifte  ; 
and  although  unwilling  to  erect  a  species  on  the  evidence  afforded 
by  a  single  individual,  yet  its  distinctive  characters  appear  to  be  so 
well  defined  that  I  cannot  but  venture  in  the  present  instance  to  do 
so.  Judging  therefore  from  the  unique  example  now  before  me,  the 
M,  brevipennis  is  slightly  smaller,  paler  (or  of  a  more  brownish- 
piceous  tint),  and  less  shining  (or  more  coarsely  alutaceous)  than  the 
incequalis ;  its  forehead  is  rather  fiatter  between  the  eyes ;  its  pro- 
thorax  is  just  perceptibly  squarer  (or  less  narrowed  posteriorly) ;  its 
elytra  are  much  more  even,  more  closely  and  very  much  more  lightly 
striated,  considerably  shorter  (or  more  truncated  behind),  and  with 
the  two  discal  punctures  on  each  smaller ;  and  its  limbs  are  paler, 
being  of  a  rufo-piceous  or  reddish-brown  hue. 

Genus  13.  TARUS. 
Clairville,  Mit.  Heh.  ii.  94  (1806). 


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29.  Tarus  discoideus. 

Cyniindis  discoidea,  Dej.,  Icoti.  i.  78.  t.  8.  f.  5  (1829). 

,  Id.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  v.  307  (1831). 

discordea,  Bridle,  in  Wchh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  55  (1838). 

,  Hart.,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  140  et  141. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  ct  Fuerteventura,  sub  lapidibus,  prsesertim 
in  arenosis,  tempore  hiberno  et  vernali  vulgaris. 

I  refer  without  hesitation  the  present  superb  Tarus  to  Dejean's 
discoideus  (described  from  a  single  specimen,  of  uncertain  hahitat, 
which  he  obtained  from  the  collection  of  LatreUle),  because  it  is  the 
opinion  of  my  friend  Dr.  Schaum  that  such  should  certainly  be  the 
case,  and  because  Dejean's  diagnosis  seems  to  tally  sufficiently  well 
with  the  long  array  of  examples  now  before  me.  Almost  the  only 
particular,  indeed,  in  which  it  does  not  quite  accord  with  the  Cana- 
rian  insect  is,  that  it  speaks  of  the  black  patch  at  the  base  of  the 
elytra  as  "presque  triangulaire  " ;  whereas  it  is  invariably  (in  48 
specimens  which  I  have  just  examined)  transverse-quadrate. 

The  T.  discoideus  abounds,  beneath  stones,  during  the  winter  and 
spring,  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — where  it  was  taken  by  Mr. 
Gray  and  myself  in  January  1858  ;  and  subsequently,  by  myself, 
during  February,  March  and  April  of  the  following  year :  it  has  been 
likewise  recorded  in  both  of  those  islands  by  M.  Hartung.  Hitherto  I 
have  not  observed  it  in  any  other  portion  of  the  Group  ;  nevertheless 
a  pail'  has  lately  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva, 
professedly  captured  in  Teneriffe ;  but  as  I  feel  that  there  may  be 
some  mistake  about  the  habitat,  I  have  thought  it  safer  not  to  enter 
it  as  a  Teneriffan  species.  It  is  far  from  unlikely,  however,  that  it 
will  be  found  to  occur  in  the  sandy  region  between  Las  Palm  as  and 
the  Isleta,  of  Grand  Canary. 

30.  Tarus  suturalis. 

Cymindis  suturalis,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  i.  206  (1825). 
Tarus  suttu-alis,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  3  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  2  (1857). 

Cymindis  suturalis,  Hart.,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  uml  Fuert.  140. 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura  et  Canaria,  sub  lapidibus  in 
arenosis  una  cum  specie  prsecedente  degens. 

The  T.  suturalis  (which  occurs  in  three  out  of  the  five  Madeiran 
islands,  and  which  has  lately  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do 
CasteUo  de  Paiva  even  from  the  rocks  of  the  Salvages)  occurs,  beneath 
stones  (particularly  in  low  sandy  spots),  in  company  with  the  last 
species,  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura ;  and  I  have  like- 

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20  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

wise  taken  it  between  Las  Palmas  and  Puerto  da  Luz,  in  Grand 
Canary.  It  is  in  Lanzarote,  however,  that  it  more  especially  abounds  ; 
where  it  was  also  captured  by  John  Gray,  Esq.,  and  M.  Hartung. 

31.  Tarus  marginellus. 

T.  elongatus,  nitidus,  piceus,  calvus  ;  capite  distincte  sed  parce  punc- 
tulato  ;  prothorace  vix  rufescentiore  et  (in  disco  saltern)  vix  pimc- 
tulato,  cordato,  angulis  ipsis  posticis  acute  exstautibus  ;  elytris 
oblongis,  subdepressis,  crenato-striatis,  intorstitiis  minutissime  et 
parce  punctulatis,  limbo  anguste  rufo-testaceo  ;  antennis,  palpis 
pedibusque  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-4. 

CjTiiindis  marginella,  Bnille,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  55  (1838). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  sub  lapidibus  prope  Salinas  hand 
infrequens. 

The  comparatively  elongate  outline  and  shining,  unpubescent  sur- 
face of  the  present  Tarus,  in  conjunction  with  its  almost  unpunctured 
prothorax  (which  has  its  extreme  hinder  angles  acutely  prominent), 
and  its  rather  depressed  and  finely  crenate-striated  elytra  (the  mar- 
gin of  which  is  narrowly  nifo-testaceoxis,  whilst  the  punctules  of  the 
interstices  are  most  minute  and  remote),  will  at  once  distinguish  it 
from  the  thi^ee  following  species.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only 
in  the  north  of  the  island  of  Lanzarote,  where  in  January  1858  it 
was  ta^en  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  (and  subsequently,  by  myself, 
diu'ing  March  of  the  following  year),  from  beneath  stones,  between 
the  Salinas  and  the  ascent  of  the  lofty  cliffs  (known  as  the  "  Uisco") 
which  rise  almost  immediately  behind  them.  I  have  compared  it  with 
Brulle's  types,  in  the  Paris  collection,  and  can  vouch  therefore  for  its 
being  correctly  identified  with  his  C.  marginella. 

32.  Tarus  cinctus. 

T.  nitidus,  piceus,  pilis  mollibus  erectis  longiusculis  parce  vestitus ; 
capite  prothoraceque  profunde  sed  parce  punctatis,  hoc  cordato,  an- 
gulis ipsis  posticis  vix  exstautibus  ;  elytris  ovalibns,  subconvexis, 
levissime  striatis,  interstitiis  profiinde  punctatis,  limbo  anguste 
rufo-testaceo  ;  antennis  palpisque  rufo-testaceis,  pedibus  testaceis. 
- — Long.  corj}.  lin.  3-3|. 

Cymindis  cincta,  Brtdle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  55  (1838). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canariee  Grandis,  sub  lapidibus,  rarissimus. 

A  remarkable  Tarus,  at  once  known  by  its  curious  sculpture, — the 
entire  upper  surface  being  impressed  with  large  and  deep  punctures, 
whilst  the  elytral  striae  are  so  light  as  to  be  almost  obsolete.  In 
common  with  the  two  following  species,  it  is  beset  \^'ith  very  fine  and 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  21 

erect  pile  ;  nevertheless  in  the  T.  cinctus  the  hairs  are  hoth  longer 
and  fewer  than  is  the  case  in  either  the  amictus  or  zargoides.  And 
it  is  further  distinguished  by  its  elytra  (which  are  narrowly  edged 
with  rufo-testaceous,  as  in  the  T.  marginellus)  being  somewhat  con- 
vex, and  by  its  extreme  hinder  prothoracic  angles  being  almost 
rounded-off.  It  is  apparently  very  rare,  the  only  spot  in  which  I 
have  hitherto  observed  it  being,  beneath  the  fir-trees,  in  the  lofty 
Pinal  above  San  Bartolome  (in  the  district  of  Tarajana)  of  Grand 
Canary,  during  April  1858, — where,  moreover,  I  obtained  but  eight 
examples.  I  can  answer  for  its  identity  with  Brulle's  C.  clucta, 
having  compared  it  with  the  types  in  Paris. 

33.  Tarus  amictus,  n.  sp. 

T.  subopacus,  fusco-piceus,  pilis  moUibus  erectis  breviuseulis  dense 
vestitus;  capite  prothoraceque  dense  punctulatis,  hoc  latiusculo, 
cordato,  angulis  ipsis  posticis  paulo  exstantibus ;  elytris  subqua- 
drato-ovalibus,  striatis,  interstitiis  dense  punctulatis,  limbo  vix 
fuscescentiore  ;  antennis  palpisque  rufo-testaceis,  pedibus  testaceis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  3. 

Habitat  in  montibus  CanarifB  Grandis,  ad  Osorio  (supra  oppidum 
Tcror)  d.  23.  Ap.  a.d.  1858,  sub  lapidibus,  deprehensus. 

The  comparatively  opake  and  very  densely  (though  not  deeply) 
punctulated  surface  of  this  distinct  Tarns,  combined  with  its  rather 
broad  prothorax  and  more  quadrate  elytra  (the  edges  of  which  are 
but  obscurely  diluted,  or  of  a  more  fuscescent  hue,  whilst  their  striae 
are  rather  deep  but  simple),  will  at  at  once  serve  to  characterize  it. 
Its  clothing,  also,  is  somewhat  peculiar, — the  hairs,  although  quite 
as  fine  and  as  erect,  being  both  shorter  and  more  dense  than  those  of 
the  T.  cinctus.  The  only  two  specimens  which  I  have  seen  were 
captured  by  myself,  beneath  stones,  at  Osorio,  in  Grand  Canary,  on 
the  23rd  of  AprH  1858. 

34.  Tarus  zargoides. 

2\  subnitidus,  fusco-piceus,  pilis  mollibus  erectis  brevissimis  sat 
dense  vestitiLS  ;  capite  prothoraceque  dense  et  profunde  scabroso- 
punctatis,  hoc  cordato,  angulis  ipsis  posticis  paulo  exstantibus  ;  ely- 
tris ovahbus,  subconvexis  et  undulato-inaequalibus,  profunde  (sed 
subirregulariter)  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  minute  punctulatis, 
limbo  vix  rufescentiore ;  antennis  palpisque  testaceis,  pedibus 
palUdo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^2|. 

Tarus  zargoides,  JFolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  214  (1863). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  montosis  Teneriffae,  sub  lapidibus,  rarissimus. 

The  somewhat  dull  and  remarkably  uneven  surface  of  this  curious 


22  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

little  Tarus  (the  elytral  portion  of  which  appears  almost  undulated), 
in  conjunction  with  its  densely  and  subrugosely  sculptured  head  and 
prothorax,  and  the  rather  evident  punctures  of  its  (often  interrupted) 
striae,  will  readily  distinguish  it.  Its  legs  are  of  a  slightly  paler  hue 
than  those  of  the  three  preceding  species ;  the  fine,  erect  pubescence 
with  which  it  is  clothed  is  very  short ;  and  its  elytra  are  but  obscurely 
diluted,  or  siihrufescent,  towards  the  edges  and  base.  It  is  certainly 
rare,  and  appears  to  be  pecidiar  to  the  sylvan  regions  of  TeneriflFe, 
at  intermediate  and  rather  lofty  elevations.  I  have  taken  it  in  the 
woods  above  Taganana  and  at  Las  Mercedes,  as  also  at  the  Agua 
Garcia  and  the  Agua  Mansa.  Its  general  outline  and  uneven  surface 
are  strongly  suggestive  of  a  minute  Zargus  ;  from  which  fact  I  have 
borrowed  its  trivial  name ;  and,  according  to  Dr.  Schaum,  it  is  nearer, 
in  affinity,  to  the  T.  cordatiis,  Eambur,  than  to  any  other  species 
hitherto  described. 

Genus  14.  MASOREUS. 
(Ziegler)  Dej.,  Spec.  GH.  dcs  Col.  iii.  538  (1828). 

35.  Masoreus  nobilis,  n.  sp. 
M.  magnus,  pieeus  ;  capitc  prothoraceque  nitidissimis,  vix  (etiam 
oculo  valdc  armato)  alutaceis,  hoc  leviter  canaliculato  ;  elytris  alu- 
taceis,  sat  profimde  crenato-striatis,  fere  concoloribus  (ad  humeros 
vix  rufescentioribus)  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis  ;  un- 
guiculis  fere  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3^. 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  ad  Olivam  d.  31.  Mart.  a.d.  1859  captus. 

The  comparatively  large  size  of  this  gigantic  Masoreus,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  its  almost  uniformly  piceous  (or  rufo-pieeous)  hue,  the  un- 
alutaceous  surface  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  its  somewhat  deeply 
crenate-striated  elytra,  and  its  nearly  simple  claws,  will  at  once 
characterize  it.  The  only  three  specimens  which  I  have  seen  were 
captured  by  myself,  from  beneath  stones,  in  the  flat  ground  imme- 
diately to  the  south  of  Oliva,  in  Fuerteventura,  on  the  31st  of  March 

1859. 

36.  Masoreus  arenicola. 

M.  nigro-piceus,  distincte  (oculo  armato)  alutaceus;  prothorace  trans- 
verso,  subconvexo,  postice  in  medio  plus  minus  conspicue  trans- 
versim  impresso  sed  vix  rugato,  canalicula  centrali  hand  profunda 
necnon  antice  et  postice  plus  minus  subobsoleta ;  elytris  leviter 
subcrenato-striatis,  ad  basin  plus  minus  distincte  rufescentioribus  ; 
antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  piceo-tcstaceis;  imguiculis  leviter  den- 
ticulatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Masoreus  arenicola,  Woll.,  Ann.  Kat.  Hist.  (Srd  series)  xi.  214  (1863). 
Habitat  in  arenosis  maritimis  (plus  minus  salinis)  Lanzarotae  ct 

Fuerteventura),  tempore  liibei"no  et  vcrnah  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTBRA.  23 

The  present  Masoreiis  and  the  following  one  are  closely  akin  to  the 
European  M.  Wetterhalu ;  but,  apart  from  other  characters  shortly 
to  be  noticed,  they  both  differ  from  that  species  in  having  their  sur- 
face (when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope)  distinctly  alutaceous  and 
their  scuteUum  unchanneled  posteriorly  (or  if  at  all,  most  ohsoletely 
so).  In  general  colouring,  as  well  as  in  its  maritime  habits,  the  M. 
arenkola  approaches  more  nearly  to  its  European  ally  than  the  alti- 
cola  does ;  nevertheless  (on  account  of  its  minutely  alutaceous  sculp- 
ture) it  is  less  highly  polished  than  that  insect,  its  prothorax  is  rather 
more  transverse,  more  impressed  in  the  centre  behind,  convexer  on 
the  disk  and  with  its  channel  lighter,  its  elytra  (which  have  their 
striae  considerably  finer)  are  more  narrowly  and  less  brightly  rufes- 
cent  at  their  base,  whilst  its  claws  (when  seen  under  a  high  magni- 
fpng  power)  are  much  less  strongly  denticulated. 

From  the  following  species  the  M.  arenicola  differs  in  its  rather 
more  alutaceous  surface  ;  in  its  prothorax  being  a  trifle  wider  and 
more  transverse,  convexer  on  the  disk  but  more  impressed  in  the 
centre  behind,  and  with  its  channel  lighter  and  more  or  less  obsolete 
at  the  base  and  apex  ;  in  its  elytra  being  just  percejjtibly  straighter 
at  the  sides,  usually  more  brightly  rufescent  at  the  base^  and  with 
their  striiie  perhaps  even  still  more  faintly  crenulated  ;  and  in  its  legs 
being  a  shade  darker,  with  their  two  hinder  femora  perhaps  just  per- 
ceptibly longer.  Its  claws  also  are  less  coarsely  denticulated ;  though, 
the  teeth  being  in  every  species  of  course  extremely  small,  this  is  a 
character  not  very  easy  of  observation,  and  one,  I  am  well  aware,  in 
which  it  is  possible  to  be  deceived.  In  habits,  however,  the  two 
insects  are  abundantly  distinct;  for  whilst  the  arenicola  frequents 
the  low  sandy  shores  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  occurring  in 
more  or  less  saline  places  and  even  beneath  Algae,  the  alticola,  on  the 
other  hand,  is  found  at  a  great  elevation  within  the  damp  wooded 
districts  of  Teneriffe,  where  it  ascends  to  more  than  8000  feet  above 
the  sea. 

The  M.  arenicola  is  likewise  very  nearly  allied  to  the  mgyptiacus 
(a  type  of  which,  for  comparison,  has  been  furnished  by  Dr.  Schaum)  ; 
but  in  that  insect  the  striae  are  quite  uncrenulated,  and  the  claws 
are  almost  simple.     Its  prothorax  too  is  not  exactly  the  same. 

I  have  taken  the  present  Masoreus  abimdantly  in  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerteventura  (in  the  latter  of  which  islands  it  was  captured  also  by 
Mr.  Gray),  during  the  winter  and  spring.  It  occurs  beneath  stones 
and  marine  rejectamenta  in  sandy  spots,  usually  at  a  short  distance 
behind  the  sea-beach,  though  sometimes  actually  upon  it, — in  both 


24  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

of  Avhich  situations  I  have  observed  it  plentifully  at  the  Salinas  in 
the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote,  as  also  around  Arrecife,  and  at  Ber- 
rugo  in  the  extreme  south ;  whilst,  in  Fuerteventura,  it  is  common 
in  sandy  places  near  Puerto  de  Cabras. 

37.  Masoreus  alticola,  n.  sp. 
M.  nigro-piceus,  sat  distinete  (oculo  armato)  alutaceus ;  prothorace 
paulo  minus  trans  verso,  postice  in  medio  distinctius  longitudinaliter 
striguloso  sed  hand  impresso,  canalicula  centrali  profunda  Integra  ; 
olytris  subrotundatis,  leviter  crenato-striatis,  ad  basin  plus  minus 
indistincte  rufeseentioribus  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  testaceis ; 
femoribus  posticis  breviusculis ;  unguiculis  conspicue  denticulatis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  ''2-'2\. 

Habitat  in  elevatis  humidis  Teneriffoe,  prsesertim  sylvaticis,  usque 
ad  8000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

Were  it  not  for  its  completely  opposite  habits,  I  should  certainly 
have  confounded  the  present  Masoreus  with  the  last  one  ;  nevei'thcless, 
warned  by  the  very  decided  differences  in  their  modes  of  life,  I  have 
lately  overhaiiled  the  two  insects  most  carefully,  and  feel  perfectly 
satisfied  that,  however  near  they  may  approach  each  other  at  first 
sight,  they  are  in  reality  distinct*.  The  M.  alticola  is,  on  the  ave- 
rage, perhaps  a  trifle  smaller  and  less  alutaceous  than  its  ally ;  its 
prothorax  is  rather  narrower,  or  less  transverse,  not  so  convex  on  its 
disk,  less  impressed  in  the  centre  behind  (where  moreover  the  longi- 
tudinal rugce  are  much  more  conspicuous),  and  also  more  deeply 
channeled  (the  channel  extending  from  the  extreme  base  to  the 
apex) ;  its  elytra  are  just  perceptibly  rounder  at  the  sides,  with  their 
striae  perhaps  more  evidently  crenulated,  and  usually  a  little  less 
rufescent  towards  their  base ;  its  hinder  femora  are  somewhat 
shorter ;  its  legs  paler ;  and  its  claws,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  are 
rather  more  powerfully  denticulated.  In  this  last  respect,  indeed, 
it  is  coincident  with  the  European  M.  Wette.rhalii ;  but,  apart  from 
other  differences,  its  alutaceous  and  less  shining  surface,  in  con- 
junction with  its  obscurer  colour,  unchanneled  scutellum,  and  totally 
opposite  habits,  will  at  once  separate  it  from  that  insect. 

The  31.  alticola  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  the  lofty  districts  of 
Teneriffe,  where  it  occurs  in  damp  sylvan  spots  in  the  vicinity  of 
small  streams  and  wet  rocks.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  on  the 
mountains  above  the  Agua  Mansa,  as  also  in  the  ravines  of  the  Pinal 

*  I  am  glad  also  to  be  able  to  state  that,  after  examining  them  (recently)  with 
great  care,  such  was  likewise  the  ultimate  opinion  of  Dr.  Sehaum, — though  (as  in 
my  own  case)  he  was  not  able  at  first  sight  to  apl^reciate  their  differences. 


CANAHIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  25 

above  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  even  from  amongst  the  thickets  of  the  lle- 
tamas  on  the  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Caiiadas — more  than  8000  feet 
above  the  sea. 

(Subfam.  VII.  CHL^NIIDES.) 

Genus  15.  CHLJENIUS. 
Bonelli,  Observat.  Entom.  i.  tub.  syn.  (1813). 

38.  Chlsenius  spoliatus. 

Carabus  spoliatus,  Rossi,  Munt.  Ins.  i.  79  (1792). 

,  Fab.,  Si/st.  JEleu.  i.  183  (1801). 

Chlaeuius  spoliatus,  Bij.,  Sjx'c.  Gen.  des  Col.  ii.  312  (1826). 
,  Schaum,  Deutsch.  Fna,  i.  329  (1800). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriifam  et  Gomeram,  per  margines  aquarum 
in  locis  inferioribus,  rarissimus. 

The  European  C.  spoliatus  appears  to  be  verj'  rare  at  the  Canaries, 
the  only  two  spots  in  which  I  have  myself  observed  it  being  near 
S**  Cruz  of  TenerifFe  (beneath  stones  at  the  edges  of  the  small  stream 
in  the  Barranco  Santo),  and  along  the  margins  of  the  little  pools  in 
the  sandy  waste  at  Maspalomas,  in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand 
Canary.  A  single  specimen,  however,  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in 
Gomera. 

39.  Chlsenius  canariensis. 

Chlgenius  canariensis  (Kbn/),  Dij.,  Spec.  Gen.  cles  tol.  v.  657  (1831). 
,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  57.  pi.  ii.  f.  5  (1838). 

Habitat  Canariam  et  TenerifFam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  praecedens  sed 
mid  to  magis  frecjuens. 

The  beautiful  C.  canariensis  I  have  taken  hitherto  only  in  the  two 
same  localities  as  the  last  species  (than  which  it  is  far  more  abun- 
dant). It  has,  however,  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Cas- 
tello  de  Paiva  from  the  Barranco  de  San  Domingo,  near  Laguna. 


(Subfam.  VIII.  LICmiDES.) 

Genus  16.  LICINUS. 
Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Lis.  i.  199  (1806). 

40.  Licinus  Manriquianus. 

L.  ater,  nitidus ;  capite  leviter  punctate  ;  prothorace  transverse  sub- 
quadrato  (ad  latera  subrccto),  in  disco  leviter  et  parcc  sed  versus 
latora  et  basin  dense  et  profunde  punctate  ;  elytris  profunde  punc- 
tato-striatis,  interstitiis  convexis,  parce  et  profunde  punctatis  nee- 


26  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

noil  punctulis  minutissimis  interspersis ;  antennis  ferrugineis,  ad 
basin,  palpis  tarsisque  riifo-piceis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  5|-6|. 

Licinus  spec,  (agi-icolfe  afRnis),  Hartttng,  Geolog,  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  mid 

Fuert.  140  et  141. 
Manriquiauus,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  438  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus,  tempore  hi- 
berno  et  vernali  hand  infrequens.  Species  valde  distincta,  indigena,  et 
in  honorem  clariss,  Dom.  Pedro  Manyiqiie  de  Lara  y  Cabrem,  ob  gra- 
tias  plurimas  nobis  in  ins.  Fuerteventura  amicissime  oblatas,  dicata. 

The  present  Licinus  (which  has  nothing  in  common  with  the  Eu- 
ropean L.  agricoJa,  as  implied  in  M.  Hartung's  list)  is  about  the  size 
of  the  L.  brevicolKs,  Dejean — from  the  north  of  Africa,  Sicily,  Malta, 
(fee.  It  may,  however,  be  known  by  its  shining,  unalutaceous  sur- 
face, its  subquadrate  prothorax  (which  is  less  rounded  at  the  sides 
than  in  the  generality  of  the  Licini),  by  its  deeply  punctate-striate 
elytra,  the  insterstices  of  which  are  convex  and  studded  with  a  double 
series  of  large  and  small  j)uncturcs,  and  by  its  antennae  being  brightly 
rufo-ferruginous  towards  their  apex.  It  is  tolerably  common,  be- 
neath stones,  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  during  the  winter  and 
spriQg  ;  in  both  of  which  islands  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray,  myself, 
and  M.  Hartung.  In  the  latter  I  observed  it  more  particularly  at 
Oliva,  whilst  visiting  that  comparatively  fertile  spot,  in  company  with 
the  Rev.  E..  T.  Lowe,  at  the  end  of  March  1859 ;  and  I  have  great 
pleasure  in  dedicating  it  to  our  worthy  host,  Don  Pedro  Manrique  de 
Lara  y  Cabrera,  whose  unbounded  Idndness  and  hospitality,  during 
our  entire  sojourn  in  his  island,  I  am  glad  to  have  an  opportunity  of 
recording. 

(Subfam.  IX.  BROSCIDES.) 

Genus  17.  BROSCUS. 

Panzer,  Lidex  Ent.  i.  G2  (1813). 

41.  Broscus  glaber. 

B.  ater ;  capite  prothoraceque  nitidis,  hoc  cordato,  ad  basin  leviter 
et  parce  punctate,  ad  latera  ipsissima  anguste  marginato  subcya- 
nescente  ;  elytris  subnitidis,  obsoletissime  subpunctulato-striatis, 
ad  latera  ijisissima  anguste  raarginatis  subcyanescentibus  ;  antennis 
fiisco-piceis,  articulo  primo  flavo-testaceo ;  pedibus  elongatis,  piceis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  ^g-O. 

Feronia  (Percus)  glabra,  SruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  57.  pi.  ii.  f.  4 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  Canaria  Grandi,  sub  lapidibus  in  collibus  aridis  supra 
urbem  Las  Palmas,  tempore  vernali  baud  infrequens. 


CANABIAN  COLEOPXERA.  27 

The  present  insect,  which  is  undoubtedly  the  Feronia  glabra  of 
Brulle  (as  I  have  satisfied  myself  by  an  examination  of  his  original 
types,  in  Paris),  appears,  so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  to  be 
peculiar  to  Grand  Canary ;  where,  at  the  end  of  March  1858,  I  took 
it,  not  uncommonly,  beneath  stones,  on  the  calcareous  hills  above 
Las  Palmas,  along  the  road  to  El  Monte. 

42.  Broscus  rutilans. 

B.  ater ;  capite  prothoraceque  nitidissimis,  hoe  angusto,  cordate,  ad 
basin  profundius  et  densius  pimctato,  ad  latera  ipsissima  angustis- 
sime  marginato  subconcoloi"e ;  elytris  nitidis,  obsoletissime  sub- 
punctulato-striatis,  ad  latera  ipsissima  angustissime  marginatis 
subconcoloribus  ;  antennis  fusco-pieeis,  articulo  primo  testaceo- 
piceo ;  pedibus  piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  7-8. 

Broscus  rutilans,  JFolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  438  (1862). 
Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  TeneriffoD,  usque  ad  7000'  s.  m.  as- 
cendcns. 

The  rather  smaller  size,  narrower  outline,  and  more  shining  sur- 
face of  this  very  distinct  Broscus,  in  conjunction  with  the  more  punc- 
tured base  of  its  prothorax,  and  its  altogether  narrower  and  less  cya- 
ueous  margin,  will  at  once  distinguish  it  from  the  last  species.  Its 
limbs,  too,  are  somewhat  shorter,  and  the  basal  joint  of  its  antenna; 
is  less  pale.  In  its  habits  it  is  very  different  from  the  B.  glaher, — re- 
siding in  the  higher  regions  of  Teneriffe,  above  the  upper  hmits  of 
the  sylvan  districts.  In  such  situations  I  obtained  it,  rather  abun- 
dantly, during  May  of  18-59,  on  the  mountain-ridges  above  the  Agua 
Mansa,  adjoining  the  Cumbre, — upwards  of  7000  feet  above  the  sea. 


(Subfam.  X.  PTEROSTICHIDES.) 

Genus  18.  POGONUS. 
(Ziegler)  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iii.  6  (1828). 

43.  Pogonus  salsipotens,  n.  sp. 

P.  asneo-viridis ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  antice  rotundato-ampliato, 
postice  leviter  contracto,  ad  basin  profunde  punctato  ;  elytris  ob- 
longis,  profunde  pvmctato-striatis,  striis  externis  obsoletis. 

a.  Paulo  major,  obscurior,  antennis  rufo-piceis,  pedibus  rufo-testaceis. 

ft.  Paulo  minor,  viridior,  antennis  rufo-testaceis,  pedibus  testaceis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Habitat  in  locis  salinis  Lanzarotae,  hinc  inde  sat  vulgaris. 

About  the  size  of  (or  perhaps  a  trille  larger  than)  the  common 


28 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


European  P.  chalceus,  but  with  its  prothorax  a  little  broader  anteriorly 
and  more  coarsely  punctured  at  the  base,  and  with  its  elytra  rather 
more  parallel  at  the  sides  and  much  more  deeply  punctate-striate. 
Its  limbs,  too,  are  just  perceptibly  longer  and  more  robust.  I  have 
hitherto  observed  it  only  in  salt  places  in  Lanzarote, — namely,  at  the 
Salinas  (or  salt-pans)  in  the  extreme  north  (where  it  was  also  cap- 
tured by  Mr.  Gray),  and  along  the  edges  of  the  curious  sea-water  lake 
known  as  ''  Januvio,"  towards  the  south-west  of  the  island.  In  the 
former  of  these  localities  the  specimens  are,  on  the  average,  rather 
larger  and  of  a  less  metallic  green  than  those  from  the  latter,  and 
with  their  limbs  of  a  slightly  duller  hue  ;  but  they  present  no  other 
differences,  that  I  can  detect. 

44.  Pogonus  Grayii. 

P.  angustus,  paUidus ;  capita  prothoraceque  rufo-testaceis,  hoc  elon- 
gato  postiee  paulo  angustiore,  ad  basin  punctato ;  elytris  testaceis, 
parallolo-oblongis,  subpunctato-striatis  ;  antennis  rufo-testaceis  ; 
pedibus  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  lf-2, 

Pogonus  Grayii,  JFolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (Srd  series)  ix.  4-38  (1862). 
Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  prsecedens  sed  multo  rarior. 
Species  a  Dom".  Gray  ad  "  Salinas,"  mense  Januario  a.d.  1858, 
primo  detecta,  cujus  in  honorem  nomen  triviale  proposui. 

The  small  size,  extremely  narrow  outline,  and  pallid  hue  of  this 
interesting  little  Pogonus,  in  conjunction  with  its  elongate  prothorax 
and  very  parallel  elytra,  will  (apart  from  less  important  characters) 
at  once  distinguish  it.  It  is  much  the  colour  of  the  P.  testaceus 
of  Mediterranean  latitudes,  though  in  shape  more  resembling  the 
JiUformis  from  Sardinia.  It  was  first  detected  by  John  Gray,  Esq., 
who  captured  a  single  specimen  at  the  Salinas,  in  the  extreme  north 
of  Lanzarote,  during  our  visit  there  in  January  1858  ;  and  it  was 
not  until  the  following  year  that  I  succeeded  (on  the  26th  of  March) 
in  finding  it  myself, — when  I  obtained  a  considerable  number  along 
the  edges  of  the  salt  lake  of  Janu\'io,  towards  the  south-west  of  the 
island.  I  have  great  pleasure  in  naming  it  after  its  discoverer,  to 
whose  extensive  material  and  accurate  observations  I  am  indebted 
for  so  much  valuable  assistance  in  compiling  the  present  volume. 

Genus  19.  SPHODRUS. 

Clairville,  Ent.  Helv.  ii.  86  (1806). 


CiNARTAN  COLEOPTERA.  29 

45.  Sphodrus  leucophthalmiis. 

Carabus  leucophthalmiis,  Linn.,  Fiia  Suee.  784  (ITCl). 
Sphodrus  planus,  Ckdro.,  Ent.  Helv.  ii.  86  ( 1806). 

,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iii.  88  (1828). 

leucophthalmus,  Schamn,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deiitsch.  i.  381  (1860). 

Habitat  Lanzarotara,  rariss.,  forsan  ex  Europa  introductiis. 

The  common  European  S.  leucophthalmus  occurs  in  Lanzarote, 
though  very  sparingly ;  where  it  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  my- 
self, in  the  vicinity  of  Arrecife,  during  January  1858. 

Genus  20.  PRISTONYCHUS. 
Dejean,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iii.  43  (1828). 

46.  Pristonychus  alternans. 

Pristonychus  alternans,  DeJ.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iii.  61  (1828). 
Sphodrus  alternans,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  pi.  ii.  f.  8  (1838). 

Habitat  Teneriffain,  pra^sertim  in  montibus,  sed  hand  frequens. 

The  large  and  distinct  P.  alternans,  so  remarkable  for  its  flattened, 
opake,  alutaceous  elytra  (which  are  acuminated  at  their  apex,  and 
have  their  alternate  interstices  more  or  less  impressed  with  large 
and  deep  punctures),  is  widely  scattered,  though  sparingly,  through- 
out the  intermediate  and  higher  elevations  of  Teneriife.  I  have 
taken  it  on  the  ascent  of  the  mountains  immediately  behind  S'^  Cruz, 
at  an  elevation  of  scarcely  m-ore  than  about  600  or  700  feet ;  as  also 
on  the  lofty  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Caiiadas,  at  an  altitude  of  at  least 
7000  feet  above  the  sea.  It  has  also  been  sent  to  me  from  Teneriffe 
by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

47.  Pristonychus  complanatus. 

Pristonychus  complanatus,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iii.  58  (1828). 
Sphodrus  complanatus,  Brulle,  in  WM  et  Berth.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 
Pristonychus  alatus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  27  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  11  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  hinc  inde  sub  lapidibus 
necnon  in  cavernis  tufse  latitans. 

Although  nowhere  abundant,  the  P.  complanatus  of  Mediterranean 
latitudes  is  widely  distributed  over  the  Cianarian  archipelago,  and 
wiU  probably  be  found  to  be  universal.  At  present,  however,  I  have 
only  observed  it  in  Lanzarote,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma  (in  the  second  of 
which  it  was  also  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva).  It  occurs  in  Madeira  and  Porto  Santo,  and  is  recorded  by 
M.  Morelet  at  the  Azores ;  and  it  was  found  by  Mr.  Bewicke  even 
at  St.  Helena  :  so  that  it  would  appear  to  be  very  general  through- 
out the  Atlantic  islands. 


30  CANARTAN  COLF.OPTERA. 

48.  Pristonychus  picescens,  n.  sp. 
P.  angustulus,  piceus,  depressus  ;  capite  prothoraeeque  nitidis,  hoc 
elongato-subquadrato  posticc  paiilo  angustiore,  ad  latera  late  re- 
flexo,  basi  (prcesertim  versus  angulos  posticos)  sat  profunde  punc- 
tato;  elytris  complanatis,  alutaceis,  subopacis,  pimetatulo-sti-iatis ; 
antennis  pedibiisque  elongatis,  hiote  nifo-piccis  ;  tibiis  (certe  in  foe- 
mina,  forsan  in  utroque  soxu)  rectis ;  ungiiieulis  fere  simplicibus. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  6. 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro ;  mense  Febniario  a.d.  1858  specimen  uni- 
cum  (sc.  foemineum)  inveni. 

The  only  example  which  I  have  seen  of  this  fine  Pvistonyclms  was 
captured  by  myself,  beneath  a  stone,  in  the  district  of  El  Golfo,  on 
the  western  side  of  Hierro,  during  our  visit  to  that  island  in  February 
1858.  It  is  narrower,  flatter,  and  more  piceous  than  the  P.  coinpla- 
natus ;  its  prothorax  is  relativclj-  longer  and  more  narrowed  behind, 
more  margined  and  recurved  at  the  sides,  and  more  punctured  at 
the  base  ;  its  elytra  are  more  coarsely  alutaceous  and  depressed ;  and 
its  limbs  are  considerably  paler  and  longer.  Its  claws,  also,  are 
nearly  simple  (appearing  indeed  quite  so  when  viewed  from  above), 
— there  being  only  the  faintest  trace  possible  of  basal  crenulations 
when  seen  from  beneath. 

Genus  21.  CALATHUS. 

Bonelli,  Observat.  JEnt.  i.  tab.  sya,  (1809). 

Having  taken  some  pains,  in  1862,  to  monograph  the  Calathi  of 
these  islands,  I  must  refer  to  my  paper  (which  was  published  in  the 
*  Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist.'  for  Maj^  of  that  year)  for  the  diagnoses  of  the 
several  species  ;  but  since  the  diagnostic  observations  which  it  wiU  be 
desirable  here  to  add  can  scarcely  be  compressed  into  a  smaller  space 
than  that  which  I  there  devoted  to  them,  I  think  perhaps  that  I  shall 
hardly  do  better  than  extract  them  almost  verbatim.  One  addition, 
however,  (the  C.  eognatus)  has  subsequently  been  made, — the  result 
of  Dr.  Crotch's  indefatigable  researches,  during  the  spring  of  1862, 
in  Gomera. 

§  I.  Tibial  in  utroque  se.vu  (omnino  vel  fere)  simpKces. 

a.  Corpus  magnum,  protliorace postice  plus  7nimis  angustiore,  punctis 
elytrorum  discalibus  obsoletis. 

49.  Calathus  sphodroides. 

Calathus  spliodroides,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  342  (1862). 
Habitat  in  sylvaticis  editioribus  TenerifFa;,  rarissimus. 
The  present  species  and  the  following  one  are  remarkable  amongst 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  31 

the  Canarian  Calatlii  for  their  immense  size  (the  C.  ciliatus,  of  the 
second  Section,  being  the  only  one  which  equals  them  in  bulk),  for 
their  prothoraces  being  narrower  behind  than  in  front  (a  structure  of 
rare  occurrence  in  this  genus),  and  for  the  discal  punctures  of  their 
elytra  being  obsolete.  Inter  se  they  may  be  known  by  the  C.  spho- 
droides  being  darker  than  its  ally,  by  the  different  shape  of  its 
(more  basally-punctured)  prothorax,  and  by  its  elytra  being  some- 
what less  flattened,  rounder  posteriorly,  and  not  so  acuminated  at 
their  apex.  It  is  extremely  rare,  and  confined  to  the  sylvan  regions 
of  Teneriffe,  at  intermediate  and  rather  lofty  elevations, — the  only 
specimens  (seven  in  number)  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured 
by  myself,  from  beneath  loose  rotting  bark,  at  the  Agua  Garcia  ajul 
in  the  woods  above  Taganana, 

50.  Calathus  acuminatus. 
Calathus  acuminatus,  WoU.,  loc.  cit.  342  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  proecedens. 

The  C.  acuminatus  may  be  known  from  the  last  species  by  its  more 
piceous  or  rufescent  hue ;  by  its  prothorax  being  less  conspicuously 
narrowed  behind,  with  the  sides  more  elevated  and  more  regularly 
rounded  in  the  middle  (instead  of  before  the  middle,  as  in  that  insect), 
less  punctured  towards  the  base,  and  with  its  anterior  angles  more 
porrected  and  acute ;  by  its  elytra  being  flatter,  and  more  acuminated 
at  their  apex  ;  and  by  its  limbs  being  of  a  uniformly  paler  tint.  It 
occurs  in  precisely  the  same  spots  as  the  C.  sphodroides,  being  pecu- 
liar (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  the  wooded  districts  of 
Teneriffe.  Although  rare,  it  is  not  quite  so  scarce  as  its  ally.  I  have 
taken  it  in  the  forest-region  of  the  Ag-ua  Mansa,  above  Ycod  el  Alto, 
and  at  the  sides  of  the  Vueltas  leading  down  from  the  Cumbrc  to  Taga- 
nana. 

b.  Corpus  minoris  magnitudinis,  prothorace  postice  {ut  in  Calathis  tii- 
picis)  plus  minus  latiore,  punetis  elytrorum  discalibus  plus  minus 
distinctis. 

51.  Calathus  rufo-castaneus. 

Calathus  rufo-castaneus,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  343  (1862). 
Habitat  in  elevatis  humidis  sylvaticis  Teneriffse,  rarissimus. 

The  pale  rufo-castaneous  hue  of  this  distinct  and  rather  large  Ca- 
lathus, in  conjunction  with  its  highly  polished  head  and  prothorax 
(the  latter  of  which  is  a  good  deal  recurved,  and  somewhat  pellucid, 
towards  the  edges),  the  minute  size  of  the  discal  punctures  of  its 


32  .  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

elytra,  and  its  testaceous  limbs,  will  at  once  sej^arate  it  from  the 
other  species  here  enumerated.  Only  nine  examples  have  come 
hitherto  beneath  my  notice ;  and  it  may  be  considered,  therefore,  as 
decidedly  rare.  They  were  all  taken  in  the  wooded  region  above  the 
Agua  Mansa  of  Teneriffe  ;  so  that  the  species  is  probably  peculiar  to 
the  ui)per  portion  of  the  sylvan  districts. 

52.  Calathus  carinatiis. 

Calathus  carinatus?,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  BeHh.  (Col.)  55  (1838). 
,  Woll,  he.  cit.  343  (1802). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  in  locis  similibus  ac  prcecedens,  sed  pariim 
vulgaris. 

A  most  remarkable  species,  at  once  known  by  its  narrow,  elongate- 
quadrate  prothorax  and  hy  its  extremely  depressed,  opake  and  el- 
liptical elytra,  which  have  the  basal  line  of  each  (from  either  shoulder 
to  the  scutellum)  verj'  deeply  curved,  and  their  discal  punctures  (of 
which  there  are  usually  from  five  to  nine  on  the  third,  from  about 
two  to  four  on  the  fifth,  and  occasionally  one  or  two  on  even  the 
seventh  interstice)  exceedingly  distinct.  I  have  but  little  doubt  that 
it  is  the  C.  carinatas  of  M.  Brulle ;  for  although  I  was  not  able, 
whilst  in  Paris,  to  obtain  a  sight  of  his  CaJathi,  yet  I  think  there  is 
just  sufiiicient  in  the  description  (so  called)  to  render  it  probable  that 
this  is  the  insect  to  which  he  referred, — though  his  total  silence  on 
all  the  salient  peculiarities  of  the  four  Canarian  species  which  he 
wished  to  indicate  (one  of  which  is  no  Calathus  at  all,  but  an  Aryutor) 
renders  his  diagnoses  utterly  worthless. 

The  C.  carinatus  is  rather  common  throughout  the  sylvan  regions 
of  Teneriffe.  I  have  taken  it  abundantly  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  as 
also  in  the  woods  above  Taganana  and  at  Las  Mercedes ;  in  the  last 
of  which  localities  it  was  also  found  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva. 

53.  Calathus  advena. 
Calathus  advena,  JFoll.,  he.  eit.  344  (1802). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1858  specimen 
unicum  (sc.  masculum)  inveni. 

The  present  Calathus  is  the  only  one  of  which  I  had  not  an  ex- 
tensive series  to  compile  my  diagnosis  from,  the  single  specimen 
which  I  have  seen  being  one  which  I  captured  in  Grand  Canary  (I 
believe  in  the  region  of  El  Monte)  during  the  spring  of  1858.  Fortu- 
nately, however,  it  happens  to  be  a  male,  so  that  I  can  have  no  hesi- 
tation (from  its  simple  unfimbi'iated  tibia3)  as  to  which  of  my  Sections 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  '  33 

it  belongs  to.  It  is  remarkable  for  its  basaUy  •wide  (though  altogether 
not  very  broad)  prothorax,  for  its  subopake  ovate  elytra  (which  are 
a  good  deal  expanded  behind  the  middle,  and  have,  apparently,  but 
two  punctures  developed  on  their  disk),  for  its  fusco-piceous  hue, 
and  for  its  rather  elongate,  slender  limbs.  There  is  certainly  no 
species  here  enumerated  to  which  it  could  be  referred. 

54.  Calathus  abacoides. 

Calathus  abaxoides  ?,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 
,  Wall.,  he.  cit.  345  (1862). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  humidis  Teneriffae,  sat  frequens. 

I  refer  this  insect  to  M.  BruUe's  C.  ahaxoides  from  the  mere  fact 
of  the  latter's  specific  7iame,  there  being  no  other  Canarian  Calathns 
which  could  be  compared  in  outline  to  an  Abax  ;  but  since  he 
says  that  the  abaxoides  is  much  of  the  same  form  as  his  following 
species,  the  C.  annularis  (which  is  an  Argutor,  and  no  Calathns  at 
all),  and  since  he  speaks  of  it  as  "  cinq  lignes  de  longueur,"  whilst  it 
is  only  four,  I  cannot  but  feel  doubtful,  in  the  absence  of  even  a 
single  distinctive  character  in  his  diagnosis,  whether  it  be  correctly 
identified.  It  may  readily  be  known  by  its  small  size,  elliptical  out- 
line, and  the  almost  equally  shining  surface  of  its  prothorax  and 
elytra  ;  the  former  of  which  is  broad  posteriorly  and  almost  unre- 
curved  at  the  sides  (except  slightly  so  towards  the  basal  angles) ; 
whilst  the  latter  are  gradually  somewhat  narrowed  behind,  Avith 
their  interstices  slightly  convex,  and  with  their  discal  punctures 
(from  three  to  five  on  the  third  interstice)  pretty  e\ident. 

The  C.  abacoides  is  rather  abundant  throughout  the  sylvan  regions 
of  TenerifFe,  occurring  in  exactly  the  same  places  as  the  last  species. 
I  have  observed  it  more  particularly  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  above 
Taganana,  and  at  Las  Mercedes.  It  has  also  been  communicated 
by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  and  Professor  Heer  of  Zurich,  the 
latter  of  whom  obtained  it  from  M.  Hartung. 

55.  Calathus  ascendeus. 

Calathus  ascendens,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  345  (1862). 
Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  montibus  Teneriffae,  usque  ad  8000'  s.  m. 
ascendens. 

The  present  Calathus  (which  I  have  observed  only  in  Teneriffe) 
is  essentially  an  inhabitant  of  the  loftiest  elevations,  attaining  its 
maximum  at  about  8000  feet  above  the  sea,  and  but  rarely  descending 
into  the  sylvan  districts.     It  may  be  known  by  its  only  slightly 


34  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

shining  surface,  fusco-x^iceous  hue,  and  rather  large  size  ;  by  its  pro- 
thorax  (which  is  a  little  rufescent  at  the  edges,  and  not  much  re- 
curved) being  about  equally  narrowed  before  and  behind ;  and  by 
the  discal  punctures  of  its  elytra  being  well  developed  and  distinct. 
I  took  it  in  profusion,  during  May  of  1859,  from  beneath  stones  on 
the  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas,  above  Tcod  el  Alto  (where  it  has 
subsequently  been  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch),  as  also  on  the  opposite 
Cumbre  above  the  Agua  Mansa.  In  both  instances,  however,  I  ob- 
served a  few  stray  specimens  at  a  rather  lower  altitude, — namely, 
almost  at  the  Agua  Mansa  and  Ycod  el  Alto  themselves  ;  but  as  even 
those  spots  could  not  be  less  than  some  5000  feet  in  elevation,  there 
can  be  no  doubt  that  the  C.  ascendens  must  be  regarded  as  an  alpine 
species. 

56.  Calathus  cognatus,  n.  sp. 

C.  subconvexus ;  capite  prothoraceque  nitidissimis,  rufo-piceis,  hoc 
subconico  (postice  multo  latiore),  ad  latera  subpallidiore  et  paulo 
recurve ;  elytris  jDiceis,  vix  (certe  in  sexu  masculo)  obscurioribus, 
hnea  basali  in  utroque  rectissima,  profimde  striatis,  interstitiis 
convexis,  tertio  punctis  2  distinctis  notato ;  antennis  pedibusque 
rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5. 

Habitat  Gomeram ;  duo  specimina  in  montibus  supra  Hermigua 
deprehendit  W.  D.  Crotch. 

The  only  two  examples  (both  of  them  males)  which  I  have  seen  of 
the  present  Calathus  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  on  the  mountains 
above  Hermigua,  in  Gomera,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  In  their 
general  aspect  and  colouring,  as  well  as  in  the  excessive  straightness 
of  the  basal  rim  of  their  elytra  (extending  from  either  shoulder  to 
the  scutellum),  and  the  fact  of  their  male  tibiae  not  being  fringed  in- 
ternally with  more  hairs  than  is  usual  in  the  ordinary  Calathi,  they 
are  certainly  more  nearly  related  to  the  Teneriffan  C.  rectus  than  to 
any  other  of  the  species  here  enumerated.  They  are,  however,  larger 
and  less  depressed  than  that  insect ;  their  prothorax  is  much  more 
conical  (being  relatively  broader  behind  and  narrower  in  front,  and 
with  its  sides  consequently  more  oblique,  causing  the  basal  angles 
to  be  less  strictly  right  angles) ;  their  elytra  are  more  shining  (or 
less  alutaceous),  much  more  deeply  striated,  and  with  the  interstices 
(down  the  third  of  which  there  appear  to  be  but  two  impressed  points) 
more  convex ;  and  their  limbs  are  altogether  more  robust. 

57.  Calathus  rectus. 

Calathus  fulvipes?,  Brulle  [nee Lat.\inWehhet Berth.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 
. rectus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  346  (1862). 

Habitat  in  locis  inferioribus  et  intermediis  Teneriflfe,  passim. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  35 

In  their  very  shining  head  and  prothorax,  and  duller  (though 
scarcely  opake)  and  lightly  striated  elytra,  as  well  as  in  their  general 
hue  and  comparatively  smaller  size,  the  present  Calathus  and  the 
following  one  have  much  in  common.  Nevertheless  the  C.  rectus  is 
the  larger  and  flatter  of  the  two,  and  has  its  limbs  considerably 
longer ;  its  head  and  prothorax  also  (the  latter  of  which  is  a  trifle 
more  elongate  and  wider  behind,  and  has  its  edges  more  evidently 
recurved)  are  more  rufescent ;  and  the  basal  line  of  its  elytra  (ex- 
tending from  either  shoulder  to  the  scutellum)  is  less  arcuate, — being, 
in  fact,  almost  perfectly  straight.  Whilst  the  following  species  occurs 
only  (so  far  as  observed  hitherto)  in  Lanzarote,  the  C.  rectus  is  scat- 
tered sparingly  over  the  low  and  intermediate  elevations  of  Teneriife. 
I  have  taken  it  near  S*^  Cruz  and  Orotava  (at  the  latter  of  which  it 
was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray),  as  also  on  the  mountains  above 
Taganana ;  and  it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello 
de  Paiva  from  Las  Mercedes. 

I  have  but  little  doubt,  from  its  size  and  superficial  aspect,  that  it 
is  the  insect  referred  by  M.  BruUe  to  the  European  C.  fulvipes, — 
with  which,  however,  it  has  nothing,  in  reality,  except  its  generic 
characters,  in  common. 

58.  Calathus  simplicicollis. 
Calathus  simplicicollis,  Wall,  loc.  cit.  347  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  tempore  hiberno  et  vernali  sat  fre- 
quens. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  what  has  already  been  said,  the  present 
Calathus  (which  seems  to  be  peculiar  to  Lanzarote)  differs  from  the 
last  one  in  being  a  little  smaller,  narrower,  and  more  convex,  of  a 
slightly  darker  hue,  and  with  its  limbs  considerably  shorter.  Its 
prothorax,  also,  is  somewhat  less  conical,  with  the  sides  more  nar- 
rowly rufescent  and  less  recurved ;  and  the  basal  line  of  its  elytra 
(joining  either  shoulder  with  the  scutellum)  is  more  arcuate.  It  is 
about  the  size  and  general  outline  of  the  common  European  G.  mela- 
nocephalus ;  nevertheless  it  differs  from  all  the  specimens  and  all  the 
varieties  of  the  latter  which  I  have  yet  seen  (including  the  peltatus, 
Kolen.,  the  ochropterus,  Dufts.,  and  the  alpinus,  Dej.,  for  types  of 
which  I  am  indebted  to  Dr.  Schaum)  in  having  its  prothorax  totally 
free  from  the  slightest  trace  of  the  two  basal  fovese  which  are  always 
more  or  less  expressed  in  that  insect,  as  also  a  trifle  wider  posteriorly, 
and  perfectly  unmargined  behind  the  hinder  angles — which  are, 
themselves,  a  little  more  sharply  defined  (or  more  strictly  rigJit  an- 

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36  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

gles) ;  its  head,  too,  is  altogether  thicTcer  and  more  developed,  with 
the  eyes  less  prominent,  with  the  incrassated  edge  of  the  clypeus 
(immediately  behind  the  insertion  of  the  antennae)  more  rounded, 
and  wdth  the  forehead  more  convex ;  and  its  colour  (on  which,  how- 
ever, T  lay  but  little  stress)  is  different,  its  head  being  somewhat 
redder  (or  less  black),  whilst  its  prothorax  is  not  so  red  (or  more  in- 
fuscated).  Its  elytra,  also,  are  perhaps  a  little  more  shining  and  less 
depressed.  The  only  locality  in  which  I  have  taken,  hitherto,  the 
C.  simplkicoUis  is  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote,  where  it  is  not 
ixncommon  in  the  rocky  ground  between  the  Salinas  and  the  Risco. 

§  II.  Tibice  postenores  maris  intiis  plus  minus  dense  fimhriatce. 

59.  Calathus  ciliatus. 

Calathus  ciliatus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  348  (18G2). 

Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  plus  minus  sylvaticis  Teneriffse,  hinc 
inde  sed  parum  rarus. 

The  large  size  of  the  present  Calathus*  and  the  following  one  will 
easily  separate  them  from  the  other  species  of  my  second  Section. 
Inter  se  they  are  at  first  sight  a  good  deal  allied ;  and  before  ex- 
amining them  closely,  I  had  imagined  they  were  but  phases  of  one 
insect.  A  more  accurate  inspection,  however,  of  the  sexes  of  both  has 
convinced  me  that  they  are  probably  distinct.  The  C  ciliatus  is 
somewhat  the  more  bulky  of  the  two,  being  alw^ays  broader  than  its 
ally,  and  on  the  average  a  little  longer.  And  it  may,  additionally, 
be  known  by  its  prothorax  being  more  especially  wider  and  less 
conical ;  by  the  basal  line  of  its  elytra  being  much  less  deeply  arcuate, 
causing  the  shoulders  to  be  less  porrected ;  by  the  punctures  of  its 
third  and  fifth  interstices  being  usually  less  numerous ;  by  its  elytra 
(w^hich  are  a  trifle  brighter  and  with  their  intervals  less  flattened  in 
the  male  sex)  being  more  oblong ;  and  by  the  four  hinder  tibiae  in 
the  male  being  fimbriated  along  a  rather  greater  portion  of  their 
inner  edge.  It  appears  to  occur  principally  in  the  upper  part  of  the 
sylvan  regions  of  TenerifFe  ;  and,  indeed,  I  have  not  yet  observed  it 
below  an  altitude  of  about  5000  feet.  On  the  damp  ledges  and  rocks 
above  the  Agua  Mansa,  to  within  a  short  distance  of  the  Cumbre,  I 
obtained  it  sparingly  during  May  1859. 

*  In  the  National  Collection  at  Paris  I  observed  specimens  of  this  insect  under 
the  name  of  "C  complanatus,  Dej."  That  species,  however,  is  confined  to  Ma- 
deira, and  is  totally  distinct  from  the  present  one,  which  has  more  in  common 
prima  facie  with  the  Madeiran  0.  vividus,  Fab.  In  real  t\iet.  however,  hofh  of 
the  Madeiran  species  belong  to  a  different  type  from  these  two  Canarian  ones,— 
Imving  the  hinder  tibia-  of  their  males  simple. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEBA.  37 

60.  Calathus  auctus. 
Calathus  auctus,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  349  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  humidam  excelsam,  in  locis  similibus  ac  piae- 
cedens. 

As  already  implied,  the  rather  smaller  size  and  less  widened  out- 
line of  the  present  Calathus  (the  prothorax  of  which  is  especially- 
narrower  and  more  conical),  in  conjunction  with  its  more  elliptic 
elytra  (which  have  their  basal  line  more  curved,  and  their  shoulders 
consequently  acuter  or  more  porrect)  and  its  more  numerous  discal 
punctures,  will  at  once  separate  it  from  the  last  species.  It  differs 
also  in  its  males  having  the  elytra  somewhat  more  opake  (with  the 
interstices  flatter),  and  the  four  hinder  tibiae  fimbriated  along  a 
rather  shorter  portion  of  their  inner  edge.  At  the  same  time,  I 
would  add  that  I  am  not  perfectly  satisfied  that  it  may  not  be  an 
extreme  state  of  that  insect.  The  C.  auctus  is  found  in  precisely 
similar  spots  as  the  ciUatus,  occurring  in  damp  localities  at  a  high 
elevation  on  the  mountains  of  Teneriffe.  I  took  it,  in  company  with 
that  species,  during  May  of  1859  ;  and  it  has  been  communicated  by 
Professor  Heer  of  Zurich,  as  also  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva. 

61.  Calathus  angustulus. 

Calathus  angustulus,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  349  (1802). 

Habitat  Tencriff'am  excelsam  humidam,  sub  lapidibus  corticeque 
arborum  laxo  putrido,  rarior. 

The  comparatively  narrow  outline  and  pale  reddish-brown  hue  of 
this  Calathus,  combined  with  the  shape  of  its  prothorax  (which  is  a 
trifle  narrower  behind  than  before)  and  the  exceedingly  numerous 
punctures  down  the  alternate  interstices  of  its  elliptic  elytra,  wiU  at 
once  characterize  it.  It  is  the  only  Canarian  species  in  which  I  have 
observed  punctures  on  the  first  elytral  interval,  where  there  are 
usually  two  or  three  at  the  extreme  base.  Its  smaller  size  and  less 
margined,  differently  shaped  prothorax,  added  to  its  more  rounded, 
less  flattened  elytra  and  more  numerous  impressions,  will,  apart  from 
other  differences,  readily  separate  it  from  the  last  species.  Indeed, 
in  general  contour  it  has  perhaps  more  in  common  with  the  C.  cari- 
natus  than  with  any  other  member  of  the  genus  here  described  ;  but 
its  paler  colour,  and  narrower  and  somewhat  less  depressed  elytra 
(with  their  more  niunerous  punctures  and  less  arcuated  basal  line), 
in  combination  with  its  posteriorly  narrower  prothorax  and  the  fim- 
briated hinder  tibiae  of  its  male  sex,  will  immediately  distinguish  it 
from  that  insect. 


38  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

The  G.  angustulus  occurs  sparingly  throughout  the  sylvan  regions 
of  Teneriffe,  especially  towards  their  upper  limits, — where  it  may  be 
found  under  damp  stones,  and  beneath  the  loose  rotting  bark  of  trees. 
In  such  positions  I  have  taken  it  on  the  ascent  from  Yeod  el  Alto  to 
the  Cumbre,  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  in  the  laurel-woods  above 
Point  Anaga  and  Taganana.  It  has  also  been  communicated  by  the 
Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

62.  Calathus  depressus. 

Calathvis  depressus  ?,  Bndle,  in  Webb  et Berth.  (  Col)  55.  pi.  2.  f.  1  (1838). 
,  WolL,  he.  cit.  350  (1862). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Teneriffae,  sub  lapidibus  vulgaris. 

The  dark  hue  and  broad  outline  of  this  Calathus  (the  prothorax  of 
which  is  considerably  wider  behind  than  in  front,  and  is  but  slightly 
recurved  at  the  edges),  added  to  its  rather  deeply  striated  elytra 
(which  are  subopake  in  both  sexes,  and  have  their  discal  punctures 
as  follows : — from  about  6  to  10  on  the  third  interval,  from  about 
5  to  7  on  the  fifth,  and  from  about  1  to  3  on  the  seventh),  will  suffi- 
ciently characterize  it.  The  hinder  tibiae  of  the  male  are  almost  (if 
not  indeed  entirely)  simple ;  and  even  the  intermediate  ones  are  but 
very  shortly  and  obscurely  fimbriated  towards  their  inner  apex : 
nevertheless  the  latter  are  quite  sufficiently  so,  I  think,  to  warrant 
its  admission  into  my  second  Section.  Although  M.  Brulle's  veiy 
brief  and  meagre  description  applies  almost  equally  to  about  two- 
thirds  of  the  Canarian  Calathi,  yet,  with  the  assistance  of  his  figiu'e, 
and  of  the  size  there  given  of  it  (which,  however,  does  not  tally  rvitJi 
what  he  states),  I  beheve  that  this  is  the  insect  to  which  he  intended 
to  apply  the  name  of  C.  cUpressus. 

It  is  universal  within  the  sylvan  districts  of  Teneriffe,  and  is  per- 
haps the  most  common  of  the  Canarian  Calathi.  I  have  taken  it  at 
and  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  at  the  Agua  Garcia, 
as  also  at  Las  Mercedes  and  in  the  woods  towards  Taganana  and  Point 
Anaga.  It  has  lilcewise  been  communicated  by  Professor  Heer  of 
Zurich  and  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

63.  Calathus  appendiculatus. 
Calathus  appendiculatus,  WoU.,  loc.  cit.  351  (1862). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem :  in  montibus  sylvaticis  inter  Gaidar 
et  Tcror  d.  21.  Ap.  a.d.  1858  pauca  exemplaria  deprehendi. 

Apart  from  all  other  characters,  the  peculiar  sexual  differences  of 
this  fine  Calathus  (the  males  of  which  are  entirely  bright,  whilst  the 


CAXAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  39 

,  females  have  their  prothorax  and  elytra  opake)  will  at  once  separate 
it  from  all  the  others  here  enumerated.  In  their  elytral  impressions, 
the  present  insect  and  the  two  following  ones  are  on  the  ordinary- 
type, — the  number  being  reduced  to  3  or  4  on  the  third  interval ; 
from  which  it  would  appear,  that  those  species  which  have  them  more 
or  less  increased  are  (according  to  the  data  hitherto  accumulated) 
confined  to  Teneriffe.  The  O.  apjpencUculatus  seems  to  be  peculiar  to 
the  sylvan  regions  of  Grand  Canary, — where,  on  the  21st  of  April 
1858,  I  captured  a  few  specimens  of  it,  from  beneath  moist  rotting 
bark,  in  the  remains  of  the  ancient  forest  of  El  Dorames,  on  the 
mountain-road  between  Gaidar  and  Teror. 

64.  Calathus  barbatus. 

Calathus  barbatus,  WolL,  he.  cit.  352  (1862). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regionibus  El  Monte  et  Tarajana 
lectus. 

Like  the  last  species,  the  O.  barbatus  would  appear  to  be  peculiar 
to  Grand  Canary, — descending,  however,  into  sw^sylvan  spots  of  a 
rather  lower  elevation  than  those  tenanted  by  that  insect.  It  may 
be  known  from  it  by  its  very  much  smaller  size  and  by  its  sexes 
being  almost  equally  shining, — its  prothorax  being  in  them  both  (as 
indeed  is  the  case  with  all  the  Canarian  CalatJii  except  the  appendi- 
culatus)  equally  polished.  In  minor  characters,  its  elytra  are  a 
trifle  more  convex  than  those  of  the  appendiculatus,  and  have  their 
basal  line  rather  more  curved ;  and  the  four  hinder  tibiae  of  its 
males  are  fimbriated  along  a  rather  shorter  portion  of  their  inner 
edge.  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  in  the  region  of  El  Monte,  as 
also  on  the  mountains  of  Tarajana,  during  the  spring  of  1858, 

65,  Calathus  spretus. 
Calathus  spretus,  Woll,,  he.  cit.  352  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  mense  Februario  a.d.  1858  repertus. 

In  general  aspect  the  present  Calathus  comes  so  near  to  the  C. 
barbatus,  that,  were  it  not  for  the  essential  differences  displayed  by 
the  male-tibine  of  the  two  species,  I  should  not  have  hesitated  to 
consider  them  as  identical ;  but  since  the  former  has  the  four  hinder 
tibioe  of  its  males  almost  simple  internally,  and  the  posterior  pair 
straight,  whilst  the  latter  has  them  powerfully  fimbriated,  with  the 
posterior  ones  slightly  curved,  I  cannot  but  regard  them  as  dis- 
similar, and  so  lay  greater  stress  on  the  other  minute  differences 
which  they  display  inter  se  than  I  should  ordinarily  have  done.    In- 


40  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

dependently,  therefore,  of  this  primary  distinction  (which  of  itself 
would  be  sufficient  to  separate  them),  I  may  just  add  that  the  C. 
spretus  may  be  knoAVTi  from  its  ally  by  (on  the  average)  its  slightly 
larger  bulk  and  rather  darker  hue ;  by  its  prothorax  being  perhaps 
a  little  less  rounded  at  the  sides,  and  its  elytra  a  Httle  more  so ;  and 
by  the  latter  being  just  perceptibly  more  convex  and  opake,  with 
their  basal  line  somewhat  straighter. 

AVhilst  the  C.  harhatus  is  apparently  confined  to  Grand  Canary, 
the  present  si)ecies  has  been  observed  only  in  Hicrro, — where  several 
examples  of  it  were  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  our 
visit  to  that  island,  in  February  1858. 

Genus  22.  ANCHOMENUS. 
Bonelli,  Obse)-v.  Ent.  i.  tab.  syu.  (1809). 

66.  Anchomenus  Nichollsii,  n.  sp. 

A.  capite  prothoraceque  nigro-piccis,  nitidis,  hoc  angusto,  valde  cor- 
date, ad  latera  baud  exijlanato,  postice  leviter  punctate  ;  elytris 
ovahbus,  obscurioribus  sed  in  limbo  brunneis,  subopacis,  leviter 
striatis,  interstitio  tertio  punctulis  2  (rarius  3)  notato,  punctis  in 
serie  marginah  maximis,  linea  basaH  (inter  humeros  et  scutellum) 
elevata,  curvata  ;  palpis,  autennis  pedibusque  elongatis,  rufo-tes- 
taceis. — Long.  coqi.  lin.  4. 

Habitat  in  elevatis  Teneriffae  et  Gomerae,  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1862 
a  DD.  Crotch  et  NichoUs  repertus,  cujus  in  honorem  nomen  triviale 
proposui. 

The  opake  and  rather  apicaUy-shortened  elytra  of  the  present 
insect  and  the  following  one  give  them  such  a  totally  different  ap- 
pearance from  any  Anchomenus  with  which  I  am  acquainted  that  I 
had  at  first  thought  they  must  be  generically  distinct ;  nevertheless 
the  details  of  their  mouth  show  no  modifications  of  sufficient  import- 
ance to  warrant  their  separation,  their  simple  claws  and  the  entire 
tooth  of  their  mentum  assigning  them  to  that  group.  Their  palpi, 
as  well  as  their  paraglossae,  are  certainly  longer  than  is  the  ease  in 
the  ordinary  Ancliomeni,  and  their  wings  are  obsolete ;  but  such 
characters  cannot  be  of  more  than  specific  signification,  being  merely 
of  degree  and  not  of  kind.  They  have  something  in  common  with 
Dyscohis,  of  Dejean,  the  shghtly  bilobed  penultimate  articulation  of 
aU  their  tarsi  so  far  approacMng  the  structure  which  obtains  (more 
or  less)  in  that  genus  that  Dr.  Schaum  is  of  opinion  that  it  will 
have  to  be  remerged  ultimately  into  Anchomemis. 

The  detection  of  the  A.  Nichollsii  is  due  to  the  researches  of  Dr. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  41 

Crotch  and  S.  T.  Nicholls,  Esq.,  who,  during  an  expedition  to  these 
islands  in  the  spring  of  1862,  obtained  a  few  examples  of  it,  at  a 
high  elevation,  both  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera, — namely,  above  Ycod 
el  Alto  of  the  former,  and  "  on  the  slope  below  the  laurel-region 
above  Hermigua"  of  the  latter.  It  is  one  of  the  most  interesting 
and  important  of  their  discoveries ;  and  I  have  much  pleasure  in 
dedicating  the  species  to  S.  T.  Nicholls,  Esq.,  as  an  acknowledgment 
of  his  services  in  the  cause  of  entomology,  in  conjunction  with  those 
of  his  indefatigable  companion  Dr.  Crotch. 

67.  Anchomenus  debilis,  n.  sp. 
A.  praecedenti  similis  sed  vix  minor,  obscurior  ;  prothorace  paulo 
breviore,  utrinque  versus  angulos  posticos  sensim  minus  recto, 
basi  fere  impunctato ;  elytris  magis  ovatis  (nee  ovalibus),  i.  e. 
utrinque  in  medio  parum  subito  ampliatis,  vix  opacioribus  et 
levius  (sc.  levissime)  striatis,  in  limbo  subconcoloribus,  Knea  ba- 
sali  minus  curvata  et  minus  clevata ;  antennis  pedibusque  sensim 
brevioribus,  obscurioribus,  illarum  articulis  basalibus  (sed  pra3-- 
sertim  subbasalibus)  conspicue  obscurioribus.  —  Long.  corp.  lin. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  inter  lapOlos  per  marginem  cujusdam 
rivuli  juxta  oppidum  Teror  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  parce  captus. 

It  is  barely  possible  that  the  present  Ancliomenus  may  be  an 
insular  modification  of  the  preceding  one  ;  but  I  do  not  think  that 
such  is  the  case,  and  certainly  it  would  be  very  unsafe  to  treat  it  as 
such, — seeing  that  the  A.  Nichollsii  occurs  in  tiuo  different  islands, 
without  any  appreciable  variation.  The  A,  debilis  is  a  trifle  smaller 
than  its  ally,  and  has  its  limbs  a  little  obseiu'er  and  more  abbreviated, 
— the  antennae  moreover  having  their  basal  (though  more  especially 
their  subbasal)  joints  conspicuously  darkened  ;  its  prothorax  is  some- 
what shorter,  having  its  sides  less  rectangular  (or  more  oblique) 
posteriorly,  and  is  nearly  impunctate  at  the  base  ;  and  its  elytra  are 
more  ovate  (or  less  regularly  oval),  being  rather  suddenly  rounded 
about  the  middle,  just  perceptibly  opaker,  still  more  lightly  striated, 
mth  their  margin  scarcely  paler  than  the  rest  of  the  surface,  and 
with  their  basal  rim  (between  either  shoulder  and  the  scutellum) 
both  less  elevated  and  less  curved. 

The  A.  debilis  appears  to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity, — the  only  spe- 
cimens which  I  have  seen  (twelve  in  number)  having  been  captured 
by  myself  from  under  small  stones  at  the  edges  of  a  little  stream 
immediately  outside  the  town  of  Teror,  in  Grand  Canary,  diuing 
April  1858. 


42  CANAETAN  COLEOPTERA. 

68.  Anchomenus  albipes. 

Carabus  albipes,  Illig.,  Mag.  fur  Im.  i.  54  (1801), 
Anchomeuus  pallipes,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  33  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  12  (1857). 

albipes,  Schaum,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deictsch,  i.  408  (1860). 

Habitat  per  margines  rivulonim  Fuerteventiu-ae,  tunc  inde  vulgaris. 

The  A.  albipes,  which  abounds  throughout  the  greater  portion  of 
Europe,  and  is  universal  in  damp  spots  at  Madeira,  and  which  I  have 
received  also  from  the  Azores,  appears  (so  far  as  observed  hitherto)  to 
be  confined  at  the  Canaries  to  Fuerteventura,  where  it  is  common  at 
the  edges  of  the  few  small  streams  which  that  barren  island  produces. 
It  was  first  found  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  at  La  Antigua  (on  our 
way  from  Agua  Bueyes  to  Port  Cabras),  on  the  28th  of  January  1858  ; 
and  during  April  of  the  following  year  I  took  it  abundantly  in  the 

Rio  Palmas. 

69.  Anchomenus  marginatus. 

Carabus  marginatus,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  222  (1761). 

PlatjTius  marginatus,  BndU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 

Auchomeuus  marginatus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  33  (]854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  12  (1857). 

-,  Schaum,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  412  (1860). 

Habitat  Canariam,  TeneriflPam  et  Gomeram,  bine  inde  baud  in- 
frequens. 

The  common  European  A.  marginatus  (which  occurs,  though  rarely, 
in  Madeira,  and  which  is  recorded  by  M.  Morelet  at  the  Azores)  is 
tolerably  abundant  in  certain  localities  at  the  Canaries,  though  at 
present  I  have  myself  observed  it  only  in  the  islands  of  Grand 
Canary  and  Teneriffe.  In  the  former  I  took  it  at  Arguiniguin  (along 
the  edges  of  the  small  pool,  or  lake,  close  to  the  sea)  ;  and  in  the  latter 
(from  whence  it  has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello 
de  Paiva)  in  moist  spots  near  S*"  Cruz  and  at  Ycod  el  Alto.  It  has 
however  been  met  with,  more  recently,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  in  Gomera. 

Genus  23.  OLISTHOPUS. 
Dejean,  S^tec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iii.  176  (1828). 

70.  Olisthopus  palmensis,  n.  sp. 
0.  £eneo-fuscus,latiusculus,subdepressus,mtidus;  prothorace  fereim- 
punctato  ;  elytris  oblongis,  ad  humeros  subobtusis,  leviter  striatis, 
interstitiis  subtilissime  alutaceis  et  (nisi  oculo  fortissime  armato) 
fere  impunctatis,  tertio  punctis  tribus  notato,  Kmbo  plus  minus 
obscure  pallidiore ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  pallido-testaceis, 
illis  versus  apicem  paulo  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3|. 
Habitat  Palmam,  in  locis  intermediis,  passim. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA,  43 

It  is  somewhat  remarkable  that,  whilst  the  0.  glahratus  is  uni- 
versal throughout  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Hierro,  it  is  repre- 
sented in  Palma  by  the  present  species,  which  occurs,  in  like  man- 
ner, at  nearly  aU  intermediate  elevations.  The  0.  palmensis  may  be 
known  from  its  ally  by  its  larger  size  and  broader  outline,  by  its 
rather  browner,  less  shining  and  flatter  surface,  and  by  its  elytra 
being  less  acute  at  the  shoulders,  more  finely  striated,  and  with  their 
interstices  (when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope)  not  only  mirmtely 
alutaceous  but  with  the  additional  punctules  so  small  as  to  be  scarcely 
perceptible.  I  have  taken  it,  amongst  leaves  and  rubbish,  at  the 
base  of  the  perpendicular  rocks  which  form  the  sides  of  the  Barranco 
de  S'*  Cruz,  as  also  on  the  ascent  of  the  Cumbre  above  Buenavista, 
and  in  the  Barranco  de  Galga  (towards  the  north-east  of  the  island) ; 
and  it  was  likewise  captured,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr. 
Crotch. 

71.  Olisthopus  glabratus. 

0.  a3neo-niger,  angustulus,  subconvexus,  nitidissimus ;  prothorace 
fere  impunctato ;  elytris  oblongis,  ad  humeros  aeutis,  profunde 
striatis,  interstitiis  sat  distincte  i)unctulatis,  tertio  punctis  tribus 
notato,  limbo  plus  minus  distincte  pallidiore  ;  antennis,  palpis 
pedibusque  paUido-testaceis,  illis  versus  apicem  obscui'ioribus. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  2-3. 

Olistopus  glabratus,  Bi-nlle,  in  Webb  ef  Bei-th.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 
Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  in  locis  infe- 
rioribus  et  intermediis,  hinc  inde  baud  infrequens. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  what  has  been  said,  the  smaller  size, 
narrower  outline,  darker  hue,  and  more  convex  and  shining  surface 
of  the  present  OUsiJiopus,  in  conjunction  with  its  more  deeply  striated 
elytra  (which  are  acuter  at  the  shoulders,  more  brightly  testaceous  at 
the  sides,  and  have  their  interstices  more  distinctly  punctulated  and 
Mwalutaeeous),  wiU  at  once  separate  it  from  the  last  species.  It  is 
universal  throughout  Grand  Caiiary,  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and  Hierro 
(in  the  last  of  which  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in 
Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch), — occurring  beneath  stones,  though  not  very 
commonly,  at  low  and  intermediate  elevations ;  but  it  has  not  yet 
been  observed  in  either  of  the  eastern  islands  of  the  Group*. 

*  Amongst  five  examples  of  Olisthopus  communicated  to  me  in  1856  by  Dr. 
Heer  of  Zurich,  and  taken  at  tlie  Canaries  by  M.  Hartung,  are  four  of  the  O. 
elongatus,  WolL,  and  one  of  the  glabratus,  Br.  Tlie  wliole  were  sent  under  the 
latter  name,  and  were  stated  to  have  come  from  Lanzarote  ;  but  as  M.  Hartung 
collected  also  in  Teneriffe,  I  have  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  tlie  specimen 
of  tlic  glabratus  was  from  that  island,  and  had  become  accidentally  mixed  up, 
afterwards,  with  those  from  Fuerteventura  and  Lanzarote.     Nevertheless  as  I 


44  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

The  0.  glahratus  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  0.  inaderensis,  which 
abounds  on  the  mountains  of  Madeira  ;  but  I  believe,  nevertheless, 
that  it  is  truly  distinct.  It  differs  in  being  a  little  more  shining ; 
in  having  its  prothorax  a  trifle  larger,  rather  more  produced  in  the 
centre  behind  (in  front  of  the  scutellum),  and  with  the  sides  and 
base  comparatively  impunctured ;  and  in  its  elytra  being  rather 
more  oblong  (or  straighter  at  the  edges  and  a  little  acuter  at  the 
shoixlders),  just  perceptibly  less  convex,  more  deeply  striated,  with 
theii'  interstices  more  evidently  punctulated  and  imalutaceous  (even 
beneath  the  microscope),  and  with  their  suture  (except  occasmmlly 
the  hinder  portion)  not  paler  than  the  disk. 

72.  Olisthopiis  elongatus. 

Olisthopus  elongatus,  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  38  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  14  (1857). 

glabratus,   Hartxmq  \i\ec  Bridlf\,  Gedloq.  VerhdUn.  Lanz.  utid 

Fuert.  140  et  141. 

HaUtat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  ubique  sat  vulgaris. 
The  0.  elongatus  (which  occurs  in  Madeira  and  Porto  Santo)  is 
rather  common  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — where  it 
was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  in  January  1858,  and  sub- 
sequently (by  myself)  during  the  spring  of  the  following  year ;  and 
where  it  would  seem  to  take  the  place  of  the  0.  glahratus,  which  is 
all  hut  universal  in  the  remaining  islands  of  the  Canarian  archi- 
pelago. I  have  not  the  slightest  hesitation  in  regarding  it  as  the 
Olisthopus  referred  in  M.  Hartung's  catalogue  to  the  glahratus  of 
Brulle, — first,  because  the  latter  does  not  appear  to  exist  in  either 
Lanzarote  or  Fuerteventura  (in  hotli  of  which  islands  he  implies  his 
species  to  have  been  found) ;  and,  secondly,  because,  of  the  five 
specimens  communicated  to  me  by  Dr.  Heer  under  the  name  of 
"  glahratus,^'  as  Lanzarotan  examples  and  collected  by  M.  Hartung, 
no  less  than  four  were  the  elongatus.  That  the  soKtary  0.  glahratus, 
included  amongst  them,  was  from  TenerifFe,  and  accidentally  mixed 
up  (afterwards)  with  the  others,  I  have  already  recorded  my  con- 
viction in  the  foot-note  on  the  preceding  page. 

had  not  myself  visited  the  Canaries  when  I  published  my  Madeiran  Catalogue, 
in  1857,  I  was  of  course  imaware  that  the  0.  gluhrafns  does  not  occur  in  the 
two  eastern  islands  of  the  Canarian  group,  and  I  consequently  mentioned  in  a 
foot-note  {^vidc  p.  12)  that  I  had  received  a  Lanzarotan  example  of  that  insect 
from  Professor  Heer.  I  woidd  wish,  therefore,  now  to  correct  this  error  (for  I  am 
perfectly  satisfied  that  such  it  is) ;  since  it  is  an  important  fact,  to]:)Ograpliieally, 
that  a  species  so  general  as  the  0.  glahrafioi  is  in  the  central  and  western  portions 
of  the  archipelago  should  be  replaced  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  by  the 
Madeiran  dongatui  (which  has  not  yet  been  observed  elsewhere  at  the  Canaries). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEUA.  45 

Genus  24.  PLATYDERUS. 

Stephens,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  i.  101  (1828). 

73,  Platyderus  alticola,  n.  sp. 

P.  angustiilus,  rufo-piceus,  depressus ;  capite  prothoraceque  nitidis, 
hoc  elongato-subciuadrato  postice  vix  angiistiore,  angulis  posticis 
subrectis,  per  basin  ipsissimam  panlo  sinuato ;  elytris  clongato- 
oblongis,  subopacis,  grosse  alutaceis,  ad  hmncros  valde  acutis, 
subcrenato-striatis,  interstitio  tertio  punctis  tribus  notato  ;  an- 
tennis,  palpis  pedibiisqiie  pallidioribxis, 
Var.  /3  [an  species  distincta?],  Paulo  minor,  paUidior ;  prothorace 
ad  basin  paulo  magis  recto  (vix  sinuato),  angulis  posticis  rectiori- 
bus  ;  elytris  vix  ovatioribus  nitidioribus,  paulo  minus  alutaceis, — 
Long.  Corp.  lin,  4—41  (var,  ft,  3i). 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  montibus  excelsioribus  Teneriffae,  usque 
ad  8000'  s.  m,  ascendens,  Varietatis  ft  exemplar  unicum,  in  monti- 
bus inferioribus  maritirais  juxta  Sanctam  Crucem  eaptum,  solum  vidi ; 
forsan  ad  speciem  secundam  pertineat. 

This  large  and  distinct  Platyderus  appears  to  be  of  the  greatest 
rarity,  and  to  be  confined  to  exceedingly  elevated  spots  on  the 
mountains  of  Teneriffe, — where  in  May  of  1859  I  captured  six 
specimens  of  it,  from  beneath  stones,  on  the  lofty  Cumbre,  adjoining 
the  Canadas,  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  It  is  partly  in  fact  this  pecu- 
liarity of  its  habits  which  makes  me  look  with  suspicion  on  a  single 
specimen  taken  near  S*''  Cruz  (on  the  flanks  of  the  low,  maritime 
range  which  forms  the  northern  boundary  of  the  Barranco  do  Passo 
Alto),  and  which  I  have  described  above  as  a  variety  of  the  alticola. 
It  may  possibly  be  the  exponent  of  a  closely  allied  species ;  never- 
theless, until  further  material  has  been  obtained,  I  think  it  scarcely 
safe  to  regard  it  as  such.  It  is  a  little  smaller  and  paler  than  the 
examples  from  the  Cumbre ;  its  prothorax  is  rather  straighter  (or 
less  sinuated)  along  the  extreme  base,  and  with  the  posterior  angles 
less  obtuse ;  and  its  elytra  are  a  trifle  more  ovate  (or  expanded  be- 
hind the  middle),  and  just  perceptibly  more  shining  (or  less  coarsely 
alutaceous). 

74.  Platyderus  tenuistriatus,  n.  sp. 
P.  capite  prothoraceque  nitidis,  Ulo  nigro-piceo,  hoc  (una  cum  elytris) 
rufo-piceo,  subquadrato  postice  angustiore,  angulis  posticis  ob- 
tusiusculis,  per  basin  ipsissimam  vix  sinuato,  in  disco  antico  sub- 
convexo ;  elytris  oblongis,  subopacis,  subtilissime  alutaceis,  ad 
humeros  acutiusculis,  tenuiter  striatis,  interstitio  tertio  puuctis 
tribus  parvis  notato  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  pallidioribus,- — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  3. 

Habitat  Teneritfam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  tantum  Icctus. 


46  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

The  single  example  from  whicli  the  above  description  is  drawn-out 
was  captured  in  Teneriife  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862  ; 
but  he  has,  unfortunately,  no  note  as  to  the  precise  locality.  It  may 
at  once  be  recognized  from  the  P.  alticola  by  its  very  much  smaller 
size  and  less  elongate  outline  ;  by  its  head  being  darker,  whilst  the 
rest  of  the  surface  is,  on  the  contrary,  still  paler  or  more  rufescent ; 
by  its  prothorax  being  more  quadrate,  though  rather  rounder  at  the 
sides  and  more  narrowed  behind  (and  therefore  with  the  posterior 
angles  more  obtuse),  as  well  as  convexer  on  the  fore  disk  and  less 
sinuated  along  the  basal  edge  ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  much  more 
finely  alutaceous,  more  delicately  striated,  less  acutely  porrected  at 
the  shoulders,  and  with  the  raised  line  between  either  humeral  angle 
and  the  scutellum  both  less  elevated  and  less  curved. 

Genus  25.  PTEROSTICHUS,  Auct. 
(Subgenus  Pcecilus,  Bon.) 

75.  Pterostichus  crenatus. 

Carabus  crenatus,  Hoffm.,  in  litt. 

Ferouia  creuata,  Dcj.,  Spec.  Gen.  ties  Col.  ill.  226  (1828). 

,  BmlU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  56  (1838). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  locis  intermediis,  rarior. 

The  P.  crenatus,  which  is  recorded  in  Portugal  and  Sicily  (indeed 
I  possess  it  from  the  former),  is  foimd,  though  somewhat  rarely,  in 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — in  both  of  which  islands  it  was  taken 
by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  January  1858.  It  seems  to  make 
its  appearance  after  the  winter-rains,  and  to  occur  at  intermediate 
elevations.  My  Lanzarotan  specimens  were  all  collected  from  be- 
neath stones,  in  the  open,  cultivated  fields  on  the  mountains  imme- 
diately to  the  south  of  Haria. 

(Subgenus  Lagarus,  CJumcl.) 

70.  Pterostichus  figuratus,  n.  sp. 

P.  piceo-niger,  nitidus,  depressus ;  capitc  impunctato  ;  prothorace 
elongate -subquadra to  postice  paulo  angustiore,  basi  profunde  et 
sat  crebre  punctate  necnon  utrinque  fovea  lineaformi  subrecta  im- 
presso  ;  elytris  oblongis,  profunde  crenato-striatis  ;  antennis,  palpis 
pedibusque  laete  rufo-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  ab  oculatissimo  W.  D.  Crotch  nuper  depre- 

hensus. 

A  single  example  only  of  this  well-marked  PterosticJws  has  come 


CANAETAN  COLEOPTEKA.  47 

hitherto  beneath  my  notice.  It  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during 
the  spring-  of  1862,  in  TenerifFe,  but  he  cannot  now  recall  the  pre- 
cise locality.  It  may  at  once  be  known  by  its  flattened  surface  ;  by 
its  pieeous-black  hue  and  brightly  rufeseent  limbs ;  by  its  elongate- 
quadrate  pro  thorax  being  a  little  narrowed,  and  rather  deeply  and 
thickly  punctured,  behind ;  and  by  its  coarsely  crenate-striated  ely- 
tra having  their  short  scutellary  stria  completely  confluent  with  the 
sutural  one,  and  the  outwardly- directed  basal  portion  of  the  latter, 
apparently,  obsolete.  In  its  somewhat  parallel- oblong  outline,  de- 
pressed surface,  and  deeply  crenate-striated  elytra,  the  P.  Jiyuratus 
is  a  little  suggestive,  at  first  sight,  of  an  excessively  diminutive  P. 
crenatus ;  nevertheless  when  closely  inspected  it  will  be  seen  to  be 
totally  distinct  from  that  insect  in  all  its  characters ;  and  moreover 
I  believe  that  its  main  features  will  associate  it  rather  with  the 
members  of  the  Lagarus-groui^  than  with  those  of  Poecilus. 

(Subgenus  Orthomus,  Chaud.) 
77.  Pterostichus  longulus. 

P.  ater  (vel  piceo-ater),  oblongus,  nitidissimus ;  prothorace  subqua- 
drato,  ad  latera  svtbsequaliter  rotundato,  impunctato  sed  ad  basin 
utrinque  foveis  duabus  (iaterna  sc.  Uneaformi  subarcuata  pro- 
funda, sed  externa  breviore  subrotundata  plus  minus  indistincta) 
impresso,  per  marginem  basalem  ijjsissimum  angustissime  margi- 
nato ;  elytris  subparallehs,  profunde  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis 
paulo  convexis,  tertio  punctis  duobus  impresso ;  antennis,  palpis 
pedibusque  piceis. 

Var.  /3.  discors  [an  species  ?].  Prothorax  ad  latera  magis  rotundatus, 
angulis  posticis  paulo  obtusioribus,  fovea  basali  externti  subobso- 
leta,  elytrorum  striis  simplicibus  nee  crenulatis.  [Teneriffa  :  a 
Dom.  Schaum  communicatus.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-4|. 

Feronia  barbara,  BnilU  [mcc  Dej.'],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 
longiila,  berytensis  et  preelonga,  Reiche,  Ami.  de  la  Soc.  Eat.  de 

France  (3'™«  serie),  iii.  616,  618,  619  (1855). 

elongata  (^Klug),  Chaiul,  Stett.  Ent.  Zeit.  116  (1859). 

canariensis,  Hartuny  \nec  Brtdle],  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und 

Fuert.  140,  141. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  vulgaris ;  in  Canaria,  minus 
frequens  ;  necnon  in  Teneriffa,  rarus. 

The  present  Orthomus  appears  to  be  identical  with  the  Feronia 
hngula  of  Keiche  and  Saulcy,  for  types  of  which,  from  Egypt  and 
Syria,  I  am  indebted  to  Dr.  Schaum.  The  Canarian  specimens  have 
their  elytral  striae  rather  more  decidedly  crenulated  than  seems  to  be 
the  case  in  the  Egyptian  and  Syiian  ones ;  and  their  prothorax  is 
quite  impunctate,  whereas  in   the  example  from  Egypt  there  are 


48 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


some  scattered  i^unctures  at  the  base.  These  differences,  however, 
are  veiy  trifling ;  and  indeed  the  Syrian  tyjie  now  before  me  has  its 
pronotum,  as  in  the  state  peculiar  to  the  Canaries,  totally  iinpunc- 
tured.  The  species  occurs  also  in  Greece ;  so  that  it  would  seem  to 
be  widely  spread  over  Mediterranean  latitudes.  It  is  allied  to  the 
P.  barbarus,  Dej.  (to  which  indeed  it  was  referred  by  M.  Bridle), 
and  still  more  so  to  the  P.  hispanicus,  from  which  I  am  by  no  means 
certain  that  it  is  really  distinct*.  Judging  from  three  specimens  of 
the  latter  at  present  in  my  possession  (one  of  which  has  been  for- 
warded by  Dr.  Schaum,  whilst  the  other  two  were  captured  by  the 
E,ev.  Hamlet  Clark  at  Granada),  the  Canarian  insect  differs  almost 
solely  in  having  its  prothorax  invariably  impunctured  behind,  and 
the  striae  of  its  elytra  a  little  deeper  and  more  perceptibly  cretiulated. 

The  P.  longulus  abounds  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  (in  both 
of  which  it  was  taken  by  M.  Hartung,  Mr.  Gray,  and  myscK),  and  is 
likewise  found,  though  more  sparingly,  in  Grand  Canary  and  Tene- 
riffe.  In  the  two  former  it  is  universal,  occurring  at  all  elevations  ; 
and  indeed,  on  the  11th  of  March  1859,  I  met  with  it  even  in  the 
little  island  of  Graciosa,  off  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote  :  but  in 
Grand  Canary  it  is  apparently  more  local,  being  nearly  confined  (so 
far  as  observed  hitherto)  to  sandy  spots  about  Las  Palmas  and  the 
Puerto  da  Luz.  In  Teneriffe  I  have  not  myself  noticed  it ;  but  it 
has  been  communicated  from  thence  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva  ;  and  I  have  also  received  a  specimen  from  Dr.  Schaum,  which 
he  obtained  from  Professor  Heer  and  which  is  stated  to  be  TenerifFan. 
It  was  collected  by  M.  Hartung,  and  differs  from  the  ordinary  ex- 
amples in  having  its  prothorax  more  rounded  at  the  sides,  with  the 
hinder  angles  consequently  more  obtuse,  and  with  the  outer  basal 
fovea  almost  obsolete,  and  in  its  elytral  striae  being  uncrenulated. 
I  can  scarcely  believe,  however,  that  it  is  more  than  an  accidental 
aberration,  or  at  the  utmost  a  local  variety. 

That  this  insect  is  the  one  referred  to  in  M.  Hartung's  catalogue 

*  There  would  seem,  however,  to  be  a  small  cluster  of  nearly  allied  species,  or 
forms,  of  this  immediate  type,  peculiar  to  these  latitudes.  My  P.  haligcna,  from 
the  Salvao;es,  is  another  of  them,  and  is  closely  related  to  the  Canarian  one: 
ncvertlieless  it  is  rather  smaller  ;  its  prothorax  is  sliorter  and  narrower,  with  tlic 
outer  basal  impression  less  distinct,  and  the  dorsal  channel  more  abruptly  ter- 
minated both  before  and  behind ;  and  the  elytra  of  its  female  sex  are  more  alu- 
taceous  and  opake,  witli  tlieir  stria;  finer,  and  their  interstices  more  depressed. 
In  my  description  of  it  [;vV7f  '  Journ.  of  Ent.'  i.  87]  I  contrasted  it  (as  now)  with 
its  Canarian  ally,  but  alluded  to  the  latter  as  the  "P.  canarkn&is,  Brulle."  On 
a  more  careful  inspection,  liowever,  I  perceive  that  so  far  as  the  name  is  concerned 
I  was  mistaken, — M.  Brulle's  Feronia  ravariensis  being  apparently  a  totally  dif- 
ferent insect. 


CANAHIAN   COLEOPTERA.  49 

as  the  Feronia  canariensis,  Brulle,  I  am  enabled  to  state  for  certain, 
—having  received  several  of  his  specimens,  thus  identified,  from  Dr. 
Heer. 

(Subgenus  Haptoderus,  Cliaud.) 

78.  Pterostichiis  angularis. 

P.  piceus  ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  antice  rotundato-ampliato  postice 
angustiore,  angulis  ipsissimis  posticis  subaciitis,  margine  lateral! 
incrassato,  postice  subsinuato,  fortiter  canaliculato  et  basi  utrinque 
linea  valde  profunda  impresso  ;  elytris  ellipticis,  striatis,  inter- 
stitio  tertio  punetis  duobus  maguis  notato,  ad  apieem  ipsum  (in 
utroque  sexu)  plus  minus  vel  conjunctim  truneatis  vel  singulatim 
emarginatis  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis. 

Mas  major,  latior,  nigro-piceus,  nitidus,  convexus ;  elytris  profunde 
striatis,  interstitiis  convexis  ;  pedibus  robustis. 

Fvem.  paulo  minor,  angustior,  rufo-piceus,  (eapite  nitido  excepto) 
opacus,  subdepressus ;  elytris  minus  profunde  striatis,  interstitiis 
depressis,  per  suturam  (prassertim  postice)  elevatis  ;  pedibus  minus 
robustis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5^. 

$.  Calathus  angularis,  Brn'le,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  56  (1838). 
<5'.  Feronia  cauarieusis  ?,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  56  (1838). 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  sylvaticis  TenerifFae,  hinc  inde  sat  vulgaris. 

Were  it  not  for  the  relative  dilatation  of  the  tarsi  and,  still  more, 
for  the  fact  that  I  have  repeatedly  taken  them  in  coitu,  the  extra- 
ordinary dissimilarity  of  the  sexes  of  this  curious  Pterosticlius  might 
almost  have  led  to  the  idea  that  they  vfere  specifically  distinct.  And 
as  such  indeed,  judging  from  his  very  meagre  and  unsatisfactory  diag- 
nosis, I  believe  that  M.  Brulle  did  absolutely  regard  them, — describing 
(unless  I  am  much  mistaken)  the  female  under  the  name  of  Calathus 
angularis,  and  the  male  under  that  of  Feronia  canariensis  !  At  least, 
after  a  careful  consideration  of  his  "  diagnoses  "  (if  such  they  may 
be  called),  I  can  come  to  no  other  conclusion  ;  and,  in  partial  accord- 
ance with  this  hypothesis,  I  have  lately  received  from  M.  Chevrolat 
a  supposed  "  type  "  of  the  C.  angularis,  which  is  undoubtedly  the  pre- 
sent insect.  It  is  certain  therefore,  if  M.  Chevrolat's  type  can  (as  I 
have  every  reason  to  believe)  be  relied  upon,  that  the  species  now 
under  consideration  is,  at  all  events,  M.  Brulle's  C.  angularis ;  and 
the  only  question  that  remains  is,  whether  it  be  not  his  Feronia 
canariensis  likewise.  Before  critically  examining  it,  I  had  considered 
the  preceding  species  (the  P.  longulus)  as  the  F.  canariensis  of  Brulle  ; 
but  this  was  simply  through  the  fact  of  my  having  received  it  (a  few 
years  ago)  thus  identijied  from  Prof.  Heer.  On  looking  closely  how- 
ever into  M.  Brulle's  list  of  Canarian  Coleoptera,  it  is  quite  evident 


50  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

to  me  that  the  insect  which  he  referred  to  the  F.  harbara  of  Dejean 
must  have  been  the  nearly  allied  (though  scarcely  coincident)  P.  lon- 
gulus ;  and  that  consequently  his  F.  canariensis  (which  immediately 
follows  it)  was  of  necessity  something  different.  Now,  his  comparison 
of  the  latter  with  the  Pyrenaean  Argutor  ahaamdes,  and  the  differential 
charactei's  which  he  draws  between  the  two,  utterly  preclude  the  idea 
that  his  F.  canariensis  could  possibly  have  been  the  species  which  I 
have  just  described  as  the  longulus  of  Reiche ;  whilst  the  very  few 
points  to  which  he  calls  attention  are  all  in  favour  of  its  tallying 
with  the  male  (for  he  expressly  mentions  it  as  "  luisante  ")  of  the 
present  Pterostichiis.  Indeed  (the  P.  longulus  disposed  of)  there  is  no 
Canarian  insect  to  which  his  "  description"  could  apply  except  the 
present  one  ;  and  I  think  therefore  that  I  am  fully  justified  in  treating 
his  C.  angnlaris  and  F.  canariensis  as  identical*.  Assuming  them 
therefore  to  be  coincident,  I  have  preferred  the  former  specific  name 
to  the  latter,  as  the  more  appropriate  of  the  two, — the  insect  being 
found,  apparently,  in  but  one  of  the  seven  islands  of  the  Group. 

The  P.  angularis  is  universal  throughout  the  sylvan  regions  of 
Teneriffe.  During  March  of  1858  I  took  it  abundantly,  in  coitu,  at 
the  Agua  Garcia ;  and  it  is  also  common  at  Las  Mercedes,  and  in  the 
forest  above  Taganana.  It  has  likewise  been  coramimicated  by  the 
Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva ;  as  also  by  Dr.  Heer  (from  the  collection 
of  M.  Hartung). 

79.  Pterostichus  harpaloides,  n.  sp. 
P.  piceus,  nitidus  ;  prothorace  convexo,  transversim  leviter  undulato, 
sub(]uadrato  postiee  vix  angustiore,  angulis  posticis  rectis,  margine 
laterali  paulo  incrassato,  postico  recto,  leviter  canaliculate  et  basi 
utrinque  \'ix  impresso,  emarginationo  antica  subsinuata ;  elytris 
breviter  ovato-oblongis,  convexis,  le\'iter  striatis,  interstitiis  sub- 
depressis,  tertio  punctis  duobus  (vel  tribus)  parvis  notato,  ad  api- 
cem  (in  utroque  sexu)  integris  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  rufo- 
piceis ;  pedibus  posticis  brevibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-4. 

Habitat  ins.  Hierro,  in  locis  editioribus  regionis  sylvaticae  "  El 
Golfo"  dictae  mense  Februario  a.d.  1858*parce  repertus. 

*  It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  M.  Brulle  should  not  have  been  a  little  more 
accurate  in  his  descriptions.  Apart  from  all  other  characters,  if  he  had  looked 
at  the  claws  of  his  C.  ang^ilaris  he  would  have  immediately  perceived  that  it  was 
no  Calathus  at  all ;  and  at  least  one  of  his  diagnoses  (all  equally  unintelligible) 
would  have  been  thus  removed  into  its  frofer  place, — enabling  after-observers  at 
all  evenfs  to  (/uess  wliat  the  insect  really  was  to  which  he  referred.  His  total 
silence  too  as  to  the  exact  islands  in  which  the  several  species  occur  (thovigh  all 
the  types  which  I  examined  in  Paris,  of  MM.  Webb  and  Eerthelot,  had  their 
islands  indicated  by  a  separate  label)  deprives  us  of  t^e  only  possible  clue  which 
we  might  have  otherwise  had  for  deciphering  his  insects. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  51 

The  only  specimens  which  I  have  seen  of  this  singular  insect  are 
five  which  were  captured  by  myself,  from  beneath  stones,  in  the  upper 
part  of  the  wooded  region  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  west  of  HieiTO,  during 
our  visit  to  that  island  in  February  1858.  It  offers  so  many  pecu- 
liarities, that  I  need  only  refer  to  the  diagnosis  ;  but  its  comparatively 
convex  prothorax  and  elytra  (the  former  of  which  is  almost  free  from 
impressions  at  its  base  and  has  its  posterior  angles  right  angles,  whilst 
the  latter  are  very  lightly  striated,  with  their  discal  punctiu^es  in- 
distinct and  sometimes  obsolete),  in  conjunction  with  its  exceedingly 
short  hind  legs  (for  a  Pterostichus),  may  be  especially  noticed.  Its 
sexes,  too  (barring,  of  coiu'se,  the  dilatation  of  its  male-tarsi),  are 
similar,  both  in  outline  and  surface. 

Genus  26.  AMARA. 
Bonelli,  Ohservat.  Ent.  i.  (1809). 

(Subgenus  Leiocnemis,  Zimm.) 

80.  Amara  versuta. 

A.  brcviter  ovata,  nigro-picea,  a^neo-micans,  convexa ;  prothorace 
brevi,  transverse,  ad  latera  marginato  et  sequaliter  rotundato,  basi 
vix  punctate  (interdxun  impunctato)  sed  utrinque  foveis  duabus 
(interna  sc.  majore  longiore,  sed  externa  parva,  minus  profunda, 
subrotundata)  notato,  postice  in  medio  transversim  impresso  ;  ely- 
tris  paulo  dilutioribus  (fusco-piceis),  crenato-striatis ;  antennis, 
palpis  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Amara  versuta,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hid.  (3rd  series)  xi.  215  (1863). 

bifi'ons,  Hartuni/  [nee  Gyll.'],  Geoloq.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  imd  Fuert. 

141. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

The  present  very  distinct  little  Amara  (which  I  am  informed  by 
Dr.  Schaum  should  be  referred  to  the  section  Leiocnemis)  is  the  only 
one  of  the  genus  which  has  hitherto  been  observed  at  the  Canaries, — 
even  the  common  European  A.  trivialis,  which  abounds  at  Madeira 
and  the  Azores,  being  apparently  absent  from  the  islands  of  that 
archipelago.  The  A.  versuta,  moreover,  would  seem  to  be  confined  to 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — where  it  is  decidedly  rare,  and  occurs 
at  intermediate  elevations.  It  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  in 
the  former, — principally  from  under  stones  on  the  grassy  plain  imme- 
diately above  the  village  of  Los  VaUes  (de  S*''  Catalina),  on  the  road 
to  Haria ;  and  by  M.  Hartung  and  myself  in  the  latter.  My  Fuerte- 
venturan  examples  were  taken,  beneath  corn-stack  refuse,  at  Oliva, 
on  the  31st  of  March  1859.  Having  received  it  from  Dr.  Heer  under 
the  name  of  "  A.  hifrons,  GyU.,"  I  am  enabled  to  state  for  certain 

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52  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

that  it  is  the  insect  referred  by  him,  in  M.  Hartung's  list,  to  that 
species.     It  belongs,  however,  in  reality,  to  a  cliiFerent  group. 

Genus  27.  ZABRUS. 
Claii-ville,  Etit.  Heh.  ii.  80  (1806). 

81.  Zabrus  crassus. 

Zabrus  crassus,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Cul.  iii.  451  (1828). 

,  Zimm.,  Mon.  dei-  Carab.  42  (1831). 

,  JSndle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  57  (1838). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  prsesertim  in  locis  subelevatis,  rarior. 

The  two  Canarian  Zahri  (both  of  them  peculiar  to  Teneriffe)  are 
very  closely  related  inter  se,  but  I  believe  triily  distinct.  The  present 
one  is  a  little  more  robust  and  ovate  than  its  ally  (being,  on  the 
average,  a  trifle  more  expanded  posteriorly),  and  rather  less  shining 
(or  a  little  more  evidently  alutaceous)  ;  its  prothorax  is  just  percep- 
tibly broader,  somewhat  more  strongly  impressed  behind,  and  more 
widely  depressed  at  the  sides ;  its  elytra  are  veiy  much  more  deeply 
striated,  and  its  limbs  are  usually  a  shade  darker.  It  is  certainly 
the  rarer  of  the  two,  and  foimd  for  the  most  part  at  a  rather  higher 
altitude, — though  I  have  taken  it  occasionally  on  the  hiUs  behind 
S''*  Cruz  at  only  a  slight  elevation  above  the  sea.  On  the  mountains, 
however,  above  Taganana,  and  at  Las  Mercedes,  it  appears  more 
within  its  normal  range. 

82.  Zabrus  laevigatus. 
Zabrus  Isevigatus,  Zimm.,  3Ion,  der  Carab.  43  (1831). 
Habitat  Teneriifam,  prsecipue  in  locis  subinferioribus,  hinc  inde 
vulgaris. 

This  appears  to  be  the  commoner  of  the  two  TenerifFan  Zahri, 
though  at  the  same  time  somewhat  local,  I  have  taken  it  rather 
abundantly  in  the  dry  cindery  region  between  the  Puerto  Orotava 
and  the  Villa,  where  it  occurs  beneath  stones  during  the  spring ;  and 
it  has  also  been  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  may  be  known  from  its 
ally  by  being,  on  the  average,  a  little  smaller  and  more  oblong  (or 
less  dilated  behind)  ;  by  its  prothorax  being  more  narroivly  depressed 
at  the  sides  (particularly  towards  the  posterior  angles),  altogether 
not  quite  so  broad,  and  with  its  basal  impressions  perhaps  somewhat 
lighter ;  and  by  its  elytral  striae  being  much  less  deep,  its  limbs 
generally  of  a  paler  hue,  and  its  entire  surface  just  perceptibly  more 
shining  (or  less  distinctly  alutaceous).  I  have  received  it  from  Dr. 
Heer  (collected  by  M.  Hartung)  under  the  name  of  "  crassus,  Dej." ; 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  53 

but  it  seems  to  be  the  true  la'vlc/atus  of  Zimmermann,  Dejean's  crassus 
being  the  preceding  (and  rarer)  species.  Both  of  these  Zahrl  have 
also  been  communicated  by  the  Bariio  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

(Subfam.  XI.  DITOMIDES.) 

Genus  28.  ARISTUS. 
(Ziegler)  Latr.,  m(/ne  Anhn.  (ed.  2)  iv.  387  (1829). 

83.  Aristus  subopacus,  n.  sp. 
A.  niger,  subeyHndi-ico-oblongus,  calvus,  subopaciis,  minutissime  alu- 
taceus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  parce  (illo  profundius)  punctatis,  illo 
valde  convexo  integro  (/.  e.  fronte  vix  impressa),  hoc  bre%d,  ad  basin 
subito  et  valde  constricto,  ad  latera  grosse  marginato  (angulis  ipsis 
posticis  rectis  marginatis) ;  elytris  subparaUelis,  leviter  punctato- 
striatis,  interstitiis  depressis  fere  impunctatis  ;  antennis  ad  apicem, 
palpis  tarsisque  rufo-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5. 

Ditomus  clypeatiis?,  Brulle  [uec  Rossi],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  57 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Fuerteventurse,  a  meipso  Aprili  ineunte  a.d. 
1859  sub  lapide  in  summo  monte  "  La  Atalaya  "  dicto  semel  lectus. 

The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  of  this  very  distinct  Aristus 
was  captured,  on  the  4th  of  April  1859,  from  beneath  a  stone,  on  the 
summit  of  La  Atalaya  (above  Betancui'ia), — the  loftiest  mountain  of 
Fuerteventura.  Whether  it  be  the  insect  referred  by  M.  Brulle  to 
the  Ditomus  clypeatus  of  Rossi,  I  am  unable  to  say  for  certain,  the 
greater  number  of  his  types  (supposed  to  be  in  Paris)  being  either 
lost  or  inaccessible ;  but,  judging  from  the  very  few  words  which  ho 
says  about  it,  I  think  that  it  most  probably  is.  It  differs,  however 
from  the  ch/peatus  in  being  rather  larger,  more  parallel  (or  cylindric), 
and  broader ;  in  its  entire  sculpture  being  very  much  finer ;  in  its 
head  being  more  convex,  and  free  from  foveas ;  in  its  prothorax  being 
more  strongly  margined  at  the  sides  (even  to  the  basal  angles  them- 
selves), and  with  the  anterior  angles  less  porrect ;  and  in  its  surface 
(which  is  totally  free  from  pile)  being  more  alutaceous  and  less 
shining.  Prima  facie  it  has  somewhat  in  common  with  the  Ditomus 
opacus,  from  the  south  of  Algeria. 

(Subfam.  XII.  HARPALIDES.) 

Genus  29.  CRATOGNATHUS. 

Dejean,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iv.  46  (1829). 
The  four  species  described  below,  I  am  informed  by  Dr.  Schaum, 
are  referable  to  the  genus  Cratognathus  of  Dejean  ;  and  although  the 


54 


CAN.VKl AN  COLEOrXERA , 


first  of  them  (the  Lanzarotan  and  Fuerteveutiiran  C.  solitarms)  has 
certainly  much  the  facies  of  a  small  Acinoinis,  nevertheless  its  per- 
fectly toothless  mentum  and  the  well-defined  hinder  angles  of  its 
pro  thorax  would  seem  to  assign  it  to  Cratognatlms  rather  than  to 
that  group.  Indeed  Cratognatlms  (of  which  the  "  Ilarjxdns  vividus" 
from  Madeira,  and  the  "  H.  pclagicus  *,"  from  the  Salvages,  are  also 
undoubted  members)  appears  to  be  universal  throughout  these  At- 
lantic islands,  and  it  is  probable  therefore  that  there  are  members  of 
it  yet  to  be  detected.  It  differs  mainly  from  Harixdus  proper  (into 
which,  however,  it  almost  merges)  in  the  tendency  of  its  head,  par- 
ticularly in  the  male  sex,  to  be  greatly  enlarged,  in  the  emargination 
of  its  mentum  being  deep  and  quite  simple  (even  the  rudiments  of 
the  tooth  which  is  seldom,  if  indeed  ever,  altogether  untraceable  in 
the  true  HarpaU  being  apparently  absent),  in  its  mandibles  being 
perhaps  slightly  obtuser,  in  its  wings  being  obsolete,  and  in  the  more 
developed  spurs  of  its  anterior  tibia?.  The  Cratognathi  are  usually 
smaller  and  less  cyhndric  than  the  Acinopl,  but  on  the  average  per- 
haps a  trifle  larger  than  the  ordinary  Harpali ;  and  in  colour  they 
are  almost  invariably  of  a  more  or  less  dark  piccous  (seldom  com- 
pletely black),  and  quite  free  from  any  metallic  tinge. 

84.  Cratognathus  solitarius. 
C.  ater,  subcylindrieo-oblongus ;  capite  magno  ;  prothoraee  subqua- 
drato  postice  vix  angustiore,  basi  utrinque  fovea  sat  profunda  punc- 
tata impresso;  elytris  oblongis,  profunde  crenato-striatis,  interstitio 
septimo  ad  apicem  ipsissimum  punctulis  circa  2-4  (interdum  in- 
distinctis  confusis)  notato  ;  antennis,  palpis  tarsisque  rufo-ferrugi- 
neis,  femoribus  tibiisque  piccis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4|-5. 

Cratognathus  solitarius,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  ser.)  xi.  215  (1863). 
Hai"palus  consentaneus,  Hartunc/  [nee  Dtj.~\,  Gcolog.  Verhaltn.  Lanz. 
unci  Fucrt.  140  et  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus  in  locis  in- 
termediis  et  elevatioribus  sat  vulgaris. 

The  more  cylindric  outline  and  blacker  hue  of  this  insect,  combined 
with  its  deeply  crenate-striated  elytra  and  general  aspect,  give  it  more 
the  character,  prima /acie,  of  a  small  Acinopus  than  of  a  Cratognathus ; 

*  This  insect,  which  I  described  in  a  paper  on  certain  Coleoptera  from  the 
Salvages,  published  in  the  '  Journal  of  Entomology,'  vol.  i.  p.  88,  differs  from  all 
the  species  here  characterized  in  being  reMivcly  broader,  and  with  its  prothorax 
(which  is  but  very  obsciu-ely  impressed  beliincl)  much  more  rounded  (and  mh- 
cqually  so)  at  the  sides, — causing  the  angles  to  be  more  obtuse.  Its  elytra  (which 
are  subopake  in  the  females)  are  only  lightly  striated  in  both  sexes,  and  their 
seventh  interstice  has  a  few  small  punctules  (as  in  the  C.  solitarms)  at  its  extreme 
apex, — wliich  last  is  less  produced  than  is  the  case  in  its  allies  here  enumerated. 
Perhaps  it  has  more  afllnity  with  the  G.  fortunatus,  from  Grand  Canary,  than 
with  any  of  the  others. 


CANARIAN  COLEOrTERA.  55 

nevertheless  tlie  structural  features  already  alluded  to  would  seem  to 
refer  it  to  the  latter.  In  its  habits  the  C  soUtanus  is  a  little  pecu- 
liar, since  it  is  less  gregarious  than  either  the  Cratognathi  or  Harpali 
usually  are, — only  one  specimen  being  found,  for  the  most  part, 
beneath  a  single  stone,  and  that  one  within  a  small  hole  (or  burrow^. 
It  is  universal  throughout  the  intermediate  and  higher  elevations  of 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  in  both  of  which  islands  it  has  been 
taken  abundantly  by  M.  Hartung  and  myself.  I  have  received 
several  examples  of  it  from  Dr.  Heer  (collected  by  the  former)  under 
the  name  of  "  Harpalus  consentaneus*,  Dej."  (with  which,  however, 
it  has  nothing  whatever  in  common)  ;  so  that  I  can  state  for  certain 
that  it  is  the  insect  thus  referred  to  in  the  catalogue  which  was  pre- 
j)ared  by  him  for  M.  Hartung's  volume.  Fuerteventuran  specimens 
have  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

85.  Cratognathus  fortunatus. 
C.  piceus,  oblongus  ;  capite  magno  ;  prothorace  subquadrato  postice 

subrecte  angaistiore,  basi  utrinque  vix  punctulato  vix  impresso ; 

elytris  subovato-oblongis,  striatis,  interstitio  septimo  ad  apicem 

punctis  circa  2-4  notato  ;  labro  rufo-piceo  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedi- 

busque  rufo-ferrugineis. 
31as  nitidus,  interstitiis  subconvexis. 
Fcetn.  subopacus,  interstitiis  subdepressis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5-5|. 

Cratognathus  fortunatus,  Woll,  Ann. Nat. Hist.  (3rd ser.)xi.  215  (1863). 

Habitat  montes  Canarise  Grandis,  in  pineto  quodam  rcgionis  "  Ta- 
rajana"  dictae  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  sat  copiose  repertus. 

The  (comparatively)  rather  larger  size  of  this  species  (which  is  the 
largest,  on  the  average,  of  the  Canarian  Cratocjnathi),  combined  with 
the  subopake  surface  of  its  female  sex,  its  very  lightly  impressed 
jtrothorax,  and  the  series  of  small  punctures  at  the  apex  of  its  seventh 

*  It  is  rather  remarkable  that  the  common  European  H.  consentaneus,  Dej. 
(=affetnfafus,  Steph.),  wliich  is  universal  in  the  Madeiran  Group,  has  not  yet 
(so  far  as  I  am  aware)  been  detected  at  the  Canaries.  It  is  certainly  quoted  by 
M.  Briille ;  but  such  a  vast  proportion  of  his  insects  are  incorrectly  identified 
[some  few  of  them,  moreover,  having  been,  /  have  the  most  conclusive  reasons  for 
helieving,  even  brought  by  Mr.  Webb  from  Madeira!],  that  I  cannot — with  some 
20,000  Canarian  specimens  now  in  my  possession  amongst  which  it  does  not 
occur — admit  it,  without  further  evidence,  into  the  catalogue.  The  two  nearly 
allied  species  H.  fcnehrosus  and  Schaimm  are  not  imcommon  at  Teneriffe  ;  and  it 
is  far  from  improbable,  therefore,  that  the  latter  of  them  (for  the  former  is  men- 
tioned by  M.  Brulle)  may  have  been  mistaken  for  the  consentaneus.  In  like 
manner  I  cannot  include  the  H.  rultripes,  Creutz., — which  is  similarly  recorded 
by  M.  Brulle,  without  the  slightest  reference  to  its  habitat,  or  with  so  much  as  a 
single  observation  accompanying  it.  So  far  as  my  own  experience  goes,  I  am 
satisfied  that  the  H.  rubripes  does  not  occur  in  any  of  these  Atlantic  islands  ;  and 
I  shall  require  better  evidence  than  that  afforded  by  M.  Brulle's  list  before  I 
believe  that  it  does.     I  have  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  the  insect  he  really  re- 


56  CAXARIAN  C'ULEOPTERA. 

elytral  interstice,  must  serve  to  characterize  it.  So  far  as  I  have 
observed  hitherto,  it  appears  to  be  confined  to  the  mountains  of 
Grand  Canary, — where,  during  April  1858,  I  took  it,  in  tolerable 
abundance,  in  one  of  the  lofty  Finals  of  the  district  of  Tarajana,  above 
the  village  of  San  Bartolome. 

S6.  Cratognathus  micans. 

C.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  jiaulo  minor,  in  utroque  scxu  fere  tequaliter 
nitidus,  prothorace  ad  latera  paulo  magis  sinuato,  elytris  antice 
paulo  magis  truncatis  (ergo  vix  brevioribus) ,  interstitii  septimi 
punctis  obsoletis,  podibus  paulo  pallidioribus. 

Var.  /3.  Sancto'-crucis  [an  species  distincta  ?J.  Minus  politus,  capite 
paulo  minore,  prothorace  basi  paulo  minus  subito  angustiore  (ergo 
angulis  vix  minus  rectis),  utrinque  profundius  foveolato,  elytris 
profundius  striatis,  ad  apicem  ipsum  plerumque  j^aulo  magis  acu- 
mihatis. — Long,  coi-p.  lin.  4^-5. 

Cratognathus  micans,  JFolL,  Aim.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  ser.)  xi.  215  (1863). 
Harpalus  vii-idus,  Hartion/  [nee  Di'J.,  necFab.^,  Geolog.  VerhciUn.Lanz. 
unci  Fuert.  140. 

Habitat  in  ins.  Gomera,  prope  San  Sebastian  vulgaris  ;  sed  var.  ft  ad 
Teneriifam  solam  pertinet,  circa  urbem  Sanetae  Crucis  pra^dominans. 

The  rather  smaller  size  and  almost  equally  polished  surface  of  the 
two  sexes  of  this  species,  in  conjunction  with  the  absence*  of  the 
punctures  at  the  apex  of  the  seventh  interval  of  its  elytra,  will  suf- 
fice to  separate  it  from  the  C.  fortmiatus,  to  which  it  is  nearly  allied. 
It  is  possible  that  the  form  which  I  have  regarded  as  the  var.  ft  may 
be  specifically  distinct ;  nevertheless  its  differential  characters  (al- 
though constant)  are  so  minute  that  I  think  it  safer  to  treat  it  as  an 
insular  modification  peculiar  to  Tenerifi'e.     As  may  be  gathered  from 


fei-red  to  was  the  H.  disfingi(endus,  Dufts.,  which  abounds  at  Madeira  but  wliieh 
has  not  yet  been  observed  at  the  Canaries  ;  and  that  it  was  probably  entered  on  the 
strength  of  an  example  brought  by  Mr.  Webb  (along  with  the  Scarifes  abhreviatus 
and  perhaps  also  the  Harpalus  conse77tanfns)  from  Funchal. 

*  Perhaps  they  should  rather  be  called  obsolete  (as  indeed  I  liave  done  in  the 
diagnosis)  than  absent;  for  out  of  .33  specimens  of  the  typical  micajis  which  I 
have  just  examined,  I  find  these  subapical  punctules  present  in  s/.r;  nevertheless 
in  64  of  the  Teneriffan  "  var.  /3  "  there  is  (as  in  the  C.  (smulus)  no  appearance  of 
them  whatsoever.  In  the  fortiinattfs,  on  the  other  hand,  in  which  I  have  mentioned 
them  as  a  diagnostic  feature,  they  are  well  developed  in  all  (32  in  number)  wliich 
I  have  yet  seen  :  so  that  the  six  in  which  they  exist  out  of  the  117  micajts  may  be 
regarded  as  exceptional,  or  even  accidental.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  allude  to 
the  A.  solifarucs  (which  has  so  many  characters  of  its  own  that  it  could  not  be 
confounded  with  either  of  these  more  nearly  allied  forms);  but  in  12  examples 
of  it  which  I  have  carefully  overhauled,  the  punctules  are  always  visible, — only 
smaller  than  thone  of  the  forfunatus,  still  more  apical,  and  often  somewhat  indis- 
tinct or  confused. 


CANARIAX  COLEOPTERA.  67 

the  diagnosis,  it  may  be  known  from  what  I  have  considered  as  the 
type  (and  which  is  confined  to  the  island  of  Gomera)  by  being  a  little 
less  polished,  by  having  its  elytra  more  deeply  striated  and  perhaps 
somewhat  more  acuminated  at  their  extreme  apex,  and  by  its  being 
(on  the  average)  just  perceptibly  smaller,  and  with  its  head  not  quite 
so  largely  developed.  Its  prothorax,  too,  has  its  fovese  rather  more 
apparent,  and  its  sides  usually  a  trifle  less  sinuated  behind,  causing 
the  angles  to  be  (if  anything)  more  obtuse. 

The  typical  state  abounds  in  Gomera,  where  it  was  taken  by  Mr. 
Gray  and  myself,  around  San  Sebastian  and  on  the  hills  above  it, 
during  our  visit  to  that  island  in  February  1858  ;  and  I  have  received 
it  from  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  collected  near  Hermigua.  The 
"  var.  /3,"  on  the  contrar)-,  seems  to  be  the  state  which  obtains  in 
Teneriffe,  where  it  is  common  in  certain  spots  in  the  vicinity  of  S*" 
Cruz.  My  own  specimens  are  principally  from  the  rocky  slopes  about 
the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto. 

Several  examples  of  the  var.  fl  (which  were  found  by  M.  Hartung) 
have  been  communicated  to  me  by  Dr.  Heer  under  the  name  of  *■'  Har- 
paltis  vividus,  Dej,"  ;  so  that  I  can  vouch  for  its  being  the  insect  re- 
ferred to  in  his  catalogue  of  Lanzarotan*  Coleoptera  ;  it  has  however 
nothing  in  common,  except  its  generic  characters,  with  that  species. 

87.  Cratognathus  semulus,  n.  sp. 

C.  var.  j3  G.  micantts  similis,  sed  colore  obseuriore  (minus  piceo),  in 
utroque  sexu  minus  nitidus  (foeminji  etiam  fere  opaca),  capite  paulo 
minore,  prothorace  basi  paulo  magis  angustato  (angulis  ipsis  posticis 
subacute  prominulis),  utrinque  profundius  impresso;  elytris  in  sexu 
masculo  valde  profunde  striatis,  interstitiis  convexis,  in  fcemineo 
leviter  striatis,  interstitiis  depressis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4|. 

Habitat  Teneriifam  sylvaticam,  in  montibus  supra  Tagananam 
captus. 

*  It  is  unfortunate  that  M.  Hartung  should  not  have  been  more  careful  in  pre- 
serving the  localities  of  his  various  species.  I  have  no  hesitation  in  saying  that 
the  C.  mieans  djes  >iot  occur  in  eitlier  Lanzarote  or  Fuerteventura, — which  are 
so  distinctive  in  their  fauna  as  to  be  almost  separated  topographically  from  the 
other  islands  of  the  archipelago.  It  has  not  as  yet  been  detected  even  in  G-rand 
Canary ;  and  there  seems  every  reason  to  believe  that  the  var.  ji  is  confined  to 
Teneriffe,  and  that  what  I  have  regarded  as  the  type  is  peculiar  to  Gomera. 
From  the  specimens  wliich  have  been  forwarded  to  me  by  Dr.  Heer,  I  have  not 
a  shadow  of  doubt  but  that  they  are  Teneriftan,  and  were  most  probably  col- 
lected in  the  neighbourhood  of  S'«  Cruz  ;  and  that,  hke  the  single  example 
already  alluded  to  of  the  OUathopus  glabratus,  they  were  mixed  up  inadvertently 
(perhaps  afterwards). with  Lanzarotan  species.  Thus,  what  between  a  wrong  ha- 
bitat and  a  wrong  identification  (it  being  referred  to  an  insect,  tlie  Madeiran  C. 
vividus,  from  which  it  is  totally  distinct),  a  twofold  error,  of  no  slight  importance 
in  a  geographical  point  of  view,  is  on  record. 


58  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

In  its  external  contour  this  insect  approaches  so  near  to  the  ordi- 
nary Harpali  that,  were  it  not  for  its  slightly  enlarged  head  and 
anterior  tibial  spurs,  and  (still  more)  for  the  difficulty  (indeed  almost 
the  impossibility)  of  placing  it  in  a  different  group  from  the  preceding 
species,  it  could  scarcely  have  been  regarded  as  a  Cratognathus  :  never- 
theless I  am  satisfied  that  to  detach  it  from  its  allies  on  account  of 
lis  prima  facie  aspect  would  be  most  unnatural ;  and  it  must  therefore 
remain  as  a  small,  and  not  very  typical,  member  of  the  present  genus. 
It  is  at  once  chai'acterized  by  its  darker  (or  less  piceous)  hue,  by  the 
more  acute  (in  fact  almost  minutely-prominent)  hinder  angles  of  its 
prothorax,  and  by  the  very  opposite  appearance  of  its  sexes, — the 
males  being  shining  (though  less  so  than  in  any  of  the  foregoing 
species),  with  their  elytra  very  deeply  striated  and  the  interstices 
convex ;  wliilst  the  females  are  nearly  opake,  with  their  striae  light, 
and  their  interstices  depressed.  The  only  two  examples  which  I 
have  seen  were  taken  in  the  sylvan  region  above  Taganana,  of  Tene- 
riflfe,  during  May  1859. 

Genus  30.  HARPALUS, 
Latreille,  Oen.  Crust,  et  Lis.  i.  201  (1806). 

88.  Harpalus  tenebrosus. 

H.  niger,  obscurissime  subcyaneus  ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  ad  latera 
subajqualiter  rotimdato,  angulis  posticis  obtusis,  basi  utrinque  dense 
punctate;  elytris  striatis  (sti'iis  fere  simplicibus);  antennis,  palpis 
tarsisque  rufo-ferrugineis,  illis  ante  basin  fusco-maculatis. 

Mas  nitidus ;  foem.  subopacus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|— 4|^. 

Hai-palus  tenebrosus,  Hpf'.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  iv.  378  (1829). 

,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  BeHh.  (Col.)  57.  (1838). 

Wollastoni,  Dmvs.,  Geod.  Brit.  144  (1854). 

litigiosus,  Woll.  [nee  Dej.'],  Ins.  Mad.  52  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  16  (1857). 

tenebrosus,  Schaiini,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Detdsch,  i.  598  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura  et  Palma,  sat  rarus. 

The  European  H.tenehrosus  (which  occurs  also  in  Madeira  and  Porto 
Santo)  is  found  sparingly  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura ; 
and  I  have  also  taken  it  in  the  Banda,  on  the  west  of  Palma.  Although 
a  well-known  insect,  I  have  given  a  diagnosis  of  it  in  order  to  point 
out  its  distinctions  from  the  following  species. 

89.  Harpalus  Schaumii,  n.  sp. 

H.  niger ;  prothorace  brevi,  transverse  subquadrato,  ad  latera  postice 
subrecto,  angulis  posticis  subrectis,  basi  utrinque  parce  sed  pro- 
funde  punctate ;  elytris  profunde  crenato- striatis,  interstitio  sep- 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  59 

timo  ad  apieem  pimctis  circa  3-7  notato;  aiitennis,  palpis  pecli- 

biis(|ue  rufo-ferrugineis. 
Mas  niticlissimus  ;  fcem.  subopacus. 
Var.  /3.  Teneriffce  [an   species?]  prothorace  elytrisque  paiilo  con- 

vexioribus,  illo  angulis  posticis  vix  magis  obtusis,  his  ad  apiccm 

paulo  brevioribus  necnon  in  scxu  foemineo  vix  minus  opacis. — 

Long.  Corp.  lin.  4-1-. 

Habitat  in  TonerifFa,  Palma  at  Hierro,  passim  :  var.  /3,  in  montibus 
supra  Ycod  el  Alto  capta,  ad  TenerifFam  pertinet. 

In  general  outline  and  size  the  present  Harpalus  is  closely  related 
to  the  tenebrosus;  but,  in  addition  to  its  wanting  the  obscurely 
subcyaneons  tint  which  is  scarcely  ever  entirely  absent  from  that 
species,  it  may  be  known  by  its  prothorax  being  shorter  and  more 
transverse,  straighter  at  the  sides  (causing  the  posterior  angles  to 
be  less  obtuse),  and  more  coarsely  and  sparingly  punctured  at  the 
base,  by  its  elytra  being  more  deeply  striated,  with  their  strite  most 
conspicuously  crenate,  and  with  their  seventh  interstice  furnished  with 
a  series  of  small  punctures  (varying  from  about  two  to  six)  behind, 
and  by  its  femora  and  tibiae  being  (instead  of  dark-piceous)  bright 
rufo-ferruginous — like  the  antennae  and  tarsi.  Its  subbasal  anten- 
nal  joints,  too,  are  not  infuscated,  as  is  the  tendency  in  that  insect ; 
and  the  surface  of  its  male  sex  is  more  highly  polished.  I  had 
thought  at  first,  from  its  evident  affinity  with  the  H.  tenebrosus,  and 
from  the  presence  of  the  small  series  of  punctiu'es  towards  the  apex 
of  its  eighth  elytral  interstice,  that  it  might  perhaps  be  identical 
with  the  Eui'opean  litigiosus ;  but  a  type  of  that  insect  which  has 
lately  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Schaum  has  convinced  me  that  it 
certainly  is  not  conspecific  with  it ;  and  indeed  Dr.  Schaum  himself 
adds,  "  I  consider  it  quite  distinct,  on  account  mainly  of  its  strongly 
punctured  striae ;  I  know,  in  fact,  of  scarcely  any  Hmpalus  which 
has  them  so  coarsely  sculptured." 

I  have  taken  it  sparingly,  from  beneath  stones,  in  Teneriffe  (par- 
ticularly around  S'"  Cruz  and  Orotava),  in  Palma  (immediately  above 
Buenavista,  before  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbrc),  and  in  the  region  of  El 
Golfo,  on  the  west  of  Hierro.  Whilst  at  Ycod  el  Alto,  in  Tenerifie, 
during  May  of  1859,  I  obtained  seven  specimens  (in  the  ravines  of 
the  lofty  Pinal  between  that  spot  and  the  Cumbre)  which  do  not 
entirely  accord  with  those  which  I  have  found  elsewhere  ;  neverthe- 
less their  difference  is  so  slight  that  I  think  they  cannot  be  regarded 
as  more  than  a  variety  of  the  litigiosus.  Their  prothorax  and  elyti'a 
are,  both  of  them,  a  trifle  more  convex  than  is  ordinarily  the  case  ; 
and  the  former  has  its  basal  angles  just  perceptibly  more  obtuse. 


GO  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

whilst  the  latter  are  a  little  more  shortened  behind, — leaving  the 
pygidium  still  more  exposed.  The  surface  of  their  female  sex,  too, 
is  perhaps,  if  anytliinrj,  somewhat  more  shining. 

Genus  31.  DICHIROTRICHUS. 

Jaeq.  Duval,  Gen.  des  Col  i.  35  (1857). 

90.  Dichirotrichus  levistriatus,  n.  sp. 

IJ.  oblongus,  rufo -ferruginous,  subnitidus,  fere  calvus  ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  leviter  punctatis,  hoc  subquadrato-cordato,  angidis  ipsis 
posticis  fere  rectis,  basi  utrinque  late  et  profunde  impresso  ;  elytris 
paraUelis,  leviter  striatis,  interstitiis  punctatis ;  pedibus  testaceis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  3. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  ad  Salinas  semel  captus. 

The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  of  this  insect  was  taken  by 
myself  at  the  Salinas  (or  salt-works),  in  the  extreme  north  of  Lanza- 
rote,  during  March  1859.  It  is  closely  allied  to  the  European  D. 
ohsoletus ;  but,  judging  from  the  single  example  now  before  me,  it  is 
rather  more  robust  and  oblong  (the  elytra  being  more  parallel)  ;  its 
head  and  prothorax  are  more  closely  and  less  deejily  punctured,  and 
the  latter  has  its  extreme  hinder  angles  a  trifle  more  acutely  pro- 
minent ;  its  elytra  are  immaculate,  with  their  sculptiu'e  lighter ;  its 
shoulders  arc  a  httle  more  obtuse  ;  and  its  entire  surface  is  of  a  redder 
tint,  and  apparently  almost  free  from  pubescence. 

Genus  32.  STENOLOPHUS. 

(Megerle)  Steph.,  HI  Brit.  Ent.  i.  1G5  (1828). 

91.  Stenolophus  vaporariorum. 

Carabus  vaporariorum,  Fah.  [iiee  Linn.  1701],  Sijst.  Ent.  247  (1775). 

teutouus,  Schrank,  Enuni.  Ins.  Austr.  214  (1781). 

Stenolophus  vaporariorum,  Bridle,  in  Wehhet  Berth.  (Col.)  67  (1838). 

teutonu8,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  59  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  17  (1857). 

,  Sclunnn,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  613  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Puerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  in 
humidis,  frequens. 

The  European  S.  vaporariorum  (which  is  common  at  Madeira,  and 
which  I  possess  from  the  Azores)  is  widely  spread  over  the  Canaritm 
archipelago, — where  in  all  probability  it  is  universal.  At  present, 
however,  I  have  taken  it  in  but  five  *  out  of  the  seven  islands  of  the 

*  It  is  indeed  recorded  in  M.  Hartung's  list  of  the  Coleoptera  of  Lanzarote ; 
but  so  many  errors  seem  to  have  arisen  througli  the  mixing  up  (however  unin- 
tentionally) of  the  insects  of  his  different  localities,  that  I  tliink  it  hardly  safe  to 
admit  it  into  my  catalogue  as  Lanzarotau  without  further  evidence. 


CANARIAN  COLEOrTERA.  61 

Group, — namely,  in  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Goraera, 
and  Palma.  In  Teneriffe  I  have  observed  it  principally,  in  moist 
spots,  around  S**  Cruz,  at  Las  Mercedes,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  at 
Ycod  el  Alto ;  and  in  Gomera  at  the  edges  of  the  small  stream  at 
San  Sebastian.  In  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  it  was  found  likewise  by 
Dr.  Crotch. 

92.  Stenolophus  marginatus. 

Stenolophus  margiuatus,  Dcj.,  Spec.  Gen.  ties  Col.  iv.  427  (1829). 

,  BrulU,  in  Wehh  'et  Berth.  (Col.)  57  (1838). 

,  Leon  Fairm.,  Faun.  Ent.  Franq.  i.  145  (1854). 

,  Wall,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ii.  407  (1858). 

Habitat  in  humidis  Canarice  et  Teneriffae,  rarissimus. 

The  S.  marginatus  of  Mediterranean  latitudes  (which  has  been 
recorded  in  Spain,  the  south  of  France,  Corfu,  Greece  and  Egypt,  and 
which  is  exceedingly  rare  in  Madeira)  occurs  very  sparingly  at  the 
Canaries.  I  have  myself  only  taken  it  in  the  island  of  Grand  Canary 
(by  the  edges  of  a  small  stream  on  the  ascent  to  the  Roca  del  Soucilho, 
from  San  Mateo) ;  but  a  Teneriffan  specimen  has  lately  been  com- 
municated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

93.  Stenolophus  dorsalis. 

Carabus  dorsalis,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  1G5  (1792). 

Acupalpus  dorsalis,  Bmf/e,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  57  (1838). 

Stenolophus  dorsalis,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  60  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  17  (1857). 

,  Schaiim,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  619  (1860). 

Habitat  in  humidis  Canariae,  Teneriffae  et  Gomerse,  hine  inde  vul- 
garis. 

The  European  S.  dorsalis  (likewise  found,  though  sparingly,  in 
Madeira)  is  tolerably  common  in  certain  spots  at  the  Canaries.  Up 
to  the  present  date,  however,  I  have  myself  observed  it  only  in  Grand 
Canary  and  Teneriffe, — namely  (abundantly)  near  San  Mateo  and 
Teror,  of  the  former ;  and  around  Sta  Cruz,  at  Las  Mercedes  and  the 
Agua  Garcia,  of  the  latter.  It  was  however  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch 
above  Hermigua  in  Gomera,  as  well  as  in  Teneriffe  (from  which 
latter  island  it  has  also  been  commiinicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello 
de  Paiva). 

Genus  33.  BRADYCELLUS. 
Erichson,  Kaf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  64  (1837). 

94.  Bradycellus  ventricosus,  n.  sp. 
B.   ovatus,  nigro-piceus,  nitidus ;  prothorace   subquadrato-cordato, 
basi  utrinque  profunde  punctato ;    elytris  eonvexis,  ventricosis. 


62  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

subcrenato-striatis,  sntiira  distinetc  necnon  limbo  ipsissimo  ob- 
scurius  ang'ustiusqiio  nifescentioribus  ;  antenuis  fiisco-testaceis, 
ad  basin,  palpis  pedibusque  pallido-testaceis,  tibiis  ad  apiccrn  tar- 
sisque  ad  basin  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^lv> 

Habitat  Tenerifiam  sylvaticam,  sub  foliis  dejectis  in  humidis  degens. 

The  present  beautiful  and  truly  indigenous  BradijceTlus  is  closely 
allied  to  the  Madeiran  B.  excidtus,  but  is  more  ovate  than  that  species 
(its  elj'tra  particularly  being  more  rounded,  convex,  and  ventricose)  ; 
its  eyes  are  larger ;  its  prothorax  is  wider  in  front,  narrower  behind, 
and  very  much  more  deeply  punctiired  on  either  side  at  the  base ; 
and  its  elytra  are  obtuser  at  their  shoulders,  and  with  their  strife 
evidently  crenulated.  I  have  observed  it  only  in  the  sylvan  districts 
of  Teneriffe, — having  taken  it  sparingly,  beneath  stones  and  dead 
leaves,  in  the  woods  above  Taganana,  at  Las  Mercedes,  the  Agua 
Garcia,  and  at  La  Esperanza. 

(Subfam.  XIII.  TRECHIDES.) 

Genus  34.  TRECHUS. 

Clairville,  Ent.  HeJv.  ii.  23  (1806). 

95.  Trechus  detersus,  n.  sp. 

T.  capite  prothoraceque  nitidissimis,  nigro-piceis  (hoc  ad  latera  et 
postice  intcrdimi  paulo  rufescentiore),  hoc  subquadrato,  angulis 
posticis  subrectis  (ipsissimis  acute  prominulis)  ;  elytris  ovalibus, 
rufo-ferrugineis,  in  disco  plus  minus  paulo  obscurioribus,  leviter 
striatis,  striis  versus  latera  obsoletis  ;  antennis  infuscato-testaeeis, 
ad  basin,  palpis  pedibusque  testaceis.— Long.  corp.  lin.  l^-vix2. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

This  Treclms  (which  appears  to  be  confined  to  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerteventura)  is  very  nearly  related  to  the  common  European  T. 
minutus ;  of  which,  however,  it  certainly  cannot  be  regarded  as  a 
geographical  modification.  Apart  from  its  rather  larger  size,  it  may 
bo  known  from  that  species  by  its  darker  head  and  prothorax,  the 
latter  of  which  is  altogether  more  developed  and  very  much  squarer 
(being  about  as  broad  behind  as  before,  and  with  its  posterior  angles 
nearly  right  angles),  and  has  no  impressions  at  the  base  ;  and  by  its 
shoulders  being  a  trifle  more  porrected  and  acute.  It  occurs  more 
particularly  in  Lanzarote,  where  it  was  taken  both  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself;  but  during  the  spring  of  1859  I  captui-ed  it  also  in  Fuerte- 
ventura. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  03 

96,  Trechus  flavolimbatus. 

T.  niger,  nitidus ;  prothoracc  transverse  svibquadrato  postice  paulo 
angustiore,  angulis  ipsissimis  posticis  miiiutissime  prominulis,  basi 
utrinqiie  leviter  foveolato  ;  elytris  oblongo-ovalibus,  subdepressis, 
limbo  plus  minus  flavo-testaceo,  striatis  (striis  vix  suberenatis,  ex- 
terioribus  obsoletis)  ;  antennis  uigro-fuscescentibus,  ad  basin  rufo- 
testaceis ;  pedibus  pallido-testaceis,  tibiis  plus  minus  obscuriori- 
bus. — Long.  Corp.  lin.  l^lf . 

Trechus  flavoliiubatus,  Schaum,  in  litt. 

,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  216  (1863). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  ct  Hierro,  vulgaris. 

Very  closely  related  to  the  Madeiran  T.  Jlavomarginatus,  of  which 
indeed  I  had  regarded  it  as  a  mere  geographical  state  until  Dr.  Schaum 
drew  my  attention,  lately,  to  one  or  two  small  characters  which  I  had 
overlooked.  This  induced  me  to  examine  the  insect  more  critically ; 
and  I  now  agree  with  him  that,  however  nearly  allied  to  it,  it  un- 
doubtedly cannot  be  referred  to  that  species.  It  may  at  once  be 
known  from  \he  jlavomarginatus  by  its  larger  and  more  prominent 
eyes ;  by  its  prothorax  being  a  trifle  convexer,  with  much  shallower 
fovejfi  on  either  side  at  the  base,  and  with  its  hinder  angles  just  per- 
ceptibly more  obtuse;  and  by  its  elytra  being  flatter,  a  little  less 
rounded  at  the  sides  (or  more  oblong),  Avith  their  extreme  humeral 
angles  considerably  less  acute,  and  with  their  strite  (the  outer  ones 
of  which  are  subobsolete)  altogether  more  lightly  impressed. 

The  T.jlavolimhatas  is  universal  in  all  the  islands  of  the  archi- 
pelago, except  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — in  which  I  have  not 
observed  it,  and  where  I  believe  it  does  not  exist ;  but  in  Grand 
Canary,  TenerifFe,  Gomera,  Palma,  and  Hierro  I  have  taken  it,  in 
greater  or  less  profusion.  In  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and  Palma  it  was 
also  met  with  by  Dr.  Crotch.  Though  more  abundant  within  the 
sylvan  regions  than  elsewhere,  it  is  found  at  nearly  all  elevations, 
and  wherever  there  are  dead  leaves,  or  other  vegetable  refuse,  for  it 
to  secrete  itself  beneath ;  nevertheless  there  is  good  reason  for  sus- 
pecting that  many  of  the  open  districts  in  which  it  is  common  were 
once  densely  wooded,  and  that  in  such  spots  it  may  be  but  the  ex- 
ponent of  a  fauna  which  has  mainly  disappeared.  In  Teneriffe  it 
was  also  captured  by  the  BarSo  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

97.  Trechus  felix,  n.  sp. 

T.  nitidus,  rufo-piceus  (rarius  piceus) ;  sulcis  frontalibus  valde  cur- 

vatis,  profundis ;  prothoracc  subquadrato-cordato,  angulis  posticis 

ipsissimis  acute  prominulis ;  elytris  obovatis,  depressis,  limbo  (prai- 

sertim  ad  apiccm)  necnon  sutuni  postice  obscure  pallidioribus,  pro- 


64  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

funde  subcrenato-striatis ;  antennis  nigro-fuscescentibus,  ad  basin, 
palpis  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^-lf. 

Habitat  in  Tcneriffa  sylvatica  excelsa,  sub  ligno  corticeque  putrido 
in  montibus  humidis  supra  Tagananam  mense  Maio  a.d,  1859  eaptus. 

Closely  allied  to  the  Madeiran  T.  custos,  but  unquestionably  distinct. 
It  may  be  known  from  that  species  by  its  frontal  sulci  being  deeper 
and  much  more  curved  ;  by  its  pro  thorax  being  more  cordate  (or 
narrower  behind),  -with  the  extreme  angles  however  much  more  pro- 
minent ;  "bj  its  elytra  being  flatter,  more  coarsely  subcrenate-striated, 
more  thickly  margined  at  the  sides,  and  o6ovate  (their  widest  portion 
being  towards  the  base)  ;  and  by  its  antennae  being  rather  longer  and 
darker.  Like  that  insect  it  is  apparently  confined  to  the  sylvan  dis- 
tricts of  a  high  elevation,  but  is  excessively  rare, — the  only  locality 
in  which  I  have  taken  it  being  in  the  forest  above  Taganana,  of 
TenerifFe,  immediately  below  the  Cumbre.  Like  the  T.  custos  of 
Madeira,  it  is  found  in  the  dampest  spots, — beneath  rotting  wood 
and  leaves,  and  under  the  moist  decaying  bark  of  trees. 

Genus  35.  THALASSOPHILUS  *. 
WoU.,  Lis.  3Iad.  71  (1854). 

98.  ThalassopMlus  Whitaei. 

Trechus  littoralis?,  Bndle[necDeJ.\  in  Webb  et Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 
Thalassophilus  Whitei,  IVoH.,  Lts.  Mad.  71.  tab.  ii.  f.  5  (1851). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  21  (1857). 

Habitat  ad  rupes  aquosas  et  per  margines  ri\'nlorum  in  Canaria, 
Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  rarissimus. 

The  T.  Whitcei,  which  is  of  the  greatest  rarity  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo,  seems  to  be  widely  spread  over  the  islands  of  the  Cana- 
rian  Group, — where,  however,  it  is  exceedingly  scarce.  I  have  cap- 
tured it  in  Grand  Canary  (amongst  wet  stones  and  rocks  at  the  edges 
of  a  small  trickling  stream  on  the  southern  side  of,  and  within,  the 
great  crater  of  the  Bandama) ;  in  Teneriffe  (near  S'^  Cxniz  and  at 
Las  Mercedes) ;  as  also  in  Palma ;  and  it  was  likewise  taken  by  Dr. 
Crotch  at  Tcod  el  Alto  in  Tcnerifte,  as  well  as  in  Gomera.  Although 
usually  quite  as  pale  as  the  Porto-Santan  type  from  which  I  origi- 

*  Having  established  it  in  the  '  Inseeta  Maderensia,'  I  retain  this  genus  liere  ; 
nevertheless  it  seems  doubtful  whether  it  can  be  strictly  upheld  as  more  than  a 
Division  of  Trechus.  "Your  Thalaasvphilus"  writes  Dr.  Schaum,  ''is  only  a 
Section  of  Trechus,  to  which  tiie  T.  long  team  is  belongs.  The  true  distinction  of 
the  Section  Thalassophilus  is,  that  tlie  recurved  first  stria,  of  the  elytra,  empties 
itself  into  the  third  one ;  whereas  in  Trcchns  proper  it  empties  itself  into  the 
fifth." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  65 

nally  characterized  the  species,  I  have  taken  it  occasionally  (both  in 
Teneriffe  and  Palma)  very  much  darker, — its  subapical  fascia  being, 
as  it  were,  suffused  over  the  entire  surface  of  the  elytra.  I  have  but 
little  doubt  that  it  is  the  insect  referred  by  M.  Brulle  to  the  Trechns 
littoralis  of  Dejean  (^.  e.  the  T.  longicornis  of  Sturm) . 

Genus  36.  PERILEPTUS. 

Schaum,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  663  (1860). 

99.  Perileptus  nigritulus. 

P.  omnino  P.  areolato  similis,  sed  vix  major  et  minus  nitidus  (oculo 
fortissimo  armato  grossius,  prsesertim  in  elytris,  alutaceus),  paulo 
magis  pubescens,  capite  postice  dilute  rufescentiore ;  elytris  (limbo 
postico  pallido  exeepto)  totis  nigris,  paulo  magis  parallelis,  inter- 
stitiis  vix  minus  convexis ;  antennis  paulo  longioribus,  robusti- 
oribiis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1 3. 

Perileptus  nigritidus,  Woll.,Ann.  Nat.  Hist  (3rd  series)  xi.  216  (1863). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  inter  lapillos  per  marginem  paludis  cujusdam 
parvse  prope  urbem  Sanctse  Crucis  sitae  copiose  captus. 

Had  I  possessed  but  a  few  specimens  to  judge  from,  I  should 
scarcely  have  ventured  to  regard  the  present  Perileptus  as  more  than 
a  dark  variety  of  the  European  areolatus ;  but  since  I  have  no  less 
than  93  from  which  to  compile  my  diagnosis,  in  the  whole  of  which 
its  small  differential  characters  remain  perfectly  constant,  I  am  in- 
duced to  believe  that  it  is  truly  distinct  from  (however  nearly  aUied 
to)  that  insect.  It  may  be  known  from  it  by  being  (on  the  average) 
a  trifle  larger  and  more  pubescent,  just  perceptibly  less  shining,  and 
(under  a  high  magnifying  power)  more  coarsely  alutaceous ;  by  its 
elytra  (except  their  extreme  apical  margin)  being  always  entirely 
darlc,  a  little  more  parallel  at  the  sides,  and  with  their  interstices 
somewhat  less  convex  ;  by  its  head  being  rufescent  behind ;  and  by 
its  antennae  being  perhaps  rather  longer  and  more  robust.  It  is 
possible  indeed  that  it  may  be  but  a  geographical  modification  of  the 
areolatus ;  nevertheless,  with  the  above-mentioned  small  differences 
constant  in  93  examples,  I  think  it  would  scarcely  bo  safe  to  treat 
it  as  such.  The  only  spot  in  which  I  have  taken  it,  is  by  the  edges 
of  a  very  small  pool  at  the  head  of  the  Barranco  Santo,  close  to  S*^ 
Cruz  of  Teneriffe, — where,  in  June  1858, 1  obtained  it  in  the  greatest 
profusion,  from  beneath  stones  and  shingle. 


66  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

(Subfam.  XIV.  BEMBIDIADES.) 

Genus  37.  TACHYS. 
(Ziegler)  Steph,,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  4  (1829). 
Following  Schaum  and  others,  I  have  retained  Tachys  as  distinct 
from  Bemhld'mm,  since  it  appears  to  possess  characters  which  render 
its  isolation  therefrom  more  desirable  than  is  the  case  with  the  various 
other  groups  which  are  now  usually  treated  as  component  parts  of 
the  Bemhklia.  Thus,  apart  from  minor  distinctions  of  proportions 
and  outline,  whilst  in  Bemhidium  and  its  subdivisions  the  short  scu- 
tellary  stria  of  the  elytra  is  more  or  less  traceable  and  the  sutural 
one  is  simple,  in  Tacliys,  on  the  contrary,  the  scutellarj'  stria  is 
absent  and  the  sutural  one  is  recurved  at  its  apex.  The  anterior 
tibia3,  also,  in  the  latter  are  slightly  more  dilated,  and  are  lopped-off 
obhquely  towards  their  outer  extremity, — a  structure  which  gives 
them  the  appearance  of  being  somewhat  curved  *. 

100.  Tachys  bistriatus. 

Elaphrus  bistriatus  (3%.),  Dnfts.,  Fna  Amtr.  ii.  205  (1812). 
Bembidium  bistriatum,  Wall.,  Ins.  3fad.  73  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  22  (1857). 

Tachys  bistriatus,  Schaiim,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  i.  746  (1860). 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  cl.  "W.  D.  Crotch  nuperrime  detectus. 

Two  specimens  which  I  cannot  separate  from  the  European  T. 
bistriatus  (though  at  the  same  time,  instead  of  being  piceous -brown, 
they  are  testaceous  with  the  head  alone  dark — thus  agreeing,  appa- 
rently, with  the  2xde  variety  recorded  by  M.  Duval  and  by  Schaum) 
were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Gomera. 
One  of  these  he  has  presented  to  the  collection  at  the  British  Museum. 
The  species  (though  in  its  normal  state,  as  regards  colour)  occurs  also 
in  the  intermediate  elevations  of  Madeira. 

101.  Tachys  scutellaris. 

Trechiis  scutellaris,  Germ.,  Thon,  Ent.  Archiv,  ii.  fasc.  i.  11  (1829). 
Tachys  scutellaris,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  5  (1829). 
Bembidium  scutellare,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  v.  39  (1831). 
Tachys  scutellaris,  Scliaum,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutscli.  i.  745  (1860). 

Habitat  in  salinis  Lanzarotse,  vulgaris. 

The  European  T.  sctitellaris  appears  to  be  common  in  one  or  two 
salt  spots  in  Lanzarote.     On  the  muddy  surface  of  the  Salinas,  or 

*  In  my  '  Ins.  Mad.'  I  had  noticed  tliis  in  a  particular  species  and  regarded 
it  as  a  specific  character  (calling  the  insect  by  the  trivial  name  of  curvimanus) ; 
but  in  reality  it  is  a  generic  one. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA,  67 

brine-pits,  in  the  extreme  north  of  the  island,  it  is  abundant, — where 
it  may  be  seen  darting  in  and  out  of  the  crevices  formed  by  the  heat 
of  the  sun.  In  such  positions  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself, 
during-  January  1858 ;  and  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year  I 
again  met  with  it  in  the  same  locality. 

102.  Tachys  centromaculatus,  n,  sp. 
T.  niger ;  elytris  pallida  testaceis,  in  disco  communi  postico  macula 
mag-na  nigrescente  (ad  utrumque  latus  abbreviata  sed  antice  per 
suturam  plus  minus  anguste  producta)  ornatis,  versus  suturam  sat 
distincte  striatis  ;  oculis  valde  promincntibus  ;  prothornee  trans- 
verso,  latiusculo,  postice  paulo  angustioi'o,  ad  angulos  posticos  late 
subrecurvo ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  paUide  testaceis. — Long, 
corp.  Kn.  1-1 1. 

Habitat  in  salinis  Lanzarotse,  per  margines  lacus  ejus  salini  "  Ja- 
nuvio  "  dicti  a  meipso  deprehensus. 

For  some  time  I  had  regarded  this  Tachys  as  a  large  and  peculiar 
state  of  the  T.  scuteUaris ;  but  having  been  informed  by  my  friend 
Dr.  Sehaum  that  he  believes  it  to  be  truly  distinct,  I  have  re-examined 
it  more  critically  and  have  arrived  at  the  same  conclusion.  It  differs 
from  the  scuteUaris  in  its  rather  larger  size  and  somewhat  broader 
outline ;  in  its  eyes  being  both  larger  and  very  much  more  promi- 
nent ;  in  its  prothorax  being  not  only  wider  but  also  more  broadly 
and  evidently  recurved  at  the  basal  angles ;  in  its  (pale-testaceous) 
elytra  being  almost  free  from  a  triangular  scutellary  cloud,  and  with 
the  suffused  postmedial  fascia  which  characterizes  its  ally  abbrevi- 
ated on  either  side  and  reduced  to  a  large  well-defined  patch,  rounded 
behind  and  truncated  in  front  (where,  however,  it  is  narrowly  pro- 
duced along  the  anterior  portion  of  the  siiture)  ;  and  by  its  antennaj, 
palpi,  and  legs  being  a  trifle  longer  and  of  a  uniformly  pallid  hue. 

Like  the  T.  scuteUaris,  the  present  species  occurs  in  brackish  places 
in  Lanzarote ;  but  whilst  that  insect  has  been  observed  hitherto  only 
at  the  Salinas  in  the  extreme  north  of  that  island,  the  centromaculatus 
I  have  not  yet  met  with  except  along  the  edges  of  the  curious  salt 
lake  of  Januvio,  adjoining  the  south-western  coast, — where,  on  the 
26th  of  March  1859,  I  detected  it,  not  uncommonly,  during  a  visit, 
in  company  with  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  to  that  remote  spot. 

103.  Tachys  curvimaniis. 

Bembidium  curvimanum,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  74.  tab.  ii.  f.  6  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  22  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Hierro  sola  adhuc  hand  detectus  ; 

f2 


68  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTETIA, 

species  lato  diffusa,  sub  lapidibus  per  margines  rivulorum  nccnon  in 
aquosis,  ab  ora  maritima  usque  ad  8000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  T.  curvimanus,  which  occurs  sparingly  in  Madeira  aud  Porto 
Santo,  and  which  is  so  closely  allied  to  the  T.  4:-signatus  of  Medi- 
terranean latitudes  that  Dr.  Schaum  thinks  it  may  possibly  be  but 
a  small  state  of  that  species,  is  widely  spread  over  the  Canarian 
archipelago, — where  in  aU  probability  it  is  universal ;  for  although 
it  has  not  yet  been  observed  in  Hierro,  there  can  be  but  little  doubt 
that  it  must  exist  there  likewise.  In  Lanzarote  (where  it  was  also 
captured  by  Mr.  Gray),  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and 
Palma  I  have  taken  it,  more  or  less  abundantly  ;  and  in  Gomera  (as 
well  as  in  Teneriffe)  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occurs  at  nearly 
all  elevations — in  Teneriffe,  for  instance,  from  the  immediate  vici- 
nity of  S**  Cruz  to  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  even  to  the  Cumbre  (ad- 
joining the  Canadas)  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  more  than  8000  feet  above 
the  sea.  My  Fuerteventiiran  specimens  are  from  the  Eio  Palmas, 
and  the  Grand-Canarian  ones  from  the  region  of  El  Monte. 

104.  Tachys  haemorrhoidalis. 

T.  niger,  nitidus  ;  prothorace  subcordato,  convexo,  ad  basin  utrinque 
vix  impresso  ;  elytris  ovalibus,  striis  duabus  versus  suturam  (ex- 
terna antice  et  postiee  abbreviata)  utrinque  impressis  neenon  ma- 
culis  duabus  (una  sc.  obHqua  humerali  et  altera  transversjt  sub- 
apicali)  rufo-testaceis  (plus  minus  obscuris  suffiisis  confluentibus) 
ornatis  ;  antennis  nigro-fuscis,  ad  basin  pedibusque  pallide  testa- 
ceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  ^1. 

Bembidium  haemorrhoidale,  Dej.,  Spec.  Gen.  des  Col.  v.  58  (1831). 

,  Duv.y  Ann.  tie  la  Soc,  Ent.  de  France,  (2'i^^iae  serie)  x.  193 

(1852). 
Tachys  lisemorrhoidalis,  Schaum,  Nat,  der  Ins.  Deidsch.  i.  750  (1860). 

Habitat  in  aquosis  Canaria3,  Teneriffe  et  Gomerse,  sat  rarus. 

Closely  allied  to  the  T.  Lucasii  (of  Spain,  northern  Africa,  Madeira, 
tfec),  but  smaller,  with  its  prothorax  a  little  narrower  and  more 
cordate,  and  almost  free  from  impressions  behind  ;  and  with  its  elytra 
more  rounded  at  the  sides,  impressed  with  only  two  (instead  of  three) 
striae  towards  the  suture  on  each,  with  the  two  discal  punctures  less 
conspicuous,  and  ornamented  with  a  humeral  (as  well  as  a  subapical) 
blotch.  The  elytral  patches,  however,  are  often  obscurely  defined, — 
being  usually  more  or  less  suffused,  or  even  subconfluent.  With  the 
exception  of  the  indistinct  reddish  blotch  towards  the  shoulders  (and 
which  is  sometimes  exceedingly  faint),  it  seems  to  me  to  agree  pre- 
cisely with  the  T.  hcemorrhoidalis  of  southern  Europe,  and  Dr.  Schaum 
informs  me  that  he  can  detect  no  other  difference.     Moreover  in  a 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  69 

type  (from  Greece)  which  he  has  sent  me,  I  can  perceive  a  very  evi- 
dent rufeseent  tinge  in  that  region  of  the  elytra ;  and  I  have  there- 
fore no  hesitation  in  regarding  the  Canarian  species  as  identical  with 
the  European  one.  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  and  also  im- 
mediately outside  the  Puerto  Orotava  of  Teneriife, — in  the  latter  of 
which  islands,  as  well  as  in  Gomera,  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  38.  BEMBIDIUM. 

Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Ins.  i.  183  (1806). 

(Subgenus  Philochthus,  Steph.) 

105.  Bembidium  biguttatum. 

Carabus  biguttatus,  Fab.,  Mant  Ins.  i.  205  (1787). 
Bembidium  viilueratum,  D(^/.,  Spec.  Gen.  dcs  Col.  v.  182  (1831). 
biguttatum,  Schamn,  Nat.  der  Ins,  Deutsch,  i.  737  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Canaria  Grandi,  prope  oppidum  Teror  semel  lectum. 

The  only  specimen  of  this  common  European  insect  which  I  have 
as  yet  seen  from  any  of  the  Atlantic  islands  was  taken  by  myseK  in 
Grand  Canary  (at  the  edge  of  a  small  stream  close  to  the  town  of 
Teror),  during  April  1858.  I  can  detect  nothing  to  separate  it  from 
the  ordinary  northern  type,  except  that  its  prothorax  is  a  little  less 
strongly  margined  at  the  sides, — a  difference  which  can  scarcely  be 
regarded  (even  if  permanent)  as  indicative  of  more  than  a  sKght 
geographical  modification. 

106.  Bembidium  vicinum. 

Bembidium  vicinum,  Lucas,  Col.  de  VAlgerie,  86.  pi.  10.  f.  9  (1849). 

,  Duval,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  JEnt.  de  France,  (2i6me  g^rie)  x.  178 

(1852). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Euerteventura,  per  margines  rivulorum, 
rarior. 

I  refer  this  insect  to  the  B.  vicinum  (from  the  south  of  Europe 
and  the  north  of  Africa)  on  the  authority  of  Dr.  Schaum,  who  has 
also  kindly  sent  me  an  Italian  type  for  comparison.  The  Canarian 
specimens  are  altogether  a  little  larger,  broader,  and  more  depressed 
than  the  example  which  he  has  communicated,  and  have  their  limbs 
perhaps  somewhat  longer  and  paler ;  but  they  do  not  differ  sufficiently 
to  warrant  the  supposition  that  they  are  specifically  distinct.  In 
habits  and  general  aspect  it  is  closely  related  to  the  European  B. 
ceneurti,  but  has  its  prothorax  rather  less  rounded  at  the  sides  (the 
posterior  angles  being  a  little  more  prominent  and  defined),  its  sur- 
face a  trifle  more  alutaccous  and  less  shining,  its  striec  lighter,  and 


70  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

its  elytra  and  limbs  (which  last  are  perceptibly  slenderer)  a  shade 
paler  in  hue.  It  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerteventm-a,  in  the  latter  of  which  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself  (by  the  edges  of  the  little  stream  at  La  Antigua)  in  January 
1858  ;  whilst,  during  the  spring  of  the  following  year,  I  again  found 
it  in  (the  llio  Palmas  of)  the  same  island,  as  also  near  Haria  in  the 
north  of  Lanzarote. 

(Subgenus  Peryphus,  -IA'(/.) ' 

107.  Bembidium  atlanticum. 

Bembidium  decorum,  BndJe  [nee  Bcj.\  in  Wehh  et  Berth.  {Col.)  58 
(1838). 

atlanticum,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  77  ( 1854). 

,  /(/.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  2.3  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses ;  in  Hierro  sola  adhue  hand  de- 
tectum. 

The  B.  atlanticum,  which  is  so  common  in  Madeira  and  Porto 
Santo,  is  equally  abundant  at  the  Canaries,  where  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  it  is  universal.  Nevertheless  I  did  not  happen  to  take 
it  in  Hierro,  during  oiu-  visit  to  that  island  in  the  winter  of  18'5S ; 
though  in  the  other  six  islands  of  the  Group  it  occurs  almost 
wherever  there  is  a  stream,  or  pool  of  water,  and  independently  of 
elevation.  In  Lanzarote  and  Gomera  it  was  found  likewise  by  IVIi-. 
Gray  ;  and  in  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  goes 
through  the  same  extraordinary  changes  of  colouring  as  it  does  at 
the  Madeiras, — being  generally  more  or  less  dark  in  comparatively 
moist  or  shady  spots  (when  the  clytral  patches  are  often  entirely 
obsolete),  but  for  the  most  part  brightly  maculated  in  drier  and  more 
barren  districts;  and  we  accordingly  find  that  the  examples  from 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  are,  on  the  average,  very  much  paler 
than  those  from  the  rest  of  the  archipelago.  This  is  precisely  ana- 
logous to  the  Porto-Santan  specimens,  as  compared  with  those  from 
Madeira.  It  was  referred  by  M.  Bridle  to  the  European  B.  decorum, 
— from  which,  however,  in  all  its  states,  it  is  perfectly  distinct. 

(Subgenus  Lopha,  Meg.) 

108.  Bembidium  concolor. 

B.  nigro-cyaneum,  capite  prothoraceque  obscure  viridi-micantibus, 
hoc  cordato,  anguHs  posticis  rectis,  basi  punctato;  elytris  im- 
macidatis,  antice  striato-punctatis  (seriebus  sublateralibus  pro- 
fundioribus),  pone  basin  transversim  impressis,  punctis  duobus 
discalibus  valde  distinctis  utriuque  notatis ;  antennis  fuseo-nigris, 


CANARIAN  COLEOrTEKA.  71 

ad  basin  ipsissimam  podibusqiie  rufo-piceis.  —  Long.  corp.  lin. 

2-2i. 

Bembidium  concolor,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 
Habitat  (ut  credo)  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  certe  in  Lanzarota, 
Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro, — snb  lapidibus  per 
margines  aqnarum  (vel  stagnantium  vel  fluentium)  necnon  ad  rupes 
aquosas,  hand  infrequens. 

This  interesting  Bembidium,  so  remarkable  as  a  LopJia  for  its 
immaculate  elytra*,  is  in  all  probability  universal  throughout  the 
archipelago  ;  for  although  it  has  not  hitherto  been  observed  in  Fuer- 
teventura,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  must  exist  in  that  island 
likewise.  I  have  captured  it  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe, 
Palma,  and  Hierro  (in  the  first  of  which  it  was  taken  also  by  Mr. 
Gray)  ;  and  it  was  met  with  by  Dr.  Crotch  at  Hermigua,  in  Gomera. 

109.  Bembidium  subcallosum,  n,  sp, 

B.  atrum  (vix  subcyanescens) ;  prothorace  cordate,  angulis  posticis 
subrectis,  basi  grosse  punctate;  elytris  subparallelo-oblongis,  grosse 
marginatis,  maculis  duabus  testaceis  utrinque  ornatis,  antice  stri- 
ato-punctatis,  pone  basin  profunde  transversim  imj)ressis ;  antennis 
ad  basin  ipsissimam  pedibusque  piceis,  tibiis  interdum  paulo  diluti- 
oribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Bembidium  4-guttatum,  Brulle  [nee  Fab.l,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.) 
58  (1838). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  Lanzarota  et  Fuertevcntura 
(nisi  fallor)  solis  exceptis,  in  humidis  necnon  per  margines  rivulorum 
vulgare. 

Closely  allied  to  the  European  B.  caUosum ;  from  which  however 
it  dififers  in  its  larger  size,  altogether  broader  outline,  and  darker 
(almost  unmetallic)  surface ;  in  its  prothorax  being  rather  more 
densely  and  coarsely  punctured  along  the  base ;  in  its  elytra  being  a 
trifle  more  oblong  (or  less  dhlong-ovate),  with  the  j^atch  on  the  an- 
terior disk  of  each  both  shorter  and  less  marginal  (and  therefore  very 
much  more  widely  separated  from  the  anterior  one) ;  and  in  its  legs 

*  M.  Brulle,  in  his  short  notice  (I  cannot  call  it  "  description")  of  tliis  insect, 
remarks  that  it  is  "  distinct  du  '^-guttattim  par  I'absence  de  taches  sin*  les  elytres 
etfar  la  presence  de  deux  joints  enfonces  sur  chacun  de  ces  deux  organes.'"  The 
two  discal  impressions  to  which  he  refers  exist  in  all  the  allied  species  (A.-gutfa- 
tum,  callosum,  subcallosum,  Schmidtii,  &c.),  only  they  happen,  from  its  superior 
size,  to  be  a  little  more  evident  in  the  B.  concolor.  He  then  speaks  of  the  femora 
only  as  rufeseent  ("  avec  les  ciiisses  d'un  roux  fauve");  whereas  the  entire  legs 
are  invariably  of  that  colour.  It  is  most  unfortunate  that  in  such  a  well-defined, 
and  indeed  almost  anomalous,  species  he  coidd  not  call  attention  to  so  few  <is 
even  four  of  its  numerous  characteristics  without  being  absoliitely  incorrect  in 
two  of  them. 


72  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEHA. 

bfing  considerably  more  piccous.  It  is  perhaps  still  nearer  to  the 
Madeiran  B.  ScJimidtii,  and  is  in  many  respects  intermediate  between 
that  insect  and  the  callosum, — agreeing  better  with  the  former  in  its 
size,  outline  and  colour,  and  with  the  latter  in  its  sculpture  ;  never- 
theless its  still  blacker  and  less  senescent  (or  obscurely  sxxbcyaneous) 
hue,  in  conjunction  with  the  Jlner  and  shorter  striae,  and  the  smaller 
anterior  patch,  of  its  (more  deeply  transversely-impressed)  elytra, 
will,  I  think,  sufficiently  distinguish  it  even  from  the  B.  Schmidtii* . 
Tliei?.  suhcallosum  is  a  most  abundant  insect,  in  wet  spots,  through- 
out the  Canarian  archipelago — except  in  the  eastern  portion  of  it, 
where  it  has  not  yet  been  observed.  I  have  myself  taken  it  in  all 
the  islands  of  the  Group  except  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura.  In 
Gomera  it  was  captured  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray,  in  Teneriife  by  the 
Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  and  in  hoth  of  those  islands  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

110.  Bembidium  inconspicuum,  n.  sp. 

B.  sub\irescenti-nigrum  ;  prothorace  cordato,  angulis  ipsissimis  pos- 
ticis  subrectis,  per  basin  parcissime  punctato  ;  elytris  subparallelo- 
oblongis,  tenuiter  marginatis,  maculis  duabus  testaceis  utrinque 
ornatis,  profunde  striato-punctatis,  striis  postice  evanesecntibus ; 
antennis  pedibusque  testaceis,  illis  versus  apicem  femoribusque 
fuscescentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  Dom.  W.  D.  Crotch  nuper  repertum. 

A  single  example  of  this  little  Bemhidhmi  was  captured  in  Tene- 
riffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch, — who  has  kindly 
presented  it  to  the  collection  at  the  British  Museum.  It  is  somewhat 
allied  to  the  common  European  B.  4-maculatum,  but  is  smaller,  with 
its  extreme  hinder  prothoracic  angles  rather  less  evidently  denticu- 
lated, with  its  elytra  much  more  deeply  striate-punctate,  and  with  its 
hmbs  shorter — the  antennal  joints  especially  being  more  abbreviated. 

(Subgenus  Leja,  Mcr/.) 

]11.  Bembidium  laetum. 

B.  capite  prothoraceque  senescenti-cupreis,  latera  versus  interdum 
virescentibus,  illo  utrinque  pimctato  et  longitudinaliter  striguloso, 

*  The  Madeiran  B.  Schmidtii  differs  from  the  European  ca1los7i,rii  in  being 
rather  larger,  and  altogether  broader  and  darker  ;  in  having  the  jjunctiu-e  between 
the  base  of  eacli  of  its  frontal  sulci  (which  are  themselves  a  little  different)  and 
tlie  eye  coarser ;  in  its  prothorax  being  somewhat  more  tliickly  and  roughly 
punctured  beliind,  with  a  more  evident  tendency  to  be  obsoletely  punctured  in 
the  centre  in  front,  and  with  its  basal  foveie  a  trifle  less  sharply  defined  ;  in  its 
elytral  stria?  being  very  much  deeper,  more  coarsely  punctm'ed,  and  continued 
to  a  greater  distance  posteriorly ;  and  in  its  legs  being  more  robust,  with  the 
claws  longer. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  73 

hoc  subcordato,  antice  et  postice  parce  punctulato ;  clytris  lajte 
viridibus,  ad  apicem  pallidis,  per  suturam  latissime  ciipreo-micaii- 
tibus,  iitrinque  fasciis  duabiis  transversis  cupreo-micantibus  orna- 
tis  necnon  punctis  diiobus  maximis  notatis,  leviter  punctulato-stri- 
atis;  antennis  nigro-pieeis,pedibus  testaceis. — Long. eorp. liu.  1 1-2. 

Bembidium  Ifetum,  Bnille,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (  Col.)  58.  pi.  ii.  f.  9  (1838). 
,  Hartuwf,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  unci  Fuert,  141. 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura  et  Teneriffa,  per  margines 
rivulorum,  rarissimum. 

This  beautiful  Bembidium  (the  most  elegant  of  aU  the  Canarian 
Coleoptera)  is  apparently  extremely  rare,  though  widely  spread  over 
the  archipelago.  I  have  taken  it  by  the  edges  of  the  little  stream 
at  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote  ;  in  a  similar  position  at  La  An- 
tigua, in  Fuerteventiu'a ;  and  close  to  Ycod  de  los  Vinhos,  of  Tene- 
riffe ;  in  which  last  island  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  (in 
the  Barranco  Santo,  near  S'''Cruz),  and  more  abundantly  by  Dr.  Crotch 
(above  Ycod  el  Alto).  It  was  also  found  byM.  Hartung  in  Fuerte- 
ventura.  And  I  am  informed  by  Dr.  Schaum  that  it  was  taken  by 
Kiesenwetter  at  Naupha,  in  Greece ;  but  I  have  not  had  the  oppor- 
tunity of  comparing  a  Grecian  type  with  the  Canarian  ones. 

(Subgenus  Bembidium  Auct.) 

112.  Bembidium  Crotchii,  n.  sp. 

B.  capite  prothoraceque  submetaUice  fusco-piceis,  subopacis,  illo  parce* 
punctato,  hoe  cordato  fere  impunctato  sed  ad  basin  transversim 
constricto  subrugoso  ;  elytris  nitidioribiis,  testaceis,  circa  scuteUum 
triangulariter  submaculatis  necnon  in  disco  postico  obsoletissime 
(vix  perspicue)  dentato-subfasciatis,  punctato-striatis,  striis  postice 
evanescentibus ;  antennis  (brcviusculis),  palpis  pedibusque  rufo- 
testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Habitat  Palmam,  rarissime,  mihi  non  obvium;  a  Dom.  W.  D.  Crotch, 
Medic.  Doct.,  in  humidis  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  nuper  repertum. 
Species  valde  distincta  formosa  indigena,  necnon  in  honorem  capta- 
toris  indefessi  oculatissimi  a  meipso  citata. 

This  most  interesting  Bembidium,  the  discovery  of  which  (in  the 
island  of  Palma)  is  due  to  the  indefatigable  researches  of  Dr.  Crotch, 
is  clearly  the  representative  at  the  Canaries  of  the  European  B.palli- 
dipenne, — though  at  the  same  time  most  abundantly  distinct  from  it 
specifically.  It  may  at  once  be  known  from  it  by  its  almost  ojnxl-e, 
hrownisli-piceous  head  and  prothorax  (which  are  but  faintly  metallic, 
and  both  of  which,  though  particularly  the  latter,  are  less  evidently 
punctured),  and  by  its  (pale  rufo-testaceous)  elytra  having  their 
scutellary  blotch  and  dentate  postmedial  fascia  nearly  obsolete.     The 


74  CANARIAN  C'OLEOl'TERA. 

only  three  examples  which  I  have  seen,  Dr.  Crotch  informs  me  that 
he  captured  in  a  wet  and  nearly  inaccessible  spot  at  the  edges  of  a 
Levada  on  the  mountain-slopes  above  S''^  Cruz,  of  Palma,  during  the 
spring  of  1862. 

(Subgenus  Notaphus,  Meg.) 

113.  Bembidium  marginicoUe,  n.  sp. 

B.  inter  Jlammulatuin  Clairv.  et  varium  OHv.  aliquo  modo  situm,  cum 
illo  colore  et  facie  generali  sed  cum  hoc  statura  et  sculptura  mehus 
congruens,  fortasse  hujus  varietas  geographica ;  capita  prothorace- 
que  laetius  mctallicis,  hoc  (pnesertim  postice)  grossius  marginato, 
angulis  ii)sissimis  basaUbus  paulo  magis  prominuhs ;  elytris  (testa- 
ceo-pictis)  pedibusque  sensim  paUidioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^. 

Hah'dat  TcnerifFam,  specimina  duo  nuper  detexit  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch. 

Whether  the  two  examples  from  wliich  the  above  diagnosis  has 
been  compiled  are  indicative  of  more  than  a  geographical  phasis  of 
the  common  European  B.  varium  I  will  not  undertake,  in  the  absence 
of  further  material,  to  pronounce  for  certain.  They  would  seem  in 
some  respects  indeed  to  be  intermediate  between  that  species  and  the 
Jlammulatum — being  nearer  perhaps  to  the  latter  in  their  paler  hue, 
but  to  the  former  in  their  general  sculpture  and  somewhat  smaller 
size.  Their  head  and  pro  thorax  however  are  rather  more  brightly 
metallic  than  is  usually  the  case  ■with  the  B.  varium ;  and  the  latter 
is  more  strongly  margined  at  the  edges  and  has  its  extreme  posterior 
angles  a  trifle  more  acutely  prominent.  They  were  both  of  them 
captured  Ln  Teneriff'e  (I  believe  above  Ycod  el  Alto),  during  the 
spring  of  1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch, — to  whose  careful  researches  we  are 
indebted  for  several  recent  additions  to  the  Canarian  fauna. 


Fam.  2.  DYTISCID^. 

Genus  39.  HALIPLUS. 

Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Ins.  i.  234  (1806). 

114.  Haliplus  suffusus. 

H,  oblongus;  capite  nigro-piceo,  latiusculo,  punctato;  prothorace 
testaceo,  antice,  postice  in  medio,  necnon  in  disco  nigreseente,  basi 
lato  (elytrorum  basin  paulo  superante),  ad  latera  oblique  subrecto, 
in  medio  profunde  punctato,  postice  utrinque  lineJl  curvata  abbre- 
viata  notato  ;  coleopteris  testaceis,  (prsesertim  pone  discum)  nigro- 
suffusis,  antice  subparallelis,  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  parce 
punctatis  ;  an  tennis  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^1 1^. 

Haliplus  suffusus,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (.3rd  series)  xi.  216  (1863). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Canariaj  et  Gomero),  hinc  inde  parum  vulgaris. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTER.V.  tO 

Before  closely  examining-  this  Haliplus  I  had  regarded  it  as  iden- 
tical with  the  common  European  //,  lineatocoUis,  to  which  iu  general 
coloui'ing  and  aspect  it  is  very  nearly  allied.  Considering,  however, 
the  smallness  of  the  characters  which  constitute  specific  ones  in  the 
Hydradephaga,  I  am  satisfied  that  it  cannot  be  referred  to  that  insect ; 
and  such  is  likewise  the  opinion  of  Dr.  Schaum.  It  is  not  only 
slightly  larger,  wider,  and  more  oblong  (the  head,  thorax,  and  elytra 
being  eacJi  of  them  relatively  broader,  and  the  entire  outline  some- 
what more  parallel),  but  the  blacker  portions  of  its  surface  are  more 
developed  and  suffused,  and  the  punctures  of  its  striae  are  smaller 
and  more  numerous, — whilst  (on  the  contrary)  those  of  its  pro  thorax 
are  perhaps  coarser.  This  last,  also,  is  of  a  slightly  difi'erent  shape, — 
being  less  narrowed  anteriorly,  rather  less  obliquely-straightened  at 
the  sides,  and  perceptibly  wider  behind  (where  it  exceeds  in  breadth 
the  extreme  base  of  the  elytra),  and  with  its  two  curved  fovese  deeper. 
The  only  islands  in  which  I  have  observed  it  hitherto  are  Grand 
Canary  and  Gomera ;  in  the  latter  of  which  it  was  taken  abundantly 
by  Mr.  Gray  and  myseK,  in  the  valley  of  San  Sebastian,  during  Feb- 
ruary 1858,  and  subsequently  by  Dr.  Crotch  near  Hermigua  ;  whilst, 
in  March  and  April  of  the  same  year,  I  found  it  in  the  district  of 
El  Monte  of  the  former. 

Genus  40.  HYDROPORUS. 

Clairville,  Ent.  Helv.  ii.  183  (1806). 

115.  Hydroporus  musicus. 

Hydroporus  musicus,  Kltiq,  Si/mb.  Fhys.  pi.  33.  f.  12  (1829). 
,  Aube,  Hydroc'anth.  475  (1838). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Canarice  Grandis,  rarissimus. 

The  only  island  in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  this  Hydroporus 
is  Grand  Canary  ;  where,  however,  it  appears  to  be  scarce.  I  pos- 
sess examples  taken  by  Dr.  Schaum  in  Egypt ;  but  the  Canarian  ones 
are  a  trifle  rounder  and  more  convex,  as  also  of  a  somewhat  less 
pallid  hue. 

116.  Hydroporus  confluens. 

Dytiscus  confluens,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  198  (1792). 
Hydroporus  confluens,  Aube,  Hijdrocanth.  557  (1838). 

,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  87  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  27  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura  et  Gomera,  minus  frequens. 

This  insect,  which  occurs  throughout  Europe  and  the  north  of 

Africa,  and  which  is  imiversal  at  the  Madeiras,  appears  to  be  some- 


70  CANAEIAN  COLEOriERA. 

what  scarce  in  these  islands, — the  only  district  in  which  I  have  my- 
self captured  it  being  the  Eio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura.  It  has 
however,  more  recently,  been  taken,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  near  Hermigua, 
in  Gomera. 

117.  Hydroporus  geminus. 

Dytiscus  g-eminus,  Fab.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  199  (1792). 
Hydroporus  geminus,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  57  (1829). 
,  Aube,  Hijdrocanth.  491  (1838). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  in  eistema  quadam  ad  Rio  Palmas  captus. 

The  Canarian  specimens  of  this  common  European  Hydroporus  arc 
a  trifle  smaller  and  less  pubescent  than  the  ordinary  ones  of  more 
northern  latitudes,  and  their  elytra  are  paler, — the  dark  portion 
which  usually  occupies  almost  the  entire  surface  being  so  reduced  in 
dimensions  as  to  take  the  form  of  a  large,  postmedial,  dentate  fascia  : 
but  there  is  no  character,  that  I  can  detect,  to  warrant  its  separation 
from  the  H.  geminus.  And  I  may  further  add  that  it  was  regarded 
as  conspecific  with  that  insect  by  Dr.  Schaum.  It  appears  to  be  very 
rare  in  these  islands,  the  only  spot  in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed 
it  being  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura, — where,  during  April  1859, 
I  captured  eight  specimens  from  out  of  an  old  water-tank. 

118.  Hydroporus  minutissimus. 

Hydroporus  minutissimus,  Germ.,  Ins.  Spec.  Nov.  31  (1824). 

,  Aube,  Hydroamth.  493  (1838). 

trifasciatus,  Woll,  An7i.  Nat.  Hist,  xviii.  453.  pi.  9.  f.  3  (1846). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Canarioe,  Teneriffse,  Gomera^  et  Palmae,  minus  £re- 
quens. 

The  H.  minutissimus  of  central  and  (more  particularly) -southern 
Europe  appears  to  occur  sparingly  in  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it 
in  the  district  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  in  the  Barranco  Santo 
(near  S*"  Cruz)  of  TeneriiFe,  and  in  the  Barranco  de  San  Juan  (near 
the  Souces)  of  Palma ;  and  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  near  Her- 
migua, in  Gomera. 

119.  Hydroporus  delectus,  n.  sp. 

H.  oblongus,  minute  punctulatus,  tenuiter  pubescens,  niger ;  protho- 
race  ad  latera  dilute  testaceo  et  oblique  subrecto  ;  elytris  utrinque 
lineis  tribus  latis  interruptis  testaceis  postice  valde  abbreviatis  or- 
natis  ;  antennis  ad  basin  pedibusque  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  1-1|. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffse  aquis,  rarissimus. 

Very  closely  aUied  to  the  European  H.  Jlavipes,  but  I  think  never- 
theless really  distinct.     It  is  a  little  smaller,  narrower,  and  more  ob- 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA,  77 

long  (being  a  trifle  wider  relatively  in  front)  than  that  insect ;  its 
prothorax  is  less  rounded  at  the  sides;  its  elytra  have  their  paler 
lines  much  shorter  (or  less  developed),  with  their  margin  concolorous ; 
and  its  antenna3  are  somewhat  longer.  I  have  taken  it  only  in 
TenerifFe, — namely,  in  the  Barranco  Santo  (near  S'"  Cruz)  and  at 
Las  Mercedes ;  and  it  was  also  met  with  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  the  same 
island. 

120.  Hydroporus  xanthopus. 

Hydroporus  xanthopus,  Steph.,  111.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  .393  (1882). 
lituratus,  Anhc,  Hydrocanth.  589  (1838). 

Habitat  in  aquis  TenerifFse,  usque  ad  8000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  present  Hydroporus  differs  a  little  from  its  representatives  of 
more  northern  latitudes, — being  a  trifle  larger,  darker,  and  more  ob- 
long than  the  ordinary  European  H.  xanthopus ;  but  it  agrees  with 
it  so  nearly  in  aU  other  respects  that  I  cannot  believe  that  it  should 
be  regarded  as  more  than  a  geographical  state  of  that  insect :  and 
such  (from  the  examination,  however,  of  but  a  single  specimen),  I 
may  add,  was  the  opinion  of  Dr.  Schaiim.  It  is  rather  common  in 
Teneriffe  (where  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch)  at  inter- 
mediate and  lofty  elevations.  I  have  taken  it  at  Las  Mercedes,  the 
Agua  Garcia,  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  by  a  smaU  spring  on  the  Cumbre 
adjoining  the  Cariadas — upwards  of  8000  feet  above  the  sea. 

121.  Hydroporus  planus. 

Dytiscus  planus,  Fab.,  Ent.  St/st.  1.  195  (1792). 
Hydroporus  holosericeus,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent,  ii.  61  (1829). 
■  planus,  Auhe,  Hydrocanth.  583  (1838). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffae  aquis,  in  rivulo  ad  Agua  Garcia  \-ulgaris. 

As  in  the  H.  xanthoptis,  the  Canarian  examples  of  this  common 
European  insect  are,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  larger,  blacker,  and 
more  convex,  as  also  rather  less  pubescent,  than  the  ordinary  ones 
of  more  northern  latitiides ;  but  there  is  nothing  about  them,  that  I 
can  perceive,  to  justify  the  idea  that  they  are  specifically  distinct 
from  the  H.  planus.  I  have  taken  it  abundantly  at  the  Agua  Garcia, 
in  Teneriffe ;  but  have  not  yet  observed  it  in  any  of  the  other  islands. 
It  was  likewise  captured  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

122.  Hydroporus  Clarkii. 

Hydroporus  Clarkii,  Woll,  Ami.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  438  [June] 

(1862). 
Andalusise,  Clark,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  469  [September]  (1862). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Fuerteventurae,  vulgaris. 

In  its  general  aspect  and  colouring,  as  well  as  in  the  minute  spine 


7?^  CANARIAIf  COLEOPTERA. 

towards  the  apex  of  each  of  its  elytra,  the  present  Hydroporus, 
although  abundantly  distinct  therefrom,  is  somewhat  allied  to  the 
Eui'opean  H.  assimilis,  Payk.  (  =f  rater,  Aube).  It  is  however  rather 
larger,  paler,  and  less  ovate  than  that  insect ;  its  prothorax  is  rela- 
tively narrower,  proportionally  a  little  shorter,  more  equally  rounded 
at  the  sides,  rather  more  produced  in  the  contra  behind,  and  with  its 
basal  patches  more  transverse  and  but  seldom  suffused  into  the 
blackened  posterior  margin ;  and  its  elytra  are  less  convex,  more 
straightened  laterally,  and  with  their  darker  lines  very  much  more 
broken  and  anteriorly  abbreviated.  It  appears  to  be  closely  related 
to  the  H.  affinis,  Aube,  from  Sardinia ;  nevertheless  I  am  assured  by 
Dr.  Schaum  that  he  considers  it  truly  distinct  from  that  species  (of 
which  he  has  lately  examined  "  several  authenticated  specimens  "). 
It  was  taken  abundantly  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  at  La  Antigua  in 
Fuerteventura,  during  January  1858 ;  and  during  April  of  the  fol- 
lowing year  I  met  with  it,  in  still  greater  profusion,  in  the  Rio 
Palmas  of  the  same  island.  It  occurs  also  in  the  south  of  Spain, 
ha\'ing  been  captured  at  Malaga,  by  Messrs.  Gray  and  Clark,  in  May 
of  1856.  The  Spanish  examples  are  a  trifle  smaller  than  the  Cana- 
rian  ones. 

123.  Hydroporus  Ceresyi. 

//.  oblongus,  subconvexus,  supra  testaceus,  subtiliter  pubescens  ;  pro- 
thorace  sequali,  ad  latera  oblique  subreeto,  postice  in  medio  pro- 
ducto  necnon  utrinque  macula  parva  indistincta  suff'usa  ornato ; 
elytris  subparallelis,  pallide  testaceis,  lineis  nigris  plus  minus  in- 
tegris  ornatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Hydroporus  Ceresyi,  Ai(be,  Hydrocanth,  543  (1838). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  lacu  illo  salino  "  Januvio  "  dieto  captus. 

I  do  not  hesitate  to  refer  this  Bydrojjorus  to  the  II.  Ceresyi  of 
southern  Europe,  even  though  the  Canarian  examples  now  before  me 
do  not  perfectly  accord  with  types  in  my  collection  from  Crete  and 
the  south  of  France ;  for  their  discrepancies  inter  se  are  so  slight  as 
to  be  but  just  appreciable ;  and  moreover  it  is  the  opinion  of  Dr. 
Schaum  that  they  cannot  be  treated  as  distinct.  Nevertheless  it 
appears  to  me  that  the  prothorax  of  the  Lanzarotan  individuals  is 
a  trijie  wider  (being  quite  as  broad  behind  as  the  base  of  the  elytra) 
and  perhaps  a  little  more  rounded  at  the  edges,  and  also  that  their 
elytra  (the  testaceous  portions  of  which  are  usually  of  a  darker  or 
more  rufescent  hue)  are  somewhat  straighter  at  the  sides — causing 
the  entire  insect  to  seem,  if  anything,  rather  more  oblong :  however, 
I  do  not  believe  that  they  can  be  regarded,  at  the  utmost,  as  more 


CANARIAIf  COLEOPTEEA.  79 

than  a  geographical  state  of  the  Cercsi/i.  If  however  they  should 
prove  eventually  to  be  clifFerent,  I  would  then  (having  already  given 
a  diagnosis)  propose  for  them  the  specific  name  of  persimills.  The 
only  examples  of  it  which  I  have  yet  seen  from  these  islands  were 
captured  by  myself  in  the  brackish  lake  of  Januvio,  towards  the 
south-west  of  Lanzarote,  during  my  visit  to  that  remote  spot,  in 
company  with  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  in  Mai*ch  1859. 

124.  Hydroporus  tessellatus. 

Hydi'oponis  tessellatus  (D<J.),  Aiibe,  Ili/drocanth.  516  (1838). 

Habitat  in  rivulis  Cauarige,  TeneriffiB,  Gomer£e  et  Palmse,  vulgaris. 

I  have  but  little  doubt  that  the  present  Hydroporus  is  the  tessel- 
latus of  Aube,  described  from  a  single  example  in  Dejean's  collection. 
Nevertheless  there  are  at  least  two  important  characters  omitted  in 
Dr.  Aube's  diagnosis, — which  however,  since  they  are  both  of  them 
somewhat  variable,  is  not  surprising ;  considering,  too,  that  he  had 
but  a  solitary  individual  to  judge  from.  I  refer  to  its  minutely  pu- 
bescent  surface,  and  its  slight  tendency  to  be  very  obscurely  subdenti- 
culated  (more  or  less  expressed  in  different  specimens)  towards  the 
apex  of  its  elytra.  It  is  nearly  allied,  in  general  contour  and  affinity, 
to  the  Madeiran  H.  vigilans ;  but  differs  from  it  in  being  on  the 
average  a  little  larger  and  more  oblong,  in  its  surface  being  deli- 
cately pubescent,  in  its  head  and  prothorax  being  darker  (with  the 
latter  much  less  rounded  at  the  sides  and  having  the  posterior  angles 
less  obtuse),  and  in  its  elytral  lines  (which  are  sometimes  almost 
obsolete)  being  less  developed.  The  H.  tessellatus  is  an  abundant 
insect  in  nearly  all  the  streams  of  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Gomera, 
and  Palma,  occurring  independently  of  elevation.  In  Gomera  it  was 
likewise  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch  (the  latter  of  whom  met 
with  it  also  in  Teneriffe  and  PaLma). 

Genus  41.  LACCOPHILUS. 

Leach,  Zool  Misccll.  iii.  69  (1817). 

125.  Laccophilus  inflatus,  n,  sp. 

L.  lato-ellipticus,  convexus ;  capite  prothoracequc  dilute  rufo-testa- 
ceis,  illo  latiuseulo,  hoc  postice  in  medio  breviter  producto  ;  elytris 
subolivaceo-fuscis,  per  limbum  plus  minus  pellucidis,  maculis  irre- 
gularibus  indistinctis  obliquis  ad  marginem  pallido-ornatis ;  an- 
tennis  palpisque  paUido-testaceis,  pedibus  piceo-testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  2-2\. 

Habitat  in  aquis  Canarise,  Teneriffse  et  Gomerae,  hinc  inde  baud  in- 
frequens. 


80  CANAMAN  COLEOPTERA. 

The  present  LaccophUus  differs  both  from  the  minutus  and  Jiyalinus 
of  more  northern  latitudes  in  its  larger  size,  as  well  as  in  its  wider, 
more  elliptic,  and  convexer  body.  As  regards  its  colouring,  the  head 
and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which  is  but  slightly  produced  in  the 
centre  behind)  are  of  a  more  or  less  diluted  rufo -testaceous  hue ; 
whilst  the  elytra  are  of  a  dark  olivaceous  brown,  with  the  ordinary 
oblique  patches  arising  out  of  the  subpellucid  margin  but  faintly  ex- 
pressed. It  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  in  the  valley  of  San 
Sebastian  of  Gomera,  during  February  1858  ;  and  by  myself,  during 
the  following  April,  at  El  Monte,  Teror,  and  Arguiniguin,  in  Grand 
Canary.  I  have  also  received  it  from  Dr.  Heer,  taken  by  M.  Hartung 
in  Teneriffe. 

Genus  42.  COLYMBETES. 
Clairville,  Mit.  Helv.  ii.  198  (1806). 

126.  Colymbetes  coriaceus. 

Dytiscus  coriaceus,  Hoffm.  in  litt. 
Meladema  coriacea,  Lcqwrte,  Etucl.  Ent.  98  (1834). 
Colymbetes  coriaceus,  Auhe,  Hydrocanth.  220  (1838). 
Dyticus  coriaceus,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  ( Col)  58  (1838). 

Habitat  in  aquis  quietis  Canaria)  et  TenerifFce,  sat  frequens. 

The  C.  coriaceus,  found  in  the  south  of  Europe  and  the  north  of 
Africa  (and  which  is  represented  at  Madeira  by  the  C.  lanio),  occurs 
sparingly  at  the  Canaries.  I  once  however  took  it  in  tolerable  abun- 
dance at  the  head  of  the  Barranco  Santo,  near  S'"  Cruz,  of  Teneriffe ; 
as  also  in  the  large  pools  at  El  Charco, — the  sandy  region  adjoining 
Maspalomas,  in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand  Canary.  From  Tene- 
riffe it  has  likewise  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de 
Paiva ;  in  which  island  it  was  also  captured  by  M.  Hartung  and 
Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  43.  AGABUS. 
Leach,  Zool  Miscell.  iii.  09,  72  (1817). 

127.  Agabus  nebulosus. 

Dytiscus  nebulosus,  Furst.,  Nov.  Spec.  Ins.  56  (1771). 

bipunctatus,  Fab.,  Munt.  Ins.  190  (1787). 

Agabus  nebulosus,  Aube,  Hydrocanth.  328  (1838). 

Colymbetes  bipunctatus,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth,  (Col.)  58  (1838). 

Agabus  nebulosus,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  84  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  25  (1857). 

Habitat  Canariam  et  Teneriffam,  in  aquis,  passim. 

The  common  European  A.  nebulosus  appears  to  be  local  in  these 
islands,  the  only  spots  in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it  being 
near  Tafira  in  Grand  Canary  and  at  Las  Mercedes  in  Teneriffe, — in 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  81 

the  latter  of  which  it  was  also  met  with  by  Dr.  Crotch  (near  Eealejo). 
The  same  state  which  is  typical  at  Madeira,  hxit  which  is  usually 
aberrant  in  more  northern  latitudes,  namely  that  in  which  the  pro- 
thorax  is  immaculate,  obtains  equally  at  the  Canaries ;  for  out  of 
17  examples  which  I  have  just  examined, /o»r  only  have  any  indi- 
cations of  the  two  darker  patches  on  the  disc. 

128.  Agabus  biguttatus. 

A.  ovalis,  convexus,  niger,  subtilissime  alutaceus  ;  capite  postice  ob- 
scure bimaculato  ;  prothorace  brevi,  ad  latera  oblique  subrecto,  in 
disco  canalicula  valde  abbreviata  fovca^formi  notato,  postice  sub- 
sinuato  ;  elytrorum  utroqiie  macula  indistincta  paiilo  ultra  medium 
ad  latera  ornato  [altera  ad  apicem  obsoleta]  necnon  seriebus  punc- 
torum  tribus  impresso ;  palpis  pedibusque  piceis,  illis  ad  apicem, 
antennis,  tarsis  genibusque  Ifete  ferrugineis. 

Mas  nitidissimus,  tarsis  anterioribus  ad  basin  leviter  dilatatis. 

Fcem.  nitidus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-4. 

Dytiscus  biguttatus,  Oliv.,  But.  iii.  40.  20.  pi.  4.  f.  36  (1795). 

Agabus  biguttatus,  Anho,  Hydrocanth.  341  (1838). 

Colymbetes  biguttatus?,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 

Hahitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  captus. 

Judging  from  Dr.  Aube's  excellent  description,  I  have  but  little 
doubt  that  this  Agabus  is  the  higuttatus  of  Olivier  (from  Italy,  Sicily, 
Spain,  the  south  of  France,  &c.), — its  dark,  convex,  oval  and  shining 
body,  no  less  than  its  almost  unalutaceous  surface,  and  the  ferrugi- 
nous hue  of  its  Tcnees  and  feet,  being  points  to  which  he  particularly 
calls  attention ;  whilst  the  fact  that  the  higtdtatus  is  recorded  by  M. 
Brulle,  in  his  short  list  of  Canai'ian  Coleoptera,  would  render  this 
supposition  the  more  probable.  At  the  same  time  I  must  admit  that 
it  is  far  more  lilcehj  that  the  following  species  (which  abounds  in 
Teneriffe)  was  the  one  included  in  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  very 
meagre  collection ;  in  which  case  the  "  Colymbetes  biguttatus "  of 
BruUe's  catalogue  would  refer  to  that  insect  rather  than  to  the  pre- 
sent one.  Be  this  however  as  it  may,  I  believe  that  the  Agalms  now 
under  consideration  is  strictly  identical  with  the  biguttatus  of  Aubd's 
Monograph.  It  appears  to  be  rare  at  the  Canaries,  the  only  three 
specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself  in  the 
region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary  during  the  spring  of  1858. 

129.  Agabus  consanguineus,  n.  sp. 

A.  pra^cedenti  affinis,  sed  paulo  oblongior  (i.  e.  ad  latera  vix  minus 
rotundatus),  minus  convexus,  minus  nitidus  (in  sexu  foemineo  etiam 
subopacus),  prothoracis  angailis  postieis  vix  magis  rectis,  scutello 
vix  niinore  et  magis  triangulari  (ad  apicem  subacutiore),  antennis 


82  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

pedibusque  paulo  obsciirioribus,  genibus  fere  concoloribus,  tarsis 
anterioribus  masculis  ad  basin  paulo  magis  dilatatis  nccnon  tibiis 
anticis  paulo  angustioribus. 
Var.  (i  [an  species  ?].  PaiUo  minor,  vix  picescentior  ovatior  depres- 
sior,  in  sexu  fcemineo  subopacior ;  antennis  pedibusque  plerumque 
rufescentioribus, — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-vix  4. 

Habitat  in  aquis  TeneriiFa?  et  Palmse,  sat  vulgaris. 

Had  it  not  been  that  Dr.  Aube  regards  the  A.  dUatatus  (described 
in  his  Monograph)  as  a  probable  variety  of  the  common  European 
guttatus,  I  should  have  been  inclined  to  refer  the  present  Agabus  to 
that  species.  But  being  satisfied  that  it  cannot  be  considered  as  any 
form,  or  state,  of  the  guttatus,  I  am  induced  to  lay  greater  stress  than 
I  should  otherwise  have  done  on  the  few  points  of  dissimilarity  which ' 
would  appear  to  separate  it  from  the  one  indicated  in  his  diagnosis. 
Thus,  there  is  no  appearance  of  the  piceous  hue,  on  which  he  lays 
particular  stress ;  and  the  reticulations  of  its  surface  (even  in  the 
male  sex)  seem  to  be  more  coarse.  "Whether  it  be  the  dilatatus, 
however,  or  not,  I  may  add  that  it  differs  from  the  guttatus  in  its 
rather  larger  size  and  anteriorly  broader  outline,  in  its  more  finely 
alutaceous  (or  "reticulated")  surface,  in  its  pro  thorax  being  wider 
in  front,  a  little  more  rounded  at  the  sides  and  with  the  hinder  an- 
gles more  obtuse,  in  its  three  series  of  discal  punctures  being  larger 
(with  the  minute  sutural  ones  evanescent),  in  its  limbs  being  duller 
(or  more  piceous),  and  in  its  whole  body  (particularly  of  the  females) 
being  somewhat  less  shining.  From  the  A.  hkjuttatus  (just  described) 
its  rather  more  oblong  (or  less  rounded)  outline,  loss  convex  body  and 
less  polished  surface,  in  conjimction  with  its  rather  smaller  and  more 
triangular  scutellum,  its  rather  darker  and  subconcolorous  limbs,  its 
rather  narrower  fore  tibia?  and  not  quite  so  broadly  dilated  anterior 
male-feet,  will  at  once  remove  it. 

The  "  var.  /3  "  may  possibly  be  distinct ;  nevertheless  as  I  cannot 
detect  a  character  in  it  of  sufficient  importance  to  warrant  its  sepa- 
ration, I  have  thought  it  safer  not  to  treat  it  as  such.  It  is  on  the 
average  a  little  smaller  and  more  ovate  than  the  type,  just  percep- 
tibly more  picescent,  and  perhaps  if  anything  a  trifle  less  convex. 
Its  limbs  also  are  a  shade  paler,  and  its  female  sex  somewhat  more 
opake. 

The  A.  consanguineus  (which  has  likewise  been  communicated  by 
Dr.  Crotch  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva)  is  a  common  insect 
throughout  the  intermediate  elevations  of  Teneriffe,  being  chiefly 
abundant  in  the  streams  and  pools  of  the  sylvan  districts. — such  as 
at  the  Agua  Garcia.  Las  Mercedes,  &c. ;  and  I  have  also  taken  it, 


CANAETAN  COLEOPTERA.  83 

sparingly,  in  Palma.  The  "  var.  /j  "  I  have  only  observed  at  a  some- 
what higher  elevation, — having  obtained  eleven  examples  of  it  in  the 
ravines  of  the  lofty  Pinal  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  during  May  1859. 

Genus  44.  CYBISTER. 
Curtis,  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  151  (1827). 

130.  Cybister  africanus. 

Cybister  africanus,  Laporte,  Etud.  Ent.  99  (1834). 

Trochalus  meridionalis.  Gene,  De  qidh.  Ins.  Sard.  i.  10  (1836). 

Cybister  africanus,  Aube,  Hydrocanth.  71  (1838). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  aquis  quietis  ad  Arguiniguin  mense 
Aprili  A.D.  1858  deprehensus. 

The  G.  africanus,  of  southern  Europe  and  northern  Africa,  appears 
to  be  both  local  and  scarce  in  these  islands, — the  only  spot  in  which 
I  have  observed  it  hitherto  being  at  Arguiniguin,  in  the  south  of 
Grand  Canary ;  where,  on  the  14th  of  April  1858, 1  captured  several 
specimens  of  it  in  the  pools,  or  small  freshwater  lakes,  close  to  the  sea- 
Genus  45.  DYTISCUS. 
Linnaeus,  Syd.  Nat.  ii.  604  (1767). 

131.  Dytiscus  circumflexus. 

Dytiscus  circumflexus.  Fab.,  Syst.  Eleu.  i.  258  (1801). 

,  Aube,  Hydrocanth.  113  (1838). 

Dyticus  circumflexus,  Bndle,  in  Webb  et  Bei^th.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 

Habitat  ? 

The  European  D.  circimijiexus  (which  is  recorded  also  from  Algeria 
and  Barbary)  is  admitted  as  Canarian  by  M.  BruUe,  on  the  evidence 
of  examples  assumed  to  have  been  captured  by  Messrs.  Webb  and 
Berthelot.  I  have  not  myself  met  with  it  in  these  islands;  but 
since  there  is  no  reason  why  it  should  not  occur  there,  and  since  I 
have  examined  the  specimens  of  Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot,  in 
Paris,  which  appeared  to  be  correctly  identified,  I  think  perhaps  that 
the  insect  should  be  included  in  our  present  fauna.  Nevertheless 
I  cannot  but  feel  a  slight  hesitation  in  admitting  it,  seeing  that 
several  of  the  very  few  species  supposed  to  have  been  collected  by 
Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot  leave  a  doubt  on  my  mind  as  to  whether 
or  not  they  were  really  obtained  at  the  Canaries  at  all.  As  to  the 
precise  island  in  which  the  specimens  were  professedly  found,  M. 
Brulle,  of  course,  gives  us  no  information. 


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84  CANARIAN  COLEOPXEEA. 

OeniLS  46.  EUNECTES. 

Ericlison,  Gen.  Dijtic.  23  (1832). 

132.  Eunectes  subdiaphanus. 

Eunectes  subdiaphanus,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.,  3rcl  series,  viii.  100 
(1861). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  aquis  quietis  ad  El  Cbarco  rcpertus. 

This  fine  Eunectes,  the  distinctive  characters  of  which  are  fiilly 
pointed  out  in  my  diagnosis  above  referred  to,  was  taken  by  myself 
in  the  pools  at  El  Charco,  in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand  Canary, 
during  my  visit  to  that  remote  spot,  mth  the  Rev.  E,.  T.  Lowe,  on 
the  13th  of  AprH  1858. 

Fam.  3.  GYRINID^. 

Genus  47.  GYRINUS. 
Geoffroy,  Mist.  Abr.  cles  Ins.  i.  193  (1762). 

133.  Gyrinus  striatus. 

Gyrinus  striatus,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  203  (1792). 

strigosus,  Aube,  Hi/drocanth.  719  (1838). 

striatus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  58  (1838). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Canariae  et  TeneriiFae,  baud  infrequens. 

The  6r.  striatus  (remarkable,  inter  alia,  for  the  deep  and  pale  striae 
of  its  elytra,  greatly  raised  outer  interstices,  distinctly  punctulated 
surface,  and  yellow  margin)  is  tolerably  common  at  the  Canaries, 
thoiigh  somewhat  local.  I  have  taken  it  in  profusion,  however,  in 
the  pools  at  El  Charco,  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary ;  as  also  at 
the  Agua  Mansa,  &c.,  of  Tenerifte.  From  the  latter  island  it  has 
likewise  been  communicated  (together  with  the  following  two  species) 
by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  It  occurs  throughout  central  and 
southern  Europe  and  the  north  of  Africa;  and  has  been  recorded 
even  from  Madagascar,  the  Isle  of  France,  and  New  Holland. 

134.  Gyrinus  urinator. 

Gyrinus  m-inator,  J/%.,  3/f/r/.  fiir  Ins.  vi.  299  (1807). 

lineatus,  Steph.,^IU.  lirii.  Ent.  ii.  97.  pi.  xiii.  f.  2  (1829). 

uiinator,  Aube,  HydroeantJi.  704  (1838). 

,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  58  (1838). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Canarise,  Teneriffae  et  Gomerae,  sat  vulgaris. 

The  rather  broad  and  somewhat  obovate  outline  of  this  Gyrinus, 
in  conjunction  with  its  very  highly  polished  and  dark  (though  ob- 
scurely subcyaneous  and  laterally  tenescent)  surface,  its  dull  whitish- 


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metallic  elytra!  striae  (the  subsiitural  ones  of  which  are  scarcely  per- 
ceptibly impressed),  and  the  ferruginous  hue  of  its  body  beneath, 
will  readily  distinguish  it.  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary ;  near 
S"'  Cruz  and  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe;  and,  dui-ing  February  1858,  it 
was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  in  the  valley  above  San  Se- 
bastian, of  Gomera, — from  which  locality  it  was  subsequently  ob- 
tained by  Dr.  Crotch.  I  have  also  received  it  from  Professor  Heer 
(collected  byM.  Hartung  in  Teneriffe)  under  the  name  of  ''G.  na- 
tator,^''  from  which  however  it  is  totally  distinct. 

135.  G3rrinus  Dejeanii. 

Gyi'inus  Dejeanii,  Brnlle,  Exp.  scient.  en  Moree,  iii.  (l'"''  part.)  128. 
seneus,  Aube  [nee  Stqjh.],  Hydrocanth.  690  (1838). 

Habitat  in  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

The  rather  smaller  size  and  narrower  outline  of  the  present  Oy- 
rinus,  combined  with  its  more  deeply  punctured  striae  (which  are 
concolorous  with  the  rest  of  the  surface),  its  more  straightly  trun- 
cated elytra,  and  the  darker  hue  of  its  body  beneath,  will,  apart  from 
minor  differences,  at  once  separate  it  from  the  last  species.  It 
closely  resembles  the  common  O.  natator,  but  is  a  trifle  more  oblong, 
with  its  striae  more  coarsely  punctured,  with  its  elytra  more  straightly 
truncated  at  their  apex,  and  with  its  reflexed  margin  dark -aeneous 
(instead  of  ferruginous).  It  is  common  throughout  central  and 
southern  Europe,  and  appears  to  be  likewise  common  in  these  islands. 
I  have  taken  it  abundantly  at  Arguiniguin,  in  the  south  of  Grand 
Canary ;  as  also  near  S'^  Cruz,  Souzal,  and  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe. 

Fam.  4.  PARNID^. 

Genus  48.  PARNUS. 
Fabricius,  Ent.  Syst.  i.  245  (1792). 

136.  Parnus  prolifericomis. 

Parnus  prolifericomis,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  245  (1792). 

,  Gyll.,  Ins.  Stiec.  i.  139  (1808). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  90  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  28  (1857). 

Habitat  in  aquosis  Canariae,  Teneriffae,  Gomcrae  et  Palmae,  sat 
vulgaris. 

The  common  European  P.  prolifericomis,  which  is  universal  at 
Madeira  and  which  is  recorded  by  M.  Morelet  at  the  Azores,  occurs 
rather  abundantly  in  wet  spots  at  the  Canaries.     Hitherto,  however, 


86  CANARIAN  COIiEOPTEKA. 

I  have  myself  observed  it  only  in  Grand  Canary, Teneriffe,  and  Palma; 
but  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  near  Hermigua,  in  Gomera. 


Fam.  5.  HELOPHORID^. 

Genus  49.  HELOPHOEUS. 

Fabricius,  Syst.  Ekn.  i.  277  (1801). 

137.  Helophorus  longitarsis,  n.  sp. 

//.  elongato-ovatus,  antice  attenuatns ;  capite  prothoraceque  eupreis, 
minutissime  et  parce  punctulatis,  hoc  5-sulcato,  sulcis  lateralibus 
internis  flexuosis ;  ocuHs  magnis,  prominentibus ;  elytris  testaceis, 
insequalitcr  griseo-nebulosis,  punctato-striatis,  striis  angustis,  in- 
tcrstitiis  latiusculis  subdepressis  distincte  uniscriatim  punctulatis  ; 
antonnis,  palpis  pedibusque  pallide  testaceis,  his  (praesertim  tarsis) 
elongatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  1|. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  in  cisterna  quadam  ad  Rio  Pahnas  semel 
captus. 

This  very  distinct  Helopliorus  may  be  at  once  known  from  all  the 
European  species  with  which  I  am  acquainted  by  its  anteriorly  at- 
tenuated outHne,  narrow  strise,  and  the  comparatively  great  length 
of  its  very  paUid  limbs, — especially  however  of  the  feet.  Its  head 
and  prothorax  are  of  a  reddish-coppery  hue ;  its  eyes  are  large  and 
prominent ;  and  its  elytra  are  testaceous,  obscurely  clouded  in  parts, 
and  with  their  interstices  (which  have  a  very  e\-ident  row  of  small 
punctures  down  each)  rather  wide  and  subdepressed.  The  only  spe- 
cimen of  it  which  I  have  seen  was  captured  by  myself  oixt  of  a  tank 
in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fucrteventura,  during  April  1859. 

Genus  50.  OCHTHEBIUS. 

Leach,  Zool.  31iscell  iii.  91  (1817). 

138.  Ochthebius  4-foveolatus. 

Ochthebius  4-foveolatus,  Wall,  Ins.  3Iad.  91  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  28  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma, 
baud  infrequens. 

The  present  Ochthebius,  which  is  common  in  Madeira  and  Porto 
Santo,  is  widely  spread  over  the  Canarian  archipelago.  I  have 
taken  it  in  (the  Rio  Palmas  and  at  La  Antigua  of)  Fuerteventura, 
(in  the  region  of  El  Monte  of)  Grand  Canary,  (at  S*''  Cruz,  the  Agua 
Garcia,  &c.,  of)  Teneriffe,  and  (in  the  Barranco  de  San  Juan  of) 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  o7 

Palma.     It  was  also  captured  in  Gomera  (near  San  Sebastian)  by 
Mr.  Gray  and  (at  Hermigua)  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

139.  Ochthebius  pygmaeus. 

Elophorus  pvgmfeus,  Fab.,  Ent.  Syst.  i.  205  (1792). 
Ochthebius  pygma;us,  Steph.,  Ill  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  115  (1829). 

riparius,  8tunn,  Deutsch.  Fna,  x.  59.  tab.  222.  f.  a.  A  (1836). 

pygmaeus,  Erich.,  Kaf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  199  (1837). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  TenerifFa  et  Palma,  bine  inde  vulgaris. 

The  common  European  0.  pygmams  is  locally  abundant  at  the  Ca- 
naries. I  have  taken  it  in  (the  Rio  Palmas  of)  Fuerteventura,  (near 
S'''  Cruz  and  Orotava,  and  at  the  Ag-ua  Garcia  of)  TenerifFe,  and  (in 
the  Barranco  de  San  Juan  of)  Palma. 

140.  Ochthebius  lapidicola,  n.  sp. 

0.  elongato-ovatus,  brunneo-piceus,  vix  metallescens,  subopaeus ;  ca- 
pite  prothoraceque  dense  punctatis  et  valde  rugulosis,  iUo  trian- 
gidari,  utrinque  late  et  profunde  impresso,  hoc  canaliculate  necnon 
utrinque  juxta  canaliculam  longitudinaliter  bifoveolato  ;  elytris  mi- 
nutissime  et  parce  pubescentibus,  profunde  et  rugose  punctato-stri- 
atis;  pedibus  brevibus,  robustis,  ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.l-ll. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  rarissimus. 

A  very  remarkable  Oclitliehius,  and  well  distinguished  at  first  sight 
by  its  brownish-piceous,  nearly  opake  and  almost  unmetaUic  surface, 
by  its  exceedingly  rugose  and  deeply  foveolated  head  and  prothorax 
(the  former  of  which  is  triangular,  being  more  regularly  widened 
behind  than  is  the  case  with  the  Oc7if7ie6w. generally),  by  its  rough 
and  coarsely  punctate-striated  elytra,  and  by  its  short  and  robust 
legs.  It  is  somewhat  aUied  to  the  0.  rugulosus  from  Porto  Santo, 
but  totally  distinct  from  it  specifically.  Of  the  only  three  specimens 
which  I  have  seen,  two  were  captured  by  myself  from  under  small 
stones  at  the  edges  of  the  little  stream  (near  its  junction  with  the 
sea)  in  the  Barranco  de  San  Juan,  towards  the  north-west  of  Palma, 
on  the  28th  of  May  1858  ;  and  the  remaining  one  by  Dr.  Crotch  (at 
Ycod  el  Alto)  in  TenerifFe. 

Genus  51.  HYDR^NA. 

Kugelann,  in  Schneid.  May.  i.  578  (1794). 

141.  Hydraena  sinuaticollis,  n.  sp. 

//.  serricoVi  similis,  sed  paido  major,  (oculo  fortissimo  armato)  subti- 
lissime  et  parcissime  pubescens  ;  capite  antice  distinctius  longiore, 
rostrato,  ad  apicem  sensim  latiore,  oculis  magis  prominentibus  ; 
prothorace  (baud  solum  punctate,  sed)  alutaceo,  ad  latera  minus 


6o  CAXAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

serrato  seel  utrinque  magis  angiilato-sinuuto ;  elytris  oblongioribus 
(minus  ovatis),  punctato-striatis  (nee  striato-punctatis),  pnnctis 
panlo  minoribus  necnon  interstitiis  sensim  costato-elcvatioribus ; 
palpis  siiblongioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  TeneriiFam,  a  Dom.  W.  D,  Crotch  semel  tantum  lecta. 

Of  the  present  Hydrmia  I  have  seen  hitherto  but  a  single  example, 
which  has  been  taken  recently  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  TenerifFe, — he  he- 
lieves,  at  Ycod  el  Alto.  It  is  wcU  distinguished  by  its  (ahitaceous, 
though  strongly  pimctured)  prothorax  being  much  sinuated  on  either 
side,  so  as  to  form  almost  an  angle  about  the  middle ;  and  by  its 
elytral  interstices  being  perceptibly  raised,  or  costate.  Its  surface, 
under  a  high  magnifpng  power,  will  be  seen  to  be  sparingly  be- 
sprinkled with  an  extremely  minute  and  scarcely  traceable  piibes- 
cenee.  In  size  and  outline  it  is  perhaps  nearer  than  even  the  H. 
serncoUis  to  the  Eiu-opean  H.  bicolor ;  nevertheless  its  totally  dif- 
ferent (laterally-sinuated,  alutaceous)  prothorax,  rather  smaller  ely- 
tral punctiu'es,  and  more  elevated  interstices  will,  apart  from  minor 
characters,  readily  separate  it  from  that  insect. 

From  the  H.  serricoUis  its  distinctions  have  been  fuUy  pointed 
out  in  the  diagnosis;  nevertheless  I  may  just  mention  that  its  rather 
larger  size  and  more  elongate  outline,  in  conjunction  with  its  some- 
what more  produced  (though  apically-broader)  head,  more  prominent 
eyes,  more  laterally-sinuated,  alutaceous  prothorax,  less  coarsely 
punctured  elytral  striae,  more  costate  interstices,  and  rather  longer 
palpi,  will  prevent  its  being  confounded  with  that  species. 

142.  Hydrsena  serricollis,  n.  sp. 

//.  elongato-ovata,  piceo-brunnea,  subnitida ;  capite  prothoraceque 
profunde  et  rugose  punctatis,  illo  nigrescente,  hoc  inajquali,  in 
medio  dilatato,  postice  sat  constricto,  ad  latera  (oculo  armato)  di- 
stincte  serrato  ;  elytris  ovatis,  profunde  striato-pimctatis  (i^unctis 
maximis) ;  antennis  ad  basin,  palpis  pedibusque  rufo-testaceis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  1, 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  per  marginem  rivuH  ad  Agua  Garcia  capta. 

Known  from  the  following  species  by  its  larger  size,  broader  and 
more  ovate  outline,  darker  hue,  and  very  much  more  deeply  sculp- 
tured surface ;  by  its  prothorax  being  rounded  (and  more  coarsely 
crenulated)  at  the  sides,  and  constricted  posteriorly ;  and  by  its  limbs 
being  robuster  and  more  rufescent.  At  first  sight  it  is  somewhat 
allied  to  the  common  European  H.  testacea ;  but  it  is  relatively  a 
little  wider  and  more  ovate  than  that  insect,  its  prothorax  is  a  good 
deal  rounder  laterally  and  narrower  behind,  more  uneven  on  the  disc, 


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and  with  the  crenulations  more  distinct,  its  colour  is  of  a  deeper 
brown,  and  its  limbs  are  a  trifle  shorter  and  more  robust.  Hitherto 
I  have  only  observed  it  beneath  stones  in  the  little  stream  which  flows 
through  the  wood  of  the  Agua  Garcia,  of  Tenerifte, — where,  however, 
it  is  tolerably  abundant. 

143.  Hydrsena  quadricollis,  n.  sp. 

H.  elongato-ovata,  angustula,  subtestaceo-fusca,  subnitida ;  capite 
prothoraceque  punctatis,  illo  nigrescente,  hoc  in  disco  paulo  obscu- 
riore,  subquadrato,  postice  vix  angustiore,  ad  latera  (oculo  fortis- 
simo armato)  vix  serratulo ;  elytris  subovalibus,  leviter  sed  crebre 
striato-punctatis  (punctis  parvis) ;  antennis  ad  basin,  palpis  pedi- 
busque  gracilibus,  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  |. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  prope  urbem  Sanctam  Crucem  reperta. 

As  has  been  already  implied,  the  present  Hydraina  may  be  at  once 
recognized  from  the  last  species  by  its  smaller  size,  narrower  outline, 
paler  and  much  less  deei)ly  sculptured  surface,  by  its  prothorax  being 
suhquadmte  (or  but  very  slightly  narrowed  behind)  and  with  the 
lateral  serrations  excessively  minute,  and  by  its  limbs  being  slenderer 
and  of  a  more  pallid  hue.  The  only  spot  in  which  I  have  observed 
it  is  near  S'"  Cruz  of  Teneriife, — where  I  have  several  times  taken 
it,  though  very  sparingly,  amongst  weeds  in  the  small  pools  of  the 
Barranco  Santo. 

Fam.  6.  HYDROPHILID^. 

Genus  52.  LIMNEBIUS. 

Leacli,  Zool.  Miscall,  iii.  93  (1817). 

144.  Limnebius  gracilipes,  n.  sp. 

L.  ovalis  (antice  et  postice  subsequaliter  rotundatus),  ater,  subcon- 
vexus,  subtiliter  et  parce  pubescens ;  prothoraee  (oculo  fortiter 
armato)  minute  punctulato,  versus  angulos  posticos  obscure  dilu- 
tiore ;  elytris  fore  impunctatis,  ad  apicem  fere  concoloribus ;  an- 
tennis, palpis  pedibusque  gracilibus,  piceo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp. 
Hn.  |-|. 

Habitat  in  rivuLis  Canarige,  Teneriifse,  Gomerae  et  Palmse,  hinc  inde 
baud  infrequens. 

Easily  recognized  from  the  following  species  by  its  oval  outline 
(being  almost  equally  rounded  before  and  behind),  considerably 
blacker,  less  convex,  less  pubescent  and  very  much  more  lightly 
punctiu-ed  surface,  and  by  its  slenderer  limbs.  I  have  taken  it  in  the 
stream  at  Mogan,  in  the  south-west  of  Grand  Canary ;  in  the  vicinity 


90  CANARIAN  COLEOrTEKA. 

of  S'"  Cruz,  and  at  Las  Mercedes,  of  Teiieriffe ;  and  in  the  Barranco  de 
San  Juan  (near  the  Souces)  of  Palma ;  and  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  Gomera. 

145.  Limnebius  punctatus,  n.  sp. 

L.  obovatus  (antice  latus  rotundatus,  postice  gradatim  acutior),  piceo- 
niger,  obsolete  subsiiescens,  convexus,  grosse  et  sat  parce  pubes- 
cens  ;  prothorace  profunde  pnnctato,  ad  hitera  ferrugineo ;  elytris 
vix  levins  punctatis,  versus  apicem  paulo  dilutioribus  ;  antennis, 
palpis  pedibusque  robustis,  piceo-ferrugiueis. — Long,  corp,  lin.  |. 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  in  rivulis  (prtesertim  quodam  parvo  per  sylvam 
Aguse  Garciae  fluente)  degens. 

The  obovate  outline  of  this  Limnebius  (it  being  wide  and  rounded 
in  front,  but  gradually  acuminated  behind),  in  conjunction  with  its 
more  piceous  and  obscurely  submetallic  hue  (the  sides,  moreover,  of 
the  prothorax,  and  the  apex  of  the  elytra,  being  rather  brightly  ferru- 
ginous), its  convexer,  deeply  punctured  and  more  coarsely  pubescent 
surface,  and  its  comparatively  robust  limbs,  will  at  once  separate  it 
from  the  preceding  species.  Both  of  these  Limnebii,  I  may  add,  are 
perfectly  distinct  from  the  Madeiran  L.  g^'andicollis — which  is  re- 
markable, inter  alia,  for  its  more  elliptic  outline  (being  widened  about 
the  middle)  and  alutaceous  sculpture,  as  well  as  for  the  almost  equally 
impressed  and  remote  punctures  of  its  entire  upper  sui'faee,  those 
of  the  elytra  being  perhaps,  if  anything,  somewhat  the  deepest.  The 
only  locality  in  w^hich  I  have  myself  observed  the  L.  punctatus  is  the 
little  stream  which  flows  through  the  Agua  Garcia  of  Teneriffe, 
where  it  is  tolerably  common  ;  it  has,  however,  been  taken  at  Ycod 
el  Alto,  in  the  same  island,  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  53.  LACCOBIUS. 

Erichson,  Keif,  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  202  (1837). 

140.  Laccobius  minutus. 

Chrysomela  minuta,  Linn.,  Fiui  Suec.  ]GG  (1761). 

Laccobius  minutus,  Erich.,  Klif.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  203  (1837). 

,  Woll,  Lis.  Mad  95  (1854). 

,  Ld,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  31  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Hierro  sola  adhuc  hand  detectus. 

The  common  European  L.  minutus  (which  is  found  also  in  Madeira 
and  Porto  Santo)  appears  to  be  universal  at  the  Canaries,  Hierro  being 
the  only  island,  out  of  the  seven,  in  which  I  do  not  happen  to  have 
observed  it.  There  can,  however,  I  should  imagine,  be  little  doubt 
that  it  must  exist  there  also ;  though  the  absence  of  streams  in 
that  island,  and  the  consequent  scarcity  of  water,  would  certainly 


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imply  that,  if  present  at  all,  it  must  at  any  rate  be  scarce.  In  Lan- 
zarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Gomera  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Mr. 
Gray ;  in  TenerLffe  by  M.  Hartung ;  and  in  Tenerifte  and  Gomera  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  It  seems  to  have  a  larger  and  a  smaller  state,  between 
which  I  have  not  as  yet  observed  transitional  links  ;  nevertheless 
there  is  no  differential  character,  that  I  can  perceive,  to  warrant  the 
suspicion  that  they  are  specifically  distinct.  The  examples  from  the 
eastern  islands  of  the  archipelago  are,  on  the  average,  of  a  paler  hue 
than  those  from  the  central  and  western  ones, — which  is  precisely 
analogous  to  the  Porto- Santan  specimens,  as  compared  with  those 
from  Madeira  proper. 

Genus  54.  PHILHYDEUS. 

Solier,  Atm.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  iii.  315  (1834). 

147.  Philhydrus  melanocephalus. 

Hydropliilus  melanocephalus,  OUi:,  Ent.  iii.  39.  14  (1795). 

,  BrnlU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 

Philhydrus  melanocephalus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  98  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  32  (1857). 

Habitat  in  aquis  Lanzarota3,  Fuerteventiu'se,  Canariee,  Teneriftse  ct 
Gomerse,  sat  vulgaris. 

As  in  the  case  of  the  last  insect,  the  common  Eiu'opean  P.  mela- 
nocephalus is  all  but  universal  (probably  indeed  quite  so)  in  these 
islands.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  captured  it  only  in  Lanzarote, 
Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Tenerifi'e,  and  Gomera, — in  the  fii'st 
two  and  last  of  which  it  was  likewise  fomid  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  the 
last  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  abounds  in  the  streams  of  Porto  Santo ;  and 
the  same  two  states  (a  paler  and  a  darker  one)  which  occur  there 
exist  equally  at  the  Canaries. 

Genus  55.  BEROSUS. 

Leach,  Zool.  Miscell  iii.  92  (1817). 

148.  Berosus  spinosus. 

Hydrophilus  spinosus  (Ster.),  Schon.,  Syn.  Ins.  ii.  8  (1808). 
Berosus  spinosus,  Ahr.,  Fna  Ins.  Europ.  iii.  f.  5  (1816). 

,  Stejyh.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  400  (1832). 

,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 

Habitat?  [testibus  DD.Webb  et  Berth.,  in  ins.  Canariensibus:  mihi 
non  obvius]. 

I  have  not  myself  observed  this  European  Berosus  at  the  Canaries ; 
and  I  may  add  that,  had  it  been  found  in  Madeira,  I  certainly  should 


92  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

not  have  admitted  it  into  the  present  Catalogue, — having  but  too 
good  reason  for  suspecting  that  several  of  the  insects  recorded  by  M. 
Bnille,  from  the  very  scanty  collection  of  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot, 
were  brought  by  Mr.  Webb  from  Funchal,  and  were  afterwards 
mixed  up  (whether  inadvertently  or  by  design  I  cannot  tell)  vdth 
his  material  from  these  islands  *.  But  since  the  B.  spinosus  has  not 
hitherto  been  detected  in  the  Madeiran  Group,  and  since  I  have  no 
grounds  for  concluding  that  the  specimens  from  any  other  country 
were  amalgamated  by  Mr.  Webb  -ndth  his  Canarian  ones,  and  since 
moreover  I  have  inspected  his  examples  which  still  exist  in  Paris,  I 
am  inclined  to  admit  the  species  into  this  list.  At  the  same  time  I 
must  state  that  I  do  so  somewhat  reluctantly,  since  the  entire  absence 
of  a  single  word  from  M.  Brulle  as  to  which  of  the  seven  islands  it 
was  found  in  (if  indeed  in  any  of  them)  renders  me  totally  unable  to 
record  its  "habitat."  It  is  far  from  improbable,  however,  that  it 
may  occur  in  the  brackish  streams  and  Sahnas  of  Lanzarote  or  Fuerte- 
vcntura. 

Genus  56.  HYDROBIUS. 
Leach,  Zool.  MisceU.  iii.  93  (1817). 

149.  Hydrobius  haBmorrhous,  n.  sp. 

H.  ovalis,  fusco-niger,  nitidus,  distincte  (pra^sertim  in  elj^tris)  et  sat 
crebre  punctatus  ;  capite  utrinque  ante  oculos,  prothoracis  limbo 
plus  minus  conspicue  ncenon  elytrorum  limbo  plus  mmus  obscure 
dilutioribus ;  elytris  stria  sutiu'ali  profunda  (anticc  evanescente) 
impressis ;  antennis  ad  basin  palpisque  (apice  ipsissimo  nigro  ex- 
cepto)  testaceis ;  pedibus  rufo-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-^-1  i. 

Habitat  in  aquosis  Canarise  Grandis,  rarissimus. 

The  present  Hydrobius  is  about  the  size  of  the  Madeiran  H.  Mar- 
cliantice,  but  perfectly  distinct  from  it, — as  -ut-II  be  at  once  seen  by  a 
reference  to  the  diagiiosis  given  (in  1857)  in  my  Madeiran  Catalogue. 
It  is  apparently  very  scarce,  Grand  Canary  being  the  only  island  in 
which  I  have  hitherto  detected  it;  where,  during  the  spring  of  1858, 
I  captured  it  sparingly  at  Teror,  and  about  wet  rocks  in  the  moun- 
tains of  the  interior,  towards  Tarajana. 

Genus  57.  CHiETARTHRIA. 

(Waterhouse)  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  401  (1832). 


*  That  such  was  the  case  with  the  Scaritcs  abbreviatus  (^=di7nidiatus,  Br.),  the 
Harpcdus  distinfficendus  and  consentaneus,  and  perhaps  one  or  two  others,  I  have 
already  recorded  my  conviction. 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  93 

150.  Chgetarthria  similis,  n.  sp. 

G.  valde  affinis  C.  semimdo,  sed  vix  (nisi  fallor)  mcra  varietas  gco- 
graphica:  sensim  major  et  (oculo  fortiter  armato)  argutius  punctata, 
prothorace  ad  latcra  ipsissima  vix  grossius  marginato  ct  ibidem  (ut 
in  elytrorum  apice)  clarius  dilutiore,  antennis,  palpis  pedibiisque 
paulo  pallidioribus. — Long.  eorp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  in  humidis  et  aquosis  Canari8e,Teneriffa3,Gomera3  et  Palma?, 
rarissimus. 

Although  very  closely  aUied  to  the  common  European  C.  seminu- 
lum,  I  think  that  the  present  Chcetarthrla  can  scarcely  be  referred 
actually  to  that  species.  It  is,  on  the  average,  perceptibly  larger, 
and  when  viewed  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power  will  be  seen  to 
be  much  more  sharply  and  distinctly  punctured.  The  sides  of  its 
prothorax,  as  well  as  the  apex  of  its  elytra,  are  more  diluted  in  hue ; 
and  the  former  is  perhaps  a  trifle  more  coarsely  margined  at  its  ex- 
treme lateral  edges.  Its  limbs,  too,  are  altogether  a  shade  paler.  It 
appears  to  be  decidedly  rare,  though  widely  spread  over  the  archi- 
pelago. I  have  taken  it  in  moist  spots  in  the  region  of  El  Monte,  of 
Grand  Canary,  as  weU  as  in  Palma ;  and  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  Teneriife  and  Gomera. 


Fam.  7.  SPH^RIDIAD^. 

Genus  58.  CYCLONOTUM. 
(Dejean)  Erich.,  Kqf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  212  (1837) 

151.  Cyclonotum  orhiculare. 

Hydrophilus  orbicularis,  Fab.,  Ent.  Syst.  i.  184  (1792). 
Hydrobius  orbicularis,  Stejdi.,  III.  Brk.  Ent.  ii.  132  (1829). 
Cyclonotum  orbiculare,  Erich.,  Kiif.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  214  (1837). 
Ccelostoma  orbiculare,  BndU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  -58  (1838). 

Habitat  in  aquosis  Euerteventurge,  Canarioe,  Teneriffse,  Gomerse  et 
Palmse,  vulgaris. 

This  insect,  so  abundant  throughout  the  whole  of  Europe,  is  pro- 
bably universal  at  the  Canaries, — though  I  do  not  hapi^cn  to  have 
observed  it  in  either  Lanzai'ote  or  Hierro  (the  extreme  eastern  and 
the  extreme  western  islands  of  the  archipelago)  ;  but  in  Euerteventura, 
Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  Gomera,  and  Palma  I  have  tak(>n  it,  more 
or  less  abimdantly.  In  Euerteventura  and  Gomera  it  was  likewise 
found  by  Mr.  Gray ;  in  Tencriffe  by  M.  Ilartung ;  and  in  TenerifFe 
and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch. 


94  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Genus  59.  DACTYLOSTERNUM. 
Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  99.  tab.  iii.  f.  1  (1854). 

152.  Dactylostermim  abdominale. 

Spliperidiuni  abdominale,  Fab.,  Ent.  Syst.  i.  79  (1792). 
C(]e.lostoraa  abdominale,  Bndle,  in  Wi'hh  ct  Berth.  (Col.)  58  (1838). 
IJactvlosternum  Eoussetii,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  100.  tab.  iii.  f.  1  (1854). 
" ,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  32  (1857). 

Habitat  Canariam,  TeneriiFam  et  Gomeram,  foliis  piitridis  Opuntkv. 
Tume  prsesertim  gaudens. 

The  D.  abdominale  of  southern  Europe  and  northern  Africa,  and 
which  occurs  also  at  Madeira,  is  found  sparingly  in  these  islands.  I 
have  taken  it  at  Teror  in  Grand  Canary,  near  S'^''  Cruz  in  Teneriffe, 
and  at  San  Sebastian  in  Gomera, — in  the  last  two  of  which  islands  it 
was  also  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  in  the  last  by  Mr.  Gray.  It  is 
particularly  fond  of  the  putrid  leaves  of  the  Prickly  Pear  (Opuntia 
Tuna,  Mill.),  which  have  been  thrown  away  as  refuse  and  allowed  to 
rot ;  and  were  such  to  be  well  searched  it  would  probably  be  found 
to  be  more  local  than  scarce. 

Genus  60.  CERCYON. 
Leach,  Zool.  Miscell  iii.  95  (1817). 

153.  Cercyon  inquinitum. 

Cercyon  inquinitum,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  103  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  34  (1857). 

Hahitat  TenerifFam,  prope  Portum  Orotavse  semcl  captum. 

The  only  Canarian  example  that  has  come  under  my  observation 
of  this  insect  (which  is  not  unconnnon  on  the  level  of  the  sea-shore, 
in  certain  spots,  at  Madeira)  was  captured  by  myself,  on  the  wing, 
immediately  outside  the  Puerto  Orotava  of  Teneriffe,  during  the 
spring  of  1858. 

154.  Cercyon  lepidum,  n.  sp. 

G.  ovale  postice  subacutum,  convexum,  nitidum,  supra  ubique  punc- 
tulatum ;  capite  prothoraceque  nigris  (hoc  ad  latera  concolore) ; 
elytris  testaceo-rufis,  circa  scutellum  interdum  obsolete  obscuriori- 
bus,  sat  profunde  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis  ad  basin,  palpis  pe- 
dibusque  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  f-vix  1. 

Hahitat  Fuerteventuram  et  Gomeram,  in  ilia  sub  stercore  camelino 
ad  Rio  Palmas  mense  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859  deprehensum  ;  in  hac 
nuper  cepit  Dom.  Crotch. 

In  general  outline  and  colouring  the  present  somewhat  insigni- 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  95 

ficant  Cercyon  is  a  good  deal  allied  to  the  common  European  C.  me- 
lanocephalum.  It  is,  however,  considerably  smaller  than  that  insect, 
its  punctuation  is  finer  and  less  dense,  and  its  elytra  and  limbs  are  a 
shade  paler  (or  more  testaceous),— the  former,  moreover,  having  only 
a  slight  tendency  to  be  occasionally  obscured  about  their  scutellary 
region,  and  with  their  striae  somewhat  deeper.  Perhaps  it  is  nearer 
still  to  the  C.  terminatum,  Mshm  (=  plagiatum,  Er.).  The  only 
specimens  which  I  have  myself  captured  (twelve  in  number)  were 
taken  from  beneath  camels'  dung,  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura, 
at  the  beginning  of  April  1859  :  I  have,  however,  examined  others, 
taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

155.  Cercyon  nigriceps. 

Dermestes  nigriceps,  Mshm,  Eni.  Brit.  72  (1802), 

Sphaeridiiim  centriraaculatum,  Sturm,  Deictsch.  Ftui,  ii.  23  (1807). 

Cercvon  centrimaculatum,  Miils.,  PaJjnc.  tie  France,  169  (1844). 

^' ,  Woll.,Ins.  Mad.  104  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  34  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Canariam,  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam, 
in  stercore  bovino  et  equino  baud  infrequens. 

This  common  European  Cercijon  (which  is  universal  in  Madeira  aiid 
Porto  Santo)  occurs  rather  sparingly  in  these  islands.  I  have  taken 
it  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma, — in  the  last  of 
which  it  was  likewise  found  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Teneriffe  and  Go- 
mera by  Dr.  Crotch. 

156.  Cercyon  qnisquilium. 

Scarabfeus  quisquilius,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  138  (1761). 
Cercyon  qnisquilium,  3Itds.,  Palpic.  de  France,  166  (1844). 

,  JFoll,  Ins.  Mad.  105  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  34  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram,Tenerifiam, Gomeram  et  Pal- 
mam, in  stercore  bovino,  equino,  camelino  sat  vulgare. 

Like  the  last  species,  the  present  Cercyon  (which  abounds  through- 
out the  greater  portion  of  Europe,  and  which  occurs  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo)  is  widely  spread  over  the  Canarian  Group, — where  it  is 
probably  universal.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  only  observed  it  in 
Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma ;  in  the  first  and  last 
of  which  islands  it  was  also  captured  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Teneriffe 
and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch. 


96  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

Fam.  8.  SILPHID^. 

Genus  61.  CATOPS. 
Paykull,  Fna  Suee.  i.  342  (1798). 

157.  Catops  putridus,  n.  sp. 

C.  ovalis,  fuscus,  minute  pubescens ;  prothorace  convexo,  ad  latera 
subaequaliter  rotundato  (/.  e.  antice  et  postice  sequaliter  angustiore), 
basi  truncate,  angulis  posticis  vix  productis  ;  elytris  obsoletissime 
substriatis  necnon  stria  suturali  profunda  in  utroque  impressis ; 
antennis  ad  basin  pedibusque  fusco-testaceis,  illis  ad  apieem  ob- 
Bcurioribus  sat  clavatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  Palmam,  sub  coi-tice  laxo  putrido  in  Barranco  de  Galga 
Maio  exeunte  a.d.  1858  semel  tan  turn  lectus. 

The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  of  this  distinct  Catops  was 
captured  by  myself  from  beneath  the  rotting  bark  of  a  tree  towards 
the  head  of  the  Barranco  de  Galga,  in  the  north-west  of  Palma,  on 
the  31st  of  May  1858.  It  has  somewhat  the  appearance,  at  first 
sight,  of  the  European  C.  velo.v  ;  but  is  rather  smaller  and  more  oval 
than  that  insect  (being  nearly  equalhj  narrowed  at  either  extremity), 
with  its  prothorax  (which  is  regularly  rounded  at  the  sides,  truncated 
at  the  base,  and  has  the  hinder  angles  scarcely  at  all  produced)  less 
developed,  with  its  elytra  obscurely  substriated,  with  its  posterior 
legs  shorter,  and  with  its  antennae  more  clavate  at  their  apex. 

Genus  62.  SILPHA. 
Linnseus,  Srjst  Nat.  ii.  569  (1767). 
(Subgenus  Heterotemna,  Woll.) 

The  Teneriffan  SUphce  are  moulded  on  a  rather  peculiar  type,  and 
might  indeed  be  almost  regarded  as  genericaUy  distinct  from  the 
more  northern  members  of  the  group.  They  are  remarkable,  inter 
alia,  for  their  rather  large  size,  apterous  bodies,  and  exceedingly 
elongated  limbs,  for  their  antennae  being  slender*,  hardly  at  all 

*  This  great  length  and  slenderness  of  the  antennae  applies  to  both  of  the  Ca- 
narian  Silphis,  though  perliaps  a  trifle  more  so  to  the  simpUcicor7iis  than  to  the 
figurata.  Nevertheless  M.  Brulle  makes  it  to  be  distinctive  of  the  former  only  ; 
for,  speaking  of  the  simplicicortus,  he  adds :  "  le  caractere  le  plus  saillant  de  cet 
insecte  consiste  dans  la  forme  de  ses  antennes,  qui  sont  plus  longues  et  plus 
greles  que  dans  aucune  autre  espece."  If  however  we  turn  to  his  Plate,  we  there 
find  that  the  antennte  of  the  fyurafa  are  merely  dotted  in,— thus  indicating  that 
he  drew  out  liis  diagnosis  of  that  insect  from  a  single  example  in  which  the  an- 
tennae were  broken  off. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  97 

thickened  at  the  extremity,  and  with  their  eighth  joint  (or  the  fourth 
from  the  apex)  greatly  elongcded  and  triangular,  for  their  prothorax 
being-  much  developed,  rounded  and  broadly  compressed  at  the  sides, 
very  uneven  on  the  disc  and  more  or  less  scooped-out  in  front,  and 
for  their  elytra  being  very  widely  margined,  especially  behind.  I  have 
not,  however,  dissected  them,  to  ascertain  whether  they  possess  any 
differential  characters  in  their  oral  organs,  to  correspond  with  these 
external  (but  nevertheless' purely  structural)  ones. 

158.  Silpha  simplicicornis. 

S.  oblonga,  nigra,  subnitida ;  prothorace  in  disco  vix  sed  versus  la- 
tera  leviter  punctulato,  apice  sat  profunde  emarginato,  ad  latera 
valde  explanato-rotundato,  postice  in  disco  obsoletissime  et  obtuse 
longitudinaliter  4-subcostato  ;  elytris  leviter  subasperato-pxmctu- 
latis,  utroque  3-costato ;  antennis  valde  elongatis,  fuscescentibus. 

Feem.  vixopacior,  elytrorum  costa  exteriore  (prsesertim  ante  apicem) 
magis  elevata. — Long.  corp.  lin.  7-9. 

Silpha  simplicicornis,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59.  pi.  ii.  f.  10 
[script,  tenuicorms*']  (1838). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Tcneriffa),  hinc  inde  baud  infrequens. 

The  larger  size  of  this  noble  Silpha,  in  conjunction  with  its  more 
shining  and  much  more  lightly  punctured  surface,  its  more  uneven 
and  laterally  developed  prothorax  (on  which  the  longitudinal  costae 
are  very  obtuse  and  almost  obsolete),  the  much  less  elevated  ridges  of 
its  elytra,  and  its  rather  longer  limbs,  will  readily  separate  it  from 
the  following  species.  It  appears  to  be  the  commoner  of  the  two, — 
though,  at  the  same  time,  exceedingly  local  and  confined  to  certain 
spots  within  the  sylvan  districts  of  Teneriffe.  I  have  taken  it  in  the 
laurel- woods  on  the  mountains  above  Taganana,  as  also  at  Las  Mer- 
cedes and  (more  particularly)  at  the  Agua  Garcia.  It  has  likewise 
been  commimicated  by  the  BariTO  do  Castello  de  Paiva  ;  and  I  possess 
specimens,  given  me  by  Dr.  Heer,  which  were  collected  by  M.  Hartung. 

159.  Silpha  figurata. 
S.  oblonga,  nigra,  subopaca ;  prothorace  profunde  punctate,  apice 

*  It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  M.  Brulle  should  not  have  made  up  his  mind 
as  to  the  names  of  his  species  before  his  Plates  were  engraved  ;  for,  as  it  is,  these 
two  Tencriffan  Silphas  stand  in  his  work  under  no  less  than  four  separate  titles ! 
The  present  species  is  called  siirqjlicicor^iis  in  his  letter-press,  and  tenuicornis  on 
his  Plate ;  whilst  the  following  one  is  described  as  the  figurata,  but  is  figured 
under  the  title  of  costafa !  Indeed,  from  the  excessive  badness  of  his  figures, 
and  the  fact  that  they  are  not  even  referred  to  at  all  in  the  text  (as  is  the  case  with 
the  whole  29  species  which  he  has  illustrated !),  it  really  becomes  difficult  to  tell, 
from  this  non-agreement  of  the  names  in  the  letter-press  and  Plate,  which  iigiu'e 
and  which  diagnosis  are  intended  to  correspond. 


98  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

leviter  emarginato,  ad  latera  explanato-rotundato,  postice  in  disco 
leviter  longitiidinaliter  4-costato  (costis  internis  distinctioribus)  ; 
elytris  profimde  asperato-punctatis,  utroque  alte  et  argute  4-cos- 
tato ;  antennis  elongatis,  fiiscescentibus. 
Fcem.  solam  adhue  vidi. — Long.  corp.  lin.  6|. 

Silpha  figm-ata,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Beiih.  (Col)  59.  pi.  ii.  f.  11  [script. 
costata]  (1838). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  mihi  non  obvia :  specimen  iinicum  a  Dom.  Fry, 
Londini,  communicatum  solum  vidi. 

I  have  not,  myself,  ever  taken  this  insect ;  and  indeed  the  only 
sjDecimen  (a  female)  which  has  come  under  my  observation  has  been 
communicated  by  Alexander  Fry,  Esq.,  who  received  it  from  a  friend 
by  whom  it  was  captured  in  Teneriffe.  Whether  therefore  it  be 
peculiar  to  the  higher  elevations  (as  I  am  inclined  to  suspect)  it  is 
not  in  my  power  to  decide  ;  but,  so  far  as  it  is  possible  to  judge  from 
the  loose  and  imperfect  diagnosis  of  M.  Brulle,  I  have  no  doubt  what- 
soever that  it  is  the  species  which  he  intended  to  designate,  under 
the  title  of  S.figurata.  Judging  therefore  from  this  single  example, 
its  rather  smaller  size,  more  opake  and  very  much  more  deeply  punc- 
tured surface  (the  punctures  of  the  elytra  being  also  roughened,  so  as 
to  present  a  sciilpture  having  somewhat  the  appearance  of  a  file), 
combined  with  its  less  developed,  not  quite  so  uneven,  more  distinctly 
costate  and  more  anteriorly-emarginated  prothorax,  the  much  more 
elevated  ridges  of  its  elytra,  and  its  slightly  less  elongated  limbs,  wiU, 
apart  from  minor  differences,  at  once  separate  the  species  from  the 
S.  simplidcornis. 

Fam.  9.  ANISOTOMID^. 

Genus  C.3.  ANISOTOMA. 

(Knock)  lUig.,  Kiif.  Preuss.  09  (1798). 

160.  Anisotoma  canariensis. 

A.  ovalis,  convexa,  nitida,  nigro-  vel  fusco-picea  ;  capite  protho- 
raceque  sat  distincte  punetatis ;  elytris  versus  ba.sin  paulo  rufes- 
centioribus,  sat  profunde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  punctulatis  ; 
antennis  ad  basin  pedibusque  piceo-ferrugineis,  femoribus  muticis. 

Var.  />  [forsan  mere  immatm-a]  corpore  pallido. 

Mas,  tibiis  posterioribus  distinctius  arcuatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Anisotoma  canariensis,  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  216 
(1863). 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro,  rarissima  ;  varietatis  /3,  in  Canaria  Grandi 
captum  exemplar  unicum  adhuc  vidi. 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA.  99 

Apparently  of  the  greatest  rarity.  I  captured  four  specimens  of 
it  in  the  sylvan  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  Hierro, 
during  February  1859  ;  and  another  (which  although  of  a  pallid  hue 
I  believe  to  be  conspecific  with  the  rest,  and  merely  immature)  in 
the  region  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand  Canary,  later  in  the  spring  of  the 
same  year. 

161.  Anisotoma  oceanica,  n.  sp. 

A.  breviter  ovalis  postiee  subacuta,  valde  convexa,  nitidissima,  nigro- 
picea;  capite  prothoraceque  levitcr  punctulatis,  illo  rufescente ;  ely- 
tris  apice  acutiuscidis  et  ibidem  paulo  pallidioribus,  versus  basin 
obsolete  rufescentioribus,  levissime  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis 
minute  punctulatis ;  antennis  ad  basin  pedibusque  rufo-ferrugineis. 

Mas  adhuc  latet ;  specimen  unicum  (se.  foemincum)  solum  detexi. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  1. 

Habitat  in  montibus  sylvaticis  TenerijGFa3,  sub  foliis  dejectis  ad  Las 
Mercedes  capta. 

Like  the  last  species,  the  present  one  would  appear  to  be  exces- 
sively scarce, — being,  in  fact,  hitherto  unique.  It  was  taken  by  my- 
self, during  June  1858,  from  beneath  dead  leaves,  under  the  old  trees 
in  the  highest  part  of  the  forest  of  Las  Mercedes,  in  Teneriffe.  It 
may  be  kno'wn  from  the  A.  eanariensis  by  being  more  shortly  ovate, 
and  posteriorly  subacute,  by  its  convexer,  more  minutely  punctulated 
and  more  highly  polished  surface,  by  its  finer  and  more  delicately 
punctured  striaj,  and  by  the  apex  of  its  elytra  being  gradually  some- 
what more  j)ellucid, — causing  that  portion  to  apj)ear  slightly  paler 
than  the  rest  of  the  surface. 

Genus  64.  AGATHIDIUM. 

Illiger,  Kaf.  Prcuss.  81  (1798). 

162.  Agathi^um  globnlum,  n,  sp. 

A.  nigrum,  prothoracis  limbo  obsciire  rufescentiore  ;  capite  protho- 
raceque (oculo  fortissime  armato)  subtilissime  alutaceis,  illo  minute 
hoc  minutissime  (vix  perspicue)  punctulatis;  elytris  (praesertim 
circa  medium)  sat  distincte  sed  minute  punctulatis,  ad  humeros 
oblique  truncatis,  apice  subacutis,  stria  sutuxali  nulla  impressis ; 
antennis  pedibusque  piceo-ferrugineis. 

Var.  ft.  Minus  distincte  punctulatum,  capite  prothoraceque  vix  alu- 
taceis.— Long.  Corp.  lin.  |-1. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Canarise  et  TenerifFae,  sat  rarum. 

The  present  Agathidimn  is  about  the  size  of,  or  perhaps  a  little 
larger  than,  the  European  A.  mandibulare.  It  is,  however,  remark- 
able for  its  evidently,  though  minutely,  punctulated  surface  (the 

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100  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

pimctures  being  more  especially  conspicuous  about  the  middle  of  the 
elytra),  for  its  dehcately  alutaccous  head  and  prothorax,  and  for  its 
entire  freedom  from  a  sutural  stria.  From  the  A.  marginatum  of 
more  northern  latitudes,  with  which  it  has  a  good  deal  in  common, 
it  chiefly  differs  in  being  (on  the  average)  rather  smaller  and  darker, 
less  globose  (or  a  little  more  acute  at  its  hinder  apex),  in  the  mi- 
nutely alutaceous  sculpture  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  and  in  its  an- 
tennae being  longer  and  slenderer, — the  subclaval  joints  being  monili- 
form,  instead  of  broad  and  transverse.  It  is  decidedly  rare,  or  at  any 
rate  very  local.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in  the  region  of  El  Monte 
in  Grand  Canary ;  as  also  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  and  (more  especially) 
in  the  woods  above  Taganana,  of  TeneriiFe.  In  the  last  of  these 
localities  I  once  found  it  rather  commonly — adhering  to  rotten  sticks 
in  the  dampest  and  thickest  part  of  the  forest.  The  specimens  from 
Grand  Canary  are  a  trifle  less  evidently  punctulated  than  those  from 
TenerifFe,  and  their  head  and  prothorax  are  (when  viewed  beneath 
the  microscope)  scarcely  perceptibly  alutaceous  ;  but  there  is  no  other 
difference  in  them,  that  I  can  detect. 

1G3.  Agathidinm  integricoUe,  n.  sp. 
A.  pra;cedenti  fere  simile,  sed  vix  major;  prothorace  latiore,  integro 
(i.  e.  antice,  pro  capitis  reecptione,  haiid  excavato),  nitidiore  (nee 
alutaceo),  in  limbo  distinctius  pallidiore  ;  scutello  majore  ;  elytris 
sensim  rotundatioribus,  apicem  versus  minus  acutis  sed  ibidem  ni- 
fescentioribus,  ad  humeros  magis  oblique  defalcantibus,  necnon 
stria  suturali  (antice  evanesccntc)  in  utroque  conspicue  impressis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  li. 

Habitat  Tenerrffam,  a  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch  nuper  repertum. 

Were  not  its  characters  so  well  expressed,  I  should  not  have  ven- 
tured to  define  a  new  Agathidium  from  the  single,  imperfect  example 
from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled.  But  since  the 
stnictiu'e  of  its  prothorax  and  more  oblique  shoulders,  as  well  as  the 
presence  of  a  sutural  stria  on  each  elytron,  remove  it  into  a  different 
Section  of  the  genus  from  that  which  contains  the  A,  glohulum,  I  can- 
not omit  it  from  the  present  Catalogue.  It  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
diu'ing  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Teneriffe  (though  he  has  no  recollection 
of  the  precise  locality),  and  is,  unfortunately,  destitute  both  of  its 
head  and  limbs.  Nevertheless  there  is  no  possibility  of  confounding 
it  with  the  A.  glohulum,  from  which  it  may  immediately  be  known 
by  its  prothorax  being  wider,  wnalutaceous  (and  therefore  more 
shining),  more  distinctly  pallid  at  its  margins,  and  entire  in  front 
(or  completely  unscooped-out  for  the  reception  of  the  head)  ;  by  its 


CANABIAN  COLEOrTEEA.  101 

scutellum  being  larger ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  perceptibly  rounder, 
or  less  acute,  (and  more  rufescent)  behind,  more  obliquely  lopped-off 
at  their  humeral  angles,  and  furnished  with  an  evident  (though  ante- 
riorly evanescent)  sutural  stria  on  each.  Apparently,  too,  it  is  a  trifle 
larger  than  the  ghhulam.  In  its  anteriorly  unemarginated  prothorax 
it  would  seem  almost  to  merit  generic  separation  ;  nevertheless  its  ex- 
ternal features  are  so  i)recisely  those  of  an  Ar/athidium  that,  until 
further  material  has  been  obtained,  and  its  limbs  and  mouth  have 
been  carefully  examined,  I  am  unable  to  pass  any  opinion  on  its 
purely  structirral  details. 

Fam.  10.  CLAMBID^. 

Genus  65.  CLAMBUS. 

Fischer,  Entomog.  i.  52  (1820). 

164.  Clambus  complicans,  n.  sp. 

C.  breviter  ovalis,  nitidissimus,  impunctatus,  fere  glaber  (pilis  bre- 
vissimis  perpaucis  valde  remotis  parce  obsitus) ;  capite  protho- 
raceque  piceo-ferrugineis,  hoc  in  limbo  elariore ;  oculis  i)arvis,  a 
capitis  margine  remotis  ;  elytris  nigris  vel  piceo-nigris,  apice  aeu- 
tiusculis ;  antennis  pedibusque  pallide  testaceis,  illarum  clava  ob- 
scuriore. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  |^. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  sat  rarus. 

The  present  Clambus  is  larger  than  any  of  the  few  European  species 
which  have  hitherto  been  detected  ;  and  it  is  fiu'ther  remarkable  for 
its  more  or  less  rufescent  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which  has 
its  edges  broadly  paler  and  subpellucid),  for  the  excessively  short, 
minute,  and  remote  pile  with  which  it  is  sparingly  beset,  for  its  eyes 
being  small  and  considerably  removed  from  the  margin  of  the  head 
(the  lateral  angle  of  which  is  not  quite  so  acute  as  in  the  ordinary 
Clambi),  and  for  its  very  pallid  limbs.  It  appears  to  be  rare, — the 
only  spots  in  which  I  have  myself  observed  it  being  in  the  region  of 
El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  and  at  Las  Mercedes  and  the  Agua  Garcia 
of  Teneriffe.  Specimens,  however,  have  been  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  both 
ia  the  latter  island  and  in  Gomera.  It  is  scarcely  possible,  I  think, 
that  it  can  be  a  geographical  modification  of  any  of  the  more  northern 
members  of  the  genus. 

Genus  66.  CALYPTOMERUS. 
Redtenbacher,  Dia  Austr.  159  (1849). 


102  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

165.  Calyptomerus  dubius. 

Scaphidium  dubium,  3Ishm,  Ent.  Brit.  i.  234  (1802). 
Clambus  enshanieiLsis  (Westw.),  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  184  (1829). 
Comazus  eushamensiS;  Fairm.  et  Lab.,  Faun.  Fran<;.  328  (1854). 
Calyptomerus  dubius,  Wall,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  147  (1857). 

Hahitat  Teneriffam,  rarissime;  ad  Agua  Mansa  lectus. 

The  C.  duhius,  which  is  widely  spread  over  Europe  and  which 
occurs  also  at  Madeira,  is  apparently  very  rare  in  these  islands, — the 
only  two  Canarian  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  taken 
by  myself  at  the  Agua  Mansa  of  Teneriffe. 


Fam.  11.  PTILIAD^. 

Genus  67.  ACROTEICHIS. 
Motschulsky,  Bull,  de  Moscou,  xxi.  569  [script.  Acratrichis]  (1848). 

166.  Acrotrichis  fucicola. 

Trichopterj'x  fucicola,  Allibcrt,  Bev.  Zool.  52  (1844). 

,  Fairtn.  et  Lab.,  Fami.  Franc;.  332  (1854). 

mollis,  Haliday,  Nat.  Hist.  Rev.  ii.  {Proc.)  123  (1855). 

Hahitat  sub  fucis,  per  oras  maritimas  Lanzarota^,  Fuerteventurae 
et  Teneriffae. 

The  comparatively  flattened  body  and  oblong  outline  of  the  A.  fu- 
cicola, in  conjunction  with  its  very  pubescent  surface  (which,  on  ac- 
count of  the  whitish  decumbent  pile  with  which  it  is  clothed,  has  a 
somewhat  silvery  appearance),  the  diluted  apex  of  its  elytra  and 
hinder  prothoracic  angles  (the  former  of  which  are  separately  rounded 
off  at  their  inner  or  sutural  angle),  the  distinctly  margined  base  of 
its  pronotum,  and  its  rather  elongated  antenna?  (the  club  of  which  is 
excessively  lax),  will  at  once  characterize  it.  Through  the  kindness 
of  M.  AUard,  of  Paris,  I  have  received  for  comparison  a  specimen  of 
the  true  A.  fucicola  from  La  Teste,  which  agrees  precisely  with  the 
Canarian  ones.  It  is  identical  with  the  A.  mollis  of  Haliday ;  of 
which  I  also  possess  examples,  taken  on  the  sea-shore  near  Dublin. 
It  is  a  tolerably  common  insect,  just  above  high-water  mark,  on  the 
sandy  beaches  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — occurring  beneath 
Alga3  and  other  marine  rejectamenta.  In  the  latter  of  those  islands 
it  was  also  found  (near  Puerto  de  Cabras)  by  Mr.  Gray  :  and  two 
specimens  are  now  before  me  which  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in 
Teneritfe. 


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167.  Acrotrichis  Matthewsii,  n.  sp. 

A.  breviter  obovata,  valde  convexa,  piibescens ;  capite  prothoraceqvie 
nigris,  hoc  lato,  augiilis  posticis  longe  productis  ;  elytris  fuscescen- 
tioribus,  apice  dihitis  truncatis  ;  antennis  pedibiisque  testaceis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  vix  i. 

Habitat  Palmam,  per  regiones  sylvaticas  sub  foliis  dejectis  vulgaris. 

The  short,  Avide,  and  convex  body  of  this  Acrotrichis,  combined  with 
its  obovate  outline  (it  being  broader  in  front  than  posteriorly),  the 
greatly  produced  hinder  angles  of  its  prothora-x,  and  its  fuscescent 
and  apically  paler  elytra,  will  sufficiently  distinguish  it  from  the  other 
species  here  enumerated.  I  may  add  that  it  has  been  examined  by 
the  Rev.  A.  Matthews,  who  considers  it  undoubtedly  new  ;  and  I 
have  much  pleasure,  therefore,  in  naming  it  after  him.  It  appears 
(so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  be  peculiar  to  the  island  of 
Palma,  throughout  the  sylvan  districts  of  which  it  is  universal.  I 
have  taken  it  on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre  above  Buenavista,  in  the 
Barranco  de  Agua,  the  Barraneo  de  Galga,  and  in  several  other  lo- 
calities. 

168.  Acrotrichis  fascicularis. 

Latridius  fascicularis,  Hbst,  Kiif.  v.  8.  t.  44.  f.  7  (1793). 
Trichopteryx  fascicidaris,  Erich.,  Nat.  cler  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  19  (1848). 
Acratrichis  fascicularis,  WoU.,  Ins.  Had.  108  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  35  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  TenerifFa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  praesertim  per 
regiones  sylvaticas,  vulgaris. 

This  Acrotrichis  (which  occurs  at  Madeira)  appears  to  be  very 
abundant  throughout  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and  Hierro, 
— particularly,  however,  in  the  sylvan  districts  of  intermediate  ele-. 
vations.  My  Teneriffan  examples  are  principally  from  beneath  dead 
leaves  at  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  the  Agua  Garcia,  Ycod  el  Alto, 
&c. ;  and  the  Hierro  ones  from  the  region  of  El  Golfo.  It  has  also 
been  captured,  abundantly,  in  Gomera,  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  regarded 
by  Mr.  Matthews  as  identical  with  the  common  European  A.  fasci- 
cularis. It  may  be  known  prima  facie  from  the  last  species  by  its 
more  oblong  outline,  comparatively  longer  and  flatter  body  and  less 
developed  prothorax,  and  by  its  elytra  (except  the  extreme  hinder 
margin)  being  almost  as  black  as  the  rest  of  the  surface ;  whilst  from 
the  following  one  its  larger  size  and  more  produced  thoracic  angles, 
in  conjunction  with  its  more  finely  punctured  surface  and  paler  an- 
tennae, will  equally  remove  it. 


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CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


169.  Acrotrichis  sericans. 


Tricliopteryx  sericans,  Heer,  Fna  Hclv.  i.  374  (1841). 

,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Dcidsch.  iii.  23  (1848). 

depressa,  Redt.,  Fna  Austr.  149  (1849). 

Habitat  in  Caiiaria,  TenerifFa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  sat  rara. 

At  once  known  from  the  preceding  three  species  by  its  smaller  size 
and  more  deeply  punctm-ed  surface,  by  its  outline  being  iisuaUy  (if 
anything)  rather  wider  behind  than  in  front,  by  the  much  less  pro- 
duced posterior  angles  of  its  prothorax,  and  by  its  darker  antennae. 
It  is  considered  by  Mr.  Matthews  to  be  identical  with  the  European 
A. sericans*.  So  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  it  appears  to  be  some- 
what rare  in  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  near  Teror 
in  Grand  Canary,  as  also  in  TeneriiFe  and  Hierro ;  but  it  has  been 
captui'ed  more  abundantly  in  Gomera,  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  68.  NEPHANES. 
Thomson,  Skandht.  Coleopt.  i.  62  (1859). 

170.  Nephanes  abbreviatella. 

Trichopteryx  abbreviateUus,  Heer,  Fna  Helv.  \.  375  (1841). 

cm-ta,  Gillm.,  in  Sturm,  Deidsch.  Fna,  xvii.  (1845). 

abbreviatelkis,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutscli.  iii.  23  (1848). 

Titan  abbreviatelkis,  Matth.,  in  Zool  xvi.  GllO  (1858). 

Elacbys  abbreviateUus,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  v.221  (1860). 

Habitat  TenerifFam  et  Gomeram,  a  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch  deprehensa. 

This  very  minute  insect  (which  is  rather  common  beneath  decaying 
vegetable  refuse  around  Funchal,  in  Madeira)  altogether  escai)ed  my 
own  observations  at  the  Canaries.  Several  undoubted  examples  of  it 
have,  however,  lately  been  communicated  to  me  by  Dr.  Crotch,  who 
captured  them  in  TenerifFe  and  Gomera  during  the  spring  of  1862. 
Those  from  the  former  island  were  found  at  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  those 
from  the  latter  above  Hermigua. 

Genus  69.  PTENIDIUM. 
Erichson,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch  iii.  34  (1848). 

171.  Ptenidium  laevigatum. 

Trichopteryx  laevigata,  Gilhn.,  in  litt. 

Ptenidiimi  Ijevigatum,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Detdsch.  iii.  36  (1848). 

,  Fairm.  et  Lab.,  Faun.  Frang.  340  (1854). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  TenerifFa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  rarior. 

*  I  should  perhaps  state,  however,  that,  on  a  subsequent  examination  of  two 
of  my  specimens,  Mr.  Matthews  fcU  a  little  doubtful  whether  they  should  not 
rather  be  referred  to  the  (European)  T.  hrcvipc7inis. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  105 

The  rather  large  size  and  glabrous  surface  of  this  Ptenidium  (which 
even  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power  is  only  just  perceptibly  punc- 
tured, though  minutely  alutaceous)  will  at  once  distinguish  it  from 
the  two  following  species.  It  is  apparently  very  local  in,  though 
widely  spread  over,  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in  Grand 
Canary ;  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  in  TenerifFe ;  in  Palma ;  and  (more 
abundantly),  at  a  low  elevation,  in  the  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the 
western  side  of  Hierro, — where,  during  February  1858,  I  captured 
several  specimens  of  it  from  beneath  vegetable  refuse  in  a  sandy  lane. 
A  single  example  is  also  now  before  me,  which  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Gomera. 

172.  Ptenidium  apicale. 

Ptilium  apicale,  Sturm,  in  litt. 

Tricliopteryx  apicalis,  Gillm.,  in  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fna,  xvii.  85  (1845). 

Ptenidium  apicale,  Erich.,  Nut.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  36  (1848). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  110  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  37  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  vidgaris. 

This  common  European  insect  (which  abounds  at  Madeira)  is  pro- 
bably universal  in  these  islands,  though  hitherto  I  happen  to  have 
myself  observed  it  in  only  three  of  them, — namely,  Fuerteventura, 
Grand  Canary,  and  TenerifFe.  It  has,  however,  been  taken  abun- 
dantly in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Fuerteventuran  specimens  are 
principally  from  the  Rio  Palmas,  the  Canarian  ones  from  Teror,  and 
the  Teneriffan  ones  from  the  vicinity  of  S'"  Cruz,  the  Agua  Garcia, 
La  Esperanza,  &c.  It  may  be  known  from  the  last  species  by  its 
rather  smaller  size  and  by  its  pubescent  and  distinctly  pimetured 
surface. 

173.  Ptenidium  punctatum. 

Scapliidium  pimctatum,  Gyll.,  Ins.  Suec.  iv.  293  (1827). 
Ptenidiimi  punctatum,  Fairm.  et  Lab.,  Faun.  Franq.  341  (1854). 

Habitat  per  oram  maritimam  Lanzarotee,  sub  fucis  captum. 

The  comparatively  minute  size,  less  convex  and  more  oblong  body 
of  this  common  European  Ptenidium,  combined  with  its  coarser  pu- 
bescence and  very  much  deeper  punctuation  (more  particularly  of  the 
prothorax),  wiU  readily  distinguish  it  from  both  of  the  foregoing 
species.  It  appears  to  be  decidedly  rare  at  the  Canaries, — the  only 
two  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself, 
from  beneath  marine  rejectamenta,  on  the  sandy  sea-shore  of  Lanza- 
rote,  immediately  to  the  south  of  xVrrecife. 


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CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 


Genus  70-  PTINELLA. 

(Motsclmlsky)  Matthews,  Zool.  xvi.  GlOG  (1858). 

174.  Ptinella  angustula. 

Ptiliimi  ano-ustulum,  Gillm.,  in  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fim,  xvii.  60.  pi.  324. 
f.  6  (1845). 

Habitat  Palmam,  rarissime ;  sub  cortice  laxo  Pini  mnaricnsis  Juuio 
ineunte  a.d.  1858  deprehensa. 

Apparently  of  the  greatest  rai-ity  in  these  islands.  The  only  three 
Canarian  specimens  which  I  have  seen  were  captured  hj  myself  in 
Palma,  at  the  beginning  of  June  1858.  They  were  found  beneath 
the  bark  of  old  pine-trees, — one  of  them  high  up  in  the  Barranco 
above  S*''  Cruz,  and  the  other  two  in  the  Pinal  of  the  Banda,  near  the 
edges  of  the  great  Caldeira.  They  have  been  examined  carefully  by 
the  Rev.  A.  Matthews,  who  believes  them  to  be  identical  with  the 
European  P.  angustula  of  Gillmeister. 

Fam.  12.  PHALACRIDiE. 

Genus  71.  PHALACRUS. 

PaykiOl,  Fna  Suec.  iii.  438  (1800). 

175.  Phalacrus  coruscus. 

Phalacrus  coruscus,  Pai/k.,  Fna  Sncc.  iii.  438  (1800). 

,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  161  (1829). 

corruscus,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  110  (1848). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  passim. 

The  common  European  P.  coruscus  is  universal  at  the  Canaries. 
Palma  is  the  only  island  out  of  the  seven  in  which  I  have  not  taken 
it ;  but  it  was  captiu'ed  there  (as  also  in  Lanzarote)  by  Mr.  Gray.  In 
Teneriffe  it  was  found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  72.  OLIBRUS. 

Erichson,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  113  (1848). 

176.  Olibrus  florum,  n.  sp. 

0.  obovatus,  ante  medium  latiusculus,  nitidissimus,  tcstaceus  ;  capite, 
prothoracis  disco  elytrorumque  sutura  plus  minus  fuscescentibus  ; 
elytris  levissime  punctulato-striatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1-g-. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  super  flores  (prae- 
sertim  Cineraria')  hinc  inde  vulgaris  :  in  Hierro  prsedominat. 

Closely  allied  to  the  common  European  0.  corticalis ;  from  which 


C^NARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  107 

however  it  may  be  known  by  being,  on  the  average,  slightly  larger, 
relatively  broader  in  outline  (it  being  very  distinctly  wider  at  the 
junction  of  its  prothorax  and  elytra),  by  the  disc  of  its  pronotum 
being  darker  (the  edges  alone  being  testaceous),  by  its  suture  also 
being  conspicuously  darkened,  and  by  its  striae  being  more  evident. 
I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro ;  and 
there  can  be  Kttle  doubt  that  it  must  occur  in  Gomera  also :  but  in 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  I  believe  that  it  does  not  exist.  In- 
deed it  becomes  gradually  more  abundant  as  we  approach  the  western 
portion  of  the  archipelago,  being  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto) 
rare  in  Grand  Canary,  sparingly  distributed  in  Teneriife  (where  it 
was  found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch),  tolerably  common  in  Palma,  and 
absolutely  teeming  in  Hierro, — where,  during  February  1858,  I 
captured  it  on  various  flowers  (particularly  those  of  a  large  and  pale 
Cineraria)  in  several  parts  of  the  island,  though  especially  aroimd 
Valverde.     In  this  last  locality  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray. 

177.  Olibrus  congener,  n.  sp. 

0.  ovalis,  subsenescenti-piceo-niger,  nitidissimus  ;  elytris  fere  simpli- 
cibus  (postice  versus  suturam  striis  obsoletissimis  vix  impressis) ; 
antennis  pedibusque  longiusculis,  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |-1. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  circa  oppidum  Haria  ad  flores  baud  infrequens. 

The  present  Olibrus  may  be  known  from  the  following  one  by  its 
rather  larger  size,  less  shortened  outline,  just  perceptibly  subpicescent 
hue,  by  its  elytra  being  (if  possible)  even  still  more  obsoletely  stri- 
ated, and  by  its  limbs  being  longer  and  paler.  It  has  a  good  deal 
the  appearance,  at  first  sight,  of  the  0.  liqiiidus  of  Erichson,  which 
abounds  in  Madeira ;  but  is  less  acuminated  and  almost  concolorous 
(instead  of  being  rufescent)  posteriorly,  its  outline  is  relatively  some- 
what broader,  its  elytral  striae  are  still  more  faint  (being  scarcely 
traceable),  and  its  entire  surface  is  a  little  more  brassy.  Hitherto 
I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote,  towards  the  north  of  which 
island,  however,  it  is  far  from  uncommon ;  Avhere,  moreover,  it  was 
likewise  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M.  Hartung. 

178.  Olibrus  subaereus,  n.  sp. 

0.  breviter  ovalis,  senescenti-niger,  nitidissimus ;  elytris  obsolete  sub- 
striatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  breviusculis,  plus  minus  clarc  piceo- 
testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  f-vix  -|. 

Habitat  in  Canaria  et  Hierro,  super  flores  varios,  rarior. 

The  small  size  and  short-oval  outline  of  this  Olibrus,  combined 


108  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

with  its  uniformly  brassy-black  surface,  its  very  obsoletcly  striated 
elytra,  and  its  rather  abbreviated,  piceo- testaceous  (sometimes  nearly 
piceous)  limbs,  will  suffice  to  separate  it  from  the  preceding  species. 
It  is  apparently  rare,  Grand  Canary  and  Hierro  being  the  only  islands 
in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it. 

179.  Olibriis  consimilis. 

Dermestes  consimilis,  Mshni,  Ent.  Brit.  i.  75  (1802). 
Phalacrus  geminus,  Illig.,in  Panz.,  Krit.  Hev.  i.  27  (1805). 
Olibrus  gemiuus,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  120  (1848). 

consimilis,  JFoll.,  Ins.  Mad.  115  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  37  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  TenerifFa  et  Gomera,  ad  flores,  rarus. 

This  common  European  insect  (which  occurs  sparingly  at  Madeira) 
is  decidedly  rare  in  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  at  Maspalomas  in 
the  extreme  south  of  Grand  Canary,  as  also  at  Souzal  and  the  Agua 
Garcia  in  Teneriffe ;  in  the  last  of  which,  as  well  as  in  Gomera,  it 
was  found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Fam.  13.  NITIDULID^. 

Genus  73.  HETEROBRACHIUM  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus,  antennce  et  instrumenta  ciharia  fere  ut  in  Bracliyptero,  sed 
protliorace  magis  quadrate  (in  utroque  sexu  diverse),  ahdomine  nisi 
fallor  simplici  (segmento  terminali  ut  mihi  videtur  hand  aucto,  ut 
in  Cerco),  p>alporum  ma.villarium  articulo  ultimo  longiore  subaci- 
culari  ad  apicem  truncate,  paraglossis  vix  distinctis.  Pedes  graci- 
liores  quam  in  Bracliyptero,  necnon  in  sexu  masculo  multo  longi- 
ores ;  antici  longiores  quam  posteriores,  in  maribus  longissimi : 
femorihus  (proesertim  masculis)  ad  apicem  internum  angulato-den- 
tatis :  tihiis  gracilioribus  quam  in  Braeliyptero  necnon  ad  apicem 
externum  minus  angulatis,  anticis  ibidem  etiam  oblique  truncatis 
et  spina  interna  magna  robusta  ciu'vata  auctis  [calcaribus  in  posteri- 
oribus  minoribus  ajqualibus],  anticis  in  maribus  valde  curvatis,  in 
foeminis  subrectis,  intermediis  in  maribus  subcurvatis,  in  foeminis 
reetis,  posticis  in  utroque  sexu  rectis :  tarsis  et  unguicidis  ut  in 
Bracliyptero,  sed  articulo  basilari  paulo  angustiore. 

Ab  €T€pos,  varius,  et  (ipayjiwv,  brachium. 

As  will  be  seen  from  the  above  structural  comparative  diagnosis, 
the  insect  for  which  I  have  proposed  the  present  genus  has  much  in 
common  with  Bracliypterus.  In  its  external  facies  indeed,  antennae, 
and  oral  organs  it  is  so  nearly  identical  with  the  members  of  that 
group  that  it  might  thus  far  at  least  have  been  almost  associated 
with  them  ;  though  at  the  same  time  I  must  confess  that  I  cannot 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  109 

satisfy  myself  of  its  possessing  the  additional  apical  abdominal  seg- 
ment which  is  characteristic  of  the  male  Brachypterl ;  whilst,  more- 
over, the  sexual  differences  of  its  prothorax,  the  longer  and  more  aci- 
culated  joint  of  its  maxillary  palpi,  and  its  scarcely  prominent  para- 
glossoe  are  other  (though  not  very  important)  points  in  which  it  re- 
cedes from  the  Brachypteri  proper.  But,  apart  from  these  consider- 
ations, the  peculiarities  of  its  legs  (which,  together  with  the  antennae, 
are  considerably  elongated  in  the  male  sex)  are  so  decided  that  I  can- 
not but  believe  that  it  ought  to  be  separated  from  that  genus.  Thus, 
they  are  not  merely  longer  than  those  of  the  Brack i/pteri,  but  their 
femora  are  constricted  beneath  before  the  extremity  so  as  to  shape 
out  a  conspicuous  anguliform  tooth,  their  tibise  are  slenderer,  being 
less  dilated  at  the  apex  (where  also  the  front  pair  have  their  inner 
terminal  sj)ur*  strong,  large,  and  flexuose)  and  greatly  curved  in  the 
male  sex,  and  the  basal  joint  of  their  tarsi  is  considerably  less  widened 
than  the  following  two.  The  tibite  (and  even  the  femora),  when 
viewed  beneath  a  high  microscopic  jjower,  are  minutely  serrated  along 
their  inner  edge ;  and  in  the  front  pair  of  the  males  the  outer  angle 
is  obliquely  lopped-off,  or  truncated,  giving  that  part  of  the  leg  a 
very  singular  appearance.  These  curious  sexual  modifications  of  the 
legs  are  quite  unnoticed  in  all  the  generic  and  subgeneric  diagnoses 
both  of  Bracliypterus  and  Cercus  to  which  I  have  had  access  ;  but  in 
the  unproduced  hinder  angles  of  its  prothorax,  and  the  globose,  im- 
mensely developed  ultimate  joint  of  its  labial  palpi,  HeterohracMum 
has  more  in  common  mth  the  normal  Brachypterl  than  with  M. 
Duval's  Heterostomus. 

180.  Heterobrachium  longimanum,  n.  sp. 

H.  oblongo-ovatum,  testaceum  vel  fusco-testaceum,  subnitidum,  pu- 
bescens,  dense  punctatum ;  prothorace  ad  latera  rotundato,  posticc 
truneato  ;  elytris  vix  paUidioribus,  per  suturam  (jiraBsertim  antice) 
plus  minus  suffuse  et  anguste  fusccscentibus  ;  antennarum  clava 
vix  obscuriore ;  tarsis  ad  apicem  ipsissimum  nigris. 

Mas  paulo  major,  prothorace  latiore,  magis  rotundato,  convexo,  an- 
tennis  pedibusque  longioribus,  tibiis  anticis  eurvatis. 

F(xm.  paulo  minor,  prothorace  minore,  minus  convexo,  antennis  pedi- 
busque brevioribus,  tibiis  subrectis. — Long.  corp.  hn.  |— 1. 

Hahitat  in  excelsioribus  sylvaticis  Teneriifae  et  Palmas,  rarissimum. 

Apparently  extremely  rare, — the  only  spots  in  which  I  have  taken 
it  being  on  the  summit  of  the  sylvan  range  above  Taganana  and  Las 
Mercedes  of  Teneriffe,  and  in  Palma. 

*  The  calcaria  in  the  four  hinder  feet  are  both  of  them  small,  and  subeqiial. 


110  CAN  ART  AN  COLEOPTERA. 

Genus  74.  BRACHYPTERUS. 

Kugelann,  in  Schneicl.  Mag.  506  (1794). 

181.  Brachjrpterus  velatus. 

B.  oblongo-ovatiis,  subconvexus,  viridescenti-niger,  nitidiis,  grosse 
flavescenti-cinereo-pubesceus,  dense  punetatus  ;  jii'othorace  ad  la- 
tera  subiequaliter  rotundato,  angulis  posticis  obtusis ;  scutello  ob- 
tuse triangulari ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-testaceis,  illarum  clava 
tarsorumque  apicibus  ipsissimis  nigrescentibus. 

Var.  /3  [an  species  ?].  Prothorace  vix  bre\-iore,  antennarum  clava  pal- 
lida, articulis  ante  clavam  vix  latioribus. 

Var.y.  Subcyanescenti-niger,  minus  pubescens. — Long.corp.lin.  |— 1. 

Brachypterus  velatus,  WoU.,Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  217(1863). 
Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  siipei^  folia  Urticce  urentis, 
L.,  sat  vulgaris  :  var.  /3  ad  Canariam  pertinet,  sed  varietatis  y  spe- 
cimen unicum  in  Lanzarota  cap  turn  solum  vidi. 

The  more  or  less  greenish-black  hue  of  this  Brachypterus,  combined 
with  its  long  and  coarse  cinereous  pile  (which  has  generally  a  some- 
what ycllo\vish  tinge)  and  its  bright  rufo-testacoous  limbs,  will  (ajiart 
from  minor  diiferenees)  sufficiently  characterize  it.  It  is  rather 
common,  on  Nettles  (particularly  the  Urtica  urens),  in  Grand  Canary, 
Teneriffe,  and  Hierro, — in  the  first  of  which  I  have  taken  it  abun- 
dantly at  El  Monte,  in  the  second  above  the  Puerto  of  Orotava,  and 
in  the  third  to  the  south-west  of  Valverde  ;  in  the  last  two  of  which 
localities  it  was  also  captiu'ed  by  Mr.  Gray.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  like- 
^ase  found  by  Dr.  Crotch.  The  var.  /3  I  have  observed  hitherto  only 
in  Grand  Canary ;  and  of  the  var.  y  I  obtained  a  single  specimen  in 
Lanzarote.  It  is  just  possible  that  the  latter  may  be  the  exponent 
of  another,  though  closely  allied,  species  ;  nevertheless  I  think  it 
would  be  hardly  safe,  in  the  absence  of  further  material,  to  regard 
it  as  such.  The  example  before  me  seems  to  differ  in  having  its 
antennae  pale  throughout,  and  with  their  subclaval  joints  perhaps 
somewhat  broader, — causing  the  club  to  appear  a  little  less  abrupt. 

182.  Brach3rpterus  curtulus,  n.  sp. 

B.  ovatus,  curtulus,  convexus,  subaenescenti-niger,  nitidus,  minute 
et  parce  cinereo-pubescens,  dense  punetatus  ;  prothorace  ad  latera 
a^qualiter  rotundato,  angulis  posticis  rotundatis  ;  scutello  subsemi- 
circulari ;  antennis  pedibusque  rnfo-testaceis,  illarum  clava  tarso- 
rumque apice  ipsissimo  nigrescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |— |. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  hinc  inde  parce  captus. 

The  smaller  size,  more  compact,  convexer  and  more  ovate  form  of 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTEEA.  Ill 

this  rather  insignificant  Bracliyptcriis,  in  conjunction  with  its  slightly 
brassy  and  less  pubescent  surface,  and  the  more  rounded  hinder  angles 
of  its  prothorax,  will  serve  to  distinguish  it  from  the  last  species. 
Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventtira, — 
in  both  of  which  islands  it  occurs  sparingly  on  flowers. 

Genus  75.  CARPOPHILUS. 
(Leach)  Staph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  50  (1830). 

183.  CarpopMlus  hemipterus. 

Dermestes  hemipterus,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nut.  ii.  567  (1707). 
Carpophilus  hemipterus,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  50  (1830). 

,  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  117  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  38  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  ipsa  urbe  Sanctae  Crucis  frequens,  certe  in- 
troductus. 

I  have  taken  this  almost  cosmopolitan  insect  abundantly,  at  times, 
in  the  houses  at  S^^  Cruz  in  Teneriflfe ;  in  which  position  it  was  found 
also  by  M.  Hartung.  As  in  Madeira,  it  is  doubtless  an  imported 
species  through  the  medium  of  commerce. 

184.  Carpophilus  auropilosus. 

Carpophilus  auropilosus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mud.  117  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cut.  Mad.  Col.  38  (1857). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Canariam  et  Teneriffam ;  ad  Rio  Palmas 
Fuerteventurse  pluiima  specimina  sub  stercore  camelino  Aprili  ineunte 
A.B.  1859  coUegi. 

This  insect  would  seem  to  be  more  strictly  indigenous  in  these 
islands  than  it  is  in  Madeira.  In  the  latter  it  occurs  principally 
about  houses  and  amongst  stores  (such  as  dried  fruits,  sugar,  arrow- 
root, tfec),  and  has  aU  the  appearance  of  being  an  imported  species; 
but  at  the  Canaries  I  have  found  it  in  a;perto,  and  quite  removed  from 
localities  of  that  kind.  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  and  on  one 
occasion  (in  considerable  abundance)  from  beneath  camels'  dung  in 
the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura  ;  and  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
during  the  spring  of  1862,  at  Ycod  el  Alto,  in  Teneriffe. 

Genus  76.  NITIDULA. 

Fabricius,  Syst.  Ent.  77  (1775). 

185.  Nitidula  flexuosa. 

Nitidiila  floxuosa,  Oliv.,  Ent.  ii.  12.  7  (1790). 
,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  150  (1848). 


112  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Nitidula  flexuosa,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  119  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad  Col.  39  (1857). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  ad  Agua  Bueyes  d.  28.  Jan.  a.d.  1859 
deprehensa. 

This  European  Nitidula  (which  occurs  also  in  Porto  Santo)  was 
taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  from  out  of  bones,  at  Agua  Bueyes 
in  Fuerteventura,  on  the  28th  of  January  18.58  ;  which  is  the  only 
instance  that  I  am  aware  of,  of  its  having  been  found  at  the  Canaries. 

Genus  77.  PRIA. 
(Kirby)  Staph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  49  (18.30). 

186.  Pria  didcamarse. 

Laria  dulcamar?e,  Scop.,  Ent.  Cam.  22  (1763). 

Pria  trmicatella  et  Meligethes  dulcamaroe,  Steph,,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii. 
45  et  50  (18.30). 

dulcamarfB,  JFolL,  Im.  Mad  122  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  40  (1857). 

Hahitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  in  herbidis,  rarissime. 

The  only  island  of  the  Group  in  which  I  have  myself  observed  this 
European  insect  is  Palma ;  where,  during  May  of  1858,  I  captured 
several  specimens  of  it  by  briishing  various  plants  on  the  damp  per- 
pendicular rocks  high  up  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua.  It  was  however 
taken  sparingly,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  in  Tene- 
riffe.     It  occurs  likewise  at  Madeira. 

Genus  78.  MELIGETHES. 
(Kirby)  Staph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  45  (1830). 

187.  Meligethes  varicollis. 

Meligethes  varicollis,  Woll,  Ins.  3Iad.  120  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  41  (1857). 

erythropa,  Ilartuny  [uec  Mshni],  Geoloy.  Verlmltn.  Lanz.  mid 

Fueri.  140. 

Hahitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Teneriffam,  hinc  inde  in 
floribus  hand  infrequens. 

This  large  and  distinct  Meligethes  (which  occurs  rarely  in  the  sylvan 
districts  of  Madeira)  is  localhj  far  from  uncommon  at  the  Canaries ; 
nevertheless  it  is  chiefly  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  that  I  have 
hitherto  observed  it.  In  the  former  of  those  islands  it  was  taken  by 
Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  near  Haria,  dming  January  1858  ;  and  during 
the  following  spring  I  captured  it  again  in  the  same  region,  as  also 
in  the  Eio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura.  And  I  subsequently  obtained 
four  examples  of  it  at  Taganana,  in  the  north  of  Teneriff'e.     In  Lan- 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTER.V.  113 

zarote  it  was  likewise  found  by  M.  Hartung,  two  of  whose  specimens 
have  been  communicated  to  me  by  Dr.  Heer  ;  but  it  is  wrongly  iden- 
tified in  his  catalogue  with  the  Nitidtda  erytliropa  of  Marsham, — 
from  which  it  is  totally  distinct.  All  the  individuals  which  I  have 
examined  (47  in  number)  have  their  prothorax  entirely  concolorous 
with  the  rest  of  their  surface  ;  so  that  the  state  which  is  found  occa- 
sionally in  Madeira  with  the  edges  of  the  pronotum  testaceous  would 
appear  to  be  quite  aberrant,  and  one  which  perhaps  does  not  exist  at 
the  Canaries. 

188.  Meligethes  virescens,  n.  sp. 

M,  angustulo-oblongus,  convexus,  a^neo-viridis,  minutissime  cinereo- 
pubescens,  profunde  sed  vix  dense  punctatus  ;  antennis  pedibusque 
piceo-ferrugineis,  tibiis  anticis  leviter  dilatatis,  extus  subtiliter 
denticulatis  (denticulis  mox  ante  apicem  longioribus). 

Var.  /3  capite  prothoraceque  rufescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  §-vix  1. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  et  Gomeram,  floribus  Messei'schmidtke  fruticosoi 
prgecipue  gaudens. 

The  present  MeligeiJies  is  somewhat  aUied,  in  colour  and  outline, 
to  the  common  European  ilf.  ceneus ;  nevertheless  it  is  smaller  and 
rather  narrower  than  that  insect,  its  surface  is  much  more  coarsely 
(and  not  quite  so  densely)  punctured,  its  antennce  are  relatively 
shorter,  and  the  denticulations  of  its  front  tibise  are  more  distinct. 
It  possesses  a  curious  tendency  to  have  its  prothorax  occasionally 
somewhat  diluted  in  hue ;  and  in  a  sj)ecimen  which  was  captured 
by  Mr.  Gray  in  Gomera  (during  our  visit  to  that  island  in  February 
1858)  both  the  head  and  pronotum  are  bright  rufous ;  nevertheless 
it  is  certainly  nothing  more  than  an  extreme  variety  of  the  species 
now  under  consideration.  I  have  taken  the  M.  virescens  rather  com- 
monly between  the  Puerto  and  Villa  of  Orotava  in  TenerifFe,  where 
it  is  particularly  attached  to  the  fragrant  blossoms  of  the  Messer- 
sclimidtia  fruticosa. 

189.  Meligethes  tristis. 

Nitidula  tristis,  Schnpp.,  in  litt. 

Meligethes  tristis,  Sturm,  Deufsch.  Fna,  xvi.  40.  t.  309,  f.  a,  A,  h  (1845). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  124  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  41  (1857). 

,  Hartung/,  Oeolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  141. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  in  locis 
intermediis,  passim. 

The  European  M.  tristis  (which  is  universal  at  Madeira)  is  sparingly 
distributed  over  these  islands,  where  it  occurs  principally  in  sylvan 
spots  of  intermediate  and  rather  lofty  elevations.     I  have  taken  it  in 


114  CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA, 

Grand  Canary,  in  TenerifFe  (namely  at  Taganana,  on  the  mountains 
above  S*''  Cruz,  at  Las  Mercedes,  the  Agua  Garcia,  &c.),  in  Pahna 
(namely  in  the  eastern  ravines,  at  the  Banda,  &c,),  and  in  Hierro ; 
and  it  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  near  San  Sebastian  of  Gomera.  It 
was  also  met  with  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  TenerifFe,  Gomera,  and  Palma. 
It  varies  a  little  in  the  colour  of  its  pubescence,  which  is  either  of  a 
cinereous  white  or  with  a  more  or  less  yellowish  tinge.— being  occa- 
sionally of  an  almost  golden  hue.  It  is  entered  in  M.  Hartung's  list 
of  Fuerteventuran  Coleoptera ;  and  although  there  is  no  reason  why 
it  should  not  exist  in  that  island,  yet  considering  the  many  errors 
which  I  have  already  alluded  to  as  having  been  most  undoubtedly 
committed  in  M.  Hartung's  liah'itats,  and  since  I  am  determined  to 
quote  no  localities  in  this  Catalogue  except  those  concerning  which 
I  have  the  most  positive  evidence,  I  think  it  safer  not  to  record  the 
sjiecies  as  a  Fuerteventuran  one — more  particularly  as  it  appears 
probable,  from  my  own  observations,  that  the  insect  does  not  occur 
in  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  archipelago. 

Genus  79.  XENOSTRONGYLUS. 
Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  127.  tab.  ii.  f.  8  (1854). 

190.  Xenostrongylus  histrio. 

Xeuostrongylus  histrio  et  canarieusis,  Woll.,Ins.Mad.  127,128.  tab.  ii. 
f.  8  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  41  (1857). 

ai'cuatus,  Kiesw.,  Berl.  Zeit.  57  (1859). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  prsesertim  in  locis  sylvaticis, 
vulgaris. 

The  X.  histrio,  which  is  universal  in  the  Madeiran  Group  (being 
found  in  Madeira  proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  on  the  Desertas),  and 
which  has  also  been  detected  (since  the  publication  of  my  '  Insecta 
Maderensia')  in  Sicily  and  the  south  of  Spain,  is  equally  universal 
at  the  Canaries, — in  the  ivhoJe  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myseK 
taken  it,  more  or  less  abundantly.  In  Lanzarote,  Palma,  and  Hierro 
it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  TenerifFe  and  Gomera  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  more  common,  however,  within  the  sylvan  regions 
of  the  central  and  western  portions  of  the  archipelago  than  elsewhere, 
in  certain  parts  of  which  it  absolutely  teems.  Thus,  at  the  Agua 
Garcia  of  TenerifFe  and  in  the  district  of  El  Golfo  on  the  western 
side  of  Hierro  I  have  brushed  it  in  immense  numbers  from  out  of 
the  rank  fern  and  vegetation  in  shady  spots. 

It  is  excessively  variable  in  the  colour  of  its  scales,  and  in  the 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  115 

development  and  exact  arrangement  of  its  fascioe  and  markings, — 
being  usually  paler,  and  also  a  trifle  larger,  in  exposed  barren  loca- 
lities (such  as  those  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura)  than  it  is  in  the 
moister  and  more  wooded  ones.  In  the  latter  indeed  its  blacker  scales 
often  preponderate  to  such  an  extent  as  almost  to  cover  the  entire 
surface, — under  vrhicli  circumstances  a  single  example  (if  taken  alone) 
might  well  be  mistaken  for  the  exponent  of  another  species.  But, 
judging  from  the  immense  series  which  I  have  collected  in  all  the 
islands,  I  am  quite  satisfied  that  no  second  Xenostromjylus  has  as  yet 
been  brought  to  light,- — since  I  am  able  to  connect  completely  the 
various  states,  and  shades  of  colouring,  which  obtain  in  different  dis- 
tricts. On  the  average,  perhaps,  the  Canarian  specimens  are  a  trifle 
smaller  and  more  darkly  coloured  than  the  Madeiran  ones ;  and  the 
latter  than  those  from  the  Mediterranean  regions* :  and  it  was  to  a 
solitary  and  rather  blackened  individual  collected  in  TeneriiFe  that 
I  gave  (vide '  Ins.  Mad.'  127),  in  1854,  the  trivial  name  oicanariensis: 
nevertheless  I  now  perceive,  from  more  extensive  material,  that  it  is 
conspecific  with  the  X.  Mstrio ;  and  I  have  accordingly  suppressed  it. 

Genus  80.  CYBOCEPHALUS. 
Erichson,  iti  Oenn.  Zeitsch.  v.  441  (1844). 
The  little  genus  CyhocejpliaJus  of  Erichson  is  undoubtedly  coin- 
cident with  my  Stagonomorpha  ('  Ins.  Mad.'  484),  which  I  regarded, 
in  1854,  as  a  new  group  of  the  Anisotomidce.  And  so  closely  indeed 
do  the  species  which  compose  it  resemble  diminutive  Agathidia,  that 
it  is  difficult  to  believe  that  their  affinities  should  be  rather  with 
Cgllodes,  Xenostrongylus,  and  Oychramus  than  with  AmpliicylUs  and 
Agathidium.  Still,  for  the  reasons  which  have  been  already  an- 
nounced by  Erichson,  and  subscribed  to  by  others,  I  would  not  wish 
to  dispute  the  relationship  which  is  usually  conceded  to  them.  Their 
analogy,  however,  with  the  Agathidia  is  carried  out  in  all  their  ex- 
ternal (and  many  of  their  stnictural)  details ;  for  not  only  have  they 
the  power  of  rolling  their  bright  glabrous  bodies  into  a  baU,  but  even 
the  genus  itself  is  capable  of  being  subdivided  in  a  precisely  similar 
manner,  dependent  (as  I  have  shown  below)  on  the  greater  or  less 
oblique-truncation  of  the  humeral  angles  of  the  elytra.  Indeed  this 
loppivig-off  of  the  shoulders  would  be  sufficient  of  itself  to  distinguish 

*  Having  received  from  Dr.  Schaum  a  type  of  the  X.  arcuatiis  of  Iviesenwetter, 
for  comparison,  I  may  add  that  I  am  quite  satisfied  it  is  not  specifically  distinct 
from  the  Mstrio.  It  is  merely  a  trifle  larger,  and,  from  its  limbs  being  tucked 
under  it  (so  as  to  raise  up  the  body),  has  the  appearance  at  first  sight  of  being  a 
little  more  convex. 

I  2 


116  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  second  of  the  Cyhocephali  here  enimciated  from  the  first;  but 
(apart  from  its  purely  specific  characters  alluded  to  in  the  diagnosis) 
the  less  truncated  apical  joint,  also,  of  its  antennae  ^ill  still  further 
remove  that  species  from  the  C.  sjplicerula  (which  is,  in  all  respects, 
a  normal  representative  of  its  group).  Nevertheless  in  eveiything 
essential  the  C.  Icevis  is  an  undoubted  Cyhoceplialus,  and  cannot  ]30s- 
sibly  be  treated  as  anything  but  congeneric  with  the  other. 

As  I  was  of  course  unaware  when  I  pubHshed  my  Stagonomorplia 
that  it  was  identical  with  Cyhocepludus,  it  never  occiu-red  to  me  to 
refer  at  all  to  the  diagnosis  of  the  latter ;  and  it  is  therefore  worth 
observing  that  I  should  unintentionally  have  fully  corroborated  the 
after-remark  of  M.  Jacq.  Duval,  that  the  tarsi  of  this  genus  are 
strictly  tetramerous,  and  that  consequently  Erichson  was  mistaken  in 
supposing  that  there  existed  a  minute  fourth  joint  concealed  between 
the  lobes  of  the  deeply  cordate  third  one.  I  examined  the  feet  of 
Stagonomorpha ,  at  the  time,  with  great  care,  and  completely  satisfied 
myself  that  there  was  no  such  additional  articulation ;  and  I  am  con- 
vinced therefore  that  M.  Duval  is  perfectly  correct  in  his  statement 
on  this  point. 

§  I.  Elytra  ad  Jiumeros  rotundata :  antennarum  articxdus  idtimus 
brevissimus,  vcdde  trimcatus. 

191.  Cybocephalus  sphserula. 

C.  breviter  ovalis,  ater  (vel  subsenescenti-ater),  nitidus,  dense  alu- 
taceus ;  prothorace  (oculo  fortiter  armato)  minutissimc  et  parce 
punctulato,  ad  latera  obscure  dilutiore  :  elytris  (prjesei'tim  postice) 
sat  distincte  punctulatis  ;  an  tennis  pedibusque  breviuscuhs,  fusco- 
testaceis. 

Varied  capite  prothoraceque  dilute  testaceis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  vix  |- 
vixf. 

Stagonomorplia  sphserula  et  unicolor,  WoU.,Ins.Macl.  484, 485.  tab.  x. 

f.  8  (1854). 
,  1(1,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  148  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Canariam,  Tenerifiam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam, 
praesertim  in  hortis  super  folia  Myrtorum,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

The  present  Cyhocepludvs,  which  appears  to  be  identical  with  the 
species  which  I  described  from  Madeira  in  1854,  differs,  inter  alia, 
from  the  European  exiguus  in  being  smaller,  in  having  the  hinder 
margin  of  its  prothorax  more  sinuated  or  concave  (causing  the  pos- 
terior angles  to  appear  less  rounded  oflp),  and  in  its  surface,  when 
viewed  beneath  the  microscope,  being  much  more  coarsely  alutaceous 
and  with  the  (very  remote)  punctures  relatively  more  evident.     It 


CA^ARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  117 

is  widely  spread  over  these  islands,  where  in  all  probability  it  is  uni- 
versal. Hitherto,  however,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote, 
Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma ;  though  I  have  examined  two 
specimens  which  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  In  Lanzarote 
it  is  decidedly  rare.  In  Grand  Canary  it  abounds  in  certain  districts : 
thus,  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  and  at  San  Mateo  I  have  taken  it 
in  the  greatest  profusion,  in  gardens,  by  beating  the  foliage  of  the 
common  narrow-leaved  Myrtle.  In  Teneriffe  it  appears  to  be  scarce, 
where  however  I  have  met  with  it  sparingly  immediately  above  the 
Puerto  Orotava,  and  elsewhere ;  whilst  in  Palma  it  is  rather  more 
common, — most  of  my  specimens  being  from  the  upper  part  of  the 
Barranco  above  S'"  Cruz. 

§  II.  Elytra  ad  humeros  oblique  truncata :  antennarum  articulus 
ultimus  hreviusculus,  paido  truncatus. 

192.  Cybocephalus  laevis,  n.  sp. 

C,  breviter  ovalis,  ater,  nitidissimus,  hand  alutaceus ;  prothorace 
latiusculo,  impunctato,  concolore,  ad  angulos  posticos  rotundato ; 
elytris  (praesertim  postice)  sat  distincte  punctulatis ;  antennis  pe- 
dibusque  fusco-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  Im.  vix  |, 

*  Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  rarissimus. 

Amongst  83  specimens  of  Canarian  Cybocepliali  which  I  have 
examined  closely  beneath  the  microscope,  I  find  foxu-  which  differ 
entirely  from  the  rest,  and  I  have  consequently  described  them  as 
above.  The  diminutive  size  of  these  insects  necessaiily  renders  their 
distinctive  characters  microscopic  ones ;  but,  in  this  instance  at  all 
events,  they  are  certainly  not  the  less  real  because  (of  necessity)  thus 
difficult  of  observation.  Apart  from  the  structural  featiu'es  indicated 
in  my  Sectional  diagnosis  (of  more  obliquely  truncated  shoidders  and 
the  less  abbreviated  terminal  joint  of  its  club)  which  separate  the 
present  species  from  the  last  one,  the  0.  IcBvis  may  be  farther  recog- 
nized by  its  more  intensely  black  hue  and  apparently  quite  conco- 
lorous  prothorax  (which  is  more  rounded  off  at  the  posterior  angles), 
by  its  rather  longer  antennae,  and  by  its  surface  being  more  highly 
polished,  and  totally  free  (when  viewed  under  the  microscope)  from 
the  alutaceous  sculpture  which  is  never  absent  from  its  ally.  Its 
pronotum,  too,  is  apparently  quite  impunctate,  there  being  no  indi- 
cation whatever  of  the  minute  (but  distant)  punctules  which  are 
always  visible  in  that  species.  My  four  examples  of  the  C.  laevis 
were  all  taken  in  Lanzarote,  and,  I  believe  (so  far  as  I  can  recoUect), 
on  the  sandy  sea-shore  near  Arrecife. 


118  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Genus  81.  RHIZOPHAGUS. 

Herbst,  Kaf.  v.  18.  tab.  i.  f.  7-9  (1793). 

193.  Rhizophagus  pinetorum,  n.  sp. 

R.  subconvexus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  nitidus ;  capite  sat  dense  punctu- 
lato ;  prothorace  elongato-oblongo,  ad  latera  subrecto,  postice  vix 
angustiore,  angulis  antieis  subporrcctis,  profunde  sod  parce  ob- 
longe  puuctato ;  elytris  fusiformi-parallelis,  sat  profunde  punc- 
tato-striatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  l|-2. 

Habitat  in  pinetis  TenerifFte  et  Palmae,  lignum  antiquum  Pini  ca- 
nariensis  destruens. 

The  present  Rliizophagus  is  probably  widely  spread  over  the  old 
Finals  of  these  islands  ;  for,  having  taken  it  in  several  positions  both 
in  TenerifFe  and  Palma,  I  have  but  little  doubt  that  it  must  occur  in 
the  ancient  pine -forests  of  Grand  Canary  also.  At  the  Agua  Mansa, 
and  in  the  lofty  Pinal  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  of  Teneriffe  it  is  occa- 
sionally abundant,  in  the  rotten  wood  of  the  Pinus  canariensis ;  as 
also,  in  similar  places,  in  the  Banda,  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S*" 
Cruz,  of  Palma.  It  may  be  known  from  the  following  species  by  being 
a  little  larger,  more  convex,  and  shining  (there  being  no  appearance 
of  the  ahitaceous  sculpture  whicli  characterizes  that  insect) ;  by  its 
prothorax  being  relatively  somewhat  longer,  straighter  at  the  sides, 
more  coarsely  and  sparingly  punctured,  less  evidently  (if  indeed  at 
all)  narrowed  behind,  and  with  the  anterior  angles  more  porrect ; 
and  by  its  elytra  being  more  deeply  punctate-striated. 

It  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  European  R,  ferrugineus  and  per- 
foratus,  partalcing  of  the  characters  of  them  both  without  agreeing 
exactly  with  either ;  so  that  if  it  is  to  be  regarded  as  a  geographical 
modification  of  some  northern  form,  it  might  be  referred  with  almost 
equal  propriety  to  either  of  those  species.  On  this  account  I  think  it 
better  to  retain  it  as  distinct,  more  particularly  since  the  remoteness  of 
its  habitat  and  its  exclusive  attachment  to  the  Pinus  canariensis  would 
alike  imply  that  such,  in  all  probability,  is  really  the  case.  From 
the  ferrugineus  it  diSers  in  being  a  little  more  depressed  and  less 
cyUndric  (its  elytra  being  rather  more  fusiform,  or  less  straight- 
ened at  the  sides),  in  its  prothorax  being  more  narrowly  margined 
and  (together  with  the  head)  not  quite  so  coarsely  punctured,  in  its 
humeral  angles  being  somewhat  more  porrect,  and  in  the  punctures 
and  strife  of  its  elytra  being  less  deep.  From  the  pcrforatus,  on  the 
other  hand,  it  may  be  known  by  being  on  the  average  considerably 
larger,  by  its  prothorax  being  just  perceptibly  convexer,  less  remotely 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  119 

pimcturecl  and  more  laterally  compressed  in  front,  and  by  its  elytra 
being  less  acute  behind,  with  their  striae  rather  deeper. 

194.  Ehizophagus  subopacus,  n.  sp. 

11.  subdepressus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  subopacus,  minute  alutaceiis  ;  ca- 
pite  convexo,  dense  punctulato ;  prothorace  oblongo,  ad  latera  vix 
subrotundato,  postice  sensim  angnstiore,  angnlis  anticis  rotundatis, 
obtusis,  leviter  et  sat  dense  punctulato,  in  disco  deprcsso ;  elytris 
fusiformi-parallelis,  levdter  punctato-striatis,  per  suturam  obsolete 
obscurioribus ;  antennis  breviusculis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|-1|. 

Habitat  Palmam,  in  locis  similibus  ac  praecedens,  sed  rarior. 

The  rather  flatter  and  less  shining  surface  of  this  species  (which, 
under  a  high  magnifying  power,  is  minutely  and  densely  alutaceous), 
its  slightly  smaller  size,  its  more  finely  and  more  closely  punctulated 
prothorax,  which  is  relatively  somewhat  shorter,  more  depressed  on 
the  disc,  more  perceptibly  narrowed  behind  and  rounded  in  front 
(causing  the  sides  to  be  less  straight),  and  with  its  anterior  angles 
more  obtuse,  combined  with  its  more  lightly  striated  elytra,  rather 
darkened  suture,  and  perhaps  somewhat  shorter  antennae,  will  suffice 
to  separate  it  from  the  R.  pinetorum.  It  is  very  much  rarer  than 
that  insect ;  for  out  of  89  specimens  of  Canarian  Rhizopliagi  which  I 
have  just  examined,  four  only  belong  to  it.  They  were  captured  by 
myself  in  Palma,  during  the  spring  of  1858, — from  beneath  the  rotten 
bark  of  a  Pinus  caimriensis  high  up  in  the  Barranco  above  S*"  Cruz. 
That  they  are  no  local  modification  peculiar  to  that  island  is  evident 
from  the  fact  that  I  took  them  in  company  with  the  last  species. 


Fam.  14.  TROGOSITID^. 

Genus  82.  TEMNOCHILA. 
Westwood,  Zool.  Journ,  v.  231  [script.  Temnoscheila]  (1835). 

195.  Temnochila  pini. 

T.  subcylindrico-parallela,  cyanea,  nitida;  capite  parce  punctulato, 
antice  carina  media  angustti  impresso ;  prothorace  trapeziformi, 
postice  rotundato,  augulis  posticis  obtusis,  angnlis  anticis  subpor- 
rectis,  versus  latera  profunde  et  dense  sed  in  disco  leviter  et  parce 
punctato ;  elytris  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  transversim  pHcatis 
necnon  uniscriatim  punctulatis ;  antennis  ad  apicem  tarsisque  ni- 
gro-piceis.— Long.  corp.  lin.  9. 

Trogosita  pini,  Bndle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  70  (1838). 
Habitat  in  pinetis  Canaria)  et  Palmar,  truncos  vetustos  Pini  camc- 
riensis  perforaus. 


120  CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA. 

The  only  perfect  example  of  this  superb  Temnochila  which  I  have 
myself  taken  was  captured,  in  the  rotten  wood  of  an  old  Pi)ius  cana- 
riensis.  in  Grand  Canary  (on  the  ascent  to  the  Pinal  fi'om  San  Bar- 
tolome,  of  Tarajana)  during  April  1858.  I  have,  however,  found  the 
remains  of  it,  in  similar  positions,  at  the  Banda  (towards  the  edges 
of  the  great  Caldeira)  of  Palma ;  and  in  all  probability  it  occiu-s  in 
Teneriffe  likewise,  and  indeed  wherever  the  remains  of  the  ancient 
Finals  still  exist.  It  is  somewhat  allied  to  the  European  T.  cceridea, 
but  (judging  from  my  single  specimen)  is  considerably  larger,  cya- 
neous  or  blue  (instead  of  bluish -green),  and  not  quite  so  shining ; 
its  head  is  rather  more  finely  punctured  and  less  deeply  channeled 
in  front ;  its  prothorax  is  relatively  both  a  little  longer  and  a  little 
wider,  more  sinuated  at  the  apex  and  more  rounded  behind,  with  the 
anterior  angles  more  porrected  and  the  posterior  ones  more  obtuse ; 
and  its  elytra  are  more  straightly  truncated  at  their  base,  and  rather 
less  rugiilose. 

Genus  83.  LIPASPIS. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  140  [script,  Leipaspis]  (1862). 

196,  Lipaspis  lauricola. 

Leipaspis  lauricola,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  142  (1862). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  Teneriffse  et  Palmae,  sub  cortice  arborum  laxo, 
rarissima. 

For  the  generic  characters  of  Lipaspis,  and  the  distinctions  between 
the  three  species  here  enumerated,  I  must  refer  to  my  paper  on  the 
"  Euphorhia-miG&iin^  Coleoptcra  of  the  Canaries  "  lately  published  in 
the  '  Transactions  of  the  Entomological  Society  of  London.'  Although 
not  belonging  to  the  Euphorbian  fauna,  this  insect  and  the  following 
one  were  described  (as  will  be  seen  on  reference)  in  a  foot-note  to 
the  memoir  alluded  to,  The  L.  lauricola  seems  to  be  confined  to  the 
laurel-woods  of  intermediate  elevations,  and  is  apparently  extremely 
rare.  In  such  positions  I  have  taken  it,  from  beneath  the  loosened 
bark  of  the  old  trees,  at  Las  Mercedes  and  towards  Point  Anaga  of 
Teneriffe ;  as  also  high  up  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua,  and  the  Bar- 
ranco  de  Galga,  of  Palma. 

197.  Lipaspis  pinicola. 

Leipaspis  piuicola,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  143  (1802). 
Habitat  in  piuetis  Tencriffce  et  PalmiB,  rarissima. 
As  in  the  case  of  the  last  species,  I  have  hitherto  observed  the  pre- 
sent Lipaspis  only  in  Teneriffe  and  Palma, — where  it  appears  to  be 


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confined  to  the  Pinus  canariensis  of  the  old  Finals,  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  that  insect  is  attached  to  the  various  laurels.  It  would  seem 
to  be  even  scarcer  than  its  ally ;  though  from  the  difficulty  of  reach- 
ing many  of  the  elevated  regions  and  precipitous  mountain -slopes  in 
which  the  fir-trees  occur,  it  may  perhaps  in  reality  be  rather  local 
than  absolutely  rare.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in  Tencriff'e  (from 
under  the  loose  bark  of  a  felled  pine-tree  at  the  Agua  Mansa),  and 
in  the  region  of  the  Banda  of  Palma. 

198.  Lipaspis  caulicola. 
Leipaspis  caulicola,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  142.  pi.  vii.  f.  1  (1862). 
Habitat  TenerifFam,  intra  caulem  putridum  Ewphorbice  canariensis 
in  montibus  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  capta. 

The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  hitherto  of  this  insect  was 
captured  by  myself,  within  the  putrid  stems  of  a  Euphorbia  cana- 
riensis, on  the  mountains  above  ^^  Cruz  of  Teneriffe, — in  the  di- 
rection of  Las  Mercedes. 

Genus  84.  TEOGOSITA. 
Olivier,  Ent.  ii.  19  [script.  Trogossita\  (1790). 

§  I.  Protliorax  subcordatus :  antennce  apicem  versus  gradatim  in- 

crassatce. 

199.  Trogosita  mauritanica. 

Tenebrio  mauritanicus,  Linn.,  Si/st,  Nat.  ii.  674  (1767). 

Trogossita  mauritanica,  Oliv.,  Etit.  ii.  19.  6  (1790). 

Trogosita  caraboides,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  BeHh.  (Col.)  71  (1838). 

mauritanica,  JFoll,  Ins.  Mad.  154  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  (1857). 

caraboides,  Hartung,  Geoloy.  Verhdltn.  Lanz,  undFuert.  140  &  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Canariam  et  Tenerifiam,  in 
domibus  et  proesertim  sub  recremento  farris  circa  basin  acervorum 
tritici  sparso,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

The  almost  cosmopolitan  T.  mauritanica  is  doubtless  an  introduced 
insect  in  these  islands, — no  less  than  it  is  at  Madeira.  It  has,  how- 
ever, completely  established  itself  in  various  places,  where  it  is  often 
excessively  common.  It  is  beneath  the  refuse  which  strews  the 
ground  around  the  base  of  corn-stacks  where  it  more  particularly 
abounds;  and  in  such  situations  I  have  observed  it  plentifully  in 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,- — in  company  with  the  Silvanus  suri- 
namensis,  Aglenus  brunneus,  Tenebrio  ohscurus,  Cryptophagus  dentatus, 
Corticaria  serrata,  and  certain  other  species.  And  I  have  taken  it 
in  houses  (in  the  neighbourhood  of  grain,  and  other  farinaceous  sub- 


122  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

stances)  both  in  Grand  Canary  and  TenerifFe,  in  the  latter  of  which 
it  has  also  been  captured  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  In  Lan- 
zarote  and  Fuerteventm-a  it  was  likewise  met  with  by  M.  Hartimg. 
There  can  be  Httle  doubt  that  it  is  universal  throughout  the  archi- 
pelago. 

§  II,  Protliorax  subquadratus :  antennce  ad  apicem  suhito  clavatcv  (ar- 
ticulis  9"",  10™'*  et  11"^°  clavam  distinctam  intus  semitam  efficlen- 
tibus), 

200.  Trogosita  recta. 

T.  elongata,  subdepressa,  inceo-fusca,  subopaca ;  capite  prothoraceque 
profunde  sed  hand  dense  oblonge  pimctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  oblique 
recto,  angulis  anticis  porrectis,  angulis  ipsissimis  posticis  exstanti- 
bus  ;  elytris  fusiformi-paralleHs,  profunde  crenato-striatis. — Long, 
corp.  hn.  3. 

Trogosita  recta,  Woll,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  144  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  in  trunco  quodam Eupliorb'ue  pntrido 
semel  capta. 

Though  certainly  distinct  from  it,  the  present  Trogosita  is  very 
closely  related  to  the  Madeiran  T.  scrrata.  It  is,  however,  a  Httle 
darker  and  less  parallel  than  that  insect  (its  prothorax  being  a  little 
wider  in  front,  and  the  elytra  a  little  more  evidently  dUated  behind 
the  middle) ;  its  prothorax  is  not  quite  so  densely  punctured,  more 
coarsely  margined,  and  straighter  (though  oblique)  at  the  sides, — 
with  its  anterior  angles  more  porrect,  and  its  extreme  basal  ones 
more  prominent ;  its  whole  body  is  a  trifle  less  cyHndric ;  and  its 
tibiiB  are  less  evidently  pubescent  along  their  inner  edge.  In  its 
habits,  too,  it  would  appear  to  recede  from  that  species, — the  unique 
example  which  has  come  under  my  notice  having  been  taken  from 
out  of  a  dead  EKphorbia-^iem.  at  Ye,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote, 
during  our  encampment  there  in  March  1859 ;  whereas  the  T.  ser- 
rata  has  hitherto  been  detected  only  about  the  houses  of  Funchal 
and  amongst  various  articles  of  commerce, — leading  to  the  supposi- 
tion that  it  has  probably  been  accidentally  introduced  into  the  island. 

In  its  mode  of  life  indeed  the  T.  recta,  seems  to  be  coincident  with 
the  latens ;  nevertheless  it  may  be  immediately  known  from  that  in- 
sect by  its  much  smaller  size,  less  parallel  outline,  and  reddish-brown 
hue  (the  latens  being  black),  by  its  less  depressed  upper  surface,  by 
the  straighter  sides  and  more  porrected  anterior  angles  of  its  pro- 
thorax, by  its  less  deeply  striated  elytra,  and  by  its  rather  shorter 
and  less  clavated  antennee, — the  ultimate  joint  particularly  being 
considerably  less  developed. 


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201.  Trogosita  latens. 

Trogosita  latens,  WolL,  Trmis.EnL  Soc.Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  143  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  TenerifFa  et  Hierro,  sub  cortice  Eupliorhi- 
arum  laxo  putrido  latens. 

This  very  distinct  Trogosita  (the  characters  of  which  are  fully 
pointed  out  in  my  paper  alluded  to  under  Leipas^ns  lauricola)  appears 
to  be  both  scarce  and  local,  and  confined  (so  far  as  observed  hitherto) 
to  the  rotten  Euphorbias,  beneath  the  damp  bark  of  Avhich  it  Hes 
concealed, — generally  towards  the  hase  of  the  stems,  and  even  under- 
ground near  the  roots.  In  such  places  it  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray 
and  myseK  on  the  Risco  overlooking  the  Sahnas,  in  the  extreme 
north  of  Lanzarote,  during  January  1858 ;  and  I  subsequently  cap- 
tured it,  in  similar  spots,  at  Taganana  of  Teneriffe  and  in  the  district 
of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  Hierro. 

Fam.  15.  COLYDIAD^. 

Genus  85.  MONOTOMA. 
Herbst,  Natursyst.  v.  (1793). 

202.  Monotonia  spinicoUis. 

Monotoma  spinicollis,  Auhe,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  vi.  463. 

pi.  17.  f.  6  (1837). 
spinifera,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  67  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriflfam  et  Gomeram,  sub  quisquiliis  degens. 

A  single  specimen  of  this  European  Monotoma  (which  occurs  also 
in  Madeira)  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  from  beneath  vegetable  refuse, 
in  a  garden  near  S*'^  Cruz  of  Teneriffe,  during  the  winter  of  1858 ; 
and  six  others  have  lately  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch, — five 
of  which  he  captured  in  Teneriffe,  and  the  remaming  one  at  Her- 
migua  in  Gomera. 

203.  Monotoma  picipes. 

Monotonia  picipes,  Hhst,  Ki'tf.  v.  24  (1793). 

,  Auhe,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  vi.  458.  pi.  17.  f.  3  (1837). 

,  Hedt,  Fna  Austr.  203  (1849). 

congener,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  68  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  Dom.  W.  D.  Crotch  reperta. 

I  have  not  myself  observed  this  common  Eiiropean  insect  at  the 
Canaries  ;  but  four  examples  of  it  have  been  submitted  to  me  by  Dr. 
Crotch,  who  captured  them,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Teneriffe. 
In  all  probability  it  will  be  found  to  be  pretty  general,  if  searched 
for  beneath  decaying  vegetable  refuse, — in  which  position  it  likewise 


124  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

occurs  at  Madeira,  from  whence  I  described  it,  in  1857,  under  the 
name  of  M.  congener. 

204.  Monotonia  quadricoUis. 

Monotoma  quadricollis,  Auhe,  Ann.  de  la  Sac.  Ent,  de  France,  vi.  465. 
pi.  17.  f.  7(1837). 

,  Redt.,  Fna  Austr.  203  (1849). 

,  WolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Mist.  (3rd  series)  v.  263  (1860). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  TenerLffam,  sub  quisquiliis, 
passim. 

The  European  M.  quadricollis  (which  occurs  also  at  Madeira)  is 
rather  common  in  certain  positions  at  the  Canaries.  I  have  taken 
it  abiuidantly,  beneath  vegetable  rejectamenta,  around  Haria  in  the 
north  of  Lanzarote,  from  under  camels'  dung  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of 
Fuerteventura,  and  near  Orotava  of  Teneriffe ;  in  the  first  of  which 
islands  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch. 

205.  Monotoma  4-foveolata. 

Monotonia  4-foveolata,  Aube,  Ami.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  Fra^ice,  vi.  408. 
pi.  17.  f.  9  (1837). 

,  Redt,  Fna  Austr.  203  (1849). 

,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  v.  264  (1860). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Teneriffam,  rarissima. 

The  present  Monotoma  (which,  like  the  last  one,  is  a  weU-known 
European  species,  and  which  is  fomid  also  at  Madeira)  would  appear 
to  be  rare  in  these  islands.  Indeed  hitherto  I  have  myself  taken  but 
a  single  Canarian  example, — namely  near  Haria,  in  the  north  of 
Lanzarote.  Two  more,  however,  have  come  beneath  my  observation, 
captiired  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe. 

Genus  86.  TARPHIUS. 
(Germar)  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  256  (1848). 

206.  Tarphius  simplex. 
Tai-phius  simplex,  Wall.,  Jotirn.  of  Ent.  i.  382.  pi.  19.  f.  1  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  lauretis  editioribus,  trimcis  ramulisque  ar- 
borum  prolapsis  adhserens. 

For  the  specific  characters  of  the  nine  TarpMi  here  enumerated, 
and  their  various  diagnostic  features,  I  must  refer  to  my  paper  (above 
aUuded  to)  which  has  lately  been  published  in  the  '  Journal  of  Ento- 
mology.' The  T.  simplex  is  not  imcommon  within  the  laurel-districts 
of  Teneriffe, — where  (hke  the  other  species)  it  may  be  found  adhering 
to  the  undersides  of  pieces  of  wood,  the  fallen  trunks  of  trees,  stones. 


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&c.,  in  the  thickest  and  dampest  parts  of  the  forest.  I  have  taken 
it  at  the  Agiia  Mansa,  Ycod  el  Alto,  the  Agna  Garcia,  Las  Mercedes, 
and  on  the  sylvan  slopes  ahove  Taganana  and  Point  Anaga. 

207.  TarpMus  camelus. 
Tai-phius  camelus,  JFolL,  loc.  cit.  383.  pi.  19.  f.  2  (1862). 
Habitat  ins.  Hierro,  in  sylvaticis  occidentalibus  regionis  "El  GoKo" 
dictae,  mense  Februario  a,d.  1858,  repertus. 

The  only  two  specimens  which  I  have  seen  of  this  fine  Tarphius 
were  captured  by  myself,  during  February  1858,  in  the  island  of 
Hierro — in  the  dense  sylvan  region  which  forms  the  upper  part  of 
the  district  of  El  Golfo. 

208.  Tarphius  canariensis. 
Tai-phius  canariensis,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  383.  pi.  19.  f.  3  (18G2). 

Habitat  Canariam,  TenerifFam  et  Palmam,  in  sylvaticis  sat  vulgaris. 

The  present  Tarphius  is  apparently  more  widely  spread  over  the 
archipelago  than  any  of  the  other  species  here  enumerated.  In  the 
wooded  districts  of  Teneriffe  it  is  universal — occurring,  in  similar 
spots  as  its  allies,  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  the  Agua  Garcia,  Ycod  el  Alto, 
Las  Mercedes,  Taganana,  &e. ;  and  I  have  likewise  taken  it,  though 
sparingly,  at  Osorio  in  Grand  Canary,  and  (more  abundantly)  in  the 
various  sylvan  regions  of  Palma.  The  examples  from  the  latter  island 
are  just  perceptibly  narrower  and  less  flattened  than  those  from  Tene- 
riffe, and  have  their  setae  a  trifle  longer,  darker,  and  less  thickened, 
their  prothorax  a  little  more  seooped-out  behind,  their  elytral  nodules 
but  seldom  diluted  in  hue,  and  their  antennae  perhaps  (if  anything) 
somewhat  shorter ;  but  I  do  not  believe  that  they  can  be  regarded 
as  specifically  distinct.  I  have,  however,  in  my  paper  already  alluded 
to,  recorded  them  as  a  "  var.  /3  "  of  the  T.  canariensis. 

209.  Tarphius  erobus. 
Tarphius  erosus,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  384.  pi.  19.  f.  4  (1862). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Teneriffae,  una  cum  specie  praecedente  degens. 

It  is  just  possible  that  this  Tarphius  may  be  but  an  extreme  state 
of  the  T.  canariensis,  in  which  the  prothorax  is  much  more  suddenly 
and  deeply  scooped-out  behind  than  is  the  case  in  the  ordinary  type ; 
nevertheless,  since  I  have  not  been  able  to  connect  it  with  that  in- 
sect, I  think  it  would  scarcely  be  safe  to  treat  it  as  such, — more 
particularly  since  it  possesses  other  minute  distinctions  of  its  own 
(which  are  fully  pointed  out  in  my  "  Notes  on  the  Taiphii  "  already 


126  CANAPaAN  COLEOPTERA. 

referred  to).  Hitherto  I  have  observed  the  T.  erosus  only  in  the 
laurel-woods  towards  the  north-eastern  portion  of  Teneriife, — where, 
at  Las  Mercedes,  as  also  above  Taganana  and  Point  Anaga,  it  occurs, 
not  uncommonly,  in  company  with  the  last  species. 

210.  TarpMus  quadratus. 

Tai-jihius  quadratus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  384.  pi.  19.  f.  5  (1862). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  editioribus  Palmae,  rarissimus. 

This  broad  and  comparatively  square  Tarpldus  is  apparently  of  the 
greatest  rarity,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to 
the  laurel-regions  of  Palma, — where,  during  May  and  June  of  1858, 
I  captured  it  from  beneath  sticks  and  small  pieces  of  wood  on  the 
ascent  to  the  Cumbre  above  Buenavista,  and  towards  the  upper  part 
of  the  Barranco  de  Galga. 

211.  Tarphius  congestus. 
Tai-phius  congestus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  385.  pi.  19.  f.  6  (1862). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  et  pinetis  Teneriflfe,  rarissinuis. 

Likewise  extremely  rare,  the  only  region  in  which  I  have  hitherto 
captured  it  being  that  of  the  Agua  Mansa  of  TenerifFe, — where  I  took 
it  sparingly  diu-ing  May  of  both  1858  and  1859,  not  merely  in  the 
laurel- woods,  but  also  amongst  the  ^/--plantations  on  the  ascent  to 

the  Cumbre. 

212.  TarpMus  gigas. 
Tarphius  gigas,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  386.  pi.  19.  f.  7  (1862). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  sylvaticis  rai-issimus. 

Two  specimens  only  of  this  comparatively  gigantic  Tarpliius  have 
as  yet  come  beneath  my  notice.  They  were  both  of  them  captured 
in  the  laurel-woods  on  the  mountains  between  Taganana  and  Point 
Anaga,  during  May  of  1859. 

213.  Tarphius  caudatus. 
Tarphius  caudatus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  386.  pi.  19.  f.  8  (1862). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  excelsioribus  Teneriffse,  hinc  inde  baud  infro- 
quens. 

This  curious  species,  so  remarkable  for  its  thick  squarish  body  and 
flattened  surface,  and  for  the  apical  ridges  of  its  elytra  being  length- 
ened out  into  a  hinder  process,  or  a  kind  of  obtuse  tail,  is  extremely 
local,  but  not  very  uncommon  in  the  laurel-woods  towards  the  north- 
eastern extremity  of  Teneriffe.  In  the  highest  (sylvan)  part  of  the 
Las  Mercedes'  range,  as  also  in  the  dense  forest  above  Taganana,  I 
took  it,  in  tolerable  abimdance,  during  May  1859. 


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214,  Tarphius  deformis. 
Tarphius  deformis,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  387.  pi.  19.  f.  9  (1862). 
Habitat  TenerifFam  sylvaticam,  late  sed  parce  diflfiisiis. 
Widely  spread  over  the  sylvan  regions  of  TenerifFe,  though  appa- 
rently everywhere  scarce.     I  have  taken  it,  very  sparingly,  at  the 
Agua  Mansa,  the  Agua  Garcia,  and  by  the  edges  of  the  Vneltas  on 
the  wooded  mountains  above  Taganaua. 

Genus  87.  COSSYPHODES. 

Westwood,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (new  series)  i.  168  (1851). 

215.  Cossyphodes  WoUastonii. 

Cossypbodes  WoUastonii,  Westio.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond,  i.  170  (18.51). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  146.  tab.  iii.  f.  3  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col  49  (1857). 


Habitat  in  formicarum  nidis  TenerilFse  et  Gomerte,  rarissimus. 

This  very  remarkable  and  interesting  little  insect,  which  occurs  in 
ants'-nests  in  Madeira,  is  found  also,  in  similar  positions,  at  the  Ca- 
naries. So  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  however,  it  appears  to 
be  exceedingly  rare, — the  only  spots  in  which  I  have  taken  it  being 
immediately  outside  the  Puerto  Orotava  of  TeneriiFe  and  in  the  Bar- 
ranco  above  San  Sebastian  of  Gomera. 

Genus  88.  AULONIUM. 
Erichson,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Dmtsch.  iii.  275  (1848). 

216.  Aulonium  sulcicolle,  n.  sp. 

A.  elongatum,  cylindricum,  nitidum,  piceo-nigrum,  elytris,  antennis 
pedibusque  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  capite  prothoraceque  minute  punctu- 
latis,  illo  antice  picescentiore,  postice  bituberculato,  hoc  4-sulcato, 
sulcis  intermediis  antice  evanescentibus,  postice  divergentibus ; 
elytris  minutissime  (sed  vix  subseriatim)  punctulatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  2-2^. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  et  Palmam  rarissimum,  sub  cortice  Pini  cana- 
riensis  emortuo  erodens. 

The  present  Auloniimi  seems,  in  some  respects,  to  be  intermediate 
between  the  European  A.  sulcatum  and  bicolor ;  though  in  its  general 
colour  and  bitubercnlated  head,  as  well  as  in  the  excessively  fine 
punctules  of  its  elytra,  and  the  elevated,  or  costate,  edge  of  the  an- 
terior portion  of  its  outer  prothoracic  sulci,  it  has  certainly  more  in 
common  with  the  latter  than  with  the  former.  It  is,  however,  larger, 
and  relatively  broader,  than  the  A.  bicolor ;  its  elytra  are  entirely 
rufo-ferruginous  (instead  of  with  the  posterior  portion  black),  and 


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are  even  still  less  evidently  striatc-punctatc  (the  minute  punctules 
being  scarcely  at  all  longitudinally  disposed) ;  its  frontal  tubercles 
are  perhaps  somewhat  more  develoi^ed  ;  and  its  prothorax  (which  has 
a  less  perceptible  tendency  to  be  narrowed  behind)  has  its  two  inner 
sulci  less  parallel,  or  more  divergent  on  the  posterior  disc. 

The  A.  siihicoUe  seems  to  be  exceedingly  rare,  and  confined  to  the 
rotten  bark  of  old  pine-trees  in  the  Finals  of  intermediate  and  rather 
lofty  elevations ;  under  which  circumstances  I  have  taken  it  at  the 
Agua  Mansa  in  Tencriffe,  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S'"*  Cruz  in  Palma, 

Genus  89.  AGLENUS. 
Erichson,  Nat.  dcr  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  285  (1848). 

217.  Aglenus  brumieus. 

Hj^opliloeiis ?  bruuneus,  GyJl.,  Ins.  Siiec.  iii.  711  (1813). 
Cerylon  obsoletum,  Stoph.,' III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  98  (1830). 
Aglenus  brunneus,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deirtsch.  iii.  285  (1848). 
,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  v.  254  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffa,  Gomcra,  Palma  et 
Hierro,  prajsertim  sub  recremento  farris  circa  basin  acervorum  tritici 
sparso,  sat  vulgaris. 

The  European  A.  hnmneus  (which  occurs,  in  certain  spots,  around 
Funchal,  in  Madeira)  is  unquestionably  universal  in  these  islands, — 
though  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  Grand 
Canaiy.  But  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  (at  the  Banda  of)  Palma, 
and  (to  the  westward  of  Valverde  in)  Hierro,  I  have  met  with  it 
more  or  less  abundantly,  and  it  ■fl'as  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe 
and  Gomera.  In  the  fii'st  two  of  those  islands  it  occasionally  teems 
beneath  the  refuse  at  the  base  of  corn-stacks  (in  company  with  the 
Trogosita  mauritanica,  Silvanus  surinamensis,  Cryptopliagus  dentatus 
and  ohesidus,  Corticaria  serrata,  Tcnehrio  obscurus,  Anthims  fioralis, 
&c.),  where  it  has  all  the  appearance  of  being  an  introduced  insect. 

Genus  90.  EUEOPS. 
WoUaston,  Ins.  Mad.  149.  tab.  iii.  f.  2  (1854). 

218.  Europs  impressicollis. 

Europs  impressicollis,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  150.  tab.  iii.  f.  2  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  50  (1857). 

♦ ,  Id.,  Trans.  Ent.  Sac.  Land.  (3rd  series)  i.  145  (1862). 

Habitat  Euphorbias  emortuas  insularum  omnium  Canariensium, 

vulgaris. 

The  Madeiran  E.  impressicolJis  is  universal  at  the  Canaries  ;  in  the 


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whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  taken  it,  except  in  Go- 
mera, — where  however  it  was  captui'ed,  during  the  spring  of  1862, 
by  Dr.  Crotch,  In  Lanzarote  and  Hierro  it  was  found  also  by  Mr. 
Gray;  and,  on  the  11th  of  March  1859,  I  met  with  it  even  on  the 
little  island  of  Graciosa,  off  the  extreme  north  of  the  former.  It  is 
confined  exclusively  to  the  rotten  Euphorhia-stems,  on  which  it  sub- 
sists (in  company  with  the  AphanartJira,  and  the  various  other  in- 
sects peculiar  to  those  plants),  and  where  it  frequently  abounds. 

219.  Europs  duplicatus. 

Europs  duplicatus,  WoU.,  Trans.  Ent.  Svc.  Loud.  (3rd  series)  i.  146 
(1862). 

Habitat  Gomeram,  in  plantis  putridis  Euphorblce  canariensis  in 
collibus  supra  San  Sebastian  repertus. 

It  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  whilst  failing  to  take  the  last  spe- 
cies in  Gomera,  I  should  have  captured  the  present  one  in  its  stead. 
As  already  stated,  however,  I  have  no  doubt  that  the  E.  impressi- 
collis  is  found  in  Gomera  no  less  than  in  the  other  portions  of  the 
Group,  and  that  consequently  my  meeting  with  the  present  Europs 
during  our  short  stay  in  that  island  was  merely  accidental.  Be  this 
however  as  it  may,  I  should  state  that  the  E.  duplicatus  (which, 
apart  from  all  other  differences,  may  be  immediately  recognized  from 
its  ally  by  having  its  prothorax  free  from  a  longitudinal  impression, 
the  place  of  which  is  occupied  by  two  parallel  rows  of  punctures) 
was  taken  abundantly  from  out  of  the  putrid  stalks  of  Euphorbia 
canariensis  on  the  summit  of  a  hiU  immediately  to  the  south  of  San 
Sebastian,  during  February  1858. 

Fam.  16.  CUCUJID^. 

Genus  91.  CAULONOMUS. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Eat.  Sac.  Land.  147  (1862). 

220.  Caulonomus  rhizophagoides. 

Caulonomus  rhyzophagoides,  Wall.,  Trans.  Ent.  Sac.  Lond.  (3rd  series) 
i.  149.  pi.  7.  f.  2  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  in  truncis  Euphorbiarum 
emortuis  una  cum  genere  Europs  degens,  sed  multo  rarior. 

This  interesting  beetle  (which  I  have  described  carefully  in  my 
Memoir  on  the  "  £'M^)7to/-6ia-infesting  Coleoptera  of  the  Canaries  ")  is 
confined  exclusively  to  the  rotten  Euphorbias,  within  the  decayed 
stems  and  branches  of  which  it  resides,— in  company  with  Europs, 

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130  C.VNARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Aphanartlirum,  and  the  numerous  other  insects  of  like  habits.  It  is, 
however,  exceedingly  rare.  It  was  taken  sparingly  by  Mr.  Gray 
and  myself  in  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote,  during  January  1858, 
as  also  (a  few  weeks  later)  in  Hierro,  And  I  subsequently  captured 
several  specimens  of  it  on  the  mountains  above  S*"  Cruz,  in  Teneriife. 
Its  near  resemblance  primd  facie  to  the  Euroj^s  impresskoUis  renders 
it  liable  to  be  overlooked  amongst  the  hosts  of  that  insect  with  which 
it  usually  lives  in  society  ;  nevertheless  its  longer  elytra  and  different 
antennae  will,  on  a  closer  inspection  (apart  from  aU  the  other  dis- 
tinctions fully  pointed  out  in  my  paper  above  referred  to),  readily 
characterize  it. 

Genus  92.  L^MOPHLffiUS. 

(Dejean)  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  DciiUch.  iii.  315  (1848). 

221.  Laemophlceus  granulatus. 

Lsemophlceus  granulatus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  160  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  52  (1857). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  sub  cortice  arborum 
prsesertim  in  regionibus  sylvaticis,  hinc  inde  baud  infrequens. 

The  L.  granulatus,  which  occurs  in  the  wooded  regions  of  Madeira, 
is  found  in  similar  localities  in  these  islands, — rarely  descending 
below  the  forest-districts,  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  Tene- 
riffe,  and  Palma ;  in  the  last  of  which  it  was  also  found  by  Mr.  Gray. 
My  TenerifFan  specimens  are  from  beneath  bark  on  the  densely  clad 
mountains  above  Taganana  (where  the  species  is  comparatively  com- 
mon), the  Agua  Garcia,  and  the  Agua  Mansa. 

222.  Lsemophlceus  clavicollis. 

Lfemophlceus  clavicollis  et  vermiculatus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  161  et  163 
(1854). 

et ,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  52  et  53  (1857). 

,  Woll,  Travis.  Ent.  Sac.  Land.  (3rd  series)  i.  150  (1862). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  sub  cortice  arborum  et  plan- 
tarum  (praesertim  Eupliorbiarum)  latens. 

The  present  insect  appears  to  be  identical  with  the  Madeiran  L. 
clavicollis  and  vermiculatus, — the  latter  of  which  cannot,  I  believe,  be 
kept  distinct  from  the  former,  and  must  consequently  be  suppressed. 
It  is  universal  throughout  the  Canarian  archipelago ;  for  although  I 
did  not  happen  to  observe  it  in  Gomera,  I  have  examined  a  specjmen 
which  was  found  in  that  island,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr. 
Crotch.  In  the  other  six  islands  of  the  Group  I  have  myself  captured 
it,  in  various  situations  and  altitudes  ;   and  it  was  met  with  in  Hierro 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  131 

bj'  Mr.  Gray.  It  occurs  principally  under  the  loose  outer  fibre  of  the 
Euphorbias  ;  though  it  may  be  taken  from  beneath  the  bark  of  trees 
likewise.  My  Fuerteventuran  specimens  are  from  the  Rio  Palmas 
and  the  little  island  of  Lobos  in  the  Bocayna  Strait ;  the  TenerifFan 
ones  from  Orotava,  the  Agua  Mansa,  the  Agua  Garcia,  Taganana,  and 
the  mountains  above  S'*  Cruz ;  and  the  Palman  ones  from  the  Bar- 
ranco  de  Galga. 

223.  Laemophloeas  pusillus. 

Cucujus  pusilkis,  Sclwn.,  Si/n.  Ins.  iii.  55  (1817). 

Lsemophloeus  pusillus,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  321  (1848). 

,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  162  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  52  (1857). 

Habitat  in  oppidis  Canariae  et  TenerifFse,  forsan  cum  frumentariis 
in  insulas  introductus. 

This  little  La;mnphloeus — -at  once  distinguished  from  the  last  species 
(apart  from  all  other  characters)  by  its  subquadrate  prothorax — is 
doubtless  an  importation  into  these  islands,  in  like  manner  as  it  is 
at  Madeira.  I  have  taken  it  (in  a  house)  at  Las  Palmas  of  Grand 
Canary,  and  also  at  S'*  Cruz  of  Teneriffe. 

Genus  93.  PEDIACUS. 
Shuckard,  Mem.  of  Brit.  Ent.  i.  185  (1839). 

224.  Pediacus  tabellatus,  n.  sp. 

P.  parallelus,  planus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  subnitidus,  minute  pubescens  ; 
capite  prothoraceque  distincte  sed  vix  dense  punctulatis,  illo  trian- 
gulari  antice  bisulcato  oculis  magnis  prominentibus,  hoc  subqua- 
drate ad  latera  4-angulato-denticulato  in  disco  longitudinaliter  bi- 
sulcato ;  elytris  vix  clarioribus,  leviter  et  dense  punctulatis,  mai'gino 
sublaterali  paulo  elevate  ;  antennis  brevibus,  erassis,  obscurioribus. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  vix  2. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  sub  cortice  ad  Agua  Mansa  semel 
lectus. 

I  am  far  from  satisfied  that  this  insect  is  more  than  a  geographical 
state  of  the  European  P.  de^ressus.  Nevertheless,  judging  from  a 
German  example  of  that  species  now  before  me,  which  has  been  com- 
municated from  Berlin  by  Dr.  Schaum,  the  Teneriffan  one  appears  to 
be  a  trifle  larger  and  broader,  with  its  head  just  perceptibly  more 
convex,  and  with  its  prothorax  (which  has  the  two  wide  but  shallow 
depressions  down  its  disc  continuous,  instead  of  being  obscurely  broken 
up  into  four  impressions)  a  little  more  developed,  with  the  lateral 
edges  less  conspicuously  thickened,  with  the  anterior  angles  some- 
what more  obtusely  rounded  off.  and  with  the  four  denticles  smaller 

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132  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

or  more  obsolete.  Its  scutellum,  also,  is  perhaps  a  little  less  trans- 
verse ;  and  the  last  three  joints  of  its  antennfe  are,  if  anything,  a 
trifle  less  incrassated.  It  is  apparently  very  rare,  the  only  specimen 
which  has  come  beneath  my  notice  having  been  captured  by  myself 
from  under  the  bark  of  a  feUed  Spanish  chestnut-tree  at  the  Agua 
Mansa  in  Teneriife. 

Genus  94.  XENOSCELIS*. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (.3rd  series)  i.  151  (1862). 

225.  Xenoscelis  deplanata. 
Pristoscelis  deplanatus,  WoU.,  he.  at.  152.  pi.  7.  f.  3  (1862). 
Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  sub  cortice  EujiJiorhiarum 
laxo  arido  prsesertim  latitans. 

This  cuiious  insect,  so  remarkable  for  the  serrations  along  the  inner 
edge  of  its  hinder  male-tibiae,  seems  to  be  almost  peculiar  (so  far  as 
observed  hitherto)  to  the  dead  EiqjJwrbia-stems, — beneath  the  loose 
outer  fibre  of  which  it  resides.  In  such  positions  it  was  taken  by 
Mr.  Gray,  on  the  ascent  to  Valverde,  on  the  eastern  side  of  Hierro, 
and  by  myself  (more  abundantly)  in  the  lower  part  of  the  district  of 
El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  the  same  island.  Subsequently  I 
found  a  single  specimen  (beneath  the  bark  of  a  pine-tree)  on  the 
mountains  above  S^  Cruz,  in  Palma ;  and  another  below  Taganana, 
in  Teneriffe. 

Genus  95.  SILVANUS. 
Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Ins.  iii.  19  (1807). 

226.  Silvanus  dentatus. 

Corticaria  dentata,  Msh7n,  Ent.  Brit.  i.  108  (1802). 
Silvanus  dentatus,  Stcph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  104  (1830). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  167  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  54  (1857). 

Habitat  in  domibus  Lanzarotse,  Teneriffae  et  Gomerae,  certe  intro- 
ductus.  ^ 

Only  four  Canarian  specimens  of  this  insect  (which  is  undoubtedly 
an  importation  into  these  islands,  no  less  than  it  is  at  Madeira)  have 
as  yet  come  beneath  my  notice.  Two  of  them  were  taken  by  myself, 
— one  (dead)  in  a  house  in  Lanzarote,  and  the  other  (Hkewise  dead)  in 
a  similar  position  at  Ycod  el  Alto  of  Teneriffe ;  and  the  remaining 
two  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

*  I  have  changed  the  title  of  this  genus,  from  Pristoscelis,  to  Xenoscelis,  inas- 
much as  I  have  lat«ly  been  informed  by  Mr.  Paseoe  that  the  former  name  was 
preoccupied  by  Dr.  Leconte. 


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227.  Silvanus  surinamensis. 

Dermestes  surinamensis,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  i.  2.  565  (1767). 
Anobium  frunientarium,  Fab.,  Mant.  Ins.  i.  39  (1787). 
Dermestes  6-dentatus,  Fah.,  Ent.  Syst.  i.  232  (1792). 
Silvanus  surinamensis,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  104  (1830). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  167  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  54  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Palraa  et  Hiei'ro,  in 
domibus,  granariis  et  sub  recremento  farris  circa  basin  acervorum 
tritici  sparso,  certe  introductus. 

This  almost  cosmopolitan  insect  has  clearly  been  naturalized  in 
these  islands  through  the  medium  of  commerce,  in  like  manner  as  it 
has  at  Madeii-a.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  is  universal  throughout 
the  archipelago ;  nevertheless  I  happen  hitherto  to  have  observed  it 
only  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Palma,  and  Hierro 
(in  the  last  of  which  it  was  also  found  by  Mr.  Gray).  It  is  often 
common  about  houses  and  granaries,  but  abounds  more  particularly 
beneath  the  refuse  around  the  base  of  corn- stacks ;  in  which  situation 
I  have  captured  it  in  profusion  at  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote. 

228.  Silvanus  nubigena. 

S.  angusto-elongatus,  subconvexus,  fusco-niger,  dense  flavescenti- 
cinereo-pubescens ;  capite  prothoraceque  rugose  punctatis,  hoc 
sequah,  angusto,  subcylindrico,  postice  vix  angustiore,  ad  latera 
subrecto  et  distinete  crenulato,  angulis  ipsis  posticis  obtusis  sed 
argute  determinatis,  penicillatis ;  elytris  rugose  et  dense  seriatim 
punctatis,  versus  humeros  interdum  paulo  fuscescentioribus ;  fe- 
moribus  piceis,  antennis,  tibiis  tarsisque  piceo-ferrugineis. — Long, 
corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Silvanus  nubigena,  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  217  (1863). 

Habitat  in  editioribus  aridis  Teneriffae,  inter  lapillos  ramulosque 
emortuos  sub  arbusculis  Spartii  nnbigence  humi  jacentibus,  velocis- 
sime  currens,  necnon  fere  ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

In  its  general  fades,  colour,  clothing,  and  outline,  no  less  than  in 
its  unfoveolated  pro  thorax  and  almost  unclavated  antennae,  the  pre- 
sent very  interesting  and  truly  indigenous  Silvanus  has  much  in 
common  with  the  European  S.  elongatus ;  nevertheless  when  closely 
inspected  it  will  be  seen  to  differ  in  many  respects  from  that  insect. 
Thus,  apart  from  all  other  characters,  it  may  immediately  be  known 
from  it  by  its  much  slenderer  tarsi,  the  antepenultimate  joint  of 
which  is  scarcely  at  aU  dilated  or  bilobed.  In  minor  respects  it  is 
altogether  a  little  smaller  and  narrower  than  the  S.  elongatus,  its 
coloui'  (especially  of  the  limbs)  is  considerably  browner  (its  shoulders 


134  CANAEIAN  C'OLEOPTEEA. 

being  often  still  more  diluted,  or  subrufescent),  its  pubescence  has  a 
more  conspicuously  golden  tinge,  its  prothorax  more  particularly  is 
narrower,  straighter  at  the  sides,  and  (together  with  the  head)  more 
closely  and  roughly  punctured,  its  legs  are  shorter  and  less  robust, 
and  its  antennse  are  less  incrassated  towards  their  extremity.  In  its 
habits  it  is  very  peculiar,  being  confined  apparently  to  the-  dry  ele- 
vated cindery  districts  of  Teneriffe  which  are  characterized  by  the 
presence  of  the  "  Eetama "  (or  Sparthmi  nubigena) — from  about 
6000  to  perhaps  9000  feet  above  the  sea, — where  it  occurs  amongst 
the  small  stones  and  rotten  sticks  which  accumulate  around  the  roots 
of  that  remarkable  Broom,  running  with  the  greatest  velocity.  In 
such  situations  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  during  May  of  1859,  both 
on  the  lofty  Cumbre  (adjoining  the  Canadas)  above  Yeod  el  Alto  and 
on  the  opposite  range  (hkewisc  clothed  with  Ectamas)  above  the 
Agua  Mansa. 

Fam.  17.  TELMATOPHILID^. 

Genus  9G.  DIPHYLLUS. 

Stephens,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  87  [script.  Biplujllus]  (1830). 

229.  Diphyllus  lunatus. 

Dermestes  hmatus,  Fab.,  Ent.  St/st.  i.  232  (1792). 
Biphyllus  lunatus,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  78  (1830). 
Diphyllus  lunatus,  Redt.,  Fna  Austr.  188  (1849). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  172  (1854). 

Biphyllus  lunatus,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  51  (1857). 

Habitat  Palmam  sylvaticam,  ad  truncum  arboris  vetustum  in  Bar- 
ranco  da  Agua,  Maio  exeunte  a.d.  1858,  sat  copiose  lectus. 

This  European  insect  (which  occurs  rarely  at  Madeira)  appears  to 
be  very  scarce,  or  at  all  events  local,  in  the  Canaries.  The  only 
island  in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it  is  Palma ;  where,  at  the 
end  of  May  1858, 1  captiu'od  several  specimens  from  off  the  trunk  of 
an  old  laurel  high  up  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua. 

Genus  97.  THALLESTUS. 

Wollaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Bond.  (3rd  series)  i.  163  (1862). 

230.  Thallestus  subellipticus. 

Thallestus  subellipticus,  Woll,  he.  cit.  155.  pi.  7.  f.  4  (1862). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  e  plantis   putridis  Etiphorbice  canariensis  in 
montibus  siipra  Sanctam  Crueem  parce  captus. 

For  the  peculiarities  of  Thallestus,  and  the  distinctions  between 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEBA.  135 

the  present  species  and  the  following  one,  I  must  refer  to  my  Paper 
on  the  "  Eu2)7torbia-'m{esting  Coleoptera  of  the  Canaries  "  which  has 
been  lately  published  in  the  '  Transactions  of  the  Entomological 
Society  of  London.'  The  T.  subelUpticus  seems  to  be  decidedly  rare, 
though  possibly  it  might  occur  in  considerable  abundance  were  the 
rotten  stalks  of  the  Euphorbia  canariensis  to  be  well  searched.  The 
only  specimens  which  I  have  seen  were  captured  by  myself,  in  the 
putrid  stems  of  the  above-mentioned  plant,  on  the  mountains  above 
S*'*  Cruz  of  Teneriffe,  in  the  direction  of  Las  Mercedes. 

231.  Thallestus  typhseoides. 

Thallestus  typhaeoides,  Woll,  he.  cit.  155.  pi.  7.  f.  6  (1862). 

Habitat  Gomeram,  e  plantis  Euphorbice  canariensis  putridis  in  mon- 
tibus  supra  San  Sebastian  mense  Februario  a.d.  1858  lectus. 

The  present  Thallestus  has  precisely  the  same  habits  as  the  last 
one ;  but  was  found  in  Gomera  instead  of  Teneriffe,  and  in  consider- 
able abundance.  I  captured  it,  early  in  February  1858,  from  out  of 
the  putrid  stems  of  Euphorbia  canariensis  on  a  hill-top  to  the  north 
of  San  Sebastian. 

Fam.  18.  CRYPTOPHAGID^. 

Genus  98.  CRYPTOPHAGUS. 
Herbst,  Kdf.  iv.  172  [script.  Kiyptuphagus]  (1792). 

232.  Crjrptophagus  dentatus. 

Kateretes  dentatus,  Hbst,  Kdf.  v.  15.  tab.  45.  f.  6  (1793). 
Cryptophagus  dentatus,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  364  (1848). 
,  Woll.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  56  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Teneriffam  et  Palmam, 
passim. 

The  European  C.  dentatus  appears  to  have  established  itself  com- 
pletely at  the  Canaries,  in  like  manner  as  it  has  at  Madeira, — being 
found  not  only  about  houses  and  granaries,  but  also  in  positions  far 
removed  from  the  towns.  I  have  taken  it  under  the  refuse  at  the 
base  of  corn-stacks  in  Lanzarote,  from  beneath  camels'  dung  in  the 
Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura,  from  under  the  bark  of  trees  at  the 
Agua  Garcia  and  the  Agua  Mansa  of  Teneriffe,  and  in  similar  posi- 
tions in  Palma.  It  is  a  variable  insect,  both  in  size  and  colour — 
assuming  sometimes,  particularly  in  sylvan  spots,  a  dark-brownish 
hue  ;  but  its  rather  elongate  outline  and  the  shape  of  its  prothorax 
will  always  serve  to  identify  it. 


136  CANARIAN  COLEOPXEBA. 

233.  Cryptophagus  afl&nis. 

Crvptopliagus  affinis,  Sfn?-»t,  Deutseh.  Fna,  xvi.  79.  t.  314.  f.  C  (1845). 

—- ,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Dentsch.  iii.  360  (1848). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  170  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  57  (1857). 

Habitat  in  domibus  TenerifFce  et  Hierro,  minus  frequens  sed  certe 
introductus.  * 

For  the  exact  distinctions  between  the  present  species  and  the  last 
one  I  must  refer  to  my  Madeiran  Catalogue  (cited  above).  The 
C.  affinis,  80  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  occurs  (as  in  Madeira) 
exclusively  about  houses — being  clearly  an  imported  insect  into  these 
islands.  In  such  positions  I  have  taken  it  at  S'''  Cruz  and  Orotava  in 
Teneriife,  and  at  Valverde  in  Hierro, — in  the  former  of  which  islands 
it  was  also  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch. 

234.  Cryptophagus  obesulus,  n.  sp. 

C.  breviter  oblongus,  fusco-ferrugineus,  pube  sat  elongatfi  vix  depressa 
dense  vestitus  ;  prothorace  subopaco,  valde  profunde  et  dense  punc- 
tato,  ad  latera  subrotundato,  denticiilo  medio  acuto ;  elytris  paulo 
clarioribus,  oblongis,  dense  punctatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  ^1. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram ;  in  ilia  sub  recremento 
farris  circa  basin  acervorum  tritici  sparse,  sed  in  hac  etiam  sub  ster- 
core  camelino  ad  Rio  Palmas  captus. 

From  the  C.  affinis  the  present  Cryptophagus  may  be  known  by 
its  rather  smaller  size,  relatively  more  deeply  and  closely  punctured 
surface,  and  by  its  (subopake)  prothorax  having  the  anterior  ridge 
and  central  denticle  less  prominent  or  defined.  The  space,  moreover, 
between  the  latter  and  the  hinder  angle  is  more  coarsely  crenulated. 
Small  examples  of  it  might  sometimes  be  almost  confounded,  at  first 
sight,  with  the  following  species  ;  nevertheless  it  is  certainly  distinct 
from  that  insect.  It  may  be  known  from  it  by  being  on  the  average 
rather  larger,  broader,  and  more  parallel ;  by  its  pubescence  being 
a  little  longer,  denser,  and  less  depressed ;  by  its  punctation  being 
altogether  somewhat  deeper,  and  closer;  by  its  prothorax  being  ^ro- 
portionally  a  trifle  wider,  shorter,  and  less  straightened  at  the  sides ; 
and  by  its  wings  being  fuUy  developed.  I  may  add  that  it  was 
examined  by  Dr.  Kraatz,  who  regarded  it  as  new.  I  have  taken  it 
rather  commonly  from  beneath  the  refuse  around  the  base  of  corn- 
stacks  at  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  and  from  under  camels' 
dung  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura, — to  which  two  islands  it 
would  seem  (so  far  at  least  as  has  been  observed  hitherto)  to  oe  pe- 
culiar.    In  Lanzarote  it  was  likewise  found  bv  Mr.  Gray. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  137 

235.  Cryptophagus  fasiformis. 

C.  oblongo-fusiformis,  angustulus,  fusco-ferrugineus,  pube  minus 
elongata  subdepressa  vestitus  ;  prothorace  profunde  et  dense  punc- 
tato,  ad  latera  subrecto,  denticulo  medio  acuto ;  elytris  subfusi- 
formibus  (/.  e.  antice  et  postice  subattenuatis,  vel  ibidem  utrinque 
oblique  sub tnincatis),  sat  dense  punctatis;  alis  obsoletis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  vix  ^. 

Cryptophagus  fusiformis,  WolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i. 
166  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriifam,  praecipue  sub  cortice  Eupliorhiarum  in  mon- 
tibus  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  crescentium  deprebensus. 

As  already  stated,  the  present  Cryptophagus  has  something  in 
common,  at  first  sight,  with  the  last  one;  nevertheless  its  rather 
smaller  size  and  relatively  narrower  and  more  fusiform  outline  (the 
elytra  particularly  being  less  parallel,  or  subattenuated  both  before 
and  behind),  in  conjunction  with  its  somewhat  shorter  and  more  de- 
pressed pubescence,  its  rather  less  deeply  punctured  surface,  and  the 
straighter  sides  of  its  prothorax,  will  serve  to  distinguish  it  from 
that  species.  It  is  often,  also,  of  a  browner  hue, — the  elytra  being 
but  seldom  of  a  clearer  colour  than  the  head  and  prothorax ;  and 
(which  is  very  unusual  for  a  Cryptophagus)  its  wings  are  obsolete. 
In  its  habits,  too,  it  recedes  from  the  C.  obesuliis,  and  is  more  strictly 
indigenous.  I  have  taken  it  hitherto  only  in  Tenerifie,  in  spots  far 
removed  from  habitations, — such  as  at  Las  Mercedes,  and  from  be- 
neath the  dead  bark  of  Euphorbias  on  the  mountains  above  S*''  Cruz, 
overlooking  the  plain  of  Laguna. 

236.  Cryptophagus  hesperius. 

C.  fusiformi-oblongus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  pube  brevi  albida  parce 
vestitus  ;  prothorace  profunde  et  dense  punctate,  postice  angustato, 
angulis  anticis  ampliatis,  ad  latera  denticulis  acutis  circa  4-5  ar- 
mato ;  elytris  subfusiformibus,  sat  dense  punctatis  ;  antennis  pe- 
dibusque  longiusculis,  graciliusculis,  vix  pallidioribus. 

Variat  colore  obscuriore,  in  elytris  interdum  etiam  nigro-brunneo. 

Var.  /3.  occidentalis  [an  species  distincta  ?]  prothoracis  denticulis  ob- 
soletis ;  elytris  magis  fusiformibus  convexis,  ad  humeros  paulo 
magis  rotundatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |— ^. 

Cryptophagus  hesperius,  TVoll,  Ami.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  217 
(1863). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  et  subsylvaticis  Canarise,  Teneriffse,  Gomerae 
et  Palmae,  vulgaris :  varietatis  /3  exemplar  unicum,  in  ins.  Hierro 
captum,  solum  vidi. 

In  its  small  size,  rather  elongate  and  slender  limbs,  and  general 


138  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

aspect,  the  present  insect  is  more  suggestive,  at  first  sight,  of  a  Para- 
mecosoma  than  of  a  Cryptophagus ;  and  as  such  it  was  regarded  by 
Dr.  Kraatz,  on  a  superficial  examination  of  it  two  years  ago.  Never- 
theless there  can  be  no  question  that  it  is,  in  reaUty,  a  true  Crypto- 
phajus,  since  the  hinder  feet  of  its  males  (almost  the  only  struc- 
tural character  of  importance  which  distinguishes  that  genus  from 
Paramecosoma)  are  most  conspicuously  tetramerous, — of  which  I 
have  thoroughly  convinced  myself  by  mounting  the  posterior  legs  of 
both  sexes  in  balsam,  for  the  microscope.  It  is,  in  point  of  fact, 
nearly  related  to  the  common  European  C.  vini — not  only  in  the 
shape  of  its  basally-narrowed  jDrothorax,  but  also  in  its  comparatively 
minute  size ;  nevertheless  it  is,  on  the  average,  a  little  smaller  still 
than  that  species,  its  prothorax  is  rather  more  closely  punctured, 
with  its  hinder  angles  more  evidently  right  angles,  and  its  elytra  are 
somewhat  more  fusiform — being  rounder  at  the  sides,  or  more  per- 
ceptibly narrowed  at  either  extremity.  The  form  of  its  prothorax 
will,  even  alone,  at  once  separate  it  from  all  the  foregoing  Crypto- 
phagi — being  comparatively  more  attenuated  posteriorly  and  wider 
in  front,  with  the  anterior  angles  a  good  deal  developed  (or  obliquely- 
thickened),  and  with  the  lateral  margin  armed  with  four  or  five  small, 
acute,  subequal  teeth. 

The  C.  Jiesperius  is  universal  in  the  sylvan  and  subsylvan  districts 
of  Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  Gomera,  and  Palma.  In  the  first  of  these 
I  have  taken  it  more  particularly  throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte  ; 
in  the  second,  at  Taganana,  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  the  Agua 
Garcia,  and  Souzal ;  and  in  the  fourth,  about  the  wooded  slopes  of  the 
Barranco  da  Agua  and  Galga.  It  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  also,  at 
Hermigua  in  Gomera.  When  in  the  island  of  Hierro  I  captured  a 
single  specimen  which  has  its  prothoracic  denticles  obsolete,  and  its 
elytra  more  fusiform,  or  rounded  at  the  sides ;  and  I  have  treated  it 
as  a  "var.ji"  of  the  present  insect, — at  the  same  time  giving  it  a  name, 
in  the  event  of  further  material  proving  it  hereafter  to  be  specifically 

distinct. 

(Subgenus?)  99.  MNIONOMUS. 

Corpus  ellipticum,  apterum  :  prothorace  subconico,  basi  bisinuato, 
angulis  posticis  subproductis  :  mesosterno  in  medio  canaHculato  : 
antennis  pedihusqne  crassis  ;  tarsis  articulo  primo  breviusculo,  an- 
teriorihus  subtus  dense  pilosis. 

237.  Mnionomus  ellipticus,  n.  sp. 
M.  fusco-ferrugineus,  convexus,  nitidus,  pube  brevi  depressa  flavo- 
albida  parce  vestitus,  punctatus  ;  prothorace  longiusculo,  ad  latera 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  139 

subreeto  et  denticulo  medio  acuto  minutissimo  armato,  angulis  an- 
ticis  vix  incrassatis  ;  elytris  ad  basin  prothorace  baud  latioribus, 
pone  basin  rotnndatis,  inde  ad  apicem  leviter  acutioribus  et  ad  api- 
cem  panlo  dilutioribus  ;  antennis  pedibusque  nifo-testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  vix  1^. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  sylvaticam,  inter  muscos  et  humi  snb  foliis 
marcidis  in  laiiretis  ad  Las  Mercedes  et  Agua  Garcia  repertus. 

Until  I  bad  examined  accurately  this  curious  insect  I  bad  failed 
entirely  to  identify  it  with  Gryptophagus, — its  convex,  ellij)tic,  ap- 
terous body  and  comparatively  shining  surface,  in  conjunction  with 
its  thickened  limbs  and  subconical  prothorax  (which  is  wide  behind 
— where  it  is  of  the  same  breadth  as  the  base  of  the  elytra — and 
bisinuated  along  its  posterior  margin,  causing  the  hinder  angles  to  be 
slightly  produced),  giving  it  a.  primd  facie  appearance  totally  distinct 
from  any  of  the  representatives  of  that  genus  with  which  I  am  ac- 
quainted, l^evertheless,  after  a  careful  dissection  of  it,  and  a  consi- 
deration of  the  various  details  of  its  structure,  I  cannot  detect  a  single 
character,  apart  from  the  above-mentioned  external  ones,  to  justify 
its  entire  isolation.  Its  oral  organs  indeed  are  all  of  them  precisely 
identical  with  those  of  the  normal  Cryptophagi,  its  hinder  male-tarsi 
are  tetramerous,  and  its  prothorax  when  closely  inspected  will  be 
seen  to  have  its  anterior  angles  slightly  incrassated  into  the  ordinary 
oblique  ridge,  and  to  be  armed  at  about  the  middle  of  its  lateral  mar- 
gins with  a  very  minute  denticle.  Yet,  whilst  thus  agreeing  in  every 
essential  point  with  Cryptophagus,  its  outward  characters  cannot  but 
stamp  it  as  a  most  anomalous  member  of  that  Group, — since  (in  ad- 
dition to  its  very  peculiar  fades)  the  completely  apterous  state  of  its 
body  and  the  somewhat  shortened  first  joint  of  its  feet  (the  two 
anterior  pair  of  which  are  densely  pilose  beneath)  are  featiu'es  of 
considerable  importance.  Its  under-segments  are  purely  on  the 
Cryptophagus-type,  except  that  the  mesosternum  is  more  evidently 
channeled. 

The  M.  ellipticus  is  apparently  extremely  rare,  and  confined  (so  far 
as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  the  sylvan  regions  of  Teneriffe.  I 
have  taken  it  sparingly,  under  fallen  leaves,  at  the  Agua  Garcia ;  and 
(rather  more  commonly),  amongst  wet  moss  and  vegetable  detritus, 
on  the  steep  sloping  bank  immediately  to  the  left  of  the  small  water- 
fall in  the  wood  of  Las  Mercedes. 

Genus  100.  LEUCOHIMATIUM. 

Rosenhauer,  Die  Thiere  Andahis.  179  (1866). 
Corpus  elongatum,  angustum,  parallclum  ;  capite  sat  magno  ;  protho- 


140  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

race  ad  angulos  anticos  incrassato-atnpliato  necnon  ad  latera  plus 
minus  minutissime  crenulato.  Antenn(e  et  itistrumenta  ciharia  fere 
ut  in  generibus  Cryptophago  et  Paramecosomate ;  sed  mandibuUs 
ad  apicem  grosse  et  longe  bifidis  necnon  ad  basin  externam  anguste 
incisis ;  palporum  maxillarium  artmdo  basilari  minuto  (nee  elon- 
gate flexuoso),  secundo  elongate  curvato  clavato(nec  brevi,  sequentis 
longitudine),  tdtimo  longissimo  ;  et  mento  ad  apicem  hand  emargi- 
nato,  sed  in  parte  media  producto  et  ibidem  obtuse  rotundato.  Pedes 
ut  in  Paramecosomate,  i.  e.  tarsism  utroque  sexu  S-articulatis,  arti- 
culo  penultimo  minuto. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  the  above  comparative  diagnosis  (drawn 
out  from  the  European  L.  elongatum,  described  below),  I  believe  that 
Leucohiynafium  possesses  sufficient  structural  peculiarities  of  its  own 
(as  Dr.  Kraatz  has  suggested — vide  '  Berliner  Ent.  Zeitsch.'  i.  190) 
to  warrant  its  separation  from  Paramecosoma .  M.  Jacq.  Duval  in- 
deed, in  his  '  Genera  des  Coleopt.  d'Europe,'  has  not  adopted  it ;  but, 
apart  from  its  differences  of  external  fades  (which  are  very  consi- 
derable, and  would  of  themselves  incline  us  to  suspect  the  presence 
of  other  less  obvious  ones),  its  very  conspicuously  and  deeply  bifid 
mandibles,  in  conjunction  with  the  particular  proportions  (alluded  to 
above)  of  the  joints  of  its  maxillary  palpi,  and  its  unemarginated, 
centrally-produced  mentum,  are,  I  think,  more  than  enough  to  render 
its  isolation  both  natural  and  desirable. 

238.  LeucoMmatium  elongatum. 

L.  fusco-ferrugineum,  albido-pubescens ;  capite  prothoraeeque  sat 
parcc  punctatis,  hoc  subquadrato  postice  paulo  angustiore,  angulis 
anticis  oblique  incrassatis,  ad  latera  miautissime  crenulato,  basi 
utrinque  foveola  obscura  punctiformi  notato  ;  elytris  subtihter 
striato-punctatis,  interstitiis  uniseriatim  pimctulatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  11. 

Paramecosoma  elongata,  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fna,  xviii.  72.  pi.  342.  f.  a, 
A  (1846). 

,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ill.  371  (1848). 

Leucohimatium  angustum,  Rosenh.,  Die  Tliiere  Andalus.  179  (1856). 

Habitat  Palmam  occidentalem  ;  in  regione  calcarea  mox  infra  Ar- 
gual  sita  Junio  ineunte  a.d.  1858  specimen  unicum  sub  lapide  inveni. 

A  single  specimen  of  the  Euroi)ean  L.  elongatum  was  captured  by 
myself,  from  beneath  a  stone,  on  the  calcareous  plain  immediately 
below  Argual,  on  the  western  side  of  Palma,  early  in  June  1858.  It 
occurs  also,  though  very  rarely,  in  Madeira, — two  examples  having 
lately  been  detected,  by  Mr.  E.  A.  Anderson,  on  the  hills  above 
Funchal. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  141 

Genus  101.  PARAMECOSOMA. 
Curtis,  in  Ent.  Mag.  i.  186  (1833). 

239.  Paramecosoma  simplex. 

Paramecoaoma  simplex,  Wall.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  59  (1857). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  et  Gomeram  ;  in  ilia  sub  stercore  came- 
lino  ad  Eio  Palmas  mense  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859  tria  specimiiia 
deprehensi ;  in  hac  cepit  Dom.  Crotch. 

This  insect,  which  is  rather  common  (amongst  vegetable  refuse) 
around  Funchal  in  Madeira,  and  which  has  so  much  the  primd  facie 
aspect  of  a  Cryptopliagus  or  a  Typhct;a,  is  apparently  scarce  at  the 
Canaries ;  though  possibly  it  may"  be  only  local,  having  hitherto 
escaped  our  observation.  At  any  rate  I  have  myself  taken,  hitherto, 
but  three  examples — namely,  under  camels'  dung,  in  the  Rio  Palmas 
of  Fuerteventura,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859.  Four  more,  how- 
ever, were  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  at 
Hermigua  in  Gomera. 

Genus  102.  HYPOCOPRUS. 
Motschulsky,  Bull,  de  Moscou,  72  (1839)  [script.  Upocoprus]. 

240.  Hypocoprus  Hochuthii. 

Myrmecinomus  Hochuthii,  Chaud.,  Bull,  de  Moscou,  ii.  206  (1845). 
Monotoma  caucasicum,  Kolen.,  Melet.  Ent.  iii.  43  (1845). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  captus. 

A  single  example  of  this  minute  insect  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  Teneriffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  I  can  detect  no  appreciable 
difference  in  it  from  the  European  H.  Hochuthii,  unless  perhaps  the 
prothorax  be  a  trifle  more  remotely  punctured,  and  rather  more  im- 
pressed in  the  centre  behind. 

Regarding  the  affinities  oi  Hypocoprus,  I  believe  that  it  has  nothing- 
whatever  to  do,  except  in  external /aaVs,  with  Jfowotoma  (despite  the 
assertion  of  M.  Jacq.  Duval,  who  appears  to  have  mistaken  the 
structural  features  of  the  latter),  but  that  all  its  details  tend  rather 
to  associate  it  with  Paramecosoma,  Leucohimatiicm,  and  Atomaria. 
Indeed  the  proportions  of  its  antennae,  with  their  lax  triarticulate  club 
and  unequal  intermediate  joints,  in  conjunction  with  its  slender  limbs 
and  pentamerous  feet,  are  (apart  from  minor  details)  far  more  sugges- 
tive of  the  Atomarice  than  of  the  thick-limbed,  tetramerous  Monotomce, 
with  their  10-articulated  antennae  and  compact,  one-jointed  club. 

Genus  103.  ATOMARIA. 
(Kirby)  Stepli.,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  04  (1830). 


142  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

241.  Atomaria  pilosula,  n.  sp. 

A.  oblongo-ovata,  rufo-ferruginea,  punctata,  piibe  longiuscula  minus 
depressa  (partim  etiam  suberecta)  albida  vestita ;  prothorace  con- 
vexo,  ad  basin  ipsissimam  transversim  constricto,  ad  latera  sub- 
aequaliter  rotundato  ;  elytris  convexis,  fere  concoloribus,  pygidium 
vix  tegentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  i. 

Habitat  editiores  Teneriffee,  in  excelsis  illis  "  Cumbre  v.  Canadas  " 
dictis,  semel  capta. 

Althougb  I  have,  unfortunately,  but  a  single  specimen  of  this  Ato- 
maria to  form  an  opinion  from,  I  believe  nevertheless  that  it  is  the 
exponent  of  a  species  truly  distinct  from  the  following  one, — a  sujd- 
position  which  is  rendered  the  more  probable  from  the  fact  of  its 
having  been  captured  on  the  lofty  Cumbre  of  Teneriife,  adjoining  the 
Canadas,  upwards  of  8000  feet  above  the  sea ;  whereas  the  A.  cana- 
riensis  is  peculiar  (so  far  as  observed  hitherto)  to  rather  low  and 
intermediate  districts.  Judging  from  the  unique  example  now  before 
me,  the  A.  pilosula  differs  from  the  canariensis  in  being  a  Httle  larger 
and  more  ovate  (or  less  straightened  at  the  sides),  in  having  its  pu- 
bescence longer  and  less  depressed,  in  its  punctation  being  a  trifle 
less  dense,  in  its  scutellum  being  relatively  somewhat  wider  and  more 
transverse,  and  in  its  prothorax  and  elji.ra  being  each  of  them  more 
convex.  In  the  individual  from  which  my  diagnosis  is  drawn  out 
there  is,  also,  scarcely  any  indication  of  the  suffused  transverse  elytral 
fascia,  or  cloud,  which  (more  or  less)  characterizes  its  ally;  but  very 
likely  this  may  be  merely  accidental. 

242,  Atomaria  canariensis,  n.  sp. 

A.  suboblonga,  rufo-ferruginea,  punctata,  pube  brevi  depressa  albida 
vestita ;  prothorace  ad  basin  ipsissimam  transversim  paulo  con- 
stricto, ad  latera  subaequalitcr  rotimdato  ;  elytris  fascia  media 
magna  plerumque  valde  indistincta  suffusa  nigrescente  nebulosis. 

Variat  fascia  obsoleta  (elytris  fere  omnino  rufo-ferrugineis). — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  f-vix  |. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  locis  inferioribus  et  inter- 
mediis,  passim. 

The  present  Atomaria  has  somewhat  the  general  aspect  of  the 
common  European  A.  atricapiVa  ;  nevertheless  it  is  on  the  average 
a  trifle  larger  and  more  pubescent  than  that  insect,  its  punctation 
is  denser,  its  prothorax  is  both  more  and  less  regularly  rounded  at 
the  sides,  its  head  is  never  dark  (being  always  concolorous  with  the 
rest  of  the  surface),  and  its  elytra  are  obscurely  adorned  with  a  large, 
ill-defined,  suffused  transverse  fascia  or  cloud, — which,  although  often 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTBRA.  143 

very  faintly  expressed,  is  rarely  quite  absent  in  perfectly  matured 
specimens.  From  the  European  A.  unifasciata  (which  in  colouring  it 
slightly  resembles)  it  is  abundantly  distinct,  in  all  its  features ;  but 
with  the  A.  contaminata  of  Erichson  it  may  perhaps  have  a  greater 
affinity.  It  is  tiniversal  throughout  the  archipelago.  I  have  taken 
it  (more  or  less  abundantly)  in  the  whole  of  the  seven  islands  except 
Fuerteventura ;  and  there  is  a  single  specimen  now  before  me  which 
I  have  found  amongst  the  Coleoptera  collected  by  Mr.  Gray  in  that 
island.  It  is  clearly  more  common  in  the  central  and  western  por- 
tions of  the  Group  than  in  the  eastern  ones,  and  more  general  in 
subsylvan  spots  of  intermediate  elevations  than  elsewhere.  It  oc- 
curs, however,  in  the  lowest  districts  also  ;  but  I  have  not  detected  it 
hitherto  above  the  altitude  of  about  2500  feet.  Thus,  in  Lanzarote, 
I  have  captured  it  near  Haria ;  in  Grand  Canary,  throughout  the 
region  of  El  Monte ;  in  Teneriffe  (where  it  was  found  also  by  Dr. 
Crotch),  around  S*"  Cruz,  the  Puerto  Orotava,  the  Ag-ua  Garcia,  Sou- 
zal,  &c. ;  in  Gomera,  above  San  Sebastian  ;  in  Palma,  on  grassy  slopes 
in  the  eastern  Barrancos ;  and  in  Hierro,  about  Valverde. 

243.  Atomaria  ruficollis,  n.  sp. 

A.  ovalis,  punctata,  pube  brevissima  depressa  albida  parce  vestita ; 
capite  prothoraceque  laete  ferrugineo-rufis,  hoc  ad  basin  ipsissimam 
vix  transversim  constricto,  ad  latera  aequaliter  rotimdato ;  elytris 
convexis,  nigris,  ad  apicem  subacutis  et  ibidem  paulo  dilutioribus ; 
antennis  crassis,  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  pedibus  rufo-testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  |. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  sub  foUis  marcidis  humi  latens. 

In  the  colouring  of  its  rufous  head  and  prothorax  and  dark  elytra, 
no  less  than  in  its  shining  and  but  very  slightly  pubescent  surface 
and  its  thickened  antennse,  the  present  beautiful  and  very  distinct 
Atomaria  is  a  good  deal  suggestive  of  the  European  A,  nigripennis. 
It  is,  however,  smaller,  and  relatively  shorter  (or  more  oval)  than 
that  insect,  its  punctation  and  pubescence  are  slightly  coarser  and 
denser,  its  prothorax  is  wider  and  less  constricted  behind,  and  less 
margined  at  the  sides,  and  its  antennal  club  is  a  little  more  abrupt. 
It  is  decidedly  rare,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto) 
to  the  sylvan  districts  of  Teneriffe.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in  the 
forest,  at  the  edges  of  the  Vueltas,  above  Taganana ;  and  (more 
abundantly),  from  beneath  damp  leaves,  on  the  steep,  sloping  bank 
immediately  to  the  left  of  the  small  waterfall  in  the  wood  of  Las 
Mercedes.  A  single  specimen,  also  from  Teneriffe,  has  lately  been 
communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch. 


144  CANAKIAN  COLKOPTERA. 

Genus  104.  EPISTEMUS. 

(Westwood)  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  167  [script.  Ephistemus]  (1829). 

244.  Epistemus  gyrinoides. 

Dermestes  gyiinoides,  Mshm,  Ent.  Brit.  i.  77  (1802). 

Phalacrus  dimidiatus,  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fna,  ii.  85.  t.  32.  f.  D  (1807). 

Ephistemus  gyrinoides,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  168  (1829). 

dimidiatus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  170  (1854). 

gyilnoides.  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  63  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  rarissimus. 

The  few  examples  of  the  E.  gyrinoides  which  I  have  seen  hitherto 
from  these  islands  have  the  minute  and  distant  punctules  of  their 
upper  surface  still  less  evident,  beneath  the  microscope,  than  is  the 
case  in  the  ordinary  European  ones  and  in  those  from  Madeira — 
being,  in  fact,  scarcely  distinguishable ;  nevertheless  I  cannot  detect 
any  character  to  warrant  their  separation  from  that  species.  I  have 
taken  it  sparingly  at  Teror,  in  Grand  Canary  ;  as  also  near  S*"  Cruz, 
and  at  the  Agiia  Mansa,  of  Teneriife  ;  in  which  latter  island,  as  well 
as  in  Gomera,  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch. 


Fam.  19.  LATHRIDIADiE. 

Genus  105.  HOLOPARAMECUS. 
Curtis,  in  Ent.  Mag.  i.  186  (1833). 

§  I,  Antennce  11-articulatce. 

245.  Holoparamecus  caularum. 

H.  rufo-testaceus,  nitidus,  subtilissime  et  parce  pubescens  ;  oculis  sat 
magnis  ;  prothorace  antice  lato,  postice  constricto,  angulis  posticis 
rectis,  basi  in  medio  late  et  fortiter  transverse  signato ;  elytris 
minute  punctulatis,  stria  suturali  recta  in  utroque  impressa. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  vix  |. 

Calyptobium  caularmn,  Attbe,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (2ife'ne 

86rie)  i.  244.  pi.  x.  f.  2  (1843). 
,  Redt.,  Fna  Austr.  204  (1849). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  sub  quisquiliis  prope  oppidum  Haria  repertus. 

The  present  European  Holoparamecus  belongs,  like  the  H.  niger, 
to  the  Section  of  the  genus  in  which  the  antennae  are  11-articidate. 
It  may,  however,  be  known  from  the  latter  by  being  a  little  larger, 
paler,  and  relatively  more  elongate ;  by  its  prothorax  being  wider  in 
front,  and  much  more  conspicuously  embossed  in  the  centre  behind, 
and  by  its  sutural  line  being  somewhat  straighter.     The  example 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  145 

described  from,  which  I  captured  beneath  vegetable  refuse  near  Haria, 
in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  agrees  precisely  with  a  type  of  the  H.  cav- 
larimi  communicated  to  me  some  time  ago  by  Dr.  Aube. 

246.  Holoparamecus  niger. 

Calyptobium  nigrum,  Chevrier,  in  litt. 

,  Aube,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (Qifeme  serie)  i.  24(> 

(1843). 
Holoparamecus  niger,  Woll.,  Itis.  Mad.  182  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  64  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam :  duo  specimina,  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1862, 
cepit  Dom.  Crotch. 

Of  the  ff.  niger,  which  is  universal  throughout  Madeira  and  Porto 
Santo,  I  have  seen  as  yet  but  two  Canarian  examples.  They  were 
taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  The 
characters  which  distinguish  the  species  from  the  H.  caularum  have 
already  been  indicated.  When  viewed  beneath  a  high  magnifying 
power,  the  Canarian  specimens  of  this  insect  (judging  from  the 
pair  now  before  me)  wiU  be  perceived  to  be  a  trifle  more  glabrous 
than  the  Madeiran  ones  (the  excessively  minute  pubescence  being,  if 
possible,  even  stiU  less  traceable)  ;  also  their  elytra  are  a  Kttle  less 
expanded  before  the  middle,  which  causes  the  shoulders  to  appear 
somewhat  less  obliqiiely  rounded-off :  but  I  am  satisfied  that  these 
very  slight  differences  cannot  be  indicative,  at  the  utmost,  of  more 
than  an  unimportant  topographical  state. 

§  II.  Antenna;  9-  et  10-articulatce. 

247.  Holoparamecus  singularis. 

II.  subdepressus,  rufo-testaceus,  subnitidus,  snbtiliter  et  minus  parcc 
pubescens  ;  oculis  minutissimis  ;  prothorace  antice  latiuseulo,  pos- 
tice  angiistiore  sed  hand  constricto,  angulis  posticis  subobtusis,  basi 
in  medio  anguste  et  minus  fortiter  transverse  signato  (impressione 
subluniformi) ;  elytris  paulo  distinctius  punctulatis,  stria  suturali 
rectfi  in  singulis  impressa. — Long.  corp.  lin.  i. 

Silvanus  singularis,  Beck,  Bntr.  zur  Baierisch.  Itisectenf.  (1817). 
Amphibolouarzron  difficile,  Villu,  Cat.  Col.  Eur.  26  (1833). 
Holoparamecus  depressus,  Curt.,  Ent.  Mag.  i.  186  (1833). 

,  Id.,  Brit.  Ent.  xiii.  614  (1836). 

Calvptobiura  Villa?,  Aube,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (2ifenie  serie) 
i.*^  243.  pi.  X.  f.  1(1843). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  eodem  loco  ac  prajcedens  semel  captus. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  the  diagnosis,  the  excessively  minute  eyes 
and  rather  more  pubescent,  depressed,  and  less  shining  surface  of  this 
insect,  in  conjunction  with  its  somewhat  less  anteriorly-widened  and 

L 


146  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

not  so  posteriorly-constricted  prothorax  (which  has  its  basal  angles 
more  obtuse,  and  its  hinder  central  space,  between  the  fovese,  both 
narmiuer  and  much  less  elevated,  or  embossed),  will  at  once  serve, 
apart  from  the  numerical  peculiarities  of  its  antennal  joints,  to  dis- 
tinguish it  from  the  H.  cavlarum.     As  regards  this  latter  character 
indeed,  it  would  appear  that  whilst  some  of  the  individuals  of  this 
species  have  those  organs  composed  of  only  nine  articulations,  others 
have  them  made  up  of  ten, — a  feature  which,  in  all  probability,  is  a 
sexual  one ;  but  so  singular  a  fact  has  occasioned,  not  unnaturally, 
some  little  confusion  in  the  synonymy — the  insect  having,  in  con- 
sequence, been  described  under  several  different  names.     In  speci- 
mens, however,  which  I  have  received  from  the  Abbe  Stabile  of  Milan, 
from  Prof.  Heer  of  Zurich,  and  from  the  late  Mr.  Melly  of  Liverpool 
(the  last  tivo  sets  of  which  were  labelled  as  types  coming  from  M. 
Villa,  and  all  of  which  I  believe  are  specifically  identical),  there  are, 
in  each  case,  examples  falling  under  both  of  these  categories.     In 
the  only  Canarian  specimen  which  has  as  yet  come  beneath  my  ob- 
servation the  antennae  are  10 -articulate ;  which  thus  far,  therefore, 
a£?rees  with  (I  imagine  both  sexes  of)  the  B.  Kunzei  *.     Neverthe- 
less it  could  not  possibly  be  confounded  with  that  species,  since  its 
smaller  size,  rather  narrower  outline,  and  more  pubescent  surface, 
combined  with  its  comparatively  diminutive  eyes  and  less  posteriorly- 
constricted  and  less  basally-cmbossed  prothorax,  will  suffice  to  sepa- 
rate it  therefrom.     My  unique  Canarian  example  was,  like  that  of 
the  H.  caularum,  captured  from  under  vegetable  refuse  at  Haria,  in 
the  north  of  Lanzarote. 

Genus  106.  CORTICARIA. 

Marsham,  Ent.  Brit.  i.  100  (1802). 

248.  Corticaria  fulva. 

Latridius  fiilvus  {Chevr.),  Villa,  Cat.  Col.  Eur.  45  (1833). 
Corticaria  fulva,  Matin.,  in  Germ.  Zeitsch.  fiir  die  Ent.  v.  42  (1844). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad  185  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  65  (1857). 

Habitat  in  domibus  Lanzarotse  et  TenerifFae,  forsan  introducta. 

The  European  C.  fulva,  remarkable  for  its  pallid  hue,  coarse 
pubescence,  and  rather  robust,  elongate  legs,  is  apparently  scarce  in 
these  islands, — where,  as  in  Madeix^a,  it  has  most  probably  become 

*  It  is  rather  curious  that  all  the  Hohparameci  as  yet  characterized  (four  in 
number)  have  now  been  detected  in  the  Atlantic  islands,  —namely,  tlie  H.  Kunzei 
at  Madeira,  the  caularmn  and  singularis  at  the  Canaries,  and  the  niger  in  both 
Groups. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  147 

naturalized  from  more  northern  latitudes.    I  have  taken  it  sparingly, 
in  and  about  houses,  in  Lanzarote  and  TenerifFe. 

249.  Corticaria  maculosa. 

CorticiU'ia  macidosa,  Woll.,Ami.ofNat.  Hid. (3rd  series) ii. 408(1858). 
,  Id,  Trans.  Ent.  Suc.^Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  15G  (18G2). 

Hahitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Canaria  Grandi  sola  adhuc  hand 
detecta. 

The  C.  maculosa,  which  I  described  fully  in  my  Paper  on  '  Ma- 
deiran  Additions  '  cited  above,  may  be  said  without  hesitation  to  be 
universal  throughout  the  archipelago ;  for  although  I  do  not  happen 
to  have  met  with  it  hitherto  in  Grand  Canary,  there  cannot  be  any 
doubt  that  it  must  exist  there,  no  less  than  in  the  remaining  six 
islands  of  the  Group, — in  all  of  which  I  have  captured  it,  more  or  less 
abundantly.  It  occurs  in  various  situations,  but  is  more  common,  I 
think,  beneath  the  dry  outer  fibre  of  the  dead  Euphorbias  than  else- 
where. In  such  positions  I  have  observed  it  frequently  at  Haria,  in 
the  north  of  Lanzarote  ;  as  also  on  the  mountains  above  S'"  Cruz  of 
TenerifFe,  and  even  on  the  little  isle  of  Lobos,  off  the  extreme  north 
of  Fuerteventui-a.  In  Fuerteventura  itself,  however,  I  brushed  it, 
in  considerable  numbers,  on  the  28th  of  January  1858,  from  off  an 
old  bush  of  the  common  Rosemary  {Rosmarinus  officinalis,  L.),  at 
Agua  Bueyes  ;  and  I  have  taken  it  out  of  the  crevices  of  wood  (used 
for  a  gate)  in  the  Barranco  above  San  Sebastian,  of  Gomera.  It 
would  seem  likewise  to  be  independent  of  elevation ;  for  in  TenerifFe 
I  have  found  it  from  almost  the  sea-level  (at  8*=*  Cruz  and  Puerto 
Orotava)  to  the  slopes  above  Taganana,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  even 
to  the  lofty  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Cauadas, — at  an  altitude  of  more 
than  8000  feet*.  In  TenerifFe  and  Gomera  it  was  met  with  also  by 
Dr.  Crotch. 

The  pale  hue  and  dark  (though  often  very  obscure,  and  generally 
interrupted)  postmedial  fascia  of  this  Corticaria  will  at  once  readily 
distinguish  it.  Examples,  however,  in  which  the  elytral  patch  is  quite 
obsolete  (and  such  are  by  no  means  uncommon,  particularly  where 
the  insect  is  immature)  might  almost  be  conio\m([e(\.,  prima  facie,  with 
those  of  the  C.  fulva  ;  nevertheless  they  may  always  be  known  from 
the  latter  by  their  pubescence  being  shorter  and  less  coarse,  by  their 
prothoracic  fovea  being  somewhat  shallower,  by  their  elytra  bein"- 

*  The  single  example  which  I  detected  at  this  great  elevation  has  its  pubescence 
a  trifle  longer  and  coarser  than  is  tlie  case  in  the  ordinary  ones  ;  but  I  can  see 
nothing  about  it  to  warrant  the  suspicion  that  it  is  specifically  distinct. 


148  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

rather  more  evidently  ovate  (instead  of  oblong-oval),  and  by  their 
legs  being  proportionally  a  little  shorter  and  slenderer.  The  species, 
too,  is  on  the  average  decidedly  smaller  than  the  C.  fulva. 

250.  Corticaria  serrata. 

Dermestes  seri-atus,  Payk.,  Fna  Siwc.  i.  300  (1798). 
Latridius  serratus,  Gyll.,  Ins.  Suec.  iv.  126  (1827). 
Corticaria  serrata,  Mann.,  in  Germ.  Zeitsch.  v.  28  (1844). 

rotulicollis.  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  184  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  G4  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  TeneritFa  et  Hierro,  in  domi- 
bus,  granariis  et  pra^sertim  sub  recremento  farris  circa  basin  acervo- 
rum  tritici  sparso,  vulgaris. 

A  more  recent  and  careful  comparison  has  convinced  me  that  the 
Corticaria  which  I  described  in  my  '  Insecta  Maderensia '  under  the 
specific  name  ot  rotulicollis  is  coincident  with  the  European  C.  serrata  ; 
and  I  have  therefore  corrected  the  synonymy  accordingly.  Although 
hitherto  I  have  taken  the  0.  serrata  only  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura, 
Teneriife,  and  Hierro,  I  have  but  little  doubt  that  it  is  universal 
throughout  the  archipelago  ;  for  as  it  has  every  appearance  of  having 
been  naturalized  from  more  northern  latitudes  (occurring  principally 
about  houses  and  granaries*),  it  is  pretty  certain  that  it  will  be  found 
equally  in  all  the  islands  if  only  searched  for  in  its  proper  situations. 
It  is  beneath  the  refuse  around  the  base  of  corn- stacks  that  it  is 
principally  to  be  met  with  ;  where  it  usually  resides  in  company  with 
the  Trogosita  mauritanica,  Silvanus  surinamensis,  Cryptopliagus  den- 
tatus,  Aglenus  brunneus,  Tenebrio  obscurus,  and  similar  introduced 
species.  Under  such  circumstances  I  have  observed  it  in  the  greatest 
profusion  at  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote  ;  and,  diu'ing  February 
1858,  I  brushed  it,  in  scarcely  less  abundance,  from  out  of  some  ivy 
which  covered  the  walls  of  an  old  building  at  El  Golfo,  on  the  western 
side  of  Hierro.  My  FuerteventiU'an  examples  are  from  the  Rio 
Palm  as ;  and  the  TenerifFan  ones  from  the  precincts  of  a  house  at  the 
Agua  Mansa. 

251.  Corticaria  angulata,  n.  sp. 

C,  oblongo-ovata,  rufo-ferruginea,  sat  longe  et  grosse  cinereo-j)ubes- 
cens ;  capite  prothoraceque  subopacis,  hoc  angustulo,  ad  latera 
(oculo  armato)  crenulato  necnon  in  medio  angulato-latiore,  rugoso- 
punctato,  postice  fovea  transversa  impresso  ;  elytris  vix  fuscescen- 
tioribus,  subnitidis,  leviter  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  uniseriatim 

*  Gyllenhal's  observation  "  Habitat  ad  horreorvuu  parietes  "  would  seem  to 
imply  that  the  insect  has  much  the  same  mode  of  life  in  Sweden  as  it  has  at  the 
Canaries. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


149 


punctulatis;   antennis  breviusculis  i^edibusque  testaceis. — Long. 

Corp.  lin.  f- vix  -J. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Cauariam,  hinc  inde  baud 
iufrequens. 

In  its  pale-fuscous  (or  testaceo-fuscous)  hue,  rather  long  and  coarse 
pubescence, paUid  limbs,  andverypeculiar  prothorax  (which,  although 
narrow  on  the  whole,  is  mdened  and  angular  on  either  side  in  the 
middle,  minutely  crenulated  at  the  edges,  and  strongly  impressed  with 
a  transverse  fovea  behind),  the  present  Corticaria  is  abundantly 
characterized.  Whether  it  be  identical  with  any  of  the  numerous 
ones  in  Mannerheim's  Monograph  I  wiU  not  undertake  to  say ;  bnt  it 
is  certainly  very  nearly  related  to  a  Russian  species  in  my  collection 
bearing  the  name  of  anguhsa,  Motsehulsky,  and  which  was  given  me 
by  the  latter  some  years  ago.  Indeed,  in  its  singularly  shaped  pro- 
thorax  and  general  hue  it  is  almost  coincident  with  it ;  and  possibly 
it  may  be  but  a  local  state  of  the  same  insect.  Nevertheless,  since 
I  am  not  aware  that  M.  Motsehulsky  has  ever  jmblished  his  C.  an- 
guhsa, and  since  the  only  example  of  that  species  from  which  I  am 
compelled  to  form  an  opinion  does  not  quite  agree  with  the  Canarian 
one,  I  have  thought  it  safer  to  treat  the  latter  as  new,  and  have  there- 
fore characterized  it  under  the  (almost  similar)  title  of  angulata. 
Judging  from  the  single  specimen  of  Motschulsky's  anguhsa  now 
before  me,  the  C.  angulata  differs  principally  in  its  somewhat  more 
oblong  (or  less  rounded)  outline,  in  its  rather  more  developed  pro- 
thorax  (which  is  a  little  more  prominent,  or  angular,  in  the  middle, 
and  has  its  sides,  when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope,  more  evidently 
crenulated),  in  its  longer  and  less  decumbent  pubescence,  in  its  totally 
unkeeled  forehead,  and  in  its  paler  antennae. 

Hitherto  I  have  observed  the  C.  angulata  only  in  the  three  eastern 

islands  of  the  archipelago — Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Grand 

Canary.     In  the  first  of  these  it  is  apparently  scarce ;  but  in  the 

second  I  took  it  commonly  at  Agua  Bueyes  and  in  the  Eio  Paknas  ; 

whilst  in  the  third  I  beat  it,  in  considerable  abundance,  from  out  of 

an  old  bush  of  a  yeUow  Ononis  at  Mogan,  towards  the  south-western 

portion  of  the  island. 

252.  Corticaria  curta. 

Coi-ticaria  cm-ta,  WolL,  Lis.  Mad.  187  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  65  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventiu-a,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  (jlomera 
et  Palma,  late  diffusa. 

The  present  Corticaria,  which  abounds  in  the  Madciran  Group,  is 


150  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

doubtless  imiversal  at  the  Canaries,  though  I  did  not  happen  to  meet 
with  it  in  Hierro  ;  for  there  can  be  but  little  question  that  it  must 
exist  in  that  island  also.  It  is  found  at  nearly  every  elevation,  and 
in  spots  both  sylvan  and  exposed.  In  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura 
it  would  seem  to  be  somewhat  scarce  ;  but  throughout  the  region 
of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary  it  is  commoner ;  in  Teneriffe  I  have 
taken  it  around  S'*'  Cruz,  at  Souzal,  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa, 
and  Tcod  el  Alto  ;  and  in  Palma  I  observed  it,  but  sparingly.  In 
Gomera  it  was  foimd,  rather  abundantly,  by  Dr.  Crotch.  In  size  it 
is  intermediate  between  the  last  species  and  the  following  one ;  and 
it  may  easily  be  recognized  by  its  somewhat  broad,  compact,  and 
ovate  outUne,  rather  wide  and  laterally-rounded  prothorax  (which 
has  the  punctures  comparatively  remote,  distinct,  and  weU  defined, 
a  shallow,  more  or  less  rounded  fovea  in  the  centre  of  its  base,  and 
its  extreme  hinder  angles  minutely  prominent),  by  its  redcUsJi-hrown. 
hue  (particidarly  of  the  head  and  prothorax),  and  by  its  pallid  limbs, 
— even  the  antennal  club  not  being  infuscated. 

253.  Corticaria  tenella,  n.  sp. 

C.  ovata,  nigro-picea,  minutissime  et  parce  cinereo-pubescens ;  capite 
prothoracequc  subopacis,  hoc  angusto,  ad  latera  subintegro  necnon 
sequaHter  et  leviter  rotundato,  dense  rugoso-pimctato,  postice  fovea 
transversa  subarcuata  impresso  ;  elytris  vix  nigrescentioribus,  sub- 
nitidis,  convexis,  leviter  punctate -striatis,  interstitiis  imiseriatim 
punctulatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  nifo-testaceis,  illarum  clava  ob- 
scuriore. 

Var.  ft.  Capite  prothoraceque  paulo  rufescentioribus.  [Insulce  Gomera. 
et  Hierro.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  i-vix  g. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  TenerifFa,  Palma,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  passim. 

In  its  minute  size,  convex,  ovate  body,  and  narrow,  posteriorly- 
impressed  prothorax,  the  present  insignificant  little  Corticaria  is  closely 
aUied  to  the  common  European  C.  gibhosa.  It  is  however,  on  the 
average,  still  smaller  than  that  species,  and  of  a  blacker  (or  less  fus- 
cous) hue  ;  its  prothorax  is  not  quite  so  narrow,  a  trifle  rounder  at 
the  sides,  more  closely,  roughly,  and  less  defijiitely  punctured,  and 
with  the  hinder  impression  shallower;  its  head  and  prothorax  are 
often  (at  any  rate  in  the  var.  j3,  from  Gomera  and  Hierro)  of  a  rather 
more  piceous,  or  even  subrufescent,  hue  ;  and  its  antennae  are  a  httle 
less  abbreviated.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly,  and  in  various  positions, 
in  Grand  Canary,  Tenerifie,  Palma,  and  Hierro ;  and  it  was  found, 
rather  plentifully,  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera  ;  but  it  has  not  yet  been 
detected  in  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  Group. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  151 

Genus  107.  LATRIDIUS. 
Herbst,  Natursyst.  v.  8  (1793). 

254.  Latridius  minutus. 

Teiiebrio  minutus,  Linn.,  Si/st.  Nat.  ii.  675  (1767). 
Lathridius  minutus,  Mann.,  in  Germ.  Zeitsch.  v.  96  (1844). 

,  TFolL,  Im.  Mad.  190  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  65  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  passim. 

The  Canarian  specimens  of  this  common  European  Latridius  (which 
has  an  excedingiy  wide  geographical  range)  have  theii'  elytra  perhaps 
a  trifle  more  deeply  punctate-striated  (causing  the  interstices  to  ap- 
pear rather  more  convex)  than  is  the  case  in  the  ordinary  ones  and 
in  those  from  Madeira,  and  their  humeral  callus  is  more  evidently 
rufescent ;  but  I  can  detect  nothing  about  them  to  warrant  the  suspi- 
cion that  they  are  specifically  distinct.  It  is  not  a  very  abundant 
insect  in  these  islands,  but  widely  distributed  over  them.  I  have 
taken  it  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary ;  at  the  Agua 
Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  Ycod  el  Alto,  of  Teneriffe  ;  in  the  Bar- 
ranco  da  Agua  of  Palma ;  and  in  Hierro.  And  it  was  captured,  in 
considerable  numbers,  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  I  have  but  little 
doubt  that  it  has  been  naturalized  from  more  northern  latitudes. 

255.  Latridius  opacipennis,  n.  sp. 

L.  oblongo-ovatus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  opacus ;  capite  prothoraceque 
profunde  rugoso-punctatis,  in  medio  canaHculatis,  hoc  latiusculo, 
transverse,  angulis  anticis  obtuse  rotundato-ampliatis,  postice 
paulo  angustiore,  ad  latera  minute  crenulato  ;  elytris  subdepressis, 
leviter  substriato-punctatis,  interstitiis  latis  planis  ;  antennis  bre- 
vibus,  testaceis,  clava  minus  abrupta. — Long.  corp.  lin.  ^. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  ad  Agua  Garcia  semel  tantum  re- 
pertus. 

Amongst  many  examples  of  the  L.  minutus  taken  at  the  Agua 
Garcia,  in  Teneriffe,  I  find  a  single  one  which  differs  to  a  very  re- 
markable extent  (in  some  measure  indeed  even  structurally)  from  the 
remainder  ;  and  from  this  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled.  It 
differs  from  that  species  in  its  bright  rufo-ferruginous  hue,  opalce  and 
less  convex  surface,  in  its  verj'  much  broader  prothorax  (which  has 
the  anterior  angles  largely  and  obtusely  rounded,  and  its  edges  mi- 
nutely crenulated),  in  its  very  Hghtly  sculptured  elytra  (the  striae  of 
which  are  scarcely  at  all  impressed,  and  the  interstices  wide  and 
flattened),  and  in  the  less  abrupt  club  of  its  rather  shorter  antennae. 


152  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

25G.  Latridius  ruficoUis. 

Corticaria  mficollis,  Mshm,  Ent.  Brit.  i.  Ill  ( 1802). 
Latridius  nificollis,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  lU  (1830). 
Latliridiiis  lilipiitanus,  Mmin.,  in  Germ.  Zritsch.  v.  85  (1844). 
ruficoUis,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  06  (1857). 

Hahhat  Ljinzarotam  borealem,  prope  oppidum  Haria  semel  leetus. 

The  only  Canarian  example  of  this  Eiu'opeaii  Latridius  which  I 
have  yet  seen  was  taken  hj  myself,  from  beneath  the  refuse  at  the 
base  of  a  corn-stack,  at  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote.  It  occurs 
in  similar  positions  at  Madeira. 


Fam.  20.  MYCETOPHAGID^. 

Genus  108.  MYRMECOXENUS. 

Clievrolat,  in  ISilh.  Bcv.  iii.  207  [script.  Myrmechixenus^  (1835). 

257.  Myrmecoxenus  sordidus,  n.  sp. 

M.  rufo-ferrugineus,  subnitidus,  parce  cinereo-pubeseens  ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  dense  et  sat  fortiter  punctatis,  h(k'  rotimdato-quadrato 
^wstice  \'ix  attenuato  ;  elytris  paulo  obscurioribus,  vix  minus  dense 
punctatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-testaceis. — Long,  coi'p.  lin. 
vix  1. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  sul)  stercore  camelino  ad  llio  Palmas  de- 
lectus. 

Although  unwilling,  in  a  small  and  rather  obscure  genus,  to  estab- 
lish a  species  on  the  evidence  afforded  by  merely  two  examples,  I  am 
nevertheless  compelled  to  do  so  in  this  instance,  since  I  cannot  refer 
the  present  Myrmecoxenus  (though  partaking,  in  a  measure,  of  the 
characters  of  them  all)  to  any  of  the  three  European  exponents  of  it 
which  have  been  hitherto  recognized.  Thus,  from  the  M.  vapora- 
riorum  it  differs,  inter  alia,  in  its  smaller  size,  darker  hue,  and  more 
deeply  punctured  and  less  densely  pubescent  surface ;  from  the  sub- 
terraneus  it  may  be  known  by  being  a  trifle  larger  and  broader,  with 
its  prothorax  less  straightened  (and  less  narrowed)  behind,  and  (to- 
gether with  the  head)  of  a  paler  hue,  and  by  its  surface  being  rather 
more  pubescent ;  whilst  from  the  picinus  its  much  paler  colour  and 
longer  and  coarser  pile,  combined  with  its  more  thickly  and  less 
strongly  punctured  surface,  and  its  duller,  somewhat  flatter,  and  less 
cylindric  body,  wiU  equally  remove  it.  The  M.  epulo,  Miiklin,  I 
have  not  been  able  to  procure  for  comparison  ;  so  that  I  am  unable 
to  say  to  what  extent  the  Canarian  one  may  tally  with  that  insect. 
The  only  two  specimens  of  it  which  I  have  seen  hitherto  were  cap- 


CANARIAN  COLEOrXERA.  153 

tured  by  myself,  from  beneath  camels'  dung,  in  the  lUo  Talmas  of 
Fuertevontura,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859. 

Genus  109.  SYMBIOTES. 

Eedteubaclier,  Fna  Anstr.  198  (1819). 

258,  Symbiotes  pygmseus. 

Symbiotes  pygma3us,  Hampe,  in  Ent.  Zeit.  Stett.  353  (1850). 
Microchondrus  dornuum,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  tab.  iv.  f.  2  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  71  (1857). 

Symbiotes  pygmeeus,  J.  Duval,  Gen.  des  Col.  d'Eio:  ii.  221.  pi.  54.  f.  270 
(1859). 

Habitat  Palmam,  a  Dom.  Gray  mense  Februario  a.d.  1858  repcrtus. 

The  small  beetle  which  I  described  in  1854  under  the  name  of 
Microchondrus  dornuum  appears  (as  indeed  I  have  elsewhere  stated) 
to  be  identical  with  the  European  Symbiotes  pygmams.  At  least  I 
can  detect  no  sufficient  difference  to  warrant  its  separation  from  that 
species  ;  though,  at  the  same  time,  the  only  two  authentic  specimens 
which  I  have  yet  seen  of  the  latter  (and  which  have  been  commu- 
nicated by  Dr.  Hampe  of  Vienna)  are  certainly  somewhat  larger  than 
those  from  the  Atlantic  islands.  It  seems  to  be  very  rare  at  the 
Canaries  (even  more  so  than  it  is  in  Madeii-a),  where  indeed  I  have 
n^ot  myself  hitherto  met  with  it.  Two  examples,  however  (one  of 
which  he  has  presented  to  the  National  Collection),  were  captured  by 
Mr.  Gray,  during  February  1858,  in  Palma. 

Genus  110.  TYPH^A. 
(Khby)  Staph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  70  (1830). 

259.  Typhaea  fumata. 

Dermestes  fumatus,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  ii.  564  (1767). 
Mycetopliagus  fumatus,  Gi/IL,  Ins.  Suec.  iii.  399  (1813). 
Typhfea  fumata,  WolL,  Ins.  Mud.  199  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  71  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  sub 
quisquiliis,  rarior. 

Of  the  common  European  T.  fumata  (which  occurs  also,  though 
not  very  abundantly,  in  Madeira)  I  have  seen  hitherto  but  sixteen 
Canarian  examples.  Eleven  of  them  were  taken  by  myself,  from 
beneath  vegetable  refuse,  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Tene- 
riffe  ;  and  the  remaining  five  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera. 
My  Lanzarotan  specimens  were  captured  near  Haria;  those  from 
Fuerteventura,  in  the  liio  Palmas ;  and  those  from  Teneriffe,  at  Ta- 
ganana,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  close  to  the  Puerto  of  Orotava. 


154  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEHA. 

Genus  111.  LITARGUS. 
Ericlison,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  415  (1848). 

260.  Litargus  trifasciatus,  n.  sp. 
L.  eUipticus,  dense  pubescens,  rufo-ferrugineus,  elytris  uigris,  Isete 
rufo-testaceo-fasciatis ;  oculis  conicis,  postice  ciliatis ;  prothorace 
ad  latera  vix  pallidiore  ;  coleopteris  uigrescentibus  in  limbo  dilu- 
tioribus  necnon  in  fasciis  tribus  [una  sc.  basali  valde  obliqua,  se- 
cunda  postmedia  sub-obluniformi,  et  tertiii  parva  apieali,  omnibus 
plus  minus  fractis]  i-ufo-testaceis  ornatis ;  antennis  pedibusque 
paUide  testaceis,  illis  versus  apicem  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  Hn. 
l-lf 

Habitat  Gomeram,  prope  "  Hermigua  "  a  Dom.  Crotch  repertus. 

This  most  interesting  Litargus  was  detected  near  Hermigua,  in 
Gomera,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  It  is  of  precisely 
the  same  type  as  the  two  Madeiran  representatives  of  the  group — 
the  L.pictus  and pilosus ;  though,  in  its  small  bulk,  general  structure, 
very  conical  eyes*,  and  unstriated  elytra,  it  is  perhaps,  specifically, 
nearer  to  the  latter  than  to  the  former.  It  may,  however,  be  known 
from  them  both  by  its  paler  (or  more  rufeseent)  head  and  prothorax, 
and  by  its  elytra  being  ornamented  with  three,  usually  well-defined 
(but  occasionally  broken  up,  or  disjointed)  reddish-yellow  fasciae — 
the  first  of  which  is  basal  and  very  oblique  (running  from  either 
shoulder  to  nearly  the  middle  of  the  suture),  the  second  postmedial 
and  somewhat  obluniform  (being  less  obhque  than  the  preceding  one, 
and  drawn  in  an  opposite  direction),  and  the  third  small  and  sub- 
apical  (being  represented  by  two  mere  patches,  or  spots).  It  is  more 
elliptical  and  depressed  than  the  European  L.  hifasciatus ;  its  head 
and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which  is  narrower  posteriorly)  are  more 
rufeseent ;  and  its  elytra  have  their  markings  more  abbreviated  late- 
rally, and  the  two  apical  spots  so  largely  developed  as  to  form  an 
additional  (or  third)  fascia. 

Fam.  21.  DERMESTID^. 

Genus  112.  DERMESTES. 

Limiffius,  Si/st.  Nat.  ii.  561  (17G7). 

*  In  the  diagnosis  given  in  my  '  Ins.  Mad.'  I  overlooked  the  anomalous  fact 
that  the  eyes  of  the  Litargi  are  furnished  behind  with  a  few  long,  posteriorly- 
directed  sette.  This  peculiarity  is  correctly  figured  in  the  347th  plate  of  Stm-m's 
'  Deutschlands  Fauna ' ;  yet  I  cannot  see  that  it  is  noticed  in  any  of  the  diagnoses 
to  which  I  have  had  access.  It  exists,  however,  in  all  the  S2>ecies  which  I  have 
examined, — namely,  in  the  European  hifasciatus,  the  Madeu'an  pilosus  and  (com- 
pai'atively  gigantic)  j^ictus,  and  the  Canarian  trifasciatus. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  155 

261.  Dermestes  vulpinus. 

Dermestes  vulpiuus,  Fah.,  Spec.  Ins.  i.  64  (1781). 

,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1888). 

,  Stunn,  DeuUch.  Fna,  xix.  42.  tab.  350.  f.  A  (1847). 

,  JFolL,  Ins.  Mad.  202  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  72  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  in  cadaveribus  pelli- 
busque  sat  vulgaris. 

The  almost  cosmopolitan  D.  vulpinus  (well  characterized  by  the 
exceedingly  minnte  spine  with  which  the  extreme  apex  of  each  of  its 
elytra  is  furnished)  is  occasionally  pretty  abimdant,  in  certain  spots, 
at  the  Canaries.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  myself  observed  it  only 
in  Lanzarote  and  Teneriffe, — namely,  near  Arrecife  of  the  former 
(where  it  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray),  and  near  S*''  Cruz  of  the 
latter  (where  it  was  found  likewise  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva). 
But  it  was  captured  in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.     It  occurs  in  Madeira. 

262.  Dermestes  Frischii. 

Dermestes  Frischii,  Kuqel.,  in  Schneid.  Maq.  478  (1794). 

,  Sturm,  Beutsch.  Fna,  xix.  44.  tab.  350.  f.  D  (1847). 

,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Dmtsch.  iii.  428  (1848). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Canariam  et  Teneriffam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac 
praecedens. 

The  present  Dermestes  is  almost  identical  prima  facie  with  the  vul- 
pinus ;  nevertheless  the  apices  of  its  elytra  are  destitute  of  the  minute 
spinules  which  characterize  that  insect,  its  pubescence  is  blacker 
(with  the  paler  portions,  however,  at  the  sides  of  the  head  and  pro- 
thorax  and  on  the  scuteUum,  usually  of  a  clearer  white),  and  the 
ultimate  segment  of  its  abdomen  beneath  has  merely  a  small,  ter- 
minal, sublunate  dark  patch — instead  of  a  band  extending  along  its 
entire  length.  It  is  about  equally  common  in  these  islands  with  the 
preceding  species,  with  which  it  is  generally  found  in  company.  It 
was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  from  out  of  dead  animals,  near 
Arrecife,  of  Lanzarote ;  and  subsequently,  by  myself,  in  the  sandy 
region  of  Grand  Canary  between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta,  as  also 
close  to  S'"  Cruz  in  Teneriffe. 

Genus  113.  ATTAGENUS. 

Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  In^.  ii.  32  (1802). 

263.  Attagenus  pellio. 

Dermestes  pellio,  Linn.,  Fna  Suee.  141  (17G1). 
,  Fab.,  Si/st.  Bleu.  i.  313  (1801). 


156  CANARIAN  COLEOriEEA. 

Attageuus  pellio,  Step],.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  120  ( 1830). 
Megatoma  pellio,  limllc,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Vol.)  59  (1838). 

Habitat  ?  [testibus  DD.  Webb  et  Berth.,  in  ins.  Canariensibus]  mihi 
non  obvius. 

I  have  not  myself  detected  this  almost  cosmopolitan  insect  at  the 
Canaries  ;  nevertheless,  since  it  is  recorded  by  Messrs.  Webb  and  Ber- 
thelot,  and  since  the  species  is  so  well  marked  that  it  could  scarcely 
be  mistaken  for  anything  else,  I  have  ventured  to  admit  it  into  the 
present  Catalogue.  I  am  totally  unable,  however,  to  state  in  which 
island  it  was  found, — the  miserably  poor  and  loosely- strung  list  of 
Canarian  Coleoptera  included  in  that  work  not  having  so  much  as  a 
single  locality  entered  for  any  one  of  them  !  It  is  fortunate  therefore 
that  the  A.  j^ellio  is  quite  unimportant,  since,  wherever  taken,  it  was 
clearly  a  mere  accidental  introduction  from  more  northern  latitudes. 

1^64.  Attagenus  Schsefferi. 

Megatoma  Schajfferi,  Hbst,  Kaf.  iv.  93  (1791). 

macellariumP,  Bridle,  in  IVebb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  59  (1838). 

Attagenus  Schasfteri,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Bent sch.  iii.  440  (1848). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  in  domibus  Sanctse  Crueis  captus ;  nisi  fallor, 
introductus. 

I  believe  that  the  few  Canarian  examples  which  I  have  yet  seen 
of  the  present  Attayenus  are  rightly  referred  to  the  A.  Schafferl, 
rather  than  to  the  A.  mcf/atonia ;  nevertheless  they  do  not  precisely 
accord  with  Erichson's  diagnosis  of  that  species.  I  have  taken  the 
insect  sparingly  in  houses  at  S'"  Cruz,  of  Teneriife, — where,  however, 
it  has  evidently  been  naturalized  through  the  mediimi  of  commerce. 
When  immature  the  specimens  are  more  or  less  piceous,  or  even  fer- 
ruginous.    It  occurs,  in  similar  situations,  at  Madeira. 

Genus  114.  TELOPES. 

Redtenbacher,  //*  Husset/.  Reise,  i.  984  (1843). 
Although  agreeing  with  Attagenus  proper  in  the  exceedingly  elon- 
gate, ensiform  last  joint  of  the  male  antennal  club  of  at  any  rate  one 
of  its  species,  I  have  nevertheless  retained  the  present  genus  as  dis- 
tinct (even  though  it  has  been  re-merged  into  the  former  by  Erich- 
son),  because  it  seems  to  me  to  possess  sufficient  peculiarities  to  ren- 
der its  separation  therefrom  desirable.  Without  entering  into  minor 
details,  TeJopes  may  be  known  from  Attagenus  by  the  relatively 
shorter,  obtuser,  and  convexer  bodies  of  the  insects  which  compose 
it, — the  surfaces  of  which  are  densely  pubescent  (and  are  likewise 
studded,  in  addition  to  the  decumbent  under-pilc,  though  sometimes 
very  sparingly  so,  with  long  and  suberect  hairs  towards  either  side), 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  157 

whilst  their  maxillae  and  palpi  are  longer,  and  their  legs  are  more 
rohiist, — the  tibiae  being  especially  broader,  much  more  coarselj^  spi- 
nulose  along  their  outer  edge,  and  with  the  terminal  spurs  consider- 
ably larger  and  stronger  (that  of  the  anterior  pair  being  greatly  de- 
veloped, thickened,  outwardly  directed,  and  flexuose).  It  would  ap- 
pear to  be  peculiar,  principally,  to  Mediterranean  latitudes ;  and  the 
species  which  constitute  it,  although  variable  in  hue,  are  more  or  less 
evidently  adorned  with  transverse  (though  often  obscure  and  inter- 
rupted) fasciae.  They  are  less  strictly  Dermestideous  in  their  modes 
of  life  than  the  true  Attageni, — occurring  for  the  most  part  (like 
Anthremis)  on  flowers  in  the  open  country,  and  only  occasionally 
exhibiting  the  skin-infesting  habits  which  (as  in  the  case  of  the 
normal  members  of  the  family)  characterize  the  latter. 

Although,  as  has  already  been  intimated,  one  of  the  insects  de- 
scribed below  has  the  last  joint  of  its  male-elava  enormously  elon- 
gated as  in  the  true  Attageni,  I  nevertheless  consider  this  fact  of  but 
slight  importance,  seeing  that  the  antennae  of  nearly  all  these  im- 
mediate Dermestideous  forms  have  their  club  so  peculiarly  modified 
that  it  is  hardly  possible  to  regard  even  the  structural  features  of 
that  organ  as  of  more  than  specific  signification ;  for  it  is  scarcely 
too  much  to  assert  that  we  actually  find  them  (within  certain  fixed 
limits)  differently  proportioned  in  almost  every  individual  species. 
Hence  the  discrepancies  (both  specific  and  sexual)  in  the  antennae  of 
the  three  insects  here  characterized  (each  of  which  possesses  its  own 
exact  modification)  ofifer  no  obstacle  to  their  being  generically  asso- 
ciated ;  and  I  have  but  little  doubt  (when  their  many  points  of  agree- 
ment, above  alluded  to,  are  duly  considered)  that  they  are  strictly 
members  of  a  single  and  perfectly  natural  assemblage.  The  two 
comprised  under  my  latter  Section  have  their  tibiae  still  more  robust 
(and  broader)  than  the  representative  of  the  former  one ;  but  this 
is  merely  a  difierence  in  degree,  and  not  in  kind :  nevertheless  the 
female  tarsal  pecuHarity  of  the  T.  ohtusus  (which  has  the  second  joint 
of  its  four  posterior  feet  less  elongated  than  is  the  case  in  those  of  its 
males,  and  in  those  of  both  sexes  of  the  other  two  species)  is  cer- 
tainly much  more  remarkable. 

§  I.  Corpus  versus  latera  p*7is  longissimis  erectis  sat  dense  obsitum  : 
tibice  S'ublineares :  tarsi  in  seocu  fcemineo  minus  elongati,  posteriores 
articido  2^^°  quam  tertius  paxdo  {in  sexu  foemineo)  longiore :  anten- 
narum  articulus  ultimus  in  maribus  longissinms. 

265.  Telopes  obtusus. 
T.  ovalis,  uiger  vel  fusco-niger,  fulvo-cinereo-pubescens  ;  prothorace 


158  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

utrinque  et  basi  elytrisque  in  fasciis  tribus  necnon  ad  apicem  den- 

sius  pallido-pilosis  ;  antennis  nigris,  ad  basin  picesceiitibus ;  pedi- 

bus  piceis,  tarsis  pallidioribus. 
Var'iat  fasciis  plus  luinus  obsoletis  vel  etiam  confluentibus,  pube  plus 

minus  albido-cinerea. 
Mas  antcnnarum  articulo  ultimo  longissimo  ensiformi. 
Fcem.  antennarum  articulis  O""",  10'"''  et  11'"°  inter  se  subsequalibus 

(ultimo  vix  majore). — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-vix  2, 

Dermestes  obtusus,  GylL,  in  ScJmi.  Syn.  Ins.  ii.  88  (1808). 

Attagenus  obtusus,  Lucas,  Col.  (VAlgerie,  239  (1849). 

abbreviatus,  Hartimg, Geoloy.  Verhliltn. Lanz.und Fuert.  140&141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  in  floribus  tem- 
pore vernali,  passim. 

The  excessive  variability  of  this  insect,  in  conjunction  with  the 
very  different  aspect  of  the  sexes,  might  well  lead  to  the  establisli- 
ment  of  two  or  three  supposed  species  out  of  it,  were  but  a  few  ex- 
amples present  (and  those  perhaps  divergent  ones  inter  se)  to  form  an 
opinion  from.  Nevertheless,  after  a  close  examination  of  a  very  ex- 
tensive series  obtained  in  both  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  I  am 
bound  to  confess  (despite  the  opposite  appearance  of  the  highly 
coloured  individuals  and  those  in  which  the  markings  are  obsolete) 
that  I  cannot  detect  any  character  sufficient  to  warrant  its  separation 
from  the  Mediterranean  T.  obtusus — an  insect  which  occurs  in  Por- 
tugal and  in  the  north  of  Africa.  It  is  tolerably  common,  on  flowers, 
in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  during  the  spring ;  and  I  have  also 
taken  it,  though  sparingly,  in  the  low  sandy  district  between  Las 
Palmas  and  the  Isleta,  of  Grand  Canary,  as  well  as  in  the  little 
island  of  Graeiosa  (off  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote),  Although 
principally,  however  (when  in  the  imago-state),  of  flower-infesting 
habits,  it  is  not  entirely  so ;  for,  like  the  Anthreni  and  other  allied 
Dermestideous  forms,  it  will  occasionally  attack  the  skins  and  diled 
remains  of  animals  also ;  and  in  such  positions  I  have  observed  it  on 
the  sea-beach  near  Arrecife,  of  Lanzarote. 

I  possess  Fuerteventuran  specimens,  communicated  by  Dr.  Heer, 
and  which  were  collected  in  that  island  by  M.  Hartung ;  so  that  I 
am  enabled  to  assert  positively  that  it  is  the  Attagenus  abbreviatus 
described  in  the  volume  (above  cited)  of  the  latter.  Nevertheless 
without  this  corroboration  such  would  have  been  sufficiently  evident, 
since  it  is  apparently  the  ordy  Attagenus  (or  TcJopes,  as  I  have  re- 
garded it)  which  is  common  to  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  archi- 
pelago,— in  both  of  which  M.  Hartung  records  the  A.  abbreviatus. 

Brightly  coloured  examples  of  it  approach  very  closely  at  first  sight 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  159 

to  the  T.  multifasdatus  from  Grand  Canary ;  nevertheless,  apart  from 
its  structural  peculiarities — of  slenderer  tibiae,  the  immensely  deve- 
loped last  joint  of  its  male-clava,  and  the  shorter  feet  of  its  female 
sex  (which  have  their  second  joint  less  conspicuously  elongated), — 
it  may  be  further  known  by  its  rather  larger  size,  by  the  long  and 
suberect  additional  hairs  with  which  it  is  studded  towards  either  side 
being  much  more  numerous,  and  by  the  dark  portions  of  its  surface 
being  usually  browner,  whilst  the  fasciae  are  generally  of  a  duUer  and 
obscurer  white. 

§  II.  Co)j)us  antice  ad  latera  pills  longiusculis  suherectis  vix  vestitmn : 
tihice  dilatatte :  tarsi  posteriores  {in  utroque  sexu)  elongati,  articulo 
2°'*''  (in  utroque  sexu)  quani  tertius  multo  longiore :  antennarum 
articidus  ultimus  vel  in  uU'oque  sexu  parvus,  vel  in  maribus  paido 
elongatus. 

266.  Telopes  anthrenoides,  n.  sp. 

T.  ovalis,  fusco-niger,  cinereo-pubescens ;  jirothorace  utriiique  ely- 
trisque  in  fasciis  tribus  obscuris  necnon  ad  apicem  densius  pallido- 
pUosis  ;  antennis  nigris,  ad  basin  picescentibus,  articulo  ultimo 
(in  utroque  sexu)  jjarvo  ;  pedibus  rufo-piceis,  tarsis  pallidioribus. 

Mas  antennarum  clava  paulo  longiore,  articulis  penultimo  et  ante- 
penultimo  leviter  elongatis. 

Foem.  antennarum  clava  paulo  breviore,  articulis  penultimo  et  antepe- 
nultimo  quam  terminalis  vix  (singulatim)  majoribus. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  vix  11. 

Habitat  Canariam  australem,  in  arenosis  aridis  ad  Maspalomas 
captus. 

It  is  just  possible  that  this  insect  may  be  only  a  depauperated  state 
of  the  T.  multifasciatas  pecidiar  to  the  dry  sandy  region  of  Maspa- 
lomas, in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand  Canary  (where  my  few  speci- 
mens were  captured)  ;  nevertheless  I  can  hardly  believe  that  such  is 
really  the  case.  It  differs  in  being  smaller  than  that  insect,  in  its 
pubescence  (as  well  as  even  the  few  elongate  additional  hairs  with 
which  it  is  studded  on  either  side  anteriorly)  being  altogether  whiter 
or  more  cinereous  and  still  more  decumbent,  in  its  elytral  fasciae 
being  less  distinct,  and  in  its  tibiae  being  perhaps  (if  anything)  a  trifle 
narrower. 

267.  Telopes  multifasciatus. 
T.  ovalis,  niger,  nigrescenti-pubescens ;  prothorace  utrinque  et  in 
maculis  duabus  posticis  elytrisque  in  fasciis  tribus,  neenon  ad  api- 
cem, pallido-pilosis ;  antennis  nigris,  ad  basin  picescentibus,  arti- 
culo ultimo  (in  utroque  sexu)  parvo  ;  pedibus  piceis,  tarsis  vix  pal- 
lidioribus. 
Mas  antennarum  clava  paulo  longiore,  articulis  penultimo  et  ante- 
penultimo  leviter  elongatis. 


160  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Fcem.  antennainim  clava  paulo  breviore,  articulis  penultimo  et  ante- 
peniiltimo  qiiam  teiTainalis  vix  (singulatim)  majoribus. — Long.corp. 
lin.  1^-vix  1|. 

Telopes  multifasciatus,  WolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  218  (1863) . 

Hahitat  Canariam  Grandein,  ad  flores  varios  (sed  prsesertim  Cisti 
moifispeliensis  L.)  tempore  vernaK  hinc  hide  vulgaris. 

The  present  Telopes  seems  to  be  the  universal  one  of  Grand  Ca- 
nary, which  is  the  only  island  in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it. 
It  occurs  more  particiilarly  at  intermediate  elevations, — where,  during 
the  spring  months,  I  have  taken  it  throughout  the  region  of  El 
Monte,  in  the  district  between  Tarajana  and  Maspalomas,  &c. ;  in 
the  latter  of  which  it  abounds  on  the  blossoms  of  the  Cistus  monsiye- 
liensis.  At  first  sight  it  very  much  resembles  the  following  species 
(from  Tenerifi'e  and  Palma) ;  but  it  is,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  larger, 
with  indications  (more  or  less  expressed)  of  three  elytral  fasciae  (in- 
stead of  only  two),  and  with  the  terminal  joint  of  its  club  rather 
smaller  in  loth  sexes  than  either  of  the  two  which  precede  it, — the 
males,  moreover,  having  their  penultimate  and  antepenultimate  ones 
slightly  elongated,  causing  the  entire  clava  to  be  less  shortened  than 
that  of  the  females. 

268.  Telopes  fasciatus. 

T.  breviter  ovalis,  niger,  nigrescenti-pubesceiis  ;  prothorace  utrinque 
et  in  maculis  duabus  posticis  elytrisque  in  fasciis  duabus  (postica 
subevanescente)  necnon  mox  ante  apicem  pallido-pilosis  ;  antennis 
nigris,  ad  basin  pieescentibus;  pedibus  ])iceis,tar.sisvix  pallidioribus. 
Mas  antennarum  clava  paulo  longiorc,  articulo  ultimo  leviter  elongato, 
Fcem.  antennarum  clava  paulo  breviore,  articulis  tribus  inter  se  sub- 
aequalibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  11- vix  1|. 

Telopes  fasciatus,  WoIJ.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  218  (1863). 

Hahitat  in  floribus  Tenerifi^a%  Gomeras  et  Palmte,  tempore  vernali 
frequens. 

"Whilst  the  last  species  is  the  ordinary  one  of  Grand  Canary,  the 
T.  fasciatus  is  apparently  universal  throughout  the  low  and  inter- 
mediate elevations  of  Tenerifte,  Gomera,  and  Palma.  It  will  pro- 
bably occur  in  Hiorro  likewise,  though,  as  we  visited  that  island  too 
early  in  the  season  for  the  flower-infesting  Coleoptera,  I  did  not  ob- 
serve it  there.  Between  the  Villa  and  Puerto  of  Orotava  it  abounds 
during  the  spring,  and  it  is  almost  equally  common  in  the  Barranco 
above  S'''  Cruz  of  Palma.  In  Gomera  it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
near  San  Sebastian.  It  is,  on  the  average,  a  little  smaller  and  pro- 
portionally shorter  than  the  preceding  species,  and  its  elytral  fascite 
(instead  of  being  three  in  numl)er)  are  reduced  to  only  two  ;    and 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  l(Jl 

even  of  these  the  hinder  one  is  usually  more  or  less  obsolete.  Its 
antennal  club,  however,  constitutes  its  chief  distinctive  feature — the 
three  joints  being  subequal  in  the  females,  whilst  the  terminal  one 
is  slightly  elongated  in  the  males  ;  whereas  in  its  ally  the  last  one 
is  comparatively  minute  in  both  sexes,  and  the  penultimate  and  ante- 
penultimate ones  (instead  of  the  terminal)  are  a  little  enlai'ged  in 
the  males. 

Genus  115.  ANTHRENUS. 
Geoffi'oy,  Hist,  des  Ins.  i.  118  (1764). 

269.  Anthrenus  varius. 

Antbreuus  verbasci,  Oliv.  [nee Linn.  17(^7],Ent.  ii.  14.  pi.  1.  f.  2  (1790). 

varius,  Fab.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  262  (1792). 

Megatoma  verbasci,  Bndle,  in  Webb  ct  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 
Anthrenus  varius,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  455  (1848). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  205  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  73  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  ad 
flores,  passim. 

The  common  European  A.  variiis  (which  occurs  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo)  is  probably  universal  at  the  Canaries,  though  (owing  to 
our  visit  to  those  two  islands  having  been  too  early  in  the  season  for 
the  flower-infesting  Coleoptera)  I  did  not  captui-e  it  in  either  Gomera 
or  Hierro  ;  nor  indeed  do  I  happen  to  have  detected  it  even  in  Palma  : 
but  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  and  Teneriffe  it  is 
here  and  there  abundant — both  on  flowers  and  about  the  inner  walls 
of  houses.  From  Teneriffe  it  has  also  been  communicated  by  the 
Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  It  may  be  readily  known,  inter  alia,  by 
its  11 -jointed  antennae  and  triarticulate  club. 

270.  Anthrenus  claviger. 
Anthrenus  claviger,  Erich.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  iii.  458  (1848). 
Habitat  in  Palma,  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1858  sat  copiose  leetus. 
It  is  rather  singular  that,  whilst  failing  to  detect  the  last  species 
in  Palma,  I  shoidd  have  met  with  the  common  European  A.  claviger 
there  instead.     It  is  the  only  island  of  the  seven  in  which  I  have 
hitherto  observed  this  small  and  very  distinct  Anthrenus. 


Fam.  22.  BYRRHIDiE. 

Genus  116.  SYNCALYPTA. 

(DillwvTi)  Stepli.,  ///,  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  133(1830). 


162  CAXAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

271.  Syncalypta  Integra,  n.  sp. 

S.  breviter  ovalis,  valde  convexa,  nigra,  setis  rigidis  parce  obsita ; 
prothorace  punctato  ;  elytris  leviter  striatis  (striis  obsolete  et  valde 
remote  punctatis)  ;  an  tennis  pedibusque  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  tibiis 
anticis  bievibus,  latis,  extus  integris. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  inHierro,  in  regione  sylvatica  "El  Golfo"  dicta semel  capta. 

The  present  Syncalypta  is  about  the  size  of  the  Madeiran  S.  eaj^i- 
tata  ;  nevertheless  it  is  a  little  rounder  (or  more  reyularly  oval)  than 
that  insect,  its  prothorax  is  less  deeply  punctured,  its  elytra  are  more 
convex,  with  their  strips  (which,  except  under  the  microscope,  seem 
to  be  quite  impunctate)  very  much  finer,  its  front  tibiae  are  broader, 
shorter,  and  apparently  entire  along  their  outer  edge,  and  the  ter- 
minal joint  of  its  elava  is  larger.  The  only  example  which  I  have 
seen  was  captured  by  myself,  during  February  1858,  in  the  sylvan 
district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  slopes  of  Hierro. 

272.  Syncalypta  ovuliformis. 

S.  breviter  obovata,  convexa,  nigra,  setis  rigidis  obsita ;  prothorace 
profunde  punctato  ;  elytris  profunde  striato-punetatis  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  parce  spinulosis. 
—Long.  Corp.  lin.  1. 

Syncah-pta  ovuliformis,  JVoIl,  Ins.  Mad.  207  (18ri4). 
— '■ — ,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  73  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  ad  Agua  Garcia  semel  reperta. 

Although  I  have  at  present  no  type  in  my  possession  for  com- 
parison, I  believe  nevertheless  that  this  Syncalypta  is  identical  with 
the  Madeiran^.  ovuliformis.  It  may  be  known  from  the  last  species 
by  its  rather  smaller  size  and  more  obovate  outline,  by  its  prothorax 
being  more  coarsely  punctured,  by  its  elytra  being  less  convex  and 
regularly  and  deeply  striate-punctate,  and  by  its  fore  tibise  being 
relativel}'^  less  dilated,  and  minutely  (though  sparingly)  spinulose 
along  their  outer  edge.  As  in  the  case  of  that  insect,  I  have  hitherto 
seen  but  a  single  example — which  was  taken  by  mj'self  at  the  Agua 
Garcia,  in  Teneriffe. 

Fam.  23.  HISTERID^. 

Genus  117.  HOLOLEPTA. 
Paykull,  Man.  Hist.  101  (1811). 

273.  Hololepta  Perraudieri. 

H.  parallclo-ovalis  postiee  subangustior,  depressa,  atra,  nitidissima  ; 
li'onte  lata,  hand  striata  ;   mandil)ulis  elongatis,  porrectis,  iu  medio 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  163 

unidentatis  ;  prothorace  lato,  ad  latera  marginato,  intra  angulos 
anticos  fovea  valde  profunda  auriculiformi  notato,  postice  canalicula 
tenui  media  impresso ;  elytris  ad  apicem  valde  oblique  truncatis, 
sulco  subhumerali  sinuato  utrinque  abbreviato  striisque  2  dorsali- 
bus  (sc.  1™'~'  abbreviata  profunda,  et  2^  valde  abbreviata  quasi  fo- 
veam  punctiforraem  simulante)  impressis ;  propygidio  utrinque 
punctis  perpaucis  magnis  irrorato ;  pygidio  impunctato ;  tibiis  an- 
ticis  4-,  posterioribus  3-dentatis. — Long.  eorp.  lin.  6. 

Hololepta  Perraudieri,  de  Mars.,  Ann.  de  la  ^ioc.  Ent.  de  France,  (Si^me 
s^i-ie)  V.  397.  pi.  10  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  (sec.  cl.  de  Marseul)  et  Gomeram,  rarissima,  in 
hac  a  Dom.  Crotch  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1862  semel  deprehensa. 

This  large  and  peculiar  Histerid  altogether  escaped  my  own  obser- 
vation in  these  islands,  and  I  should  have  had  no  other  evidence  of 
its  existence  beyond  the  assertion  of  M.  de  Marseul  (who  has  figured 
it,  very  accurately,  from  a  specimen  stated  to  have  been  found  in 
TenerifFe  by  M.  Henri  de  la  Perraudiere)  had  not  a  single  example, 
now  before  me,  been  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  Dr.  Crotch 
informs  me  that  he  took  the  individual  referred  to  in  a  house  at  San 
Sebastian ;  and  I  have  but  little  doubt,  therefore,  that  it  must  have 
crawled  from  out  of  one  of  the  dried  Eu2)horhia-stem.s  which  it  is  the 
custom  to  bring  down  from  the  hills  for  fuel.  It  corresponds  precisely 
with  de  Marseul's  admirable  diagnosis,  except  that  it  is  considerably 
larger  than  the  type  which  he  appears  to  have  described  from. 

The  excessively  depressed  and  highly  polished  surface  of  the  H. 
Perraudieri,  in  conjunction  with  its  subparallel-oval  outline  (which, 
however,  is  perceptibly  wider  in  front  than  behind),  its  elongate  por- 
rect  mandibles  (which  are  armed  with  a  small  central  tooth  inter- 
nally), its  large  and  wide  prothorax  (which  has  a  deep  auricuhform 
impression  immediately  within  each  of  its  anterior  angles,  and  a  thin 
line,  or  channel,  down  its  posterior  disc),  and  the  two  very  short 
dorsal  striae  (particularly  the  inner  one,  which  is  nearly  obsolete,  or 
reduced  to  a  mere  fovea)  with  which  its  obliquely- truncated  elytra  are 
furnished,  will  suflRce,  apart  from  minor  characters,  to  distinguish  it. 

Dr.  Crotch  has  presented  his  specimen  to  the  British  Museum  col- 
lection. 

Genus  118.  TERETRIUS. 
Erichson,  in  Kluf/  Jahrb.  i.  201  (ia34). 

I  refer  the  insect  described  below  to  Terefrius  because  in  nearly  all 
its  structural  characters,  and  every  one  of  its  external  ones,  it  agrees 
precisely  with  the  members  of  that  group.  Nevertheless,  on  care- 
fully dissecting  it,  I  find  that  there  are  a  few  points  at  all  events  in 

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PANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 


which  its  generic  features  do  not  coincide  with  those  given  by  de 
Marseul, — which,  however,  I  ought  perhaps  to  add,  do  not  completely 
agree  with  the  conclusions  that  I  have  arrived  at  even  as  regards  the 
ordinary  European  T.  picipes.  Thus,  in  the  Teneriffan  species  the 
mentum  is  semicircular  (being  regularly  rounded,  instead  of  emar- 
ginated,  in  front),  the  second  and  third  joints  of  the  maxillary  palpi 
are  subequal  (instead  of  the  former  being  much  the  longer  of  the 
two),  and  the  antennas  have  their  club  exceedingly  solid  and  xm-dLn- 
nulated  (which,  however,  is  equally  the  case  in  the  T.  picipes),  the 
first  joint  of  their  funiculus  considerably  enlarged  and  subglobose,  and 
the  last  (or  anteclaval)  one  extremely  thin  and  lamelliform. 

274.  Teretrius  cylindricus,  n.  sp. 

T.  cylindricus,  niger,  nitidus,  ubique  punctulatus  ;  prothorace  amplo, 

convexo,-\dx  piceseentiore  ;  prosterno  brevi,  simplici  (nee  bistriato); 

mesosterno  canaliculato,  lobo  antico  magno ;  pedibus  rufo-piceis  ; 

tibiis  anticis  extus  6-,  posterioribus  5-spinosis. — Long.  corp.  linJl^ . 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam ;  ad  Agua  Garcia  exemplar  unicum 
cepi. 

The  present  Teretrius  is  about  the  size  of  (or  perhaps  a  trifle  larger 
than)  the  European  T.  picipjes,  which  at  first  sight  it  much  resembles. 
It  is,  however,  a  little  broader  than  that  insect,  its  prothorax  (which 
is  slightly  picescent)  is  convexer  and  more  developed  (it  being  pro- 
portionally somewhat  wider  in  front),  its  tibiae  are  more  powerfully 
spinulose  (the  hinder  pair,  wliich  are  more  evidently  curved,  having 
Jive  spines  along  their  outer  edge,  instead  of  only  two),  its  prostemum 
is  rather  shorter  (being  more  broadly  truncated  at  the  apex)  and  free 
from  the  two  longitudinal  costae  which  exist  in  that  species,  and  its 
mesosternum  is  channeled  down  the  centre,  with  its  anterior  lobe 
larger,  or  more  produced.  The  proportions  of  its  abdominal  segments, 
likewise,  are  not  quite  the  same  as  in  the  T.  picipes.  The  only  ex- 
ample of  it  which  I  have  hitherto  seen  was  captured  crawling  on  the 
inner  canvas  of  my  tent,  whilst  encamped  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  in 
Teneriffe,  during  April  1859. 

Genus  119.  EUTRIPTUS. 

WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  157  (1862). 

275.  Eutriptus  putricola. 

Eutriptus  putricola,  WoU.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  159. 
pi.  vii.  f.  7  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera 

f't  Hierro,  sub  rortioe  Euphorbiainim  laxo  putrido.  hinc  inde  hand  iu- 

tVequens. 


C^NARIAN  (X)LEOPTEKA.  105 

This  very  distinct  little  insect,  so  remarkable  {inter  alia)  for  its 
6-jointed  funiculus,  and  tlie  immense  outwardly-directed  spine  into 
which  the  inner  apical  angle  of  its  fore  tibiae  is  merged,  as  also  for 
its  keeled  prosternum,  which  is  much  produced  in  front  and  elon- 
gated into  a  lobe  (instead  of  being  excavated)  behind,  whilst  the  meso- 
sternum  is  scooped-out  at  the  central  point  of  contact,  to  receive  this 
hinder  prosternal  process,  has  been  so  fully  described  in  my  Paper 
on  the  "  Euphorbia-infesting  Coleoptera  of  the  Canaries"  (lately  pub- 
lished in  the  '  Transactions  of  the  Ent.  Soc,  of  London')  that  I  need 
not  enter  here  into  its  many  peculiarities.  It  appears  to  be  con- 
fined (so  far  as  observed  hitherto)  to  the  rotten  Eu2)horbia-stems, — 
beneath  the  damp  putrid  bark  of  which  it  resides,  in  company  with 
the  numerous  other  insects  of  similar  habits.  There  can  be  little 
douot  that  it  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago  ;  although  I  did 
not  happen  to  meet  with  it  in  Palma.  But  in  Lanzarote,  Euerte- 
ventura,  Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  and  Hierro  T  have  captured  it, 
more  or  less  abundantly ;  and  it  was  found,  during  the  spring  of 
1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  near  San  Sebastian,  in  Gomera.  In  Lanzarote 
it  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  I  detected  it  even  in  the  little 
island  of  Lobes,  off  the  north  of  Fuerteventiu'a.  It  has  been  dis- 
covered during  the  past  year  in  Madeira, — where  four  examples  of 
it  were  obtained  by  Mr.  Bewicke,  from  out  of  the  decayed  branches 
of  Euphorbias,  in  the  east  of  the  island. 

Genus  120.  HISTER. 
Linnaeus,  Si/st.  Nat.  ii.  56G  (1767). 

276.  Hister  major. 

Hister  major,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  ii.  506  (1767). 

,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  50  (1838). 

,  de  Marseul,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (3ienie  s^rie)  ii. 

173.  pi.  6.  f.  4  (1854). 

,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  210  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  74  (1857). 

Habitat  in  inferioribus  Canariae  et  Teneriffae,  minus  frequens. 

The  H.  major,  which  is  found  throughout  southern  Europe  and 
northern  Africa,  and  which  occurs  sparingly  in  the  Madeiran  Group, 
appears  to  be  somewhat  scarce  in  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  in 
Grand  Canary ;  and  it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Bev.  B.  T.  Lowe 
from  Orotava,  and  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  from  S*^"  Cruz, 
in  Teneriffe. 

277.  Hister  canariensis,  n.  sp. 
H.  subquadrato-ovalis,  niger,  nitidus  ;    stria  frontali  arcuata ;  pro- 


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CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA. 


thoracis  striis  duabus  lateralibus  subparallelis  fere  integris  (exte- 
riore  postice  vix  abbreviata) ;  elytronim  stria  humerali  obliqua, 
siibhumerali  nulla,  l-S''^'™  dorsalibus  integris,  4t'iobsoleta  (e  punctis 
perpaiicis  elongatis  versus  apicem  composita),  5'^  nulla,  sutiu-ali  sat 
elongata  (postice  vix,  sed  antice  valde  abbreviata),  striis  omnibus 
fere  impunctatis ;  i^ygidio  subopaco,  fortiter  punctato ;  antennis 
pedibusque  nigro-pieeis  ;  tibiis  anticis  3-dentatis,  posterioribiis  bi- 
seriatim  multispinosis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^3^; 

Habitat  in  montibus  Teneriffge,  rarior. 

Although  unwilling  to  erect  an  additional  species  in  a  group  so 
extensive  as  Ulster,  yet,  after  a  careful  survey  of  de  Marseul's  mono- 
graph, I  am  satisfied  that  the  present  one  cannot  be  referred  to  any 
of  those  which  he  has  recorded.  Its  jwsition,  however,  in  his  arrange- 
ment is  easily  determined,  since  it  belongs  to  that  comparatively 
small  Section  of  the  genus  in  which  the  lateral,  or  "  subhumeral," 
stria  is  obsolete  and  in  which  (at  the  same  time)  the  pronotum  is 
furnished  with  fzvo  striae  at  either  side.  Judging  from  his  figures 
and  diagnoses,  its  nearest  allies  would  appear  to  be  the  H.fossor  from 
Senegal,  and  the  obesus  from  Guinea  and  southern  Africa :  but  the 
following  combination  of  characters  will  serve  to  distinguish  it  from 
the  forms  which  it  most  closely  resembles.  Thus,  its  two  prothoracic 
lines  are  nearly  entire  (the  outer  one  only  being  very  slightly  ab- 
breviated behind)  ;  its  elytral  strite  are  deep  and  simple  (though  the 
sutural  one  is  sometimes  just  perceptibly  crenated),  the  three  dorsal 
ones  being  complete  (for  the  inner  two  are  merely  a  trifle  shorter  at 
the  base)  ;  the  fourth  is  obsolete  (being  represented  by  a  few  elongate 
punctures,  or  a  broken-up  line,  behind)  ;  the  fifth  is  quite  absent ; 
and  the  sixth  (or  sutural  one)  commences  at  about  a  third  of  the 
distance  between  the  scutellum  and  the  apex,  and  is  continued  almost 
to  the  latter.  Its  front  tibiae  are  externally  tridentate  (the  apical 
tooth  being  large,  obtuse,  and  surmounted  by  three  spinides,  whilst 
the  second  and  third  are  gradually  smaller  and  capped,  each  of  them, 
by  a  single  spinule) ;  and  its  four  posterior  ones  are  densely  spinose. 

Hitherto  the  H.  canariensis  has  been  observed  only  in  Teneriffe, 
where  it  would  seem  to  be  somewhat  scarce.  I  have  taken  it  at 
Taganana,  and  it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello 
de  Paiva  from  Las  Mercedes. 

Genus  12L  CARCINOPS. 

De  Marseul,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (8ieme  senc)  iii.  83  (1855), 

278.  Carcinops  14-striatus. 
Dendropliilus  14-striatus,  Stcph.,  Ill  Brit.  Eni.  v.  412  (1832). 
Paromnlu?  piiinilio,  Erich.,  in  Khtrj  Jahrh.  i.  169  (1834). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA,  107 

Paromalus  pumilio,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  213  (1864). 

Carcinops  pumilio,  de  Marseul,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  iii.  91. 

pi.  22.  f.  4  (1855). 
Paromalus  pumilio,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  74  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Euerteventuram,  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram, 
sub  quisquiliis  degeus. 

The  little  C.  14:-striat'us,  which  occurs  tliroiigliout  central  and 
southern  Europe,  the  north  of  Africa,  and  Madeira,  is  pretty  widely 
distributed  over  these  islands — where  in  all  probability  it  will  be 
found  to  be  universal,  if  searched  for  in  the  proper  situations.  Never- 
theless, hitherto,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura, 
and  Teneriffe ;  in  the  last  of  which,  however,  as  well  as  in  Gomera, 
it  has  been  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  chiefly  to  be  met  with 
beneath  decaying  vegetable  detritus,  especially  under  the  putrid 
leaves  of  the  Prickly  Pear  {Opuntia  Tuna),  in  waste  spots  where 
they  have  been  thrown  away  as  refuse. 

Genus  122.  SAPRINUS. 
Ericbson,  in  Klnc/  Jalirh.  i.  172  (1834). 

§  I.   Elytrorum  stria  suturali  antice plus  minas  ahhreviatd. 

279.  Saprinus  nobilis,  n.  sp. 

S.  cyaneo-niger,  supra  subopacus,  densissime  rugoso-punctatus  ;  pro- 
thorace  in  disco  postico  elytrisque  in  spatio  communi  obcordato 
pone  scutellum  necnon  per  marginem  ipsis.simum  posticum  politis  ; 
stria  frontali  nulla ;  elytris  singulis  stria  suturali  tenui  antice  valde 
abbreviate  (a  medio  usque  ad  apicem  continuata)  necnon  duabus 
parvis  obliquis  versus  humeros  impressis ;  prosterno  punctulato, 
lineis  antice  late  divaricatis ;  mesosterno  sat  dense  et  profunde 
punctato  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  leviter  et  obtuse  denticulatis,  poste- 
rioribus  biseriatim  spinulosis  ;  tarsis  (sed  prsesertim  anticis)  piceis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  2^-3^. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  rarissimus ;  propc  Sanctam  Crucem  necnon 
sub  stercore  humano  in  sylva  "  Las  Mercedes  "  dicta  captus. 

I  believe  that  the  present  Saprinus  is  undoubtedly  distinct  from 
every  species  described  in  de  Marseul's  Monograph,  though  perhaps 
it  approaches  nearer  to  the  S.Jir/uratus,  from  northern  Africa,  than 
to  any  other  of  them.  Apparently,  however,  it  is  much  larger  than 
that  insect,  of  a  dark  cyaneous-blue  (instead  of  a  brownish  black), 
with  its  polished  prothoracic  space  single  (instead  of  being  shaped- 
out  into  three  compartments),  and  with  its  sutural  Line  (instead  of 
being  complete)  greatly  abbreviated  anteriorly.  Apart  from  minor 
characteristics,  its  almost  evanescent  striae,  combined  with  its  cya- 


168  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

neons  and  very  densely  punctured  upper  surface  (which  has  only  the 
disc  of  its  pronotum,  and  an  obcordate  elytral  space  behind  the 
scutellum,  highly  polished  and  impunctate),  will  at  once  sepai'ate  it 
from  the  other  Canarian  Saprini.  The  only  two  specimens  which  I 
have  yet  seen  were  captured  by  myself  in  Tencriffe, — one  of  them 
near  S'"  Cruz,  and  the  other  at  a  comparatively  high  elevation  in  the 
wood  of  Las  Mercedes. 

280.  Saprinus  osculans,  n.  sp. 

S.  subcyaneo-niger,  supra  convexus,  vix  subopacus,  dense  rugoso- 
punctatus  ;  prothorace  in  disco  late  elytrisque  in  spatio  communi 
obcordato  pone  scutellum  necnon  per  marginem  ipsissimum  pos- 
ticum  politis  ;  stria  frontali  subobsoleta ;  elytris  singulis  stria  sutu- 
rah  antice  paulo  abbreviata  necnon  quinque  obliquis  abbreviatis  (in- 
ternis  tcnuibus  subpunctulatis,  et  secundA,  vel  tertia  dorsali,  brevi 
fere  obsoleta)  impressis  ;  prosterno  sublaevi,  lineis  antice  paulo  di- 
varicatis  ;  mesosterno  paree  pnnctato  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  dentieii- 
latis,  posterioribus  biseriatim  spinulosis  ;  tarsis  (sed  praesertim  an- 
ticis) piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^. 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  semel  tantum  captus. 

Closely  allied  to  the  preceding  species ;  from  which,  however,  it 
differs  in  being  smaller  and  less  evidently  cyaneous,  in  the  sculptured 
portion  of  its  upper  surface  being  rather  less  densely  punctured,  and 
therefore  not  quite  so  opake  (the  polished  jirothoracic  space  more- 
over being  larger,  and  occupying  -in  its  middle  the  entire  length  of 
the  pronotum),  in  its  sutural  line  being  less  abbreviated  in  front,  in 
its  having  at  leant  Jive  oblique  striise  (instead  of  only  two)  developed 
at  the  base  of  its  elytra  (the  inner  ones  of  which  are  minutely  punc- 
tured, but  the  second  nevertheless,  or  third  "  dorsal "  one,  short  and 
subobsolete),  in  its  presternum  being  almost  impunctate  and  with 
the  lateral  lines  less  divergent  in  front,  in  its  mesosternum  being 
less  closely  and  less  deeply  punctured,  and  in  its  anterior  tibiae  being 
more  powerfully  spined. 

Judging  from  de  Marseul's  diagnosis  and  figure,  the  S.  osculans 
would  perhaps  agree  better  with  the  detersus  (from  the  south  of 
France,  Spain,  Portugal,  Algeria,  Senegal,  ifcc.)  than  with  any  other 
species  ;  nevertheless  it  has  no  indication  of  the  small  additional 
polished  space  between  the  second  and  third  dorsal  stria?  (at  the  base 
of  the  elytra),  or  of  the  less-defined  one  at  the  shoulders,  which 
characterize  that  insect ;  and,  moreover,  in  the  description  of  the 
S.  detersus  no  mention  is  made  of  the  obscure  cyaneous  tint  which  is 
very  traceable  on  the  oscidaus.  Tt  is  hitherto  unique,  a  single  ex- 
ample having  been  capturcrl  by  myself  in  Fuerteventura. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  169 

281.  Saprinus  nitidulus. 

,  aeneo-niger,  nitidus ;  fronte  postice  minus  punctulata,  stria  sub- 
obsoleta ;  prothorace  ad  latera  necnon  per  basin  ipsam  profunde 
piinctato,  intra  angulos  anticos  (rotundatos)  distincte  impresso  ; 
elytris  postice  profunde  puuctatis  (punctis  versus  latera  inter  strias 
minus  ascendentibus),  striis  profundis,  punctatis,  suturali  antice 
valde  abbreviate,  humerali  in  subbumeralem  mergente,  l-4ta'"  dor- 
saUbus  plerumque  ultra  medium  postice  continuatis ;  prosterno  ob- 
tuse subcarinato,  lineis  antice  divergentibus  ;  mesosterno  profunde 
punctate  (per  marginem  posticum  serie  punctorum  quasi  bisec- 
torum  terminate),  antice  sat  profunde  emarginato  angulis  obtusis ; 
antennis  pedibusque  nigro-piceis,  capitulo  soepius  vix  dilutiore. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  2-3. 

Hister  nitidulus,  Fab.,  Syst.  Eleu.  i.  85  (1801). 

,  Brtille,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 

Saprinus  nitidulus,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  215  (1854). 

,  de  Mars.,  A?m.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  402.  pi,  17.  f.  40 

(1855), 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  75  (1857). 


Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  TenerifFam,  in  cadaveribus  frequens, 
I  have  given  the  above  comparative  diagnosis  of  this  common  Eu- 
ropean insect  for  the  sake  of  calling  attention  to  the  exact  points  in 
which  it  differs  from  the  following  closely  allied  species.  I  have 
taken  it,  in  tolerable  abundance,  from  out  of  dead  animals,  both 
near  Arrecife  of  Lanzarote  and  around  S**  Cruz  of  Teneriffe, — from 
the  latter  of  which  islands  it  has  also  been  communicated  by  the 
Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

282.  Saprinus  subnitidus. 

-S^.  niger,  nitidus  ;  fronte  densissime  punctulata,.stria  obsoleta  ;  pro- 
thorace  ad  latera  necnon  per  basin  ipsam  punctato,  intra  angulos 
anticos  (oblique  subtruncatos)  leviter  impresso ;  elytris  convexis, 
postice  leviter  punctulatis  (punctulis  versus  latera  inter  strias  plus 
minus  ascendentibus),  striis  tenuibus,  vix  punctulatis,  suturali  an- 
tice paulo  abbreviata,  humerali  in  subbumeralem  mergente,  l-S*'^'" 
dorsaHbus  vix  ultra  et  S'''"^  4t^que  vix  ad  medium  postice  conti- 
nuatis ;  prosterno  minus  carinato,  lineis  antice  leviter  divergenti- 
bus ;  mesosterno  leviter  et  vage  punctato,  antice  paulo  emarginato 
angulis  sat  argute  determinatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  nigro-piceis, 
capitulo  saepius  ferrugineo. 

Yar.  /3  [an  species  ?].  Elytris  paulo  distinctius  punctulatis,  punctulis 
inter  strias  utrinque  densius  ascendentibus.  \_Ins.  Palma.] — Long, 
corp.  lin.  2-vix  3. 

Saprinus  subnitidus  ?,  de  Mars.,  Ami.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  404. 
pi.  17.  f.  41  (1855). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura  et  Canaria,  una  cum  sp.  praj- 

cedente  deorens. 


170  CANJkRIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  the  above  comparative  diagnosis,  the 
present  Saprinus  differs  from  the  nUidulus  in  being  blacker  (with 
scarcely  any  perceptible  senescent  tinge),  in  its  forehead  being  as 
densely  punctured  behind  as  in  front,  in  the  punctures  and  strias  of 
its  upper  surface  being  altogether  very  much  finer  (the  latter  being 
nearly  simple,  or  but  delicately  cvcnulated),  in  the  anterior  angles  of 
its  pronotum  being  rather  more  obliquely-truncated  at  their  apex 
and  with  the  shallow  depropsion  within  them  a  trifle  less  distinct,  in 
its  elytra  being  somewhat  rounder  and  convexer,  with  the  sutural 
stria  a  Httle  less  abbreviated  in  front,  and  the  others  (particularly 
the  two  inner  ones)  perceptibly  shorter,  in  its  prosternum  being  a 
little  more  depressed  (or  less  carinated  down  the  centre)  and  perhaps 
somewhat  less  divergent  anteriorly,  in  its  mesosternum  being  very 
much  less  deeply  punctured,  more  lightly  emarginate  at  its  apex,  and 
with  the  angles  better  defined,  and  in  its  antcnnal  club  being  nsuaUi/ 
paler,  or  more  ferruginous.  It  is  found  in  company  with  the  S.  ni- 
tididus,  but  is  very  much  the  scarcer  of  the  two.  I  have,  however, 
taken  it  sparingly  around  Arrecife  in  Lanzarote,  close  to  the  Puerto 
de  Cabras  in  Fuerteventura,  and  in  the  sandy  region  between  Las 
Palmas  and  the  Isleta  in  Grand  Canary.  A  single  example  which 
I  captured  in  the  island  of  Palma  I  have  regarded  as  a  "  var.  /3  "  of 
this  species.  It  differs  merely  in  having  the  punctures  of  its  upper 
surface  a  little  denser — particularly  on  the  elytra,  where  they  ascend 
more  decidedly  on  either  side,  nearly  filling  the  whole  space  between 
the  striae.  I  believe,  however,  it  is  nothing  more  than  a  slight  in- 
sular modification  of  the  present  insect. 

As  to  the  synonymy  of  this  Saprinus,  I  am  somewhat  in  doubt.  I 
have  therefore  referred  it  to  the  siibnitidus  of  de  Marseul  (with  which, 
judging  from  the  description,  in  its  lightly  punctured  upper  surface 
and  rather  flattened  prosternum  it  would  seem  to  agree),  in  j)i"efer- 
ence  to  treating  it  as  new  ;  nevertheless,  since  there  are  many  points 
in  which  it  certainly  does  not  accord  with  the  diagnosis  of  that  insect 
(such  as  its  blacker,  or  unmetallic,  tint,  its  humeral  stria  merging 
into  the  subhumeral  one,  and  its  prosternal  lines  being  by  no  means 
parallel  anteriorly,  though  they  do  not  diverge  quite  so  much  as  those 
of  the  S.  nitidulus),  I  would  propose  for  it  the  provisional  name  of 
proximus,  in  the  event  of  its  proving  hereafter  to  be  distinct  from 
the  stihnitidus.  In  some  respects  it  might  be  assigned  to  the  S. 
algericus ;  but  (judging  from  de  Marseul's  diagnosis)  that  appears  to 
be  a  much  smaller  species  than  the  present  one,  and  of  a  pitchy- 
brown  hue. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  171 

§  II.  Elytrorum  strid  suturali  antice  integrd  {cum  quartd 
dorsali  coeunte). 

a.  Fronte  a  clypeo  hand  distincte  divisd. 

283.  Saprinus  chalcites. 

S.  geneus,  nitidus ;  fronte  dense  piinctulata,  stria  nuUa ;  prothorace 
sat  dense  punctate,  in  disco  postico  Isevi,  intra  angulos  anticos  (ob- 
lique subtnmcatos)  distincte  impresso ;  elytris  punctatis,  spatio 
communi  pone  scutellum  (stria  tertia,  vel  secunda  dorsali,  termi- 
nato)  laevi,  necnon  versus  humeros  minus  dense  punctatis,  striis  in- 
distincte  punctulatis,  hunierali  saepius  indistincta,  1-4'^a'"  dorsalibus 
circa  medium  postice  continuatis ;  prosterno  lineis  antice  et  postice 
divergentibus ;  mesosterno  sat  profunde  punctate,  angulis  obtusis  ; 
antennis  pedibusque  Isete  rufo-piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  extus  multi- 
denticulatis,  intermediis  parce,  posticis  (angustulis)  vix  spinulosis  ; 
calcaribus  minutis  ;  tarsis  longiusculis,  subgracilibus. 

Mas  metasterno  postice  in  medio  leviter  bituberculato. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  1-vix  2. 

Hister  clialcites,  Itlif/.,  Maq.  fur  Ins.  vi.  40  (1807). 

asneus  ?,  BrulU  [nee  Fah.'],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 

Saprinus  clialcites,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  216  (1854). 

,  de  Mars.,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  445.  pi.  18.  f.  71 

(1855). 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  75  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Canariam,  TenerifFam,  Go- 
meram  et  Palmam,  vel  in  cadaveribus  vel  in  stercore  humane,  hinc 
inde  sat  vulgaris. 

The  S.  clialcites,  which  is  common  throughout  Mediterranean  lati- 
tudes and  which  is  rather  abundant  in  the  Madeiran  Group,  is  in  all 
probability  universal  in  these  islands, — though  I  do  not  happen  to 
have  met  with  it  in  either  Gomera  or  Hierro,  in  the  former  of  which, 
however,  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch.  But  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerte- 
ventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma  I  have  taken  it,  more 
or  less  plentifully ;  and  in  the  first  of  these  it  was  found  also  by  Mr. 
Gray.  It  is  exceedingly  variable  in  stature  ;  but  it  may  be  readily 
known  from  the  other  species  here  described  by  its  bright  aeneous 
surface  and  pale  rufo-piceous  limbs,  by  its  forehead  being  densely 
punctulated  and  with  its  stria  obsolete,  by  its  prethorax  having  the 
front  angles  very  obtuse  and  the  rounded  depression  within  them 
comparatively  deep,  by  the  sculptured  portion  of  its  elytra  being  not 
very  closely  punctured,  and  the  polished  part  (which  is  not  always 
very  rigidly  bounded)  terminated  laterally  by  the  third  oblique  stria 
(or  second  "  dorsal "  one),  by  the  teeth  of  its  anterior  tibiae  being 
rather  small  and  numerous,  whilst  its  intermediate  pair  are  but 
sparingly  spinulose,  and  the  hinder  ones  (which  are  comparatively 


172  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

narrow)  still  less  so,  by  its  tarsi  being  somewhat  long  and  slender, 
by  its  prosternal  lines  divaricating  equally  at  the  base  and  in  front, 
and  by  the  metasternum  of  its  male  sex  being  furnished  with  two 
small  tubercles  in  the  centre  (between  the  posterior  coxae)  behind. 

284.  Saprinus  fortunatus,  n.  sp. 
S.  virescenti-subfeneo-niger,  nitidus ;  fronte  densissime  punctulata, 
stria  nulla ;  prothorace  ad  latera  necnon  per  basin  ipsam  dense 
punctato,  intra  angulos  anticos  (oblique  subtruncatos)  vix  im- 
presso ;  elytris  densissime  punctulatis,  spatio  communi  pone  scu- 
tellum  (stria  recurva,  vel  quarta  dorsali,  terminato)  politissimo 
necnon  ad  humeros  minus  punctulatis,  striis  sat  tenuibus,  vix 
punctulatis,  humerali  in  subhumeralem  mcrgente,  l-4tam  dorsaHbus 
versus  medium  postice  continuatis  ;  prosterno  lineis  antice  subap- 
proximatis  i^araUelis,  ad  basin  divergentibus  ;  mesosterno  sat  pro- 
funde  punctato,  angulis  sat  argute  determinatis ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque  piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  cii'ca  7-  (fortiter  4-)  dentatis,  inter- 
mediis  parce,  posticis  (angustis,  subcurvatis)  vix  spinulosis  ;  calca- 
ribus  parvis  ;    tarsis  longiusculis,  gracilibus. — ^Long.  corp. Hu.  1^—2, 

Histervirescens,  Sndle[nec  Pai/k.],  in  Webb et Berth.  (Col.)  59(1838). 

Hahitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  in  stercore 
bovino,  equino,  camelino  prajcipue  degens :  in  Lanzarota  plerumque 
abundat. 

The  present  well-marked  Saprinus  appears  to  be  intei'mediate  in 
structure  between  two  distinct  specific  types,  namely  that  of  the  S. 
virescens  and  r«r///"/-ons,— agreeing  with  the  former  in  its  somewhat 
narrow  and  comparatively  unspinulose  hinder  tibiae,  minute  spurs, 
slender  feet,  and  simple,  densely  punctulated  forehead  ;  but  with  the 
latter  in.  its  anteriorly  ^rtr«?/e7  and  subapproximated  prosternal  lines, 
and  in  its  rather  powerfully  dentate  fore  tibiae.  In  its  greenish  hue 
(which,  however,  is  very  much  duller  than  that  of  the  S.  virescens,  and 
is  also  slightly  subaenescent)  it  is  more  suggestive,  prima  facie,  of  the 
first  of  those  insects  than  of  the  second  ;  nevertheless  I  am  inclined 
to  think  that  it  has,  in  reality,  almost  as  great  an  afimity  with  the 
species  around  the  metallicus  and  rugifrons  as  it  has  with  those  around 
the  chalcites  and  virescens* . 

The  S.  fortunatus  is  rather  a  common  insect  in  Lanzarote  and 

*  Apart  from  the  characters  above  alluded  to  (which,  being  striicti<7-al,  are 
necessarily  all-important),  the  most  superficial  inspection,  one  would  imagine, 
must  have  sufficed  to  distinguish  the  present  Saprivns  from  the  Em'opean  i'ircs- 
ccns — which  has  its  colour  immensely  brighter,  its  pimctation  vcr>/  much  less 
dense  (though,  at  the  same  time,  continued  lightly  even  over  the  disc  of  the  pro- 
notum),  its  forehead  more  convex,  its  outline  considerably  rounder,  &c. ;  but 
scarcely  a  "  superficial "  examination  seems  to  have  been  bestowed  on  the  few 
Coleoptera  which  constitute  the  very  meagre  list  included  in  MM.  Webb  and 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  .  173 

Fuerteventura,  where  it  occurs  (principally  in  dung)  during  the 
spring  months ;  and  I  have  likewise  taken  it,  though  sparingly,  in 
the  region  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand  Canary.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  found 
also  by  Mr.  Gray. 

285.  Saprinus  ignobilis,  n.  sp. 

S.  niger,  nitidus  ;  fronte  vix  marginata,  minute  punctulata ;  protho- 
race  subaequaliter  punctato,  intra  angulos  anticos  (valde  obtusos) 
hand  impresso  ;  elytris  sat  pi'ofunde  (pone  scutellum  vix  levins) 
punctatis,  striis  profundis  sat  distincte  crenulatis,  humerali  indi- 
stincta  a  subhumerali  disjuncta,  1-4'"^'"  dorsalibus  versus  medium 
postice  continuatis  (1°^^  interdum  longiore),  suturali  postice  obso- 
lete, parte  basali  recurva  minute  irregulariter  undulata  ;  prosterno 
horizontali,  obelisciformi  (?'.  e.  striis  a  basi  usque  versus  apicem  sub- 
parallelis  vel  potius  paulo  subapproximatis,  et  dein  subito  oblique 
approximatis,  ad  apicem  ipsum  confluentibus) ;  meso-  et  meta- 
sternis  depressis,  sat  dense  et  profunde  punctatis,  illo  antice  minus 
emarginato  sed  angulis  parum  argute  determinatis  ;  antennis  brevi- 
bus  pedibusque  piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  circa  6-angulato-dentatis,  in- 
termediis  parec,  posticis  vix  spinulosis ;  calearibus  parvis,  anticis 
paulo  majoribus  subeurvatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  11. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  prope  oppidum  Arrecife  a  Dom,  Gray  repertus. 

In  their  small  size  and  dark  hue,  as  weU  as  in  the  fact  of  their  upper 
svirfaces  being  minutely  punctulated  throncjlioiit,  the  present  Saprinus 
and  the  following  one  have  much  in  common.  The  S.  ignobilis,  how- 
ever, is  a  Kttle  larger  and  blacker  than  its  ally ;  its  punctures  are 
deeper,  and  canied  more  evidently  over  the  entire  surface  ;  its  fore- 
head is  less  distinctly  margined,  more  rounded-off  at  the  anterior 
angles,  and  without  any  appearance  of  being  separated  from  the  epi- 
stome  by  a  transverse  line;  its  elytral  strise  are  coarser,  slightly 
longer,  and  not  quite  so  oblique  (the  sutural  one,  moreover,  being 
evanescent,  except  at  its  extreme  base,  and  with  the  recurved  portion 
which  connects  it  with  the  ordinary  "  dorsal  "  one  minutely  and  irre- 
gularly undulated) ;  its  prosternum  is  flatter,  or  more  horizontal,  and 
very  peculiarly  formed, — the  stria?  being  ^sw&parallel,  or  only  very 
slightly  approximating,  from  the  base  to  about  two-thirds  of  the  dis- 
tance to  the  apex,  at  which  point  they  suddenly  converge  obliquely 
(causing  the  space  between  them  to  be,  what  I  can  only  express  in- 
telligibly by  calling,  of  an  obelisk-^lia-^e)  ;  its  meso-  and  meta-sterna 
are  more  depressed,  and  very  much  more  deeply  and  closely  punc- 
tured (the  former  being  also  less  excavated  at  the  apex,  but  with  its 

Berthelot's  ponderous  work ;  and  therefore  it  is  not  surprising  that  we  should 
find  this  insect  (through  the  mere  fact  of  its  possessing  a  slightly  greenish  tinge  I) 
referred  to  the  H.  v/rcsce7is. 


174  CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA. 

angles  nevertheless  more  rigidly  defined) ;  its  four  hinder  tibiae  have 
their  spines  shorter,  and  less  concentrated  towards  the  outer  extremity; 
and  the  front  pair  have  their  terminal  spur  (instead  of  being  obsolete) 
well  defined,  and  (although  not  large)  subflexuose. 

Hitherto  I  have  seen  but  three  specimens  of  the  >S'.  ignohilis.  Thev 
were  all  taken  by  Mr,  Gray  near  Arrecife,  in  Lanzarote, — by  whom 
one  of  them  has  been  presented  to  the  British  Museum  collection. 

b.  Fronte  a  clijpeo  lined  (vel  carina)  transversa  plus  minus 
distinctd  divisd. 

286.  Saprinus  minyops,  n.  sp. 

S.  niger  (vix  obsoletissimc  subsenescens),  nitidus ;  fronte  semicircu- 
lari,  grosse  marginata,  carina  transversfl  recta  sed  utriuque  minute 
sinuata,  angulis  ipsis  prominulis  subacutis  (oculos  parvos  occultan- 
tibus),  minutissime  punctulata ;  prothorace  leviter  (pra^sertim  in 
disco)  punctulato,  intra  angulos  anticos  (obtusos)  hand  impresso ; 
elytris  minute  et  parce  punctulatis,  antice  paulatim  lajvioribus  (sed 
etiam  ibidem,  oculo  fortiter  armato,  minutissime  punctulatis),  striis 
minute  crenulatis,  humerali  a  subhumerali  disjuncta,  l-3tiam  dorsa- 
libus  fere  ad  medium  postiee  eontinuatis,  4'''  plus  minus  interrupta 
breviore  ;  prosterno  subsinuato,  lineis  subapproximatis,  antice  fere 
paralleHs,  ad  apicem  vix  sed  ad  basin  paulo  divergentibus  ;  meso- 
et  meta-sternis  subconvexis,  parce  (pi'SJcipue  hoc)  et  leviter  punc- 
tatis,  illo  angulis  anticis  obtusis  ;  antennis  brevibus  pedibusque 
piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  circa  6-dentatis,  posterioribus  versus  apicem 
longe  spinuloso-ciliatis  ;  calcaribus  parvis,  anticis  obsoletis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  f- 1^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  in  cadaveribus 
necnon  etiam  in  stercore  humano,  in  arenosis  degens. 

This  very  minute  Saprinus  is  still  smaller  and  of  a  less  intense 
black  than  the  last  species  (thoiigh  its  subsenescent  tinge  is  often 
hardly  traceable) ;  and,  apart  from  its  diminutive  bulk,  it  may  be 
readily  known  by  its  distinctly  margined,  semicircular  forehead,  which 
has  the  transverse  line  which  separates  it  from  the  epistome  rather 
strongly  defined,  and  its  anterior  angles  sharp  and  prominent,  so  as 
almost  to  conceal  from  view  the  (rather  small,  reniform)  eyes  beneath 
them.  This  prominence  of  the  frontal  angles  causes  the  transverse 
frontal  keel,  which  at  first  sight  appears  quite  straight,  to  be  minutely 
sinuated  towards  either  end.  Its  punctui'es  are  considerably  smaller, 
and  perhaps  a  little  less  dense,  than  those  of  the  S.  ignohilis,  being 
in  fact  so  small  on  the  disc  of  its  prothorax  and  (more  particularly) 
on  the  anterior  portion  of  its  elytra  as  to  require  a  high  magnifying 
power  to  be  perceived  :  nevertheless  (though  less  conspicuously  so 
than  in  that  insect)  they  do  certainly  extend  over  the  whole  surface. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  175 

Its  elytral  striae  are  rather  shorter,  finer,  and  more  oblique  than  those 
of  the  last  species,  the  recurved  "  dorsal "  one  is  more  or  less  short- 
ened, or  interrupted,  and  the  sutural  one  is  continued  to  the  apex  ; 
its  antennae  are  much  abbreviated  ;  its  four  hinder  tibiae  (particularly, 
however,  the  intermediate  pair)  are  studded  with  very  long  spinules, 
especially  towards  their  extremities  ;  its  two  front  spurs  are  almost 
(if  not,  indeed,  entirely)  obsolete  ;  and  its  prosternal  lines  are  nearly 
parallel,  or  only  very  obscurely  divergent,  anteriorly  (enclosing  an 
exceedingly  narrow  space),  but  slightly  divaricate  behind. 

I  have  taken  the  S.  minyops,  from  out  of  dead  animals,  &c.,  in  low 
spots  behind  the  sea-beach,  immediately  outside  Arrecife  of  Lanza- 
rote  ;  as  also,  though  more  sparingly,  in  Fuerteventui'a,  and  in  the 
sandy  region  between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta  of  Grand  Canary. 

287.  Saprimis  angulosus,  n.  sp. 

S.  piceo-a^neus,  nitidus ;  fronte  semicirculari,  immarginata,  carina 
transversa  recta,  angulis  prominulis  rectis  (oculos  fere  oecultanti- 
bus),  ubique  (sed  proesertim  antice)  minute  transversim  strigulosa  ; 
prothorace  in  disco  postico  levissime  sed  versus  latera  et  per  basin 
profundius  punctato,  pimctis  utrinque  longitudinaliter  confluenti- 
bus,  intra  angulos  anticos  (vix  oblique  subtruncatos)  hand  impresso ; 
elytris  postice  minute  et  parce  punctulatis,  antice  laevibus,  striis 
profundis  crenulatis,  humerah  a  subhumerali  disjuncta,  1^^^^  2^^qu.e 
dorsalibus  longe  ultra  sed  3*'^  4tfique  vix  ultra  medium  postice  con- 
tinuatis,  suturalis  parte  recurva  transversa  subrecta  angulos  duos 
(sc.  cum  suturali  et  cum  quarta  dorsali)  effieiente ;  prosterno  lineis 
subapproximatis,  parallelis  sed  ad  basin  paulo  divergentibus;  meso- 
sterno  leviter  punctato;  antennis  pedibusque  laete  rufo-piceis  ;  tibiis 
anticis  extus  minute  multispinulosis,  posterioribus  praesertim  versus 
apicem  longe  ciliato-spinulosis  ;  calcaribus  parvis,  anticis  obsoletis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  cadaveribus  proj)e  oppidum  Arrecife  captus. 

In  its  prothorax  being  punetulated  throughout  (though  very  mi- 
nutely so  on  the  hinder  disc),  and  in  the  rather  prominent  anterior 
angles  of  its  semicircular  forehead,  the  present  Saprinus  nearly  coin- 
cides with  the  S.  minyops ;  nevertheless  the  resemblance  there  ceases, 
for  it  has  no  other  distinctive  feature  in  common  with  that  insect. 
It  may  readily  be  known  by  the  two  characters  just  mentioned,  in 
conjunction  with  its  aeneous  (and  somewhat  pitchy)  hue  and  its 
brightly  rufescent  limbs,  by  almost  its  entire  forehead  (which  is  un- 
margined  at  the  sides)  being  minutely  strigulose  transversely,  by  its 
prothoracic  punctures  being  longitudinally  subconfluent  towards  the 
edges,  by  the  recurved  portion  of  its  sutural  stria  (at  the  base  of  the 


176  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

elytra)  being  rather  straightened — thus  forming  a  tolerably  defined 
angle  with  each  of  the  striae  which  it  connects, — by  merely  the  pos- 
terior half  of  its  elytra  being  finely  (and  somewhat  sparingly)  punc- 
tured, by  its  front  tibiae  being  armed  externally  with  a  row  of  short 
and  small  spinules  (as  in  the  S.  cJialcites),  whilst  the  four  hinder  ones 
are  studded  (particularly  towards  their  extremities)  with  long  spinose 
cilia,  and  by  its  anterior  spurs  being  apparently  almost  obsolete. 

The  only  four  examples  which  I  have  seen  of  this  minute  Scqrrimm 
were  captured  by  myself  in  the  low  ground  immediately  outside 
Arrecife,  in  Lanzarote. 

288.  Saprinus  mundus,  n.  sp. 

S.  subvirescenti-  vel  subaenescenti-niger,  nitidus ;  tronte  marginata, 
carina  transversa  recta,  antice  valde  irregulariter  transversim  sca- 
broso-strigosa  ;  prothorace  leviter  striguloso-punctato,  in  disco  pos- 
tico  lae'sd,  intra  angulos  anticos  (oblique  subtruncatos)  baud  im- 
presso ;  elytris  postice  in  medio  sat  profunde  et  densissirae  punc- 
tatis,  striis  ijrofundis  crenatis,  humerali  a  subhumerali  disjuncta, 
lma2(iiique  dorsalibus  ultrii  sed  St'i^  4'^que  ^'ix  ad  medium  postice 
continuatis  ;  prosterno  lineis  antice  subapproximatis  parallelis  eva- 
nescentibus,  ad  basin  paulo  divergentibus  ;  mesosterno  impuuctato  ; 
antennis  pedibusque  piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  circa  6-  (longe  3-)  den- 
tatis,  posterioribus  longe  ciliato-spinulosis  ;  calcaribus  posteriori- 
bus  elongatis ;  tarsis  paulo  incrassatis,  subconicis. 

Var.  fi  [an  species  ?].  Laete  aeneus,  elj'trorum  striis  3*'^  4'^que  dor- 
salibus paulo  longioribus,  mesosterno  subpunctato.  [Ins.  Canariae 
Grandis.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^1 1. 

Hister  metallicus?,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 
Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  cadaveribus  et  stercore 
humano :  var.  ft  in  Canaria  Grandi  adhuc  sola  coUegi. 

The  present  Sapriims  may  be  known  by  its  greenish-black  hue 
(which  has  also  a  just  perceptible  aenesceut  tinge),  by  the  very  close 
and  rather  deep  punctures  on  the  hinder  half  of  its  elytra,  by  its  frontal 
keel  being  straight,  and  its  forehead  very  irregularly  scrtftroso-strigu- 
lose  anteriorly,  by  the  third  and  fourth  "  dorsal "  striae  of  its  elytra 
being  usually  much  shorter  than  the  first  and  second,  and  by  its  four 
hinder  tibiae  being  rather  thickly  studded  with  exceedingly  long  seti- 
form  spinules,  and  with  their  apical  spurs  (though  somewhat  slender) 
considerably  developed.  It  is  nearly  allied  to  the  European  S.  metal- 
licus. Its  prothorax,  however,  is  relatively  a  little  larger  than  is  the 
case  in  that  insect ;  its  elytra  are  more  densely  punctured  behind  and 
have  their  striae  very  much  shorter — the  two  inner  dorsal  ones  being 
exceedingly  abbre-vdated,  and  the  outer  (or  first)  one,  which  is  greatly 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  177 

elongated  in  the  metallicus,  reaching  scarcely  to  the  middle ;  and  its 
surface  has  a  more  conspicuously  cenescent  tinge. 

The  /S,  mundus  is  not  uncommon  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  ; 
and  in  the  sandy  region  of  Grand  Canary  between  Las  Pabnas  and 
the  Isleta  I  captured  two  specimens  which  are  uniformly  of  a  pure 
aeneous  hue,  like  the  S.  chalcites ;  but  I  hardly  think  they  are  more 
than  a  variety  of  the  present  species.  Nevertheless  their  third  and 
fourth  dorsal  striae  are  a  little  longer  than  is  the  case  in  the  ordinary 
type,  and  their  mesostenium  has  a  slight  tendency  to  be  obsoletely 
punctured. 

289.  Saprinus  erosus,  n.  sp. 

S.  niger  postice  picescens,  nitidus  ;  fronte  marginata,  carina  trans- 
versa bisinuata,  antice  irregulariter  transversim  bistrigosa ;  pro- 
thorace  magno,  convexo,  leviter  striguloso-punctato,  in  disco  pos- 
tico  laevi,  intra  angidos  anticos  (obtusos)  hand  impresso ;  elytris 
postice  in  medio  leviter  et  parce  punctatis,  striis  profundis  crenatis, 
humerali  indistincta  a  subhumerali  disjuncta,  lnia_4tam  dorsalibus 
paulo  ultra  medium  postice  continuatis ;  prostemo  striis  antice  sub- 
approximatis  subparaUelis,  mox  ante  apicem  confluentibus,  ad  basin 
paulo  divergentibus  ;  mesosterno  longiusculo,  impunctato  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  (crassis)  rufo-piceis  ;  tibiis  anticis  pone  apicem  profunde 
erosis,  ante  excavationem  dentibus  2  obtusis  subconfluentibus  et 
pone  excavationem  dente  singulo  obtuso  armatis,  posterioribus 
longe,  dense  et  grosse  ciliato-spinulosis ;  calcaribus  posterioribus 
elongatis,  robustis  ;  tarsis  valde  incrassatis,  setosis,  subconicis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,subrejectamentis  per  Htora  maris  repertus. 

Had  I  but  a  single  example  to  judge  from,  I  might  perhaps  have 
been  inclined  to  consider  the  curious  excavation,  or  cavity,  in  the 
outer  edge  of  the  front  tibiae  of  this  insect  as  accidental ;  but  since 
it  exists  equally,  and  without  the  slightest  variation,  in  six  specimens 
from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  drawn  out,  I  am  compelled 
to  regard  it  as  a  most  remarkable  specific  feature.  The  two  teeth, 
moreover,  between  this  sinus  and  the  apex  are  short,  obtuse,  and 
subconjluent ;  and  a  similarly  blunt  one  exists  behind  it, — after  which 
the  margin  is  hardly  perceptibly  serrated.  Apart,  however,  from  this 
peculiarity  of  its  anterior  tibiae,  the  S.  erosus  may  be  distinguished 
by  its  black  but  posteriorly  piceous  hue ;  by  its  large  and  convex 
prothorax,  which  has  its  front  angles  obtusely  prominent  (and  7iot 
obliquely  truncated)  ;  by  its  frontal  keel  being  bisinuated  (instead  of 
istraight),  and  its  forehead  branded  with  two  rather  irregular  trans- 
verse strigae  ;  by  its  elytra  being  only  lightly  and  sparingly  punctured 
behind ;  by  its  rufo-piceous  legs  being  exceedingly  thick  and  robust 


178  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

— the  foiir  posterior  tibiae  being  densely  armed  with  long  spinules, 
and  with  their  apical  spurs  largely  developed ;  and  by  its  feet  being 
much  incrassated,  subcorneal,  and  more  powerfully  spinose  beneath 
than  is  the  case  with  the  generality  of  the  Saprini. 

The  8.  erosus  appears  (like  the  following  species)  to  be  of  maritime 
habits,  as  indeed  the  very  robust  structure  of  its  greatly  thickened 
four  hinder  legs,  with  their  densely  spinulose  tibiae  and  feet  and 
somewhat  largely  developed  apical  spurs,  would  seem  to  indicate. 
My  six  specimens  were  all  captured,  from  beneath  marine  rejecta- 
menta, on  the  sandy  beach  at  Corralejo,  in  the  extreme  north  of 
Fuerte  Ventura. 

290.  Saprinus  lobatus,  n.  sp. 

8.  nigro-seneus  (postice  interdum  piceus),  nitidus  ;  fronte  marginata, 
carina  transversa  recta,  antice  transversim  bistrigosa  (striga  postica 
plus  minus  obsoleta) ;  prothorace  laevissimo  (per  marginem  ipsis- 
simum  posticum  serie  punctorum  solum  notato),  intra  angulos 
anticos  (porrectos,  rotundatos)  baud  impresso ;  clytris  postice  in 
medio  sat  dense  punctatis,  striis  profundis  crenatis,  humerali  a  sub- 
humcrali  disjuncta,  lni;i_4tam  dorsalibus  vel  versus  vel  paulo  ultra 
medium  postice  continuatis  ;  prosterno  sinuato,  antice  valde  desi- 
liente  lobiformi,  lineis  ad  basin  paulo  divergentibus,  inde  usque 
ad  medium  gradatim  approximatis  (fere  confluentibus),  dein  vix 
divaricatis  et  ad  apicem  ipsum  junctis  ;  mesosterno  impunctato ; 
antennis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis ;  tibiis  anticis  circa  6-  (longe  3-) 
dentatis,  posterioribus  longe  et  dense  ciliato-spinulosis ;  calcaribus 
posterioribus  elongatis,  parum  robustis ;  tarsis  elongatis,  incras- 
satis,  setosis,  subconicis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Habitat  per  oras  arenosas  maritimas  Lanzarotae,  Fuerteventurae  et 
Canariae,  sub  rejectamentis  haud  infrequens. 

Although  very  closely  allied  to  the  European  8.  maritimus  (  =sahu- 
losus,  de  Mars.),  it  certainly  would  not  be  safe  to  refer  the  present 
Saprinus  to  that  species.  It  may  be  known  from  it  by  its  entire 
surface  having  a  more  or  less  conspicuous  aeneous  tinge  (though  oc- 
casionally picescent  posteriorly),  instead  of  being  black  ;  by  its  elytra 
having  their  striae  rather  shorter  and  considerably  finer,  and  their 
punctation  denser  and  less  coarse,  and  extending  over  a  larger  por- 
tion of  the  posterior  disc ;  by  the  three  apical  teeth  of  its  anterior 
tibiae  being  perhaps  a  trifle  longer ;  by  its  pronotum  being  rather 
more  narrowly  punctured  along  its  extreme  base ;  by  its  presternum 
being  somewhat  more  imeven,  or  sinuated,  with  its  apex  a  little  more 
prominent  (or  downwardly  directed),  and  with  its  lines  almost  par- 
allel (or  not  quite  so  approximated  in  the  middle,  and  therefore  not 
so  perceptibly  divergent  before  the  middle)  ;  and  by  its  mesostemum 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  179 

being  less  coarsely  bordered,  especially  in  front,  and  always  totally 
impunetate.  Its  smooth  and  shining  prothorax  (which  has  merely 
a  row  of  punctures  along  its  extreme  hinder  margin)  will,  apart  from 
all  other  distinctions,  at  once  separate  it  from  the  other  Saprini  here 
enumerated. 

Like  its  more  northern  ally,  the  S.  lohatus  is  purely  a  maritime 
species,  occurring  beneath  marine  and  other  rejectamenta  on  the  sandy 
sea-shores.  In  such  situations  I  have  taken  it  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerte- 
ventura,  and  between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta  of  Grand  Canarj^ ; 
in  the  second  of  which  islands  it  was-  also  found  by  Mr.  Gray.  I 
have  likewise  captured  it  at  Mogadore,  on  the  opposite  coast  of 
Morocco. 

Genus  123.  XENONYCHUS  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus  ut  in  Saprino,  sed  subtus  valde  convexum  (meso-  et  meta- 
stemis  abdomineque  crassis  inflatis)  necnou  subtus  utrinque  lon- 
gissime  pilosum :  f route  marginata,  valde  depressa ;  oculis  parvis, 
demissis,  semicircularibus,  sub  frontis  angulo  lateral!  absconditis : 
pronoto  ubique  aequaliter  punctulato ;  prosterno  (ut  in  Padiylopo) 
valde  carinato  {i.  e.  striis  mox  ante  basin  confluentibus,  carinam 
acutam  inde  ad  apicem  efficientibus) :  elytrorum  stria  etiam  5'*^ 
dorsali  (i.  e.  inter  suturalem  et  quartam  recurvam  sita)  baud  om- 
nino  obsoleta,  interdum  parum  distincta :  alls  magnis :  propygidio 
longiusculo.     Antemup,  fere  ut  in  Saprino,  sed  scapo  pilis  multo 
longioribus  (sc.  longissimis)  subtus  et  supra  obsito.     Instrumenta 
cibaria  fere  ut  in  Saprino ;  sed  mandihulis  acutioribus  necnon  ad 
apicem  multo  magis  et  subito  incurvis,  longe  intra  apicem  deute 
(in  una  magno,  in  altera  minore  obtuso)  armatis  ;  paJporum  (max- 
iUarium  ac  labialium)  articulo  idtimo  paulo  longiore  et  omnino  cy- 
lindrico,  in  lahialibus  multo  majore  et  crassiore  quam  penultimo ; 
2mra(j/lossis  longissimis,  usque  ad  basin  articuli  ultimi  ductis.    Pedes 
anomali,  robustissimi,  posteriores  valde  distantes  et  postici  e  coxis 
crassis  alte  conicis  perpendicularibus  surgentes:  femoribus  parce 
sed  longe  pilosis,  anticis  paulo  longioribus  quam  tibiis,  intermediis 
tibiarum  longitudine,  postkis  ovatis  brevioribus :  tihiis  anticis  ver- 
sus apicem  profunde  tridentatis,  inde  ad  basin  minute  crenulatis, 
posteriorihus  intra  longissime  sed  parce  pilosis,  extus  longe  et  den- 
sissime  multispinulosis  :  tarsis  anticis  gracilibus,  subcalvis,  poste- 
riorihus subincrassatis  brevibus  subconicis,  art'^  2""'-4""'  supra  in 
medio  pilo  gracili  sed  infra  ad  apicem  singulis  seta  robustissima 
longissimis  instructis,  tarsis  omnibus  art"  1™°  longiusculo,  ultimo 
ovali  ungidcidis  setiformibus  rectis  (sed  in  anticis  ad  apicem  ipsum 
paido  inflexis)  longissimis  {sc.  articulo  sublongioribus)  instructis. 
Obs. — Genus  corpore  subtus  convexissimo  et  longe  sed  parce  piloso, 
coxis  posticis  valde  distantibus  incrassatis  alte  conicis  perpendi- 
culariter  elevatis,  tibiis  posterioribus  super  faciem  internam  pilis 
tenuibus  longissimis 'instructis  necnon  unguiculis  valde  clongatis 

N  2 


180  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

setiformibus  rectis  inter  Histcridas  anomalum.  Prostemi  forma 
antice  acute  carinati  cum  gen.  Pachi/lopo  congruit ;  sed  mandi- 
bulis  ad  apicem  longe  et  subito  inflexis  acutis  necnon  intus  dente 
armatis,  pronoto  ubique  ajqualiter  punctulato,  propygidio  longi- 
usciilo,  antennarum  scapo  pilis  longissimis  densius  instructo,  pal- 
porvimque  articulo  ultimo  cylindrico,  in  labialibus  magno,  a  Pa- 
chylopo  et  Baprino  insiiper  dignoscitur. 

A  ^evos,  alienus,  et  owl,  unguiculus. 

The  singular  insect  for  which  I  have  estabKshed  the  present  genus 
resides  about  the  drifting  sand-hills  of  Fuerteventura,  where  it  bur- 
rows at  the  roots  of  the  various  sand-plants  which  stud  those  arid 
maritime  wastes,  in  company  with  the  two  anomalous  CnrcuUonklie 
(one  of  them  blind,  and  the  other  nearly  so)  which  I  described  at 
considerable  length  in  a  recent  Paper*  on  the  "  Atlantic  Cossonides  "; 
and,  although  exponents  of  families  so  remote  from  each  other,  one 
nevertheless  cannot  help  remarking  a  certain  cm'ious  analogy  in 
several  of  the  structural  peculiarities  of  all  these  sand-infesting 
Coleoptera.  Whether  we  regard  indeed  the  enormous  length  of  the 
hairs  and  cUia  with  which  they  are  beset  on  portions  of  their  surface 
and  organs  which  are  not  usually  thus  clothed,  or  their  unnaturally 
abbreviated  antennae  and  more  or  less  diminished  eyes,  or  their  ex- 
traordinarily spinulose  legs,  and  the  fact  of  their  feet  being  in  every 
instance  most  wonderfully  modified  (either  by  additions  to  or  detrac- 
tions from  what  is  normal  in  their  respective  central  types),  it  is 
impossible  not  to  be  struck  by  the  quaint  and  mysterious  analogy 
which  would  seem  to  bind  them  together  (however  distant  in  affinity) 
into  at  any  rate  a  loccdly  associated  assemblage. 

Viewing  the  characters,  however,  of  Xenonychus  as  compared 
with  those  of  its  actual  aDies,  it  is  at  once  remarkable  amongst  the 
Histerido}  by  the  singular  convexity  of  its  body  beneath  (occasioned 
by  the  inflation  of  its  meso-  and  meta-sterna  and  abdominal  seg- 
ments), and  the  thickened,  conical,  elevated  form  of  its  (most  widely 
separated)  posterior  coxai ;  by  the  enormously  long  hairs  with  which 
either  side  of  its  under  surface,  and  the  inner  face  of  its  four  hinder 
tibioe,  are  studded ;  and  by  the  wonderful  construction  of  its  tarsal 
claws,  which  are  immensely  long,  slender  and  setiform,  and  (with 
the  exception  of  the  anterior  pair  which  are  slightly  incurved  at  the 
apex)  almost  perfectly  straight. 

In  minor  details  the  genus  is  distinguished  by  its  shortened  an- 
tenna? (which  have  the  scape  beset  Avith  excessively  long  hairs)  and 

*   Vide  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loncl.  (new  series)  v.  pp.  388,  394. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  181 

small  semicircular  eyes,  which  are  concealed  beneath  the  lateral  angles 
of  the  forehead ;  by  its  prosternum  being  sharply  keeled  in  front  (as 
in  Pachylopus)  ;  by  its  prothorax  being  densely  and  equally  punctu- 
lated  throughout,  and  the  four  dorsal  strise  of  its  elytra  entire ;  by 
its  propygidium  being  less  abbreviated  than  is  ordinarily  the  case ; 
by  its  mandibles  being  exceedingly  acute,  greatly  and  suddenly  in- 
curved at  their  apex,  and  armed  with  a  tooth  internally ;  and  by  the 
ultimate  joint  of  its  palpi  being  perfectly  cylindric,  and  in  the  labial 
pair  somewhat  enlarged. 

291.  Xenonychus  fossor,  n,  sp. 

X.  piceo-niger,  subnitidus,  ad  latera  ipsissima  longissime  fulvo-ciH- 
atus ;  fronte  impunctata,  carina  transversa  tenui  subobsoleta  bi- 
sinuata;  prothorace  densissime  sed  levissime  punctulato  (punetis 
serratulis  et  minus  impressis  sed  vix  minutis) ;  elytris  in  medio 
(praesertim  postice)  sat  profunde  punctatis,  striis  profundis  crenatis, 
humerali  in  subhumeralem  mergente,  lnia_4tam  dorsahbus  postice  ad 
apicem  continuatis,  suturah  tenui  Integra  cum  4*'^  dorsali  ad  basin 
juncta,  necnon  in  spatio  inter  suturalem  et  quartam  stria  5*^  plus 
minus  indistincta  antice  evanescente  impressis ;  mesosterno  sat 
profunde  punctate,  apice  late  sed  leviter  excavate ;  antennis  bre- 
vibus,  flavo-piceis ;  pedibus  robustissimis,  riifo-piceis. — Long.  corp. 
Hn.  li-lf. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  praesertim  ad  radices  plantarum  (Zt/go- 
phylU  Fontanesii,  "Webb,  et  caet.)  in  arenosis  aridis  submaritimis  cres- 
centium  fodiens. 

As  already  stated,  this  curious  insect  is  found  m  the  dry  sandy  re- 
gions of  Fuerteventura  adjoining  the  coast.  It  was  taken,  sparingly, 
both  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  around  the  roots  of  Zygophylhim  Fon- 
tanesii and  other  shrubby  plants,  on  the  exposed  sand-hUls  about  a 
mile  to  the  south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras,  during  February  1858. 

Genus  124.  EUBRACHIUM. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  159  (1862). 

292.  EubracMum  punctatum. 

Eubrachium  punctatum,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i. 
162  (1862). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  sub  cortice  ai'borum  laxo 
humido,  rarissime. 

I  have  pointed  out  the  distinctive  characters  of  the  present  and 
two  following  species  in  a  paper  which  has  lately  been  published  in 
the  'Trans,  of  the  Ent.  Soc.  of  London.'     The  E. punctatum  appears 


182  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed 

hitherto)  to  the  laurel-regions  of  Teneriffe  and  Palma.    In  the  former, 

I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  at  Las  Mercedes,  and  in  the  forest 

above  Taganana ;  and  in  the  latter,  at  a  rather  high  elevation  in  the 

Barranco  de  Galga.     It  occurs  principally  beneath  the  loose,  damp, 

rotten  bark  of  trees. 

293.  Eubrachium  ovale. 

Eiibrachium  ovale,  Woll,,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3i-d  series)  i.  161. 
pi.  vii.  f.  9  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  sub  cortice  Euphorhiarum  laxo  putrido  in  re- 
gione  El  Golfo  repertum. 

The  only  island  in  which  I  have  as  yet  observed  this  interesting 
little  insect  is  Hierro — -where,  during  February  1858,  I  captured 
several  specimens  of  it,  from  beneath  the  rotten  bark  of  old  Euphor- 
bias, in  the  lower  part  of  the  region  of  El  Golfo. 

294.  Eubrachium  politum. 

Eubrachium  politum,  WoJl,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lotid.  (3rd  series)  i.  163 
(1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Hierro,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  praecedens,  ra- 
rissimum. 

Of  the  present  Eubrachium  four  specimens  only  have  hitherto  come 
beneath  my  notice.  One  of  them  I  took  on  the  Euj^horbia-clad  cliffs 
(known  as  the  "  Risco")  overlooking  the  Salinas,  in  the  extreme  north 
of  Lanzarote ;  and  the  other  three,  in  company  with  the  last  species, 
at  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  Hierro. 

Genus  125.  ACRITUS. 
Le  Conte,  Proc.  of  the  Acad,  of  Philad.  iii.  288  (1853). 

§  I.  Prothorax  lined  punctorum  ante  basin  hand  impressus. 

295.  Acritus  punctum. 

A.  oblongus,  fusco-niger,  nitidus  ;  fronte  minutissime  et  parce  punc- 
tulata,  oculis  sat  magnis  prominulis,  minute  et  parce  setosis ;  pro- 
thorace  elytrisque  distinctius  sed  parce  punctatis,  illo  antice  et  pos- 
tice  subgequaliter  latiusculo,  lateribus  ipsis  paulo  sinuatis  et  stria 
Integra  impressis,  his  versus  humeros  obsolete  oblique  striatis ;  pro- 
sterno  et  mesosterno  vix  punctatis,  iUo  striis  integris,  a  basi  usque 
ad  apicem  gradatim  arcuato-divergentibus,  hoc  antice  integro  ob- 
tuse lobato,  ad  latera  marginato,  sutura  postica  indistineta ;  meta- 
sterno  magno,  punctate  ;  pygidio  et  propygidio  densissime  subtilis- 
simeque  transversim  rugatis  sed  baud  punctatis  ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque  piceo-ferrugineis  ;  tibiis  anticis  arcuatis,  extus  minutissime 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  163 

spinulosis  et  ante  apicem  subito  dilatatis,  posterioribus  sxibrectis, 
parce  ciliato-spinulosis. — Long,  corp,  lin.  |. 

Abrseus  p;inctiini,  Aube,  Ann.  tie  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  232  (1842). 
Acritus  pimctum,  de  Mars.,  ibid.,  607  (1856). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  per  oram  arenosam  maritimam  prope  oppidum 
Arrecife  sub  fueis  captus. 

Its  oblong,  entirely  punctulated  body,  its  freedom  from  a  punctured 
subbasal  protboracic  line,  and  tbe  shape  of  its  sterna,  no  less  than 
its  maritime  habits,  prove  the  present  Acritus  to  be  identical  with 
the  A.  punctum  from  the  south  of  Europe — of  which  I  have  lately 
received  four  examples  from  A.  H.  Haliday,  Esq.,  taken  by  himself 
in  Italy ;  nevertheless  many  of  its  most  important  characters  are 
totally  unalluded  to  by  De  Marseul.  Thus,  he  expressly  says,  of  the 
punctum,  "  Front  convexe,  saillant  sur  les  yeux";  whereas  in  reality 
the  forehead  is  depressed,  and  the  eyes  are  not  only  large  and  pro- 
minent, but  also  (which  is  a  most  unusual  feature)  minutely  and 
sparingly  setose*.  Again,  he  states,  "pygidium  et  propygidium  tres 
finement  ponctues  "  ;  whereas  there  is  not  the  vestige  of  a  puncture 
on  that  portion  of  the  surface  (which  is  closely  and  delicately  trans- 
versely-rugulose).  And,  lastly,  he  speaks  of  the  colour  of  the  limbs 
as  pale-testaceous ;  whereas  they  are  piceo-fernigiuous.  In  addition 
to  these  discrepancies,  I  should  add  that  he  makes  no  mention  of  the 
arcuated  and  rather  suddenly  dilated  anterior  tibiae,  which  constitute 
one  of  its  most  conspicuous  peculiarities.  Nevertheless  the  Canarian 
insect  is  clearly  identical  with  the  A.  punctum ;  with  which  (as  just 
stated)  it  likewise  agrees  in  its  mode  of  life.  Indeed  the  only  six 
specimens  which  I  have  seen  were  captured,  by  myself,  from  beneath 
sea- weed  on  the  sandy  beach  close  to  Arrecife  of  Lanzarote  ;  and 
in  the  'Faune  Frangaise'  the  habitat  given  for  i]xQ punctum  is  "La 
Teste,  sous  les  algues." 

§  II.  Protliorax  lined  punctorum  ante  basin  impressus. 

296.  Acritus  minutus. 

Hister  minutus,  Hbst,  Natursyst.  iv.  41.  tab.  36.  f.  4  (1791). 
Acritus  minutus,  de  Marseul,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  E)it.  de  France,  (Sienie 

serie)  iv.  614  (1857). 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  76  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  sub 
quisquiliis,  passim. 

*  I  can  recall  but  few  Coleopterous  insects  in  which  tliis  structure  exists ; 
indeed  the  only  ones  that  I  now  recollect,  in  which  it  obtains,  are  Litargus  and 
my  genus  Tarphiodes  (from  the  Malay  Peninsula). 


184  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

The  common  European  A.  minutus  (which  occurs  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo,  and  which  I  have  also  taken  at  Mogadore,  on  the  oppo- 
site coast  of  Morocco)  is  probably  universal  in  these  islands,  though 
from  its  small  size  it  is  very  liable  to  escape  observation.  Hitherto, 
however,  I  have  myself  met  with  it  only  in  Fuerteventura,  Grand 
Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma ;  but  I  have  received  specimens  which 
were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  My  Fuerteventuran  examples 
are  from  the  Rio  Palmas  ;  and  the  Teneriffan  ones  from  Orotava,  the 
Agua  Garcia,  and  Ycod  el  Alto. 

Fam.  24.  THORICTID^. 

Genus  126.  THORICTUS. 
Germar,  in  Silb.  Rev.  Ent.  ii.  2.  15  (1834). 

297.  Thorictus  gigas. 

T.  quadrato-oblongus,  rufo-pieeus,  nitidus,  minute  et  parce  asperato- 
punctatus,  subtiliter  fulvescenti-pubescens  ;  prothorace  brevi, 
transverso,  in  disco  postico  convexo,  ad  latera  valde  rotundato 
dilutiore  vix  subpellucido,  angailis  posticis  obtusis  ;  elytris  piceis, 
ad  humeros  calloso-incrassatis  et  ibidem  obtuse  prominentibus,  in 
disco  valde  convexis,  ad  basin  ipsissimam  Hnea  media  sinuatti  ter- 
minatis  necnon  utrinque  breviter  longitudinaliter  bicostatis  ;  pedi- 
bus  longiusculis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-vix  Ig. 

Thorictus  gigas,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  439  (1862). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  formicarum  nidis  rarissimus. 

The  large  size  of  this  gigantic  Thorictus  and  its  relatively  shorter 
and  more  transverse  prothorax  (which  is  slightly  subpeUucid  towards 
the  edges  and  has  its  posterior  angles  obtuse),  combined  with  its 
greatly  prominent  nodiform  shoulders,  the  very  distinct  biflexuose 
costa  with  which  the  central  portion  of  the  extreme  base  of  its  elytra 
is  terminated,  its  conspicuous  subhumeral  plicae,  and  its  comparatively 
elongated  legs,  will  readily  characterize  it.  The  punctules  of  its  upper 
surface,  although  small  and  distant,  are  sharply  defined  and  somewhat 
asperate  (the  anterior  edge  of  each  being  a  little  raised) ;  and  they 
are  much  denser  on  the  humeral  callosity  than  elsewhere.  It  is  appa- 
rently of  the  greatest  rarity,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed 
hitherto)  to  Grand  Canary — in  which  island  I  have  taken  it  sparingly, 
from  out  of  the  nests  of  a  large  brown  Ant  (a  Formica)  on  the  moun- 
tains above  San  Mateo,  as  well  as  on  the  northern  side  of  the  Bar- 
ranco  at  Aldea  de  San  Nicholas.  It  is  about  the  size  of  the  T.  Ger- 
mari,  Lucas,  from  Algeria  (of  which  a  specimen  has  been  communi- 


CANARIAN  COLEOrTKRA.  185 

catecl  to  me  by  Mr.  Janson),  but  is  totally  distinct  in  all  its  charac- 
ters— of  colour,  outline,  sculpture,  clothing,  proportions,  and  the  in- 
equahties  of  its  surface. 

298.  Thorictus  canariensis. 

T.  oblongus,  rufo-piceus,  nitidus,  minutissime  et  parce  punctulatus, 
subtilissime  (oculo  fortiter  armato)  cinereo-pubescens  ;  prothorace 
convexo,  ad  latera  valde  rotundato,  angulis  ipsis  posticis  oblique 
impresso-marginatis ;  elytris  pieeis,  antice  subparallelis,  in  disco 
valde  convexis,  ad  basin  linea  mediii  vix  terminatis  sed  utrinque 
breviter  longitudinaliter  subcostatis ;  pedibus  brcvibus. 

Variat  capite  prothoraceque  plus  minus  rufescentioribus  necnon  re- 
gione  scuteliari  plus  minus  obliquo-desihente. 

Var.  ft.  obsitus  [an  species  distincta?].  Prothorace  vix  rufescentiore, 
paulo  distinctius  punetato,  versus  utrumque  latus  obsoletissime 
impresso  ;  elytris  vix  angustioribus,  pube  longiore  erecta  irroratis, 
versus  humeros  paulo  evidentius  subplicatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |— 
vix.  1. 

Tliorictus  canariensis,  Woll.,Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.439  (1862). 
Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  sub  lapidibus  in  formicarum 
uidis  hinc  inde  parum  vulgaris.      Var.  ft  ad  locos  editiores  Tenerifiae 
necnon  ad  Gomeram  pertinet. 

In  its  general  outhne  and  very  minutely  punctulated  surface  the 
present  Thorictus  closely  resembles  the  Sicilian  T.  grandieoUis* .  It 
differs  from  it,  however,  in  being,  on  the  average,  of  a  distinctly  darker 
hue  (though  the  head  and  prothorax,  nevertheless,  are  more  or  less 
rufescent),  in  having  the  sides  of  its  pronotum  a  little  rounder  behind, 
with  the  posterior  angles  more  conspicuously  depressed  by  an  oblique 
marginal  band  (which  lops  them  off  on  their  upper  surface),  in  its 
elytra  being  almost  free  from  the  minute  central  rim  which  terminates 
the  middle  portion  of  their  extreme  base  in  that  species,  and  with 
the  short  subhumeral  (posteriorly  evanescent)  costae  perhaps  some- 
what less  developed,  and  by  its  surface  being  very  delicately  and 
sparingly  pubescent ;  whereas  in  the  grandieoUis  I  cannot  detect, 
except  at  the  lateral  margins,  the  slightest  trace  of  pile  even  under 
the  highest  microscopic  power.  It  is  also  very  nearly  allied,  both  in 
aspect  and  hue,  to  the  hicolor  of  Kraatz,  from  Greece  and  Sicily  (vide 
Berl.  Ent.  Zeit.  1858,  p.  141) — for  types  of  which  I  am  indebted  to 

*  The  Madeiran  T.  Westwoodil  differs  from  the  canmiensis  in  being  paler  and 
a  little  more  strongly  punctured,  in  having  its  prothorax  still  more  rounded  at 
the  sides,  and  its  scutellum  (although  very  minute)  quite  traceable  beneath  a  high 
magnifying  power,  in  the  small  elevated  line  with  which  the  central  portion  of 
the  extreme  base  of  its  elytra  is  terminated  being  distinctly  developed,  and  in  its 
antenna;  and  feet  (particularly  the  liinder  pair)  being  shorter  and  thicker. 


186  CANADIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

Dr.  Schaum ;  nevertheless  it  has  its  elytra  just  perceptibly  narrower 
and  longer  than  is  the  case  in  that  species,  as  also  less  ventricose  on 
their  hinder  disc  (or  less  incurved  posteriorly),  very  much  less  plicate 
at  the  shoulders,  and  with  the  extreme  basal  rim  less  elevated ;  the 
anterior  angles  of  its  prothorax  are  somewhat  more  rounded  off; 
and  its  tarsi  are  a  trifle  longer  and  slenderer. 

I  have  given  a  provisional  name,  in  the  event  of  their  proving  to 
be  specifically  distinct,  to  the  specimens  which  I  have  regarded  as 
the  "  var.  /3."  I  think,  however,  it  would  be  scarcely  safe,  at  any 
rate  until  further  evidence  is  obtained,  to  treat  them  as  more  than 
a  local  modification ;  though,  at  the  same  time,  when  viewed  even 
beneath  an  ordinary  lens,  they  are  easily  separable  from  the  normal 
examples.  They  have  been  taken  hitherto  only  in  Gomera  and  the 
higher  regions  of  Teneriffe ;  and  differ  in  having  their  prothorax  a 
trifle  more  evidently  punctured,  and  their  elytra  (which  are  perhaps 
just  perceptibly  narrower,  and  have  their  abbreviated  subhumeral 
plicse  rather  more  developed)  sparingly  beset  with  comparatively  long 
and  erect  hairs. 

The  T.  ccmariensis  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago ;  though, 
at  the  same  time,  I  should  state  that  the  only  example  which  has 
hitherto  been  taken  in  Gomera  belongs  to  the  "  var.  (3  "  (which,  as 
already  implied,  may 2iossibhj  be  distinct).  I  have  captured  it,  how- 
ever, in  its  normal  state,  on  the  rocky  groiuid  immediately  behind 
the  Salinas,  in  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote  (where  a  single  spe- 
cimen was  first  detected  by  Mr.  Gray,  during  January  1858) ;  at  La 
Antigua,  and  in  the  Rio  Palmas,  of  Fuerteventura ;  at  a  high  eleva- 
tion, close  to  the  Roca  del  Soucilho,  on  the  mountains  of  Grand 
Canary ;  near  the  Puerto  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe ;  in  the  Barranco 
above  S*"*  Cruz,  of  Palma ;  and  near  Valverde,  in  Hierro.  It  occurs 
beneath  stones,  and  either  actually  in  Ants'  nests  or  in  the  imme- 
diate vicinity  of  them. 

Of  the  "  var.  /3  "  a  single  specimen  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray  in  the 

Barranco  above  San  Sebastian,  of  Gomera  ;  and  I  have  myself  taken 

it  in  Teneriffe — namely  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  on  the  lofty  Cumbre 

(adjoining  the  Caiiadas)  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  at  an  elevation  of  more 

than  8000  feet. 

299.  Thorictus  vestitus,  n.  sp. 

T.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  vix  minor  angustior,  paulo  minus  nitidus 
(oculo  fortissimo  armato  minutissime  alutaceus),  profundius  punc- 
tatus  ct  pube  elongata  robusta  demissa  fulvescente  ubique  parce 
vestitus ;  prothorace  ad  basin  ipsissimam  paulo  magis  constrieto  ; 
elytris  ad  basin  ipsissimam  Uneii  tenuissima  (subobsoleta,  vix  ob- 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  187 

servanda)  in  medio  paulo  arcuata  terminatis,  versus  humeros  vix 
distinetius  subplicatis,  regione  scutellari  obliquo-desiliente. — Long, 
corp.  lin.  |. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  sub  lapidibus  in  saxosis  submaritimis  inter 
Haria  et  Barranquillo  d.  15.  Mart.  a.d.  1859  repertus. 

From  out  of  a  large  number  of  the  T.  canariensis,  collected  through- 
out the  archipelago,  I  find  three  specimens,  captured  in  Lanzarote, 
which  difier  very  considerably  from  the  remainder  ;  and  from  these 
the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled.  Nor  can  I  believe  them  to 
be  any  local  phasis  of  that  insect,  since  I  have  taken  the  T.  cana- 
riensis (in  its  most  typical  state)  in  Lanzarote  also,  and  therefore 
exposed  to  the  same  external  influences  as  the  vestitus.  The  cha- 
racters which  distinguish  the  latter  are  its  stronger  punctation 
(which  is  very  evident  when  viewed  under  a  high  magnifying  power) 
and  less  shining  surface,  its  just  perceptibly  smaller  and  relatively 
narrower  outline,  and  (more  especially)  the  long,  coarse,  decumbent 
fulvescent  pile  with  which  it  is  sparingly  clothed.  Its  prothorax, 
also,  is  a  trifle  more  constricted  at  its  extreme  base  ;  and  its  elytra 
are  rather  more  uneven  (or  longitudinally  subplicate)  towards  either 
shoulder,  and  have  just  traceable  indications,  beneath  the  microscope, 
of  being  terminated  by  a  minute  basal  line — behind  the  central  (ob- 
solete) portion  of  which  the  scutellary  region  is  more  sloping,  or  ob- 
liquely-depressed. 

My  three  specimens  of  the  T.  vestitus  were  captured,  from  be- 
neath stones,  in  the  submaritime  district  adjoining  the  coast-road 
between  Haria  and  Barranquillo,  in  the  north-east  of  Lanzarote,  on 
the  15th  of  March  1859. 

Fam.  25.  APHODIAD^. 

Genus  127.  APHODIUS. 

lUiger,  Kdf.  Preuss.  i.  28  (1798). 

300.  Aphodius  hydrochseris. 

Scai-abseus  hydrochaeris,  Fab.,  Ent.  Syst.  Siqypl.  23  (1798). 
Aphodius  hydrochferis,  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  222  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  78  (1857). 

,  Harttmcj,  Geolof/.  Vcrhdltn.  Lanz.  mid  Ftiert.  140  et  141. 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Palma  sola  adhuc  hand  detectus. 

The  A.  hydrocha^ris,  which  is  general  throughout  southern  Exirope 
and  northern  Africa,  and  which  is  tolerably  common  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  is  almost  certainly  umve):sal  in  these  islands, — though  hitherto 


188  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  Palma.  But  in  Lanzarote, 
Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  and  Hierro  I  have  myself 
taken  it,  more  or  less  abundantly ;  and  in  Gomera  it  was  found  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  In  TenerifFe  it  was  also  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  and 
Mr.  Gray.  Apart  from  minor  distinctions,  it  may  be  known  from 
the  other  Aplwdii  here  enumerated  by  its  larger  size  and  less  shining 
surface,  by  its  duU,  brownish-testaceous  hue  and  densely  punctured 
scuteUum,  and  by  its  anteriorly  margined  prothorax. 

301,  Aphodius  Wollastonii. 

A.  elongatus,  ovato-oblongus  (antice  subangustatus),  nitidus,  testa- 
ceus,  clypeo  (rugoso,  utrinque  ante  oculos  angulato-exstante),  scu- 
tello  pedibusque  picescentioribus,  capite  postice,  prothorace  in  dorso 
late  necnon  in  nebulfi  parvci  sublaterali  elytrisque  anguste  per 
suturam  nigrescentibus  ;  prothorace  brcviusculo,  leviter  inaequaliter 
punctate ;  elytrorum  striis  subtenuibus,  interstitiis  minutissime  et 
parce  punetulatis ;  palpis  antennisque  pallide  testaceis  ;  tibiis  pos- 
terioribus,  sed  prtesertim  intermediis,  longe  spinulosis. 

Mas  tuberculis  frontalibus  (prsesertim  medio)  distinctioribus,  pro- 
thorace vix  latiore  subtiliusque  punctate. — Long.  corp.  lin.  21-3^. 

Aphodius  Wollastonii,  Harold,  Berl.  Ent  Zeit.  397  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzaretam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  stercore  bovine,  equino, 
camelino,  tempore  vernali  parum  vulgaris. 

In  size  and  general  colouring  the  present  Apliodms  is  somewhat 
intermediate  between  the  A.  hydrocJia^ris  and  nitididns ;  its  surface, 
however,  is  brighter  and  less  deeply  sculptured,  and  its  colour  is  al- 
together clearer,  than  that  of  the  former,  and  moreover  its  pronotum 
is  ?Mimargined  anteriorly,  its  scuteUum  is  mere  sparingly  punctured, 
and  its  elytral  striae  are  narrower ;  whilst  its  prothorax  (which  has 
only  a  broad  cloudy  band  down  the  disc,  and  a  small  iU-defined  spot 
towards  either  side,  piceous-black)  is  very  much  paler  than  that  of 
the  latter.  From  both  of  them,  however,  its  anteriorly  subacumi- 
nated  outline  and  more  roughened  clypeus,  combined  with  its  very 
pale  antennae  and  the  much  longer  spinules  of  its  four  hinder  (though 
more  particularly  of  its  intermediate)  tibiae,  will  additionally  dis- 
tinguish it.  It  is  rather  a  common  insect  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventura  diu'ing  the  spring  months,  in  the  former  of  which  it  was 
also  captured  by  Mr.  Gray ;  but  I  have  not  yet  observed  it  in  any  of 
the  other  islands  of  the  Group. 

302.  Aphodius  nitidulus. 

Scarabaius  nitiduhis.  Fab.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  80  (1792). 

Aphodius  sordidus, Brulle  [necFab.],  in  Webbet  Berth.  (Col.)  60(1838). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  189 

Aphodius  nitidulus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  223  (1854). 
:,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  78  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  stercore  bovino  vulgaris. 
This  common  European  insect,  which  abounds  throughout  the 
Madeiran  Group,  is  universal  at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven 
islands  of  which  I  have  myself  taken  it,  more  or  less  profusely.  In 
Lanzarote  and  Gomera  it  was  also  found  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  in  Go- 
mera  and  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

303.  Aphodius  taeniatus,  n.  sp. 

A.  cylindricus,  nitidissimus  ;  capite,  prothorace  (convexo,  latiusculo, 
leviter  insequaUter  punetato,  versus  latera  sola  paUidiore)  elytrisque 
late  per  suturam  nigris  ;  clypeo  ad  latera  picescente,  recurvo  ;  ely- 
trorum  striis  tenuibus,  interstittis  subdepressis  minutissime  et  sat 
dense  punctulatis  ;  pedibus  picescentibus,  tarsis,  antennis  paljiisque 
inf u  scato-testaceis. 

Mas  tubercuhs  frontalibus  (prsesertim  medio)  distinctioribus,  protho- 
race vix  latiore  subtiliusque  punetato. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  una  cum  A.  Wollastonii 
degens. 

The  rather  small  size  and  cylindric  outline  of  this  Aphodius,  in 
conjunction  with  its  very  convex  prothorax,  which  (together  with  the 
head,  scutellum,  and  a  broad  sutural  band)  is  black  except  at  the  ex- 
treme edges,  its  fine  elytral  strise,  its  somewhat  more  densely  (though 
equally  minutely)  punctulated  interstices,  and  its  rather  darker  femora 
and  tibiae,  will  serve  to  separate  it  from  the  other  species  here  enu- 
merated. In  colouring  and  general  aspect  it  resembles  a  good  deal 
the  common  European  A.  merdarius ;  nevertheless  it  is  a  little  larger, 
more  cylindric,  and  much  more  shining  than  that  insect,  its  clypeus 
(which  is  subpicescent)  is  more  truncated  at  the  apex  and  more  re- 
curved at  the  sides,  its  prothorax  is  more  convex,  its  elytral  inter- 
stices more  depressed,  its  head  is  broader  and  with  the  frontal  suture 
and  tubercles  (instead  of  being  obsolete  in  both  sexes)  well  deve- 
loped in  the  males,  and  its  antennae  and  palpi  are  paler. 

The  A.  tceniatus  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerteventura,  where  it  occurs,  during  the  spring  months,  in  com- 
pany with  the  A.  Wollastonii ;  it  is,  however,  the  rarer  of  the  two 
species. 

304.  Aphodius  maculosus,  n.  sp, 

A.  elongatus,  nitidus  ;  capite  lato  piceo,  clj^jeo  (ante  oculos  angulato- 
exstante)  rufescentiore  ;  prothorace  (sat  profunde  inaequaliter  pune- 
tato) fusco-piceo  ad  latera  late  (necnon  saepius  per  basin  ipsis- 
simam  anguste)  testaceo  et  utrinque  macula  parva  media  nigres- 


190  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

cente  ornato ;  scutello  fusco-piceo ;  elytris  pallide  testaceis,  sin- 
gulis maculis  parvis  irregularibus  uigrescentibus  (circa  5)  ornatis, 
interstitiis  alutaceis  convexis  minutissime  punctulatis  ;  antennis, 
palpis  pedibusque  subpicescenti-testaceis,  tarsis  elongatis,  articulo 
primo  in  posterioribiis  longissimo. 
Mas  tuberculo  frontali  paulo  distinctiore,  prothorace  vix  latiore  sub- 
tUiusque  punctato. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2,\-2^. 

Apbodius  conspurcatus,  Bridle  [nee  Linn.\  in  Webb  et  Berth.  ( Col.)  60 
(1838).  _ 

sticticus,  Hart,  [nee  Pnz.^  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lonz.  umlFnert.  140. 

niaeulosus,  Harold,  in  litt. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura  sat  vulgaris,  necnon  in 
Canaria  Grandi  rarior ;  in  stercore  humano  prsesertim  gaudet. 

The  present  ApJiodms  may  be  regarded  as  the  representative  in 
these  islands  of  the  European  A.  inquinatus,  which  at  first  sight  it 
much  resembles.  It  is,  however,  a  little  larger  and  more  elongate  than 
that  insect,  its  surface  is  more  alutaceous  (and  therefore  somewhat 
less  shining),  its  elytra  are  of  a  paler  yeUow  and  with  their  small 
broken  patches  less  developed  (the  elongate  dash  within  the  lateral 
margin  of  that  species  being  entirely  absent),  its  head  and  prothorax 
are  less  black  (the  former  having  the  clypeus  rufescent,  and  the 
latter  being  much  more  broadly  pale  at  the  edges  and  with  the  ex- 
treme basal  margin  more  or  less  testaceous,  whilst  even  the  darker 
portions  are  merely  of  a  brownish-piceous  hue),  its  elytral  inter- 
stices are  more  convex,  and  its  antennae,  palpi,  and  legs  are  paler. 

From  the  A.  conspurcatus,  Linn.,  judging  from  specimens  which  I 
have  received  from  Bordeaux  (and  which  I  beheve  to  be  correctly 
identified),  the  A.  maculosus  is  abundantly  distinct, — differing  from 
it,  apart  from  minor  characters,  in  its  larger  size  and  more  palHd 
hue,  in  its  more  developed  clypeus  and  head,  in  its  more  convex 
elytral  interstices,  and  in  its  paler  and  longer  limbs — the  basal  joint 
of  its  four  hinder  feet  being  more  particularly  elongate,  and  the 
tibial  spurs  proportionally  enlarged. 

The  A.  maculosus  is  common  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura 
during  the  spring  (in  the  former  of  which  it  was  also  taken  by  Mr. 
Gray,  and  in  both  by  M.  Hartung)  ;  and  I  have  likewise  captured  it, 
though  very  sparingly,  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary.  Having  re- 
ceived it  from  Dr.  Heer  under  the  name  of  "  sticticus,  Pnz.,"  I  am 
enabled  to  state  for  certain  that  it  is  the  Aphodius  referred  by  him 
(though  erroneously)  to  that  species  in  the  list  compiled  for  M.  Har- 
timg's  volume ;  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  whatsoever  that  it  is  also 
the  A.  conspurcatus  of  M.  Brulle's  inaccurate  Catalogue,  in  the  work 
of  Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  191 

305.  Aphodius  lividus. 

Scarabaeus  lividus,  OUv.,  Bid.  i.  3.  80  (1789). 

bilitm-atus,  Mshm,  E)d.  Brit.  i.  15  (1802). 

Aphodius  lividus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  225  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  78  (1857). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriifam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  in  stercore, 
rarius. 

The  European  A.  lividus;  which  occurs  sparingly  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo,  and  which  I  have  taken  at  Mogadore  on  the  opposite 
coast  of  Morocco,  is  decidedly  rare  in  these  islands.  I  have,  how- 
ever, captured  it  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  near 
the  Puerto  Orotava  of  TenerifFe,  and  below  Argual  (in  the  district 
of  the  Banda)  on  the  western  side  of  Palma ;  and  I  have  received 
examples  which  were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  The  Palman 
specimens  are  unusually  dark  ;  but  it  is  a  variable  species  as  to 
colour.  Its  more  or  less  livid  hue,  however,  in  conjunction  with  its 
short  outline,  its  highly  polished  and  comparatively  unpunctured  sur- 
face, and  the  wwmargined  hinder  edge  of  its  pronotum,  will  readily 
distinguish  it  from  the  other  Apliodii  here  enumerated. 

306.  Aphodius  granarius. 

Scarabfeus  granarius,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  i.  ii.  547  (1767). 
Aphodius  carbonarius,  Bridle,  in  Wehh  et  Berth.  ( Col.)  60  (1838). 

granarius,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  226  (1854). 

^  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  79  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  vulgaris. 

This  common  European  Ai'>liodius,  which  abounds  in  the  Madeiran 
Group  and  which  is  recorded  by  M.  Morelet  at  the  Azores,  is  uni- 
versal at  the  Canaries — in  all  the  islands  of  which  I  have  myself 
met  with  it  except  Gomera,  where  however  it  has  been  found  lately 
by  Dr.  Crotch.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  captured  also  by  Mr.  Gray, 
and  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 
It  may  be  known  at  once  from  all  the  foregoing  species  by,  inter  alia, 
its  totally  black  hue. 

Genus  128.  OXYOMUS. 
(Eschscholtz)  De  Castelnau,  Hist.  ii.  98  (1840). 

307.  Oxyomus  brevicollis. 

Oxyomus  brevicoUis,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  229  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col  79  (1857). 

Habitat  Gomeram  et  Palmam ;    in  ilia  a  Dom.  Crotch,  in  hac  a 

Dom.  Gray  repertus. 

The  only  Canarian  examples  which  I  have  seen  of  this  insect 


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CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


(which  is  tolerably  common  around  Funchal,  in  Madeira)  were  cap- 
tured in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch  (near  the  sea-shore  below  Hermigua), 
and  in  Palma  by  Mr.  Gray — who  took  a  single  specimen  in  that 
island,  during  February  1858. 

Genus  129.  PSAMMODIUS. 

Gyllenhal,  Ins.  Suec.  i.  6  (1808). 

308.  Psammodius  csesus. 

Scarabaeus  cresus,  P/iz.,  Fna  Ins.  Genu.  35.  2  (1796). 
Psammodius  c.'esus,  Erich.,  Nat.  cler  Ins.  Deidsch.  iii.  913  (1848). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  3Iad.  231  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  79  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Canaria,  sub  quisquiliis,  minus  frequens. 

The  European  P.  ccesits  (which  occurs  also  in  the  north  of  Africa 
and  in  Madeira)  is  apparently  scarce,  or  at  any  rate  very  local,  in 
these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  and  about 
Las  Palmas  in  Grand  Canary. 

309.  Psammodius  sabulosus. 

Oxyomus  sabidosus,  DeJ.  Cat.  (edit.  3)  163  (1837). 
Platytomus  sabulosus,  Muls.,  Lamell.  de  France,  310  (1842). 
Psammodius  sabulosus,  Woll.,  Ins.  3Iad.  230  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  79  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canaricnses,  in  Palma  sola  adhuc  baud  detectus ; 
sub  quisquiliis  (praesertim  in  arenosis)  hinc  inde  occurrit. 

The  P.  sabulosus  is  eminently  an  insect  of  Mediterranean  lati- 
tudes, being  found  in  the  south  of  Europe,  the  north  of  Africa,  and 
in  the  Madeiran  Group.  Like  the  last  species  it  is  very  local  in  this 
archijDelago,  though  not  rare  in  the  districts  where  it  occurs ;  and 
we  may  be  quite  certain  that  it  is  universal,  Palma  being  the  only 
island  where  it  has  not  hitherto  been  observed.  I  have  taken  it  in 
Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  in  the  sandy  region  between  I/as  Palmas 
and  the  Isleta  of  Grand  Canary,  near  S"'  Cruz  and  Orotava  in  Tene- 
riffe,  and  also  in  Hierro ;  and  it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  near 
Hermigua  in  Gomera. 

310.  Psammodius  porcicollis. 

Aphodius  porcicollis,  Illir/.,  Mag.filr  Ins.  ii.  195  (1803). 
Psammodius  porcicollis,  Muls.,  Lamell.  de  France,  322  (1842). 

,  Lucas,  Col.  de  TAlgerie,  267  (1849). 

,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  80  (1857). 

Habitat  in  arenosis  (prsesertira  maritimis)  Lanzarota^  et  Fuerte- 
venturae,  sub  quisquiliis  necnon  ad  radices  plantarum  fodiens. 


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193 


The  geographical  range  of  the  P.porckolUs  is  almost  identical  with 
that  of  the  last  species,  being  found,  like  it,  in  the  south  of  Europe 
and  the  north  of  Africa.  At  the  Madeii'an  Group  it  occurs  about 
the  roots  of  sand-plants  behind  the  sea-beach  in  Porto  Santo  ;  and 
at  the  Canaries  I  have  taken  it  in  precisely  similar  situations — near 
Arrecife  of  Lanzarote,  and  (more  particularly)  at  Corralejo,  in  the 
extreme  north  of  Fuerteventura. 


Fam.  26.  TROGIDiE. 

Genus  130.  TROX. 
Fabricius,  FM.  Syst.  i.  86  (1792). 

311.  Trox  confluens,  n.  sp. 

T.  subovato-oblongus,  niger,  marginibus  longe  fulvo-ciliatis  ;  clypeo 
apice  subporrecto  acutiusculo  ;  prothorace  inaequali,  sat  dense  in- 
asqualiter  punctato;  elytris  singulis  10-striatis  (striis  latis,  utrinque 
costula  marginatis) ,  interstitiis  depressis  subnitidis  seriatim  tuber- 
culatis  (serie  alterna  majore),  tuberculis  singulis  postice  parce  et 
breviter  fulvo-fasciciilatis ;  antcnnis  rufo-ferrugineis ;  tarsis  pi- 
ceis ;  tibiis  anticis  subgracilibus,  processu  obtusissimo  (e  dentibus 
duobus  omnino  suifusis  confluentibus  composite)  extus  terminatis 
et  pone  hunc  dentibus  duobus  brevibus  valde  obtusis  armatis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  3|. 

Trox  hispidus?,  Bridle  {nac  Fab.\  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  GO  (1838). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  juxta  oppidum  Sanctam  Crucem  exemplar 
unicum  cepi. 

After  comparing  this  Trox  carefidly  with  the  tyi^es  of  no  less  than 
nine  species  which  have  been  lent  me  by  Dr.  Schaum,  and  four  more 
in  my  own  possession,  I  cannot  identify  it  with  any  of  them ;  and 
although  I  have  unfortunately  but  a  single  example  to  compile  my 
diagnosis  from,  I  am  nevertheless  compelled  to  regard  it  as  new. 
Indeed,  in  the  structure  of  the  tooth  at  the  outer  apex  of  its  front 
tibiae  it  differs  from  all  the  members  of  the  genus  to  the  descriptions 
of  which  I  have  had  access ;  for  whilst  that  process  is  composed 
normally  of  two  teeth  more  or  less  s?(6confluent  (and  usually  very 
distinct  from  each  other),  in  the  present  species  (judging  £rom  the 
individual  before  me)  they  are  completely  suffused,  so  as  to  form  a 
single  obtuse  projection  having  no  appearance  whatsoever  of  being 
even  ohsoletely  bipartite.  In  other  respects  the  T.  confluens  is  about 
the  size  and  general  outline  of  the  European  T.  sabulosus,  but  is  rather 
more  oblong  and  much  less  coarsely  (and  differently)  sculptured.    Al- 


194  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

together  it  seems  to  approach  nearer,  j^rimd  facie,  to  the  T.  mixtus  of 
Mulsant,  from  Syria,  than  to  any  other,  perhaps,  with  which  I  have 
compared  it ;  but  the  clearJy -deiined  sculptiirc  of  its  elytra,  which 
have  their  ten  striae  broad,  unconfused,  and  sharply  expressed  and 
their  tubercles  weU  marked  and  isolated  (the  alternate  series  more- 
over differing  less  considerably  in  size  from  the  remainder),  will,  apart 
from  the  structure  of  its  tibia;  and  numerous  minor  characters,  readily 
separate  it  both  from  that  insect  and  from  others  to  which  it  is  in  some 
respects  allied.  My  unique  specimen  was  captured,  from  beneath  a 
stone,  at  a  low  elevation  in  the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto,  near  S*"  Cruz 
of  TenerifFe.  I  have  little  doubt  that  it  is  the  species  referred  by 
M.  Brulle'  to  the  T.  hisjiidus,  F. — from  which  however  it  is  totally 
distinct. 

Fam.  27.  MELOLONTHID^. 

Genus  131.  OOTOMA. 

Blanchard,  Cat.  Col.  Ent.  120  (1850). 

The  present  genus  is  regai'ded  by  Lacordaire  as  a  mere  Section  of 
Pachydenm,  in  which  the  froyit  tarsi  only  (instead  of  the  anterior /o«r) 
have  their  second  and  third  joints  dilated  in  the  males ;  nevertheless, 
since  he  seems  to  have  overlooked  one  or  two  of  its  most  important 
features,  which  equally  escaped  the  notice  of  M.  Blanchard  (by  whom 
the  group  was  enunciated,  from  Messrs.  Webb  and  Bcrthelot's  Cana- 
rian  types  which  still  exist  at  the  Jardin  des  Plantes),  I  think  it  may 
be  desirable  to  retain  it  as  distinct,  more  particularly  since  the 
insects  which  compose  it  form  a  small  geographical  assemblage  appa- 
rently peculiar  to  these  islands.  The  structural  character  to  which 
I  especially  allude,  and  which  I  am  not  aware  obtains  in  Pachydema 
proper,  is  the  immense  sexual  difference  in  the  development  of  the  last 
joint  of  the  maxillary  palpi — which  is  more  or  less  greatly  enlarged 
in  the  males,  but  comjjaratively  cylindric  in  the  females.  With  re- 
spect to  its  feet.  Prof.  Lacordaire  is  not  quite  correct  when  he  says 
"  les  tarses  anterieurs  sont  simples  et  sans  brasses  de  poUs  chez  la 
seule  de  leurs  femeUes  qui  soit  connue  " ;  for  the  front  pair  have  in 
both  sexes  their  four  basal  articulations  clothed  beneath  with  short 
densely-set  seta;  (though  of  course  less  so  in  the  females) ;  whilst 
even  the  intermediate  pair  have  their  second  and  third  joints  (though 
scarcely,  in  the  female  sex,  theii'  first  and  fourth)  sparingly  setose.  So 
that  the  generic  diagnosis  of  Ootoma  requires  revising,  as  regards  the 
sexual  peculiarities  both  of  its  feet  and  palpi. 

M.  Blanchard  was  clearly  wrong  (as  indeed  Prof.  Lacordaire  has 


CANARIAN  COLKOPTKRA.  195 

remarked)  in  stating  that  the  antennae  of  Ootoma  are  9-articulate, 
for  they  have  distinctly  ten  joints, — the  pentaphyllous  club  appro- 
priating (as  in  Pachydema)  five  of  them.  Both  sexes  are  winged ; 
and  the  habits  of  the  species  (which  have  very  much  the  external 
aspect  of  the  Elapliocerai)  are  subterraneous,  like  those  of  the  earth- 
boring  i27i?zo<ro^i  (  =  Geotrogus,  Guerin)  of  northern  Africa. 

Were  it  not  that  M.  Brulle  expressly  mentions  that  he  had  not 
seen  the  female  of  his  Melolontha  {Ootoma)  ohscura,  I  should  have 
concluded  that  the  difference  to  which  he  calls  attention,  in  the  fact 
of  the  maxillarj'  palpi  of  that  species  having  their  terminal  joint  hut 
very  sligJitly  under  than  the  preceding  one,  and  which  he  regards  as 
abnormal,  was  simply  due  to  his  having  drawn  up  his  diagnosis  from 
a  female  spemnen ;  but  as  the  great  length  of  its  antennal  clava 
necessarily  implies  that  it  was  a  male  one,  this  hypothesis  is  hardly 
tenable. 

§  I.  ScuteUum  impunctatum,  sed  lineis  duabns  ohliquis  postice 
connexis  ionpresstiin. 

a.   Tarsorxm  intermediorum  masculoruni  art.  pemdtimifs 
aidytus  viw  setoso-peniciUatus. 

312.  Ootoma  bipartita. 

0.  nigra,  nitida,  subtus  (abdomine  excepto)  necnon  supra  ad  margines 
longe  subnigrescenti-pilosa,  elj^tris  rufo-castaneis ;  capite  densis- 
sime  punctato,  clypeo  recuiTo  ad  latera  ampliato,  a  fronte  linea 
obsoleta  diviso ;  prothorace  dense  punctato  ;  elytris  parcius  subru- 
goso-punctatis,  singulis  stria  suturali  sat  profundi!  lineisque  tribus 
obsoletis  instructis ;  pedibus  piceis,  tarsis  clarioribus  ;  palpis  an- 
tennisque  rufo-testaceis,  clava  pallidiore. 

Mas  plerumque  minor,  pygidio  propj-gidioque  subtilius  punctatis,  an- 
tennarum  clava  elongata,  palporum  maxillarium  articulo  ultimo 
lato  obovato. 

Foem.  plerumque  major,  pygidio  propygidioque  profundius  punctatis, 
antennarum  clava  breviore,  palponira  maxillarium  articulo  ultimo 
subcylindrico  (quam  prsecedens  vix  crassiore),  versus  apicem  sub- 
incrassato. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5-8|. 

Melolontha  hi^iirtit&,  Bndle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  60  (1838). 
Ootoma  bipartita,  5/a«cA.,  Cat.  Col.  Mus.  de  Paris,  120  (1850). 
Melolontha  bipartita,  Hartunq,  Geoloq.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fnert.  140 
et  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventnram  (rariiis  Canariam  et  Tene- 

riffam),  in  cuniculis  fodiens. 

Although  the  descriptions  which  M.  Brulle  intended  to  apply  to 

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196  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

his  four  Canarian  Melolonthkht*  are  both  inadequate  and  inaccurate 
— and  from  which  the  identification  of  the  species  is  rendered  even 
still  more  hopeless  by  his  entire  omission  (as  is  the  case  throughout 
the  wJioIe  of  his  Catalogue)  of  the  particular  islamh  which  they  in- 
habit,— I  think  that  the  fact  of  his  mentioning  that  the  M.  hipartita 
has  its  head  and  pro  thorax  "  noiratres  "  is  sufficient  to  render  it  at 
least  pro6rt6?e  that  that  insect  is  identical  with  the  present  one. 

Although  excessively  inconstant,  both  in  size  and  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  (Ttnore  or  less  darkened)  pile,  the  present  species  may  be 
known  from  the  0.  fuscij^ennis  (with  which  it  agrees  in  its  usually 
quite  impunctate  but  biimpressed  scutellum)  by,  apart  from  minor 
distinctions,  its  head,  prothorax,  and  scutellum  being  of  a  blackish 
hue,  whilst  its  elytra  are  rufo-castaneous ;  by  its  pubescence  (espe- 
cially on  the  under  side  of  the  body)  being  generally  darker ;  by  its 
pronotum  being  just  perceptibly  more  densely  punctured ;  and  by  the 
last  joint  of  the  maxillary  palpi  of  its  males  being  less  enormously 
enlarged,  whilst  those  of  its  females  are  likewise  a  little  narrower — 
being  (instead  of  oblong  or  suboval)  nearly  cylindrie. 

The  0.  hipartlta  occurs  principally  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura 
(especially  the  former) ;  nevertheless  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in 
Grand  Canary,  as  also  a  single  specimen  in  Teneriffe.  It  is  found, 
for  the  most  part,  in  small  holes,  or  burrows,  in  the  soil, — either 
beneath  stones  or  the  dung  of  cattle.  It  was  captured  likewise  (in 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura)  by  M.  Hartung. 

b.   Tarsorum  intermecUorum  masculorum  art.  penultinim  subtus 
hand  setoso-penicUlatus. 

313.  Ootoma  fuscipennis. 

0.  fusco-castanea,  nitida,  subtus  (abdomine  excepto)  necnon  supra  ad 
margines  longe  subflavescenti-pilosa  ;  capite  densissime  punctato, 

*  He  ignores  the  very  few  distinctire  featiires  which  these  exceedingly  variable 

insects  possess, — veievrmg  almost  solely,  in  his  four  "diagnoses,"  to  the  characters 
which  they  have  in  common.  Take,  for  instance,  his  "description"  of  the  M. 
fuscip€n7iis.  "  Moindre  d'un  tiers  que  le  biparfita  [this  is  incorrect],  cet  insecte 
se  distingue  par  la  couleur  obscure  de  ses  elytres  qui  sont  presque  noirs,  tandis 
que  tout  le  reste  du  corps  est  chatain.  [This  is  equally  inaccurate  ;  in  rare  cases 
the  head  and  prothorax  are  slightly  more  rufescent  than  the  elytra,  but  the  in- 
sect is  usually  perfccfl//  concolorous.]  Ce  petit  hanneton  a  le  dessous  du  corps 
tres-velu  excepte  le  bout  de  I'abdomen  [which  is  the  case  with  them  all],  et  de 
longs  polls  se  montrent  en  outre  aux  bords  anterieur  et  posterieur  de  son  corselet, 
de  manirre  a  caclier  presque  entierement  I'^cusson  [a  genc7-ic  feature  which,  al- 
though exceedingly  variable,  is  applicable  alike  to  the  v^hole  of  the  species].  La 
ponctuation  du  dessus  du  corps  et  la  disposition  des  stries  et  des  cotes  sur  les 
elytres  sont  analogues  a  ce  que  Ton  remarque  dans  le  M.  hipartifa,  et  la  forme 
du  chaperon  est  a  peu  pres  la  meme."  In  which  entire  description  there  is  not 
fo  much  ae  one  single  statement  which  is  even  tipproximntrly  diagnostic. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  197 

clypeo  reeiirvo  ad  latera  ampliato,  a  fronte  linea  obsoletissima  di- 
viso  ;  prothorace  bre^d,  ^ax  dense  punctato ;  elytris  parcius  sub- 
rugoso-pimctatis,  singulis  strici  suturali  lineisque  tribus  obsoletis- 
simis  instructis  ;  pedibus  rufo-pieeis,  tarsis  darioribus  ;  palpis  an- 
tennisque  rufo-testaceis,  clava  pallidiore. 

Mas  jilerumque  minor,  pygidio  propygidioque  subtilius  punctatis,  an- 
tennarum  clava  elongata,  palporum  maxillarium  articulo  ultimo 
latissimo  obovato-ovali. 

Foem.  plerumque  major,  pygidio  propygidioque  profundius  punctatis, 
antennarum  clava  breviore,  palporum  maxillarium  articulo  ultimo 
subovali  (in  medio  paulo  latiore). — Long.  corp.  lin.  0-8. 

Melolontha  fuscipennis,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  61,  pi.  1,  f.  1 

(1838). 
Ootoma  fuscipennis,  Blanch.,  Cat.  Col.  Mtis.  de  Paris,  120  (1850). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  et  Teneriffam,  in  iisdem  loeis  ac  praecedens 
degens. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  what  has  been  said,  the  dull,  brownish- 
castaneous,  more  or  less  concolorous  hue  of  this  insect  (in  which, 
however,  occasionaUy  the  prothorax  and  ocmsionally  the  elytra  are 
somewhat  more  rufescent  than  the  rest  of  the  surface),  combined  wdth 
its  just  perceptibly  less  densely  punctured  pronotum,  and  the  enor- 
mously developed  last  joint  of  the  maxillary  palpi  of  its  males,  whilst 
that  even  of  its  females  is  slightly  wider  (and  less  ci/Undrlc)  than  is 
the  case  in  the  corresponding  sex  of  the  hipartita,  will  serve  to  dis- 
tinguish it  from  that  species.  I  have  taken  it,  from  out  of  burrows 
in  the  soil  beneath  camels'  dung,  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventui'a  ; 
as  also,  though  more  sparingly,  in  Teneriife  :  and  I  captured  two  dead 
specimens  in  Palma  which  are  in  all  probability  referable  to  this 
species ;  but  they  were  in  such  a  mutilated  condition  (having  been 
extracted  from  a  cobweb)  that  I  cannot  state  this  for  certain. 

§  II.  Scutellum  puree  punctatum,  sed  lineis  dimhus  ohliquis 
vix  impressimi. 

314.  Ootoma  Integra,  n.  sp. 

0.  fusco-castanea,  nitida,  subtus  (abdomine  excepto)  necnon  supra 
ad  margines  subfulvescenti-pilosa ;  capite  densissime  et  profunde 
punctato,  clypeo  recurvo  ad  latera  ampliato,  a  fronte  linea  obsoleta 
diviso  ;  prothorace  valde  profunde  rugoso-pimctato  ;  scutello  pos- 
tice  rotundato-obtuso,  ad  basin  ipsam  punctis  perpaucis  (et  vix 
lineis  duabus  brevissimis  rudimentaribus)  notato ;  elytris  paulo 
rufescentioribus  parciusque  rugoso-punctatis,  singulis  stria  suturali 
obsoleta  lineisque  tribus  obsoletissimis  instructis  ;  pedibus  rufo-pi- 
ceis,  tarsis  clarioribus,  tibiis  anticis  extus  fere  integris  (i.  e.  dentibus 
obsoletis) ;  palpis  antennisque  rufo-testaceis,  clava  pallidiore. 

Mas  adhuc  latet. 


198 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


Fcem.  palponun  maxillarium  articulo  iiltimo  subcyliudrico-ovali. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  6|. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  "  El  Monte  "  dicta  capta. 

In  its  scutellum  having  only  three  or  four  scattered  punctures  at 
its  extreme  base  and  the  merest  rudiments  of  two  very  abbreviated 
obliquely  impressed  hues  behind,  the  0.  integra  is  somewhat  inter- 
mediate between  the  last  Section  and  the  present  one ;  and  did  it 
not  possess  one  or  two  decided  structural  peculiarities  of  its  own,  I 
should  have  been  unwilHng  to  erect  an  additional  species  from  the  evi- 
dence afforded  by  a  single  specimen,  in  such  a  variable  groiip.  But 
since  it  has  really  a  few  very  remarkable  characters,  which  I  have  no 
reason  to  regard  as  accidental,  and  since  its  Jiahitat-island,  moreover, 
is  different  irom.  that  of  any  of  the  remainder,  I  have  been  almost 
compelled  to  treat  it  as  distinct. 

The  0.  integra  differs  from  the  last  species  and  the  following  one 
in  the  above-mentioned  sculpture  of  its  posteriorly  rounder  (or  more 
obtuse)  scutellum,  in  its  more  deeply  punctured  surface,  in  the  last 
joint  of  the  maxillary  palpi  of  its  females  being  more  strictly  ob- 
long, and  blunter  at  the  tip  (the  corresponding  articulation  in  the  0. 
castanea  being  regularly  acuminated,  or  conical),  and  in  its  two  front 
tibiiB  having  their  outer  edge  almost  entire — the  teeth  being  nearly 
obsolete.  Its  elytra  are  not  quite  so  rufescent  as  those  of  the  0. 
hipartita  ;  and  its  head,  prothorax,  and  scutellum  are  much  less  dark 
— being,  in  fact,  scarcely  obsciirer  than  the  elytra.  The  unique  ex- 
ample from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  was  captured 
by  myself,  during  the  spring  of  1858,  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in 
Grand  Canary. 

315.  Ootoma  castanea. 

0.  fere  ut  0.  fuscipennis,  sed  corpore  subtus  ssepius  paUidiore ;  clypeo 
vix  breviore,  a  fronte  Hnea  recta  distinctiore  diviso,  antice  paulo 
magis  sinuate,  ad  latera  minus  ampliato-recurvo  (ergo  mox  ante 
oculos  minus  angulato-exstante)  ;  prothorace  paulo  densius  punc- 
tato,  per  basin  ipsissimam  minus  evidenter  marginato  ;  elytris  stria 
suturali  plerumque  levius  impressa ;  tibiis  anticis  \dx  obsoletius 
dentatis. 

Mas  palporum  maxillarium  articulo  ultimo  magno  lato  sed  minore  et 
breviore  quam  in  0.  fuscipenni  necnon  magis  regulariter  ovaH. 

Fcem.  palporum  maxillarium  articulo  ultimo  regulariter  conico  (quare 
apicem  versus  magis  acuminato  quam  in  0.  fuscipenni). 

Variat  colore  a  pallido-castaneo  usque  ad  fusco-piceo. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  4|-6|. 

Melolontha  castanea,  BrvlU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  60  (1838). 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEllA.  199 

Dasysterna  canariensis  ?,  Rambur,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France^  331 

(1843). 
Ootoma  castanea,  Blanch.,  Cat.  Col.  Mas.  de  Paris,  120  (1850). 

Habitat  Teneriifam,  rarissime,  in  cuniculis  fodiens. 

The  present  Ootoma  (which  seems,  so  far  as  observed  hitherto,  to 
be  peculiar  to  Teneriffe)  might  be  almost  regarded  at  first  sight  as  a 
mere  insular  modification  of  the  0.  fuscipennis  ;  nevertheless,  since 
the  sexual  proportions  of  its  palpi  are  different,  I  am  bound  to  regard 
its  other  small  distinctions  as  of  greater  importance  than  I  should 
have  been  inclined  to  have  done  had  there  been  no  structural  charac- 
ter to  warrant  its  separation.  Judging  from  the  few  examples  which 
I  have  seen,  it  is,  on  the  average,  a  little  smaller  than  that  insect ;  its 
colour  is  more  variable  (being  sometimes  of  a  pale  reddish-chestnut, 
and  at  others  of  a  dark  piceous-brown)  ;  its  body  beneath  is  nearly 
always  of  a  more  paUid  hue  than  is  the  case  in  that  species  (being 
often  yellowish-testaceous)  ;  its  clypeus  is  relatively  a  trifle  shorter, 
more  sinuated  in  front,  less  recurved  and  developed  at  the  sides  (and 
therefore  less  laterally -prominent  immediately  in  front  of  either  eye), 
and  more  evidently  divided  from  the  forehead  by  a  straight  transverse 
line ;  its  prothorax  is  just  perceptibly  more  densely  punctured,  and 
less  coarsely  margined  along  its  extreme  basal  edge  ;  its  elytra  have 
their  sutural  stria  usually  less  deep  ;  its  scutellum  is  beset  with  a  few 
rather  large  pimctui-es,  but  apparently  not  impressed  with  two  oblique 
Knes  ;  and  its  anterior  tibiae  have  their  external  teeth  perhaps  some- 
what less  developed.  In  addition  to  which,  the  terminal  joint  of  its 
maxillary  palpi  is  relatively  smaller  in  both  sexes, — being,  also,  more 
regularly  oval  in  the  males  and  much  more  acuminated  (or  conical)  in 
the  females. 

The  only  two  of  the  above  diagnostic  features  which  M.  Brulle  has 
mentioned  are,  the  fact  of  its  abdomen  being  pale  and  of  its  clypeus 
being  separated  from  the  forehead  by  a  transverse  line  ;  nevertheless 
the  latter  of  these  is,  after  all,  only  a  relative  difference,  the  suture 
being  merely  a  little  more  evident  in  the  0.  castanea  than  in  the  other 
species ;  whereas  his  description  would  certainly  lead  to  the  supposi- 
tion that  it  was  only  traceable  in  the  present  one.  However,  I  think 
there  is  sufficient  to  conclude  (even  from  such  meagre  evidence)  that 
the  Teneriffan  insect  is  the  one  which  he  referred  to  (described  from 
a  single  indi\ddual,  without  anterior  feet,  palpi,  and  antennae  !)  under 
the  trivial  name  of  castanea*. 

*  Scarcely  more  intelligible  is  Rambur' s  description  of  liis  Dasysterna  cana- 
riensis, nearly  all  the  characters  wliich  he  gives  being  merely  such  as  are  common 
to  the  Ootomas  generally.     Nevertheless,  since  he  alludes  to  the  species  as  "  infra 


200  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

I  have  taken  the  0.  castanea  near  Orotava  ;  and  it  has  likewise  been 
communieated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  from  the  vicinity  of 
Laguna. 

316.  Ootoma  obscurella,  n.  sp. 
0.  fere  ut  0.  castanea,  sed  ubique  (snbtiis  et  supra)  fusco-nigra,  pube 

obsciiriore ;  sutura  frontali  vix  minus  distinct;! ;  scutello   paulo 

densius  pimctato ;  pedibus  piceis,  tarsis  clarioribus  ;  palp  is  an- 

tennisque  rufo-testaceis, 
Mas  palporum  maxillarium  articnlo  ultimo  magno,  lato  et  paulo  lon- 

giore  quam  in  0.  castanea. 
Fcem.  palporum    maxillarium    articulo    ultimo    subcylindrico-ovali 

(multo  minus  conico  quam  in  0.  castanea). — Long.  corp.  Kn.  5-6. 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  mense  Februario  a.d.  1858  duo  specimina  collegi. 

Were  it  not  for  the  slight  differences  in  the  shape  of  the  ultimate 
joint  of  their  respective  maxillary  palpi,  I  might  perhaps  have  re- 
garded the  present  Ootoma  as  a  dark  insular  modification  of  the  cas- 
tanea, peculiar  to  Hierro ;  but  as  I  cannot  suppose  that  those  organs 
would  vary  structurally  in  the  same  species,  I  am  compelled  to  treat 
the  0.  obscurella  as  an  additional  member  of  this  small  geographical 
assemblage.  It  may  be  known  from  the  castanea  by  its  uniformly 
dark  hue  (both  the  under  and  upper  surfaces  being  of  a  brownish- 
black),  by  its  obscurer  pubescence,  by  its  frontal  suture  being  a  little 
less  distinct,  by  its  scutellum  being  apparently  somewhat  more  thickly 
punctured,  and  by  the  terminal  articulation  of  its  maxillary  palpi 
being  (relatively)  a  trifle  longer  in  the  males  and  much  less  conical 
(or  more  oblong)  in  the  females. 

Judging  from  its  colour  alone,  I  should  have  had  no  hesitation  in 
referring  this  insect  to  the  Melolontha  obscura  of  Brulle ;  but  since 
he  mentions  that  that  species  has  the  last  joint  of  its  maU  maxillary 
palpi  only  very  slightly  wider  than  the  preceding  one  (and  the  en- 
larged antennal  clava  to  which  he  alludes  would  seem  to  imply  that 
it  cannot  have  been  a  female  from  which  he  drew  up  his  diagnosis), 
I  am  precluded  altogether  from  acting  on  that  supposition.  The  only 
two  examples  which  I  have  seen  were  taken  by  myself,  in  the  island 
of  Hierro,  during  February  1858. 

317.  Ootoma  obscura. 

Melolontha  obscura,  Bmlle,  in  Wehh  et  Berth.  (  Col.)  61.  pi.  1.  f.  2  (1838). 
Ootoma  obscura,  Blanch.,  Cat.  Col.  Mas.  de  Paris,  120  (1850). 

Habitat? 

dilutior, tibiis  anticis  obsolete  trifidis,"  and  cites  it  as  coming  from 

"  I'ile  de  Teneriffe,"  I  think  we  may  safely  assign  it  to  the  0.  castanea  (for  it  is 
manifestly,  as  Lacordaire  lias  rightly  conjectured,  an  Ootoma). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  201 

Although  I  cannot  say  whether  it  belongs  to  the  present  Section  or 
the  preceding  one,  I  nevertheles.s  admit  this  species  into  the  Catalogue, 
— feeling  sure  (from  the  reasons  already  stated,  and  assuming  M, 
Brulle's  description  to  be  correct)  that  it  cannot  be  referred  to  any 
of  the  preceding  members  of  the  genus  ;  though  in  its  darkened  hue  it 
would  appear  to  agree  with  the  0.  obscurella.  The  enlarged  spatuli- 
form  clava  of  its  antennae,  moreover,  which  it  is  stated  to  possess, 
would  still  further  tend  to  distinguish  it.  AU  the  other  particulars 
to  which  M.  BruUe  calls  attention  are  merely  generic  ones,  existing 
equally  in  all  the  representatives  of  the  group  hitherto  detected.  As 
to  the  island  in  which  it  was  found  I  am,  of  course,  unable  to  con- 
jecture,— M.  Brulle,  as  though  to  make  his  Catalogue  (if  possible)  even 
still  more  inaccurate  and  incomprehensible,  having  entirely  omitted 
all  reference  to  "  habitat  "  throughout  the  whole  of  it. 

Fam.  28.  DYNASTIDiG. 

Genus  132.  PHYLLOGNATHUS. 

Eschscholtz,  Bull,  de  Moscoti,  65  (1830). 

318.  Phyllognatlius  Silenus. 

Scarabaeus  Silenus,  Fab.,  Si/st.  Ent.  i.  13  (1775). 

,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  60  (1838). 

Phyllognathus  Silenus,  Muls.,  Lamell.  de  France,  379  (1842). 

,  Lucas,  Col.  de  TAlyerie,  273  (1849). 

Oryctes  Silenus,  Hartung,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  TenerifTam,  prassertim  sub 
rejectamentis  stabulorum  neenon  sub  stercore  bovino,  equino,  came- 
liuo  fodiens. 

The  excessive  variability  of  the  males  of  this  insect,  both  in  size 
and  in  the  development  of  the  frontal  horn,  which  is  often  so  reduced 
in  dimensions  as  to  be  almost  obsolete  (under  which  circumstances 
the  sublateral  cavities  of  the  prothorax,  and  the  wider  central  one, 
are  comparatively  evanescent),  renders  extreme  specimens  of  that  sex 
sometimes  liable  to  be  confounded,  at  first  sight,  with  the  females  ; 
nevertheless  the  inequality  of  the  claws  of  the  anterior  feet  will  serve 
immediately,  in  every  instance,  to  distinguish  the  males.  It  is  emi- 
nently a  species  of  Mediterranean  latitudes,  occurring  in  the  south 
of  Europe  and  the  north  of  Africa*  ;  and  the  only  differences,  at  all 
constant,  that  I  can  detect  in  the  Canarian  examples  are,  that  their 

*  I  have  captured  it  at  Mogadoi-e,  on  the  opposite  coast  of  Morocco ;  and  it  is 
recorded  by  M.  Lucas  in  Algei'ia. 


202  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

clypeus  is  somewhat  more  pointed,  and  less  recurved,  at  the  apex, 
and,  tog-ether  with  the  basal  portion  of  the  frontal  process,  more 
rugosely  sculptured  ;  whilst  the  gence  (or  the  lateral  rim  of  the  head 
which  projects  over  either  eye)  are  not  quite  so  prominent,  and  the 
prothorax  of  its  female  sex  is  rather  less  regularly  rounded  at  the 
sides  (or  more  obliquely  truncated  anteriorly)  :  but  these  are  points, 
I  imagine,  of  but  slight  impoi'tance  in  an  insect  so  essentially  variable. 
T  have  taken  the  P.  Silenus  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  (in 
the  latter  of  which  islands  it  was  also  found  by  M.  Hartung) ;  and 
it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  from 
Teneriffe.  The  females  would  appear  to  be  very  much  scarcer  than 
the  males  ;  for  out  of  16  specimens  which  I  captured  in  the  Rio 
Palmas  of  Fuerteventura  (from  beneath  the  refuse  of  a  camels'  stable) 
two  only  belong  to  the  former  sex.  In  Lanzarote  (and  probably  in 
the  other  islands  likewise)  it  is  called  "  Chamorro  "  by  the  inhabitants. 

Genus  133.  ORYCTES. 

Illiger,  Ktif.  Prems.  11  (1798). 

319.  Oryctes  prolixus,  n.  sp. 

0.  fere  ut  0.  Grypus,  sed  paulo  minor,  prothorace  minore,  elytris 
parum  longioribus  (aut  potius  abdomine  breviore),  propygidium 
vel  fere  vel  omnino  tegentibus,  subtus  densius  pilosus  ;  clypeo  in 
rosteUum  brevius,  magis  triangulare  et  plerumque  magis  recm'vum 
producto  ;  genis  aiitice  minus  jjorrectis,  postice  brevioribus,  hand 
ultra  medium  oculorum  (nigrorum)  ductis;  prothoracis  excavatione 
(in  maribus)  latins  pohtissima,  postice  utriaque  argutius  determi- 
nata  et  ibidem  impressione  parva  adjuncta  profimdiore  aucta,  parte 
media  basali  minus  convexa  necnon  antice  acutiore  baud  tridentata 
(sed  obsolete  trisinuata  necnon  ad  apicem,  vix  bipartitum,  paulo 
magis  quam  ad  angulos  laterales  porrecta)  ;  elytrorum  pimctis 
versus  seriem  subsuturalem  majoribus  ;  propygidio  (necnon  pygidio 
in  sexu  masculo)  midto  magis  pubescente  grossiusque  transversim 
scrobinato.— Long,  coi-p.  lin.  13-15. 

Scarabaeus  nasicornis,  Bridle  [nee  Linn.'\,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  60 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  rarissimus. 

The  present  Oryctes  belongs  to  the  same  Section  of  the  genus  as 
the  European  0.  Grypus,  in  which  the  anterior  tibiae  are  3-dentate, 
the  beak-Hke  projection  of  the  clypeus  is  comparatively  small  and 
narrow,  and  the  elytra  are  furnished  along  their  hinder  margin  with 
a  narrow  fringe  of  short  yellowish  hairs.  Indeed  it  is  closely  aUied 
to  that  species,  though  I  believe  undoubtedly  distinct, — displaying  a 
number  of  small  differential  characters  which  I  cannot  detect  in  a)iy 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  203 

of  the  speciinens  which  I  possess  of  the  0.  Grypus  from  Portugal, 
Spain,  and  the  south  of  France.  Thus,  it  is  rather  smaller  (its  male 
prothorax  being  more  particularly  diminished)  ;  and  its  body  beneath, 
as  also  its  pygidium  and  propygidium,  are  more  pilose, — the  two  lat- 
ter moreover  being  less  developed,  so  that  the  elytra  cover  either  the 
whole  or  nearly  the  whole  of  the  propygidium  (which  also  has  its 
minute  transverse  strigae,  used  for  the  purpose  of  stridulating,  very 
much  coarser).  In  other  respects,  the  beak-like  process  of  the  cly- 
peus  is  rather  shorter,  more  triangular,  and  usually  more  recurved 
(though  less  evidently  excavated)  at  the  apex  ;  its  f/ence  are  much  less 
porrect  in  front  and  less  produced  behind  (where  they  do  not  ex- 
tend below  the  middle  of  either  eye) ;  the  large  prothoracic  excava- 
tion of  its  males  is  more  ividely  polished  posteriorly,  and  has  the 
hinder  supplemental  depression  at  either  side  deeper  and  better  de- 
fined, whilst  the  elevated  middle  portion  at  the  base  is  much  less 
convex  and  has  its  edge  acuter  and  differently  formed — being  obscurely 
trisinuate,  with  the  centre  minutely  and  obsoletely  bifid  and  rather 
more  advanced  than  the  lateral  angles  (instead  of  being  obtusely  tri- 
dentate,  with  the  outer  projections  greatly  developed) ;  and  the 
punctures  of  its  elytra  immediately  outside  the  subsutural  series  are 
larger*. 

The  0.  prolixus  appears  to  be  decidedly  rare.  I  took  a  single 
specimen  of  it  in  Hierro,  during  February  of  1858  ;  and  another,  at 
Taganana,  in  Teneriffe,  towards  the  end  of  May  1859, — from  which 
latter  island  a  male  has  lately  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do 
CasteUo  de  Paiva  ;  and  a  fourth  example  was  captured  by  the  Eev. 
E..  T.  Lowe  at  Hermigua,  in  Gomera,  during  April  of  1861.  So  that 
it  probably  exists  throughout  at  any  rate  the  central  and  western 
portions  of  the  archipelago. 

Fam.  29.  CETONIAD^. 

Genus  134.  EPICOMETIS. 
Burmeister,  Handb.  der  Ent.  iii.  434  (1842). 

320.  Epicometis  squalida. 

Scaraboeus  squalidus,  Linn.,  Si/st.  Nat.  i.  2.  556  (1767). 
Cetonia  crinita,  Charp.,  Horce  Ent.  213  (1825). 


*  It  will  be  seen  at  once  that  the^'rm^'erjzMmSer  of  these  characters  distinguish 
it  eqvially  from  the  0.  naskornis  (which  has  very  much  in  common  with  the 
0.  Grypua). 


204  CAXARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Cetonia  liirta,  BruUe  [nee  Fab.],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (  Col.)  62  (;1838). 
Tropinota  Reyi,  Muls.,  Lnmell.  de  France,  575  (1842 ). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  ad  flores  vulgaris. 

The  present  insert,  which  occurs  in  the  south  of  France,  Italy, 
Sicily,  ifec,  is  universal  in  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven  islands 
of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it,  and  in  some  of  them  very  abim- 
dantly.  It  is  particularly  partial  to  the  flowers  of  the  Aspliodelus 
Jtstulosus,  on  which  it  may  often  be  taken  in  actual  clusters, — as  I 
have  more  especially  observed  in  the  region  of  El  GoKo  on  the  western 
side  of  Hierro,  and  on  the  mountains  above  S*"  Cruz  of  Teneriffe  (in 
the  direction  of  Las  Mercedes).  Nevertheless  it  is  frequently  almost 
as  common  on  thistles.  From  Teneriffe  it  has  likewise  been  com- 
municated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  and  Dr.  Crotch,  the  latter 
of  whom  foimd  it  also  in  Gomera.  Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot's 
examples  are  referred  by  Blanchard  [Cat.  CoJ.  3Ims.  de  Paris,  p.  9] 
to  the  E.  hirtelJa,  L. ;  but  aU  the  specimens  which  I  have  hitherto 
seen  from  these  islands  belong  certainly  to  the  larger  of  the  two 
nearly  allied  species  (in  which  the  outer  elytral  costa  is  comparatively 
weU  developed  and  elevated,  and  obscurely  bifurcate  at  either  shoul- 
der), namely  the  E.  squalida. 

321.  Epicometis  femorata. 

Cetonia  femorata,  /%.,  Macj.fur  Inseht.  ii.  231  (1803). 

hispanica,  Gory  et  Perch.,  Mon.  des  Cet.  280  (1833). 

Epicometis  femorata,  Burm.,  Handb.  der  Ent.  iii.  435  (1842). 
,  Blanch.,  Cat.  Col.  Mas.  de  Paris,  9  (1850). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  borealem,  in  arenosis  ad  Corralejo  capta. 

The  only  locality  in  the  whole  seven  islands  in  which  I  have  taken 
this  insect  (which  occurs  in  Spain  and  Algeria)  is  the  sandy  region 
at  Corralejo,  in  the  extreme  north  of  Fuerteventiira, — where,  during 
the  spring  of  1859,  I  captured  eight  specimens  of  it,  burrowing  in 
the  loose  sand  around  the  roots  of  the  few  shrubby  plants  which  stud 
that  arid  waste.     It  is  therefore  of  extreme  rarity  at  the  Canaries. 

Fam.  30.  BUPRESTID^. 

Genus  135.  ACM^ffiODERA. 
Eschscholtz,  Zool.  Atlas,  i.  9  (1823). 

322.  Acmseodera  cisti. 

A.  elongata,  subconvexa,  nigra,  subtus  cinerco-pilosa ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  submetallicis  subnitidis  profunde  et  dense  punctatis  et 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTER.V.  205 

pube  longiuscula  (praesertim  in  illo)  suberecta  cinerea  fulvaqxie 
obsitis,  boc  leviter  canaliculato  ;  elytris  flavo  multivittatis,  pro- 
fimde  stiiato-pimetatis,  interstitiis  minute  uniseriatim  punctiilatis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  2-3^. 

Acmseodei-a  cisti,  IVolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  439  (1862 ). 
Habitat  Canariam,  TeneriiFam  et  Palmam,  prassertim  ad  flores  Cis- 
torum  (sc.  inonspeliensls  atque  vagantis)  in  excelsioribus  crescentium. 

Its  very  deeply  and  densely  punctured  head  and  protborax,  in 
conjunction  witb  tbe  exceedingly  numerous  and  more  or  less  con- 
fluent yellow  vittce  of  its  very  coarsely  punctate-striated  elytra,  wbicb 
seem  in  a  great  measure  as  tbough  formed  by  broken -up  lines,  will 
sufficiently  distinguisb  the  present  Aema^odera  from  any  of  the  fol- 
lowing species*.  It  appears  to  occur  for  the  most  part  in  tbe  higher 
regions  of  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma  ;  in  the  first  of  which 
I  captured  it  in  the  lofty  Pinal  of  Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolome, 
during  April  1858, — almost  exclusively  on  the  flowers  of  the  Cistus 
monspeliensis  and  var/ans ;  whilst  in  the  second  I  beat  it,  more 
sparingly,  from  off  the  blossoms  of  the  Spartium  nuhigena,  on  the 
Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas  (above  Ycod  el  Alto),  at  an  elevation 
of  more  than  8000  feet,  early  in  May  of  1859  ;  as  also,  at  the  begin- 
ning of  June  of  the  preceding  year,  from  amongst  the  herbage  grow- 
ing on  the  perpendicular  rocks  which  bound  the  great  Pinal,  above 
the  plains  known  as  "  Los  Llanos,"  in  the  Banda  of  Palma.  In  Tene- 
riffe it  was  found  also  by  Dr.  Crotch.  The  Palman  specimens  are, 
on  the  average,  larger  than  those  from  Grand  Canary  and  Teneriffe. 

323.  Acmaeodera  fracta,  n.  sp. 

A.  breviuscula,  subdepressa,  nigra,  subtus  cinereo-pilosa  ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  submetaUicis  subnitidis  ruguloso-punctatis  et  (una  cum 
elytris)  pube  brevi  demissa  albido-cinerea  dense  irroratis,  hoc  sub- 
convexo  leviter  canaliculato  et  ad  latera  macula  parva  obscura 
flavescente  ornato  ;  elytris  subdepressis,  flavo  multivittatis,  sti'iato- 
punctatis,  interstitiis  valde  rugosis  et  minute  uniseriatim  punctu- 
latis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  lf-2i. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  inferioribus  ad  El  Charco  necnon 
in  pineto  quodam  in  montibus  excelsis  eapta. 

*  In  markings  and  general  aspect  the  A.  cisfi  is  closely  allied  to  a  species  given 
me  by  the  Kev.  Hamlet  Clark,  and  whicli  he  captured  near  Algiers.  It  is,  how- 
ever, not  quite  so  narrow  as  that  insect ;  its  prothorax  is  more  particularly  wider, 
as  also  proportionally  shorter,  rounder  at  the  sides,  regularly  punctured  (instead 
of  being  rugosely  imbricafed),  and  very  much  more  even  (being  entirely  free  from 
the  bipartite  gibbosity  which  forms  the  anterior  disc  in  that  species) ;  its  elytral 
vittcB  are  more  numerous ;  its  upper  surface  has  the  jjubescence  both  considerably 
longer  and  very  much  more  erect ;  and  its  antennfe  are  less  abbreviated. 


206  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

The  present  species  (which  appears  to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity)  is 
very  closely  related  to  the  A.  cisti.  It  is,  however,  a  little  smaller, 
and  relatively  shorter,  as  also  a  tiifle  wider  anteriorly,  than  that  in- 
sect ;  its  prothorax  is  somewhat  convexer,  rather  less  deeply  (though 
perhaps  a  little  more  roughly)  punctured,  and  (instead  of  being  con- 
colorous)  with  an  obscure  testaceous  patch  behind  the  middle  of 
either  lateral  edge  ;  its  elytra  are  flatter,  less  coarsely  punctate-stri- 
ated, but  with  the  interstices  considerably  more  rugose  (being  sculp- 
tured after  the  fashion  of  seal-skin)  ;  and  its  entire  upper  surface  has 
the  pubescence  very  much  shorter,  perfectly  decumbent,  and  of  a  pure 
cinereous -white — being  apparently  unmixed  with  the  fulvous  hairs 
which  are  sufficiently  conspicuous  on  the  A.  cisti.  The  only  two 
specimens  which  I  have  seen  were  captured  by  myself  in  Grand  Ca- 
nary, during  April  1858, — one  of  them  (in  company  with  the  A.  cisti) 
in  the  lofty  Pinal  of  Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolomc ;  and  the  other 
in  the  low  sandy  tract  at  El  Charco,  in  the  district  of  Maspalomas, 
in  the  extreme  south  of  the  island.  It  would  appear,  therefore,  to 
be  quite  independent  of  elevation. 

324.  Acmaeodera  plagiata,  n.  sp. 

A.  subconvexa,  nigra,  subtus  cinereo-pilosa  ;  capite  prothoraceque 
metallicis  nitidis  minus  dense  punctatis  et  pube  longiuscula  (proB- 
sertim  in  illo)  suberecta  fulva  cinereaque  obsitis,  hoc  convexo  an- 
tice  et  postice  canaliculato  ;  elytris  singulis  vittis  quatuor  (sc.  basali 
minuta,  postbasali  majore,  discali  elongata  undulata,  et  apicali  mi- 
nore)pallide  testaceis  ornatis,profunde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis 
minutissime  uniseriatim  punctulatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  21. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem ;  in  clivo  quodam  submaritimo  inter 
Maspalomas  et  Juan  Grande  d.  12.  Apr.  a.d.  1858  specimen  unicima 
sub  lapide  deprehendi. 

The  convex,  very  metallic,  and  rather  less  densely  punctured  pro- 
thorax  of  this  Acmaiodera,  which  has  its  central  channel  interrupted 
in  the  middle,  combined  with  its  rather  long,  suberect,  and  more  ful- 
vescent  pile  and  the  large  and  very  pale  longitudinal  patches  of  its 
dark  elytra  (the  basal  one  of  which  is  small,  the  second  larger,  the 
third  very  large,  irregular  and  elongate,  and  the  foiu'th,  which  is 
nearly  connected  with  it,  narrow  and  subapical),  and  the  excessively 
minute  punctules  of  their  interstices,  will  sufficientlj'  distinguish  it. 
It  is  hitherto  unique,  the  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  having 
been  captured  by  myself  (on  the  12th  of  April  1858),  from  beneath 
a  stone,  on  a  dry  arid  slope  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary — between 
Maspalomas  and  Juan  Grande. 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA.  207 

325.  Acmseodera  ornata,  n.  sp. 

A.  angustula,  convexa,  nigra,  subtiis  albido-S(]uamosa ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  ciipreo-metallicis  nitidis  dense  sed  mimis  profunde 
punctatis  et  (una  cum  elytris)  pube  brevissiraa  demissa  minutissima 
cinerea  pares  irroratis,  hoc  antice  convexo  profunde  canaliculate  ; 
elytris  postice  acutis,  singulis  maeulii  minuta  basali  et  altera  longiore 
postmedia  (e  linea  fracta  efformatis)  necnon  plagix  maximii  sinuata 
sublaterali  (a  basi  usque  ad  apicem  ducta)  testaceis  ornatis,  leviter 
striato-punctatis,  interstitiis  sat  minute  punctulatis. — Long.  corp. 
Hn.  2. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859  exemplar  uni- 
cum  ad  Rio  Palmas  collegi. 

The  shining,  cupreo-metallic,  and  comparatively  finely  (though 
densely)  punctured  prothorax  of  this  sjjecies,  which  has  its  anterior 
disc  prominent  and  convex  and  its  longitudinal  channel  very  deep,  in 
conjunction  with  its  narrow  and  posteriorly  rather  acute  outline,  its 
less  coarsely  striated  elytra  (which  however  have  the  minute  punc- 
tules  of  their  interstices  rather  conspicuous),  and  the  peculiar  shape 
of  its  pale  elytral  vittce  (the  basal  and  postmedial  ones  of  which  are 
small  and  narrow,  as  though  caused  by  a  broken-up  line,  whilst  the 
outer,  or  sublateral,  one  is  large,  sinuated,  and  elongate — reaching 
from  the  base  to  the  apex),  will  readily  separate  it  from  the  three 
preceding  species*.  The  only  example  which  has  come  beneath  my 
notice  I  brushed  from  out  of  vegetation  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Euerte- 
ventura,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859. 

Genus  136.  BUPRESTIS. 
Linnaeus,  Syst.  Nat.  i.  ii.  659  (1767). 

326.  Buprestis  Bertheloti. 

B.  nitida,  submetallico-nigra,  fronte  (maculis  duabus  virescentibus 
exceptis),  prothoracis  margine  antico  ipsissimo  necnon  laterali  an- 
tice elytrorumque  (nigrorum)  fasciis  quatuor  obliquis  confluentibus 
(e  maculis  miuutis  disjunctis  compositis)  flavo-omatis  ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  profunde  punctatis,  hoc  antice  angustato,  in  disco  an- 

*  The  A.  ornata  is  a  good  deal  allied  to  the  discoidea,  Fab.,  from  northern 
Africa ;  but  is  rather  smaller  and  narrower,  with  its  jorothorax  less  developed, 
much  more  shining  and  metallic,  and  regularly  punctured  (instead  of  being 
coarsely  imbricated),  its  elytra  are  more  acute  behind  and  with  their  inner, 
broken-up  line  almost  obsolete,  its  limbs  are  slenderer,  and  its  entire  upper  sur- 
face has  the  pubescence  very  much  more  minute,  sparing,  and  depressed.  Possibly 
it  may  approach  nearer  to  the  A.  flavovittata,  Lucas  ;  but,  judging  from  the  de- 
scription, the  different  punctation  of  the  head  of  that  species,  and  the  broken-up 
sublateral  band  of  its  elytra  (which  appears  to  be  resolved  into  four  viftm  and 
two  spots)  would,  apart  from  minor  characters,  seem  to  i*emove  it  from  the  A. 
ornata. 


208  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

tieo  utrinque  sputio  polito  iiistructo  ;  elytris  profunde  siibcrenato- 
striatis,  interstitiis  minute  et  parce  punctulatis,  singulis  ad  apicem 
excavatis  bispinosis ;  tibiis  anticis  (in  maribus  saltern)  robustis,  le- 
viter  incurvis,  intus  paulo  excavatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  11. 

Bupi-estis  Bertheloti,  Bridle,  inWehh  etBerth.  (Col.)  pi.  2.  f.  12  (1838). 
Hahitat  Teneriffam,  mihi  non  obvia  ;  exemplar  unicum  a  Barone 
Castello  de  Paiva  communicatum  solum  vidi. 

Judging  from  the  figure  of  the  Buprestis  Bertheloti  given  by  M. 
Bridle  in  Webb  and  Berthelot's  volume  (for  it  is  unaccompanied  by 
a  description — in  at  all  events  the  portion  of  the  work  which  I  pos- 
sess), there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  specimen  from  which  I  have 
compiled  the  above  diagnosis  is  the  insect  there  referred  to.  This 
example  has  lately  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva,  who  obtained  it  from  TenerifFe  in  a  small  (but  very  old)  col- 
lection which  was  formed  there  by  a  friend  ;  and  I  may  add  that  I 
have  found  the  various  localities  assigned  to  the  species  so  exceed- 
ingly correct,  in  every  instance,  that  I  have  no  hesitation  in  regard- 
ing the  present  Buprestis  as  having  been  undoubtedly  captured  in 
the  island.  Unfortunately,  however,  no  special  hahitat  was  assigned 
to  it;  though,  fi-om  subsequent  inquiries  instituted  by  the  Baron 
Paiva,  the  species  (if  not  indeed  this  actual  specimen)  appears  to  have 
been  taken  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Agua  Garcia*,  and  also  (on  one 
occasion  at  any  rate)  even  in  the  Plaza  de  San  Francisco,  of  S'"  Cruz, 
where  it  was  found,  on  the  wing,  by  a  Spaniard.  Since,  however,  it 
entirely  escaped  my  own  observation,  I  conclude  that  it  is  at  all 
events,  considering  its  large  size  and  conspicuous  ajtpearance,  of  the 
greatest  rarity. 

Genus  137.  ANTHRAXIA. 

Eschscholtz,  Zool.  Atlas,  i.  9  (182:3). 

327.  Anthraxia  senilis,  n.  sp. 

A.  paraUela,  sat  nitida,  subdepressa,  aenescenti-  necnon  subcupres- 

centi-nigra,   ubique   (scutello  polito  excepto)  dense  transversim 

rugosa  (baud  punctata)  et  piUs  tenuibus  longiusculis  (praesertim 

in  capite)  suberectis  cinereis  vestita  ;  prothorace  latiusculo,  trans- 

*  With  respect  to  the  exact  hahitaf  of  this  fine  Buprestis,  the  Baron  Paiva 
writes  to  me  as  follows  :  "  M.  S.  Berthelot  m'a  repondu  tcxtueUemcnf  a  ee  siijet 
les  ligiies  siiivantes  :  '  Le  Buprestis  Bertheloti,  clont  vous  me  demander  Vhafjiiat, 
est  un  beau  Coleoptere  que  j'ai  trouve  la  premiere  fois  a  Tenerife,  en  1824  ou 
1825,  aux  environs  de  la  Foret  d'Agua  Garcia.  II  a  ete  rencontre  ensuite,  dans 
la  raeme  localitii,  par  mon  ami  Dumont  d'Urville,  toujours  pres  de  I'auge  debois 
oil  Ton  abreuvait  les  chevaux,  a  quelques  pas  de  I'entree  de  la  Foret.  C'ette  auge 
ou  abreuYoir  se trouve  situte  sur  Ic  bord  de  I'ancienne  route  qui  conduisait  alors 
de  Lagune  a  TOrotave.'  " 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  209 

verso,  grossius  rugoso  et  versus  latera  reticulato,  intra  angulos 
posticos  subrectos  late  impresso  ;  elytris  (prseeipue  ad  basin)  paulo 
insequalibus,  sutura  margineque  leviter  incrassatis,  hoc  versus 
apicem  minutissime  serratulo  ;  antennis  pedibusque  gracilibus,  vix 
metallicis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-3. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  pineto  quodam  in  montibus  excelsis 
sito  pauca  speeimina  inter  flores  Clstorum  volantia  mense  Aprili 
ineunte  a.d.  1858  deprehendi. 

The  present  Anthraxia  is  a  little  larger  than,  and  relatively  not 
quite  so  broad  as,  the  A.  sepulchralis  and  morio  of  southern  Europe. 
It  is,  however,  considerably  brighter  and  more  metallic  ;  its  sculp- 
ture is  less  dense,  and  on  the  pronotum  reticulose  (and  very  widely 
so)  only  towards  either  side  ;  its  prothorax  is  straighter  at  the  edges, 
and  much  more  deeply  impressed  within  the  posterior  angles  (which 
are  nearly  right  angles)  ;  its  scutellum  is  unsculptured  and  highly 
polished ;  the  margins  of  its  elytra  behind  are  minutely  serrated ; 
and  its  entire  upper  surface  is  clothed  with  very  much  longer,  sub- 
erect,  and  whitish-cinereous  hairs.  The  few  specimens  which  I  have 
seen  were  taken  by  myself  in  the  lofty  Pinal  above  San  Bartolome, 
in  the  district  of  Tarajana,  of  Grand  Canary,  at  the  beginning  of 
April  1858.  They  were  exceedingly  active  on  the  wing, — flying,  in 
the  hot  sunshine,  amongst  the  flowers  of  the  Cistus  monspeliensis  and 
vayans,  to  which  they  seemed  to  be  specially  attached. 


Fam.  31.  THROSCID^. 

Genus  138.  THROSCUS. 
Latreille,  Prec.  ties  Caract.  Gen.  des  Ins.  42  (1796). 

328.  Throscus  integer. 

Trixagus  integer,  WuU.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  82  (1857). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  excelsis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  rarissimus. 

Although  I  no  longer  possess  a  specimen  of  the  Madeiran  T.  integer 
for  comparison,  I  nevertheless  refer  the  few  examples  of  Throscus 
which  I  have  hitherto  seen  from  these  islands  to  that  insect,  inas- 
much as  I  can  detect  nothing  in  my  original  diagnosis  to  warrant  the 
suspicion  that  the  two  species  are  distinct.  Perhaps  the  elytral  in- 
terstices may  be  a  little  more  evidently  punctulated  in  the  Canarian 
one  ;  but  the  eyes  are  totally  ungrooved,  as  in  the  T.  integer, — though 
with  the  faintest  possible  tendency  to  be  truncated-off  (scarcely  sub- 
emarginated)  at  that  particular  point  of  their  anterior  edge  (close  to 


'210  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  insertion  of  the  antennae)  where  in  certain  other  species  the  ob- 
lique groove  commences.  But  this  (which  indeed  is  scarcely  per- 
ceptible, even  beneath  the  microscope)  may  be  equally  the  case  in 
the  Madeiran  type.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly,  out  of  damp  rotten 
sticks,  in  the  laurel -regions  between  Taganana  and  Point  Anaga,  of 
Teneriife  ;  as  also,  in  similar  situations,  on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre, 
above  Buenavista,  of  Palma. 


Fam.  32.  ELATERID^. 

Genus  139.  COPTOSTETHUS. 
Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  238.  tab.  iv.  f.  8  (1854). 

329.  Coptostethus  brunneipennis. 

C.  elongatus,  niger  vel  fusco-niger  clytris  plus  minus  brunneis,  fulvo- 
pubescens  ;  prothorace  elongate,  basi  paulo  angustato  ;  elytris  pube 
suberecta  tenui  vestitis,  sat  profunde  cronato-striatis,  interstitiis 
subconvexis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  elongatis,  testaceis. 

Vanat  prothorace  ad  latera  elytrisque  ad  humeros  plus  minus  con- 
spicue  pallidioribus,  necnon  etiam  (immaturus)  colore  omnino  fer- 
rugineo. 

Var.  j3.  obscurus  [an  species  ?].  Prothorace  elytrisque  obscurioribus 
concoloribus,  illo  ad  basin  angustiore,  pedibus  (sed  pra^sertim  tar- 
sis)  vix  brevioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^3|. 

Coptostetlius  bnmneipennis,  Woll,  Ami.  Nat.  Hist.  xi.  218  (1863). 

Hahitat  in  TenerifFa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

The  excessive  variability  of  this  insect  makes  it  a  very  difficult  one 
to  define  ;  for,  after  carefully  studying  many  specimens,  collected  in 
various  islands  and  altitudes,  it  appears  to  me  that  nearly  the  whole 
of  its  characters  are  inconstant.  Its  colour  is  eminently  so,  and  even 
the  relative  length  of  its  tarsi  seems  to  be  unstable ;  but  as  the  latter 
are  always  a  trifle  longer  in  the  males  than  in  the  females,  this  may 
occasionally  perhaps  be  more  apparent  than  real.  Upon  the  whole, 
however,  it  is  more  elongate  than  the  other  Coptostethi  here  enume- 
rated, and  also  larger  than  any  of  them,  except  perhaps  the  C.  ohtusus  ; 
its  elytra  are  generally  of  a  browner  tint ;  and  even  its  prothorax 
(which  is  less  abbreviated  and  convex,  and  not  quite  so  narrowed 
behind,  as  is  the  case  in  the  C.  canarietisis  and  glohuUcollis)  is  often 
more  or  less  diluted  in  hue.  In  its  comparatively  elongated  limbs  it 
agrees  with  the  C.  gracilis.  It  occurs  principally  at  intermediate 
elevations,  though  sparingly  in  lower  ones  also.  Thus,  it  was  taken 
both  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  close  to  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Tene- 


CANARTAN  OOLEOPTERA.  211 

riffe ;  and  I  subsequently  captured  it  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  on  the 
mountains  above  S''^  Cruz,  and  at  Las  Mercedes  and  Taganana,  in  the 
same  island ;  as  also  in  the  Barranco  de  Galga  of  Palma,  and  near 
Valverde  in  Hierro.  But  it  is  decidedly  everywhere  scarce.  The 
var.  0  was  found  in  the  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of 
Hierro. 

330.  Coptostethus  gracilis,  n.  sp. 

O.  angusto-elongatus.  fusco-niger  elytris  plus  minus  brimneis,  fulvo- 
pubescens  ;  jjrothorace  elongato,  basi  angustato  ;  elytris  pube  sub- 
crecta  tenuissima  vestitis,  sat  profunde  erenato-striatis,  interstitiis 
subconvexis  ;  antenuis  pedibusque  elongatis  pallide  testaceis,  tarsis 
pra3sertim  elongatis  gracilibus. 

Var.  /3.  Elytris  ad  humeros  paulo  rufescentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin. 

Habitat  in  montibus  excclsis  Teneriifce,  usque  ad  8000  vel  9000' 
8.  m.  ascendens. 

Whether  this  be  anything  more  than  a  small  and  narrow  state  of 
the  C.  hrunneipennis,  peculiar  to  the  higher  regions  of  Teneriffe,  I 
will  not  undertake  to  pronounce.  Judging,  however,  from  the  six 
individuals  now  before  me,  it  is  not  only  smaller  and  narrower  than 
that  insect,  but  is  perhaps  of  a  somewhat  browner  hue,  its  prothorax 
is  a  little  more  drawn-in  at  the  base,  and  its  legs  (particularly  the 
tarsi)  are  relatively  rather  longer  still ;  it  is  likewise  a  trifle  more 
opake ;  and  in  aU  the  specimens  except  one  (which  was  found  at  a 
lower  altitude)  the  shoulders  are  concolorous  with  the  rest  of  the  sur- 
face. Three  of  my  examples  were  captured,  from  beneath  stones, 
in  the  lofty  district  adjoining  the  Caiiadas,  above  Ycod  el  Alto  (at 
an  elevation  of  more  than  8000  feet),  during  May  1859 ;  and  two  a 
few  weeks  later,  in  similar  situations,  on  the  opposite  Cumbre,  above 
the  Agua  Mansa  ;  whilst  the  remaining  one  {var.  ft)  was  taken  at 
the  Agua  Mansa  itself. 

331.  Coptostethus  canariensis. 

C.  nitidiusculus,  niger  elytris  vel  vix  vel  distincte  fuscescentioribus, 
subcinereo-pubescens ;  prothorace  convexo,  basi  angustato,  antice 
lato,  prosterno  antice  subhorizontali ;  elytris  convexis,  pube  brevi 
subdemissa  tenui  parce  vestitis,  ad  humeros  oblique  truncatis, 
leviter  erenato-striatis,  interstitiis  subdepressis ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque gracilibus,  pallido-tcstaceis. 

Variat  elytris  ad  humeros  plus  minus  obscure  dilutioribus  necnon 
(immaturus)  colore  omnino  ferrugineo. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2- vix  2|. 

Coptostethus  canariensis,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  ii.  196  (1858). 

— ,  Candhze,  Mon.  des  Flat.  iii.  105  (1860). 

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212  CANARIAN  COLKOPTEEA. 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  inferioribus  Teneriifse,  hinc  inde  baud  in- 
frequens. 

In  theii'  general  outline  and  size,  as  weU  as  in  their  comparatively 
globose  prothoraces  (which  are  very  convex  anteriorly  and  much 
narrowed  behind)  and  in  their  elytra  being  more  truncated  obliquely 
at  either  shovilder,  the  present  CoptostetJius  and  the  following  one 
have  a  good  deal  in  common.  The  C.  canariensis  however  is,  on  the 
average,  browner  (or  less  dark),  as  also  a  little  more  shining,  than 
the  glohidicoUis ;  its  elytra  are  more  finely  crenate-striated,  with  their 
interstices  flatter,  and  their  pubescence  perhaps  somewhat  shorter  and 
less  dense ;  its  antennae,  palpi,  and  legs  are  always  paler  (being  in- 
variably pale-testaceous) ;  and  its  prosternum  is  horizontal  anteriorly, 
instead  of  being  bent  downwards  just  behind  the  mouth.  The  C. 
canariensis  appears  to  occur  in  the  hiver  altitudes  of  TenerifFe — where 
it  is  not  uncommon,  beneath  stones,  around  the  Puerto  Orotava,  from 
the  sea-level  up  to  the  elevation  of  about  800  feet.  And  although 
it  may  very  likely  exist  in  spots  of  a  rather  higher  altitude,  it  evi- 
dently does  not  ascend  into  the  regions  of  the  C.  glohulicollis. 

332.  Coptostethus  glohulicollis. 

C.  niger  elytris  rarius  dUutioribus,  subcinereo-pubescens  ;  prothorace 
convexo,  basi  angustato,  antice  lato,  prosterno  antice  deflexo  ;  ely- 
tris convexis,  pube  subdemissa  tenui  vestitis,  ad  humeros  oblique 
truncatis,  sat  profunde  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  subconvexis ; 
antennis  pedibusque  subgracilibus,  infuscato-testaceis,  illis  inter- 
duni  etiam  subnigrescentibus. 

Variat  elytris  vel  concoloribus  vel  versus  humeros  plus  minus  di- 
stincte  rufoscentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|— 2|. 

Coptostethus  glohulicollis.  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  440 
(1862). 

*  Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriffae,  a  3500'  usque 
ad  8000  vel  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

Whilst  the  C.  canariensis  occurs  in  the  lower  elevations  of  Tene- 
rifFe, the  globulicoIJis,  on  the  other  hand,  would  appear  to  be  confined 
to  the  higher  ones  of  the  same  island, — attaining  its  maximum  on  the 
lofty  Cumbres,  at  an  altitude  of  from  about  8000  to  9000  feet  above 
the  sea.  It  may  be  known  from  its  ally  by  being,  on  the  average, 
darker  and  a  little  less  shining  (being  often  quite  black  throughout, 
except  the  limbs)  ;  by  its  elytra  being  more  deeply  crenate-striated, 
with  their  interstices  more  convex  and  their  pubescence  perhaps 
somewhat  denser ;  by  the  front  portion  of  its  prosternum  (which 
covers  the  mouth)  being  more  e\'idently  bent  downwards  ;  and  by  its 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  213 

antennae,  palpi,  and  legs  being  always  more  or  less  infuscated — the 
two  former  being  occasionally  much  darkened.  I  have  taken  it,  rather 
abundantly,  from  beneath  stones,  during  the  spring,  both  on  the  lofty 
Cumbre  (adjoining  the  Caiiadas)  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  likewise  on 
the  opposite  one  (separated  from  the  other  by  the  great  interval  which 
constitutes  the  valley  of  Orotava)  above  the  Agua  Mansa  ;  and  I  have 
also  captured  it,  though  more  sparingly,  at  the  Agua  Mansa  itself. 
This  last  locality  represents  the  lowest  altitude  (about  3500  feet)  at 
which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it.  Dr.  Crotch  likewise  met  with  it 
on  the  Cumbre  above  Ycod. 

333.  Coptostethus  obtusus,  n.  sp. 
C  niger  elytris  vix  dihitioribus,  subfulvescenti-pubescens ;  protho- 
raee  longiusculo,  basi  vix  angustato,  lateribus  subrectis ;  elytris 
pube  longiuscuki  suberecta  tenui  dense  vestitis,  versus  hunieros 
paulo  rufescentioribus,  valde  profimde  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis 
convexis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  longiusculis,  testaceis,  tibiis  poste- 
rioribus  ad  basin  ipsissimam  nigrescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  sylvaticam,  ad  Agua  Mansa  sub  lapide  semel 
lectus. 

Although  unwilling  to  establish  an  additional  species  amongst 
these  variable  Coptostetlii  from  the  evidence  afforded  by  a  single  ex- 
ample, I  am  nevertheless  compelled  to  do  so,  since  the  insect  from 
which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  differs  so  essentially 
from  all  the  others  here  enumerated  that  I  cannot  possibly  refer  it 
to  any  of  them.  In  its  general  colour,  however,  and  deeply  striated 
elytra  (with  their  convex  interstices)  it  has  perhaps  a  greater  affinity 
with  the  0.  globidicolUs  than  with  any  of  the  remainder ;  but  its 
comparatively  enormous  bullc  and  longer,  more  erect,  and  denser  pu- 
bescence, combined  with  its  more  elongate  limbs  and  totally  different 
prothorax,  which  is  scarcely  narrower  behind  than  in  front,  will 
readily  separate  it  from  that  sjjecies.  The  unique  specimen  was 
captured,  during  May  1859,  in  the  sylvan  region  of  the  Agua  Mansa, 
in  Teneriffe. 

334.  Coptostethus  crassiusculus,  n.  sp. 

C  nitidiusculus,  subobtusus,  niger  elytris  vix  dilutioribus,  subful- 
vescenti-pubescens ;  prothorace  convexo,  basi  vix  angustato  ;  ely- 
tris basi  minus  contractis,  pube  longiuscula  suberecta  tenui  dense 
vestitis,  leviter  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  depresses  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  pallide  testaceis. 

Variat  elytris  vel  concoloribus  vel  ad  humeros  laete  rufescentioribus, 
necnon  (immaturus)  colore  omnino  ferrugineo. 

Var.  (3.  Prothorace  elytrisque  ad  basin  paulo  magis  (singulatim)  con- 


214  CAJTAEIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

tractis,  horum  striis  i)aiilo  profundioribus  interstitiisque  minus  de- 
pressis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-3. 

Habitat  Cauariam  Grandem,  in  locis  intermediis  et  editioribus  sub 
lapidibus  parce  captus. 

Like  the  C.  hrunneipennis,  the  present  Coptostethus  is  exceedingly 
variable  in  all  its  characters.  It  is  the  only  one  that  I  have  taken 
hitherto  in  Grand  Canary ;  and,  in  its  normal  state  at  all  events,  it 
may  be  known  from  all  other  species  here  described  by  its  rather 
obtuse,  thickened,  and  more  pilose  body ;  by  its  prothorax  and  elytra 
being,  each  of  them,  less  contracted  at  their  respective  bases;  and 
by  the  latter  being  but  very  finely  crenate-striated,  with  their  in- 
terstices depressed,  and  with  their  pile  denser  and  more  erect.  Its 
elytra  are  extremely  inconstant  in  hue,  being  sometimes  quite  dark 
and  concolorous,  and  at  others  more  brightly  rufescent  towards  the 
shoulders  than  is  the  case  in  any  of  the  preceding  species — under 
which  circumstances  the  reddish  dash  frequently  extends  backwards 
more  than  half-way  to  the  apex. 

The  C  crassiusculus  seems  to  be  peculiar  to  Grand  Canary.  I 
have  taken  what  I  regard  as  the  normal  phasis  of  it  in  the  region  of 
El  Monte ;  but  the  form  in  which  the  prothorax  and  elytra  are  a 
trifle  less  pubescent  and  somewhat  narrower  at  their  respective  bases, 
with  the  striae  of  the  latter  a  little  dee^jer  and  the  interstices  more 
convex,  appears  to  occur  at  a  higher  elevation, — for  I  have  captured 
it  both  on  the  mountains  above  San  Mateo  and  in  the  lofty  Pinal  of 
the  district  of  Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolome. 

Fam.  33.  CYPHONID^. 

Genus  140.  CYPHON. 
PaykiUI,  Fna  Suec.  ii.  117  (1798). 

335.  Cyphon  gracilicornis,  n.  sp. 

C.  oblongus,  dense  griseo-pubescens,  fusco-testaceus  ;  capite  protho- 
raceque  nitidis,  subtilissime  punctulatis ;  elytris  paulo  fuscescen- 
tioribus  et  minus  nitidis,  densissime  profundiusque  punctulatis 
(nee  striatis,  nee  costatis)  ;  anteimis  gracilibus,  nigrescentibus, 
versus  basin  pedibusque  testaceis. 

Variat  (immatm'ns)  colore  omnino  testaceo. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1  g. 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  in  sylvaticis  et  subsyl- 
vaticis  humidiusculis  baud  infreqtiens. 

In  size,  oblong  outline,  and  infuscated  hue,  the  jiresent  Cyplion  is 
very  similar  to  the  common  European  C.  coarctatus ;  from  which  it 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA,  215 

seems  mainly  to  differ  in  its  elytra  being  a  little  more  densely  and 
evidently  punctulated,  and  free  (as  in  the  C.  variabilis)  from  the  ob- 
scure longitudinal  costae  which  are  always  traceable  (though  occa- 
sionally indistinct)  in  that  species.  Its  antennae,  also,  are  perhaps  a 
trifle  slenderer,  I  am  very  doubtful,  however,  whether  it  is  more 
than  a  geographical  phasis  of  that  insect.  It  is  far  from  uncommon 
in  damp  sylvan  (and  subsylvan)  spots  of  the  intermediate  altitudes 
of  Grand  Canary  and  Teneriffe.  In  the  former  I  have  taken  it 
throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte,  and  elsewhere ;  and  in  the  latter, 
at  Taganana,  Las  Mercedes,  the  Agua  Garcia,  &c.  And  I  have  ex- 
amined specimens  which  were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

Genus  141.  EUCINETUS. 

Schiippel,  in  Germ.  Mag.  iii.  255  (1818). 

336.  Eucinetus  ovum. 

Eucinetus  ovum,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  242  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  85  (1857). 

Habitat  in  excelsis  sylvaticis  Teneriffge,  rarissimus. 

A  single  specimen  only  of  this  very  distinct  Eucinetus  (the  differ- 
ential characters  of  which,  as  compared  with  those  of  the  European 
E.  Jio'morrJioidulis,  are  fully  pointed  out  in  my  '  Ins.  Mad.')  has  hi- 
therto come  beneath  my  observation  in  these  islands.  It  was  taken 
by  myself  on  the  wooded  mountains  above  Point  Anaga,  in  the  north- 
eastern extremity  of  Teneriffe,  during  May  1859.  In  Madeira  it  is 
not  uncommon  in  certain  spots,  though  exceedingly  local. 


Fam.  34.  DRILID^. 

Genus  142.  MALACOGASTER. 
Bassi,  Maff.  de  Zool.  (Ins.)  pi.  99  (1832). 

337.  Malacogaster  tilloides,  n.  sp. 

M.  angustulus,  niger,  nitidus,  pilis  longissimis  erectis  fulvis  obsitus ; 
capite  prothoraceque  rufis  (hoc  interdum  postice,  sed  baud  inter 
antennas,  obscuriore),  hoc  leviter  sed  illo  vix  punctulatis ;  elytris 
postice  valde  rugulosis,  antice  paulo  la^vioribus  ;  antennis  paUide 
rufo-fuscis ;  pedibus  rufo-testaceis,  femoribus  (apicibus  exceptis) 
obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  liu.  2i-vix  3. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  rarissimus ;  mense  Aprili  ineunte  a.d. 
1859  specimina  septem  inter  Arundines  ad  Rio  Palmas  deprehendi. 

The  present  insect  differs  from   the  European  M.  Passerinii  (of 


216  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

which  I  possess  two  Sicilian  siiecimens)  in  being  a  little  smaller,  nar- 
rower, and  more  shining, — its  entire  surface  (which  is  studded  with 
longer,  more  erect,  and  paler  hairs)  being  less  sculptured.  Indeed  its 
prothorax  (which  is  more  cyhndric,  being  much  less  widened,  or  mar- 
gined, at  the  hinder  angles)  is  almost  free  from  punctures,  whilst  its 
elytra  are  less  densely  (though  perhaps  even  more  roughly)  rugulose. 
Its  head  is  usually,  like  the  prothorax,  of  a  light  red  (being  rarely 
somewhat  darkened  behind) ;  its  antennae  (instead  of  being  black) 
are  of  a  pale  rufous-brown  ;  and  its  tibise  and  tarsi  are  more  brightly 
testaceous.  It  is  of  the  greatest  rarity, — the  only  specimens  which 
I  have  seen  (seven  in  number)  having  been  captured  by  myself,  in 
the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859,  by 
brushing  the  Arundo  donax  in  swampy  spots  alongside  the  stream. 
I  believe  that  they  are  all  of  them  males. 


Fam.  35.  TELEPHORID^. 

As  the  members  of  the  present  and  following  two  families  (MaJa- 
cJiildce  and  Meh/ridce)  formed  the  subjects  of  a  lengthened  Paper  "on 
the  Canarian  Malacoderms,"  published  by  myself  in  the  first  volume 
of  the  '  Journ.  of  Ent.'  in  1862,  I  must  refer  to  that  memoir  for  the 
actual  descriptions  of  the  several  species.  Nevertheless,  since  (as  in 
the  analogous  case  of  the  CalatJii)  the  diagnostic,  and  other,  observa- 
tions which  it  will  be  desirable  here  to  add  can  scarcely  be  compressed 
into  less  space  than  that  which  I  there  devoted  to  them,  I  shall  in 
the  present  re-enumeration  extract  such  of  them,  verhatim,  as  appear 
necessary  to  impart  the  information  required.  Two  additions,  how- 
ever, and  some  fresh  loccdities,  the  result  of  Dr.  Crotch's  late  re- 
searches in  the  islands,  will  render  occasional  alterations  necessary. 

Genus  143.  MALTHINUS. 

Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Im.  i.  261  (1806). 

338.  Malthinus  mutabilis. 
Malthinus  mutabilis,  Wall,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  424  (1862). 
Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  ad  flores,  frequens. 
The  present  Malthinus  may  be  regarded  as  the  representative  in 
these'  islands  of  the  European  M.  JJaveolus.     It  is,  however,  on  the 
average  considerably  smaller  than  that  insect  (descending  to  a  com- 
paratively minute  size)  ;  its  limbs  and  elytra  are  relatively  shorter ; 
its  head,  although  greatly  narrowed,  is  not  quite  so  attenuated  pos- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  217 

teriorly,  and  has  its  darker  portion  more  often  resolved  into  separate 
patches ;  its  prothorax  has  merely  the  disc  ornamented  with  two 
longitudinal  lines  (which  are  sometimes  broken  up  into  detached 
spots,  and  at  others  completely  confluent)  ;  its  elytra  have  even  their 
basal  region  usually  of  a  rather  clearer  yellow ;  and  its  legs  are  less 
uniformly  pale,  the  hinder  paii"  (and  often  the  intermediate  ones  also) 
having  the  apex  of  their  femora  black,  and  frequently  their  tibiae  and 
tarsi  a  good  deal  infuscated.  It  is  a  most  variable  species,  both  in 
size  and  hue  ;  and  in  some  of  the  smaller  examples,  particularly  cer- 
tain ones  of  those  from  the  more  barren  islands  of  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerteventura,  the  femora,  especially  the  posterior  pair,  are  clouded 
towards  their  base  (leaving  only  the  apex  paler),  and  their  palpi  have 
the  terminal  joint  more  decidedly  blackened ;  but  after  comparing 
them  with  an  extensive  series  collected  in  the  seven  islands  of  the 
Group,  I  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  they  cannot  be  detached 
from  the  remainder, — their  slight  differences  seeming  to  be  the  mere 
result  of  depauperation,  in  those  individuals  in  which  the  stature  is 
diminished.  Nevertheless  I  have  thought  it  desirable  to  treat  them 
as  a  variety — the  "  var.  /3.  depaiiperatus.''^ 

The  M.  mutabiUs  is  universal  thi'oughout  the  archipelago,  in  the 
whole  seven  islands  of  which,  except  Gomera,  I  have  myself  captured 
it ;  whilst  in  Gomera  it  was  found,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  In  Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro  it  was  taken  also  by 
Mr.  Gray. 

339.  Malthinus  croceicoUis. 
Malthinus  croceicoUis,  WoU.,  he.  cit.  420  (1862). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  ad flores in  regione  "El  Monte"  captus. 

In  general  colour  and  aspect  this  species  a  good  deal  resembles  the 
European  sanguinolentus ;  nevertheless,  by  the  construction  of  its 
anteriorly  widened  and  posteriorly  contracted  head,  it  is  a  true  Mal- 
thinus, and  no  Maltliodes.  Apart  from  which,  it  is  considerably 
smaller  than  that  insect,  its  forehead  and  the  extreme  apex  of  its 
elytra  are  more  broadly  flavescent,  and  its  limbs  are  shorter,  darker, 
and  less  robust.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Grand  Canary  ; 
where  it  is  not  uncommon,  on  flowers,  during  the  spring  months, 
throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte. 

Fam.  36.  MALACHIIDiE. 

Genus  144.  PECTEROPUS. 
WoUastoii,  Ins.  Mud.  247  (1854). 


218  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

340.  Pecteropus  angustifrons. 
Pecteropus  angustifrons,  Wo/L,  loc.  cit.  427.  pi.  xx.  f.  1  (1862). 

Habitat  Gomeram,  in  collibus  mox  supra  Sanctum  Sebastianum 
mense  Februario  a.d.  1858  ad  flores  deprchensus. 

Apart  from  its  structural  characters  (of  narrower  and  more  rostrate 
head,  &c.),  the  present  insect  is  prima  facie  remarkable  amongst  the 
Attali,  to  which  it  necessarily  bears  a  general  resemblance,  by  its 
brightly  rufous  prothorax  and  dark-cyaneous  elytra  and  head  (the 
latter  of  which  is  subopake,  and  most  densely  and  minutely  rough- 
ened). Its  four  anterior  legs,  also,  are  more  or  less  rufo-testaceous, 
whilst  the  two  hinder  ones  are  nearly  black.  The  second  joint  of 
the  front  feet  of  its  males  is  so  verj^  shghtly  produced  into  a  hood- 
like lobe  on  the  upper  side,  that  the  latter  is  scarcely  perceptible  ex- 
cept beneath  the  microscope ;  but  when  thus  viewed  it  will  be  seen, 
nevertheless,  to  be  more  strongly  pectinated  than  is  usually  the  case 
in  the  true  Attali.  Hitherto  it  has  been  observed  only  in  Gomera, 
where,  during  February  1858,  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself 
from  off  flowers  on  the  ridge  immediately  to  the  north  of  San  Se- 
bastian. 

341.  Pecteropus  scitulus,  n.  sp. 

F.  viridi-aenescenti-niger  prothorace  vel  ad  latera  vel  ad  angulos  pos- 
ticos  rufo-testaceo,  parce  et  minute  cinereo-pubescens,  nitidus,  ubi- 
que  minutissime  et  parce  punctulatus  ;  capite  angusto,  ovali,  fronte 
dcpressa,  oculis  minus  promineutibus,  clypeo  paUido ;  elytris  mi- 
nute subrugulosis,  pihs  erectis  longiuscuhs  (prgesertim  postice)  ob- 
sitis  ;  antennis  bre\ibus,  ad  basin  rufo-testaceis, 

Variat  pedibus  vel  concoloribus,  vel  anterioribus  (rarius  posticis)  plus 
minus  pallidis. — Long.  corj:*.  hn.  2. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1862 
captus. 

In  its  general  colouring  (which  is  greenish -brassy,  with  only  the 
clypeus,  either  the  sides  or  merely  the  hinder  angles  of  the  prothorax, 
and  occasionally  the  anterior  legs  pale)  this  insect  is  almost  coin- 
cident with  the  Attains  ovatipennis,  nevertheless  it  is  considerably 
larger  and  has  its  legs  more  elongate  ;  and,  moreover,  its  somewhat 
narrow,  oval  head  and  depressed  forehead,  in  conjunction  with  its 
but  sHghtly  prominent  eyes  and  its  short  antennae,  would  all  tend, 
I  think,  to  refer  it  to  the  Pecteropus-gvow^  rather  than  to  Attains 
proper.  It  was  detected  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera,  during  the  spring 
of  1862. 

Genus  145.  ATTALUS. 
Erichson,  Uidomof/raph.  89  (1840). 


CASTAKIAN  COLEOPTEBA.  .219 

§  I.  ProtJiOiXuv  plus  minus  (i.  e.  vel  omnitio,  vel  in  parte  majore,  vel 
versus  angulos  soJos  postlcos')  palUdus. 

342.  Attains  ruficoUis. 
Attalus  ruflcoUis,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  428  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  ad  flores  vulgaris ;  ab  ora  maritima  usque  ad 
8000'  s.  m.  ascendit.  In  Palma  est  minor,  depauperatus,  tibiis  tar- 
sisque  plus  minus  testaceis,  varietatem  (="var.  /3.  pauperculus," 
mihi)  efficiens. 

The  present  Attalus  and  the  following  one  are  the  universal  species 
of  Teneriffe,  aboimding  on  flovrers  from  the  sea-level  to  an  elevation 
of  at  least  8000  feet.  The  A.  rufieollis  may  be  known  by  its  bright- 
red  prothorax,  which  is  usually  quite  immaculate.  The  specimens 
from  the  higher  altitudes  are  generally  a  Kttle  more  densely  punc- 
tured and  senescent,  and  have  their  minute  wncZer-pile  (of  short,  de- 
cumbent, subcinereous  haii's)  more  evidently  developed;  but  they 
merge  gradually  into  the  others  as  we  descend  into  the  lower  districts. 
The  "  var.  /3  "  appears  to  be  only  a  small  state  peculiar  to  Palma,  in 
which  the  tibiae  and  tarsi  and  the  base  of  the  antennae  have  a  ten- 
dency to  be  testaceous :  I  captured  it  high  up  in  the  Barranco  da 
Agua,  as  also  in  the  Barranco  de  Galga,  and  (in  a  state  approaching 
nearer  to  the  Teneriffan  one)  at  the  Banda.  In  Teneriffe  it  seems 
to  occur  universally ;  and  it  has  also  been  taken  in  that  island  by 
Mr.  Gray,  Dr.  Crotch,  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

343.  Attalus  peUucidus. 

Pecteropus  peUucidus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  247  (note)  (1854). 
Attalus  peUucidus,  Id.,  loc.  cit.  429  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  vulgaris,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  prsecedens. 

The  only  important  character  which  separates  the  present  Attalus 
from  the  preceding  one  is,  that  its  prothorax,  instead  of  being  bright- 
red,  is  (like  the  rest  of  the  surface)  black,  with  merely  a  small  portion 
at  either  posterior  angle  (and  sometimes  the  basal  margin  itself,  though 
very  narrowly)  of  a  somewhat  pellucid  yellow.  I  can  detect  no  other 
differential  feature  (except  that  the  surface  is  usually  a  trifle  more 
senescent)  ;  and  I  might  therefore  have  been  inclined  perhaps  to  re- 
gard it  as  a  variety  of  the  other,  had  I  been  able  to  discover  the  least 
trace  of  a  passage  between  the  two.  But  since  both  of  them  are 
equally  diffused  over  Teneriffe,  independently  of  elevation,  and  since 
in  an  extensive  series  now  before  me,  collected  in  ten  or  twelve  dif- 
ferent (and  distant)  localities,  each  is  equally  constant,  I  have  iio 
option  but  to  treat  them  as  distinct.     Like  the  last  species,  it  was 


220  CANARIAN  COLEOrTERA, 

met  with  also  by  Mr.  Gray,  Dr.  Crotch,  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva. 

344.  Attalus  pallipes,  n.  sp. 

A.  nitidus ;  capite  (vel  omniuo  vel  autice  solum)  prothoraceque  (vel 
omnino  vel  hand  in  disco  nigro)  rufo-testaceis,  minutissime  et 
parce  punctulatis ;  elytris  subaenescenti-nigris,  dense  et  sat  pro- 
funde  ruguloso-punctatis,  pilis  nigris  crectis  longiuscidis  obsitis ; 
antennis  nigris,  versus  basin  pedibus(]ue  (elongatis)  testaceis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  lf-2. 

Habitat  in  TenerifFa  et  Gomera,  a  Dom.  W.  D.  Crotch  deprehensus. 

I  do  not  feel  perfectly  satisfied  that  this  Attains  is  more  than  an 
extreme  modification  of  the  ruJicolUs ;  nevertheless,  since  the  whole 
of  the  specimens  now  before  me  (seventeen  in  number,  and  all  of 
them  except  one,  which  is  from  Gomora,  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  Teneriffe)  show  no  tendency  to  merge  into  the  type  assumed  by 
that  rather  constant  species,  I  do  not  think  it  would  be  safe  to 
treat  it  as  such.  It  differs  from  the  ruficolUs,  chiefly,  in  its  legs 
being  invariably  pale  (instead  of  black),  and  in  the  basal  portion  of 
its  antennae  being  likewise  more  or  less  brightly  testaceous ;  in  its 
head  being  either  altogether  pale  reddish-testaceous  (like  the  pro- 
thorax),  or  else  (as  in  that  insect)  with  the  hinder  portion  dark ;  in 
its  prothorax  being  of  a  paler,  or  yellower,  hue,  and  "with  its  disc 
sometimes  black  ;  and  in  its  elytra  being  a  little  more  roughly  punc- 
tidated.  Its  legs  are  perhaps  a  trifle  longer;  and  its  head  just  per- 
ceptibly more  produced,  with  the  antennae  inserted,  if  anything,  some- 
what further  from  either  eye. 

345.  Attalus  ovatipennis. 

Attains  ovatipennis,  JFoll,  he.  cit.  429  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera 
et  Palma,  ad  flores,  passim. 

E\T.dently  a  most  variable  insect  (having  a  slightly  different  aspect 
in  each  of  the  islands  in  which  it  has  been  observed),  but  one  which 
may  be  known  generally  by  its  ovate  (or  posteriorly-expanded)  out- 
line, by  the  greenish-brassy  tinge  of  its  dark  elytra  and  head,  by  its 
prothorax  having  usually  only  the  hinder  margin  and  angles  pale 
(though  occasionally  a  larger  portion  of  its  surface),  and  by  its  tibiae 
and  tarsi  (and  parts  of  the  femora)  being  diluted-testaceous.  It 
appears  to  be  more  widely  spread  over  the  Group  than  any  of  the 
other  species,  Hierro  being  the  only  island  in  which  it  has  not  been 
detected.     I  have  myself  taken  it  in  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary, 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  221 

TenerifFe,  Gomera,  and  Palma.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  captnrecl  by  M. 
Hartnng  (one  of  whose  specimens  has  been  communicated  to  me  by 
Dr.  Heer),  and  in  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

346.  Attalus  bisculpturatus. 

Attakis  bisculptviratus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  4.30  (1862). 
Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859  repertiis. 

This  singular  little  Attalus  may  be  known  at  once  from  the  other 
species  here  emimerated  by  its  very  remarkable  sculpture, — the  head 
and  prothorax  (which  are  much  depressed,  particularly  the  former) 
being  opake,  and  coarsely  and  evenly  alutaceous  (or  minutely  granu- 
lated) throughout,  whilst  the  elytra  are  shining  and  merely  rough- 
ened in  the  ordinary  manner.  Its  colour  is  black,  except  the  hinder 
part  of  the  prothorax  (which  is  dull  yellow),  and  the  tibia3,  tarsi,  and 
the  base  of  the  antennae  (which  are  brownish-testaceous).  The  only 
two  examples  which  I  have  seen  (a  male  and  a  female)  were  captured 
by  myself  in  Fuerteventura — I  believe,  in  the  Rio  Palmas — early  in 
April  of  1859. 

347.  Attalus  rugifrons. 
Attains  rugifrons,  Wall,  loc.  cit.  431  (1862). 

Habitat  Gomeram,  in  coUibus  prope  Sanctum  Sebastianum  ad  flores 
lectus. 

The  present  Attalus,  which  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in 
Gomera,  is,  like  most  of  the  species,  very  variable  in  colour ;  never- 
theless its  subopake  and  densely  and  minutely  rugulose  head  (in 
which  respect  it  somewhat  resembles  the  Peeteropus  angustifrons), 
combined  with  the  rufo-testaceous  hue  of  its  four  anterior  legs  and 
the  base  of  its  antennae  (the  former  of  which,  however,  have  the  upper 
edge  of  their  femora,  and  occasionally  of  the  tibiae  also,  black),  will 
sufficiently  distinguish  it.  Its  prothorax  has  usually  the  sides  and 
base  broadly  testaceo -rufous ;  but  sometimes  it  is  entirely  dark,  ex- 
cept towards  the  hinder  angles ;  whilst  at  others  even  the  discal 
patch  is  almost  obsolete,  when  nearly  the  whole  siu'face  is  pale.  It 
was  taken  from  off  flowers  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  on  the  hills  above 
San  Sebastian  of  Gomera,  at  the  beginning  of  February  1858. 

348.  Attalus  ornatissimus. 
Attalus  ornatissimus,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  431.  pi.  xx.  f.  2  (1862). 
Habitat  in  montibus  Palmae,  ad  flores  frequens. 
The  bright  cyaneous,  or  greenish-cyaneous,  head  and  elytra  of 
this  beautiful  Attalus,  combined  with  its  rufous  prothorax,  which 


222  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

has  generally  only  a  very  broad  central  band  darker,  and  its  usually 
black  limbs,  will  serve  to  characterize  it.  Its  head  is  less  shining 
than  the  rest  of  the  surface,  and  is  very  closely  and  most  minutely 
rugulose ;  and  much  the  same  kind  of  sculpture  exists,  though  less 
densely,  on  its  pronotum ;  whilst  its  elytra  are  very  thickly  though 
delicately  punctulated,  and  with  the  additional  erect  hairs  almost 
evanescent  at  the  base  but  very  long  towards  the  apex.  It  has  been 
observed  hitherto  only  on  the  mountains  of  Palma.  On  the  12th  of 
June  1858  I  captured  it  rather  abundantly  from  off  flowers,  at  a  high 
elevation,  immediately  below  the  Cumbre  above  Buenavista;  and 
during  the  preceding  February  it  was  taken  more  sparingly  by  Mr. 
Gray  at  a  lower  altitude — I  believe,  in  the  district  of  Buenavista 
itself.  Mr.  Gray's  examples  I  indicated  in  my  diagnosis  as  a  "  var.  /3," 
in  which  the  prothorax  is  either  almost  or  entirely  rufous,  and  in 
S07ne  of  which  the  anterior  legs  and  the  base  of  the  intermediate 
femora  are  infuscated-testaceous.  The  A.  ornatissimus  was  likewise 
met  with,  in  Palma,  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

349.  Attains  chrysanthemi. 

Attains  chrysanthemi,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  432.  pi.  xx.  f.  3  (1862). 
Anthoconuis  analis,  Hart,  [nee  Pnz.^  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lcmz.  und 
Fuert.  140. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  ad  flores  (prassertim  Chri/- 
fiiinthemi  ochroleuci,  W.  et  B.)  hinc  inde  vulgaris,  sed  prcecipue  in  ilia. 

This  beautiful  and  comparatively  constant  Attalus  may  immediately 
be  known  by  its  bluish-green,  and  sometimes  aiuescent,  surface, — 
the  hinder  angles  and  extreme  base  of  the  prothorax,  together  with 
a  large  apical  portion  of  the  elytra  (and  a  narrow  lateral  strip  arising 
out  of  it,  and  extending  to  about  the  middle  of  the  margin)  and  the 
legs,  being  of  a  pale  yellow.  The  legs,  however,  which  are  sometimes 
infuscated  in  parts,  should  perhaps  be  described  as  testaceous  rather 
than  strictly  "  yellow."  Its  surface  also  is  very  densely  and  rather 
coarsely  sculptm'cd,  particiilarly  the  head  and  prothorax  (which  are 
less  shining  than  the  elytra) ;  and  its  antennae  are  black,  with  the  basal 
joints  more  or  less  obscurely  rufo-testaceous.  That  it  is  the  species 
referred  in  M.  Hartung's  list  to  the  Anthocomns  analis,  Panzer,  I  am 
enabled  to  state  for  certain,  having  received  examples  thus  identified 
from  Dr.  Heer  (who  compiled  it) :  it  does  not,  however,  possess  a  single 
feature  in  common  with  that  insect.  In  very  rare  cases  the  large 
yellow  portion  at  the  apex  of  the  elytra  is  much  reduced  both  in  di- 
mensions and  intensity,  when  the  legs  also  are  apt  to  bo  almost,  or 


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even  entirely,  dark.  Such  specimens  as  these  (which  however  can 
be  connected  gradually  with  the  others)  I  defined,  in  my  diagnosis, 
as  the  "var.  (5.  dasi/toides.'" 

So  far  as  observed  hitherto,  the  A.  clirysanthemi  appears  to  be 
peculiar  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where  it  occurs  on  the 
flowers  of  various  plants  during  the  winter  and  spring,  though  more 
particularly  those  of  the  Chrysanihemwm  ochroleucum  of  Webb  and 
Berthelot.  In  such  situations  it  was  taken  abundantly  by  Mr.  Gray 
and  myself,  between  Haria  and  Magui,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote, 
diiring  January  1858 ;  as  also  subsequently,  by  myself,  in  the  same 
locality,  diiring  March  of  the  following  year  ;  and,  a  few  weeks  later, 
at  Oliva,  in  Fuerteventura. 

350.  Attalus  commixtus. 

Attalus  commixtus,  Woll,  he.  cit.  433  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  ad  flores  Eupliorhiarum  captus. 

This  Attains  is  apparently  a  good  deal  allied  to  the  A.  chrysan- 
tJiemi.  It  is,  however,  less  depressed,  and  more  acuminated  an- 
teriorly ;  its  surface,  instead  of  being  C5^aneous-green,  is  dark- 
aeneous,  with  the  entire  margins  of  the  prothorax  (and  not  merely  the 
posterior  one)  of  a  dull  fulvous-yellow ;  its  head  and  i^ronotum  are 
narrower,  much  more  shining,  and  very  much  less  sculptured  (the 
former  being  almost  impunctate,  whilst  the  punctures  of  the  latter 
are  exceedingly  shallow  and  ill-defined) ;  its  elytra  (which  have, 
especially  towards  the  suture,  obscure  indications  of  being  longitu- 
dinally costate)  have  a  much  smaller  portion  at  the  apex,  and  also 
the  entire  lateral  margin  (instead  of  only  half  of  it)  pale ;  and  its 
paler  parts  are  altogether  of  a  duller  or  browner  tint.  The  few  spe- 
cimens which  I  have  seen  (five  in  number)  were  captured  by  myself 
from  off  the  flowers  of  the  EupJiorbia  piscatoria  and  bahamifera,  on 
the  lofty  cliffs  known  as  the  "  Eisco  "  (overlooking  the  Salinas),  in 
the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote. 

351.  Attalus  laevicollis. 

Attains  Ifevicollis,  IFolL,  loc.  cit.  434  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  cum  sp.  praecedente  semel  lectus. 

In  general  character  and  outline  the  present  species  somewhat 
resembles  the  last  one.  It  is  however  larger,  with  its  head  and  pro- 
thorax  very  highly  polished  and  almost  entirely  impunctate  (a  few 
extremely  minute  and  remote  points  being  alone  traceable  even 
beneath  the  microscope)  ;  its  elytra  are  blacker,  more  coarsely  sculp- 


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tured  and  with  the  punctures  better  defined,  apparently  free  from 
any  indications  of  longitudinal  costse,  and  rather  less  pilose  (parti- 
cularly in  front) ;  and  its  pale  portions  are  altogether  of  a  much 
lighter  yellow, — the  prothorax,  moreover,  having  merely  a  broad 
central  band  on  its  fore  disc  dai'k.  It  is  hitherto  unique,  the  single 
example  from  which  the  diagnosis  was  compiled  having  been  cap- 
tured by  myself  (in  company  with  the  last  species  and  the  A.  clinj- 
santhemi)  in  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote. 

352.  Attains  posticus. 

Attains  posticus,  WoU.,  loc.  clt.  4^)4  (18G2). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  juxta  oppiduhmi  Betancuriam  semel 
lectus. 

The  present  Attains  may  readily  be  known  by  its  rather  large  size 
and  somewhat  parallel  outline ;  by  its  short  and  depressed  elytra 
(which  leave,  at  any  rate  in  the  female  sex,  a  considerable  portion 
of  the  pygidium  uncovered) ;  by  its  large,  convex,  and  deeply  punc- 
tured head ;  by  its  exceedingly  bright  and  very  lightly  punctulated 
prothorax ;  and  by  its  dark  hue,  the  hinder  margin  of  the  prothorax 
and  the  extreme  apex  of  the  elytra  (which  are  less  senescent  than 
the  rest  of  the  surface)  being  alone  of  a  pale  whitish-yellow.  It 
was  taken  by  myself  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventiu-a,  close  to 
the  little  town  of  Betanciuia,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859 ;  and 
is  hitherto  unique. 

353.  Attalus  anthicoides. 
Attalus  anthicoides,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  435.  pi.  xx.  f.  4  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram  ;  vel  ad  flores  vel  prsesertim 
sub  recremento  farris  circa  basin  acervorum  tritici  sparse,  una  cum 
Anthico  canariensi  et  cset.  degcns. 

In  its  general  outline,  size,  and  colour  this  Attains  bears  such  a 
cui"ious2"'»"«/rtt'''e  resemblance  to  the  JLcteroma-vons  Anthicns  cana- 
riensis  that,  until  carefully  examined,  it  might  literally  (although  in 
affinity  so  remote)  be  mistaken  for  that  insect.  And  this  analogy 
is  the  more  remarkable  from  the  fact  of  the  Jiabits  of  the  two  being 
almost  identical, — the  A.  anthicoides  receding  from  the  other  members 
of  the  group  here  enumerated  in  being  found  not  merely  upon  flowers, 
but  (far  oftener),  like  the  Anthici,  beneath  dry  vegetable  refuse  lying 
upon  the  ground.  In  such  situations  I  have  captured  it,  rather 
abundantly,  both  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  to  which  islands 
(so  far  as  observed  hitherto)  it  would  seem  to  be  peculiar.  In  fact 
I  have  frequently  taken  it  i)i  conqjany  with  the  little  ^vi^7;/fMS  above 


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alluded  to  ;  and  when  in  motion,  at  all  events,  it  is  next  to  impossible, 
from  their  likeness  to  each  other,  to  recognize  the  difference  between 
them.  It  is  usually  under  the  rubbish  around  the  base  of  corn-stacks 
that  it  is  to  be  found ;  in  which  positions  it  appeared  pretty  general 
around  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  during  March  of  1859  ;  and 
it  was  only  at  the  dose  of  our  sojourn  there,  when  the  sun  had  become 
more  powerful,  that  I  succeeded  in  detecting  it  upon  flowers.  My 
Fuerteventuran  specimens  are  principallj''  from  the  Eio  Palmas. 

The  almost  testaceous  hue  of  the  A.  antliicoides— which  has  merely 
its  head,  the  disc  of  its  prothorax,  its  femora,  the  basal  joint  and 
apical  portion  of  its  antennoe,  and  the  region  of  its  elytra  about  the 
base  and  suture  dark  (the  latter  being  only  gradually  obscured,  the 
two  tints  shading  off  into  each  other) — will  immediately  characterize 
it.  Its  minute  cinereous  undcr-pile  is  rather  denser  than  is  the  case 
in  any  of  the  preceding  species  ;  and  its  elytra,  which  are  much  less 
shining  than  the  head  and  prothorax,  are  of  a  somewhat  softer  texture 

§  II.  Pfotliorax  cwn  capite  elytrisque  concolor  (rarius  ad  aur/idos 
ipsissimos  posticos  obscunssime  et  amjuste  paUidus). 

354.  Attains  tuberculatus. 

Attalus  tuberculatus,  Woll,  he.  cit.  43G  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  ad  flores  juxta  Portum  Orotavae  baud  infre- 
quens. 

Its  uneven  prothorax,  which  is  distinctly  longer  than  broad,  and 
has  the  central  portion  at  the  base  slightly  raised  and  divided  in  the 
middle  (so  as  to  form  two  obsciu'e  nodules),  and  of  which  the  extreme 
margin  at  the  posterior  angles  is  usuaUtj  narrowly  and  obscurely  pale, 
combined  with  the  minute  and  somewhat  longitudinally  disposed  sub- 
glabrous  tubercles  of  its  elytra  (the  additional  hairs  of  which  are 
very  long  and  very  erect),  will  easily  characterize  this  Attalus.  Its 
colour  is  black,  with  a  barely  traceable  metallic  tinge  (which,  however, 
is  a  little  more  apparent  on  the  head  and  prothorax  than  on  the 
elytra)  ;  its  cinereous  under-pile  is  comparatively  coarse  and  dense ; 
and  its  limbs  are  rather  thickened,  or  robust.  Hitherto  I  have  ob- 
served it  only  around  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe  ;  where,  how- 
ever, it  is  far  from  uncommon,  during  the  spring  months,  ou  flowers. 

355.  Attalus  obscurus. 

Attalus  obscunis,  WoU.,  he.  cit.  437  (1862). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem ;  in  regione  El  Monte,  prsesertim  in 
summo  montc  "  Bandama,"  tempore  vernali  ad  flores  captus. 

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CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 


The  jiresent  Attahis  I  have  detected  hitherto  only  in  Grand  Canary, 
where  it  is  tolerably  common  throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte — 
particularly  towards  the  summit  of  the  Bandama  mountain — during 
the  spring.  It  may  readily  be  known  by  its  black  and  subo_pake 
surface  (which  however  has  a  slightly  senescent  tinge) ;  by  its  very 
closely,  evenly,  and  minutely  granulose,  or  alutaceoiis,  head  and  pro- 
thorax  (in  which  respect  it  approaches  the  A.  bisculpturatus)  ;  by  its 
elytra  being  almost  free  from  additional  erect  hairs  (the  few  which 
are  present  being  moreover  exceedingly  short)  ;  and  by  the  antennge 
of  its  male  sex  being  rather  longer  than  is  the  case  in  the  generality 
of  the  Attali  here  enumerated.  Its  prothorax  is  even,  and  more 
transverse  than  that  of  the  last  species  ;  its  cinereous  under-pile  is 
more  minute ;  and  its  elytra  have  no  indications  of  the  small  sub- 
glabrous  longitudinally  disposed  tubercles  which  are  so  evident  in 
that  insect. 

356.  Attalus  subopacus. 
Attains  subopacus,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  437  (18G2). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  tempore  vernali  sat 
frequens. 

This  Attalus  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteven- 
tura,  where  it  is  rather  common  during  the  spring  months  on  flowers, 
and  in  the  former  of  which  it  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gi'ay.  It  may 
be  known  by  its  daxYk-cyaneous  hue  and  but  slightly  shining  (though 
scarcely  subopake)  surface,  which  is  more  or  less  perceptibly  clothed 
with  a  minute  cinereous  pubescence ;  by  the  light  (but  not  very 
regular)  subalutaceous  sculpture  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  on  which 
there  are  only  a  few  excessively  small  and  remote  punctures  inter- 
mixed; and  by  its  very  closely  pimctulated  elytra,  which  are  rather 
flattened  on  the  disc,  usually  with  very  faint  indications  of  longitudi- 
nal costse,  and  beset  with  erect  hairs.  My  Fuerteventuran  examples 
are  principally  from  the  Rio  Palmas. 

357.  Attalus  metallicus. 

Attalus  metallicus,  WoU.,  loc.  cit.  438  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  ad  flores  prassertim  Eujjiliorbiarum.  frequens  : 
etiam  in  Teneriffa  specimen  unum,  vix  distinctum  (=var.  /3.  similis, 
mihi),  deprehendi. 

The  comparatively  deeply  sculptiired  and  almost  glabrous  surface 
of  this  Attahis,  in  conjunction  with  its  metalhc  hue  (which  is  generally 
greenish -brassy,  but  occasionally  almost  cyaneous),  will  sufficiently 
characterize  it.      It  is  rather  common  in  Lanzarote.  in  the  north  of 


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which  island  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  January 
1858,  from  off  the  flowers  of  Euphoi'bias;  in  which  district  I  again 
met  with  it  early  in  March  of  the  following  year.  I  also  captured  a 
single  sjiecimen  (the  "  var,  /3.  similis  "  of  my  diagnosis)  in  TenerifFe, 
which  is  altogether  a  little  more  deeply  and  closely  punctured,  and 
has  the  base  of  its  pronotum  a  trifle  raised  and  uneven  ;  but  I  cannot 
think  that  it  is  specifically  distinct. 

358.  Attains  senescens. 

Attalus  ajnescens,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  4.38  (1862). 
Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriifa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  ab  ora  maritima 
usque  ad  8000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

A  variable  insect,  in  size,  hue,  and  sculpture  ;  nevertheless  it  may 
be  known  generally  by  its  oeneous  tint,  and  the  small  bulk  to  which 
it  descends  ;  by  its  rather  pubescent  and  finely  punctulated  surface  ; 
and  by  its  usually  dark  and  more  or  less  slender  limbs.  The  state 
which  I  should  regard  as  its  typical  one  is  eminently  attached  to  the 
intermediate  and  higher  elevations  of  Tenerifl^e,  occurring  at  the  Agua 
Mansa  and  on  the  lofty  Cumbre  above  it,  as  well  as  on  the  opposite 
Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas  :  it  is  almost  always  of  a  bright-reneous 
hue,  and  has  its  prothorax  moderately  punctured.  The  examples 
in  the  lower  regions  have  their  prothoracic  punctures  perhaps  a  trifle 
more  dense,  whilst  those  from  the  wooded  slopes  above  Taganana 
have  them  denser  still.  The  specimens  from  Palma  have,  also,  their 
prothorax  very  thickly,  though  minutely,  punctulated ;  whilst  the 
few  that  I  met  with  in  the  district  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand  Canary, 
are  of  a  blacker  tint.  It  was  taken  by  the  Rev.  E..  T.  Lowe  at  Gara- 
chico,  in  Teneriff'e ;  and  by  Dr.  Crotch  on  the  Canadas,  in  the  same 
island,  as  well  as  in  Gomera  and  Palma. 

Genus  146.  MICROMIMETES. 

WoUaston,  Joiirn.  of  Eat.  i.  439  (1862). 

Corpus  (in  utroque  sexu)  alatum,  instrumenta  cibaria  et  pedes  fere  ut 
in  Attalo  et  Pecteropo  ;  sed  capite  paulo  majore  et  (una  cum  pro- 
thorace)  convexiore  ;  et  tarsis  antlcis  masctdis  4-articulatis,  sim- 
plicibus  [nee  5-artieulatis  art°  2'^"  supra  in  lobnm  producto]. 

359.  Micromimetes  alutaceus. 

Micromimetes  alutaceus,  IVoIL,  loc.  cit.  441.  pi.  xx.  f.  5  (1862). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem  australem,  ad  Maspalomas  repertus. 
Although  perfectlj^  distinct  from  it  in  real  structure,  yet,  regarding 
the  present  insect  superjicialhf  as  an  Attains  (for  which  at  first  sight 

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228  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

it  would  be  taken),  I  -will  just  add  that  it  may  readily  be  known  from 
its  apparent  allies  by  its  subopake  and  entirely  alutaceous  surface ; 
by  its  dull  brassy-black  hue  (which  has  often  a  slightly  greenish 
tinge),  the  hinder  margin  of  the  prothorax,  the  extreme  apex  and 
lateral  edges  of  the  elytra,  and  the  limbs  (except  occasionally  a  portion 
of  the  posterior  legs)  being  pale-yellow ;  by  its  head  and  pronotum 
being  convex,  whilst  the  elytra  are  somewhat  parallel  and  depressed ; 
and  by  the  latter  being  almost  entirely  free  from  any  indication  of 
adflitional  erect  pile.  The  few  specimens  which  I  have  seen  (only 
fourteen  in  number)  were  captured  by  myself,  during  April  1858, 
in  the  sandy  district  at  Maspalomas,  in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand 
Canary. 

300.  Micromimetes  ?  jucundus. 
Mieromimetes?  jucundus,  If 'oil.,  loc.  cit.  441  (1802). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem;  in  regione  El  Monte  exemplar  unicum 
(foemineum),  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1858  coUegi. 

I  have  placed  the  present  insect  here  merely  provisionally,  and 
not  with  the  idea  that  it  is  truly  a  second  species  of  Micromimetes ', 
but  having  unfortunately  only  a  single  individual  to  judge  from,  and 
that  a  female,  I  am  unable  to  conjecture  to  what  group  the  fore  tarsi 
of  its  males  would  tend  to  assign  it.  From  the  shape  however  of  its 
posteriorly  contracted  prothorax,  which  is  raised  in  the  centre  behind, 
as  well  as  from  its  general  fades  and  nearly  glabrous  surface,  I  feel 
pretty  confident  that  it  is  not  an  Attains.  But,  apart  from  these 
particular  featui'es,  it  may  readily  be  known  from  aU  the  Attali  here 
enumerated  (with  which  in  some  respects  it  of  course  agrees)  by  its 
rather  large,  convex,  oval,  and  regularly  punctured  head;  by  its 
bright-rufous  and  nearly  unsculptured  prothorax  ;  and  by  its  dark- 
cyaneous  elytra,  which  apparently  have  no  minute  under-pile,  and 
merely  an  exceedingly  few  and  remote  additional  erect  hairs.  My 
unique  example  was  captured  in  the  region  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand 
Canary,  during  the  spring  of  1858. 

Genus  147.  CEPHALOGONIA. 

Wollaston,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  442  (1862). 
Capnt  in  marihus  antice  excavatinn,  excavatione postice  trisinuatd,  in 
medio  tnhercnlo  sat  magno  (ciliato)  instructd.     Tarsi  antici  in  ma- 
ribiis  -i-articidati. 

301.  Cephalogonia  cerasina. 

Cephalogonia  cerasiua,  TVull.,  loc.  cit.  444.  pi.  xx.  f.  G  (1862). 
Hcdiitnt  in  TenerifFa  et  Palma.  floribus  P?i)/.mlidis  aristatcn  gaudens. 


CANARIAN  COLEOI'TEEA.  229 

The  very  remarkable  colour  of  this  beautiful  insect — the  head  (!) 
and  prothorax  being  of  a  clear  cherry-red,  whilst  the  elytra  and  legs 
are  dark-cyaneous — will,  apart  from  its  structural  peculiarities,  im- 
mediately distinguish  it  from  everything  else  here  enumerated.  Its 
legs  are  extremely  long  and  slender,  and  its  surface  is  almost  glabrous. 
I  have  myself  observed  it  only  around  the  Puerto  Orotava  and  Ilealejo, 
in  the  north  of  Teneriife — where  it  is  not  uncommon  during  the  spring- 
months,  making  its  appearance  about  the  end  of  February.  I  have 
examined,  however,  a  specimen  which  was  taken  in  Palma,  during 
the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  particularly  attached  to  the 
flowers  of  the  Phy sails  aristata ;  indeed  I  have  never  yet  detected  it 
upon  any  other  plant  or  shrub. 

Genus  148.  CEPHALONCUS. 
Westwood,  m  Proc.  Ent,  Soc.  Loud.  (1863). 

Caput  in  vnanhus postice  excavatum,  excavatione  lata,  antice  trisinuatd, 
in  medio  tuberado  minuto  obscure  instructd.  Tarsi  omnes  (in  utro- 
que  sexii)  5-articulati. 

362.  Cephaloncus  capito. 

C.subtilissime  pubescens,  flavus  ;  capite  in  maribus  plerumque  nigro- 
maculato,  sed  in  foeminis  nigro ;  prothorace  brevi,  transverse, 
subrufescenti-flavo,  nigro  uni-  vel  trimaculato  (macidis  interdum 
transversim  confluentibus)  ;  elytris  macuhs  duabus  (sc.  unji  hume- 
rali,  sed  altera  in  medio  longe  ante  apicem  sita)  in  singulis  necnon 
communi  scutellari  (ssepius  in  humerales  utrinque  mergente)  nigris 
ornatis ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  pallidis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Ogcoceplialus  capito,  Westtc,  he.  cit.  (1863). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem  ;  super  arbusculas  Plocanice  pendulce 
juxta  Aldea  de  San  Nicholas  die  18.  Apr.  a.d.  1858  parcissime  collegi. 

The  comparatively  minute  size  and  yellow  surface  of  this  insect,  the 
head  of  which  is  black  in  the  females,  but  (judging  from  the  single 
male  example  now  before  me)  only  spotted  with  black  in  the  opposite 
sex,  whilst  the  prothorax  has  three  more  or  less  distinct  (though 
sometimes  transversely  confluent)  patches  across  its  disc,  and  each  of 
the  elytra  two  larger  ones  (namely  at  the  shoidders  and  towards  the 
apex,  respectively),  render  it  as  easy  to  be  recognized,  even  prima 
facie,  as  the  last  species.  Its  limbs,  which  are  relatively  not  so  elon- 
gated as  those  of  the  Cephalogonia  cerasina,  are  entirely  pale ;  the 
whole  of  its  tarsi  (in  botJi  sexes)  are  5-articulate  ;  its  siu'face  is  more 
perceptibly,  though  very  minutely,  pubescent ;  and  the  excavation  on 
the  head  of  its  males  is  wider  and  reversed — being  behind  instead  of 


230  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

ill  front,  and  the  trisinuated  edge  which  terminates  it  being  at  its 
anterior  extremity  instead  of  at  the  posterior  one.  The  little  tubercle 
in  the  centre  of  the  scooped-ont  portion  is  very  minute,  and  (from 
the  depth  of  the  depression)  only  just  traceable. 

The  C.  capita  appears  to  be  of  the  utmost  rarity,  the  very  few 
specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself,  on 
the  18th  of  April  1858,  from  o&  the  flowers  of  PJocama  pendula  in 
the  Barranco  at  Aldea  de  San  Nicholas,  on  the  western  side  of  Grand 
Canary. 

Fam.  37.  MELYRID^. 

Genus  149.  DASYTES. 

Paykull,  Fita  Stiec.  ii.  15G  (1708). 

303.  Dasytes  subsenescens. 

Dasytes  uigricoruis ?,  BruUe  [uec  Fah.\  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  60 

(1838). 
subfenescens,  WoU.,  loc.  cit.  444  (1862). 

Habitat  iusulas  Canarienses,  in  Hierro  sola  adhuc  baud  detectus. 

The  present  Dastftes  is  closely  allied  to  the  common  European  B. 
jkivipes ;  nevertheless  it  is  a  little  larger  and  more  pilose,  its  pro- 
thorax  is  less  abbreviated  (or  somewhat  more  produced  anteriorly) 
and  more  transversely  constricted  behind  the  apex,  its  antenuEe  and 
tarsi  are  relatively  a  little  longer,  and  its  entire  sculpture  is  more 
coarse.  We  may  be  almost  certain  that  it  is  universal  throughout 
the  archipelago,  though  I  did  not  happen  to  meet  with  it  in  Hierro ; 
but  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma 
I  have  taken  it  (more  or  less  abundantly),  and  in  Gomera  it  was  found 
by  Dr.  Crotch.  Lanzarotan  examples,  which  were  collected  by  M. 
Hartung,  have  been  communicated  by  Professor  Heer ;  and  from 
Tenerifie  it  has  been  sent  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  In 
Teneriffe  I  have  captured  it  from  the  level  of  the  shore,  at  the  Puerto 
Orotava,  to  the  lofty  Cumbre  overlooking  the  Cariadas — more  than 
8000  feet  above  the  sea. 

364.  Dasytes  dispar. 

Dasytes  dispar,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  445  (1862). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  ad  flores  captus. 
Were  it  not  for  the  structural  dissimilarity  between  the  male  an- 
tennae of  the  present  Dasi/tes  and  the  last  one,  I  might  perhaps  have 
regarded  them  as  but  states  of  the  same  insect ;  biit  since  those  organs 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  231 

in  the  species  now  under  consideration  are  longer  and  slenderer  than 
in  the  subcenescens  (their  last  five  joints  being  considerably  more  elon- 
gated, narrower,  and  differently  shaped),  I  am  compelled  to  lay  greater 
stress  upon  certain  small  additional  characters  than  I  should  other- 
wise have  done.  Apart,  therefore,  from  the  antennae  of  its  male  sex, 
the  D.  dispar  may  be  known  from  its  ally  by  being  a  trifle  slenderer, 
blacker,  and  more  pilose  ;  by  its  prothorax  (particularly  in  the  males) 
being  narrower  and  less  developed,  and  in  the  females  a  little  more 
deeply  and  less  closely  punctured ;  by  its  elytra  in  the  latter  sex  being 
more  rugose  ;  and  by  the  legs  of  its  males  (especially  the  feet)  being, 
like  the  antennae,  longer  and  less  robust.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly 
throughout  the  district  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand  Canary,  in  company 
with  the  D.  subcenescens. 

Genus  150.  DOLICHOSOMA. 

Stephens,  Man.  Brit.  Col.  193  (1839). 

365.  Dolichosoma  Hartungii. 

Dasytes  filiformis,  Heer,  in  litt. 

,  Hartung,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  tmd  Fuert.  140,  141. 

Dolicliosoma  Hartimgii,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  446  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Canariam  et  Teneriifam,  ad 
flores  tempore  vernali  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

Judging  from  the  description  and  figure,  the  present  insect  is  closely 
allied  to  the  D.])rotensimi,  Gene,  from  Sardinia,  though  at  the  same 
time  quite  distinct  from  it  specifically  in  most  of  its  characters.  It 
is  apparently  altogether  darker  and  more  deeply  punctured,  with  its 
prothorax  narrower  behind  and  unehanneled  on  the  disc,  and  with  its 
entire  surface  considerably  less  pUose.  The  sixth  joint  of  its  antennae, 
from  the  apex,  is  perceptibly  smaller  than  either  of  those  which  pre- 
cede and  follow  it ;  but  this  may  very  probably  be  the  case  in  its 
European  representative  also,  though  I  do  not  see  any  notice  of  the 
fact  in  the  generic  formula.  It  is  locally  rather  common,  during  the 
spring  months,  throughout  the  eastern  and  central  islands  of  the 
Group.  I  have  taken  it  around  Haria,  and  elsewhere,  in  Lanzarote ; 
near  Oliva,  in  Fuerteventura  ;  on  the  calcareous  ground  at  Tafira, 
in  the  region  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand  Canary ;  and  on  the  mountains 
above  S'"  Cruz,  as  well  as  around  the  Puerto  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe. 
In  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  it  was  captured  likewise  by  M.  Har- 
tung ;  and  that  it  is  the  insect  referred  to  in  his  volume  under  the 
title  of  Dasytes  filiformis  I  can  state  for  certain,  having  received  a 
specimen  thus  identified  from  Dr.  Heer  (who  prepared  the  list).     It 


232  CANARIAlSr  COLEOITERA. 

is,  however,  unaccompanied  by  any  description ;  and  even  if  it  had 
been  characterized,  the  name  could  not  have  been  retained,  it  having 
been  employed  by  Greutzer  for  the  type  of  the  genus — the  D.  linearis 
of  Fabricius. 

Genus  151.  HAPLOCNEMUS. 
Stepliens,  Bl.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  310  [script.  Aplocnemus]  (1830). 

36  G.  Haplocnemus  sculpturatus. 

Ilaplocueums  sculptiu-atus,  Woll,  he.  cit.  447  (1862). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  in  locis  intermediis  et 
elevatis  (prajsertim  his)  ;  rarissimus. 

This  large  Haplocnemus  is  remarkable  for  its  brassj' -brown  surface 
and  very  deeply  sculptured  elytra.  Its  head  and  prothorax  arc  clothed 
with  a  line  silken  decumbent  pile ;  but  its  elytra  are  comparativelt/ 
bald,  the  hairs  (likewise  decumbent  ones)  with  which  they  are  studded 
being  short  and  few.  Its  prothorax  is  convex,  with  the  extreme  lateral 
edges  rather  pale  and  minutely  crennlated ;  its  legs  are  testaceous, 
with  the  tibiie  sometimes  a  little  darkened  ;  and  the  last  joint  of  its 
maxillary  palpi  is  distinctly  securiform.  It  is  apparently  extremely 
rare,  though  widely  distributed  over  Teneriife,  occurring  at  interme- 
diate and  lofty  elevations.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  wood  at  La  Espe- 
ranza,  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  from  beneath  the 
dead  sticks  (as  well  as  on  the  blossoms)  of  the  "  Eetamas  "  on  the 
Cumbro  overlooking  the  Cafiadas — more  than  8000  feet  above  the 
sea.  I  also  observed  the  mutilated  remains  of  it  (for  they  were  un- 
questionably referable  to  this  species)  in  Palma  ;  and  have  examined 
an  individual  which  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring 
of  1862,  in  Gomera. 

307.  Haplocnemus  vestitus. 

Ilaplocuemus  vestitus,  IFolL,  loc.  cit.  447  (1862). 
Habitat  in  Hierro,  in  regione  El  Golfo  parce  depi-ehensus. 

The  present  Haplocnetnus  differs  from  the  precechng  one  (which 
at  tirst  sight  it  much  resembles)  in  being  densely  beset  all  over  (in 
addition  to  the  decumbent  under-pile  of  its  head  and  prothorax)  with 
very  long,  fine,  and  erect  hairs,  of  which  there  is  no  indication  what- 
soever in  the  H.  sculpturatus.  Its  elytra  are  perhaps  a  trifle  less 
deeply  punctured  ;  and  the  antennoB  of  its  male  sex  are  somewhat 
longer  and  thicker.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Hierro, 
where,  during  February  1858,  I  captured  five  specimens  of  it  in  the 
sylvan  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  that  island. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  233 

Genus  152.  MELYROSOMA. 
Wollastou,  Lis.  Mad.  253  (1854). 

368.  Melyrosoma  costipenne. 

Melyrosoma  costipenne,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  448  (1862). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canariae  Grandis ;  ad  flores  in  pincto  quodam 
excelso  Tarajanae,  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858,  sat  copiose  coUcgi. 

The  intensely  black  hue  of  this  Melyrosoma,  combined  with  its 
short,  robust,  and  decumbent  pile,  its  subconical  prothorax,  and  the 
three  very  elevated  costs?  with  which  each  of  its  elytra  is  furnished, 
will  sufficiently  characterize  it.  It  is  allied  to  the  Madeiran  M. 
oceanieum,  but  is  rather  larger  and  of  a  deeper  black,  its  pubescence 
also  is  darker  and  more  decumbent,  its  prothorax  is  less  abbreviated 
and  more  conical,  its  elytral  ridges  are  more  distinct,  its  entire  sculp- 
ture is  denser  and  coarser,  and  its  antennae  and  palpi  are  a  little  more 
elongated.  Like  that  insect,  it  is  strictly  a  mountain  species  ;  and 
the  only  region  in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it  is  the  lofty  Pinal 
of  Tarajana  (above  San  Bartolome)  in  the  centre  of  Grand  Canary, 
where,  during  April  1858,  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  on  the  blos- 
soms of  the  Cytisi  and  Cisti. 

369.  Melyrosoma  hirtuin. 

Melposoma  liirtum,  JFolL,  loc.  cit.  449  (1862). 
Habitat  m  montibus  valde  excelsis  TenerifFae,  rarissimum. 

The  present  Melyrosoma  may  be  known  from  the  preceding  one  by 
the  very  long,  erect,  and  fine  hairs  with  which  it  is  densely  clothed  ; 
by  its  still  coarser  sculpture  ;  by  its  prothorax  being  shorter  and  more 
transverse,  and  with  a  lightly  impressed  channel  down  the  disc  (in- 
stead of  merely  an  abbreviated  one,  or  fovea,  behind) ;  and  by  its 
elytral  costae  being  less  developed.  It  bears  about  the  same  relation 
to  the  Madeiran  M.  ahdomlnale  as  the  last  species  does  to  the  ocea- 
nieum of  those  islands ;  nevertheless  its  elongated  pubescence  is  still 
denser,  its  prothorax  is  altogether  wider  (particularly  behind),  and, 
together  with  the  head,  much  more  deeply  and  closely  sculptured,  and 
its  elytral  punctures  are  larger  and  more  confused  (or  roughened), 
having  no  tendency  whatever  to  be  disposed  in  longitudinal  rows. 

The  M.  hirtum  appears  to  be  confined  to  the  higher  elevations  of 
TeneriiFe,  ascending  to  the  very  summit  of  the  Peak  itself  (more  than 
12,000  feet  above  the  sea),  where  it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during 
the  spring  of  1862.  Previous  to  his  detection  of  it  at  this  immense 
altitude,  I  had  captured  only  a  single  individual,— namely,  from  off 


234  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  blossoms  of  a  Cytisus,  during  May  1859,  on  the  ascent  to  the 
Cumhre  above  the  Agua  Mansa. 

370.  Melyrosoma  flavescens. 

MeljTosoma  flavescens,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  449  (1802). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Palmae,  Junio  ineuiite  a.d.  1858  ad  flores 
cap  turn. 

The  comparatively  small  size  and  narrow  outline  of  this  interesting 
little  Melyrosoma,  in  conjunction  with  the  rather  robust  but  nearly 
decumbent  yellowish -ainQYQOwi  pile  with  which  it  is  densely  clothed, 
and  its  slender  limbs,  will  at  once  separate  it  from  both  of  the  pre- 
ceding species.  And  it  is  somewhat  remarkable  that,  whilst  the  M. 
costipenne  and  hirtum  would  seem  to  represent  at  the  Canaries  the 
Madeiran  M.  oceanicum  and  ahdominale,  respectively,  the  present  one 
may  be  regarded  as  the  analogue  of  the  M.  ariemisiie  of  those  islands. 
And  yet,  in  spite  of  this  general  resemblance,  it  is  abundantly  distinct 
from  it  specifically.  Thus,  it  may  be  known  from  it  by  its  larger  size 
and  more  anteriorly -acuminated  outline  ;  by  its  pubescence  being 
comparatively  short  and  decumbent  (instead  of  long,  fine,  and  erect)  ; 
by  its  prothorax  being  much  narrower,  less  abbreviated,  and  more 
conical ;  by  its  entire  sculpture  being  closer  and  less  coarse ;  and  by 
its  male  antennaj  being  very  much  shorter,  with  each  individual  joint 
considerably  less  developed. 

The  M.  Jlavescens  was  captured  by  myself  on  the  mountains  of 
Palma — from  off  the  perpendicular  rocks  which  bound  the  great 
Pinal  (above  the  plains  of  Los  Llanos)  in  the  district  of  the  Banda, 
at  the  beginning  of  June  1858. 


Fam.  38.  CLERID^. 

Genus  153.  CLERUS. 
Geoi&oy,  ITist.  Ahr.  ties  Ins.  303  (1764). 

371.  Clerus  Paivae. 

Clerus  PaivEe,  WolL,  Trails.  Ent.  Soc.  Lmul.  (3rd  series)  i.  163.  pi.  vii. 
f.  5  (1862). 

Habitat  in  ramis  Euphorbiarum  emortuis  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerte- 
ventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  rarissimus. 

This  most  interesting  little  Clerus,  which  is  the  only  member  of 
the  genus  hitherto  detected  in  any  of  these  Atlantic  islands,  is  appa- 
rently extremely  scarce  ;  though  from  the  peculiarity  of  its  habits  it 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  235 

would  probably  be  found  more  plentifully  if  searched  for  in  the  proper 
situations.  It  is  quite  peculiar  to  the  stems  and  branches  of  the  de- 
cayed Euphorbias;  and  although  it  has  not  been  observed  as  yet 
in  either  Gomera  or  Palma,  there  can  be  little  doubt  (despite  its 
rarity)  that  it  must  exist  there  also,  and  that  it  is  consequently  uni- 
versal throughout  the  archipelago.  I  have  taken  it  on  the  Eujyhorhia- 
clad  cliffs  in  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote ;  near  Betancuria,  in 
the  Rio  Palmas,  of  Fuerteventura ;  close  to  Puerto  da  Luz  and  the 
Isleta,  in  Grand  Canary ;  and  on  the  mountains  above  S'"  Cruz,  as 
well  as  around  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe :  and  it  was  likemse  captured 
by'Mr.  Gray  in  Lanzarote,  and  near  Valverde  in  Hierro. 

Genus  154.  CORYNETES. 
Herbst,  Kiif.  iv.  148  [script.  Korynetes]  (1791). 

§1.  Cor^nis  minus  profunde  sculpturatum  ;  oculis  magnis  ;  antehna- 
i'um  clavd  magna  obtrianr/ulari,  ad  apicem  lata  ti-uncatd  ;  palpormn 
maxillarlum  articulo  ultimo  fusiformi.     [Necrobia,  Oliv.'\ 

372.  Corynetes  rufipes. 

Anobiiuu  rufipes,  Tlninh.,  Nov.  Ins.  Spec.  i.  10  (1781). 
Corynetes  rutipes,  Fuh.,  Si/st.  Eleu.  i.  286  (1801). 
Necrobia  rufipes,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  60  (1838). 
Corvnetes  rufipes,  Klug^  Abhandl.  der  WissenscJi.  Acad,  zu  Berl.  340 
(1840). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Puerteventuram,  Canariam,  Teneriffam  et 
Gomeram,  in  cadaveribus  et  circa  domos,  hinc  inde  sat  vulgaris. 

This  almost  cosmopolitan  insect  (which  is  found  at  the  Cape  de 
Vei'ds  and  Ascension,  and  which  I  have  captured  abundantly  at  Mo- 
gadore,  on  the  coast  of  Morocco)  has  established  itself  pretty  gene- 
rally at  the  Canaries,  occurring  principally  in  and  around  the  towns. 
We  may  be  tolerably  sure  that  it  is  universal  throughout  the  archi- 
pelago ;  nevertheless  I  have  myself  observed  it  only  at  Arrecife  in 
Lanzarote,  in  Fuerteventura,  about  Las  Palmas  in  Grand  Canary,  and 
near  S'*  Cruz  in  Teneriffe.  But  I  have  examined  specimens  which 
were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera ;  and  I  have  little  doubt  that 
it  must  exist  equally  in  Palma  and  Hierro.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  met 
with  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  from  Teneriffe  it  has  been  commu- 
nicated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

373.  Corynetes  ruficoUis. 

Anobium  ruficoUe,  TJiunb.,  Nov.  Ins.  Spec.  i.  8  (1781). 
Dermestes  riiticoUis,  Fab.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  230  (1792). 
Necrobia  ruficoUis,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  258  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  88  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  juxta  urbem  Sanctse  Crucis  captus. 


236  CANAEIAN  COLEOrTERA. 

Like  the  last  species,  the  present  oi]e(whicli  abounds  ai'oimclFnn- 
chal  in  Madeira)  is  nearly  cosmopolitan — having  become  naturalized, 
through  the  medium  of  commerce,  in  most  countries  of  the  civilized 
world ;  nevertheless  hitherto  I  happen  to  have  taken  but  two  speci- 
mens of  it  in  these  islands,  namely  in  the  Barranco  Santo,  near  S'"* 
Cruz,  of  TenerifFe.    It  is  clearly,  therefore,  scarcer  than  the  C.rujipes. 

§11.  Corjms  profitnde  sculpturatum  ;  oculis  paulo  minorihus  ;  an- 
tennarum  davd  minore  {sed  ad  basin  tnagis  ahrnpta)  ohlongd,  arti- 
cidis  inter  se  subcequalibus  (ultimo  via-  Jongiore);  palporum  'inaxiUa- 
rium  articulo  idtimo  fusifonni,  apice  sidjacuminato .  [Opetiopalpus, 
Spinola.~\ 

374.  Corynetes  fimetarius. 

C.  nitidus,  pilis  erectis  mollibus  et  (prajsertim  in  capite  prothoraceque) 
eiongatis  ubique  vestitus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  lajte  eupreis,  dense 
et  profunde  punctatis  ;  scutello  cupreo-viridi ;  elj'tris  cyaneis,  valde 
profunde  seriatim  rugoso-punctatis  ;  antennis  nigris\  basin  versus 
vix  dilutioribus;  pedibus  nigrescentibus,  tarsis  dilutioribus  ad  basin 
testaccis. 

Variat  (rarissirae)  capite  prothoraceque  (ut  scuteUo)  eupreo-viridibus. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  I3-2. 

Corynetes  fimetarius,  WoU.,Ann.  Nat.  Mist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  440  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  stercore  arido  bovino, 
cquino,  camelino  (nee  humano),  tempore  vernali  hand  infrequens. 

I  believe  that  this  beaiitiful  Corynetes  should  be  regarded  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  subgenus  Opetiopalpus,  Spinola ;  though  certainly  in  the 
last  joint  of  its  maxiUary  palpi  (which  is  but  venj  slightly  acuminated 
at  the  apex),  and  in  the  shape  of  its  protliorax,  it  departs  hss  from  the 
ordinary  Necrohice  than  the  0.  collaris  (from  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope) 
does,  of  which  I  have  several  examples  now  before  me.  However, 
eveii  in  these  two  particulars  it  undoubtedly  approaches  the  South- 
African  Opetiopalpi ;  whilst  in  its  general /«c«Vs,  deeply  sculptured 
and  greatly  pubescent  siu-face,  as  also  in  the  structure  of  its  antennae 
— which  have  their  anteclaval  articulations  minute,  and  the  club 
itself  (which  is  consequently  abrupt  at  the  base)  much  smaller  and 
more  oblong  (the  first  and  second  joints  being  -equal,  whilst  the  third 
is  not  at  all  wider,  and  but  very  slightly  longer) — it  is  so  precisely 
similar  to  the  representatives  of  that  group  that  I  suspect  it  should 
be  included  in  it.  Nevertheless,  being  osculant  in  some  respects,  it 
Avoidd  tend  still  further  to  prove  that  the  group  itself,  like  Necrobia, 
is,  at  the  utmost,  but  a  Section  of  Corynetes. 

In  its  purely  specific  details,  the  C.  Jlmetariiis  maybe  immediately 
known  by  its  coarsely  sculptured  and  very  hairy  surface,  by  the  bright 


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copperj''  hue  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  and  by  its  cyaneous  elytra. 
So  far  as  observed  hitherto,  it  appears  to  be  confined  to  Lanzarote 
and  Puerteventura  ;  and  in  its  habits  it  is  (for  a  Corynetes)  exceed- 
ingly anomalous,  for  I  have  never  yet  captured  it  except  in  the  dung 
of  cattle  (horses,  oxen,  camels,  (fee.)  in  the  open  country.  But  in 
such  situations  it  is  far  from  uncommon  during  the  spring  months 
(in  company  with  the  Notiomimus  Jhnicola  and  various  Saprini  and 
Aphodii),  preferring  the  driest  and  most  barren  spots.  In  Lanza- 
rote  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray. 

Fam.  39.  PTINID^. 

Genus  155.  CASOPUS, 
Wollaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  i.  194  [script.  Cusaims]  (1862). 

375.  Casopus  Bonvouloirii. 

Casapus  Bonvouloirii,  Woll.^  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  (3rd  series)  i.  196. 
pi.  yiii.  f.  1  (1862). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  subeditioribiis  humidis  Teneriffie,  rarissimus. 

I  do  not  think  it  necessary  to  give  any  lengthened  details  (dia- 
gnostic or  critical)  respecting  the  members  of  the  present  Family  here 
enumerated,  having  fuUy  done  so  (both  as  to  genera  and  species)  in 
my  Paper  on  the  "  Ptinida;  of  the  Canary  Islands  "  which  has  lately 
been  published  in  the  '  Trans,  of  the  Ent.  Soc.  of  London.'  I  must 
therefore  refer  the  reader,  for  all  minute  particulars,  to  that  Memoir. 

The  large  and  posteriorly-acuminated  C.  Bonvouloirii  appears  to  be 
confined  to  the  damp  sylvan  regions  of  a  rather  high  elevation,  in 
Teneriffe,  my  specimens  being  from  the  mountain -district  of  the  Agua 
Mansa.  It  is  evidently  both  local  and  rare.  It  was  found  also,  though 
sparingly,  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

37(3.  Casopus  dilaticollis. 

Casapus  dilaticollis,  WuU.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  197 
(1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  in  locis  inferioribus  necnon  inter- 
mediis  (pra3sertim  illis)  degens. 

Whilst  the  C.  Bonvouhirii  is  confined  to  the  damp  sylvan  districts 
of  a  rather  high  elevation,  in  Teneriffe,  the  present  species  (which, 
inier  alia,  has  its  prothorax  much  dilated  anteriorly)  descends  to  the 
sea-level, — the  upper  limit  of  its  range  scarcely  reaching  the  lower 
one  of  that  insect.  Indeed  the  examples  from  the  intermediate  dis- 
tricts (Taganana,  Las  Mercedes,  Souzal,  (fee.)  are  less  typical  than  those 


238  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

from  the  inferior  ones,  being  a  little  less  densely  setose,  rather  more 
acute  behind,  and  with  the  basal  ridges  of  their  elytra  more  developed. 
Such  specimens  I  regarded  in  my  Paper  as  the  "  var.  /3."  In  its 
normal  phasis  I  have  taken  it  in  the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto,  close 
to  S*^^  Cruz  ;  on  the  lower  mountain-slopes  towards  Laguna  ;  adjoin- 
ing the  beach  at  the  Puerto  Orotava,  in  the  direction  of  the  Cemetery 
and  Lazaretto  ;  and  at  Ycod  el  Alto.  Two  examples  of  it  have  also 
been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  ;  and  I  have 
inspected  two  more  which  were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 
These  latter  have  their  inner  prothoracic  costse  rather  more  deve- 
loped than  in  the  ordinary  Teneriffan  specimens,  and  their  outer  ones 
somewhat  less  so ;  and  their  elytra  are  a  little  more  oblong.  But  I 
do  not  think  that  they  are  indicative  of  more  than  an  insular  state 
(var.  y)  of  the  C.  dilaticollis. 

377.  Casopus  alticola. 

Casapus  alticola,  WolL,  Trans.  Enf.  Soc.  Lo)uI.  (3rd  series) i.  198.  pi.  viii. 
f.  2  (1862). 

Habitat  in  locis  intermediis  etvalde  elevatis  Teneriffa?,  rarissimus. 

As  stated  in  my  Paper  above  alluded  to,  it  is  just  possible  that  this 
insect  may  be  but  a  phasis  of  the  preceding  one  peculiar  to  the  loftier 
elevations  of  TenerifFe, —  in  which  case,  however,  it  would  of  course 
imply  the  range  of  that  species  to  be  greater  than  I  have  supposed. 
Nevertheless  I  gave  my  reasons  for  concluding  that,  although  un- 
doubtedly nearly  allied  to  the  dUaticoUis,  it  is  probably  distinct  from 
it.  It  differs  mainly  in  its  elytra  being  more  deeply  striate-punc- 
tate,  a  little  more  di'awn-in  at  the  shoulders  and  with  theii'  fascia? 
generally  more  conspicuous,  and  in  the  first  joint  of  its  hinder  male- 
feet  being  somewhat  less  developed.  I  have  taken  it,  sparingly,  on 
the  wooded  mountains  about  the  Agua  Munsa,  and  also  on  the  Cumbre 
(adjoining  the  Canadas)  above  Ycod  el  Alto — at  more  than  8000  feet 
above  the  sea. 

378.  Casopus  radiosus. 
Casapus  radiosus,  WoU.,Tra)is.E)it. Soc.Lond. (3rd series)!.  1J)9(  1862). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canaria;  Grandis,  sub  lapidibus  parce  lectus. 

This  Casojnts  (remarkable,  inter  alia,  for  its  prothorax  being  scarcely 
at  all  dilated  in  front,  and  for  its  elytra  being  distinctly  striate-punc- 
tate,  with  their  abbreviated  basal  ridges  very  numeroiis  and  well  de- 
fined) seems  to  be  peculiar  to  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary — where, 
during  the  spring  of  1858, 1  captured  it,  very  sparingly,  on  the  ascent 
to  the  Eoca  del  Soucilho.  above  San  Mateo. 


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379.  Casopus  subcalvus. 

Casapus  subcalvus,  WolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  200. 
pi.  viii.  f.  3  (1862). 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro,  hand  proeul  ab  oppido  Valverde,  mense 
Febniario  a.d.  1858,  sub  lapidibiis  parce  repertus. 

The  entire,  or  almost  entire,  freedom  of  the  elytra  of  this  Casopus 
from  erect  hairs  (but  which  are  nevertheless  studded  with  a  very 
minute  decumbent  pile),  combined  with  the  immensely  developed 
basal  joint  of  its  hinder  male-feet,  will,  apart  from  numerous  other 
characters  of  secondary  importance,  at  once  distinguish  it.  So  far  as 
observed  hitherto,  it  is  confined  to  the  island  of  Hierro — where,  in 
February  of  1858,  it  was  captured,  very  sparingly,  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself,  from  beneath  stones,  about  a  mile  to  the  north-westward  of 
Valverde.  It  must  be  regarded,  therefore,  when  the  remoteness  of 
its  habitat  is  taken  into  account,  as  one  of  the  rarest  of  the  Canarian 
Coleoptera. 

Genus  156.  DIGNOMUS. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  201  (1862). 

380.  Dignomus  gracilipes. 

Dignomus  gracilipes,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  202. 
pi.  viii.  f.  4  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  stercore  arido  (bovino, 
equino,  camelino,  nee  humano)  tempore  vernali,  rarissimus. 

Of  this  singular  insect  (which  has  all  the  aspect  prima  facie  of  a 
parallel,  slender,  and  ciu'iously  mottled  Ptinus)  I  have  given  the  full 
structural  and  diagnostic  details  in  my  Paper  on  the  Canarian  Ptinidce. 
It  seems  to  be  of  excessive  rarity,  and  to  be  peculiar  to  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventura — where,  during  the  spring  of  1859, 1  took  it,  very 
sparingly,  in  the  low  sandy  districts,  near  Arrecife  of  the  former  and 
Corralejo  in  the  extreme  north  of  the  latter.  In  its  habits  it  is  (for 
a  member  of  the  present  Family)  very  anomalous — occurring  only, 
so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  in  the  dried  dung  of  horses,  oxen, 
and  camels,  in  company  with  the  Notiomimus  Jimicola  (of  the  Ano- 
biadce),  the  beautiful  Corynetes  fimetarius  (of  the  Clericke),  and  sun- 
dry other  insects  of  normcdly  stercoracious  propensities. 

Genus  157.  PTINUS. 
Linnaeus,  Syst.  Nat.  ii.  565  (1767). 

381.  Ptinus  testaceus. 

Ptinus  testaceus,  Oliv.,  Ent.  ix.  8  (1790). 
advena,  Woll,  Lis.  Mad.  261  (1854). 


240 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


Ptinus  testaceiis,  de  Boield.,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (Si^me  serie) 

iv.  654  (1857). 
,  Woll.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  89  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  semel  tantum  lectus, 

A  single  (female)  example  of  this  European  Ptinvs  was  taken,  by 
myself,  on  the  walls  of  a  house,  in  Hicn'o,  during  our  visit  to  that 
island  in  February  1858.  It  is  unquestionably  a  mere  importation, 
or  at  the  utmost  naturalized  from  more  northern  latitudes,  and  is 
therefore  of  but  trifling  importance. 

Genus  158.  MEZIUM. 
(Leach)  Curtis,  Brit.  Ent.  v.  232  (1828). 

382.  Mezium  sulcatum. 

Ptinus  sidcatus,  Fah.,  S2)(C.  Ins.  i.  73  (1781). 

Gibhium  sulcicolle,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  60  (1838). 

Mezium  sulcatum,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  273  (1854). 

-^_ ,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  92  ( 1857). 

Gibbium  sulcicolle,  Hartunci,  Geolofi.  Vcrh(dt)n.  Lanz.  mid  Faert.  140. 

Habitat  insidas  omnes  Canarienses,  praesertim  sub  lapidibus  in  ari- 
dis  vulgaris. 

The  M.  sulcatum  (which  is  common  at  Madeira,  and  which  is  scat- 
tered sparingly  over  central  and  southern  Europe)  is  universal  at  the 
Canaries ;  for  although  I  did  not  happen  myself  to  meet  with  it 
during  our  short  stay  at  Gomera,  it  has  been  found  there  subse- 
quently (at  Hermigua)  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  in  the  other  six  islands  of 
the  Groiip  I  have  taken  it,  more  or  less  abundantly.  It  occurs  prin- 
cipally beneath  stones  and  scoriae  in  dry,  rocky  spots, — especially  in 
the  open  basaltic  caves  towards  the  coast  (in  company  with  certain 
Hegeters),  and  at  a  rather  low  elevation.  It  varies  immensely  in 
size,  and  has  its  elytra  occasionally  studded  with  a  few  stiff  erect 
bristles  ;  nevertheless  they  are  usually  quite  glabrous.  From  Tene- 
riffe  it  has  likewise  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva. 

Genus  159.  NITPUS. 
Duval,  Glan.  Entom.  138  (1860). 

383,  Nitpus  gonospermi. 

Nitpus  gonospermi,  Duv.,  Glan.  Entom.  138  (1860). 

,  Woll,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Bond.  (3rd  series)  i.  200  (1862). 

Habitat  TeneriflPam  et  Gomeram,  hinc  inde  hand  infrequens. 

The  remarkable  fact  of  the  antennce  of  this  minute  member  of  the 
Ptinidce  being  composed  of  merely  nine  joints  is  sufficient  of  itself  to 
chai-acterize  it :  nevertheless  in  other  respects  it  has  much  the  ap- 


CANAMAN  COLEOPTERA.  241 

pearance,  primd  facie,  of  the  two  following  Sp7i(enci,  and  of  the  S. 
albopictiis  from  the  Madeiran  Group,  Hitherto  I  have  myself  ob- 
served it  only  in  Teneriffe ;  but  it  was  taken  rather  commonly,  by 
Dr.  Crotch,  near  Hermigua  in  Gomera.  In  the  rocky  ground  above 
the  Puerto  of  Orotava,  in  Teneriffe,  I  have  brushed  it,  abundantly, 
from  off  the  dead  plants  of  a  large  Tanacetum ;  and  I  have  likewise 
met  with  it  in  a  small  Barranco  near  Souzal,  as  well  as  at  Taganana. 
Like  the  JSphcerici  it  is  excessively  variable  in  stature,  descending  to 
a  most  diminutive  bulk. 

Genus  160.  SPH^RICUS. 
WoUaston,  Ins.  Mad.  263  (1854). 

384.  Sphaericus  simplex. 

Sphsericus  simplex,  Wo/l,  Trmis.  Ent.  Soc.  Land.  (3rd  series)  i.  207. 
pL  viii.  f.  6  (1862). 

Hahitat  in  Gomera  et  Hierro ;  in  hac  haud  procul  ab  oppido  Val- 
verde  mense  Februario  a.d.  1858  pauca  specimina  collegi ;  in  iUa  cepit 
W.  D.  Crotch. 

The  distmctions  between  the  present  insect  and  the  Madeiran  S. 
albopictus,  which  at  first  sight  it  closely  resembles  (its  almost  undi- 
lated  penultimate  tarsal  joint  being  the  most  important  of  them), 
have  been  fuUy  pointed  out  in  my  Paper  on  the  Canarian  Ptinidce. 
The  few  specimens  of  the  S.  simplex  which  I  have  myself  taken  were 
captured  near  Valverde,  in  the  island  of  Hierro,  during  February 
1858  ;  but  I  have  lately  examined  an  individual  which  was  found  by 
Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

385.  Sphaericus  gibbicollis. 

Sphaericus  gibbicollis,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  208 
(1862). 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  rarissimus. 

Foiir  specimens  only  of  this  distinct  Sphcericus  (which  may  be 
known,  inter  alia,  by  its  anteriorly-gibbous  prothorax)  have  as  yet 
come  beneath  my  notice.  Two  of  them  I  captui'ed  at  Ye,  in  the  ex- 
treme north  of  Lanzarote,  during  March  1859 ;  and  the  other  two  I 
beat  out  of  an  old  bush  of  the  Common  Rosemary  {Rosmarinus  offi- 
cinalis) at  Agua  Bueyes,  in  Fuerteventura,  on  the  28th  of  January  of 
the  preceding  year. 

386.  Sphaericus  impunctipennis,  n.  sp. 

S.  vel  nigro-  vel  fusco-piceus ;  capite  prothoraceque  ruguloso-punc- 
tatis,  squamis  magnis  llavescenti-cinereis  densissime  tectis,  hoc  bre- 


242  CANABIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

viter  subcylindrico,  in  disco  postico  vix  subgibboso ;  elytris  con- 
vexLS,  rotundato-obovatis,  baud  sculpturatis  sed  parce  et  minute 
subflavescenti-brunneo-squamosis  et  fascia  postmedia  albidiore 
(valde  indistincta  et  valde  fracta)  ornatis ;  antennis  pedibusque 
robustis,  vel  piceis  vel  rufo-ferrugineis,  dense  subflavescenti-squa- 
mosis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1-j. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  cl.  W.  D,  Crotch  nuper  repertns. 

The  three  specimens  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled were  taken  near  Hermigua  in  Gomera,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during 
the  spring  of  1862.  They  are  at  once  characterized  by  their  totally 
unsculptured  elytra  (which  are  convex  and  oftovate,  and  ornamented 
with  a  very  indistinct  and  much  broken  postmedial  paler  fascia),  and 
by  their  surface  being  clothed  with  yellowish-brown  silken  scales — 
which  however  are  paler,  denser,  and  more  robust  upon  the  head  and 
pro  thorax  than  on  the  elytra.^  The  species  is  very  closely  related  to 
the  Madeiran  S.  pinguis. 

387.  Sphaericus  Crotchianus,  n.  sp. 

S.  capite  prothoraceque  squamis  cinereo-brunneis  densissime  tectis, 
hoc  sat  magno,  ad  latera  subangulato-amiiliato,  in  disco  postico 
gibboso  et  in  medio  canaliculate ;  elytris  rotundato-subquadratis, 
profunde  punctato-striatis,  brunneo-squamosis,  setulis  brevissimis 
suberectis  parcissime  obsitis  et  fascia  postmedia  albida  (plus  minus 
indistincta  fracta)  omatis;  antennis  pedibusque  robustis,  clare  rufo- 
ferrugineis,  fulvo-squamosis, — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^li. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  Dom.  Crotch  cum  specie  praecedente  captus. 

This  robust  Sjihcericus  may  at  once  be  known  from  the  three  pre- 
ceding species  by  its  larger  size,  and  by  its  surface  being  more  uni- 
formly and  densely  clothed  with  dirty-brown  mud-like  scales  (which, 
however,  are  a  shade  paler  on  the  head  and  prothorax  than  on  the 
elytra)  ;  by  its  prothorax  (which  is  a  good  deal  developed)  being- 
uneven,  or  gibbose,  on  the  hinder  disc,  with  a  wide  but  shallow 
channel,  and  suddenly  rounded-out  on  either  side  so  as  to  form  almost 
an  angle  in  the  middle ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  subquadrate,  a  good 
deal  drawn-iu  (or  downwards)  at  their  apex,  very  deeply  pimctate- 
striated,  beset  with  exceedingly  short  and  remote  suberect  setae,  and 
ornamented  with  a  whitish  postmedial  fascia  (which,  however,  in  one 
of  the  examples  now  before  me  is  scarcely  traceable) .  Like  the  last 
species,  it  is  due  to  the  researches  of  Dr.  Crotch, — the  only  two  spe- 
cimens which  I  have  seen  having  been  taken  by  him  near  Hermigua 
in  Gomera,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  I  have  much  pleasure  in 
dedicating  to  its  discoverer  so  distinct  and  interesting  a  Sphcericus. 


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Genus  161.  PIARUS. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Eat.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  209  (1862). 

388.  Piarus  basalis. 

Piarus  basalis,  Woll,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  210.  pi.  viii. 
f.  7  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotain  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  stercore  arido  (sc.  bo- 
vino,  equino,  camelino)  una  cum  Dignomo,  Notlomimo  et  ctet.  dcgens. 

The  dark  blackisb-piceous  hue  of  this  insect,  combined  with  its 
very  densely  and  roughly  punctured  prothorax,  the  fascia  of  pale 
scales  with  which  its  elytra  are  ornamented  immediately  behind  their 
extreme  base,  and  the  long,  stiff,  and  suberect  hairs  with  which  it  is 
thickly  clothed,  will  readily  distinguish  it.  It  seems  to  be  peculiar 
to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where  it  is  not  uncommon  during 
the  winter  and  spring  months, — secreting  itself  principally  (like  Di- 
gnomus,  Notiomimm,  and  the  Corynetes  fimetarius)  iu  the  dried  dung 
of  horses,  oxen,  and  camels,  in  the  most  arid  and  dusty  spots.  It 
occurs,  however,  though  less  frequently,  beneath  stones  hkewise.  In 
both  of  those  islands  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray. 

Genus  162.  PIOTES. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  211  (1862). 

389.  Piotes  inconstans. 

Piotes  inconstans,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i.  212, 
pi.  viii.  f.  8  (1862). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  sub  lapidibus  in  locis  aridis,  raris- 
sima. 

The  present  insect,  which  I  have  observed  only  in  Grand  Canary, 
is  a  most  variable  one,  both  in  its  clothing  and  in  the  ornamentation 
of  its  elytra.  As  regards  the  former,  the  rigid  scale-like  pubescence 
with  which  it  is  densely  beset  is  sometimes  unmixed  with  additional 
erect  hairs  ;  and  this  state,  which  is  found  at  Maspalomas  in  the  ex- 
treme south  of  the  island,  is  the  "a"  of  my  diagnosis  (above  referred 
to) :  at  others  the  additional  erect  hairs  are  elongate  and  robust 
(the  "  /3  "  of  my  diagnosis,  which  occurs  at  Arguiniguin)  :  whilst  oc- 
casionally they  are  extremely  long  and  fine — in  which  last  predica- 
ment it  corresponds  with  the  "  y  "  indicated  in  my  description  ;  and 
this  is  the  form  which  it  assumes  in  sandy  and  calcareous  places 
around  and  above  Las  Palmas.  And  with  respect  to  the  arrange- 
ment of  its  paler  scales,  it  may  be  sufficient  here  to  remark  that  the 
two  large  transverse  fasciae  with  which  its  elytra  are  adorned  are 

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244  CANABIAN  COIEOPTEHA, 

sometimes  (though  rarely)  distinct  and  well  defined,  whilst  at  others 
they  are  almost,  or  even  entirely,  suffused  inter  se  and  lost  sight  of 
— under  which  cii'cumstances  the  elytra  are  simply  of  a  dull  dirty- 
white,  with  scarcely  any  indications  of  markings  at  all. 

390.  Piotes  vestita. 

Piotes  vestita,  Woll.,  Tram.  Ent.  Soc.  Lmd.  (3rd  series)  i.  213.  pi.  viii. 
f.  9  (18G2). 

Habitat  Palmam,  in  locis  intermediis  sub  lapidibus,  rarissima. 

The  very  short  and  perfectly  decumbent  yellowish-brown  pile  with 
which  the  entire  surface  of  this  large  Piotes  is  uniformly  and  densely 
clothed,  combined  with  the  two  greatly  elevated  and  parallel  ridges 
of  its  laterally-compressed  prothorax,  and  its  very  oval  elytra  (which 
are  much  rounded-off  about  the  shoulders),  will  sufficiently  charac- 
terize it.  It  is  apparently  peculiar  to  Palm  a,  and  of  excessive  rarity. 
I  have  taken  it,  very  sparingly,  high  up  in  the  Barranco  above  S*"* 
Cruz  ;  as  also  on  the  sylvan  slopes  above  Buenavista,  on  the  ascent 
to  the  Cumbre ;  and  I  have  examined  a  specimen  which  was  captured 
in  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Fam.  40.  ANOBIAD^. 

Genus  163.  STAGETUS. 
Wollaston,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  11  (1861). 
After  comparing  my  Star/eti  (published  on  the  1st  of  January  1861, 
and  re-enumerated  below)  with  a  specimen  of  the  Theca  hyrrhoides 
of  Aube,  which  has  been  lent  me  by  Mr.  Pascoe,  and  which  was  cap- 
tured by  him  in  the  south  of  France,  I  feel  almost  certain  that  the  two 
genera  are  identical;  though,  as  I  have  not  been  in  a  position  to  dissect 
the  latter,  perhaps  I  ought  to  speak  with  some  little  hesitation,  seeing 
that  there  are  undoubtedly  a  few  points  even  externally  in  which  the 
members  of  them  do  not  exactly  coincide.  Upon  the  whole,  I  should 
say  that  Theca  was  rather  more  on  the  true  Anohimn-i^'-pc  than  Sta- 
fjctus, — its  entire  outline  being  less  orbicular  and  its  prothorax  less 
strictly  conical :  its  scutellum,  also,  is  considerably  larger,  and  less 
triangular ;  and  its  antennte  are  slenderer,  except  the  club,  which, 
on  the  contrary,  is  rather  more  developed — its  first  and  second  joints 
being  more  produced  internally  (whOst  in  Stagetus  the  whole  three 
are  comparatively  parallel  at  the  sides,  or  elongate-quadrate).  Still, 
whether  these  modifications  are  indicative  of  others,  of  at  least  equal 
importance,  in  the  oral  organs,  I  am  of  course  unable  to  say  ;  though. 


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as  I  have  given  the  full  details  ofStagetus  in  my  Paper  on  the  "Ano- 
hiadce  of  the  Canary  Islands,"  this  point  may  perhaps  be  decided 
positively  by  those  who  possess  the  genus  Tlieca  in  sufficient  abun- 
dance to  permit  them  to  destroy  a  specimen  for  dissection.  Even 
should  they  prove,  however,  to  be  identical,  I  believe  that  Stagetus 
will  have  the  priority  as  regards  the  date  of  publication. 

391.  Stagetus  crenatus. 

Stagetus  crenatus,  JVoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  13  (1861). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  rarissimus,  inter  lichenes  ad  truncos  arborum 
vetustos  crescentcs  prgecipue  degens. 

Apparently  of  the  greatest  rarity,  but  scattered  over  the  inter- 
mediate elevations  of  Teneriffe, — occurring  usually  amongst  lichens  on 
the  trunks  and  branches  of  trees.  In  such  situations  I  have  taken 
it  in  the  woods  above  Taganana,  in  a  smaU  Barranco  near  Souzal, 
and  at  Ycod  de  los  Vinhos ;  and  I  have  examined  a  single  specimen 
which  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch — I  believe,  at  Ycod  el  Alto. 

392.  Stagetus  hirtulus. 

Stagetus  hirtulus,  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  12  (1861). 
Habitat  in  Gomera  et  Hierro,  in  locis  simUibus  ac  praecedens  raris- 
simus. 

Whether  the  S.  Iiirtulus  be  more  than  an  insular  modification  of  the 
last  species  I  will  not  undertake  to  pronounce  for  certain.  It  differs 
from  it  mainly  in  the  striae  of  its  elytra  being  finer  and  scarcely  per- 
ceptibly (if  indeed  at  all)  crenated,  and  by  the  pubescence  which 
clothes  its  entire  upper  surface  being  longer  and  somewhat  denser. 
I  have  observed  it  hitherto  only  in  Hierro — where,  during  Febniary 
1858, 1  captured  it,  veiy  sparingly,  from  amongst  rubbish  at  the  base 
of  an  old  waU  in  an  exposed  situation  near  Valverde.  Possibly,  how- 
ever, it  may  have  fallen  from  off  the  minute  Cryptogamic  plants  with 
which  the  waU  was  partially  studded.  And  I  likewise  took  it  in  the 
sylvan  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  that  island.  I 
have  inspected  an  example  which  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during 
the  spring  of  1862,  in  Gomera ;  and  likewise  two  others  (captured 
in  the  same  locality)  which  differ  in  being  larger  and  in  having  their 
elytral  striae  still  more  lightly  impressed.  But  I  doubt  if  they  can 
be  regarded  as  more  than  a  "  var.  /3  "  of  the  hirtulus. 

Genus  164.  XYLETINUS. 
Latreille,  Regne  Anim.  (ed.  2)  iv.  483  (1829). 


246  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

§  I.   Ocxdi  maximi :  pal])i  maodllares  articulo  ultimo  securlformi, 

simplici. 

393,  Xyletinus  latitans. 

Xyletinus  latitans,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  14  (1861). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Teneriifa  et  Hierro,  sub  cor- 
tice  Euphorbiarum  arido  laxo  latitans. 

Not  to  mention  the  slight  difference  in  the  form  of  the  ultimate 
joint  of  its  maxillary  palpi,  which  appears  to  have  no  indication  what- 
ever of  a  scooping-out  along  its  oblique  apical  edge,  the  less  evidently 
punctulated  surface  and  rather  longer  and  paler  pubescence  of  this 
Xyletinus,  combined  with  its  somewhat  less  rounded-off  shoidders, 
very  much  larger  eyes,  and  usually  paler  limbs,  will  serve  to  distin- 
guish it  from  the  following  one  (which  at  first  sight  it  closely  re- 
sembles). It  seems  to  be  pretty  widely  spread  over  the  archipelago  ; 
and  indeed,  from  its  Eupliorhia-mfe^im^  habits,  it  is  most  probably 
universal.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  observed  it  in  only  four  out 
of  the  seven  islands  of  the  Group — namely  Lanzarote,  (in  the  Rio 
Palmas  of)  Fuerteventura,  (at  Taganana  and  Orotava  in)  Teneriffe, 
and  (at  a  low  elevation  in  the  district  of  El  Golfo  in)  Hierro. 

§  II.  Ocull  minores  (sed  sat  magni)  :  palpi  maxillares  articulo  ultimo 
securiformi,  sed  per  apicem  internum  plus  minus  oblique  excavato. 
[Gen.  Metholcus,  Duval.] 

394.  Xyletinus  desectus. 

Xyletinus  desectus,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  13  (1861). 
Habitat  in  Canaria  et  Teneriifa,  rarissimus. 

On  re-examining  this  insect,  I  find  that  the  securiform  last  joint 
of  its  maxillary  palpi  is  sHghtly  excavated  along  its  oblique  apical 
edge ;  so  that  it  must  needs  be  removed  into  the  present  Section. 
The  scooping-out,  however,  of  this  terminal  articulation  is  a  character 
(even  though  a  structural  one)  which  is  more  or  less  expressed  accord- 
ing to  the  species ;  and  I  am  doubtful,  therefore,  whether  it  can  be 
employed  for  more  than  a  sn&generic  purpose.  As  may  be  gathered 
from  a  reference  to  the  diagnosis  given  in  my  Paper  (above  alluded 
to)  on  the  Canarian  Anobiadce,  the  present  Xyletinus  and  the  pre- 
ceding one  approach  each  other  very  closely  at  first  sight ;  but  in  spite 
of  this,  their  distinctions  are  not  the  less  real.  Apart  from  the  dif- 
ference in  the  last  joint  of  their  respective  maxillaiy  palpi,  the  X. 
desectus  may  be  knoAvn  from  the  latitans  by  being  (althoiigh  minutely) 
much  more  evidentlj^  punctulated  (when  viewed  beneath  the  micro- 


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scope) ;  by  its  pubescence  being  a  little  shorter  and  yellower,  and  with 
a  more  perceptible  tendency  to  be  longitudinally  disposed  on  the 
elytra  ;  by  its  humeral  angles  being  a  trifle  more  rounded-off ;  by  its 
eyes  being  considerably  smaller ;  and  by  its  Hmbs  being  usually  a 
shade  darker, — the  antennae  having,  also,  their  basal  articulation  a 
little  less  inflated. 

Hitherto  I  have  seen  but  three  specimens  of  the  X.  desectus, — two 
of  which  I  captured  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  and 
the  remaining  one  (which  is  rather  smaller)  at  Souzal  in  Teneriffe. 

395.  Xyletinus  brevis. 

Xyletinus  brevis,  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  15  (1861). 

Habitat  Palmam,  mense  Maio  a.d.  1858  deprehensus. 

The  last  joint  of  the  maxillary  palpi  of  the  present  little  Xyletinus 
is  rather  more  evidently  scooped-out  than  in  the  preceding  species, 
but  not  so  much  so  as  is  the  case  in  the  following  one.  In  other  re- 
spects it  may  be  known  by  its  small  size  and  short-oval  outline,  and 
by  its  subventricose  elytra,  which  are  a  good  deal  rounded  at  the  sides. 
The  only  two  specimens  which  I  have  seen  were  captured  by  myself 
in  the  Barranco  above  S*''  Cruz  in  the  island  of  Palma,  during  May 
1858. 

396.  Xyletinus  excavatus. 

Xyletinus  excavatus,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  15  (1861). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem ;  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  exemplar  uni- 
cum  cepi. 

In  the  X.  excavatus  the  ultimate  joint  of  the  maxiUary  palpi  is  very 
considerably  scooped-out  along  its  oblique  apical  edge;  and,  apart  from 
this,  it  may  be  known  by  its  comparatively  dark  hue,  more  distinctly 
punctulated  prothorax,  broader  tibiae,  and  slender  feet,  the  first  and 
second  articulations  of  which  are  relatively  somewhat  longer.  The 
only  example  which  I  have  seen  was  captured,  by  myself,  in  th6 
south  of  Grand  Canary,  during  April  1858. 

Genus  165.  NOTIOMIMUS. 
WoUaston,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  15  (1861). 

397.  Notiomimus  fimicola. 

Notiomimus  fimicola,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (Srdseries)  vii.  17  (1861). 
Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  stercore  arido  (bovino, 
equino,  camelino,  nee  humano)  latitans. 

For  the  less  conspicuous  structural  details  of  this  species  I  must 


2i8  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

refer  to  my  Paper  on  the  Canarian  Anobiadce,  already  alluded  to.  In 
its  reddish-brown  hue,  minutely  sericeous  surface,  crenate-striated 
elytra,  and  general  outhne,  it  is  more  on  the  Anohium-tj])e  than  the 
Canarian  Xyletini  just  enumerated  ;  whilst  the  strictly  ftisiform  last 
joint  of  its  palpi,  and  the  comparatively  elongated  second  one  of  its 
feet,  win  still  further  separate  it  therefrom.  Its  head  is  rather  largely 
developed,  and  closely  applied  to  the  chest  when  the  insect  is  in  a 
state  of  repose  ;  and  its  habits,  for  a  member  of  the  present  family, 
are  decidedly  anomalous — being,  in  fact,  precisely  similar  to  those 
of  Dir/nonms  c/radlipes  (of  the  Ptlnidce)  and  the  Corynetes  fimetarhts 
(of  the  Cleridaf).  Indeed  I  have  never  yet  detected  it  except  in  the 
dried  dung  of  oxen,  horses,  and  camels — in  which  situations  it  is  not 
uncommon  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  during  the  spring 
months,  particularly  in  the  most  arid  and  dusty  spots.  So  far  as  I 
have  observed  hitherto,  it  is  peculiar  to  those  two  islands. 

Whether  Notiomimus  be  identical  with  Pseudochina  of  M.  Duval, 
I  have  no  means  of  deciding  for  certain  ;  but  as  the  diagnosis  of  that 
genus  asserts  the  terminal  joint  of  its  palpi  to  be  exceedingly  long  and 
subcylindric,  its  body  ovate,  and  its  elytra  merely  minutely  punctu- 
lated  (whilst  those  of  Notiomimus  are  deeply  crenate-striate),  I  am 
inclined  to  beheve  that  it  is  probably  distinct  from  it. 

398.  Notiomimus  holosericeus. 

Notiomimus  holosericeus,  Wvll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Mist.  vii.  17  (1861), 

Habitat  Tenerilfam  et  Palmam,  mihi  non  obvius  :  mense  Februario 
A.D.  1858  exemplar  unicum  in  hac  deprehendit  Dom.Gray;  et  alterum 
in  iUa  cepit  W.  D.  Crotch. 

As  stated  in  my  Paper  on  the  Canarian  Anobiadoi,  this  species  may 
be  readily  distinguished  from  the  preceding  one  "  by  its  less  rufescent 
hue  and  more  densely  and  coarsely  sericeous  surface  (which  is  more 
glossy,  or  variegated,  with  the  short  silljen  pubescence),  by  its  rather 
larger  and  more  prominent  eyes,  its  obscurely  raised  alternate  elytral 
interstices,  its  more  decidedly  carinated  forehead,  and  by  its  longer  • 
and  robuster  limbs."  A  single  example  of  it  was  captured  by  Mr. 
Gray  in  Palma,  during  February  1858,  and  has  by  him  been  pre- 
sented to  the  collection  of  the  British  Museum ;  and  a  second  was 
found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriife  ("  from  under  rubbish  in  the  ravine 
below  Ycod  el  Alto"),  during  the  spring  of  1862. 

399.  Notiomimus  punctulatissimus. 

Notiouiimiis  punctulatissimus,  WolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hint.  Vii.  17  (1861). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  repertus. 


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The  smaller  size  and  rather  more  oval  outline  of  this  Notiomhmis, 
combined  with  its  perceptibly  shorter  limbs,  yellower  pubescence, 
most  densely  (though  minutely)  punctulated  surface,  and  unstriated 
elytra  (which  entirely  cover  the  pygidium),  will  sufficiently  distin- 
guish it  from  both  of  the  foregoing  species.  Indeed  its  entire  aspect 
is  altogether  somewhat  different ;  and  it  is  not  impossible  that  it,  at 
least,  may  be  congeneric  with  Fsettdochitia.  Like  the  N.  holosericeus 
it  is  hitherto  unique,  the  single  example  from  which  I  drew  out  my 
diagnosis  having  been  captured  by  myself  in  the  south  of  Grand 
Canary  during  April  1858. 

Genus  166.  ANOBIUM. 

Fabricius,  S>/st.  Ent  62  (1775). 

400.  Anobium  velatum. 

Anobium  velatum,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  276.  tab.  5.  f.  3  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  92  (1857). 

,  Id.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  vii.  18  (1861). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Gomeram,  rarissimum. 

The  distinctions  between  the  present  insect  and  the  following  one 
have  been  fully  pointed  out  in  my  Paper  on  the  Anobiadce  of  these 
islands.  The  only  example  of  the  A.  velatum  (which  is  not  uncom- 
mon in  Madeira)  which  I  have  myself  detected  at  the  Canaries  was 
found,  dead,  in  a  house  at  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  during 
the  spring  of  1859.  A  second,  however,  has  lately  been  communi- 
cated by  Dr.  Crotch — who  captured  it  in  Gomera,  during  the  spring 
of  1862. 

401.  Anobium  villosum. 

Anobium  villosum,  Bonelli,  incd. 

,  Dej.,  Cat.  130  (1837). 

,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  60  (1838). 

,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  \di.  18  (1861). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  hinc  inde  in  domibus,  rarissime. 

The  A.  villosum  (of  southern  Eui'ope),  which  differs  jirincipally 
from  the  last  species  in  the  form  of  its  rather  smaller  and  more  pos- 
teriorly-rounded prothorax,  may  perhaps  have  been  naturalized  in 
these  islands  from  higher  latitudes.  At  any  rate  I  have  as  yet  ob- 
served it  only  in  houses  in  Teneriffe, — particularly  (though  very 
sparingly)  at  S**  Cruz.  Nevertheless  I  took  the  remains  of  a  single 
example  in  the  house  at  the  Agua  Mansa  likewise — which  is  certainly 
far  removed  from,  at  aU  events,  the  towns.     The  minor  characters 


250  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

which  distinguish  it,  additionally,  from  the  A.  vela  turn  have  been  fuUy 
pointed  out  in  my  paper  on  the  Canarian  Anobiadce. 

402.  Anobium  paniceum. 

Dermestes  paniceus,  Linn.,  Fna  Sitec.  431  (1761). 
Anobium  paniceimi,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ill.  340  (1880). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  277  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  93  (1857). 

Habitat  in  domibus  Lanzarotae,  Canarise,  Teneriffae  et  Gomerae, 
passim. 

Clearly  naturalized  through  the  medium  of  commerce — being  a 
species  liable  to  importation,  in  farinaceous  substances,  throughout 
the  civilized  world.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly,  in  or  about  houses, 
in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  and  Teneriffe  ;  and  I  have  examined  a 
specimen  which  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

403.  Anobium  moUe. 

Dermestes  mollis,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  415  (1761). 
Anobium  molle,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iii.  341  (1830). 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  93  (1857). 

Habitat  Palmam  ;  mense  Maio  a.d.  1858  specimen  unieum  (mor- 
tuum)  cepi. 

A  single  example  of  what  I  believe  to  be  the  common  European 
A.  molle  was  taken  by  myself,  dead,  from  out  of  a  cone  of  a  Finus 
canariensis  in  the  Barranco  above  S'^  Cruz  in  the  island  of  Palma, 
during  May  1858.  Although  considerably  mutilated,  I  can  detect 
nothing  about  it  to  warrant  the  suspicion  that  it  is  distinct  from  that 
species.     It  occurs  also,  sparingly,  around  Funchal  in  Madeira. 

404.  Anobium  striatum. 

Anobium  striatum,  Oliv.,  Ent.  ii.  16.  9  (1790). 

,  Gyll,  Ins.  Suec.  i.  291  (1808). 

,  Wall.,  Lis.  Mad.  278  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  92  (1857). 

Habitat  in  domibus  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  baud  frequens. 

This  common  Eiu-opean  insect  (which  is  rather  abundant  in  Ma- 
deira, and  which  is  evidently  a  mere  importation  into  these  islands) 
is  decidedly  scarce  at  the  Canaries.  I  have,  however,  taken  it  spa- 
ringly in  houses  both  in  Teneriffe  and  Palma,  in  the  former  of  which 
it  was  found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

405.  Anobium  cryptophagoides,  n.  sp. 

A.  oblongo-ovatum,  rufo-brunneum,  sat  nitidum,  grosse  sericeo-pu- 
bescens ;  prothorace  subconico  (ad  latera  baud  explanato-margi- 


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251 


nato),  sequali,  convexo,  subtuberculato-rugoso  (vix  punctato) ; 
elytris  profunde  subcrenato-striatis,  interstitiis  depressis  et  parce 
punctiilatis ;  anteniiis  vix  obscurioribus,  articiilis  ultimis  tribus 
baud  valde  elongatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  ins.  Hierro ;  in  loco  quodam  mox  supra  mare  in  regione 
"El Golfo"  dicta  sito  mense  FebruarioA.D.  1858  exemplar  unicum  cepi. 

Of  this  minute  Anohium,  which  has  much  the  colour  and  prima 
facie  aspect  of  a  Crujptophagus,  I  have  seen  hitherto  but  a  single  ex- 
ample— which  was  taken  by  myself,  during  February  1858,  in  a 
sandy  lane  at  a  very  low  elevation  in  the  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the 
western  side  of  Hierro.  It  is  remarkable  for  its  reddish-brown  hue 
and  rather  shining  and  sericeous  surface,  for  its  oblong-ovate  outline, 
for  its  prothorax  being  even  and  subcorneal  and  not  at  all  margined 
(or  expanded)  at  the  sides,  and  for  the  last  three  joints  of  its  antennae 
being  rather  less  elongated  than  is  the  case  in  the  generality  of  the 
true  Anohia. 

Genus  167.  PTILINUS. 
Geoffi-oy,  Hist.  Ahr.  ties  Ins.  i.  65  (1764). 

406.  Ptilinus  lepidus,  n.  sp. 

P.  Tuas  opacus,  fusco-niger,  densissime  et  minute  pubescens  ;  pro- 
thorace  postice  insequaU  dense  et  minute  granulato  et  carina  abbre- 
viata  laevi  instructo,  antice  asperato ;  elytris  (prsesertim  versus 
basin)  paulo  rufescentioribus,  subpunctato-rugulosis ;  antennis 
pedibusque  pallidioribus,  illis  longe  flabellatis  (flabeUis  nigrescen- 
tioribus) . 

P.  fcem.  nitidus,  rufo-brunneus,  glaber ;  prothorace  postice  cylindrico 
parce  et  minute  punctulato,  antice  latiusculo  convexo  et  valde  as- 
perato ;  elytris  minutissime  punctulato-subrugulosis ;  antennis 
pedibusque  vix  pallidioribus,  iUis  serratis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  (mas) 
ll-vix  2,  et  (fcem.)  l|-2l. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Pahnam,  in  locis  intermediis  degens. 

The  excessive  dissimilarity  of  the  sexes  of  this  insect  renders  it 
absolutely  necessary  to  give  a  separate  diagnosis  for  each  of  them, 
since  they  have  scarcely  a  single  feature  in  common.  In  my  Paper 
on  the  Canarian  Anobiadw  I  queried  it  as  probably  identical  with  the 
Madeiran  P.  cylindripennis,  of  which  I  did  not,  at  the  time,  happen 
to  possess  a  type  for  comparison.  A  subsequent  examination,  how- 
ever, of  the  two  proves  them  to  be  unquestionably  distinct ;  for  al- 
though they  do  not  differ  materially  in  their  male  sex  (which  indeed, 
in  both  cases,  has  much  the  prima  facie  aspect  of  the  common  Euro- 
pean P.  pectinicornis) ,  the  females  of  the  P.  lepidus,  when  closely  in- 
spected, wlU  be  seen  to  have  nearly  all  their  characters  considerably 


252  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

modified.  Thus,  they  have  their  entire  surface  more  shining  and 
quite  glabrous  (whereas  that  of  the  eylindripennis  is  very  minutely, 
but  densely,  pubescent) ;  their  prothorax  is  larger,  relatively  wider 
anteriorly,  more  obtusely  rounded  (or  less  acuminate)  in  front,  and 
delicately  jjiino<w?«ief?  (instead  of  granxilose)  behind ;  and  their  elytra 
are  rather  more  decidedly  (though  most  minutely)  punctulated,  and 
apparently  without  even  the  faintest  tendency  to  be  longitudinally 
subcostatc. 

Hitherto  I  have  observed  the  P.  leindus  only  in  the  intermediate 
elevations  of  Teneriffe  and  Palma, — namely  at  Taganana  of  the  for- 
mer, and  (more  abundantly)  in  an  old  paling  at  Galga,  of  the  latter. 

Fam.  41.  BOSTRICHID^. 

Genus  168.  XYLOPERTHA*. 
Gu^rin,  Ann.  cle  la  Sac.  Ent,  de  France,  Bull.  17  (1845). 

407.  Xylopertha  barbifrons,  n.  sp. 

X.  cylindrica,  fusco-picea,  subnitida,  pube  flavescente  sericea  demissa 
grosse  irrorata ;  capitis  limbo  longissime  barbate ;  prothorace  an- 
ticc  mucronibus  maximis  asperate  et  ibidem  jDilis  tenmbus  longis- 
simis  ercctis  obsito,  postice  parce  granulate ;  elytris  basin  versus 
paulo  pallidioribus,  subseriatim  punctatis  (punctis  postice  magnis, 
antice  paulatim  minutissimis),  ad  apicem  retusis,  parte  truncata 
utrinque  nodulo  parvo  instructa  necnon  per  suturam  elevata ;  an- 
tennis  pedibusque  tcstaceis,  illarum  clava  tibiisque  subinfuscatis. 
— Long.  corp.  Hn.  1^. 

Hahitat  Palmam ;  mense  Maio  a.d.  1858  exemplar  unicum  hand 
procul  a  Galga  dcprehendi. 

The  present  insect  differs,  inter  cilia,  from  the  Madeiran  X.  har- 
bata  in  being  more  densely  clothed  with  a  coarser  decumbent  sericeous 
pile  ;  in  the  hinder  region  of  its  prothorax  being  much  less  polished, 
and  distinctly  f/ratiulose  (instead  of  most  minutely  punctulated)  ;  in 
the  paler  ])arts  of  its  sm-face  being  darker,  or  more  infuscated ;  in  its 
forehead  being  still  more  densely  penicillatcd ;  and  in  its  suture  being 
more  uniformly  raised  along  the  whole  of  the  truncated  portion  at 
the  apex  of  its  elytra.     The  single  specimen  from  which  the  above 

*  It  appears  that  the  Xt/lojperthcs  (at  any  rate  the  European  ones)  have  but 
nine  distinct  joints  to  their  antenna\  and  not  ten  as  has  been  usually  supposed. 
Consequently  M.  Mulsant's  genus  Enneadesmuti,  which  was  based  solely  on  the 
former  iliar;ictcr,  has  to  be  suppressed ;  and  the  Madeiran  insect  which  I  described 
in  18G0  {vide  Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist..  3rd  series,  v.  359),  under  the  name  of  Ennca- 
desMus  harbatus,  must  be  regarded,  therefore,  as  a  Xylopertha. 


CAN ASIAN  COLEOPTERA.  253 

diagnosis  has  been  compiled  was  captured  by  myself  in  the  east  of 
Palma  (on  the  mountains  between  Galga  and  the  sea),  on  the  24th 
of  May  1858. 

Genus  169.  DINODERUS. 
Stephens,  Man.  Brit.  Col.  203  (1839). 

408.  Dinoderus  bniiineus. 

D.  cylindricus,  pieeo-bninneus,  fere  opacus,  ubique  densissime  et 
grosse  rugoso-asperatus,  breviter  et  parce  sed  in  limbo  longius 
fulvo-pubescens ;  prothoraee  antice  subangustato  et  valde  mucro- 
nato,  postice  dense  granulato  truncate  ;  elytrorum  granulis  magnis 
sed  vix  subseriatim  dispositis  ;  antennarum  clava  tarsisque  paulo 
magis  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2|. 

Dinoderus  brunneus,  Woll.,Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  440  (1862). 
Habitat  in  pinetis  Teneriffae  et  Palmse,  truncos  Pini  canariensis 
emortuos  destruens. 

I  am  doubtful  whether  this  Dinoderus  is  more,  in  reaKty,  than  a 
local  phasis  of  the  European  D.  substriatus, — from  which  it  seems  to 
differ  merely  in  its  rather  smaller  size,  narrower  outline,  and  browner 
hue,  in  the  sculpture  of  its  elytra  being  somewhat  closer  and  not  quite 
so  coarse,  and  in  its  prothorax  being  relatively  a  trifle  narrower  in 
front,  less  dilated  in  the  middle  and  more  truncated  at  the  base — 
the  hinder  angles  being  rather  less  rounded  off.  It  seems  to  be  ex- 
ceedingly rare,  or  at  all  events  local,  being  confined  (so  far  as  I 
have  observed  hitherto)  to  the  rotten  trunks  of  the  Pimis  canariensis, 
at  intermediate  and  somewhat  lofty  elevations.  In  such  positions  I 
have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Mansa  in  Teneriife,  and  high  up  in  the 
Barranco  above  S*^^  Cruz  in  Palma. 

Fam.  42.  CIOIDiE. 

Genus  170.  CIS. 
Latreille,  PrSc,  des  Caract.  Gen.  des  Lis.  50  (1796). 

409.  Cis  lauri. 

Cis  lauri,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  282.  tab.  v.  f.  7  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  94  (1857). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  Teneriffae,  hinc  inde  sat  vulgaris. 

The  C.  lauri,  so  common  in  the  laurel-regions  of  Madeira,  occurs 
in  similar  spots  at  the  Canaries — where,  however,  it  seems  to  be 
both  more  local  and  less  abundant.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only 
in  the  woods  of  Las  Mercedes  and  the  Agua  Garcia,  in  Teneriffe ; 


254  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

but  we  may  be  almost  certain  that  it  will  be  found  generally,  where- 
ever  the  remains  of  the  old  laurel-forests,  which  are  fast  disappearing, 
still  exist.  TenerifFan  examples  have  also  been  communicated  by 
Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  171.  OCTOTEMNUS. 
Mellie,  Ami.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  (2ieme  serie)  vi.  384  (1848). 

410.  Octotemnus  opacus. 

Octotemnus  opacus,  Mellie,  loc.  cit.  386  (1848). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  283  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  94  (1857). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Teneriffae  et  Palmse,  minus  frequens. 

Like  the  Cis  hmri,  the  present  insect  abounds  in  Madeira,  but  is 
comparatively  scarce,  and  also  exceedingly  local,  at  the  Canaries. 
Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  sylvan  and  subsylvan  spots  of  the 
intermediate  altitudes  of  TenerifFe  and  Palma, — namely  at  the  Agua 
Garcia  and  the  laurel-woods  above  Taganana  of  the  former,  and 
high  up  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua  of  the  latter. 

Fam.43.  TOMICID^. 

Genus  172.  TOMICUS. 
Latreille,  Hist.  Nat.  des  Ins.  iii.  203  (1802). 

411.  Tomicus  nobilis. 

T.  cylindricus,  piceo-niger,  subnitidus,  pilis  tenuibus  longissimis 
erectis  fulvescentibus  praisertim  in  limbo  obsitus  ;  prothorace  elon- 
gato,  postice  profunde  punctato,  antice  valde  asperato  ;  elytris  pi- 
cescentioribus,  profunde  punctato-striatis,  ad  apicem  subito  et  valde 
retusis, parte  excavata  dentibus  lateralibus  tribus(superiore  maximo 
noduliformi),  uno  parvo  antico  et  duobus  vel  tribus  obscuris  sub- 
confluentibus  posticis  utrinque  armata ;  femoribus  tibiisque  rufo- 
ferrugineis,  tarsis  antennisque  rufo-testaeeis. 

Variat  (immaturus)  colore  omnino  ferrugineo  ;  necnon  (forsan  in  sexu 
foemineo)  dentibus  elytrorum  apicalibus  minus  distinctis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  lg-2. 

Tomicus  nobilis,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  ix.  441  (1862). 

Habitat  in  pinetis  TenerifFa?  et  Palmae,  lignum  antiquum  destruens. 

This  large  Tomicus  is  remarkable  for  the  hinder  portion  of  its  pro- 
thorax  being  coarsely  punctured  (with  the  punctures  distinct  and 
well  defined) ;  for  its  elytra  being  more  or  less  piceous  and  the  head 
and  prothorax  piceous-black,  whilst  its  legs  are  more  rufeseent,  with 
their  tarsi  (like  the  antennae)  testaceous  ;  and  for  its  elytra  being 


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very  deeply  punctate-striated,  with  the  excavated  portion  at  their 

apex  bounded  on  either  side  by  a  large  obtuse  tooth,  two  acuter  ones 

behind  it,  and  two  or  three  still  smaller,  obscurer,  and  more  or  less 

subconfluent  ones  towards  the  apex ;  in  addition  to  which  there  is  a 

minute  and  sharp  one  in  front,  on  each  side  of  the  suture.     In  some 

examples,  however,  which  are  perhaps  the  females,  these  teeth  are 

altogether  smaller  and  more  confused.     It  seems  to  be  confined  to 

the  rotten  wood  of  the  Pinus  canariensis,  beneath  the  loose  bark  of 

which  it  is  locally  abundant,  in  the  intermediate  elevations  of  Tene- 

riffe  and  Palma.    In  such  situations  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Mansa 

of  the  former,  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S'*  Cruz  of  the  latter. 

I  am  far  from  certain,  however,  that  the  present  Tomicus  is  in 

reality  distinct  from  the  Madeii'an  T.  erosxis ;  from  which  it  appears 

mainlj  to  differ  in  its  larger  size  and  relatively  broader  outline  ;  in 

its  pro  thorax  being  rather  more  deeply  punctured  behind  and  just 

perceptibly  narrower  in  front ;  in  its  elytra  being  xisually  more  pi- 

ceous  or  nifescent,  and  with  the  large  punctures  of  their  striae  a  trifie 

more  distant  inter  se ;  and  in  its  tibiae  being  perhaps  a  little  less  spi- 

nulose  externally. 

412.  Tomicus  Saxesenii. 

Bostrichus  Saxesenii,  Ratz.,  die  Forst-Insect.  i.  167  (1837). 
Tomicus  Dohmii,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  290  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  96  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Pahnam,  rarissimus. 

The  T.  Saxesenii,  which  in  Madeira  seems  to  be  confined  principally 
to  the  laurel-woods  of  a  high  elevation,  where  it  is  often  extremely 
abundant,  would  appear  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  be 
very  rare  in  these  islands ;  and  it  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  the 
few  examples  of  it  which  I  have  met  with  were  beneath  the  bark  of 
the  Pinus  canariensis.  Under  such  circumstances  I  have  taken  it, 
very  sparingly,  in  Teneriffe,  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S*^  Cruz  in 
Palma. 

Genus  173.  XYLOTERUS. 
Erichson,  in  Wiegm.  Archiv,  ii.  60  (1836). 

Although  I  have  but  a  single  example  (and  that,  I  beheve,  a  female 
one)  to  judge  from,  I  nevertheless  refer  the  insect  described  below  to 
Xyloterus,  since  in  the  exact  proportions  of  its  quadriarticulate  funi- 
culus, as  well  as  in  the  shape  of  its  compressed  and  extremely  solid 
club,  it  agrees  precisely  vpith  (at  all  events  the  corresponding  sex  of) 
that  genus.  Its  feet,  too,  have  their  antepenultimate  joint  nearly 
simple,  whilst  its  tibiae  (which  are  a  good  deal  widened)  have  their 


256  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

outer  edge  rounded  and  minutely  serrated,  as  in  the  Xyloieri.  Never- 
theless, in  its  very  much  smaller  size  and  concolorous  hue,  as  well  as 
in  its  much  longer  prothorax,  which  is  considerably  more  produced 
in  front,  and  its  total  freedom  from  a  visible  scutellum,  it  recedes  from 
Xyloterus,  and  perhaps  might  almost  seem  to  constitute  the  ty^DO  of 
an  allied  Group.  In  the  absence,  however,  of  further  material,  and 
considering  the  essential  points  which  it  possesses  in  common  with 
Xyloterus,  I  prefer  treating  it  as  an  exponent  of  that  genus.  The 
only  other  genera  of  the  Tomicidce  which  have,  so  far  as  I  am  aware, 
a  4-jointed  funiculus  are  Cryphalus  and  Leiparthrwn, — from  both  of 
which  it  differs  far  more,  in  its  primary  details,  than  it  does  from 
Xyloterus. 

413.  Xyloterus  longicollis,  n.  sp. 
X.  breviter  cylindricus,  crassiusculus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  subnitidus, 
pilis  erectis  subcinereis  sat  parce  obsitus ;  prothorace  elongato, 
asperato  (etiam  postice  vix  punctate) ;  clytris  paulo  rugulosis  et 
leviter  seriatim  punctatis,  ad  apicem  obtusis  sed  integris  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  clarioribus ;  tibiis  latis,  extus  minute  spinuloso-serratis. 
— Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram ;  sub  stercore  camelino  ad  Eio  Palmas  d. 
6.  Apr.  A.D.  1859  exemplar  unicum  collegi. 

The  unique  specimen  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled was  captui-ed  by  myself,  on  the  6th  of  April  1859,  together  with 
numerous  other  insects,  from  beneath  the  refuse  of  a  camels'  stable  in 
the  Eio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura.  It  is  probable,  however,  that  its 
presence  in  a  position  so  anomalous  for  a  member  of  this  famUy  was 
merely  accidental. 

Genus  174.  CRYPHALUS. 
Erichson,  in  Wiegm.  Archiv,  ii.  61  (1836). 

414,  Cryphalus  aspericoUis. 
Crj'phalus  aspericoUis,  WoH.,Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (Ord  series)  v.  365  (1860). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  caulibus  emortuis  lignoque  antique  degens. 

This  very  minute  wood-borer,  which  is  not  uncommon  in  Madeira, 
occurs  also  at  the  Canaries.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  detected  it 
only  in  TenerifPe,  namely  (sparingly)  near  S''^  Cruz,  and  (more  abun- 
dantly) above  the  Puerto  of  Orotava ;  in  the  latter  of  which  localities 
I  captured  it,  during  May  1858,  from  out  of  the  dead  stalks  of  a  Gera- 
nium in  the  garden  of  the  "  Dehesa."  From  its  diminutive  size  it  is 
extremely  hkely  to  escape  observation  ;  but  there  is  reason  to  believe 
that  its  geographical  range  is  by  no  means  restricted  to  these  imme- 


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diate  Atlantic  Groups,  for  a  single  example  of  it  was  found  by  Mr. 
Bewicke  at  Ascension  ;  and  although  it  was  probably  imported  acci- 
dentally into  that  island,  there  is  nothing  to  warrant  the  suspicion 
(but  quite  the  reverse)  that  it  had  been  brought  there  from  either  the 
Canaries  or  Madeira. 

Genus  175.  APHANARTHRUM. 

Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  292.  tab.  vi.  f.  2  (1854). 
For  the  diagnoses  of  nine  out  of  the  eleven  Aphanarthra  enume- 
rated below  I  must  refer  to  a  Paper  on  the  members  of  this  curious 
Enphorhki-micBim^  genus,  published  in  the  'Annals  of  Nat.  Hist.,' 
and  which  I  have  cited  under  each  of  them ;  though,  at  the  same 
time,  the  few  diagnostic  observations  which  I  here  add  may  perhaps, 
in  some  instances,  almost  suffice,  practically,  for  identifying  them.  It 
will  be  seen  that  two  of  the  representatives  were  not  included  in  that 
Memoir, — one  of  them  (the  A.  armatum)  having  escaped  my  obser- 
vation amongst  a  mass  of  specimens  of  the  A.  bicinctum  and  affine ; 
whilst  the  other  (the  A.  concolor)  I  had  failed  until  recently  to  re- 
cognize as  an  Aphamtrtlinmi  at  all. 

§  I.  Pronotum  antice  productum,  caput  fere  occultans. 
A.  Pronotum  ad  apicem  ipsissimum  tuberculis  minutis  armatum. 

415.  Aphanarthrum  Jubse. 

Aphanarthrum  Jubse,  JVoIl,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  v.  164  (1860). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  ramis  Eupliorbice  rer/is-Jubce  desiccatis 

prope  oppidum  Haria  mense  Martio  a.d.  1859  sat  copiose  repertum. 

The  comparatively  large  size  and  very  long  and  coarse  pubescence 
of  this  Aphanarthrum,  combined  with  the  lurid  apex  of  its  prothorax, 
which  is  armed  with  two  tolerably  distinct  tubercles  (besides  one  or 
two  smaller  collateral  ones)  at  its  extreme  point,  and  its  pale-testa- 
ceous elytra,  which  are  ornamented  with  two  large,  black,  zigzag 
transverse  fascia3  (the  anterior  one  of  which  is  much  developed,  and 
more  or  less  double,  or  looped,  in  the  middle),  wiU  sufficiently  cha- 
racterize it.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  the  north  of  Lan- 
zarote,  where,  during  March  1859, 1  captured  it  in  considerable  abun- 
dance from  out  of  some  dried  stems  of  the  Euphorbia  regis- Juhce  which 
had  been  piled  up  for  burning,  at  Haria. 

416.  Aphanarthrum  armatum. 

A.  nigro-fuscum,  pilis  bre^•ibus  demissis  dense  vestitum  ;  prothorace 
alutaceo  et  minute  punctulato,  apice  producto  acutiusculo  vix  sub- 


258  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

hirido  et  ibidem  tuberculis  duobus  spiniformibus  porrectis  subap- 
proximatis  iustructo  ;  elytris  dense  sed  leviter  subseriatim  punc- 
tatis,  fascia  magna  transversa  testacea  mox  pone  basin  ornatis  ; 
antennis  pedibusque  iufuscato-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  liu.  vix  |. 

Apliauarthrum  armatum,  Woll,  Tram.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (3rd  series)  i. 
167  (18(32). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  duobus  speciminibus  a  meipso  deprehensis. 

When  preparing  my  Paper  on  the  Aplianarthra  of  these  islands  I 
overlooked,  as  has  been  already  stated,  the  present  species, — having 
(without  accurate  examination)  regarded  the  two  specimens  from 
which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  as  merely  immature 
ones  of  the  A.  bicinctum.     A  more  careful  inspection  of  them,  how- 
ever, shows  that  (amongst  other  characters)  they  have  the  extreme 
apex  of  their  pronotum  (which  is  not  at  all  thickened  or  recurved) 
armed  with  about  four  tubercles,  of  which  the  inner  pair  are  com- 
paratively elongated,  acute,  somewhat  spiniform,  and  subapproxi- 
mated.     Indeed  in  this  respect  they  approach  the  A.  Jubas ;  never- 
theless, apart  from  the  different  shape  of  these  minute  projections 
(the  inner  two  of  which  are  relatively  longer,  more  porrect,  and 
placed  closer  together),  the  A.  armatum  may  be  immediately  known 
from  that  insect  by  its  very  much  smaller  size  and  by  its  consider- 
ably shorter,  finer,  and  more  decumbent  pubescence;  by  its  alutaceous 
prothorax  (which  is  rather  acuter,  and  less  decidedly  diluted,  at  its 
extreme  apex) ;  by  its  entire  punctation  being  closer  and  less  coarse  ; 
and  by  its  elytra  (so  far,  indeed,  as  I  am  able  to  judge  from  the  two 
examples  now  before  me)  being  ornamented  by  merely  a  large  trans- 
verse pallid  fascia  immediately  behind  their  base.     It  was  taken  by 
myself  in  Lanzarote  (I  believe,  in  the  vicinity  of  Haria),  along  with  the 
A.  Juhce,  affine,  and  bicinctum. 

B.  Pronotum  ad  apicem  ipsissimimi  hand  (rarius  vix)  tubercidatHm, 
scd  ibidem  anguste  plus  minus  incrassatum. 

417.  Aphanarthrum  glabrmn. 

Aphanarthrum  glabrum,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  1G7  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Gomera  et  Hierro,  rarissimum. 

The  rather  small  size  and  comparatively  glahrous  surface  of  this 
little  Aplianarthrum  (the  pubescence  of  which  is  so  excessively  short 
and  minute  as  to  be  quite  untraceable  except  beneath  the  micro- 
scope), in  conjunction  with  its  alutaceous  and  densely  (though  deli- 
cately) punctulated  prothorax,  the  extreme  apex  of  which  is  some- 
what lurid  and  has  occasionally  the  faintest  possible  indications  of 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  259 

being  studded  with  two  just  perceptibly  elevated  points,  or  tubercles, 
will  serve  to  characterize  it.  Its  elytra  (which  are  testaceous,  and 
ornamented,  when  the  insect  is  mature,  wdth  two  exceedingly  black 
transverse  dentate  fasciae)  are  substriated,  and  closely  and  finely 
punctulated, — the  punctures,  however,  having  but  a  slight  tendency 
to  be  arranged  in  longitudinal  rows.  Hitherto  I  have  myself  ob- 
served it  only  in  Hieryo,  where  I  captured  it  sparingly,  from  out  of 
dead  Euphorbia-steras,  during  February  1858  ;  but  I  have  examined 
two  more  individuals  which  were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the 
spring  of  1862,  in  Gomera. 

418.  Aphanarthrum  bicolor. 

Aphanarthrum  bicolor,  Wo/L,  lac.  cit.  1G5  (18G0). 
Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  Euphorbias  emor- 
tuas  destruens. 

The  present  beautiful  Aphanarthrum  (which  occurs  also  in  Madeira) 
is  not  uncommon,  in  dead  EKjohorbia-stems,  m  TeneriiFe,  Gomera, 
Palma*,  and  Hierro,  in  the  last  of  which  it  was  found  likewise  by 
Mr.  Gray.  It  may  be  easily  known  by  its  whitish-testaceous  hue, 
and  the  number  of  dark  patches  and  broken  fasciae  with  which  it  is 
ornamented ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  rather  more  shining  than  is 
the  case  in  the  generality  of  the  species,  somewhat  diaphanous  (or 
subhy aline),  most  lightly  sculptured,  and  nearly  unpubescent — being 
studded  with  only  a  few  distant  and  stiff  erect  hairs.  It  is  probably 
universal  throughout  the  archipelago  ;  nevertheless,  as  yet,  I  am 
unable  to  record  it  except  for  Tencriffe,  Gomera,  Palma,  and  Hierro. 

419.  Aphanarthrum  affine. 
Aphanarthnxm  afRne,  IVoll.,  loc.  cit.  166  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  et  Gomera,  vulgaris. 

When  viewed  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power,  the  sculpture  of 
the  elytra  of  this  insect  (the  punctures  being  more  distant  mter  se, 
and  more  evidently  disposed  in  longitudinal  rows)  would  almost 
suffice  to  separate  it  from  the  other  Aphanarthra  here  enumerated. 
In  minor  particulars,  its  prothorax,  which  in  matured  specimens  is 
generally  brownish -black  with  the  apex  (the  extreme  margin  of 
which  is  a  good  deal  incrassated)  lurid  yellow,  is  rather  coarsely 

*  In  my  Paper  on  the  Aphanarthra  I  have  stated  that  I  captured  tlie  A.  bicolor 
in  Palma,  but  (through  a  typ' igrapliical  error)  the  island  "  Gomera"  is  recorded, 
instead  of  Palma,  in  tlie  habitaf  which  immediately  follows  the  diagnosis.  How- 
ever, it  has  subsequently  been  taken  in  Gomera  also  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

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260  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

ahitaceous  and  most  minutely  punctulated  ;  its  elytra  are  pale-tes- 
taceous, with  the  two  ordinary  darker  dentate  fascias  strongly  ex- 
pressed (the  anterior  one  heing  deeply  looped,  or  double,  in  its  central 
portion,  whilst  the  hinder  one  is  considerably  removed  from  the 
apex)  ;  and  its  entire  surface  is  studded  (though  not  very  densely  so) 
with  rather  long  and  coarse  erect  hairs.  It  is  the  common  species  of 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where  it  often  swarms  in  the  stems  and 
branches  of  the  decayed  Euphorbias  ;  and  it  is  likewise  pretty  abun- 
dant in  Grand  Canary  ;  whilst  in  Gomera  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch. 
In  Lanzarote  it  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray  ;  and,  on  the  28th  of 
March  1859,  I  captured  it  even  on  the  little  uninhabited  island  of 
Lobos,  off  the  extreme  north  of  Fuerteventura,  where  the  Euphorbias 
attain  a  most  gigantic  size*. 

420.  Aphanarthrum  piscatorium. 

Aphanarthnnu  piscatorium,  WulL,  he.  cit.  166  (1860). 
Hahitat  in  Teneritfa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  ramos  Euphor- 
biarum  emortuos  (praesertim  E.  piscatoncv)  perforans. 

Whilst  the  A.  afftne  is  more  particularly  abimdant  throughout  the 
eastern  islands  of  the  archipelago,  the  present  somewhat  insignifi- 
cant little  species  would  appear  to  be  exceedingly  common  in  the 
central  and  western  ones.  In  Teneriffe,  Gomera  (where  it  was 
found  by  Dr.  Crotch),  Palma,  and  Hierro  it  is  locally  abundant,  oc- 
casionally teeming  in  the  rotten  EKjphorbia-stems — princii^ally  those 
of  the  E.  piscatoria  (under  which  circumstances  it  occm^s  likewise  at 
Madeira).  It  may  be  known  by  its  rather  small  size  and  by  the 
dull-  or  brownish-testaceous  hue  of  its  elytra — the  darker  fasciae  of 
which  are  not  very  well  defined,  the  hinder  one  being  more  espe- 
cially sufiused  and  reaching  consequently  almost  (or  entirely)  to  the 
extreme  apex.  Its  elytra,  which  are  closely  punctured,  have  their 
sides  perhaps  just  jperceptihhj  less  parallel  than  is  the  case  in  the 
other  species  ;  and  its  entire  surface  is  densely  beset  with  rather  soft 
and  suberect  hairs. 

421.  Aphanarthrum  bicinctum. 
Aphauarthrum  bicinctum,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  105  (1860). 
Hahitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura  sat  vulgaris,  necnon  in 
Canaria  et  Teneriffa  minus  frequens. 

*  The  A.  affne  is  a  good  deal  allied,  in  general /ac?ci,  to  the  A.  evphorhics  of 
the  higher  elevations  of  Madeira ;  it  is,  however,  on  the  average,  a  little  smaller 
than  that  insect,  its  pubescence  is  longer,  its  prothorax  is  relatively  more  deve- 
loped and  less  acuminated  in  front,  and  the  punctm-es  of  its  eljtra  are  larger, 
fewer,  and  mere  decidedly  arranged  in  longitudinal  rows. 


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The  dark  brovmish-yellow  hue  of  the  elytra  of  this  species,  which 
has  usually  both  of  its  fasciae  well  expressed  (the  anterior  one  being 
largely  developed),  together  with  the  apex  of  its  pro  thorax  being 
almost,  or  even  entirely,  dark,  and  its  surface  clothed  with  some- 
what long  and  erect  hairs,  will  serve  to  discriminate  it.  It  is  rather 
common  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where  it  occurs  in  com- 
pany with  the  A.  affine ;  in  Grand  Canary  it  is  scarcer,  and  in  Tene- 
riife  still  more  so :  so  that  it  would  seem  to  be  more  particularly 
characteristic  of  the  eastern  portion  of  the  archipelago.  The  few 
examples  which  I  have  taken  in  Grand  Canary  and  Teneriife  are  a 
trifle  larger  than  those  from  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  and  at 
first  sight  might  easUy  be  mistaken  for  the  A.  canariense.  Never- 
theless, on  closer  inspection,  they  will  always  be  seen  to  have  their 
pubescence  longer  and  more  erect,  and  their  prouotum  almost  (or 
even  entirely)  concolorous  at  its  apex :  their  elytra,  too,  are  generally 
a  shade  darker,  with  the  sculpture  less  dense,  and  with  the  fascia 
(although  occasionally  suffused)  more  developed — the  anterior  one 
extending  to  the  outer  margin,  and  the  hinder  one  being  less  often 
broken  in  the  centre  (and  even  when  resolved  forming  two  large  and 
conspicuous  patches).  In  its  habits,  also,  it  is  not  quite  the  same, 
since  it  infests  the  Euphorbias  promiscuously,  and  is  not  partial  like 
that  insect  to  the  £J.  canariensis  especially. 

422.  Aphanarthrum  canariense. 

Aphanarthrum  canariense,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  1G4  (1860). 
Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  plantas 
Euphorhice  canariensis  joutridas  destruens. 

The  rather  broad  and  shortly-cyHndric  outline  (in  proportion  to 
its  size)  of  this  Aphanarthrum,  in  conjunction  with  its  very  abbre- 
viated pubescence,  the  brightly  lurid  apex  of  its  prothorax  (which 
has  the  extreme  anterior  margin  perceptibly  thickened),  and  the 
dense  (though  not  very  deep)  sculpture,  and  somewhat  c/Ms7i:?/-yellow 
hue,  of  its  elytra  (which  are  usually,  nevertheless,  a  shade  clearer 
than  those  of  the  A.  bicinctum),  will  sufficiently  characterize  it.  Its 
fasciae  are  more  or  less  transversely  abbreviated — the  anterior  one 
(which  is  thick,  and  much  developed,  in  the  centre)  seldom  reaching 
to  the  lateral  margins,  whilst  the  hinder  one  is  more  or  less  obso- 
lete, being  always  broken  in  the  middle,  and  generally  represented 
by  a  detached  central  dash  at  a  short  distance  from  the  apex  of  each 
of  the  elytra. 

In  its  habits,  the  present  species  would  seem  to  be  almost  (if  not 


2G2  CAN  A  EI  AN  COLEOPTERA. 

indeed  entii-ely)  confined  to  the  decayed  stalks  of  the  Euphorbia  cana- 
riensis,  and  I  have  consequently  observed  it  in  those  islands  only 
where  that  curious  plant  still  remains — that  is  to  say,  in  all  of  them 
except  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  in  which  (if  indeed  it  ever 
existed  there  at  all)  I  do  not  remember  to  have  ever  met  with  the 
E.  canariensis.  But  in  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  Palma,  and 
Hicrro  I  have  captured  the  species,  more  or  less  abundantly.  In 
Teneriffe  it  was  found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

§  II.  Pronotum  antice  ininus  produchim,  caput  Qongiusculum, 

fere  subrostratwn)  hand  occultans. 

423.  Aphanarthrum  luridum. 

Aphanarthrum  luridum,  fVolL,  loc.  cit.  1G3  (1860). 
Hahitat  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  in  plantis  Euphorhke  canariensis 
putridis  degens. 

The  present  species  and  the  two  following  ones  differ  from  the 
rest  of  the  Aplianarthra  here  enumerated  in  having  their  pronotum 
only  sKghtly  produced  in  front,  so  that  their  heads  (which  are  some- 
what longer  and  more  rostrate)  are  less  concealed  from  view.  In 
their  external  details,  however,  they  all  three  differ  very  considerably 
inter  se, — the  A.  luridum,  in  its  comparatively  large  size  and  testa- 
ceous colour,  being,  to  all  appearance  {prima  facie),  a  true  Apha- 
narthrum ;  whilst  the  second,  in  its  diminutive  bulk,  dark-brown 
surface,  and  less  parallel  outhne,  has  a  totally  different  aspect ;  and 
the  third,  which  is  blacker  still  and  relatively  more  elongate,  recedes 
so  completely,  both  in  its  fades  and  habits,  from  the  Aphanarthra, 
that,  were  it  not  for  the  exact  form  of  its  antennae  with  their  biarti- 
culated  funiculus,  I  should  have  totally  failed  to  recognize  it  as  a 
member  of  this  groiip. 

In  its  minor  details,  and  apart  from  its  less  produced  prothorax 
and  rather  square,  subrostrate  head,  the  A.  luridum  may  be  known 
by  its  pale  lurid-testaceous  hue, — a  longitudinal  dash  on  the  hinder 
disc  of  each  of  its  elytra  (representing  the  anterior  fascia),  the  dorsal 
line  of  its  prothorax,  a  spot  on  either  side  of  the  latter,  and  a  suffused 
portion  in  front  being  alone  more  or  less  dark.  It  is  sparingly  studded 
with  long  and  erect  hairs  ;  its  punctation  is  fijie  ;  and  (which  is  one 
of  its  most  distinctive  features)  its  elytra  are  suddenly  shortened,  or 
slightly  truncated  obliqueh/,  at  their  apex. 

The  A.  luridum  seems  to  be  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed 
hitherto)  to  the  rotten  plants  of  the  Euphorbia  cananensis, — in  which 
situations  I  have  taken  it  on  the  mountains  above  S*"  Cruz  of  Tene- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  263 

riffe  (in  the  direction  of  Las  Mercedes),  and  (more  abundantlj^)  on  a 
hill-top  in  Gomera,  immediately  to  the  north-west  of  San  Sebastian. 
In  this  latter  locality  it  was  found  also  by  Mr,  Gray ;  and  in  Tene- 
riife  it  has  been  captured  subsequently  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

424.  Aphanarthrum  pusillum. 

Aphanartkrum  pusillum,  WolL,  he.  cit.  167  (1860). 

Habitat  Canariam,  TeneriiFam  et  Gomeram,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  prse- 
cedens,  ramos  Euphorbice  canariensis  putridos  destruens. 

This  curious  httle  insect  may  be  known  from  all  the  AplumartJira 
which  precede  it  by  its  very  minute  size  and  uniformly  dark-broAvn 
hue,  by  its  triangular  head  and  laterally  rounded  prothorax,  and 
by  its  lightly  sculptured  surface,  which  is  sparingly  beset  with  soft 
erect  pUe.  Like  the  (comparatively  gigantic)  A.  kiridum,  it  appears 
to  be  peculiar  to  the  rotten  stalks  of  the  Euphorbia  canariensis ;  in 
which  situations  I  have  taken  it,  in  company  with  that  species,  in 
the  two  localities  above  alluded  to — of  Teneriffe  and  Gomera ;  as 
also  in  the  great  crater  of  the  Bandama  mountain,  in  Grand  Canary. 
In  Teneriffe  it  was  found  Ukewise  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

425.  Aphanarthrum  concolor,  n.  sp. 

A.  nigrum  vel  subfusco-nigrum,  subnitidum,  pilis  erectis  et  demissis 
fulvescenti-cinereis  obsitum;  prothorace  distincte  punctate  et  (oculo 
fortiter  armato)  minute  reticulate ;  elytris  striato-punctatis  ;  an- 
tennis  testaceis ;  pedibus  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  \ix  |. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  sub  cortice  Pini  canarieyisis  degens. 

As  already  implied,  the  present  diminutive  insect  (which,  however, 
is  not  quite  so  small  as  the  A.  jiusillmn)  is  so  aberrant  as  an  Aplia- 
narthrmn  that  it  is  with  reluctance  I  am  compelled  to  regard  it  as  a 
member  of  that  group.  In  its  uniformly  dark  surface  (which,  except 
occasionally  from  immaturity,  is  scarcely  at  aU  diluted  in  hue),  as 
well  as  in  its  general  contour  and  rather  distinct  sculpture,  it  has 
much  the  appearance  of  an  excessively  minute  Hylastes ;  whilst  in 
its  habits,  on  which  I  lay  far  greater  stress,  it  recedes  entirely  from 
the  whole  of  the  preceding  species,  whose  exclusive  attachment  to 
the  various  Euphorbias  is  one  of  their  most  remarkable  peculiarities. 
Nevertheless,  after  a  careful  examination  of  its  antennae,  they  seem 
to  me  to  be  moulded  on  precisely  the  same  type  as  those  of  the  nor- 
mal Aphanarthra* ;  nor  is  there  any  difference  in  its  tarsi  that  I  can 

*  As  stated  in  my  Paper  "  on  the  Eiqyhorbia-inkstmg  Coleoptera  of  the  Cana- 
ries," the  fimiculus  of  Aphanarthrum  is  not  distinctly  more  tlian  biarticulate. 
There  may  possibly  be  a  third  (excessively  minute)  joint  wlaich  is  rendered  in- 


2G'4  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

detect :  so  that  I  have  no  option  but  to  treat  it  as  congeneric  with 
the  ten  insects  just  enumerated.  But  having  hitherto  looked  upon 
the  Aphmmrthra  as  essentially  of  Eiqjhorbia-iniesting  propensities, 
I  must  confess  that  I  am  somewhat  loath  to  associate  with  them  a 
species  of  another  mode  of  life,  and  (in  the  majority  of  its  characters) 
of  a  very  ojjposite  aspect. 

The  A.  concolor,  so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  is  confined  to 
the  rotten  trunks  of  the  Finns  canariensis,  of  intermediate  and  rather 
lofty  elevations, — beneath  the  dead  bark  of  which  I  have  taken  it  at 
the  Agua  Mansa  in  TenerifFe,  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S'^''  Cruz  in 
PaLma. 

Genus  176.  TRIOTEMNUS  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus,  antennce  et  pedes  fere  ut  in  Aplianarthro,  sed  funiculo  di- 
stincte  3-articulato,  articuUs  2*^**  et  3""  parvis  (nee  minutissimis), 
inter  se  aequalibus,  capitulo  solidissimo  compresso  (nee  4-annu- 
lato) ;  ehjtris  apice  subretusis  (nee  omnino  integris) ;  colore  ob- 
scure (ut  in  Tomicidis  typicis),  nee  Isete  variegate. 

A  rpels,  tres,  et  re^i'w,  seco. 

Although  unwilling  to  erect  a  genus  for  the  reception  of  a  unique 
insect  which  has  nothing  anomalous  in  its  structure,  yet  the  present 
species  is  so  completely  removed  from  Aphanarihrum  (the  only  other 
group,  I  believe,  except  Hypothenemus,  as  yet  enunciated,  in  the  To- 
m'lcidce,  with  a  professedly  3-jointed  funiculus)  that  I  am  compelled 
to  separate  it  therefrom.  As  above  defined,  the  funiculus  in  Trio- 
temnus  is  very  conspicuously  triarticulate  (whereas  in  Aiihanarthrum 
it  seems  doubtful  whether  that  organ  has  in  reality  more  than  two 
joints*),  the  second  and  third  joints  being  comparatively  distinct, 
and  of  equal  dimensions,  and  the  club  (instead  of  being  quadriarti- 
culate)  is  extremely  solid  and  compressed ;  moreover  the  former  is 

visible  from  the  oblique  implantation  of  the  funiculus  into  the  club  (for  I  believe 
that  I  can  just  detect  one  in,  at  all  events,  the  Madeiran  A.  ewphorbice);  never- 
theless, even  under  the  liighest  power  of  the  microscope,  I  cannot  satisfy  myself 
that  it  exists  in  the  generality  of  the  species.  In  the  figure  given  of  the  A.  euphor- 
hi<B  in  my  'Ins.  Mad.,'  this  infinitesimal  exti'a  articulation  is  made  very  much 
too  conspicuous. 

*  Vide  the  observations  (Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.,  3rd  series,  i.  165)  in  my  Paper 
"on  the  EupliQr}tia-\\\ie%i\x\g  Coleoptera of  the  Canary  Islands,"  where  I  implied 
that  I  was  doubtful  whether  the  funiculus  of  Aphanarihrum  could  be  regarded, 
after  all,  as  more  than  biarticulate  ;  for  although  in  my  original  diagnosis  of  the 
gi'oup  (Ins.  Mad.  292)  I  affirmed  that  portion  of  the  antennre  to  be  3-jointed, 
and  although  I  still  tliink  that  I  am  able  to  detect  a  third,  infinitesimal  joint  in 
the  particular  species  (the  A.  ciiphorhia')  on  which  the  genus  was  established,  yet 
I  have  been  so  completely  unable  to  satisfy  myself  of  the  presence  of  more  than 
two  articulations  iia  the  funiculi  of  any  of  the  Canarian  Aphanarthra,  that  I  am 
half  inclined  to  believe  that  the  supposed  additional  one  in  the  Madeiran  A.  eu- 
phorhice  may  perhaps  be  more  apparent  than  real. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  265 

implanted  into  the  axis  of  the  latter  in  the  ordinary  way,  and  not 
obliquely.  The  elytra,  also,  instead  of  being  entire,  have  a  faint 
tendency  to  be  lopped-off  at  theii'  apex,  as  in  Tomicus ;  and  the 
colour,  instead  of  being  variegated,  is  of  the  ordinary  kind  for  the 
members  of  this  family. 

426.  Triotemnus  subretusus,  n.  sp. 

T.  nigro-piceus  elytris  piceis,  nitidus,  cylindricus  postice  vix  latior, 
pilis  longiusculis  suberectis  cinereis  parce  obsitus  ;  prothorace  lon- 
giusculo,  subconico,  parce  et  sat  profunde  punctato  (antice  hand 
asperato) ;  elytris  profunde  rugoso-punctatis  (nee  striatis),  punctis 
baud  seel  pilis  evidentius  seriatim  dispositis,  ad  apicem  subretusis ; 
antennis  pedibusque  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  Dom.  Crotch  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1862  semel 
captus. 

Apart  from  the  structural  peculiarities  of  its  funiculus  and  club 
already  referred  to,  the  present  insect  (which  has  much  the  appear- 
ance, j3r««rt/rtc/e,  of  an  ordinary,  though  minute,  Tomicus)  maybe 
known  by  its  rather  shining  and  deeply  punctured  surface  (parti- 
cularly of  the  elytra,  where  the  punctures  are  not  disposed  in  longi- 
tudinal rows),  and  by  its  being  sparingly  beset  all  over  with  rather 
long,  coarse,  and  partly  suberect,  cinereous  hairs.  The  unique  spe- 
cimen described  from  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera  during 
the  spring  of  1862,  and  has  by  him  been  presented  to  the  collection 
of  the  British  Museum. 

Genus  177.  LIPARTHRUM. 
Wollastou,  Im.  Mad.  294  [script.  Leiparthmm']  (1854). 

427.  Liparthrum  bituberculatum. 

Leiparthrum  bituberculatum,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  297.  tab.  vi.  f.  3  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  97  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  prtesertim  in  sylvaticis  et  editioribus,  raris- 
simum. 

The  present  insect,  which  is  not  uncommon  in  the  sylvan  districts 
of  Madeira,  and  which  may  be  known  from  the  L.  curtum  by  its 
relatively  somewhat  narrower  and  more  cylindric  outline,  rather 
darker  hue,  slightly  longer  antennae,  more  developed  mandibles,  and 
by  the  pustules  on  the  anterior  portion  of  its  pronotum  being  usually 
more  numerous  and  coarse,  is  decidedly  rare  in  these  islands,  where 
it  appears  to  occur  at  intermediate  and  lofty  elevations.  I  have 
taken  it  hitherto  only  in  Teneriffe, — namely,  in  the  wood  of  the 
Agua  Garcia,  and  (though  merely  a  single  specimen)  on  the  Cumbre 


266  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

above  the  Agua  Mansa  (at  an  elevation  of  more  than  7000  feet  above 
the  sea).  The  individual  from  the  latter  locality  is  altogether  a  Httle 
darker  than  those  from  the  former,  and  has  its  prothoracic  tubercles 
a  trifle  more  evident ;  but  I  can  detect  nothing  about  it  to  warrant 
the  suspicion  that  it  is  specifically  distinct.  A  Teneriffan  example 
has  also  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

428.  Liparthrum  curtum. 

Leiparthrum  curtum,  WoN.,  Lis.  Mad.  298  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  97  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Gomera  sola  adhuc  hand  detectum. 

The  L.  curtum,  which  likewise  occurs  in  Madeira,  and  (on  the 
average)  at  a  rather  lower  elevation  than  the  hituhcrcidatum,  is 
almost  certainly  universal  at  the  Canaries, — though  I  did  not  happen 
to  meet  with  it  in  Gomera,  during  our  short  visit  to  that  island :  but 
in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriife,  Palma,  and 
Hierro  I  have  captui'cd  it,  more  or  less  abimdantly.  It  is  foimd 
more  particularly  beneath  the  old  and  loosened  bark  of  palings, 
gates,  tkc,  and  in  the  dead  Eiq)horbia-stejns  ;  and  it  is,  aj^parently, 
less  strictly  sylvan  in  its  habits  (or,  at  all  events,  less  peculiar  to  the 
laurel-districts)  than  the  last  species.  It  may  be  known  from  it  by 
its  outline  being  relatively  rather  shorter  and  broader,  by  its  paler 
hue,  and  by  its  antenna?,  mandibles,  and  prothorax  being  a  trifle 
more  developed, — the  last,  also,  having  the  pustules  of  its  anterior 
portion  considerably  smaller,  and  indeed  often  nearly  imperceptible. 

429.  Liparthrum  inarmatum. 
Leiparthrum  inarmatmu,  Wall,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  v.  364  (1800). 
Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Canariam,  Teneriflam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam, 
ramos  Euphorbiarum  emortuos  parce  destruens. 

This  little  Liparthrum,  which  seems  to  be  peculiar  to  the  branches 
and  stems  of  the  dead  Euphorbias,  and  which  (Uke  the  last  two  spe- 
cies) occurs  also  in  Madeira,  may  be  known  by  its  short  and  poste- 
riorly-obtuse outline ;  by  its  jirothorax  being  a  good  deal  developed, 
though  rather  acuminated  in  front,  and  quite  free  from  anterior  pus- 
tules, or  tubercles ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  somewhat  wide,  and  sud- 
denly truncated,  at  their  apex,  very  deeply  striate -punctate  (the 
punctures  being  large  and  conspicuous),  with  their  interstices  per- 
ceptibly elevated,  and  with  theii*  pubescence  comj)aratively  long 
(especially  behind)  and  very  decidedly  arranged  in  longitudijial  rows. 
Like  the  L.  curtum,  it  will  probably  be  found  to  be  universal  thi'ough- 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 


267 


out  the  archipelago, — its  Euphorbia-mfesting  habits  rendering  this 

the  more  certain ;  nevertheless  hitherto  I  happen  to  have  met  with 

it  only  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma, — though  I 

have  examined  two  specimens  which  were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in 

Gomera. 

430.  Liparthrum  Lowei. 

Leiparthrura  Lowei,  Woll,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i.  174  (1862). 

Habitat  TeneriiFam  et  Gomeram,  in  ramis  Euphorbiarum  emortuis 
degens. 

This  excessively  minute  wood-borer  was  detected  by  the  Rev.  R. 
T.  Lowe,  in  dead  Eiqjhorbia-stems,  near  Garachico,  in  the  north  of 
Teneriffe,  during  April  1860.  In  the  diagnosis  of  it,  given  in  my 
Paper  (cited  above)  "  on  the  ^it/^Aov6/«-infesting  Coleoptera  of  the 
Canaries,"  I  have  stated  that  "  it  is  not  only  smaller  than  the  smallest 
examples  of  the  inarmatum,  but  it  is  usually  of  a  blacker  (and  quite 
concolorous)  hue,  of  a  strictly  cylindric  outline  (being  neither  ex- 
panded nor  subtruncated  posteriorly),  with  its  pi'othorax  shorter  and 
sinuated  along  the  extreme  base,  and  with  its  elytra  (the  intei'stices 
of  which  are  not  raised)  less  deeply  punctured  and  without  any  ad- 
ditional seta3  at  their  apex.  Its  limbs  also  are  considerably  darker 
than  is  the  case  in  that  insect.  Its  structural  characters  are  quite 
those  of  Liparthrum ,  the  proportions  of  its  4-jointed  funiculus  and 
feet  being  precisely  similar  to  what  obtains  in  the  other  members  of 
the  group.  Its  fore  tibias,  however,  are  not  altogether  unarmed, 
there  being  two  short,  obtuse  teeth  on  their  outer  edge."  It  occurs 
likewise  in  Gomei'a,  where  a  single  example  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch ; 
and  we  may  expect  it,  therefore,  to  be  pretty  general  amongst  the 
decayed  Euphorbias. 

Fam.  44.  HYLESINID^. 

Genus  178.  HYLESINUS. 
Fabricius,  Syst.  Eleu.  ii.  390  (1801). 

431.  Hylesinus  indigenus,  n.  sp. 

//.  ovalis,  convexus,  niger,  pilis  robustis  (fere  squamis)  demissis  fid- 
vescentibus  vestitus ;  prothorace  subconico,  per  basin  ipsissimam 
bisinuato,  subopaco,  leviter  et  obscure  punctato  sed  utrinque  as- 
perate ;  elytris  vix  nitidioribus,  leviter  et  obscure  seriatim  punctatis 
sed  ad  basin  asperatis ;  antennis  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  Hn.  1. 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  sub  cortice  lauri  cujusdam  antiquae  laxo  emortuo 
in  regione  "  El  Golfo  "  dicta  Februario  a.d.  1858  rei^ertus. 

I  have,  unfortunately,  but  a  single  individual  of  this  insect  to  judge 


268  CAN ARIA N  COLEOPTERA. 

from,  which  was  extracted,  dead  and  mutilated,  from  out  of  an  old 
laurel,  the  decayed  portions  of  which  were  completely  perforated  with 
its  burrows,  in  the  wooded  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side 
of  Hierro.  Although  it  has  merely  the  scape  of  one  of  its  antenna? 
remaining,  I  have  little  doubt  nevertheless,  from  its  convex,  ovate 
body  and  general  aspect,  as  well  as  from  the  peculiarity  of  its  sculp- 
ture (the  extreme  base  of  its  elytra,  and  cither  side  of  its  subcorneal 
prothorax,  being  coarsely  asperate,  or  mucronated),  that  it  is  a  true 
Hylesinus  ;  and  I  have  therefore  treated  it  accordingly.  And  if  such 
should  be  the  case  (of  which  I  feel  pretty  confident),  it  is  of  the 
greatest  importance  that  its  imperfect  condition  shoidd  not  prevent 
me  from  admitting  it  into  the  present  Catalogue,  it  being  the  only 
veritable  Hyles'mus  which  has  liitherto  been  detected  in  awj  of  these 
Atlantic  islands.  Moreover,  from  the  extent  to  which  its  devastating 
powers  were  traceable  in  the  old  tree  from  whence  my  example  was 
taken,  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  it  must  play  a  significant  part 
amongst  the  Xylophagous  Coleoptera  of  (at  any  rate  a  portion  of)  the 
Canarian  Group ;  but  as  our  sojoiu-n  in  Hierro  Avas  both  brief  and 
during  the  month  of  February  (when  the  insects  of  this  Family  are 
necessarily  difficult  to  procure),  I  was  unable  to  obtain  specimens  in 
a  more  satisfactory  state. 

Genus  179.  HYLURGUS. 
Latreille,  Gen.  Cncst.  et  Ins.  ii.  274  (1807). 

432.  Hylurgiis  ligniperda. 

Bostrichus  ligniperda,  Fah.,  Ent.  St/d.  i.  ii.  367  (1792). 
Hyliu'gus  ligniperda,  Erich.,  Wiegm.  Archiv,  ii.  52  (183G). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mcifl.  302  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  99  (1857). 

Habitat  in  pinetis  Teneriffae  et  Palm®,  truncos  Pini  canariensis 
destruens. 

The  H.  ligniperda,  which  occurs  throughout  the  whole  of  Europe, 
and  which  has  become  naturalized  in  the  fir-woods  of  Madeira,  al- 
though extremely  local  is  far  from  uncommon  in  certain  situations  at 
the  Canaries.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Teneriffe  and 
Palma ;  but  it  will  probably  be  found  wherever  the  remains  of  the 
old  Finals  still  exist, — that  is  to  say,  in  all  the  islands  except  Lan- 
zarote  and  Fuerteventura.  I  have  taken  it  from  beneath  the  rotten 
bark  of  the  Finns  canariensis  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  in  the  Pinal 
above  Ycod  el  Alto,  in  Teneriff'e  ;  as  also,  in  similar  situations,  in  the 
Barranco  above  S'""  Cruz  of  Palma. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  269 

Geuus  180.  HYLASTES. 
Erichson,  in  Wiegm.  Archiv,  ii.  47  (1836). 

433.  Hylastes  Lowei. 

Hylastes  Lowei,  Paiva,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  viii.  211  (1861). 
Habitat  TenerifFam  et  Palmam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  prsecedens,  hinc 
inde  vulgaris. 

This  insect  appears  to  have  exactly  the  same  range  as  the  preceding 
one,  and  will  probably  be  found  to  be  equally  universal  throughout 
the  scattered  remains  of  the  ancient  Finals,  wherever  such  still  exist. 
Nevertheless,  up  to  the  present  time,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  pre- 
cisely the  same  spots  as  that  insect,— namely,  at  the  Agua  Mansa, 
and  in  the  fir- woods  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  of  Teneriffe  ;  and  in  the 
Barranco  above  S'''  Cruz  in  Palma.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  captured 
also  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  closely  allied  to  the  European  H.  ater ;  but 
is  smaller,  with  its  punctation  much  finer  and  denser,  and  with  the 
unsculptured  line  down  the  middle  of  its  pronotum  more  distinct. 

Fam.  45.  CURCULIONID^. 

(Subfam.  COSSONIDES*.) 

Genus  181.  EREMOTES. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  (new  series)  v.  864  (1861). 

434.  Eremotes  crassicomis. 

Hylurgus  crassicomis?,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  71  (1838). 
Eremotes  crassicomis,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond,  v.  365.  pi.  18.  f.  1 
(1861). 

Habitat  in  pinetis  Canariae,  Teneriffae  et  Palmse,  rarissimus,  truncos 
Pini  canariensis  antiquos  emortuos  perforans. 

This  curious  insect,  so  remarkable  for  its  exceedingly  round  and 
prominent  eyes,  enormously  thickened  antennae,  with  their  reduced 
capitulum  and  the  greatly  abbreviated  second  joint  of  their  fimiculus, 
which  is  almost  buried  within  the  enlarged  basal  one,  as  well  as  for 
the  small  spine  with  which  the  inner  apex  of  its  tibiae  is  armed,  seems 
to  be  confined  to  the  rotten  trunks  of  the  Pinus  canariensis,  at  inter- 
mediate and  lofty  elevations.     It  will  probably  be  found  wherever 

*  For  the  exact  details  (stractural  and  diagnostic)  of  the  various  members  here 
enumerated  of  this  Subfamily  of  the  Rhynchophora.  I  must  refer  to  my  Paper  "on 
the  Atlantic  Coiy^onidcs."  published  in  the  fifth  volume  (new  series)  of  the  "  Trans- 
actions of  the  Entom.  Soc.  of  London.' 


270  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  remains  of  the  old  Finals  still  exist ;  nevertheless  hitherto  I 
have  observed  it  only  on  the  mountains  above  San  Bartolome  (in  the 
district  of  Tarajana)  of  Grand  Canary,  at  the  Agua  Mansa  in  Tene- 
rifFe,  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S"^  Cruz  in  Palma, — in  the  last  of 
which  islands  it  was  captured  also  by  Dr.  Crotch.  Its  cylindric  out- 
line, intensely  black  hue,  and  deeply  sculptured  surface  give  it  much 
the  appearance  at  first  sight  of  certain  members  of  the  Hylcsinidce ; 
nevertheless,  apart  from  all  minor  distinctions,  the  struetiire  of  its 
undilated,  apically  uncinate,  and  externally  simple  tibise  will  imme- 
diately remove  it  from  the  whole  of  those  groups. 

Genus  182.  EHYNCOLUS. 
(Creutzer)  Germ.,  Ins.  Spec.  307  (1824). 

435,  Ehyncolus  crassirostris. 

Rhyncolus  crassirostris,  WoU.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  367.  pi.  18. 
f.  3  (18G1). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canarise  Grandis,  pinos  cmortuas  destruens. 

The  few  examples  which  have  come  hitherto  beneath  my  notice  of 
this  insect  I  captured,  during  April  1859,  from  out  of  the  trunk  of 
an  old  Finns  canariensis,  on  the  ascent  to  the  Pinal  above  San  Bar- 
tolome, in  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary.  It  would  appear,  there- 
fore, to  have  the  same  habits  as  the  Eremotes  crassicornis,  and  may 
consequentl}^  be  expected  to  occur  in  spots  where  the  latter,  and  other 
pine-infesting  species,  are  found.  Its  distinctions  from  the  European 
i?.  truncorum,  which  at  first  sight  it  somewhat  resembles,  may  be 
gathered  from  a  reference  to  my  Paper  cited  above. 

Genus  183.  PHLCEOPHAGUS. 

Schonherr,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iv.  1047  (1838). 

436.  Phloeophagus  caulium. 

Phloeopbagus  caidium,  WoU.,  Trans.  Ejit.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  370  (1861). 
Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  tnxncis  ramisque  Eu- 
phorbiarum  emortuis  degens. 

So  far  as  observed  hitherto,  the  present  Pldceophagus  seems  to  be 
peculiar  to  the  dead  Euj)ho7-bia-stems  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, 
where  it  is  occasionally  veiy  abundant,  and  in  the  former  of  which  it 
was  first  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  at  Haria,  during  January 
1858.  It  may  be  known  by  its  deei)ly  sculptured  surface  (the  punc- 
tures of  its  pro  thorax,  particularly  in  the  Lanzarotan  specimens,  being 
exceedingly  large)  and  by  its  obsolete  scutellum.  the  latter  being 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  271 

usually  quite  untraceable  even  beneath  the  highest  powers  of  the 
microscope. 

437.  Phlceophagus  laurineus. 
Phloeophagus  laurineus,  Wall.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  371  (1861). 
Habitat  in  sylvaticis  editioribus  TenerifFa?,  Gomerce  et  Palmae,  sub 
cortice  laurorum  erodens. 

Although  approaching  each  other  at  first  sight,  the  present  Phloeo- 
phagus  and  the  last  one  will  be  seen,  on  a  closer  inspection,  to  be 
totally  distinct.  Their  habits,  also,  are  quite  different  >  for  whilst 
the  P.  caulium  is  apparently  peculiar  to  the  decayed  Eiiphorhia-siems, 
in  the  two  arid  islands  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  the  laurineus, 
on  the  other  hand,  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  the  laurel- 
regions  of  a  comparatively  high  elevation  in  Teneriife,  Gomera,  and 
Palma,  where  it  occurs  beneath  the  dead  bark  of  the  old  trees,  in 
the  dampest  and  most  sylvan  spots.  It  may  be  known  from  the 
caulium  by  its  elytra  being  just  perceptibly  less  ovate  and  stiU  more 
deeply  sculptured  (the  punctures  being  excessively  large  and  the  in- 
terstices somewhat  raised,  or  convex),  by  its  antennae  and  legs  being 
a  trifle  longer  and  paler,  and  by  its  scutellum  (although  minute)  being 
always  developed  and  readily  distinguishable  even  under  an  ordinary 
lens.  The  Palman  form,  which  in  my  Paper  "  on  the  Atlantic  Cos- 
sonides  "  I  have  regarded  as  the  "  var.  /3.  capittilatus,''^  dififers  a  little 
from  that  which  obtains  in  Teneriffe,  "  having  its  prothorax  (when 
viewed  beneath  the  microscope)  subalutaceous,  with  the  punctures 
rather  smaller  and  more  dense,  its  elytral  interstices  somewhat  less 
convex,  and  its  antennal  club  a  trifle  more  abbreviated  and  abrupt ;" 
but  there  can  be  no  doubt,  I  think,  that  it  is  a  mere  insular  phasis 
of  the  other. 

I  have  taken  the  P.  laurineus,  in  its  typical  state,  in  the  laurel- 
woods  above  Taganana,  as  also  in  those  at  Las  Mercedes  and  the 
Agua  Garcia,  of  Teneriffe ;  and  the  var.  /3,  in  similar  situations,  in 
the  Barranco  da  Agua  and  the  Barranco  de  Galga,  of  Palma.  It  was 
likewise  found,  though  sparingly,  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

438.  Phlceopliagus  afl&nis. 

Phloeophagus  affinis,  Woll,  Trans.  Mit.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  373  (1861). 

Habitat  in  Teneriff'a  et  Hierro,  ramos  Euphorbiarum  emortuos  nisi 
faUor  praecipue  destruens. 

In  my  Paper  "  on  the  Atlantic  Cossonides"  I  have  remarked  that 
"For  the  present  Phlceojohagus  I  have  no  very  decided  structural 
character,  and  I  can  therefore  best  express  it  negatively — i.  e.,  by 


272  CAXARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

stating  what  it  is  not.  Thus,  its  exceedingly  perceptible  scutellum 
(when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope)  at  once  removes  it  from  the 
P.  caul'mm  and  p'lceus,  whilst  its  sufficiently  expanded  third  tarsal 
joint  will  likewise  prevent  its  confusion  with  the  latter,  and  therefore 
a  fortiori  with  the  simplicipes.  It  remains,  therefore,  only  to  point 
out  its  distinctions  from  the  laurineus ;  and  this,  in  its  normal  state, 
is  easily  done,  since  it  is  not  only  less  deeply  sculptured,  and  with  its 
antennae  somewhat  darker  and  not  quite  so  elongate,  but  its  elytral 
interstices  are  less  convex,  and  its  prothorax  (like  the  var.  /3  of  the 
laurineus)  is  more  or  less  subalutaceous,  and  with  its  punctures  a 
little  smaller  and  more  dense," 

The  P.  ajjinis  is,  I  believe,  attached  principally  to  the  Euplwrhia- 
stems  of  low  and  intermediate  altitudes ;  at  all  events  I  have  taken 
it  in  such  situations  at  Taganana,  and  the  Agua  Mansa,  in  TeneriflPe  ; 
as  also,  at  a  very  slight  elevation  above  the  sea-level,  in  the  district 
of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  Hierro.  The  specimens  from 
Hierro  (corresponding  to  the  "  var.  /3.  proximus"  of  my  Paper)  have 
their  elytral  interstices  a  trifle  more  elevated  and  their  jirothorax 
(when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope)  not  perceptibly  alutaceous  ; 
but  I  think  they  merely  represent  a  slight  variety  of  the  TenerifFan 
species. 

439.  Phloeophagus  simplicipes. 
Phloeophagus  simplicipes,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Land.  v.  374  (1861). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  arbores  Fici  antiquas  in  inferioribus  perforans. 

In  its  dark  hue  and  deeply  sculptured  surface  the  present  PJiloeo- 
phagus  has  every  appearance,  at  first  sight,  of  the  laurineus,  except 
that  it  is  a  little  smaller ;  nevertheless  on  a  closer  inspection  it  will 
be  seen  to  have  its  third  tarsal  joint  scarcely  at  all  dilated  or  bilobed 
— at  any  rate  very  much  less  so  than  is  the  case  in  that  sjjecies ; 
whilst,  in  minor  particulars,  its  somewhat  shorter  scape,  and  just 
perceptibly  less  ventricose  elytra,  the  punctures  of  which  avQ  propor- 
tionally still  larger,  should  be  noticed.  In  its  habits  also  it  is  not 
the  same  as  that  insect ;  for  whilst  the  P.  laurineus  occm's  in  damp 
sylvan  spots  of  intermediate  and  lofty  altitudes,  the  only  examples 
(ten  in  number)  which  I  have  seen  of  the  simplicipes  were  captured 
from  out  of  the  dry,  rotten  wood  of  an  old  fig-tree,  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto,  near  S'"*  Cruz,  in  Teneriffe,  on  an  arid 
slope  only  just  elevated  above  the  sea-level.  It  is  probable,  however, 
that  its  attachment,  in  that  particular  locality,  to  the  fig-ivee  may 
have  been  accidental ;  though  such,  at  all  events,  would  imply  that 
its  range  is  lower  than  that  of  the  laurineus. 


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440.  Phlceophagus  piceus. 

Phlceophagus  piceus,  JFolL,  Tram.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  v.  374  (1861). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  in  arboribus 
antiqiiis  Fici  praecipue  degens. 

Its  somewhat  narrower  outline  and  more  piceous  hue,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  its  rather  k^ss  coarsely  punctured  prothorax,  its  obsolete 
(or  subobsolete)  scutellum,  and  its  only  slightly  expanded  antepe- 
nultimate tarsal  joint,  will  sufficiently  characterize  this  species.  As 
regards  its  mode  of  life,  it  seems  to  occur  principally  in  the  rotten 
wood  of  old  fig-trees  at  low  and  intermediate  elevations  ;  imder 
which  circumstances  I  have  taken  it  in  Lanzarote  and  Puerteventura, 
and  at  Megan  in  Grand  Canary, — in  the  first  of  which  islands  it  was 
found  also  by  Mr,  Gray.  The  Lanzarotan  and  Fuerteventuran  spe- 
cimens, which  in  my  Memoir  "  on  the  Atlantic  Cossonides  "  I  have 
regarded  as  the  '*  var.  /5.  sabparalhlus"  are  a  little  larger  and  more 
parallel  than  those  from  Mogan  in  Grand  Canary,  and  have  their 
prothorax  somewhat  more  finely  and  closely  punctured ;  but  their 
other  details,  no  less  than  their  habits,  do  not  appear  to  differ  from 
the  Canarian  ones,  and  I  believe  that  it  would  scarcely  be  safe  to 
treat  them  as  specifically  distinct. 

Genus  184.  PENTATEMNUS. 
Wollaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Sue.  Loml.  v.  385  (1861). 

441.  Pentatemnus  arenarius. 

Pentatemnus  arenarius,  Wul!.,  Travis.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  388.  pi.  19. 
f.  1  (1861). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  ad  radices 
plantarum  in  arenosis  aridis  submaritimis  crescentium  fodiens. 

Of  this  cimous  insect,  so  remarkable  [amongst  the  Cossonides)  for 
its  convex,  fusiform,  pilose  body,  obsolete  eyes,  thick,  abbreviated 
antennae  (ydth.  their  5-jointed  funiculus),  subfossorial  habits,  and  for 
the  minute  spine  with  which  the  inner  apical  angle  of  its  tibite  is 
furnished,  I  have  given  the  full  details  (structural  and  diagnostic) 
in  my  Paper  *'  on  the  Atlantic  Cossonides.'"'  Its  mode  of  life  is  very 
peculiar,  it  being  found  about  the  roots  of  the  few  shrubby  plants 
(particularly  the  Zygophiillum  Fontanesii,  Webb,  and  a  small  Eu- 
pJiorhia)  which  stud  the  dry  sandy  wastes  of  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura, 
and  Grand  Canary, — usually  at  a  considerable  depth  beneath  the 
surface  of  the  ground.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  principally  in 
Fuerteventura,  where  it  was  first  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself 


274  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

(on  the  sand-hills  to  the  south  of  the  Puerto  de  Cabras)  at  the  end 
of  January  1858, — in  which  locahty  I  again  met  with  it  during  April 
of  the  following  year.  But  it  is  in  the  arid  tracts  in  the  north  of 
that  island,  at  Corralejo,  that  I  have  taken  it  more  abundantly.  My 
few  Lanzarotan  specimens  are  from  the  neighbourhood  of  Arrecife ; 
and  the  Grand  Canarian  ones  from  the  sandy  district  in  the  extreme 
south,  around  Maspalomas.  I  likewise  met  with  it  (on  the  11th  of 
March  1859)  in  the  Little  island  of  Graciosa,  off  the  north  of  Lanza- 
rote. 

Genus  185.  ONYCHOLIPS. 
Wollaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  389  (1861). 

442.  Onycholips  bifurcatus. 

On vch clips  bifurcatus,  Woll.,  Tram.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  v.  394.  pi.  10.  f.  2 
(1861). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuei'teventuram  et  Canariam,  in  loeis  simili- 
bus  ac  Pentatemntis  arenarins  et  una  cum  illo  degens,  sed  rarior. 

It  will  be  needless  for  me  here  to  enter  into  any  details  concerning 
the  0.  bifurcatus,  since  I  have  done  so,  at  very  great  length,  in  my 
Paper  "  on  the  Atlantic  Cossonides.'''  I  may,  however,  just  repeat, 
what  I  there  stated,  that  ''  in  its  marvellously  reduced  antennal  scape 
(which  is  so  excessively  short  as  to  be  entirely  buried  within  the 
deep  fovea,  or  abbreviated  scrobs,  in  which  it  is  implanted),  as  well 
as  in  the  very  unusual  proportions  of  its  s«.v-joiated  funiculus*,  its 
total  freedom  from  even  the  rudiments  of  eyes,  and  its  most  won- 
derful tibiae  and  feet,  this  extraordinary  insect  presents  a  combina- 
tion of  features  perfectly  anomalous,  and  which  I  believe  are  quite 
unparalleled  in  any  Coleopterous  genus  on  record.  Indeed  the  struc- 
ture of  its  tibiae  and  tarsi  are  so  outrageously  abnormal,  that,  did  not 
the  general  outward  contour  of  the  creature,  and  the  formation  of  its 
rostrum,  oral  organs,  and  antennae  (not  to  mention  its  saj^erficial 
points  of  resemblance  with  the  exponent  of  the  preceding  genus) 
bespeak  it  as  Rhynchophorous,  it  would  have  been  quite  impossible 
to  decide  to  what  primary  division  of  the  Coleoptera  it  should  be  re- 
ferred." 

In  its  subglobose,  hairy,  and  testaceous  body,  as  well  as  in  its  fos- 
sorial  habits,  no  form  could  appear  further  removed,  prima  facie,  from 
the  normal  members  of  the  present  Section  of  the  RliynchopJiora  than 
Onycholijjs.     Nevertheless,  after  considering  this  question  very  care- 

*  The  first  and  second  (!)  joints  of  the  funicuUis  are  very  hvrge  and  thick,  whilst 
the  remaining  four  are  short  and  small. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  275 

fully,  I  am  satisfied  that  the  whole  of  these  blind,  pilose,  sand-infest- 
ing, burrowing  Gurculionklce  of  the  Atlantic  islands  (namely,  Penta- 
temnus,  OnychoUps,  and  the  Porto  Santan  Lipommata)  are  most 
intimately  allied ;  and  in  my  Memoir  above  alluded  to  I  discussed 
their  afiinities  in  extenso,  together  with  those  of  the  almost  blind 
Mesoxenus,  and  arrived  at  the  conclusion  that  the  four  genera  could 
not  properly,  in  a  natural  system  of  arrangement,  be  placed  far 
asunder, — adding,  "If  we  may  consider,  therefore,  their  near  relation- 
ship as  a  settled  point,  it  becomes  comparatively  easy  to  discuss  their 
affinities ;  for,  had  the  second  of  them  only  (/.  e.  Onydiolips)  been 
brought  to  light,  we  might  have  had  great  difficulty  in  referring  it 
to  any  known  subfamily  or  group, — the  structure  of  its  four  hinder 
tarsi  and  other  minutiae  being  quite  unintelligible  without  the  aid  of 
some  collateral  form  to  suggest  a  partial  explanation.  But,  granting 
its  kinship  with  Pentatemnus  and  LijJommata,  we  at  once  connect 
it  with  the  Mesoxeni  (of  Madeira  and  Teneriffe),  which  Pentatemnus 
manifestly  approaches,  and  thence  with  PentartJirum  and  the  typical 
Cossonides.'^ 

In  its  mode  of  life  OnychoUps  seems  to  be  identical  with  Pentatem- 
nus, with  which  indeed  it  is  found  in  company.  It  was  first  taken, 
by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  at  the  end  of  January  1858,  about  the  roots 
of  the  few  shrubby  plants,  around  which  solid  hillocks  have  been 
gradually  accumulated  from  the  drifting  sand,  in  the  arid  ti'act  to  the 
south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras  in  Fuerteventura — a  spot  in  which  I  again 
met  with  it  during  April  of  the  following  year.  And  I  also  captured 
a  single  specimen,  in  a  similar  situation,  on  the  sandy  isthmus  of 
Grand  Canary  which  connects  the  Isleta  with  the  mainland  ;  as  well 
as  in  the  little  island  of  Graciosa,  off  the  north  of  Lanzarote. 

Genus  186.  MESOXENUS. 
WoUaston,  Trans.  Ent.  Sac.  Land.  v.  395  (1861). 

443.  Mesoxenus  Monizianus. 

Pentarthrum  Moniziauum,  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  v.  450  (I860). 
Mesoxenus  Monizianus,  Id.,  Trans.  Ent.  Sac.  Land.  v.  396.  pi.  l9.  f.  4 
(1861). 

Habitat  in  Teneriifa,  rarissimus. 

This  insect  is  the  only  member  of  the  Cossonldes  enumerated  in 
the  present  Catalogue  which  has  been  observed  hitherto  beyond  the 
Canarian  Group,  it  having  been  detected  also  in  Madeira — by  Senhor 
Moniz,  who  obtained  many  specimens  of  it  from  under  old  boards 
lying  on  the  damp  earth,  in  his  garden  at  Funchal.     At  the  Canaries 

I  2 


27C?  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

it  would  aj)pear  to  be  very  rare,  two  examples  only,  both  of  them 
from  Teneriffe,  having  as  yet  come  beneath  my  notice, — one  of  which 
I  captured  in  a  house  immediately  above  the  Puerto  of  Orotava, 
during  March  1858,  whilst  the  other  was  found  by  the  Eev.  R.  T. 
Lowe,  during  April  1860,  in  a  dead  Euphorbia -stem,  at  Garachico. 
Its  convex,  fusiform  body,  ajneous  hue,  and  shining,  lightly  sculp- 
tured surface,  in  conjunction  with  its  obsolete  eyes  and  5-jointed 
funiculus,  will,  apart  from  numerous  secondary  characters  (fully 
pointed  out  in  my  diagnosis),  sxifRce  to  distinguish  it. 

Genus  187.  MESITES. 
Schonherr,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iv.  1043  (1838). 

§  I.   Corpvs  sat  magnum,  paraUelum  ;  femorihxis  onmibus  muticis. 

444.  Mesites  complanatus. 

Mesites  complanatus,  fVoIl,  Trans.  Eid.  Soe.  Loud.  v.  401  (1861). 
Habitat  Palmam,  sub  cortiee  laurorum  laxo  in  editioribiis  sylvaticis 
hinc  inde  hand  infrcquens. 

In  my  Paper  on  the  Cossonides  I  have  stated  that  ''  the  present 
large  and  beautiful  Mesites  (which,  so  far  as  I  have  hitherto  ob- 
served, appears  to  be  peculiar  to  the  island  of  Palma)  may  be  known 
readily  from  the  following  one  by  its  broader  outline,  more  depressed, 
deeply  sculptured  surface,  and  darker  hue.  Its  prothorax  is  wider, 
and  more  rounded  at  the  sides,  than  is  the  case  in  that  iiisect,  with 
its  punctures  considerably  larger  and  less  dense,  and  its  central  keel 
more  evident ;  whilst  its  elytral  striae  are  much  deeper,  wider,  and 
more  coarsely  crenated,  and  the  interstices  proportionally  narrower 
and  more  costate.  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  beneath  the  loose 
bark  of  the  native  laurels,  in  the  dense  sylvan  ravines  of  Palma,  at 
rather  a  high  elevation — especially  the  Barranco  da  Agua  and  the 
Barranco  de  Galga — during  May  and  June  of  1858." 

445.  Mesites  persimilis. 

Mesites  persimilis,  Woll,  Tram.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  v.  402  (1861). 

Habitat  in  locis  similibus  ac  prsecedens,sed  in  TenerifFa  (nee  Palma). 

"  The  M.  persimilis,  which  abounds  in  certain  spots  within  the 

sylvan  regions  of  Teneriflfe,  is  narrower,  less  depressed,  more  piceous, 

and  (on  the  average)  rather  smaller  than  its  Palman  representative  5 

its  prothorax,  also,  is  less  rounded,  or  widened,  at  the  sides,  more 

closely  and  less  deeply  punctured,  and  with  its  central  keel  less  dis- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  277 

tinct ;  whilst  its  elytra  have  their  striae  very  much  narrower  and  less 
deeply  crenated,  and  their  interstices  (proportionally)  broader  and 
less  convex, 

"  Both  the  present  Mesites  and  the  last  one  belong  more  particu- 
larly to  the  same  type  as  the  31.  niaderensis  and  the  British  31.  Tard'd; 
and,  indeed,  the  pershnilis  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  former,  with 
which  I  had  at  first  imagined  it  to  be  identical.  It  may,  however, 
be  at  once  known  from  it  through  its  almost  entirely  wanting  (as  is 
the  case  also  with  the  31.  complmuitus)  the  fine  elytral  pubescence 
which  is  so  conspicuous  in  the  Madeiran  species  ;  its  prothoracic 
keel,  also,  is  more  obscure  ;  and  its  elytra  are  less  convex,  with  their 
strife  much  broader,  deeper,  and  more  coarsely  crenidated.  In  both 
of  these  Canarian  species  the  eyes  are  rather  smaller,  and  more  ob- 
long, than  in  the  M.  maderensis."  [he.  cit.  pp.  402,  403.]  Tene- 
riffan  examples  of  the  31.  pcrsimilis  have  also  been  communicated  by 
Dr.  Crotch. 

446.  Mesites  proximus. 
Mesites  proximus,  Woll.,  Tram.  Ent.  Soc.  Land.  v.  404  (1861). 
Habitat  TenerifFam,  ad  Taganana  Maio  a.d.  1859  parce  repertus. 
"  In  outline  the  31.  prox'unus  is  a  trifle  less  parallel  than  the  pi'e- 
ceding  members  of  this  Section,  though  its  elytra  have  only  a  faint 
tendency  to  the  posterior  attenuation  which  is  so  very  evident  in  the 
two  exponents  of  the  following  one  ;  its  male  femora,  however,  have 
not  any  appearance  of  that  obtuse,  subdentiform  projection  on  their 
underside  which  characterizes  the  M.  fusiformis  and  puhipennis.  It 
is  a  little  smaller  and  more  depressed  than  the  pefsim'dis,  its  colour 
is  more  cloudy,  or  unequal  (after  the  fashion  of  tortoiseshell),  its 
pro  thorax  is  more  rounded  at  the  sides,  rather  coarsely  alutaceous, 
and  very  much  more  finely  and  remotely  punctured  (and  with  com- 
paratively larger  additional  punctures  in  its  central  basal  depression), 
its  elytra  are  more  evidently  (though  very  slightly)  subpubescent  and 
with  their  striae  proportionally  broader  and  deeper,  and  its  funiculus- 
joints  are  altogether  somewhat  shorter  and  more  compact.  From 
the  Madeiran  31.  euphorhicH  it  may  be  known  by  its  darker  hue, 
more  lateraUy-rounded  prothorax  (which  has  its  hinder  central  punc- 
tures much  more  coarse),  by  its  larger  frontal  fovea,  and  by  its  elytral 
striae  being  very  much  broader,  deeper,  and  more  distinctly  crenated." 
\loc.  cit.  pp.  404,  405.] 

Hitherto  I  have  seen  but  two  examples  of  this  species,  both  of 
which  I  captured  at  Taganana,  in  the  north  of  TenerifFc,  during  May 
1859. 


278  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

§  II.   CoijJus  minus,  subfusiforme  {elytris  postice  senshn  acuminatis); 
femoribus  masculis  svbtus  obtuse  subdentatis. 

447.  Mesites  fusiformis. 

Mesites  fusiformis,  WolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  v.  405  (1861). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Palma  soIjx  adhuc  hand  detectus, 
tnincos  ramulosqiie  Euphorbiarum  emortuos  ubique  destruens. 

"  The  present  Mesites  and  the  M.pubipennis  may  at  once  be  known 
from  those  already  enumerated  by  their  sub  fusiform  outline  (their 
elytra  being  more  or  less  perceptibly  attenuated  posteriorly)  and  by 
their  male  femora  being  obtusely  srcSdentate  beneath ;  whilst  inter 
se  they  will  be  recognized  by  the  M.  fusiformis  being  (like  the  three 
preceding  species)  free  from  any  trace  of  the  lurid  pubescence  which 
is  so  conspicuous  in  the  Palman  representative.  The  M.  fusiformis 
is,  likewise,  less  deeply  sculptured  than  the  pubipennis,  and  its  ely- 
tral  interstices  are  less  convex  and  more  sparingly  (and  even  more 
minutely)  punctulated." 

"The  M.  fusiformis  is  most  abundant  thi'oughout  the  Canarian 
Group, — Palma  being  the  only  one  of  the  seven  islands  in  which, 
up  to  the  present  date,  I  have  not  taken  it.  Being  thus  universal, 
however,  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  it  must  exist  in  Palma  like- 
wise ;  and  the  fact  of  my  sojourn  there,  in  May  and  Jime  of  1858, 
being  somewhat  late  in  the  season  for  the  Eujyhorbia-insects,  may 
perhaps  be  a  sufficient  explanation  for  its  having  escaped  me  in  that 
island.  Nevertheless  it  is  certainly  remarkable  that  the  few  speci- 
mens of  the  genus  Mesites  which  I  happened  to  secure  whilst  at  Palma 
(or  which  were  secured  pre\'iously  by  Mr.  Gray)  from  the  dead  stems 
of  the  Euphorbias  should  have  been  specifically  distinct  from  those 
which  obtain  throughout  the  remainder  of  the  archij)elago.  Nor  is 
this  rendered  the  less  curious  from  the  circumstance  that  the  large 
M.  persimilis,  which  infests  the  laurel-woods  of  Tencriffe,  should  bo, 
also,  represented  in  the  sylvan  districts  of  Palma  by  an  allied  but 
most  conspicuous  species,  the  M.  complanattis  I"  [he.  cit.  pp.  405,406.] 

In  Lauzarote  and  Hierro  the  M.  fusiformis  was  taken  likewise  by 
Mr.  Gray,  in  Teneriff'e  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  and  in 
Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch ;  and  in  the  little  islands  of 
Graciosa  and  Lobos,  off  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventura  (respectively),  I  have  myself  captured  it. 

448.  Mesites  pubipennis. 
Mesites  pubipennis,  Wall.,  Trans.  Hut.  Soc.  Loml.  v.  406  (1861). 

Habitat  in  locis  similibus  ae  prsecedens,  sed  in  ins.  Palma,  nee  alibi. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  279 

As  already  stated,  the  M.  puhlpennis  is  apparently  peculiar  to 
Palraa,  where  it  was  first  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  during  February 
1858  ;  and  where,  at  the  end  of  May  of  the  same  year,  I  took  a  few 
more  specimens,  from  out  of  the  decayed  Eujyhorbia-stems  in  the 
Barranco  above  S'"*  Cniz.  "  That  it  is  no  modification  of  the  if.  fusi- 
formis,  which  is  so  abundant  and  universal  throughout  the  other 
islands  of  the  Canarian  archipelago,  seems  evident  from  the  fact  that 
that  insect  remains  constant  under  the  various  circumstances  and 
conditions,  and  in  the  innumerable  localities,  in  which  it  is  elsewhere 
found — being,  to  all  appearance,  quite  independent  both  of  external 
agencies  and  altitude.  I  conclude,  therefore,  that  the  very  decided 
characters  of  sculpture  and  clothing  which  distinguish  the  M.  puhi- 
pennis  are  truly  specific  ones,  and  such  as  cannot  be  referred  to  local 
influences  of  any  kind." 

"  The  pubescent  elytra  of  the  M.  puhlpennis  (which  have  their  in- 
terstices more  convex  and  evidently  punctulated,  and  their  striae 
broader  and  deeper),  in  conjunction  with  its  more  closely  and  roughly 
punctured  prothorax  (especially,  however,  of  the  female  sex),"  will 
immediately  distinguish  it  from  the  last  species,  [loc.  cit.  p.  407.] 

(Subfam.  RHYNCHOPHORIBES.) 

Genus  188.  SITOPHILUS. 
Schonhen-,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iv.  9G7  (1838). 

449.  Sitophilus  granarius. 

Curculio  gi-auarius,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  587  (1701). 

Sitophilus  granarius,  ScMn.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iv.  977  (1838). 

*  linearis?,  Brulle,  in  IFebb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  73  (1838). 

granarius,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  321  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  104  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Gomera  sola  adhuc  hand  observatus. 

This  cosmopolitan  insect  has  become  naturalized  at  the  Canaries  (as 
completely  as  in  Madeira),  where  it  is  doubtless  universal.  Hitherto, 
however,  like  the  following  one,  I  do  not  happen  to  have  observed  it 
in  Gomera — where,  however,  there  can  be  no  question  that  it  is  as 
common  as  elsewhere.     But  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Ca- 

*  M.  Brulle  omits  all  notice  of  the  common  S.  granarius,  which  aboimds  at 
the  Canaries,  but  records  in  his  list  (in  addition  to  the  8.  oryzcB)  the  S.  linearis, 
Hbst.  Amongst  the  numerous  Sifophili  which  I  have  examined  from  the  various 
islands,  I  cannot  detect  a  vestige  of  any  species  except  the  granarius  and  oryza ; 
and,  from  the  inaccuracy,  therefore,  of  M.  Brulle's  Catalogue,  which  moreover 
does  not  give  so  much  as  a  single  habitat,  I  have  little  doubt  that  he  has  mistaken 
an  immature  example  of  the  former  for  that  insect. 


280  CAXARIAX  COLEOVTERX. 

nary,  Palma,  and  Hierro  I  have  captured  it,  more  or  less  abundantly. 
In  Lanzarote  and  Hierro  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and 
fi'om  Tencrifi'e  it  has  been  comiminicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva.  It  occurs  principally  beneath  the  refuse  around  the  base  of 
corn-stacks ;  though  it  may  also  be  taken  in,  and  about,  houses  and 
granaries. 

•fSO.  Sitophilus  oryzae. 

Curculio  orvzfe,  Linn.,  Cent.  Lis.  12  ( 17():V). 

Sitophilus  orvzre,  BrnlU,  in  Webh  ct  Berth.  {C'oL)  73  (1838). 

,  WulL,  Ins.  3LuI.  322  ( 18o4). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  lOo  (1857). 

,  IlartuHcj,  (icoloy.  Yolddtn.  Lanz.  nnd  Faert.  141. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  vulgaris. 

Like  the  last  species,  a  mere  importation  into  these  islands,  where, 
however,  it  has  established  itself  even  more  completely  than  it  has  at 
MadeLra.  It  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago  ;  for  although 
I  did  not  myself  meet  with  it  during  our  short  sojourn  in  Gomera, 
four  Gomeran  examples  have  lately  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch. 
But  in  the  other  six  islands  of  the  Group  I  have  taken  it,  more  or 
less  abundantly.  In  Lanzarote,  Palma,  and  Hierro  it  was  found  also 
by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  from  Tenciiffe  it  has  been  sent  by  the  Barao  do 
Castello  de  Paiva.  It  occurs  in  similar  spots  as  the  /S'.  (jranarlus,  and 
usually  indeed  in  company  with  it.  It  is  recorded  by  M.  Morelet  at 
the  Azores. 

(Subfam.  CllYPTOEHYXCHIDLS.) 

Genus  189.  CEUTHORHYNCHUS. 

Sclionherr,  Cnrc.  iJisp.  Jlrfli.  208  ( 182()). 

451.  Ceuthorhynchus  pollinarius. 

Curculio  pollinarius,  Forst.,  Nov.  Ins.  Spec.  33  (1772). 

deutatus,  3Ishm,  Ent.  Brit.  280  ( 1802). 

Ceuthorhynchus  pollinarius,  Schiin.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cnrc.  iv.  543  (1837). 

Hahitat  in  Teneriifa  ct  Hierro,  hinc  inde  super  folia  Urticarum, 
The  common  European  C.  pollinarius  occurs  sparingly  at  the  Ca- 
naries, where  it  has  perhaps  been  naturalized  from  more  northern 
latitudes.  I  have  taken  it,  from  off  nettles,  in  semicultivated  spots, 
above  the  Puerto  Orotava,  as  also  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  in  Teneriffe, 
and  near  Valverde  in  Hierro, — in  the  first  of  which  islands  it  was 
found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch. 

452.  Ceuthorhynchus  quadridens. 

f 'urcnlio  qnadridenp,  A/r.,  Fini  derm,  xxxvi.  13  (1706). 
r'rijthorhyncliiip  qiiadridrns,  Schdn.,  Crcn.  rt  Spec.  Cnrc.  iv.  5.34  (1837). 


CANARIAN  COLEOl'XEKA.  281 

Ceutorhynchiis  quadridens,  WoU.,  Im.  Mad.  326  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  105  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventui-a,  Teneriifa,  Gomera,  Palma  -et  Hicrro, 
super  folia  plantarum  prsecipue  in  cultis  occurrens. 

There  can  be  little  doubt,  I  tliink,  that  the  present  insect,  which 
abounds  in  most  parts  of  Europe  and  which  occurs  also  at  Madeira, 
has  been  imported  into  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it,  in  culti- 
vated spots,  in  the  Rio  Pahnas  of  Fuerteventura ;  at  S'''  Cruz  and 
on  the  mountains  above  it,  as  well  as  about  Souzal,  in  Tencriffe,  and 
near  Valverde  in  Hierro ;  and  it  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Go- 
mera and  Palma,  and  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera.  We 
may  be  pretty  sure,  therefore,  that  it  is  universal  throughout  the 
archipelago ;  for  it  can  scarcely  be  absent  from  either  Lanzarote  or 
Grand  Canary. 

453.  Ceuthorhynchus  nigroterminatus. 

Ceutorhynclius  nigroterminatus,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  327  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cut.  Mad.  Col.  106  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  passim. 

This  insect,  which  occurs  sparingly  in  Madeira,  is  in  all  proba- 
bility pretty  generally  distributed  over  the  Canarian  Group,  though 
hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  TeneriiFe  and  Hierro, — namely, 
at  Souzal,  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  near  Orotava,  of 
the  former,  and  close  to  Valverde  of  the  latter.  A  Teneriffan  ex- 
ample has  also  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occui's  prin- 
cipally in,  or  in  the  vicinity  of,  cultivated  spots. 

454.  Ceuthorhynchus  pyrrhorhjmchus. 

Curculio  pvrrhorhynohus,  Mshm,  Ent.  Brit.  257  (1802). 
Nedyus  suturalis,  Iteph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  419  (1832). 
Ceuthorhynchus  pulviuatus,  Sclion.,  Gen.  et  Sijec.  Cure.  iv.  494  (1837) 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  in  cultis  parce  deprehensus. 

The  common  European  C.  pyrrhorhipichus  may  perhaps  have  been 
accidentally  introduced  from  more  northern  latitudes  into  these 
islands,  where,  however,  it  is  extremely  rare.  Hitherto  I  have  met 
with  it  only  in  Fuerteventura,  namely  at  Agua  Bucyes  and  at  Ohva. 

455.  Ceuthorhynchus  phytobioides,  n.  sp. 

C.  niger,  capite  prothoracequo  dense  rugoso-punctatis,  hoc  pone  api- 
cem  (dilutiorem  subrecurvum)  profuude  constricto,  postice  canali- 
cula  media  lata  necnon  utrinque  tuberculo  instructo  ;  elytris  pi- 
cescentioribus,  rotundato-obovatis  basi  truncatis,  profunde  striatis 
(striis  vix  punctatis),  interstitio  tcrtio  (necnon  extra  hoc  etiam  al- 


282  CANARIAN  COIEOPTERA. 

ternis,  sed  minus  evideuter)  latiore  elevato  et  uigro  albidoque  squa- 
moso-tessellato  ;  antennis  pedibusque  elongatis,  rufo-testaceis,  il- 
larum  ciqjitulo  nigrescente  ;  femoribus  dentatis ;  tarsorum  articulo 
primo  longiusculo. 
Mas  tibiis  jjosterioribiis  ad  aj)icem  internum  spina  minuta  armatis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  TeneriiFam  sylvaticam,  suj)ra  Tagananam  semel  captus. 

The  present  Ceuthorhi/nchas  and  the  he^perus  are  remarkable,  inter 
alia,  for  their  third  elytral  interstice  (and  indeed  the  alternate  ones 
also  on  the  outer  side  of  it,  though  less  evidently  so)  being  not  only 
widened  and  somewhat  raised,  but  also  sparingly  tessellated  with 
blackish  and  whitish  scales.  Their  femora,  moreover,  are  armed  be- 
neath with  an  acute  spine.  In  its  special  characters,  the  C.  ])hyto- 
bioides  is  rather  smaller  than  its  ally ;  its  elytra  (which  are  rounder 
and  more  obovate)  are  not  quite  so  black  and  have  their  striae  less 
evidently  punctured ;  and  its  limbs  are  longer  and  rather  paler — the 
first  two  joints  of  the  funiculus  and  the  basal  one  of  the  feet  being 
conspicuously  more  elongated.  As  in  many  of  the  CeutJiorhi/nchi,  its 
male  sex  (which  I  have  alone  seen)  has  the  inner  apices  of  its  four 
hinder  tibiae  produced  into  a  very  minute  terminal  spine.  It  is 
hitherto  unique,  the  single  example  from  which  the  above  diagnosis 
has  been  di'awn  out  having  been  captured  by  myself,  during  May 
1859,  at  Taganana,  in  the  north  of  Teneriflfe.  Its  rounded  elytra 
and  elongate  legs,  in  conjunction  with  its  tubercled  prothorax,  give 
it  much  the  appearance,  prima  facie,  of  a  Phytobius — a  fact  which 
has  suggested  its  specific  name*. 

456.  Ceuthorhynchus  hesperus,  n.  sp. 

C.  sp.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  major,  clytris  minus  rotundatis 
(magis  obovato-quadi-atis),  nigrescentioribus,  striis  evidentius  punc- 
tatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  brevioribus,  paulo  magis  obscurioribus, 
funiculi  articulis  (praisertim  1™**  et  2"")  necnon  tarsorum  basali  con- 
spicue  minus  elongatis. 

Mas  adhuc  latet. 

Fcem.  tibiis  omnibus  ad  apicem  internum  simplicibus. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  vix  1|. 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro ;  ad  rupes  aquosas  herbidas  excelsas  in  re- 
gione  El  Golfo  dicta  exemplar  unum,  Februario  a.d.  1858,  deprehendi. 

*  In  affinity  the  C.fhytohioidcs  is  evidently  very  close  to  the  Madeiran  lineafo- 
tesseUahis,  agreeing  with  that  insect  almost  exactly  in  its  outline  and  sculpture 
and  in  the  general  plan  of  its  ornamentation  ;  nevertheless  specifically  it  is  abun- 
dantly distinct  from  it,  being  scarcely  more  than  half  the  size  and  of  a  different 
colom-,  with  the  basal  joint  of  its  feet  relatively  more  elongated  and  with  the 
tooth  of  its  front  tibiae  much  more  developed. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  283 

From  my  having  obtained  but  a  single  specimen,  and  that  a  fe- 
male, of  the  present  insect,  and  in  like  manner  only  a  male  of  the 
preceding  one,  I  had  at  first  irnagined,  from  their  near  resemblance 
to  each  other,  that  they  might  perhaps  be  but  the  sexes  of  one  spe- 
cies ;  nevertheless  a  closer  examination  shows  an  abundance  of  dif- 
ferences which,  I  think,  cannot  possibly  be  sexual.  Thus,  the  C.  hes- 
perus  is  rather  the  larger  of  the  two ;  its  elytra  are  blacker,  and  less 
rounded  at  the  sides  (being  somewhat  broader  and  more  quadrate), 
and  have  their  striae  more  evidently  pimctured ;  and  its  limbs,  parti- 
cularly the  antennae,  are  shorter  and  (although  pale)  of  an  obscurer 
tint.  My  miique  example  was  captured  from  amongst  vegetation 
on  some  wet  rocks,  at  a  high  elevation,  on  the  descent  from  the 
Cumbre  into  the  region  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  west  of  Hierro. 

From  the  fact  of  the  C.  Tiesperus  and  j^hytobioides  having  so  strong 
an  affinity  with  the  (nevertheless  comparatively  gigantic)  lineato- 
tessellatus  of  Madeira,  and  since  the  last  insect  appears  to  be  attached 
exclusively  to  the  fohage  of  the  flat  Sempervivum  patina,  Lowe,  which 
studs  the  rocks  in  the  damper  spots  of  that  island,  I  have  little  doubt 
that  both  of  these  Canarian  species  wiU  be  found  to  have  a  similar 
habit,  and  that  they  must  consequently  be  searched  for  on  the  succu- 
lent leaves  of  the  Semperviva  and  Seda  within  the  sylvan  districts. 

Genus  190.  ACALLES, 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  295  (1826). 

In  describing  the  following  twelve  species  of  Acalles  I  do  not  think 
it  necessary  to  give  their  sexual  distinctions,  which  are  the  same  (or 
very  nearly  so)  in  all  of  them.  In  the  males  the  rostrum  is  opake 
and  coarsely  sculptured ;  whilst  in  the  females  it  is  a  trifle  longer, 
narrower,  and  more  arcuate,  as  also  more  piceous  and  shining,  and 
much  more  lightly  sculptured. 

457.  Acalles  argillosus. 

A.  squamis  argillosis  et  brunneo-albidis  densissime  nebulosus  ;  rostro 
subrecto,  ad  basin  ipsissimam  minus  conspicue  exciso  ;  prothorace 
postiee  leviter  angustato,  ante  medium  setoso-bituberculato ;  ely- 
tris  profunde  punctato-striatis,  postiee  valde  productis  coarctatis, 
ad  apicem  ipsissimum  obtuse  subbisinuato-truncatis,  carinis  inter- 
ruptis  nodulisque  (praesertim  post  medium)  instructis,  ante  apicem 
fascia  hastata  pallidiore  plus  minus  obscura  ornatis ;  tarsis  latis, 
valde  squamosis. — Long.  corj).  lin.  3|^-4. 

Acalles  argillosus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iv.  327  (1837). 
Tylodes  scaber,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  72.  pi.  1.  f.  14  (1838), 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  intra  canles  Kleinic^  neriifolice?,  DC,  degens. 


284  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

In  their  gigantic  size  the  present  Acalles  and  the  following  one 
differ  widely  from  the  other  species  enumerated.  Inter  se,  however, 
they  are  very  nearly  related ;  nevertheless  the  arglllosus  is  perhaps, 
on  the  average,  a  little  larger  than  the  ceonii,  and  the  scales  with 
which  it  is  thickly  clothed  are  altogether  of  a  paler,  or  more  silvery, 
hue ;  its  rostrum  (at  any  rate  of  the  females)  is  a  trifle  shorter  and 
straighter,  more  densely  squamose  posteriorly,  less  perceptibly  incised 
on  either  side  at  its  extreme  base  (though  this  is  partly  due  to  the 
scales  being  more  numerous  in  that  region),  and  in  both  sexes  less 
deeply  sculptiu'ed ;  its  prothorax  is  rather  less  narrowed  behind ; 
its  elytra  (which  have  their  immense  punctures  more  evidently 
arranged  in  longitudinal  strioe)  have  their  extreme  apex  (although 
equally  constricted)  less  regularly  roimded,  or  somewhat  more  obtuse 
and  subbisinuate ;  its  tarsi  are,  if  anything,  a  little  shorter  and 
broader ;  and  its  tibial  hook  is  a  trifle  shorter  and  more  acute. 

Hitherto  the  A.  arglllosus  has  been  observed  only  in  TeneriflTe, 
Avhere  I  obtained  several  examples,  during  May  of  185'J,  at  Taga- 
nana.  It  is  an  insect  of  eminently  musical  powers,  being  able  to 
create  a  loud  jarring  noise  by  the  friction  of  the  inner  apical  portion 
of  its  elytra  (which  is  roughened,  or  reticulated)  against  the  setose 
surface  of  its  pygidium.  Indeed  this  curious  capability  (which  ap- 
pears, however,  to  exist,  more  or  less,  in  all  the  members  of  the 
present  genus,  as  well  as  in  certain  other*  Curculionids)  formed  the 
subject  of  a  short  Paper  which  I  contributed  to  the  '  Ann.  of  Nat. 
Hist.'  in  July  1860.  In  fact  the  specimens  were  actually  discovered 
on  account  of  this  very  fact,  by  my  Portuguese  attendant,  who, 
while  shaking  the  hollow  stem  of  a  maritime  shrub,  was  diverted  by 
a  concert  of  no  less  than  eleven  musicians  within !  And  it  would 
consequently  appear  (since  additional  examples  moreover  were  in 
the  pupa  state)  that  the  creature  undergoes  its  transformations 
within  the  branches  of  that  particular  plant,  whatsoever  it  may  have 
been,  and  which,  from  the  description  given  me  at  the  time,  I  con- 
cluded was  probably  the  Kleinia  neriifolia,  DC.  And  that  this  con- 
clusion was  correct  seems  now  pretty  evident,  since,  on  examining 
M.  BruUe's  figure  of  his  Tylodes  scaber  (for  his  "  description,"  so 
called,  is  positively  worthless,  and  applies  equally  to  the  whole  twelve 

*  In  my  Paper  above  aUuded  to,  I  described  two  large  Plinfhi  which  are 
similarly  musical  ;  and  Mr.  F.  Smith  has  tested  the  British  species  of  Acalles, 
and  finds  them  to  be  gifted  with  a  like  power.  Mr.  Bewicke,  who  made  most 
careful  observations  in  Madeira,  heard  the  various  Acalles  of  that  island  stridu'.ate 
most  audibly;  and  he  has  lately  informed  me  that  he  has  defected  the  same 
noise  in  the  Ccufharhi/nchus  cckii.  "  which  sings  beautifully — working  its  pygi- 
dium against  the  elytra,  which  are  curiously  thickened." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  285 

species  of  the  genus),  I  have  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  that  insect 
is  identical  with  the  AcalJcs  argUlosus,  and  he  expressly  states 
(though,  as  usual,  without  any  reference  to  the  island  in  which  it 
was  found)  that  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot  record  its  capture  "  dans 
les  branches  et  les  vieux  trones  du  Cacalia  Kleinia  " — which  is  the 
savie  plant  as  DeCandoUe's  K.  nenifolia. 

M.  Chevrolat  has  kindly  communicated  to  me,  from  his  collection, 
a  type  of  Schcinherr's  A.  argillosus,  which  appears  to  differ  in  no 
respect  from  my  Teneriffan  specimens  except  that  its  scales  are  a 
little  paler  stiU,  or  more  silvery.  I  have,  therefore,  no  doubt  as  to 
the  synonymy  of  the  species. 

458.  Acalles  aeonii,  n.  sp. 

A.  squamis  brunneis  et  albido-brunneis  densissime  nebulosus  ;  rostro 
subarcuato,  longiuscnlo,  ad  basin  ipsissimam  conspicue  utrinque 
exciso ;  prothorace  postice  angustato,  ante  medium  sctoso-bitu- 
bci'culato ;  elytris  profunde  substriato-punctatis,  postice  valde 
productis  coaretatis,  ad  apicem  ipsissimum  conjunctim  subrotun- 
datis,  carinis  interruptis  nodulisque  subsetosis  (pra3sertim  post 
medium)  instructis,  ante  apicem  fascia  hastata  pallidiore  plus 
minus  obseura  ornatis ;  tarsis  longiusculis,  piceis,  articulo  prime 
subgracili. — Long.  corp.  lin,  3|-vix  4. 

Acalles  aeonii,  Chevrolat,  in  litt. 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  intra  eaules  Sempervivi  latens,  a  Dom.  Chev- 
rolat communicatus. 

As  already  implied,  the  distinctly  darker,  or  browner,  scales  with 
which  this  species  is  clothed,  and  its  slightly  longer  and  more  ar- 
cuated rostrum  (at  any  rate  of  the  females),  which  in  both  sexes  is 
more  roughly  punctured  and  is  also  more  naked  posteriorly,  which 
causes  it  to  appear  more  conspicuously  incised  on  either  side  of  its 
extreme  base,  in  conjunction  with  its  prothorax  being  somewhat 
narrower  behind,  the  termination  of  its  elytra  rather  more  pointed 
and  entire  (or  less  obtusely  bisinuated),  and  its  feet  just  perceptibly 
longer  and  less  squamose,  will  serve  to  separate  it  from  its  near  ally 
the  A.  argillosus. 

The  specimens  (eight  in  number)  from  which  the  above  diagnosis 
has  been  compiled  have  been  communicated  by  M.  Chevrolat,  who 
purchased  them  from  the  material  of  a  French  naturalist  who 
collected  plants  (and  a  few  insects)  at  the  Canaries  and  elsewhere. 
And  I  think  that  the  note  which  accompanied  them,  as  to  their 
habits,  is  sufficiently  special  to  vouch  for  its  accuracy ;  so  that  even 
if  no  other  evidence  had  existed  I  believe  that  I  should  have  been 


286  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTHEA. 

justified  in  admitting  the  insect  into  the  present  Catalogue.  But 
since,  in  point  of  fact,  I  myself  captured  a  single  individual  (crawl- 
ing on  the  outside  of  a  house  at  the  Puerto  Orotava)  in  Tenerifie, 
of  a  species  which  is  so  near  to  M.  Chevrolat's  that  I  imagine  it 
cannot  be  regarded  as  more  than  a  variety  of  it,  I  further  conceive 
that  it  may  safely  be  recorded  (not  merely  as  Canarian  but)  as  Tene- 
riffan ;  and  I  have  consequently  entered  it  as  such. 

The  note  above  alluded  to  was  to  the  effect  that  the  insect  under- 
went its  transformations  within  the  stems  of  the  JEoniuni  frutescens 
{ionium  being,  as  I  am  informed  by  the  Kev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  "  a 
needless  genus  of  Webb's  made  out  of  Sempervlvmn,  Linn.,  and  cm- 
bracing  about  twelve  out  of  the  numerous  Canarian  Sempervlva  "). 
And  as  this  accords  well  with  my  own  observations  on  the  mode  of 
life  of  the  A.  argillosus,  to  which  it  is  most  nearly  allied,  I  accept  it 
unresei'vedly,  and  have  adopted  the  name  proposed  for  it  by  M. 
Chevrolat. 

459.  Acalles  fortunatus,  n.  sp. 

A.  sp.  pra3cedente  minor  et  magis  varicgatus,  rostro  foemineo  angus- 
tiore,  magis  tereti,  rufescentiore  et  multo  subtilius  ijunctato  ;  rostro 
masculo  sensim  breviore  ;  elytris  postice  magis  subito  et  bre\dter 
coarctatis, — Long.  corp.  lin.  ^^-Sg. 

Ohs.  Species  A.  acuto  major,  minus  sctosa  et  postice  minus  acuta  ; 
rostro  foemineo  longiore  et  sensim  j)rofundius  punctulato ;  rostro 
masculo  latiore  grossiusque  punctato ;  tarsis  robustioribus. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  supra  "  Hermigua  "  a  Dom.  Crotch  lectus. 

The  six  specimens  from  which  the  present  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  at  Hermigua,  in  Gomera,  during  the 
spring  of  1862.  They  have  no  very  decided  distinguishing  specific 
character,  and  appear  in  some  measure  to  be  intermediate  between 
the  A.  ceonii  and  acutus,  being  smaller  and  more  variegated  than 
the  former,  more  suddenly  (and  shortly)  constricted  behind,  with 
their  male  rostrimi  rather  more  abbreviated,  and  their  female  one 
slenderer,  more  cylindric,  more  rufescent,  and  more  lightly  punc- 
tured,— but  larger  than  the  latter,  less  acute  posteriorly,  and  alto- 
gether a  little  less  setose,  with  their  rostrimi  in  both  sexes  some- 
what more  coarsely  punctured — the  male  one  moreover  being  broader, 
and  the  female  one  longer,  than  is  the  case  in  the  A.  acutus. 

To  what  extent  the  characters  of  aU  these  Canarian  Acalles  are 
liable  to  vary,  it  is  most  difficult  to  ascertain ;  and  further  material 
must  decide  whether  any  of  those  here  enumerated  are  due  to  either 
local  influences  or  isolation. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  287 

460.  Acalles  xerampelinus. 

A.  elongato-suboblongus,  angustuliis,  squamis  flavo-  (vel  etiam  rufo-) 
bruuneis  densissime  tectus  ;  prothorace  postice  vix  angustato,  ante 
medium  leviter  setoso-bituberculato;  elytris  postice  longissime  pro- 
ductis  anguste  coarctatis,  carinis  vix  interruptis  nodulisque  dnobus 
parvis  nigrosetosis  pone  medium  instructis,  longe  ante  apicem  fascia 
angusta  bastata  albida  (ad  utrumque  latus  antrorsum  recto  pro- 
ducta,  intus  argute  nigro-terminata  sed  extus  plus  minus  suftusa) 
ornatis;  pedibus  robustis,  squamoso-concoloribus. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  2-3. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  in  herbidis  humidiusculis  captus. 

In  its  rather  straightened  body,  which  however  is  very  much  drawn 
out,  or  acuminated,  behind,  as  well  as  in  its  more  or  less  yellowish- 
(or  even  reddish-)  brown  surface,  which  (in  unrubbed  specimens)  has 
merely  the  ordinary  postmedial  paler  fascia  of  its  elytra  narrow  and 
hastate  but  nevertheless 2:)ro(luced  anteriorly  on  either  side  in  a  straight 
line  (it  being,  also,  abruptly  bounded  i^iternally  by  blacker  scales, 
whilst  externally  it  is  more  or  less  suffused,  or  gradually  shaded  off), 
this  Acalles  has  such  a  singular  appearance  that  it  cannot  possibly  be 
confounded  with  any  of  the  other  species  here  enumerated.  Although 
thickly  coated  with  mud-like  scales,  it  is  less  setose  than  perhaps  any 
of  its  Canarian  allies,  some  rigid  bristles  at  the  apex  of  its  prothorax 
and  two  small  darker  fasciculi  which  clothe  the  minute  nodules  on 
the  hinder  disc  of  its  elytra  being  almost  the  only  conspicuous  ones. 
Its  ridges,  or  alternate  interstices,  are  but  very  slightly  raised,  and 
hardly  at  all  interrupted ;  and  its  legs,  which  are  densely  squamose, 
are  concolorous  with  the  rest  of  the  surface — not  being  annulated 
with  black. 

The  A.  xerampelinus  is  extremely  rare,  and  apparently  confined 
to  the  sylvan  districts  of  the  intermediate  elevations  of  Teneriffe.  I 
have  brushed  it,  sparingly,  from  out  of  the  rank  vegetation  in  damp 
spots,  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  as  well  as  in  the  laurel-woods  on  the 
mountains  above  Taganana. 

461.  Acalles  nubilosus,n.  sp. 

A.  squamis  brunneis  et  albido-brunneis  densissime  variegatus ;  pro- 
thorace  postice  vix  angustato,  ante  medium  leviter  setoso-bitu- 
berculato ;  elytris  postice  productis  coarctatis,  carinis  interruptis 
nodulisque  duobus  parvis  nigro-setosis  pone  medium  instructis, 
ante  apicem  fascia  hastata  albidiore  (intiis  in  medio  argute  ter- 
minata,  sed  postice  fere  in  apicem  pallidiorem  suffusa)  ornatis ; 
pedibus  squamoso-variegatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  If- 2^. 

Habitat  in  lauretis  editioribus  Teneriffe,  rarissimus. 


288  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Known  from  the  A.  xeramjieUmis  by  its  more  ovate  outline,  and 
by  the  apex  of  its  elytra  being  less  drawn  out,  or  produced ;  by  its 
rather  more  variegated  hue,  the  less  rufescent  colour  of  its  darker 
scales,  and  \>j  its  paler  ones  being  spread  over  a  larger  portion  of  its 
surface  (including  more  or  less  of  the  basal  region  of  its  elytra)  ;  by 
its  interriipted  ridges  being  a  little  more  developed ;  and  by  its  post- 
medial  fascia  not  being  produced  forward  (in  a  straight  line)  on 
either  side.  Like  that  species,  its  surface  is  comparative?)/  free  from 
setiB,  and  its  prothorax  is  but  very  slightly  narrowed  behind.  The 
two  specimens  from  which  the  above  characters  have  been  compiled 
were  both  taken  in  the  sylvan  districts  of  Teneriife — one  of  them  at 
Las  Mercedes,  and  the  other  in  the  laurel-woods  above  Taganana. 

462.  Acalles  sigma,  n.  sp. 

A.  squamis  nigro-brunneis  et  (prajcipue)  nigrescentibus  densissime 
tectus ;  protliorace  postice  angustato  (ad  latera  rotimdato),  ante 
medium  leviter  setoso-bituberculato  ;  elytris  postice  coarctatis, 
apice  obtusis,  carinis  interruptis  nodulisque  duobus  pone  medium, 
omnibus  setosis,  instructis,  pone  medium  fascia  magna  (postice  in 
medio  fasciculo  elongato  suturali  nigrescente  terminata)  necnon 
ante  medium  utrinque  macula  parva  albido-ornatis  ;  pedibus  elon- 
gatis,  squamoso-variegatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2g. 

Habitat  in  lauretis  editioribus  Palmte,  rarissimus. 

Judging  from  the  two  examples  now  before  me,  this  Acalles  is 
rather  larger  than  any  of  the  other  species  here  enumerated  except 
the  argUlosus,  ceonii,  and  vemicosus.  They  were  both  of  them  taken 
in  the  laiirel-districts  of  Palma  ;  and  the  species  seems  to  be  remark- 
able for  the  dark,  or  blackish-brown,  scales  with  which  it  is  densely 
clothed,  and  for  the  very  thick  and  almost  snowy-white  postmedial 
fascia  of  its  elytra,  which  (in  addition  to  having  their  interrupted 
ridges,  or  nodules,  a  good  deal  developed  and  setose)  have  likewise 
a  small  spot  of  paler  scales,  on  either  side,  before  the  middle.  Its 
elytra  (which  have  an  elongate  sutural  fascicle  of  darker  setne  ad- 
joining the  centre  of  the  hinder  edge  of  their  fascia)  have  their  punc- 
tures large  and  deep,  and  the  extreme  apex  of  their  constricted  por- 
tion obtuse. 

463.  Acalles  senilis,  n.  sp. 

A.  squamis  cinereis  densissime  nebulosus  ;  prothorace  postice  angus- 
tato (ad  latera  valde  rotundato),  ante  medium  leviter  setoso-bitu- 
berculato ;  elytris  postice  coarctatis,  apice  obtusis,  carinis  inter- 
ruptis nodulisque  duobus  pone  medium,  omnibus  setosis,  instructis, 
pone  medium  fascia  vix  albidiore  (antice  in  medio  sat  argute  ter- 
minata, sed  postice  suffusa)  ornatis ;  pedibus  breviusculis,  squa- 
moso-variegatis.— Long.  Corp.  lin.  2. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  289 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  hand  procul  ab  oppido  Yalverde  semel  captus. 

I  do  not  think  that  the  single  specimen  from  which  the  above 
diagnosis  has  been  drawn  can  safely  be  referred  to  any  of  the  other 
species  here  enumerated,  particularly  when  the  remoteness  of  its 
habitat  is  taken  into  account.  It  was  captiu'cd,  by  myself,  near 
Valverde,  in  the  island  of  Hierro,  on  the  11th  of  February  1858 ; 
and  it  may  be  known  by  the  cinereous  scales  with  which  it  is  densely 
clouded,  by  its  postmedial  fascia  being  suffused  behind  almost  into 
the  apex  of  the  elytra,  but  bounded  anteriorly  by  three  darker  fas- 
cicles of  setae,  and  by  its  limbs  being  rather  short. 

464.  Acalles  brevitarsis,  n.  sp. 

A.  squamis  brunneis  et  flavo-brunneis  densissime  nebulosus ;  pro- 
thorace  postice  angustato  (ad  latera  valde  rotundato),  ante  medium 
setoso-bi~  (vel  etiam  quatuor-)  tuberculato ;  elytris  postice  bre- 
viter  et  subito  coarctatis,  apice  sat  obtusis,  carinis  interruptis  no- 
duHsque  duobus  orauino  elevatis  et  valde  setosis  pone  medium  in- 
.structis,  ibidem  vix  faseiatis  sed  antice  pone  scutellum  plus  minus 
dilutioribus ;  pedibus  crassis,  squamoso-variegatis,  tarsis  postieis 
breviusculis.^ — Long,  eoip.  lin.  2-2|. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  subsylvaticis  regionis  El  Monte 
tempore  vernali  a.d.  1858  repertus. 

The  present  Acalles,  which  I  have  taken  hitherto  only  in  the 
region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  may  be  known  by  the  yellowish- 
brown  scales  with  which  it  is  thickly  mottled,  and  by  its  much  de- 
veloped and  greatly  setose  nodules.  It  is  nearly  allied  to  the  acutus, 
but  is  rather  larger  and  of  a  paler  brown ;  with  its  general  surface 
less  setose,  though  with  its  nodules  (which  are  altogether  consi- 
derably elevated)  more  so ;  with  its  prothorax  wider  in  the  middle 
and  considerably  rounder  at  the  sides ;  with  its  elytra  (which  have 
their  fascia  apparently  obsolete)  somewhat  more  shortly  constricted 
posteriorly,  and  obtuser  at  their  extreme  apex ;  with  its  legs  a  trifle 
more  robust ;  and  with  its  two  hinder  tarsi  more  abbreviated. 

465.  AcaUes  acutus,  n.  sp. 

A.  fere  ut  A.  brevitarsis,  sed  obscurior  (minus  brunneus)  squamisque 
albidioribus  irroratus,  magis  aequaliter  setosus  ;  prothorace  an- 
gustiore,  ad  latera  minus  rottmdato ;  elytris  ad  apicem  coarctato- 
acutioribus,  fascia  postmedia  plerumque  magis  determinata  sod 
nodulis  minus  elevatis ;  pedibus  paulo  minus  incrassatis,  tarsis 
gracilioribus  et  (pi-aesertim  posticis)  sensim  longioribus. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  2-2 1. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticjs  Teneriffae,  passim. 


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CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


This  seems  to  be  the  least  scarce  of  the  Canarian  AcaJles,  though 
I  have  hitherto  observed  it  only  in  TeneriiFe ;  but  in  the  sylvan  dis- 
tricts of  that  island,  at  intermediate  and  rather  lofty  elevations,  it 
IS  apparently  not  very  uncommon,  occurring  in  the  thickest  parts 
of  the  forest.  Although  extremely  variable  in  bulk,  and  difficult  to 
procure  in  a  perfect  (or  unrubbed)  state,  it  may  usually  be  recog- 
nized by  the  dark  scales  with  which  it  is  densely  clothed,  which  are 
more  or  less  besprinkled  (especially  behind  the  scutellum  and  across 
the  disc  of  each  elytron)  -with  ashy  ones  and  somewhat  paler  bristles  ; 
by  its  surface  being  more  eqttalhf  setose  than  in  any  of  the  other 
species  (the  seta3  being  longer,  and  more  evidently  developed,  between 
the  fascicles  which  stud  the  nodules)  ;  by  its  hastate  fascia  being 
(in  clean  and  unabraded  examples)  rather  well  defined,  both  before 
and  posteriorly ;  and  by  its  legs  and  tarsi  being  somewhat  slender. 

The  A.  acutus  may  be  regarded  as  the  Canai'ian  representative  of 
the  Madeiran  A.  dispar,  which  at  first  sight  it  a  good  deal  resembles. 
It  is,  however,  on  the  average,  a  little  smaller  and  more  setose  than 
that  insect ;  its  elytra  are  less  deeply  sculptured,  more  pointed  at 
their  apex,  and  with  less  appearance  of  the  elongate,  darker,  narrow 
sutural  patch  in  front  of  the  postmedial  fascia  ;  and  its  rostrum  and 
feet  are  just  perceptibly  slenderer. 

46G.  Acalles  instabilis,  n.  sp. 

A.  fere  nt  A.  acutus,  sed  minor,  minus  setosus  ;  prothorace  ad  latera 
vix  rectiore ;  elytris  posticc  ^dx  minus  coarctatis,  fascia  postice 
plerumque  magis  suffusa ;  rostro  famiineo  paulo  levins  punctato. 

Var.  ij.  mundus  [an  species  ?].  Ltetius  coloratus,  prothorace  ad  latera 
paulo  magis  rotimdato,  elytris  squamis  albidioribus  adspersis.  [Ins. 
Palma.] — Long.  corp.  lin,  1^-3. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  subsylvaticisque  Canariae,  Teneriifte  et  Palmar, 
hinc  inde  haud  infrequens. 

Owing  to  the  excessive  variability  of  these  Canarian  Acalles,  both 
in  size  and  in  the  arrangement  of  their  scales,  and  (above  all)  to  the 
great  difficulty  of  procuring  perfect,  or  unrubbed,  specimens,  the 
Hmits  of  the  species  are  not  always  easy  to  define ;  and  thus,  jxxdg- 
ing  from  the  numerous  examples  now  before  me,  the  present  one 
and  the  A.  acutus  would  seem.  jJrimd  facie  to  merge  into  each  other. 
Yet  I  believe  that  they  are  nevertheless  really  distinct,  even  though 
the  unsatisfactory  state  of  certain  more  or  less  abraded  specimens 
may  render  it  doubtful  to  which  of  the  two  they  should  be  assigned. 
Typically,  however,  the  A.  instabilis  is  smaller  and  less  setose  than 
the  acutus,  its  prothorax  is  not  quite  so  much  rounded  at  the  sides, 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  291 

its  elytral  fascia  is  usually  more  suffused  behind,  and  its  female  ros- 
trum is  a  trifle  more  finely  punctured.  Two  examples  (the  "  var.  j3  ") 
which  I  caj)tured  in  Palma,  and  which  possibly  should  be  separated, 
are  more  highly  coloured  than  the  others,  with  their  prothorax  less 
straightened  at  the  sides,  and  with  their  elytra  besprinkled  with  a 
few  more  conspicuous  snowy-white  scales. 

The  A.  instahiUs  is  far  from  uncommon  in  the  sylvan  districts  of 
Teneriffe  (where  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  Las  Mercedes, 
and  in  the  laurel-woods  above  Taganana)  ;  and  I  have  also  a  specimen 
(rubbed  and  somewhat  unsatisfactory,  but  which  I  believe  nevertheless 
to  be  conspecific  with  the  remainder)  captured  in  Grand  Canary ;  as  also 
the  pair  above  alluded  to  from  the  sylvan  regions  of  Palma.  So  that, 
if  my  conclusions  be  correct,  it  would  seem  to  have  a  wide  range 
throughout  the  archipelago. 

If  the  last  species  be  regarded  as  representing  the  Madeiran  A. 
dispar,  perhaps  the  present  one  maj'  be  looked  upon  as  the  analogue 
of  the  A.  limulatiis  of  that  Group. 

407.  Acalles  seticollis,  n.  sp. 

A.  ovato-oblongus,  angustulus,  squamis  brunneis  et  cinereis  dense 
nebulosus  ;  prothorace  postice  paulo  angustato,  utrin(2ue  obscure 
albidiore,  in  medio  (prsecipue  ad  basin)  subnigrescente,  ubique  (sed 
praesertim  antice  et  in  medio)  setis  erectis  obsito ;  elytris  postice 
vix  coarctatis,  hand  nodulosis  sed  setis  erectis  inter  se  distantibus 
obsitis,  fascia  postmedia  albidiore  fere  obsoleta,  versus  basin  plus 
minus  indistincte  albido-nebulosis ;  pedibus  (praesertira  posticis) 
brevibus,  obscure  squamoso-variegatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  ^-1. 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  hand  procul  al)  oppido  Valverde  parce  repertus. 

I  am  far  from  certain  that  this  very  minute  Acalles  may  not  be  a 
modification,  peculiar  to  the  island  in  which  I  obtained  it,  of  the 
Madeiran  A.  WoUasto7ii;  nevertheless,  since  its  surface  is  more  setose, 
and  its  prothorax  (which  is  rather  less  powerfully  constricted  behind 
the  apex)  will  be  seen,  when  denuded  of  its  scales,  to  be  much  more 
deeply  and  closely  punctured,  whilst,  on  the  other  hand,  the  punc- 
tures of  its  elytral  striae  are  less  developed,  and  with  the  interstices 
more  rugulose,  I  think  it  would  scarcely  be  safe  to  treat  it  absolutely 
as  such.  It  may  be  known  from  all  the  other  species  here  enumerated 
by  its  exceedingly  diminutive  bulk  and  rather  narrower,  or  more 
oblong,  outline ;  by  its  surface  being  free  from  both  nodules  and 
ridges,  and  most  obsciirely  clouded  with  brown  and  ashy-brown 
scales ;  by  its  elytra  being  scarcely  at  all  constricted  posteriorly ; 
and  by  its  legs,  especially  the  hinder  pair,  being  somewhat  ai)bre- 

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292  CANAP.TAX  COLEOPTEEA. 

viated.  It  is  evidently  extremely  rai-e, — the  only  four  specimens 
which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself,  immediately  to 
the  westward  of  Valverde,  in  the  island  of  Hierro,  on  the  11th  of 
February  1858. 

468.  Acalles  pilula,  n.  sp. 

A.  ovatus,  lateraliter  subcompressus,  squamis  brunneis  vestitus  et 
cinereis  parce  irroratus  ;  prothorace  subconico,  subconvexo,  pos- 
tice  vix  angustato,  in  medio  leviter  nigro-setoso-bituberculato ; 
scutello  obsoleto  ;  elytris  convexis,  postice  vix  coarctatis  et  ibidem 
valde  decurvis,  fascia  postmedia  plerumque  obsoleta  sed  fasciculis 
parvis  setosis  nigris  (pniesertim  pone  medium)  instructis  ;  pedibus, 
prsesertim  posticis,  brevibus,  obscure  squamoso-variegatis. 
Var.  ft.  semrnidmn  [an  species?].  Multo  major,  pedibus  longioribus. 
— Long.  corp.  lin,  1-lj;  var.  /?,  Ik- 
Habitat  in  sylvaticis  TeneriiFae  et  Palmse,  rarissimus. 
In  its  general  fades,  outline,  and  obsolete  scutellum,  the  present 
Acalles  is  very  nearly  allied  to  the  Madciran  A.  glohnU^pennis,  of  which 
it  is  strictly  the  Canarian  representative  ;  though  I  believe  that  it 
cannot  be  absolutely  referred  to  it.     With  the  exception  of  the  "  var. 
/3,"  which  is  perhaps  specifically  distinct,  it  is  rather  smaller  than 
that  insect ;  its  rostrum  (at  all  events  in  the  female  sex)  is  a  little 
slenderer  and  more  convex  ;  its  prothorax  is  relatively  narrower  and 
more  conical,  and  when  denuded  of  its  scales  will  be  seen  to  be  less 
constricted  behind  the  apex,  as  also  more  deeply  and  less  closely 
punctured  ;  its  elytra  are  somewhat  convexer  still,  especially  at  their 
base  ;  and  the  arrangement  of  its  scales  is  not  quite  the  same. 

The  A.2y>hda  seems,  like  most  of  the  species,  to  be  extremely  rare, 
and  confined  to  sylvan  and  subsylvan  spots  of  intermediate  elevations. 
I  have  taken  it  in  Teneriife  and  Palma, — namely,  at  Souzal,  the  Agua 
Garcia,  and  in  the  wood  of  La  Esperanza,  of  the  former,  and  in  the 
Barranco  de  Galga  of  the  latter. 

469.  Acalles  verrucosus. 

A.  lateraliter  compressus,  supra  valde  arcuatus,  squamis  nigrescen- 
tibus  densissime  tectus  et  dilutioribus  irroratus  ;  prothorace  postice 
paulo  angustato,  ad  latera  late  albido-squamoso,  ante  medium  se- 
toso-4-tuberculato  ;  elytris  postice  paulo  coarctatis  sed  ibidem  de- 
curvis, nodulis  plurimis  setosis  instructis,  argute  sti'iato-punctatis, 
mox  pone  medium  macula  parva  obluniformi  utrinque  valde  abbre- 
viate albido-ornatis  ;  pedibus  tarsorumque  articulo  prime  elongatis, 
tibiarum  squamis  erectis  elongatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-3. 

Acalles  verrucosus,  JFoll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  (Srd  series)  xi.  219  (1863). 

Habitat  in  elevatis  sylvaticis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  rarissimus. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 


293 


This  large  Acalles  is  one  of  the  most  distinct  and  remarkable  of 
the  species  hitherto  detected  in  these  islands,  though  belonging  to 
somewhat  the  same  tjiiie  as  the  (comparatively  diminutive)  A.  pilula. 
It  may  readily  be  known  by  its  laterally  compressed  outline  and  greatly 
arcuated  upper  surface,  and  by  the  dark  scales  (besprinkled  never- 
theless with  browner,  or  more  diluted,  ones)  with  which  it  is  clothed, 
— the  sides  of  its  prothorax,  however,  being  broadly  white,  as  also  a 
very  minute,  lunulate  siitural  patch,  placed  at  about  midway  between 
the  base  and  (much  decurvcd)  apex  of  its  elytra.  Its  nodules  are 
extremely  numerous,  and  (although  not  particularly  large)  sharply 
defined  and  setose,  its  legs  and  first  tarsal  joint  are  considerably 
elongated,  and  the  scales  of  its  tibiae  are  setiform  and  erect. 

The  A.  verrucosus  appears  to  be  excessively  rare,  and  peculiar,  so 
far  at  least  as  I  have  yet  observed,  to  the  sylvan  districts  of  Tene- 
riffe  and  Palma — where  it  occurs,  beneath  loosened  bark  and  rotten 
wood,  in  humid  spots  of  a  rather  lofty  elevation.  I  have  taken  it 
in  the  laurel-foi'ests  overlooking  Point  Anaga,  and  towards  Taganana, 
of  the  former  ;  and  in  similar  situations  on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre, 
above  Buenavista,  in  the  latter. 

Genus  191.  ECHINODERA  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus,  et  caet.,  fere  ut  in  Acalles,  sed  a^quale,  ubique  subsequaliter 
setosum  (nee  nodosum  nee  costatum,  et  vix  fasciculatiun),  postice 
minus  (sc.  vix)  coarctatum  atque  ibidem  magis  decurvum ;  oculis 
minoribus  (sc.  minutis),  regulariter  ovalibus,  valde  demissis  ;  scu- 
tello  nidlo  ;  funiculi  articido  secundo  plus  minus  sensim  longiore 
quam  primo. 

Ab  Echinus,  et  Bepri,  collum. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  six  insects  described  below  are  very 
closely  related  to  Accdles,  though  I  think  they  possess,  in  common, 
sufficient  features  to  render  their  generic  detachment  advisable  ; 
but,  from  the  fact  of  the  oral  organs  being  universally  ignored  in 
the  numerous  members  of  the  RhyncJiopliora,  I  am  unable  to  say 
Avhether  any  more  decided  characters  might  be  brought  to  light  from 
an  accurate  examination  of  those  organs  in  this  group.  They  difier 
mainly  from  Acalles,  so  far  as  their  external  details  are  concerned, 
in  their  more  even,  and  more  ecpudly-setose,  surfaces — which  are 
alike  free  fi-om  nodules  and  ridges,  and  have  their  squamose  bristles 
more  regularly  distributed  throughout  (being  scarcely  at  all  collected 
into  fasciculi,  or  bunches)  ;  by  their  elytra  being  much  less  constricted, 
and  more  decurved,  behind  ;  by  their  eyes  being  considerably  smaller, 
more  strictly  oval,  and  so  extremely  sunken,  or  depressed,  that  they 


294  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

do  not  project  in  the  slightest  degree  beyond  the  curvature  of  the 
head  ;  and  by  the  second  joint  of  their  funiculus  being  more  or  less 
perceptibly  longer  than  the  first,  whereas  in  the  typical  Acalles  it  is 
more  or  less  distinctly  shorter  than  the  basal  one. 

In  enunciating  the  following  six  species,  the  diagnoses  of  which 
have  been  drawn  out  from  the  careful  survey  of  a  large  number*  of 
individuals,  I  have  been  compelled  to  rely  in  a  great  measure  upon 
their  sculpture — which,  unfortunately,  is  somewhat  difficult  of  ob- 
servation, since  in  order  to  be  appreciated  it  requires  the  scales  to 
be  removed  with  which  the  insects  are  densely  clothed.  Eut,  on  the 
other  hand,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  a  character  is  not  the 
less  real  and  important  because  it  happens  to  be  an  inconvenient  one 
to  examine ;  and  that,  consequently,  when  other  details  are  more  or 
less  unstable,  it  must  be  regarded  as  of  primary  significance.  Next 
to  the  sculpture,  I  have  found  the  most  constant  feature  to  consist  in 
the  precise  outline  of  the  elytra — modified,  according  to  the  species, 
bj'  their  more  or  less  c/fcurved  ajjcx,  and  the  oblique  lopping-off,  in 
opposite  directions,  of  their  humeral  region  and  terminal  half  (which 
occasions  a  more  or  less  evident  angle  to  be  shaped-out  at  either  side). 
Then  the  greater  or  less  erection,  and  lengtJi,  of  the  additional  scale- 
like setae  seems  to  be  the  most  satisfactory  character.  And  last  of 
all,  as  least  to  be  depended  upon  (though  varying,  nevertheless,  within 
limits  pretty  intelligible),  is  the  exact  colour,  or  markings,  which  the 
decumbent  scales  impart  to  the  entire  surface.  Of  course  there  are 
some  other  minutiic,  such  as  size,  the  relative  dilatation  of  the  feet, 
&c.,  which  afl:brd  collateral  aid  in  the  determination  of  these  closely 
allied  insects  ;  but  they  are  of  less  consequence,  and  will  be  adverted 
to  in  the  several  descriptions. 

470.  Echinodera  hystrix,  n.  sp. 

E.  squamis  fusco-brunneis  nigrescentibusque  dense  variegata  et  fusco- 
cinereis  plus  minus  obscure  maculata,  setis  longiusculis  erectis  sat 

*  No  less  than  173  specimens  of  Echinodera  are  now  before  me, — of  which  40 
belong  to  the  E.  hystrix,  36  to  the  crcnafa,  57  to  the  cmgulipennis,  38  to  the  or- 
iticuluta,  one  to  the  compacta,  and  one  to  the  picta.  And,  bearing  out  the  con- 
clusions, as  to  tlie  species,  at  which  I  have  independently  arrived,  their  toi^ogra- 
jjliical  distribution  seems  extremely  natural, — the  hi/sfrix  occvu'ring  in  Palma  and 
Ilierro  (the  two  western  islands  of  the  G-roup).  the  crcnafa  at  the  loftiest  altitudes 
of  Teneriffe  (existing  within  the  range  of  the  "  Eetamas,"  from  about  6000  to 
9000  feet  above  the  sea),  the  angulipennis  in  the  sylvan  and  subsylvan  districts 
of , Teneriife,  at  a  distinctly  lower  (but  nevertheless  considerable)  elevation,  the 
orhiculafa  at  the  upper  limits  of  the  wooded  regions  of  Tenerifte,  and  even  as- 
cending above  ihc\i\.\\\e  compacta  in  Grand  Canary,  and  the  picta  in  the  dry  and 
barren  island  of  Fuerteventui-a. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  295 

dense  obsita ;  prothorace  valde  profunde  et  densissime  piinctato, 
setis  apicalibus  saepius  distincte  longioribus;  elytris  elongato-ovatis, 
ad  humeros  vix  oblique  truncatis,  valde  profunde  pnnctato-striatis 
(punctis  maximis),  pone  medium  macula  magna  obluniformi  (an- 
tice,  sod  vix  postice,  plus  minus  obsciu-e  nigro-terminata),  necnon 
nebida  parva  indistincta  (plus  minus  obsoleta  fractil)  versus  humeros 
subcinereo-ornatis. 
Variat  fere  immaculata,  squamis  pallidioribus  plus  minus  obsoletis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  11-2. 

Habitat  in  Palma  et  Hierro,  locis  intermediis  passim. 

In  their  somewhat  elongate-ovate  elytra,  which  are  more  gradually 
narrowed  towards  the  base  (or  less  truncated,  obliquely,  at  the  shoul- 
ders), the  present  species  and  the  following  one  have  much  in  com- 
mon ;  nevertheless  when  denuded  of  their  scales  they  will  be  seen  to 
be  abundantly  distinct  from  each  other ;  for  whilst  the  latter  has  its 
striae  comparative!  1/  fine  and  merely  crenated,  the  E.  hystrix  has  them 
very  deeply  and  regularly  punctured — the  punctures  being  of  an 
enormous  size.  This  difference  in  their  sculpture  causes  the  inter- 
stices of  the  crenata  to  be  proportionally  wide  and  flattened,  whilst 
in  the  hystrix  they  are  narrower  and  more  costate.  In  minor  details, 
the  present  insect  is  rather  more  obscurely  coloured  than  its  Tene- 
riffan  ally  (the  paler  scales  being  usually  less  developed,  and  covering 
a  smaller  portion  of  the  entire  surface) ;  the  setae  with  which  it  is 
studded  are  somewhat  more  numerous  and  erect ;  its  rostrum  is  per- 
haps a  trifle  longer  and  slenderer  ;  and  the  shape  of  its  cloudy  patches 
is  not  quite  the  same. 

As  yet  I  have  observed  the  E.  hystrix  only  in  Palma  and  Hierro, 
in  the  sylvan  districts  of  which  I  took  it,  sparingly,  during  the  winter 
and  spring  of  1858. 

471.  Echinodera  crenata. 

E.  squamis  fiiscis  nigrescentibusque  dense  variegata  et  cinereis  plus 
minus  maculata,  setis  longiusculis  suberectis  obsita ;  prothorace 
profunde  et  dense  punctate,  setis  apicalibus  vix  longioribus  ;  ely- 
tris elongato-ovatis,  ad  humei'os  vix  oblique  tnmcatis,  sat  ])rofunde 
crenato-striatis,  pone  medium  macula  magna  obluniformi  (antice 
et  postice  plus  minus  nigro-terminata)^  necnon  nebiUa  (plus  minus 
magna  siiffusa)  versus  humeros  cinereo-ornatis. 

Variat  squamis  paUidioribus  minus  distinctis, — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Echinodera  crenata,  WolL,  Ann,  Nat.  Hist.  (3rd  series)  xi.  219  (1863). 
Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriflae,  sub  lapidibus  inter  6000' 
et  9000'  s.  m.,  ultra  regiones  sylvaticas,  occurrens. 

The  E.  crenata  appears  to  be  confined  to  the  higher  elevations  of 


296  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

TenerifFe, — occurring,  beneath  stones,  in  the  region  of  the  Spartium 
nuh'ujena  (or  "  Retama"),  from  about  6000  to  9000  feet  above  the 
sea.  In  such  situations  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  on  the  Cumbre 
adjoining  the  Cauadas,  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  during  May  1859 ;  as 
well  as  on  the  opposite  Cumbre,  above  the  Agua  Mansa.  It  is,  on 
the  average,  a  more  variegated  species  than  any  of  the  others  hitherto 
detected, — highly  coloured  and  perfect  examples  (in  which  the  scales 
are  uninjured)  having  often  their  paler  portions  very  distinctly  and 
beautifully  expressed.  But  in  all  instances  it  may  be  easily  recog- 
nized (at  any  rate  when  sufficiently  denuded  to  expose  the  sculpture) 
by  its  elytral  stria;  being  comparativeJii  fine  and  simply  crenated, 
with  the  interstices  broader  and  less  costate  than  is  the  case  in  the  other 
Eclihiodercn  here  enumerated.  Even  small  and  dark  specimens  may 
always  be  known  from  corresj^ondingly  obscure  ones  of  the  anrpiU- 
penms  by  this  character ;  as  also  by  the  shape  of  the  elytra,  which 
are  more  regularly  elongate-ovate,  being  less  obhquely  truncated 
both  at  the  shoulders  and  along  the  margin  of  their  termmal  Jialf. 

472.  Echinodera  angulipennis,  n.  sp. 

E.  fere  ut  E.  crenafa,  sed  plennnque  obscurior  (minus  variegata),  setis 
paulo  longioribus  robustioribusque  obsita  ;  prothorace  vix  profun- 
dius  densiuscpie  punetato  ;  elytris  profundius  crenato-  (fere  punc- 
tate-) striatis,  interstitiis  convexioribus,  paulo  magis  convexis,  sub- 
ellipticis  (minus  elongato-ovatis),  versus  humcros  necnon  postice 
magis  oblique  trimcatis,  quare  utrinqi;e  pone  basin  magis  angulatis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  14—2. 

Hahitat  in  sylvaticis  subsylvaticisque  Teneriffie,  passim. 

The  present  species  seems  to  be  the  universal  one  throughout  the 
sylvan  (and  even  subsylvan)  regions  of  TenerifFe,  having  a  distinctly 
lower  range  than  the  E.  crenata.  Indeed  it  is  emphatically  an  insect 
of  intermediate  elevations, — never  ascending,  apparently,  above  the 
wooded  districts,  and  only  occasionally  to  be  met  with  (in  subsylvan 
spots)  a  little  below  them.  I  have  taken  it  at  Ycod  el  Alto,  the  Agua 
Mansa,  the  Agua  (irarcia,  at  Las  Mercedes,  and  on  the  laurel-clad 
slopes  above  Taganana. 

The  E.  arir/tdipennis  is  usually  a  dull  or  obscurely  coloured  spe- 
cies,— a  more  or  less  faintly  expressed  hinder  fascia  and  a  few  scat- 
tered palish  scales  being  the  only  relief  to  its  mottled-brown  surface. 
It  is  rather  more  deeply  sculptured  than  the  crenata  (though  much 
less  so  than  the  hi/sfri.v),  and  the  erect  scale-like  bristles  with  which 
it  is  beset  are  a  little  longer  and  more  robust ;  its  elytra  too  are  con- 
vexer,  as  also  more  shorfh/  elliptic  (or  less  oblong-ovate)— a  struc- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  297 

tare  which  is  caused  by  theii"  humeral  region  and  apical  half  being 
more  obliquely  truncated,  or  lopped-off,  in  opposite  dii'ections,  so  as 
to  shape-out  a  more  evident  angle  on  either  side  at  about  a  third  of 
the  distance  behind  their  base. 

473.  Echinodera  orbiculata,  n.  sp. 

E.  sp.  prajcedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  minor,  squamis  nigrescentibus 
brunneo-albidisc^ue  magis  regulariter  irrorata  et  setis  mid  to  brevi- 
oribus  ac  minus  erectis  obsita ;  prothorace  valde  profunde  et  den- 
sissime  punctato  ;  elytris  profundius  punctato-striatis,  suborbicu- 
latis,  i.  e.  rotundatioribus  et  ad  apicem  magis  incurvis,  ergo  postice 
obtusius  rotimdatis  neciion  ad  humeros  minus  oblique  trimcatis ; 
tarsis  vix  brevioribus  et  paulo  minus  dilatatis. — Long.  corp.  lin. 

Habitat  TeneriiFam,  proecipue  in  sylvaticis  editioribus  sed  interdum 
etiam  ultra  regiones  sylvaticas  (uscpie  ad  7000'  s.  m.)  ascendens. 

The  rather  smaller  size  of  this  species,  in  conjunction  with  its  much 
shorter  and  more  decumbent  seta3,  its  usually  more  speclded  surface 
(which  is  more  or  less  irrorated  with  blackish,  brown,  and  whitey- 
brown  scales),  its  more  globose  and  deeply  sculptured  elytra  (which 
are  more  obtusehj  rounded  behind,  with  their  apex  more  decurved, 
and  less  obliquely  truncated  at  their  shoulders),  and  its  just  per- 
ceptibly more  abbreviated  and  less  expanded  feet,  will  serve  to  dis- 
tingviish  it  from  the  E.  anguTipennis.  It  occupies,  also,  a  somewhat 
higher  range  than  its  ally, — never  descending  (so  far  as  I  have  yet 
observed)  beloiv  the  wooded  districts,  but  ascending,  not  iinfrequently, 
above  them.  Thus,  in  the  sylvan  region  of  the  Agua  Mansa,  in 
Teneriffe,  it  is  the  dominant  species  ;  and  I  have  likewise  taken  it, 
though  more  rarely,  on  the  lofty  Cumbre  above  it  (in  company  with 
the  E.  crenata),  at  an  elevation  of  from  aboiit  6000  to  7000  feet.  I 
also  found  it  on  the  densely  laurel-clad  mountains  overlooking  Taga- 
nana. 

474.  Echinodera  compacta,  n.  sp. 

E.  prascedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  obscurior,  setis  minus  abbreviatis 
obsita ;  elytris  minus  rotundatis  (versus  humeros  sensim  latioribus 
necnon  ad  latera  rectioribus),  protundius  punctato-striatis,  punctis 
maximis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  semel  capta. 

I  have  little  doubt  that  the  single  specimen  from  which  the  above 
diagnosis  has  been  compiled  will  form  the  type  of  a  distinct  species 
peculiar  to  Grand  Canary — where  I  captured  it,  in  the  region  of 
El  Monte,  during  the  spring  of  1858.  So  far  as  I  can  judge  from 
the  individual  before  me,  it  differs  from  the  orbicalata  in  being  of  a 


298  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

rather  obscurer  hue  and  with  its  sette  less  abbre\dated,  and  in  having 
its  elytra  much  more  deeply  punctured  (indeed  quite  as  coarsely  as 
in  the  E.  hystrix),  and  considerably  less  rounded  at  the  sides, — the 
basal  region  being  relatively  wider  than  is  the  case  in  that  insect. 
Its  feet,  however,  are  but  slightly  expanded,  and  its  elytra  are  a 
good  deal  decurved  at  their  apex,  as  in  the  orhkaJata. 

475.  Echinodera  picta,  n.  sp. 

E.  fere  ut  E.  oriiculata,  sed  minor,  multo  laetius  picta  et  setis  fere 
carens  ;  elytris  paulo  minus  rotundatis,  levius  punctato-striatis, 
interstitiis  densissime  rugulosis,  versus  basin  (pra^sertim  circa  hu- 
meros)  latins  albido-oriiatis,  fascia  postmedia  distincta  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  bx-evibus,  tarsis  brevissimis,  vix  dilatatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  li. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  ad  Rio  Palmas  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859 
lecta. 

The  unique  example  described  above  was  taken  by  myself,  from 
beneath  a  stone,  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura,  at  the  begin- 
ning of  April  1859  ;  and,  apart  from  the  peculiarity  of  its  Jiahitat 
(amongst  species  which  are  either  essentially  sylvan  in  their  modes 
of  life  or  else  found  in  spots  of  a  very  lofty  elevation),  it  differs  so 
remarkably  from  all  the  EcJiinodene  above  enumerated  that  I  have 
no  hesitation,  even  in  the  absence  of  further  material,  in  treating  it 
as  distinct  from  the  whole  of  them.  Independently  of  the  compara- 
tively small  size  of  the  specimen  before  me,  which  may  possibli/  be 
accidental,  the  E.  picta  may  be  easily  recognized  by  its  much  more 
higlily  coloured  (and  indeed  prettily  variegated)  surface,  by  its  free- 
dom from  erect  seta),  by  its  elytra  having  the  punctures  of  their  striaj 
rather  shallow  and  their  interstices  densely  rugidose,  and  by  its  limbs, 
especially  the  feet,  being  somewhat  abbreviated — the  latter  of  which, 
moreover,  have  their  penultimate  joint  but  very  slightly  expanded. 

(Subfam.  BARIDIIDE8.) 

Genus  192.  BARIDIUS. 

Schouherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Mdh.  274  (1826). 

476.  Baridius  sellatus. 

B.  oblongus,  niger,  subopacus  :  capite  minutissime  et  leviter  punctu- 
lato,  rostro  valido  profundius  punctato  et  basi  utrinque  striolato ; 
prothorace  subquadi-ato,  mox  intra  apicem  subito  constricto,  den- 
sissime et  profunde  punctato,  punetis  longitudinaliter  confluentibus, 
in  medio  carinato.  ad  latera  squamis  nonnuUis  albidis  obsito  ;  ely- 
tris striatis,  interstitiis  planis,  squamis  albidis  atrisque  lajte  mar- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  299 

moratis  (albidis  parcius  adspersis,  sed  in  macula  communi  media 
transverso-subquadrata,  ante  banc  per  suturam,  nccnon  versus 
basin,  densius  condensatis) ;  antcunis  pedibusque  breviusculis, 
robustis,  iUis  rufo-piceis,  his  plus  minus  albido  atroque  squamosis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  3|-4. 

Baridius  sellatus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  viii.  124  (1844). 
,  Lucas,  Col.  cle  VAlgerie,  452  (1849). 

Habitat  in  aridis  arenosis  Fuerteventurse,  rarissimus. 

This  large  and  beautiful  Baridius  is  at  once  remarkable  for  its 
coarsely  punctured,  longitudinally  strigulose  prothorax,  and  for  its 
intensely  black  surface  being  prettily  variegated  with  snowy-white 
scales,  particularly  on  the  elytra — where  they  are  irregularly 
sprinkled  towards  the  base,  sides,  and  apex,  but  more  densely  con- 
centrated along  the  anterior  portion  of  the  suture  and  in  a  large 
transverse-quadrate  medial  patch  common  to  both.  I  cannot  detect 
any  real  difference  between  the  Canarian  examples  now  before  me 
and  a  North- African  type  of  the  B.  sellatus  which  has  been  commu- 
nicated by  M.  Chevrolat,  though  the  latter  has  its  prothorax  a  little 
more  coarsely  sculptured — caused  by  the  punctures  being  more  de- 
cidedly confluent,  so  as  to  make  the  oblique  longitudinal  strigce  better 
defined.  It  is  apparently  of  the  greatest  rarity  in  these  islands — the 
only  two  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  my- 
self, during  the  spring  of  1859,  on  the  hillocks  of  loose  drifting  sand 
in  the  baiTen  region  of  Corralejo,  at  the  extreme  north  of  Puerte- 
vcntura. 

(Subfam.  CIONIDES.) 

Genus  193.  NANOPHYES. 

Schciuherr,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iv.  780  (18.38). 

§  I.  Antemice  ante  medium  rostri  insertee,  clavd  laxd.  Rostrum  pone 
antennas  distincte  striatum.  Femora  suhtus  hispinosa  {spina  inte- 
riore  longitiscidd,  acuta). 

477.  Nanophyes  longulus,  n.  sp. 

N.  oblongo-ovalis,  angustulus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  nitidus  flavescenti- 
albido-  et  fulvescenti-pubescens  ;  elytris  sat  profunde  subpunctato- 
striatis,  fasciis  duabus  dentatis  (antica  in  medio  profunde  arcuata 
necnon  ibidem  parte  suturali  obscuriore  terminata),  plus  minus 
obsoletis  suffusis,  pallido-ornatis  ;  anteunis  pedibusque  elongatis, 
gracilibus,  illarum  clava  saepius  obscuriore  ;  tarsorum  articulo  primo 
longiusculo,  subgracili. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Habitat  Canariam  et  Teneriffam,  super  folia  plantarum  in  humidi- 
usculis,  rarissimus. 


300  CANARTAN  COLEOPTEBA. 

This  distinct  and  beautiful  Nanophyes  may  easily  be  known  by  its 
rather  narrow  and  oblong-oval  outline,  rufo-ferruginous  hue,  and  by 
the  two  zigzag  (but  more  or  less  obscure  or  suffused)  paler  fasciae 
with  which  its  elytra  are  adorned.  It  is  further  remarkable  for  its 
antennae  being  inserted  considerahhj  before  the  middle  of  its  (basally 
striated)  rostrum ;  for  its  femora  being,  all  of  them,  6/spinulose 
underneath  (the  outer  tooth  being  very  minute,  but  the  inner  one 
comparatively  large)  ;  and  for  its  tarsi  having  their  first  joint  longer 
and  slenderer  than  is  usually  the  case  in  the  members  of  this  geims. 
Its  antennal  clava  is  much  more  lax,  or  perfoliated,  than  that  of  the 
following  species. 

The  N.  lomjulus  is  apparently  of  gTeat  rarity,  and  occurs  amongst 
rank  vegetation  in  rather  damj)  spots.  I  have  observed  it  hitherto 
only  in  Grand  Canary  and  Teneriife, — namely  at  Mogan,  and  at  the 
edges  of  a  small  watercourse  in  the  region  of  El  Monte,  of  the  for- 
mer; and  at  Souzal  of  the  latter.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  taken  also 
(though  only  a  single  example)  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

§  II.  Antenna',  vLv  ante  medium  rostri  insertee,  davd  compactd.  lios- 
tramj)one  antennas piinctato-sidistfiatum.  Femora  subtiis  spina  mi- 
n utiss imd  arma ta . 

478.  Nanophyes  hmulatus. 

N.  ovatus,  pallide  testaceus,  flavescenti-albido-pubesceus ;  elytris  pro- 
fundc  subpunctato-striatis,  fascia  media  parva  subluniformi  utrin- 
que  valde  abbreviata  (interdum  per  suturam  fracta),  necnon  in  in- 
terstitio  quinto  sa^pe  maculis  (una  vel  duabus)  parvis,  nigro-ornatis. 

Variat  elytris  omnino  pallidis  (fascia  centrali  obsoleta). — Long.  eorp. 
lin.  f-|. 

Nanophyes  hmulatus,  Wall.,  Ann.  Kat.  Hist.  (.3rd  series)  xi.  218  ( 1863). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  foliis  arbuscularum  Tamaricis  r/al- 
liccc  per  margines  rivuli  ad  Mogan  crescentium  deprehensus. 

Known  immediately  from  the  preceding  species  by  its  smaller  size, 
more  ovate  outline,  and  pale-testaceous  hue, — the  elytra  being  orna- 
mented with  only  a  minute,  central,  laterally-abbreviated,  sublunate 
fascia,  or  patch,  which  is  occasionally  interrupted  at  the  suture  so  as 
to  form  two  detached  spots,  and  in  rare  instances  is  altogether  obso- 
lete :  and  there  are  geuci-aUy,  moreover,  two  very  obscure  dashes,  or 
abbreviated  streaks,  on  the  posterior  portion  of  the  fifth  interstice. 
In  other  respects,  the  whole  of  its  femora  are  fui'nished  beneath  with 
an  extremely  diminutive  spine ;  and  its  antennae  are  more  medialli/ 
inserted  than  is  the  case  in  the  last  species,  and  have  their  club 
shorter  and  more  compact. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  301 

Although  attached  to  the  Tamarisk,  the  present  insect  is  appa- 
rently quite  distinct  from  the  Mediterranean  N.  famarisci,  palli- 
dulus  (which  has  unarmed  femora),  posticus,  and  stigmaticus,  of  which 
the  habits  are  similar.  Indeed  the  first  two  of  these  are  now  before 
me ;  whilst  the  third  is  remarkable  (inter  alia)  for  its  anterior  femora 
being-  6/spinulose,  and  for  its  elytra  having  merely  a  short,  obscure, 
darker  line  towards  the  apex  of  each.  And  judging  from  the  de- 
scription of  the  stigmaticus,  I  gather  that  that  insect  must  have  its 
rostrum  free  from  basal  sulci,  and  its  elytra  more  finely  striated,  and 
with  only  a  small  speck  on  the  third  interval.  I  am,  further,  in- 
formed by  M.  Jekel  that  he  believes  this  species  to  be  new,  andj^er- 
hai^s  identical  with  an  uncharacterized  one  from  Egypt. 

Hitherto  I  have  observed  the  N.  lunulatus  only  in  Grand  Canary 
— where,  ou  the  16th  of  April  1858,  I  brushed  it,  somewhat  abun- 
dantly, from  off  the  shrubs  of  Tamarix  gallica,  L.,  growing  at  the 
edges  of  the  stream  at  Mogan,  in  the  south-western  district  of  that 
island. 

(Subfam.  TYCHIIDES.) 

Genus  194.  SIBYNES. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  247  (1826). 
Apart  from  minor  distinctions,  the  genus  Sihynes  may  be  recog- 
nized by  its  6-jointed  funiculus,  and  by  the  apices  of  its  elytra  being 
separately  rounded-off  so  as  to  expose  a  small  portion  of  the  pygi- 
dium.  The  species  are  for  the  most  part  rather  thick  and  oblong- 
quadi-ate,  though  with  their  upper  surface  a  little  flattened ;  their 
prothorax  is  usually  somewhat  bisinuated  along  its  hinder  edge  ;  and 
the  scales  with  which  they  are  densely  clothed  are  more  or  less 
shining  and  sericeous. 

479.  Sibynes  sericeus,  n.  sp. 

8.  piceo-nigcr,  squamis  angustis  aureo-fuscis  sericeis  densissime  tec- 
tus  necnon  paulo  albidioribus  parcissime  irroratus ;  prothorace 
densissime  punctate,  utrinque  et  per  lineam  mediam  vix  albidius 
squamoso  ;  elytris  subcrenato-striatis,  interstitiis  dense  et  profunde 
punctatis ;  antennis  brevibus,  ad  basin,  tibiis  versus  apicem  tar- 
sisque  rufo-ferrugineis. 

Variat  elytris  maciUa  media  communi  scutellari  obsoletissima  (pos- 
tice,  utrinque,  parte  obliqua  paulo  obscuriore  terminata)  vix  albi- 
diore  plus  minus  evidenter  ornatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^—1 1. 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  passim. 
This  fine  Sihynes  is  at  once  remarkable  for  the  sericeous  golden- 
brown  scales  with  which  it  is  densely  clothed,  and  which  are  be- 


302  CANAPvIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

sprinkled  with  a  few  very  obscurely  whiter  ones.  Its  elytra  have  a 
tencUnaj  to  be  marked  with  a  very  obsolete  oblique  line,  or  patch, 
extenduig  from  about  the  disc  of  each  to  (and  becoming  gradually 
wider  at)  the  hinder  portion  of  the  suture — an  arrangement  which 
causes  the  scutellary  region  which  it  encloses  to  apjicar  as  though 
formed  of  somewhat  paler  scales.  The  species  is  decidedly  rare, 
though  widely  spread  over  the  group.  I  have  taken  it  at  Haria,  in 
Lanzarote  ;  in  Grand  Canary  ;  and  near  S'''  Cruz,  in  TenerifFe :  and 
it  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Fuerteventura. 

Genus  195.  TYCHIUS. 
(Germar)  Schcin.,  Cure.  Disj).  Meth.  245  (182G). 

480.  TycMus  aridicola,  n.  sp. 

T.  fusco-piceus,  squamis  subflavescenti-cinereis  dense  nebulosus;  pro- 
thorace  transverse,  densissime  2)unctato,  ad  latera  rotundato  ;  ely- 
tris  cylindrico-oblongis,  profunde  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  mi- 
nutissime  punctulatis  ;  rostro  antennisque  rufo-piceis,  illo  lineari, 
tereti,  arcuato,  longitudinahter  punctato-sulcato ;  pedibus  robustis ; 
ocuHs  magnis,  reniformibus. — Long.  corp.  liu.  2-2|. 

Habitat  in  calcariis  Lanzarotte,  Fuerteventurae  et  Canaria^,  rarissi- 
mus. 

Although  the  present  gigantic  Ti/chius  is  so  nearly  allied  to  the 
Madeiran  T.  robustus  that,  prima  facie,  I  had  regarded  it  as  actually 
identical  with  that  insect,  nevertheless  a  closer  inspection  has  dis- 
closed so  many  small  differences  (one  of  them  even  structural)  that 
I  believe  it  must  be  treated  as  specifically  distinct.  It  differs  mainly 
in  its  elytra  being  less  inflated  and  convex,  or  more  cylindric  (the 
sides  being  considerably  straigliter),  and  in  its  feet  being  rather  nar- 
rower— the  bilobed  third  joint  being  perceptibly  less  dilated.  Its 
scales,  also,  are  whiter  and  more  cinereous,  or  with  less  of  a  yellowish 
tinge.  It  appears  to  be  exceedingly  rare,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I 
have  observed  hitherto)  to  calcareoixs  spots  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteven- 
tura, and  Grand  Canary.  In  the  first  of  these  I  have  taken  it,  from 
beneath  stones,  on  the  arid  mountain-slopes  between  Los  Valles  (de 
S''''  Catalina)  and  San  Miguel  deTeguise ;  in  the  second,  in  a  similar 
locality,  close  to  the  little  town  of  S''^  Maria  Betaneuria ;  and,  in  the 
third,  on  the  low  sandy  isthmus  between  Las  Palmas  and  Puerto  da 
Luz. 

481.  Tychius  decoratus. 
T.  niger ;  rostro  (antice,  pra}sertim  in  fa3mineis,  sensim  attenuate)  ad 

apiccm  riifo-piceo  nitido  calvo,  pone  antennas  densissime  punctu- 

lato  et  nigro-squamoso,  in  fronte  albido-squamoso;  prothorace  den- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  303 

sissime  pimetulato,  nigro-squamoso,  linea  media  (in  disco  inter- 
rupta  et  postice  dilatata,  maculam  eiformante)  albida ;  elytris  nigro- 
squamosis  sed  laete  albido-sqiiamoso-lineatis,  lineis  siibsutm-alibus 
plus  miuus  obsoletis  brunneis;  antennis  pedibusque  (squamosis) 
rufo-ferrugineis,  illis  ad  apicem  et  his  ad  basin  obscurioribus ; 
oculis  rotundatis,  prominulis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Tychius  decoratus,  Rosenh.,  Die  Thier.  Amlalus.  271  (1856). 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Canarise  Grandis,  foliis  Ononis  natricis,  L., 
gaudens. 

After  comparing  carefully  this  superb  Tychius  with  an  Andalusian 
type  of  the  T.  decoratus  of  Rosenhauer,  communicated  by  Dr.  Kraatz, 
and  also  with  another  specimen  (clearly  referable  to  the  same  species) 
which  was  taken  by  the  Rev.  Hamlet  Clark  at  Granada,  I  cannot  de- 
tect any  difference,  either  in  sculpture  or  coloration,  of  sufficient  im- 
portance to  warraiit  its  separation  from  that  insect.  The  only  points 
in  which  the  Canarian  examples  would  seem  to  recede  from  the 
Spanish  ones  are,  first,  that  perhaps  they  are  a  trifle  larger  (though, 
with  only  two  individuals  of  the  latter  to  judge  from,  I  am  scarcely 
in  a  position  to  affirm  this  positively),  and,  secondly,  that  the  sub- 
sutui'al  lines  of  their  elytra  are  hroivner  or  more  obscui'e,  whilst  the 
sublateral  ones  are  (like  the  suture  itself)  quite  pale,  and  more  or  less 
confluent— an  arrangement  of  the  scales  which  I  do  not  see  so  deci- 
dedly expressed  in  either  of  the  types  of  the  decoratus  now  before  me. 
Even  if  this,  however,  should  be  peculiar  to  the  sx^ecimens  from  the 
Canaries  (of  which  I  feel  by  no  means  certain),  still  I  do  not  imagine 
that  such  a  character  can  be  looked  upon  as  indicating  more  than  a 
mere  geographical  variety  :  nevertheless,  should  future  material  from 
the  south  of  Spain  prove  the  two  to  be  really  distinct  species,  I  would 
in  that  case  propose  for  the  Canarian  one  (fully  enunciated  above) 
the  trivial  name  of  gloriosus.  The  only  district  in  which  I  have 
hitherto  observed  it  is  the  great  Barranco  in  the  south-west  of  Grand 
Canary  in  which  the  little  town  of  Mogan  is  situated — where,  on  the 
16th  of  April  1858,  I  captured  it  rather  abundantly  from  off  a  bean- 
tiful  yellow  Ononis  (the  0.  natria\  L.)  which  is  common  by  the  road- 
sides, and  on  the  dry  mountain-slopes,  of  that  particular  region. 

482.  Tychius  depauperatus,  n.  sp. 
T.  piceo-niger,  squamis  fulvescenti-cincreis  sericeis  (hinc  inde  sub- 
seneo-micantibus)  densissime  tectus  ;  rostro  (antice,  prsesertim  in 
fcemineis,  sensim  attenuato)  ferrugineo,  ad  apicem  nitido  calvo,  basi 
(una  ciun  fronte)  densissime  punctulato  squamoso  ;  prothorace  den- 
sissime punctulato,  squamis  per  lin  cam  mediam  albidioribus  ;  ely- 
tris subcylindrico-oblongis,  subcrenato-striatis,  interstitiis  obsolete 


304  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

et  leviter  punctulatis,  squamis  per  sutiiram  et  versus  latera  vix 
albidioribus  ;  antennis  (brevibus)  pedibusque  (squamosis)  rufo-fer- 
rugineis, — Long.  corp.  lin.  Ij. 

Hahitat  Fuei'teventaram :  sub  lapidibus  in  inferioribus  arenosis 
maritimis  die  9.  Apr.  a.d.  1859  specimina  duo  collegi. 

Two  specimens  (a  male  and  female)  of  this  insignificant  little  Tij- 
chius  were  captured  by  myself,  from  beneath  stones,  in  a  flat  sandy 
spot  at  the  edges  of  the  coast-road,  in  Fuerteventura,  about  three 
miles  to  the  north  of  Puerto  de  Cabras,  on  the  9th  of  April  1859. 
They  are  about  the  size  of  the  common  European  T.  Jlavicollis,  but 
are  somewliat  narrower  and  more  parallel,  with  their  scales  a  little 
browner  and  more  metallic,  and  with  their  rostrum  and  antennae  (in 
both  sexes)  shorter.  The  last  indeed  are  rather  singular  from  the 
second  joint  of  the  funiculus  being  not  at  aU  longer  than  the  third, 
whilst  the  basal  one  is  (relatively)  a  trifle  more  swollen  perhaps  than 
is  the  case  in  the  ordinary  I'ycliii.  In  minor  particidars,  I  may  just 
mention  that,  wlien  denuded  of  its  scales,  the  forehead  of  the  T.  de- 
pauperatus  will  be  seen  to  be  much  more  opake  and  densely  punc- 
tured than  in  theJlKvlcolIis,  and  its  elytra!  stria?  to  be  less  distinctly 
crenulated. 

(Subfam.  RHINOMACERIDES.) 

Genus  19G.  AULETES. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Diqh  Mvth.  46  (182(5). 

483.  Auletes  cylindricollis,  n.  sp. 

A.  rufo-ferrugineus  eh'tris  plus  minus  testaceis,  subnitidus,  jjube 
fulvo-cinereji  subdemissa  sat  dense  vestitus  ;  rostro  elongato,  utrin- 
que  punctato;  capite  prothoraceque  profunde,  dense  et  rugose  punc- 
tatis,  hoc  elongato  subcylincMco  ad  basin  ipsam  transversim  con- 
stricto  in  disco  bre\dter  obsoleteque  subcarinato ;  elytris  nitidiori- 
bus,  parce  sed  vix  seriatim  punctatis  (punctis  magnis,  postice  mi- 
noribus);  antennis  pedibusque  testaceis. 

Variat  fronte,  prothorace  utrinque  in  disco,  elytrorum  sutura  femori- 
busque  posterioribus  plus  minus  infuscatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2i. 

Hahitat  in  intermediis  TenerifFa?  et  Palma?,  ad  flores  varies  in  her- 
bidis,  rarissimus. 

The  three  Auletes  here  enumerated  are  very  closely  allied  inter  se, 
and  I  do  not  feel  altogether  satisfied  that  they  should  be  regarded  as 
more  than  varieties  of  a  single  very  plastic  species.  Nevertheless  I 
think  it  is  more  probable  that  they  are  distinct,  though  nearly  re- 
lated, and  therefore  I  consider  it  safer  not  to  amalgamate  them. 

The  A.  Cj/Jimh-icol1is  appears  to  be  widely  distributed,  tliough  spa- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  305 

ringly  so,  throughout  the  intermediate  elevations  of  Tenoriffc  and 
Pahna — occurring  amongst  dense  vegetation,  in  sylvan  and  subsj'lvan 
spots.  It  is  remarkable  for  its  rather  elongate,  subcjiindrical  pro- 
thorax  (which  is  constricted  at  the  extreme  base,  and  but  slightly 
widened  hffore  it),  for  its  coarse  punctation,  which  is  also  remote 
on  the  elytra  (which  are  more  shining  than  the  rest  of  the  surface), 
and  for  its  longish  rostrum  and  feet.  Its  colour  would  seem  gene- 
rally to  be  pale — merely  the  forehead  and  either  side  of  the  protho- 
racic  disc  being  more  or  less  infuscated  ;  however,  in  one  of  my  spe- 
cimens, from  the  island  of  Palma,  the  suture,  as  well  as  the  four 
hinder  femora,  are  likewise  darkened.  My  Teneriffan  examples  are 
from  Las  Mercedes,  Souzal,  and  the  Agua  Garcia. 

484.  Auletes  anceps,  n.  sp. 
A.  prtecedenti  affinis,  sed  prothorace  minus  cyliudi-ico  (postice  sensim 
latiore  nee  ibidem  transversim  constrieto) ;  oculis  subrainoribus ; 
pmictuni  omnino  paulo  densioi'e  ac  magis  grossa  ;  elytris  paulo  mi- 
nus nitidis  ;  antennarum  articulo  secundo  vix  minus  infiato  ;  tar- 
sorum  articulo  primo  subbreviore. — Long.  corp.  liji.  2. 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  Februario  a.d.  1858  parce  repertus. 

In  the  shape  of  its  prothorax,  as  well  as  in  its  dense  pimctation 
and  its  not  very  shining  elytra,  this  Auletes  is  exceedingly  near  to  the 
A.  maderensis  of  the  Madeiran  Group  ;  from  which  it  appears  mainly 
to  differ  (apart  from  its  paler  hue,  on  wliich  I  lay  but  little  stress)  in 
its  slightly  longer  rostrum,  and  in  the  rather  less  abbreviated  and 
somewhat  less  thickened  second  joint  of  its  antennjB.  From  the  A. 
cylimlricollis,  of  Teneriffe  and  Palma,  it  may  be  known  by  its  punc- 
tation being  altogether  rather  closer  and  less  coarse,  by  its  pro- 
thorax  being  a  little  more  expanded  behind  (or  less  cylindrical),  by 
its  elj-tra  being  somewhat  less  shining,  by  its  eyes  being  a  trifle 
smaller,  by  the  second  joint  of  its  antennae  being  just  perceptibly  less 
swollen,  and  the  basal  one  of  its  feet  being  perhaps  a  little  shorter. 
Nevertheless,  considering  the  excessive  variability  of  the  A.  ct/Iindri- 
colUs,  I  cannot  but  feel  doubtful  whether  it  is  more  than  a  mere  in- 
sular state  of  that  species.  As  yet  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Hieri'o, 
where  I  captured  two  examples  during  February  of  1858. 

485.  Auletes  coiivexifrons,  n.  sp. 
A.  speciebus  pra^ccdentibus  affinis,  sed  minor,  rostro  paulo  breviore 
nitidiore  graciliore  minus  grosse  sculp turato,  antennis  ad  basin  ejus 
ipsissimam  insertis  ;  fronte  convexiore,  oculis  distinete  minoribus  ; 
prothorace  sensim  breviore, ad  latera  subajcpialiter  rotuudato;  piiiic- 
tura  omnino  paulo  la;viorc  ac  dcnsiore  ;  antennis  gracilioribus,  clavii 


306  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

tarsisque  (proesertim  versus  fvpices)  obscurioribus,  horum  articulo 
primo  minus  elongato  quam  in  A.  conicicolli. 
Far.  ft.  Eostro  vix  longiorc  ;  prothorace  angustiore,  magis  cylindrico  ; 
tarsis  omnino  palliclis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^— 1^. 

Habitat  in  Canaria  Grandi,  rarissimus :  "var.  /3  "  ad  TenerifFam 
pertinct. 

This  appears  to  be  a  smaller  insect  than  the  A.  cylindricoUis,  and 
its  punctation  is  both  denser  and  less  coarse ;  its  rostrum  is  rather 
shorter,  narrower,  more  shining  and  less  sculptured,  and  has  the  an- 
tenna} (which  are  somewhat  slenderer)  inserted,  if  anything,  even  still 
more  evidently  into  its  extreme  base ;  its  forehead  is  convexer ;  its 
eyes  smaller ;  and  its  prothorax  is  more  abbreviated  and  less  cylindric 
— being  about  equalhj  rounded  at  cither  side.  Its  colour  is  variable  ; 
nevertheless  its  feet  and  antennal  club  would  seem  perhaps  to  be 
more  evidently  infuscated.  The  normal  state  I  have  observed  hitherto 
only  in  Grand  Canary  (principally  in  the  Barranco  of  Mogan)  ;  but  a 
single  example  captured  at  the  Agua  Mansa  in  TenerifFe  offers  slight 
modifications  in  its  features  (indicated  above),  though,  I  think,  of 
scarcely  sufficient  importance  to  warrant  its  specific  separation  from 
the  Grand-Canarian  ones. 

(Subfam.  APIONIDES.) 

Genus  197.  APION. 
Ilerbst,  Kiif.  vii.  100  (1797). 

§  I.  Antcnnoi  aut  versus  basin  aut  (jxirius') pone  medium  rostri  inserta'. 

486.  Apion  senex,  n.  sp. 
A.  testaceum,  fronte  (angusta),  prothorace  elytrorumque  sutura  ni- 
gr-escentibus,  opacum,  squamis  valde  robustis  albidis  omnino  de- 
pressis  (ncc  piliformibus )  dense  (in  disco  elytrorum  postico  minus 
dense)  tectum  ;  rostro  in  fcemineis  tenuissimo,  tereti,  arcuato,  valde 
pallido,  glabro,  polito,  minutissime  et  parce  punctulato  (fere,  nisi 
oculo  armato,  impunctato)  ;  prothorace  elytrisque  ad  basin  inter  se 
latitudine  subajqualibus,  his  ovato-oblongis,  subpunctato-striatis ; 
pedibus  bre\T.bus,  robustis,  albido-squamosis ;  antennis  gracilibus, 
paUidioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Palmam  ;  mense  Maio  a.d.  1858  specimina  duo  (foeminea) 
in  montibus  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  doprehendi. 

In  its  general  aspect  and  testaceous  hue,  this  little  Apion  seems, 
at  first  sight,  a  good  deal  alUed  to  the  common  European  A.  malvce ; 
nevertheless,  when  closely  inspected,  it  will  be  perceived  to  be  very 
distinct  in  all  its  details.  Thus,  it  is  not  only  smaller  and  narrower 
(the    prothorax,   however,  being    nlativehj  broader— of   about    the 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA.  307 

same  breadth  posteriorly  as  the  base  of  the  elytra),  but  it  is  also  more 
opake,  densely  clothed,  except  on  the  hinder  disc  of  its  elytra,  with 
large,  robust,  snowy- white  scales  (which  moreover  are  flattened,  and 
closely  applied  to  the  surface,  instead  of  being  narrow  and  piliform); 
the  female  rostrum  is  verij  much  slenderer,  brighter,  paler,  and  com- 
paratively unsculptured,  as  well  as  a  little  longer  and  more  arcuated ; 
its  eyes  are  less  widely  separated,  which  causes  the  forehead  to  be 
narrower ;  its  elytra  are  entirely  pale,  except  the  suture ;  its  legs  are 
shorter,  robuster,  and  squamose ;  and  its  antenna)  are  considerably 
slenderer  and  of  a  moi'e  paUid  hue.  The  only  two  specimeiis  which 
I  have  seen  were  captured  by  myself  on  the  mountains  above  S'"  Cruz, 
in  the  island  of  Palraa,  during  May  1858. 

487.  Apion  vernale. 
Attelabus  vernalis,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  ii.  392  (1792). 
Apiou  veruale,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  i.  273  (1833). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  409  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  120  (1857). 

Hahitat  in  Teneriffix  et  Hicrro,  prsesertim  super  folia  Urticcn  rirentis, 
passim. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  occurs  also  (though  sparingly) 
in  Madeira,  appears  to  be  extremely  local  at  the  Canaries.  It  wns 
taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  from  off  nettles,  near  the  Puerto  Oro- 
tava  of  Teneriffe,  during  January  1 858 ;  and  during  the  following 
month,  by  myself,  in  Hierro. 

488.  Apion  delicatulum. 
Apion  delicatulum,  Woll.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  120  (1857). 

Habitat  in  TenerifFa,  Palma  et  Hicrro,  hinc  inde  baud  infrequens. 

The  A.  delicatulum  (which  I  first  detected  in  the  north  of  Madeira, 
during  August  1855)  is  widely  spread,  though  apparently  nowhere 
common,  over  the  Canarian  Group.  I  have  taken  it  near  the  Puerto 
Orotava  and  Souzal,  in  Teneriffe  (in  the  former  of  which  localities  it 
was  also  captured  by  Mr.  Gray) ;  as  well  as  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua 
of  Palma,  and  in  Hierro.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  likewise  met  with  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  It  may  be  known  from  the  A.  vernale  by  its  rather  longer 
and  a  little  more  arcuated  rostrum  (which  is  of  the  same  breadth 
throughout,  and  is  oiot  widened  at  its  extreme  base,  behind  the  inser- 
tion of  the  antennte,  and  which,  moreover,  is  minutely  alutaeeous 
when  viewed  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power,  instead  of  shining 
and  distinctly  punctulatcd);  by  its  elytra  being  a  trifle  more  ovate  (or 
more  expanded  behind  the  middle),  and  less  evidently  subrecurved, 

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308  CAXAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

and  subdivaricated,  at  the  apex  ;  by  its  antennae  being  slenderer,  and 
with  their  funiculus-joints  laxer ;  and  by  its  legs  being  more  infns- 
cated — the  femora  (especially,  however,  the  fonr  hinder  ones)  being 
more  or  less  pieescent  in  the  centre. 

489.  Apion  sagittiferum. 

A.  fnsco-picenm,  subopacnm,  squamis  snbtlavescenti-albidis  adsper- 
sum  ;  rostro  in  foemineis  glabro,  polito,  minutissime  et  parce  pnnc- 
tnlato  ;  prothorace  rugoso-pnnctato  ;  elytris  crenato-striatis,  ma- 
cula seutellari  svibsagittiformi  et  fascia  postmedia  transversa  sub- 
recta,  communibus,  pallido-ornatis  ;  antennis  ad  basin  pcdibusque 
obscure  testaceis,  illis  versus  apicem  femoribus(|ue  (pra?sertim  in 
medio)  plus  minus  picescentioribus. 

Var.  /3.  Pedibus  pallidioribus  (an  A.  German  melius  referenda?). 
\_Ins.  Fuerteventura.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1-g-. 

Apion  sao-ittiferiuu,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  410  (1854). 
-,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  121  (1857). 

Hahitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Lanzarota  sola  adhuc  baud  obser- 
vatum. 

The  A.  sagittiferum,  so  abundant  throughout  the  Madeiran  Group, 
is  almost  equally  common  at  the  Canaries — where,  although  hitherto 
it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  Lanzarote  (the  specimens 
from  that  island,  as  well  as  the  generality  of  those  from  Fuerteventura, 
pertaining  apparently  to  the  A.  Germari),  we  may  be  pretty  certain  it 
is  universal.  In  the  central  and  western  portions  of  the  archipelago 
it  is  common  ;  but  as  it  seems  to  be  less  so  in  Grand  Canary,  and  stiU. 
less  in  Fuerteventura,  it  is  certainly  possible  that  it  maj'  not  occur 
at  all  in  Lanzarote — where  its  place  is  supplied  by  the  A.  Germari 
(if  indeed  the  two  be  really  distinct  from  each  other).  My  Teneriffan 
specimens  are  principally  from  the  mountains  above  S*''  Cruz,  Taga- 
nana,  and  Orotava  ;  in  the  last  of  which  localities,  as  well  as  in  Hierro, 
it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray.  In  Gomera  I  did  not  myself  capture 
it ;  but  it  has  been  taken  there,  lately,  by  Dr.  Crotch  (who  also  met 
with  it  in  Teneriffe  and  Palma). 

490.  Apion  Germari. 

A.  prsecedenti  simile  sed  vix  minus  opacum  squamisque  paiJo  albi- 
dioribus  adspersum  ;  rostro  in  foemineis  vix  latiore  et  paulo  minus 
evidentius  punctulato  ;  elytris  vix  minus  distincte  albido-pictis 
(fascia  postmedia  ssepius  magis  suffiisa  indeterminata) ;  pedibus 
clarioribus,  omnino  pallidis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  li. 

Apion  Germari,  Walton,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  xiii.  456  (1844). 

albopilosuni,  Lucas,  Col.  de  rAlr/erie,  408.  pi.  35.  f.  5  (1849). 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  prajciinie  (nisi  fallor)  super 

folia  Mercurialis  annutr  hine  inde  degens. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  309 

It  is  with  the  greatest  hesitation  that  I  cite  this  Aplon  as  more  than 
a  variety  of  the  A.  scKjittiferum  ;  and  certainly  I  shoukl  not  have 
ventured  to  do  so  had  not  my  attention  been  lately  directed  to  it  by 
Mr.  Haliday,  who  has  captured  examples  in  Italy,  from  off  the  Mer- 
mrialis  annua,  which  he  considers  to  be  conspecific  with  a  pair  from 
Lanzarote  which  I  sent  him  for  comparison,  but  distinct  from  the 
Madeiran  A.  sagittiferum  (which  appears,  also,  to  be  universal,  or 
nearly  so,  throughout  the  Canarian  archipelago).  And  the  difficulty 
of  recognizing  it  as  more  than  a  phasis  of  the  latter  is  not  diminished 
by  the  consideration  that  certain  individuals  from  Fuerteventura  seem 
to  me  (though  perhaps  fallaciously)  to  be  intermediate  between  the 
two.  Still,  it  is  by  no  means  impossible  that  the  species  may  be  truly 
distinct,  although  so  closely  allied  that  they  are  occasionally  difficult 
to  separate, — a  contingency  which  is  rendered  all  the  more  probable 
by  the  fact  that  their  habits  are,  I  believe,  different — the  present  one 
being  attached,  apparently,  to  the  foliage  of  the  Mercurialis  annua, 
whilst  the  A.  sagittiferum  occiu-s  indiscriminately  on  various  plants, 
and  is  extremely  common  (in  Madeira  at  any  rate)  even  amongst  the 
lichens  which  clothe  the  crevices  of  the  weather-beaten  rocks  at  in- 
termediate (and  even  lofty)  elevations.  Backed,  therefore,  by  this 
circumstance,  as  well  as  by  the  high  authority  of  Mr.  Haliday,  I  think 
it  is  not  too  much  to  register  the  two  as  distinct ;  but  (if  such  be  really 
the  case)  it  is  at  least  very  remarkable  that  I  should  have  met  with 
the  A.  sagittiferum  abundantly  in  six  of  the  Canarian  islands,  whilst 
in  the  seventh  it  should  be  represented  by  a  species  which  is  so  nearly 
akin  to  it  as  to  be  but  just  separable.  Be  this,  however,  as  it  may, 
the  Lanzarotan(and  ??ios^,  also,  of  the  Fuerteventuran)  examples  (which 
are  certainly,  according  to  Mr.  Haliday,  conspecific  with  the  Algerian 
albopilosus  of  Lucas,  and  probably  likewise  with  the  ordinary  Euro- 
pean A.  Germari)  dift'er  from  the  normal  ones  of  the  sagittiferum  (found 
throughout  the  remainder  of  the  Group)  in  being  a  trifle  less  opake 
and  clothed  with  rather  whiter  scales ;  in  the  rostrum  of  their  female 
sex  being  (if  anything)  just  perceptibly  broader  and  less  evidently 
punctulated  (being  in  fact  nearly  impunctate);  in  their  elytral  mark- 
ings being  more  suffused,  and  consequently  less  defined  ;  and  in  their 
legs  being  of  a  clearer,  and  altogether  palHd,  hue. 

The  A.  Germari  (if  such  be  its  true  title)  was  taken  both  by  Mr,  Gray 
and  myself  around  Haria  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  during  January 
1858,  and  by  myself,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859,  in  the  Eio  Palmas 
of  Fuerteventura, — I  helieve,  in  all  instances,  from  off  the  common 
Mercurialis  a nnua. 


310  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

491.  Apion  chalybeipenne. 

Apion  chah  beipenne,  Schon.,  ined.  (teste  Bohemati). 

,'Woll.,  Ins.  Mad  413  (1854). 

■ ,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  122  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  TeneriiFa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  passim. 

The  A.  chalijheipenne,  so  well  distinguished  by  its  rather  large  size, 
elliptic  outHne,  and  submetaUic  surface  (especially,  hoAvever,of  the  ely- 
tra), which  is  sparingly  besprinkled  all  over  with  decumbent  cinereous 
piliform  scales,  by  its  somewhat  elongate  deeply  sculptui'ed  rostrum 
(which  has  the  antenna3  inserted  into  it  at  a  considerable  distance 
from  the  base),  its  regularly  punctured  prothorax,  and  its  subarcuated 
anterior  tibia),  is  widely  distributed  over  the  Canarian  archipelago — 
where  indeed  in  all  probabihty  it  will  be  found  to  be  universal.  1 
have  taken  it  near  IS*''  Cruz,  Orotava,  and  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  in 
Teneriffe  ;  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua,  of  Palma  ;  and  in  Hicri'o.  It 
was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Fuerteventura  and  Palma,  and  by  Dr. 
Crotch  in  Teneritfe.  In  the  Madeiran  Group  it  is  miiversal,  occurring 
in  Madeira  proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  on  the  Desertas. 

492.  Apion  calcaratum,  n.  sp. 

A.  subopacum,  nigrum  elytris  obsoletissime  subviolaceis  vel  subajneo- 
metallicis,  pube  minuta  cinerea  demissa  parce  tectum  ;  rostro  elon- 
gate, tereti,  arcuato,  ad  antennarum  insertioncm  paulo  incrassato 
et  una  cum  capite  prothorace(]ue  alutaceo  ;  illo  longitudinaliter 
striguloso  ;  hoc  subcylindrico,  profundc  rugoso-punctato  et  postice 
iu  medio  fovea  impresso  ;  elytris  grosse  crenato-striatis,  utrinque 
juxta  scutellum  in  plaga  minutissima  albido-squamosis  ;  an  tennis 
pedibusque  robustis,  nigris,  parce  cinereo-pubcscentibus  ;  tibiis  an- 
ticis  subarcuatis. 

Mas  tibiis  anticis  e\'identius  curvatis  necnon  ad  angulum  internum  in 
spinam  minutam  acutissimam  productis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|^-l-l^. 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  in  regione  "  El  Golfo  "  sylvatica  repertum. 

This  species  might  perhaps  be  regarded  as  the  representative  in 
these  islands  of  the  common  European  A.  carduorum ;  and  its  habits  I 
believe  are  similar — the  only  four  examples  which  I  have  seen  having 
been  brushed  from  off  thistles,  during  February  1858,  in  the  sylvan 
region  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  Hierro.  It  is  in  fact  about 
the  same  size  as,  and  with  much  the  general  aspect  of,  the  A.  car- 
duorum ;  nevertheless,  when  aceiu-ately  inspected,  it  will  be  seen  to 
be  abundantly  distinct.  Thus,  it  is  more  thickly  clothed  with  a  de- 
cumbent cinereous  pubescence ;  its  elytra  are  a  little  more  ovate, 
more  coarsely  crenate-striated,  and  furnished  on  cither  side  of  the 
scutellum  with  an  exceedingly  minute  dash  of  paler  scales  ;  its  pro- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  311 

thorax  is  somewhat  shorter  and  more  roughly  punctured  ;  its  anterior 
tibiae  have  an  evident  tendency,  particularly  in  the  males,  to  be  sub- 
arcuated,  and  are  also  in  that  sc\v  armed  at  their  inner  apical  angle 
with  an  extremely  diminutive  spine*  ;  and  its  rostrum  is  a  trifle  slen- 
derer, and  is  but  faintly  thickened  at  the  point  where  the  antennoB  are 
inserted  into  it — instead  of  being  (as  in  that  insect)  conspicuously 
tubercled. 

493,  Apion  Westwoodii,  n.  sp. 

A.  nigrum  elytris  teneo-micantibus,  squamis  pallide  flavo-fuscis  ro- 
bustis  demissis  parce  vestitum  ;  rostro  clongato,  lincari,  tereti,  ar- 
cuato,  polito,  parce  punctulato,  ad  basin,  capite  prothoraceque  alu- 
taceis,  hoc  profunde  sod  parce  punctato,  postice  in  medio  linea  tenui 
abbreviata  impresso  ;  elytris  grosse  subcrenato-striatis,  interstitiis 
latis  fere  impunctatis,  utrinque  juxta  scutellum  in  plaga  parva  in- 
distincta  pallido-squamosis ;  antennis  pedibusque  nigris,  flavo- 
fusco-squamosis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canarige  Grandis,  rarissimum, 
I  have  much  pleasure  in  dedicating  this  the  most  distinct  and  beau- 
tiful of  all  the  Canarian  Apions  to  my  friend  Professor  Wcstwood,  of 
Oxford,  whose  long  and  varied  labours  in  the  cause  of  Entomological 
science  have  justly  placed  him  in  the  foremost  rank  of  the  European 
naturalists.  It  may  immediately  be  known  by  the  robust,  brownish- 
yellow  or  dirty  yellowish-white,  decumbent  pilifomi  scales  with  which 
it  is  sparingly  clothed ;  by  its  otherwise  dark  hue,  though  more  or  less 
brassy  and  shining  elytra  (which  have  their  striae  deep  and  coarse, 
though  very  obscurely  crenated) ;  by  its  alutaceous  head  and  pro- 
thorax  (the  latter  of  which  is  also  deeply,  but  not  very  closely,  punc- 
tured) ;  by  its  almost  unsculptured  interstices ;  and  by  its  long,  slen- 
der, linear,  arcuated,  bright,  and  finely  punctulated  rostrum. 

The  A.  Westwoodii  is  peculiar,  so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  to 
the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary — where,  during  the  spring  of  1858, 1 
captured  it  in  the  region  of  El  Monte ;  and  also  (though  more  sparingly) 
on  the  lofty  Pinal  of  Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolomc. 

§  IT.  Antenna}  aut  versus  ant  ante  medium  rostri  insertoi. 

494.  Apion  tubiferum. 
Apion  tubiferum  {Dej.),  Schon.,  Gen.  ct  Spec.  Cure.  i.  284  (1833). 
Habitat  in  Canaria  et  Hierro,  in  montibus,  rarissimum. 

*  This  character  is,  however,  indicated  (though  less  distinctly)  in  the  cardu- 
onim;  as  well  as  in  certain  other  European  species, — as,  for  instance,  in  the  mncum 
and  radiolus,  and  very  obscurely  in  the  male  of  onopordi.  It  likewise  exists  in 
the  chalybeipenne. 


312  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

I  can  detect  no  specific  difference  between  four  examples  of  an 
Apion  now  before  me  and  two  of  the  A.  tnhifcrum,  Schon.,  from 
northern  Africa.  The  Canarian  ones  are  certainly  more  seneous,  and 
the  erect  seta)  with  which  they  are  clothed  are  not  quite  so  white ; 
also  their  prothoracic  punctures  are  a  trifle  less  coarse  and  less  con- 
fluent :  but  none  of  these  are  characters  of  any  real  importance.  The 
only  point  indeed  in  which  the  least  approach  to  a  structural  differ- 
ence seems  to  be  indicated,  is  that  the  rostrum  (of  both  sexes)  may 
possibly  be  a  little  shorter  in  the  Canarian  specimens ;  but  as  the 
entire  individuals  happen  to  be  a  trifle  smaller,  and  even  the  length 
of  the  rostrum  is  subject  to  slight  variations  in  those  species  in  which 
that  organ  is  so  largclj'  developed,  I  do  not  lay  much  stress  upon  this 
fact.  Nevertheless  if  further  material  should  hereafter  prove  the  two 
species  (however  nearly  allied)  to  be  really  distinct,  I  would  in  that 
case  propose  the  name  of  tuhuUferum  for  the  Canarian  one,  in  order 
to  express  its  evident  afSnity  with  the  tuhiferum. 

Of  the  four  Canarian  examples  which  have  as  yet  come  beneath  my 
notice,  three  were  captured  (I  believe,  from  off  a  species  of  Cistus)  in 
the  sylvan  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of  Hierro,  during 
February  1858  ;  and  the  remaining  one,  in  the  following  April,  on  the 
lofty  Pinal  of  Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolome,  in  the  centre  of  Grand 
Canary.     It  would  appear,  consequently,  to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity 

in  these  islands. 

495.  Apion  austrinum,  n.  sp. 

A.  angustum,  nigrum  elytris  obsolctissime  (\-ix  perspicue)  subme- 
tallicis,  subopacum,  squamis  cinereis  de missis  piliformibus  parce 
vestitum  ;  rostro  elongato,  lineari,  tereti,  arcuato,  polito,  minutis- 
sime  et  parce  punctulato  ;  prothorace  parvo,  subcylindi-ico,  punc- 
tate, fovea  centrali  antice  evanescente  canaliculato ;  elytris  ellip- 
ticis  (postice  acutiuscuUs),  leviter  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis  gra- 
cilibus,  ad  basin  rufescentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  Ij. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  Dom.  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  captum. 

The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  of  this  insignificant  little 
Apion  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in 
Gomera.  In  its  small  size,  and  narrow,  elliptic  outHne,  it  has  much 
the  appearance  of  the  common  European  A.  scniadus  ;  it  is,  however, 
rather  more  ovate  (or  less  strictly  elliptic)  and  less  clothed  with 
cinereous  pubescence,  its  rostrum  is  apparently  a  little  shorter  and 
brighter  (or  less  ahitaccous),  and  its  prothorax  is  a  trifle  more  cy- 
lindric.  The  position  of  its  antennae  (at  any  rate  in  the  sex  before 
me)  is  suffioiently  equivocal  to  render  it  doubtful  to  which  of  my 
two  Sections   it  should  be  referred — being  implanted  distinctly  1)e- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  313 

hind  the  middle  of  the  rostrum.     I  think,  however,  it  is  perhaps 
better  phiced  in  this  situation  than  elsewhere. 

496.  Apion  fallax,  n.  sp. 

A.  elongato-ovatum,  subopacum,  nigrum  elytris  plus  minus  obscure 
subteneo-viridi-micantibus,  ubiquc  subtilissime  alutaceum  et  pubc 
minuta  cinerca  demissa  parce  vestitum ;  rostro  elongate,  lineari, 
tcreti,  dense  punctate  ;  capite  prothoracoque  profunde  et  dense 
punctatis,  hoc  conico,  postice  in  medio  fovea  punctiformi  impresso  ; 
elytris  subdepressis,  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  parce  et  subtilis- 
sime punctulatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  robustis,  nigris. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Hah i tat  in  Lanzarota,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  sat 
frequens. 

Apparently  the  representative  in  these  islands  of  the  common  Eu- 
ropean A.  violaceum.  It  is,  however,  on  the  average,  larger  than 
that  insect ;  and  the  colour  of  its  elytra  is  never  cyaneous-blue,  but 
of  a  more  or  less  obscure  brassy-green  ;  its  rostrum  is  rather  longer, 
and,  together  with  the  head  and  prothorax,  more  thickly,  though 
somewhat  more  finely,  punctured  ;  its  prothorax  is  more  conical,  or 
less  rounded  at  the  sides  ;  and  its  elytra  are  a  trifle  more  depressed, 
and  with  their  strise  much  less  coarsely  crenated.  In  its  general 
prima  facie  aspect  it  is  perhaps  closer  still  to  the  (nearly  allied)  A. 
hydrolapathi;  nevertheless  its  longer  rostrum  and  somewhat  robuster 
limbs,  in  conjunction  with  its  entire  freedom  from  a  prothoracic 
channel  (which,  as  in  the  violaceum,  is  replaced  by  a  small  central 
punctiform  fovea)  and  its  more  flattened,  difierently  coloured  elytra, 
the  interstices  of  which  (though  minutely  so)  are  more  evidently 
punctulated,  will  sufficiently  distinguish  it  from  that  species  also. 

The  A.  falhuv  is  probably  universal  throughout  the  archipelago, 
though  as  yet  it  has  been  observed  only  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary, 
Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro.  My  Grand-Canarian  examples  are 
principally  from  the  region  of  El  Monte ;  the  Tenerifian  ones  from 
the  vicinity  of  S*""  Cruz,  Souzal,  and  Orotava  ;  and  the  Hierro  ones 
from  the  hills  to  the  westward  of  Valverde.  In  Teneriffe  it  was 
taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch,  the  former  of  whom  captured 
it  likewise  in  Palma. 

497.  Apion  rotundipenne. 

Anion  rotundipenne,  WoU.,Ins.  Mad.  415.  tab.  viii.  f.  G  (1854). 
— . ,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  122  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Tcnerifta,  Palma  et  Hierro,  praoscrtim  in  cultis 

vulgaris. 


314  CANARIAN  COLEOPXKRA. 

This  Apion,  which  is  most  ;ibunclant,  and  universal,  in  the  Ma- 
cleiran  Group  (occurring  iu  Madeira  proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  on  the 
Desertas),  is  equally  common  at  the  Canaries — where,  although  it 
does  not  happen  as  yet  to  have  been  observed  in  Gomera,  it  is 
doubtless  universal  throughout  the  central  and  western  portions  of 
the  archipelago.  Whether,  however,  it  exists  in  the  two  eastern 
islands,  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  is  perhaps  questionable,  as  I 
have  myself  collected  with  great  assiduity  in  both  of  them  and  have 
not  detected  it.  But  in  Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  Palma,  and  Hierro 
I  have  met  with  it  in  profusion — chiefly  in  semicultivated  spots  of 
intermediate  elevations.  My  Teneriffan  examples  are  principally 
from  the  vicinity  of  S*''  Cruz,  Taganana,  Las  Mercedes,  the  Agua 
Garcia,  and  Orotava ;  and  the  Palman  ones  from  the  Barranco  da 
Agua.  In  TenerifFe  it  was  found  also  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  in  Palma 
and  Hierro  by  Mr,  Gray.  Its  anteriorly  acute  and  posteriorly 
rounded  outline,  in  conjunction  with  its  small  and  narrow  prothorax, 
dark  hue  but  more  or  less  metallic  elytra  (which  are  exceedingly 
convex,  and  have  their  stria?  very  coarsely  crenate),  and  its  slender 
rostrum  and  limbs,  will  at  once  distinguish  it  from  the  other  species 
here  enumerated. 

498.  Apion  ceuthorhynchoides,  n.  sp. 
A.  curtulum,  nigrum  elytris  obsoletissime  subcyanescentibus,  squamis 
cinereis  demissis  piUformibus  parce  vestitum  ;  rostro  bre\dusculo, 
crassiusculo,  lineari,  tereti,  arcuato,  parce  punctidato ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  alutaceis,  illo  inter  oculos  magnos  longitudinaliter  stri- 
guloso,  hoc  brevi  transverse  convexo  punctato  foveaque  centrali 
antiee  evanescente  canahculato  ;  elytris  nitidioribus,  convexis,  sub- 
quadrato-oblongis,  punctato-striatis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  Dom.  Gray  prope  Portum  Orotavse  Januario 
A.D.  1858  semel  repertum. 

Like  the  A.  austrinum,  this  little  Ap'ioti  is  hitherto  unique, — a 
single  example,  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  near  the  Puerto  Orotava,  in 
the  winter  of  1858,  being  the  only  one  which  has  as  yet  come  be- 
neath my  notice.  It  may,  however,  be  easily  known  from  the  other 
species  here  enumerated  by  its  smaU  size  and  thickish  form,  by  its 
abbreviated  and  ventricose  prothorax,  convex,  more  shining,  and  ob- 
soletely  subcyaneous  elytra  (which  are  of  a  rather  elongate -quadrate 
outline,  and  a  good  deal  obliquely-truncated  at  the  shoulders),  and 
by  its  somewhat  short  and  thick  (though  linear)  rostrum.  Altogether 
it  is  a  little  suggestive  prima  facie  of  a  minute,  dark,  elongate  Ceu- 
thorhynclius  ( particulai-ly  of  those  species  allied  to  the  common  Eu- 


CANABIAN  COLEOPTERA.  315 

ropean  C.  contmctas) — a  circumstance  wliich  has  suggested  its  trivial 

name. 

499.  Apion  umbrinum,  n.  sp. 

A.  nigro-plumbeum,  subopacum,  squumis  cinereis  demissis  piliformi- 
bus  parce  vestitum  ;  rostro  elongate,  lineari,  tereti,  arcuate,  leviter 
punctulato  ;  capite  prothoraceque  alutaceis,  rugose  punctatis,  illo 
in  fronte  longitudinaliter  strigoso,  hoc  subconico  tenuiter  canali- 
culate ;  elytris  crenato-striatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  gracilibus, 
illis  ad  basin  ipsissimam  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  lg-l|- 

Habitat  Canariam,  TenerifFam  et  Palmam,  in  sylvaticis  subsylvati- 
cisque  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

A  species  somewhat  resembling  the  common  European  A.  ononis, 
but  rather  larger  and  more  pubescent,  with  the  prothorax  a  little 
more  closely  and  coarsely  punctured,  ^vith  the  elytra  wider  at  the 
shoulders,  and  with  the  limbs  longer.  This  last  character  is  parti- 
cularly evident  as  regards  the  feet,  the  basal  joint  of  which  is  very 
perceptibly  more  elongated.  It  appears  to  be  a  common  insect 
throughout  the  sylvan  and  subsylvan  regions  of  Grand  Canary,  Te- 
neriffe,  and  Palma,  occurring  amongst  thick  vegetation  in  shady  spots. 
My  Grand-Canarian  specimens  are  principally  from  the  district  of 
El  Monte ;  and  the  Teneriflfan  ones  from  Las  Mercedes,  Souzal,  and 
the  Agua  Garcia.     In  Teneriife  it  was  taken  also  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

500.  Apion  longipes,  n.  sp. 

A.  plumbeum  elytris  magis  cterulescentibus,  squamis  cinereis  demissis 
piliformibus  dense  vestitum ;  rostro  in  fcemineis  elongate,  lineari, 
gracili,  subnitido,  impunctato ;  capite  prothoraceque  alutaceis,  illo 
in  fronte  grosse  longitudinaliter  strigoso,  hoc  rugose  punctate  et 
postice  canaliculate ;  elytris  crenato-striatis ;  pedibus  (prsesertim 
in  sexu  masculo)  elongatis. 

Mas  antennis  sajpius  fere  ad  clavam  (minus  abruptam)  rufo-testaceis  ; 
tibiis  anticis  robustis,  subbicurvatis. 

Fcem.  antennis  ad  basin  solam  rufo-testaceis  (clava  abruptiore) ; 
tibiis  anticis  gracilioribus,  rectis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Ohs. — Species  A.  voraci  valde  affinis,  sed  paulo  major  pubescentior, 
pedibus  omnino  longioribus,  tarsorum  articuio  primo  sensim  lon- 
giore. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  subsj-lvaticisque  Teneriffa3  et  Palm»,  sat  vul- 
garis :  in  hac,  a  DD.  Gray  et  W.  D.  Crotch  parce  repertum,  niihi  non 
obviiim. 

The  present  large  Apion  is  so  closely  allied  to  the  common  Euro- 
pean A.  vorax,  that  I  feel  doubtful  whether  it  should  be  treated  as 
more  than  a  shghtly  altered  state  (brought  about  perhaps  by  local 
influences)  of  that  insect.     It  seems  to-  possess  all  the  distinctive 


31  <j  CANARIA>'   COLEOPiERA. 

features  of  the  A.  vorax,  only  exuygemted ;  and  mainly  differs  from 
it  in  being  a  little  larg-er  and  more  pubescent,  and  in  having  its  legs 
still  longer.  This  last  peculiarity  is  very  evident  as  regards  the 
tarsi,  the  basal  joint  of  which  is  very  perceptibly  more  lengthened. 
It  appears  to  be  an  abundant  species  in  the  intermediate  districts  of 
Teneriffc,  occurring  in  sylvan  and  sabsylvan  spots :  thus,  I  have 
taken  it  commonly  at  Taganana,  Souzal,  and  the  Agua  Garcia.  A 
single  example  was  also  captm-ed  by  Dr.  Crotch ;  and  several  more, 
during  February  1858,  by  Mr.  Gray,  in  the  island  of  Palma. 

(Subfam.  ERIKHIXIDES.) 

Genus  198.  SMICRONYX. 
Schonherr,  Geti.  et  Sjwc.  Cure.  iii.  423  [script.  Micronyx']  (1836). 
The  genus  Smicronyx  possesses  most  of  the  characters  of  Tycliius  ; 
nevertheless  its  more  sunken  eyes  and  its  basally  approximated  claws 
(those  of  the  latter  being  distant,  and  furnished  with  a  small  appen- 
dage between  them)  will,  apart  from  minor  features,  usually  suffice 
to  separate  it  therefrom.  The  species  are,  on  the  average,  still  smaller 
than  the  Tychii ;  their  surfaces  are  more  or  less  sparingly  variegated 
with  scales ;  their  rostrum  is  long,  filiform,  arcuated,  and  slender  ; 
the  punctation  of  their  prothorax,  instead  of  being  deej)  and  dense, 
is  shallow  and  remote  (the  punctiu'es  moreover  being  of  a  rather  pe- 
culiar kind,  and  often  merging  anteriorly  into  very  minute  granules) ; 
their  clytral  striiie  are  (at  any  rate,  I  believe,  in  most  instances)  al- 
most simple,  or  unerenulated  ;  the  joints  of  their  funiculus  are  more 
closely  compacted  together ;  and  the  extreme  apices  of  their  tibia) 
have  the  outer  angle  more  prominent  and  spinulose,  and  the  inner 
one  also  generally  somewhat  more  powerfully  armed  with  a  small 
horizontally-directed  spine. 

501.  Smicronyx  albosquamosus. 

S.  niger,  squamis  maximis  latis  albidis  et  dilute  albidis  dense  tectus  ; 

prothorace  angustulo,  le\-iter  punctulato ;    elytris  subparallehs, 

striatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  concoloribus,  squamosis. 
Var.  fi.  vicinus.  Multo  parcius  squamosus  (squamis  albidioribus  prae- 

sertim  perpaucis) ;  prothorace  alutaeeo  sed  paulo  remotius  levius- 

que  punctato. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Tychius  albosquamosus,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  345  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  Ill  (1857). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  sylva  "  Agua  Garcia  "  semel  tan  turn  lectus  : 
varietatis  /3  specimina  duo  (sc.  prope  Orotavam  Tcneriffie  necnon  in 
ins.  Hierro,  inter  mare  ct  oppidum  Yalverde)  cepi. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTETt.V.  317 

A  single  specimen  of  this  insect,  captured  (dead)  from  beneath  a 
stone,  in  the  wood  of  the  Agua  Garcia  of  TenerifFe,  during  March 
1858,  seems  to  agree  preciselywith  the  unique  example  of  my  "  Tij- 
chius  alhosqnamosiis  "  which  I  found  (likewise  dead,  and  under  a 
stone),  in  May  1850,  on  the  Dcserta  Grande  of  the  Madeiran  Group. 
At  least,  after  a  very  accurate  comparison,  I  cannot  detect  a  real 
difference  between  the  two  ;  and  I  have  therefore  regarded  them  as 
identical.  The  S.  alho^quamosns  recedes  from  the  paupcrcuivs  in 
being  a  little  larger  and  more  parallel ;  in  the  colour,  both  of  its 
body  and  limbs,  being  (when  denuded  of  the  scales)  completely  black  ; 
in  its  prothorax  being  a  trifle  more  sparingly  and  less  roughly  punc- 
tured ;  and  in  its  scales  being  not  only  very  much  larger,  wider,  and 
more  robust,  but  likewise  of  a  more  chalky  white  (though  apparentlj^ 
with  brownish  ones  intermixed). 

The  examples,  four  in  number,  which  in  the  above  diagnosis  I 
have  treated  as  the  "  var.  fl  "  may  possibly  prove  to  be  specifically 
distinct  from  their  supposed  type.  Two  of  them  were  taken  by  Mr. 
Gray  near  Orotava  in  Teneriffe,  another  was  captured  by  myself  in 
the  same  locality,  and  the  remaining  one  I  met  with  (on  tlie  11th  of 
February  1858)  on  the  ascent  from  Port  Hierro  to  Yalverde,  in  the 
island  of  Hierro.  They  differ  in  being  very  much  less  densely  squa- 
mose  (the  paler  scales,  more  particularly,  being  few  in  number),  and 
in  their  prothorax  being  a  little  more  sparingly  and  finely  punctured. 
Still,  in  the  absence  of  further  material  (both  of  them  and  of  their 
supposed  type)  to  judge  from,  I  think  it  would  scarcely  be  safe  to 
consider  them  as  more  than  a  variety  of  the  albosquamosus. 

502.  Smicronyx  pauperculus,  n.  sp. 
5^.  niger,  squamis  elongatis  dilute  albidis  et  fuscis  parce  nebulosus ; 
prothorace  angusto,  sat  dense  ruguloso-punctato  ;  elytris  fuscescen- 
tibus,  striatis  ;  femoribus  tibiisque  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp. 
Hn.  I-H. 

Habitat  in  Cauaria  et  Teneriffa,  in  locis  infcrioribus  et  intermediis, 
passim. 

This  insect,  which  seems  to  be  one  of  the  most  minute  of  the  Cana- 
rian  CurcuUonidce,  will  probably  be  found  to  be  universal,  tlu'oughout 
at  all  events  the  central  and  western  islands  of  the  archipelago. 
Hitherto,  however,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Grand  Canary  and 
Teneriffe, — namely  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  and  at  Teror  of  the 
former,  and  about  S'*  Cruz  and  Orotava  of  the  latter.  It  is  appa- 
rently, on  the  average,  a  little  smaller  than  the  S.  albosquamosus,  its 


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CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 


elytra  are  not  quite  so  parallel  at  the  sides,  its  colour  is  less  black 
(the  elytra  being  more  or  less  fusccscent,  and  the  femora  and  tibia} 
pale  rufo-ferruginous),  its  prothorax  is  somewhat  more  roughly  and 
closely  punctured,  its  entire  surface  is  much  more  sparingly  clothed 
with  scales,  though  proportionally  perhaps  a  trifle  more  variegated, 
and  the  scales  themselves,  in  which  the  brown  ones  preponderate, 
will  be  seen  (when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope)  to  be  narrower 
and  less  robust. 

Genus  199.  PROCAS. 
Stephens,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  90  (IS-Sl). 

503.  Procas  Steveni. 

Curculio  picipes?,  3Islim,  Ent.  Brit.  272  (1802). 
Procas  picipes  ?,  Steph.,  111.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  91  (18.31). 
Erirhinus  Steveni,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iii.  287  (183G). 
Procas  Steveni,  Schon.,  Id.  vi.  387  (1842). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura  et  Palma,  rarissimus. 

Although  widely  distributed  over  the  Group,  the  present  insect 
appears  to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity  in  these  islands,  the  only  two 
Canarian  examples  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  in  Palma 
and  Fuerteventura  respectively, — one  by  the  Rev,  E..  T.  Lowe,  at 
the  end  of  May  1858,  high  up  in  the  Barranco  de  Nogales,  near  the 
village  of  Galga,  in  the  former  ;  and  the  other  by  myself,  on  the  31st 
of  the  following  March,  at  Oliva,  in  the  latter.  It  seems  probable 
that  the  P.  Steveni  is  not  specifically  distinct  from  'Marsham^s  2^ icipcs 
(which  of  course  is  the  prior  name) ;  nevertheless,  since  the  former 
is  at  any  rate  the  title  imder  which  the  individuals  from  southerii 
Europe  are  usually  quoted,  I  have  thought  it  safer,  in  the  absence 
of  further  material  for  a  more  critical  examination,  to  cite  it  accord- 
ingly. 

(Subfam.  CLEONIDES.) 

Genus  200,  LIXUS, 
Fabricius,  Si/st.  Ent.  ii.  498  (1775). 

504.  Lixus  anguinns, 

Lixus  anguimis,  Linn.,  Si/st.  Kat.  i.  ii.  010  (17G7). 

,  SeJio/i.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iii.  11  (1836). 

,  Bru/le,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  72  (1838). 

Hahitat  in  Canaria  et  Teiieriffa,  rarissimus. 

The  only  two  Canarian  examples  which  I  have  seen  of  the  present 
Li.viis  are  not  very  typical  of  the  anguimis  (of  southei-n  Europe  and 
northern  Africa),  being  not  only  smaller  than  specimens  (from  Sicily 
and  Algeria)  now  before  me.  but  having  likewise  the  produced  apices 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  319 

of  their  elytra  less  divergent  (indeed  almost  straight)  and  their  pro- 
thorax  rather  more  densely  variolose.  Still,  in  every  other  respect, 
particularly  coloration,  they  agree  with  the  anguimis ;  and  I  do  not 
think  therefore  that  it  would  be  safe  to  treat  them  as  more  than 
small  varieties  of  that  insect.  And  moreover,  as  M.  Brulle  registers 
the  species  as  Canarian,  it  is  at  least  possible  that  Messrs.  Webb  and 
Bcrthelot's  examples  were  more  normal  in  their  characters  ;  or,  at 
any  rate,  the  fact  of  its  having  been  thus  recorded  gives  an  additional 
prohahility  to  the  correctness  of  my  determination,  and  likewise  (apart 
from  this)  an  additional  reason  for  the  desirabDity  of  admitting  the 
species,  even  independently  of  my  own  specimens,  into  this  Catalogue. 
My  own  belief,  however,  is  that  the  latter  are  truly  referable  to  the 
anguimis,  and  that  the  slight  peculiarities  which  they  present  indi- 
cate no  more,  at  the  utmost,  than  a  mere  geographical  variety.  One 
of  these  examples  I  captured  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary,  and  the 
other  near  S'"  Cruz  in  Teneriffe. 

505.  Lixus  anguiculus. 

Lixus  anguicidus  et  liiieatus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  iii.  11, 12  (1830). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  a  Barone  "  Castello  de  Paiva "  nupcr 
connnunicatus. 

Of  this  Lixus  also  I  have  seen  as  yet  but  two  Canarian  examples, 
both  of  which  have  lately  been  communicated  from  Fuertevcntura 
by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  Although  not  in  a  very  satisfac- 
tory state  of  preservation,  I  can  detect  no  traces  whatever  of  paler 
lines  down  the  disc  of  their  elytra  (though  there  is  a  broad  and  con- 
spicuous one  along  either  side),  whilst  their  other  differences  from 
the  anguhms,  such  as  they  are,  accord  so  weU  with  the  diagnosis  of 
the  (Grecian  and  Egyptian)  anguiculus  that  I  have  little  hesita- 
tion in  referring  them  to  that  species.  Apart  from  their  want  of 
elytral  lines,  their  rostrum  is  just  perceptibly  more  shining  and  eon- 
vex  than  is  the  case  in  the  anguinus,  their  j)rothoracic  keel  is  a  trifle 
more  evident,  and  the  acuminated  apices  of  their  elytra  are  straighter, 
or  less  divergent.  They  are  also  perhaps  a  little  narrower,  though 
I  think  scarcely  shorter  ;  in  which  latter  respect,  consequently,  they 
do  not  accord  precisely  with  the  published  diagnosis  of  the  anguiculus. 

506.  Lixus  Chawneri. 

Lixus  Chawneri,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  350  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  112  (1857). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Martio  exeunte  a.d.  1859  ad  Olivam 
captus. 


320  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

A  single  example  only  of  this  insect  has  hitherto  come  beneath  my 
observation  in  these  islands.  It  was  captnrcd  by  myself,  on  the  31st 
of  March  1859,  at  Oliva  in  Fuerteventnra,  and  seems  to  differ  in  no 
respect  from  the  Madeiran  specimens. 

507.  Lixus  guttiventris. 
Lixus  guttiventris  {Germ. ),  Schm.,  Gen.  ef  Spec.  Cure.  vii.  4G9  (1843). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventnra,  pra?sertini  ad  folia  ^rmicZ*'- 
nis  tJonacis,  rarior. 

I  am  informed  by  M.  Jekel,  who  examined  carefully  one  of  my 
Fuerteventuran  specimens  of  this  Lixus,  that  he  believes  it  to  be 
correctly  referred  to  the  guttiventris  of  Schonherr — a  species  which 
occurs  in  Sicily  and  the  north  of  Africa ;  and  it  seems  to  accord 
sufficiently  well  with  the  diagnosis  to  leave  little  doubt  in  my  own 
mind  on  the  subject.  Its  comparatively  thick  and  cyhndric  body 
(the  elytra  being  conjointly  rounded,  or  obtuse,  at  their  apex),  com- 
bined with  its  rufo-ferrugiuous  antennaj  and  feet,  its  very  evenh/ 
punctured  striae,  and  the  fact  of  its  upper  surface  being  vniformh/ 
clothed  with  a  minute  cinereous  pubescence  and  frequently  with  a 
yellowish  poUinosity,  there  being  no  lateral  band  of  whiter  scales, 
wiU  sei"ve  to  distinguish  it.  It  appears  to  be  exceedingly  rare,  and 
confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventnra,— in  the  former  of  which  I  captured  a  specimen  between 
Haria  and  Magui,  during  January  1858  ;  whilst,  in  the  latter,  I 
brushed  four  more  from  off  some  plants  of  the  Anmdo  dona.v,  in  the 
Rio  Palmas,  early  in  April  of  the  following  year*. 

Genus  201.  BOTHYNODERES. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  iJisp.  Meth.  147  (182G). 

508.  Bothynoderes  Jekelii. 
B.  cylindricus,  niger,  minutissime  cinereo-squamulosus ;  rostro  tri- 

*  I  should  add  that  M.  Brulle  includes  the  Lixus  anyusfatus  in  his  list,  com- 
piled for  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  volimie.  It  is  far  from  impossible  that 
it  may  occur  at  the  Canaries  ;  nevertheless  I  cannot  admit  it  into  the  present 
Catalogue,  seeing  that  it  is  common  in  Madeira,  and  that  I  have  (as  already 
stated)  the  most  conclusive  evidence  of  Mr.  Webb's  having  mixed  ii]i  his  Ma- 
deiran and  Canarian  material  in  the  most  inaccurate  manner.  I  feel,  therefore, 
that  it  is  exceedingly  probable  tliat  the  example  (or  examples)  on  wliich  its  ad- 
mission into  the  faima  rests  was  in  reality  brought  by  Mr.  Webb  from  Madeira 
— a  supposition  wiiich  is  rendered  the  more  reasonable  when  we  consider  that 
his  excessively  meagre  collection  (nominally  Canarian)  contained  so  many  species 
(such  as  the  Scarifcs  ahhrrviafus  and  the  Harjxili/s  consentancu.><).  all  of  them 
abundant  in  Madeira,  but  which  do  not  exist  either  amongst  my  own  enormous 
amount  of  specimens  amassed  in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  the  archipelago,  or  in 
the  various  sma'ler  collections  formed  by  others,  which  have  been  communicated 
to  me. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  321 

angulari,  densius  albido-squamoso  sed  ad  apicem  niido  polito,  te- 
nuiter  carinato ;  prothorace  seqiiali,  apice  bisinnato,  miniitissime 
punctixlato  puncttsque  majoribiis  parcius  adsperso,  ad  latora  (sub- 
recta)  paulo  densius  pallidiore  ;  elytris  striato-punctatis,  squamulis 
in  interstitiis  lineas  obscuras  necuon  etiam  in  stria  suturali  linea 
interrupta  efficieutibus,  ntroqne  ad  apicem  minute  divaricato  nee- 
non  longe  ante  apicem  macula  parva  media  ornato  ;  antennis  basi 
rufo-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-5|. 

Cleonus  Jekelii,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  ix.  441  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  in  aridis  infe- 
rioribus  sub  lapidibus  degens. 

In  its  short,  conical  rostrum  and  the  elongate  second  joint  of  its 
funiculus  this  insect  belongs  to  Schonherr's  subgenus  Bothynoderes 
(recently  elevated  to  a  genus  by  Lacordaire),  of  which  the  European 
Cleonus  h'evirostris  is  the  type.  I  have  named  it  after  M.  Jekel,  who 
informs  me  that  it  is  unquestionably  new, — differing,  inter  alia,  fi'om 
its  cognate  species  "  in  having  its  rostrum  more  deeply  emarginated 
at  the  tip,  so  as  to  expose  a  larger  portion  of  the  mandibles."  It 
occurs  for  the  most  part  in  low  and  sandy  positions,  particularly  near 
the  coast, — under  which  circumstances  I  have  taken  it,  in  profusion, 
in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  ;  as  also,  though  more  rarely,  at  San 
Juan,  in  the  south-east  of  Grand  Canary.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  found 
likewise  by  Mr,  Gray  and  M.  Hartung ;  and  from  Fuerteventura  it 
has  been  obtained  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

The  B.  Jel-eUi  is  at  once  remarkable  for  its  cylindrical  outline,  and 
for  its  surface  being  sparingly  clothed  with  excessively  minute  cine- 
reous scales,  or  pubescence ;  by  its'  prothorax  being  subcylindrical 
and  almost  even,  though  densely  sculptured  with  a  double  system  of 
small  and  larger  punctures,  and  considerably  bisinuated  along  the 
anterior  edge  ;  and  by  its  elytra  (which  are  but  very  minutely  diva- 
ricated at  their  apex)  having  the  delicate  pubescence  of  their  inter- 
stices obscurely  condensed  into  dull  longitudinal  lines,  whilst  even 
the  stria  of  each  next  to  the  suture  is  likewise  squamose,  but  at  the 
same  time  interrupted  by  the  punctures  so  as  to  form  (in  unrubbed 
specimens)  a  broken-up  line. 

Genus  202.  CLEONUS. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  145  (1826). 

509.  Cleonus  Armitagii,  n.  sp. 

C.  cylindrico-fusiforrais,  niger,  subnitidus,  parcissime  albido-squa- 
moso-pictus ;  rostro  cylindrico,  subarcuato,  minute  punctulato, 
postice  utrinque  longitudinaliter  impresso ;  prothorace  subtequali 


322  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

(utrinque  leviter  impresso  necnon  apice  in  medio  fovea  parva,  ante 
carinulam  tenuissimam  brevissimam  posita,  notato),  scabroso-rti- 
guloso  (vix  piinctulato)  et  tuberculis  magnis  parcissime  adsperso, 
albido  trUincato  (linea  media  tenuiore,  recta),  per  basin  bisiuuato  ; 
elytris  convexis  (versus  scutelliim  depressioribus),  le\iter  punctato- 
■  striatis  et  tiiberciilis  magnis  irregularibus  remotis  (prsesertim  antice 
necnon  in  limbo)  asperatis,  singulis  (ad  apicem  \'ix  prodiictis) 
fasciis  4  valde  obKqnis  albidis  (longe  ante  suturam  terminatis)  or- 
natis ;  antennis  (sensim  pone  apicem  rostri  insertis)  basi  jiiceis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  7. 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  mihi  non  obvius  :  specimen  unicum  tempore 
vernali  a.d.  1848  cepit  Rev''"'  Dom.  W.  J.  Armitage,  cnjus  in  memo- 
riam  (heu  !  deflendam)  nomen  trivialc  proposui. 

The  unique  example  from  wliich  the  above  diagnosis  has  been 
compiled  was  captured  in  TenerifFe  during  the  spring  of  1848  by  my 
lamented  friend  and  associate,  the  late  Rev.  W.  J.  Armitage,  the  spe- 
cies having  altogether  escaped  my  own  observation  in  these  islands. 
Its  general  appearance  is  almost  as  much  that  of  a  LLvus  as  of  a 
Cleomis,  so  that  it  is  not  entirely  evident  to  which  group  it  should  be 
assigned*.  It  may  easily  be  lyiown  from  the  other  Canarian  CJeoni, 
as  yet  detected,  by  its  cylindric-fusiform  outline ;  and  by  its  dark 
and  rather  shining  surface  being  roughened  ^^dth  large,  remote  tuber- 
cles (some  of  which  are  transversely  subconfluent,  so  as  to  iorva.  plicai 
on  the  anterior  portion  of  the  elytra)  and  sparingly  ornamented  with 
white  scales.  These  last  arc  condensed  on  the  prothorax  into  three 
lines  (the  central  one  of  which  is  straight  and  narrow,  whilst  the 
lateral  ones  are  broad  and  irregular),  and  down  the  disc  of  each  of 
the  elytra  into  four  very  oblique  fasciae  (which  are  greatly  abbrevi- 
ated both  towards  the  suture  and  margin).  Its  antennoe  are  inserted 
somewhat  further  from  the  apex  of  its  (cyHndrical,  subarcuated, 
miinitely  punctured,  and  on  either  side  longitudinally-impressed) 
rostrum  than  is  usual  with  the  true  Cleoni ;  its  prothorax  is  compa- 

*  Of  the  close  affinity  of  these  two  genera,  although  widely  separated  in  Sclion- 
herr's  most  unnatural  system,  there  cannot  be  the  smallest  doubt ;  and  it  is  there- 
fore satisfactory  to  find  that  Lacordaire  has  recently,  in  his  admirable  volume, 
placed  tliem  in  juxtaposition.  Indeed  M.  Jekel,  who  examined  the  present  insect 
for  me  very  critically,  returned  it  witli  the  following  observation :  "As  a  Cleonus 
nothing  to  my  knowledge  aiaisroaches  it ;  but  it  is  allied  to  some  Lixi  from  con- 
tinental Africa  (from  Senegal  down  to  the  Cape  of  G-ood  Hope)  in  which  the  ros- 
trum is  short.  It  seems  to  me  that  nobody  has  yet  been  able  to  trace  out  a  real 
line  of  demarcation  between  Lixu»  and  Clcomis ;  and  the  transposition  of  many  of 
the  species,  even  by  Schonherr  himself,  proves  how  difficult  it  is  to  do  so,  and  how 
much  the  group  requires  revision.  After  a  close  inspection  of  the  example  which 
you  have  sent  me,  I  have  been  much  struck  with  its  Lixus-Ukc  appearance ;  and 
(if  a  Lixus  at  all)  I  would  place  it  near  to  the  L.  vefiila,  Fab.,  and  other  cognate 
forms." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  323 

ratively  even  (being  but  slightly  impressed  on  either  side,  and  with 
a  small  shallow  fovea  down  the  centre  in  front — immediately  behind 
which  there  is  a  very  minute,  abbreviated,  and  slender  discal  keel)  ; 
and  its  elytra,  which  are  but  finely  punctate-striate,  are  hardly  at 
all  produced  (separately)  at  their  extreme  apices. 

The  C.  Armitagii  may  be  presumed  to  be  extremely  rare ;  and  it 
is,  therefore,  the  more  remarkable  that  it  should  have  been  acciden- 
tally met  with  by  Mr.  Armitage  during  his  few  days'  sojourn  in 
Tenerifl^e. 

510.  Cleonus  variolosus,  n.  sp. 

C.  tahido  et  excoriato  affinis,  sed  magis  cylindricus,  rostro  minus  alte 
carinato  ;  prothorace  longiore,  subcylindrico,  magis  aequali  sed 
profunde  varioloso-punctato  (variolis  maximis,  remotis,  plus  minus 
subconfluentibus),  basi  in  medio  multo  minus  ante  scutellum  pro- 
ducto  (fere  simplieiter  rotundato)  ;  elytris  subcylindricis,  seriatim 
(vix  striato-)  punctatis  (punctis  maximis)  sed  fcro  absque  lacunis, 
ftisciis  duabus  brevibus  transversis  nigris  minus  oblique  atquc  hand 
conicis  ornatis,  ante  apicem  minus  constrictis  necnon  act  apicem 
ipsum  singulatim  obtusioribus  (?'.  e.  singulis  minus  acuminatis)  ; 
pedibus  sensim  robustioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5-6. 

Habitat  in  arenosis  inferioribus  Fuerteventurae,  rarissimus :  etiam 
in  insula  parva  "  Lobos  "  dicta  exemplar  unicum  collegi. 

Of  the  present  Cleonus  I  have  seen  but  two  examples, — one  of 
which  was  taken  by  myself  in  a  low  sandy  spot  close  to  Puerto  de 
Cabras  in  Fuerteventura,  and  the  other  on  the  little  rock  of  Lobos  off 
the  extreme  north  of  that  island.  It  is  allied  to  the  C.  tahklus  and 
e.vcoi'iatiis*,  but  is  more  cylindrical,  with  its  prothorax  longer  and 
less  uneven  (though  more  deeply  pitted  with  enormous,  but  remote, 
punctures  or  varioles),  and  very  much  less  produced  in  the  centre 
behind,  and  with  its  elytra  (which  are  obtuser,  or  less  constricted, 
posteriorly,  and  very  much  less  separately-acuminated  at  their  ex- 
treme apices)  more  coarsely  punctured  though  less  deeply  striated, 
with  their  two  dark  fasciae  more  developed  but  less  regular  or  defined, 
less  conical  and  less  oblique,  and  with  the  elongate  longitudinal  im- 
pressions (or  lacunae)  which  are  so  conspicuous  in  that  species  almost, 
or  entirely,  obsolete.  Its  legs,  likewise,  are  a  trifle  more  robust ;  and 
the  keel  of  its  rostrum  is  not  quite  so  elevated. 

*  M.  Jekel,  after  examining  the  present  insect,  wrote  to  me  as  follows:  "It  is 
fl.  new  Cleonus  belonging  to  the  group  oi  excoriatns,  erlcw,  &c.,  much  allied  to  an 
unde.scribed  species  from  the  south  of  Spain  {gaditanus,  Rambur,  in  lift),  and 
so  closely  related  to  another  from  Barbary  (likewise  unjDublished),  in  Mr.  Bow- 
ring's  collection,  that  I  am  inclined  to  regard  the  two  as  but  varieties  of  a  single 
species." 

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324  CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 

511.  Cleonus  taMdus. 

Lixus  tabidus,  Oliv.,  Ent.  v.  83.  262  (1807). 

Cleonus  tabidus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  192  (1834). 

Cleonis  o\)\\(i\\?i,IIartim(i\ji&cIll.'],Geolog.  VerhaUn.Lanz.undFuert.lAl. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fiierteventuram,  Canariam  et  Teneriffam,  sub 
lapidibus  in  aridis,  passim. 

I  believe  that  the  Canarian  Cleonus  here  referred  to  is  correctly 
identified  with  the  tabidus  of  Olivier,  a  species  which  is  not  uncom- 
mon in  southern  Europe.  At  any  rate  it  accords  precisely  with  the 
description  given  in  Schonherr's  work,  and  also  with  a  Sicilian  ex- 
ample Avhich  I  have  received  from  M.  Jekel.  Nevertheless  I  should 
add  that  it  agrees  almost  equally  with  the  diagnosis  of  the  excoriatus, 
as  well  as  with  two  specimens  from  northern  Africa,  thus  named, 
which  M.  Jekel  has  likewise  communicated  to  me.  Indeed  so  exactly 
do  these  supposed  types  tally  inter  se,  that  I  have  not  the  slightest 
hesitation  in  regarding  them  as  conspecific  with  each  other ;  and  as 
there  is  absolutely  no  character  whatever,  that  I  can  detect,  in  Gyl- 
lenhal's  long  descriptions  by  which  the  two  can  be  separated,  I  should 
doubt  their  being  in  reality  distinct.  Be  this,  however,  as  it  may,  I 
am  inclined,  on  the  whole,  to  refer  the  Canarian  insect  to  the  tabidus 
— which  moreover,  being  prior  in  publication  to  the  earoriatus,  will  be 
the  name  which  must  eventually  be  retained  if  the  two  should  here- 
after be  acknowledged  as  identical. 

The  C.  tahidus  (as  here  determined)  is  often  abundant  in  diy  spots 
of  low  and  intermediate  elevations,  in  Lanzarote,  Fuertevcntura,  Grand 
Canary,  and  Teneriffe  ;  but  I  have  not  as  yet  observed  it  in  the  three 
western  islands  of  the  Group.  My  Lanzarotan  examples  are  princi- 
pally from  Yaiza  and  the  \acinity  of  Haria,  the  Fuerteventuran  ones 
from  Puerto  de  Cabras,  the  Grand  Canarian  ones  from  Las  Palmas 
and  Arguinjguin,  and  the  TenerifFan  ones  from  Lagima.  In  Lanza- 
rote  it  was  taken  also  by  M.  Hartung,  and  is  evidently  the  Cleonus 
referred  in  his  Catalogue  (which  was  prepared  for  him  by  Dr.  Heer) 
to  the  obUquus,  Illiger — a  species,  however,  from  which  it  is  totally 
removed,  not  merely  in  fades  and  markings  but  in  several  of  even 
its  structural  details  (amongst  which  the  shape  of  the  eyes  should  be 
especially  noticed).  From  Fuertevcntura  and  Teneriffe  it  has  also 
been  sent  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

Genus  203.  EHYTIDODERES. 
Schonhcrr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  149  [script.  Rhytideres]  (1826). 
I  believe  that  the  present  group  is  truly  distinct  from  Cleonus, 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  325 

from  which  it  differs,  mainly,  in  its  antennae  and  (regularly  sulcated) 
rostrum  being  longer ;  in  its  prothorax  being  smaller,  narrower, 
squarish  cylindric,  simple  at  the  base  (or  unsinuated),  and  deeply 
grooved  above  with  numerous  longitudinal  more  or  less  flexuose  sulci 
(which  are  consequently  separated  inter  se  by  more  or  less  curved 
and  elevated  plicce) ;  by  its  scutellum  being  more  conspicuous  ;  by 
its  elytra  being  almost  parallel  at  the  sides,  with  their  shoulders  sub- 
porrect  (though  obtuse),  and  with  their  alternate  interstices  obscurely 
raised ;  and  by  its  claws  being  distant  at  their  base,  and  free,  instead 
of  apiiroximated  and  soldered.  M.  Duval  has  redescribed  it  under 
the  name  of  Dlastoclielus. 

512.  Ehytidoderes  siculus, 

Cleonis  plicata,  Bridle  [nee  Oliv.'],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  72  (1838). 
Cleonus  sicidus  (Dupont),  Schon.,  Oen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  vi.  61  (1842). 

plicatus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  401  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  119  (1857). 

Cleonis  plicata,  Hartuny,  Genloc/.  Verhaltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  141. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  et  Hierro,  rarissimus. 

The  present  insect  is  very  nearly  allied  to  the  R. plicatus  of  southern 
Europe,  of  which  I  had  formerly  regarded  it  as  a  mere  geographical 
state  ;  but,  upon  a  closer  inspection,  it  ajipears  to  me  now  to  be  truly 
distinct ;  and  the  more  so  since  both  the  Canarian  and  Madeiran 
individuals  agree  in  every  respect  with  those  from  Sicily, — which  at 
any  rate  indicates  that  it  cannot  be  a  local  phasis  peculiar  to  the  last 
of  those  countries.  It  differs  from  the  plicatus  in  being  altogether  a 
trifle  narrower ;  in  its  prothorax  having  the  outer  sulci  not  quite  so 
elevated  and  the  two  inner  ones  more  strongly  biflexuose  (being  bent 
inwards  not  merely  posteriorly  but  also  in  front,  somewhat  after  the 
fashion  of  a  figure  of  8)  and  wider  apart,  particularly  behind  (where 
the  included  space  is  obsoletely  keeled) ;  and  by  its  elytra  having  the 
punctures  of  their  strite  more  numerous  and  considerably  smaller  (a 
fact  which  is  very  evident  when  the  scales  are  removed),  and  their 
alternate  interstices  less  conspicuously  raised.  Its  rostrum,  also,  is 
just  perceptibly  slenderer. 

The  R.  siculus  is  rare  at  the  Canaries,  though  widely  spread  over 
the  archipelago — where  it  will  almost  certainly  be  found  to  be  uni- 
versal. I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary  and  Hierro,  and  it  was 
found  by  the  Rev.  E.  T.  Lowe  in  Fuerteventura  (from  whence  also  it 
was  obtained  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva)  and  by  M.  Hartung 
in  Lanzarote.  In  the  Madeiran  Group  (though  wrongly  recorded  by 
me  as  the  plicatus)  it  is  universal— occurring,  sparingly,  in  Madeii'^, 
proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  on  the  Desertas. 


326 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 


(yubfam.  HYPEHIDES.) 

Genus  2U4.  ALOPHUS. 
SclicinheiT,  Cure.  Disp.  3Ieth.  106  (1826). 

513.  Alophiis  magnificus,  n.  sp. 

A.  fusco-niger,  sqiiamis  luscis  densissime  tcctiis  albiclioribusque  pic- 
tus,  et  setulis  cinereis  demissis  parcissime  irroratiis  ;  rostro  elon- 
gate, indistincte  pnnctalato,  supra  nccnoii  ad  latera  longitudinaliter 
sulcato  ;  prothorace  parvo,  subcylindi'ico-conico,  profunde  sed  parce 
punctato  (pimctis  maximis)  et  densissime  interpunctiilato  (quasi 
granulato),  canalicula  media  profunda  (antice  et  postice  evanes- 
cente)  impresso,  versus  latera  parce  subalbido-squamoso ;  elytris 
inflatis,  rotundato-ovalibus,  prothorace  multo  latioribus,  profunde 
substriato-punctatis  (punctis  maximis),  intcrstitiis,  pnesertim  al- 
ternis,  paulo  elevatis  et  minutissirae  punetulatis  (qua«i  granidosis), 
ante  apicem  macula  magna  communi  hastata,  necnon  in  disco  sin- 
gulorum  antico  plaga  minorc  obscuriore  irregulari,  albidioribus,  or- 
natis;  funiculi  artieulo  seciindo  primo  sensim  longiore. — Long.corp. 
lin.  5-5 1 . 

Hahitat  in  montibus  TenerifFaj,  raiissimus. 

The  superb  Ciu'culionid  described  above  I  believe  to  be  a  true 
Alophus,  though  its  gigantic  size  (compared  with  the  European  3- 
guttntus),  in  conjunction  with  its  relativeh/  narrower  prothorax  and 
broad  inflated  elytra,  as  well  as  the  fact  of  the  second  joint  of  its 
funiculus  being  perceptibly  longer  than  the  first,  would  give  it  j^nmd 
facie  a  rather  diiierent  appearance.  Still,  its  essential  details  seem 
to  be  those  of  Alojihus,  whilst  the  form  of  its  elytral  fascia  and  spots 
(which  are  almost  precisely  those  of  the  3-guttatiis)  would  tend  to 
point  out  its  affinities  still  more  certainly.  It  is  one  of  the  rarest  of 
the  Canarian  Coleoptera,  the  only  locahty  in  which  I  have  observed 
it  being  at  the  base  of  the  Organo  Rocks  in  the  lofty  region  of  the 
Agua  Mansa  in  Teneriff'e — where,  during  May  1859, 1  obtained  two 
specimens  (and  the  mutilated  remains  of  a  third  one)  from  beneath 
stones. 

Genus  205.  HYPERA. 
Germar,  Mciff.  der  Ent.  iv.  3.35  (1821). 

514.  Hyper  a  lunata. 

Phytonomus  Dauci,  BniUe,  in  Wvhh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  72  (1838). 
Ilvpera  lunata,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  398  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cut.  Mad.  Col.  118  (1857). 

Hahitat  insulas  Canarienses,  sub  lapidibus,  passim, — in  Gomera  sola 
adhuc  baud  detecta. 

That  this  is  the  insect  referred  to  by  M.  BruUe  under  the  name  of 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA.  327 

" Phytonomus  Daucl "  I  am  enabled  to  state  for  certain,  having  exam- 
ined his  specimens  in  the  Collection  at  the  Jardin  des  Plantes.  But 
as  he  gives  neither  any  authoritij  for  the  specific  title  nor  so  much  as 
a  single  word  of  description  or  diagnosis  (merely  adding  "  Espece 
du  midi  de  I'Europe  "),  it  has  of  course  no  claim  for  consideration. 
Indeed  I  can  find  no  notice,  in  any  M^ork  to  v^hich  I  have  access,  of 
a  Phytonomus^Y\n.Gh.  has  ever  been  published  under  that  name.  The 
H.  lunata,  which  is  universal  in  the  Madeiran  Group  (occurring  in 
Madeira  proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  on  the  Desertas),  there  can  be  no 
doubt  is  also  universal  at  the  Canaries, — Gomera  being  the  only  one 
out  of  the  seven  islands  in  which,  hitherto,  I  have  not  met  with  it. 
Nevertheless  we  may  feel  pretty  certain  that  it  exists  in  Gomera  like- 
wise. In  Fuerteventura  and  Palma  it  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray. 
It  is  usually  found  beneath  stones,  in  the  driest  and  most  arid  spots ; 
particularly  in  calcareous  ones  of  a  rather  low  elevation. 

515.  Hyper  a  irrorata,  n.  sp. 

//.  scjuamis  fuscis,  albidis  et  albido-fuscis  densissime  irrorata  et  se- 
tulis  brevibus  subdemissis  obsita ;  rostro  gracih,  subcylindrico  ;  pro- 
thorace  parvo,  angusto,  postice  vix  angustiore,  plus  minus  indi- 
stincte  trilineato  (lined  media  tenui);  elytris  latis,  subquadrato-ob- 
longis,  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  (proesertim  alternis)  plus  minus 
irrorato-tessellatis,  in  limbo  albidioribus,  per  sutiiram  (ad  apicem 
nigro-terminatam)  latins  fulvo-tiiictis  ;  antennis  jjedibusque  gra- 
cihbus,  his  albido-variegatis,  tarsorum  articulis  primo,  secundo  et 
prsesertim  tertio  (\-ix  dilatato-bilobo)  sat  pai-vis. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
3i-4. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuertevcnturam,  in  arenosis  et  calcariis  de- 
gens. 

Although  in  its  large  size  and  general  (though,  at  the  same  time, 
more  variegated)  hue  this  fine  Hypera  is  a  little  suggestive  at  first 
sight  of  the  common  European  H.  punctatay  it  does  nevertheless,  in 
reality,  belong  to  a  totally  different  Section  (of  which  the  R.  isabel- 
Una,  from  Egypt,  may  perhaps  be  regarded  as  the  type)  ;  its  nar- 
rower and  more  cylindrical  rostrum,  in  conjunction  with  its  much 
slenderer  antennae  and  legs  (the  latter  of  which  have  their  feet  very 
consideralAy  narrower,  with  the  third  articulation  hardly  at  all  en- 
larged) and  the  less  develoijed  second  joint  of  its  funiculus,  will  at 
once  serve,  apart  from  other  conspicuous  characters,  to  remove  it 
from  that  insect.  In  minor  details,  I  may  just  mention  that  its 
rather  small  and  subcylindrical  prothorax,  combined  with  its  some- 
what broad  and  squarish-oblong  elytra,  which  have  their  interstices 
(especially  the  alternate  ones)  more  or  less  sprinkled,  or  tessellated. 


328  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

with  dark  and  whitish  scales  (the  latter  of  which  preponderate 
towards  the  sides  and  apex,  as  also  on  the  hinder  disc  of  each),  should 
be  particularly  noticed. 

So  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  the  H.  irrorata  is  confined  to 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  and  is  extremely  local  even  in  those 
islands,  occurring  principally  in  sandy  and  calcareous  spots  of  a  low 
elevation.  In  the  former  I  took  it,  from  beneath  stones,  during 
March  and  April  of  1859,  in  the  flat,  arid  district  immediately  to  the 
south  of  Arrecife  ;  as  also  on  the  calcareous  slopes  adjoining  the  town 
of  Betancuria  in  the  latter. 

51H.  Hypera  variabilis. 

Curculio  variabilis,  Hcrhat,  Kiif.  vi.  -203  (1795). 
Phytouonius  variabilis,  Schrn.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  384  (1834). 
Ilvpera  variabilis,  Woll,  Lis.  Mad.  400  ( 1854). 
— ,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  119  (1857). 

Habitat  insidas  omnes  Canarienses,  vulgaris ;  forsan  introducta. 

This  common  European  weevil  is  universal  at  the  Canaries,  in  the 
whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it  (more  or  less 
abundantly).  In  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Teneriffe  it  was 
taken  by  Mr.  Gray  also  ;  and  in  the  last  of  those  islands  by  Dr. 
Crotch  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  It  occurs  principally 
about  cidtivated  grounds  and  corn-fields,  and  in  all  probability  is  a 
mere  importation  from  more  northern  latitudes.  It  is  equally  abun- 
dant in  the  Madeiran  Group,  being  found  in  Madeira  proper,  Porto 
Santo,  and  on  the  Desertas.  It  is  a  variable  insect ;  and  I  beKeve 
that  the  Canarian  examples  certainly  include  amongst  them  the  form 
which  I  have  recorded  (perhaps  erroneously)  in  my  '  Ins.  Mad.'  as 
the  H.  murina,  but  which  I  now  suspect  cannot  be  specifically  dis- 
tinct from  the  remainder ;  though  whether  it  be  really  coincident 
with  the  true  murina  of  Fabricius  I  wiU  not  undertake  to  pronounce 
for  certain. 

Genus  206.  CONIATUS. 
Germar,  Mar/,  der  Eiit.  ii.  340  (1817). 

517.  Coniatus  taniarisci. 

Curculio  tamarisci,  Fab.,  Mant.  Ins.  113  (1787). 
Hj'pera  taniarisci,  Germ.,  Mag.  der  Ent.  iv.  337  (1821). 
Coniatus  tamarisci,  Schdti.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  406  (1834). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  foliis  Tamaricis  (jaUicce,  hand  fre- 
quens. 

The  only  examples  of  Coniatus  from  these  islands  (and  which  were 
captured  by  inyself,  from  off  Tamarisks,  in  the  Barranco  of  Mogan 


CANARIAN  CULEOPTERA,  329 

and  at  El  Charco — in  the  south-west  and  the  extreme  south,  re- 
spectively, of  Grand  Canary)  are,  I  think,  referable  to  the  common  C. 
tamarisci  of  Mediterranean  latitudes,  though  they  are  certainly  of  a 
darker,  or  more  cinereous-coppery,  hue  than  the  bright  metallic- 
green  types  now  before  me,  from  Italy  and  the  south  of  France.  In 
spite,  however,  of  their  obscurer  colour,  I  believe  that  they  cannot  be 
identified  with  the  C.  re^andus — which  is  a  darker  insect  still,  with 
its  rostrum  nearly  black,  and  with  its  prothorax  almost  always  con- 
spicuously tnlineated  (the  central  line  particularly  being  weU  defined 
by  a  blackish  portion  on  either  side  of  it). 

(Subfam.  MOLYTIDES.) 

Genus  207.  PLINTHUS. 
Germar,  Ins.  Spec.  327  (1824). 

518.  Plinthus  musicus. 

Pliuthus  musicus,  Wull,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vi.  18  (1860). 

Habitat  in  humidis  sylvaticis  Teneriffae,  hinc  inde  hand  infrequens. 

This  superb  Plinthus,  a  full  description  of  which  I  published  in  the 
'  Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist.'  for  July  1860  (where  also  is  added  a  notice  of 
its  stridulating  capabilities,  and  of  the  anal  apparatus  by  the  vibra- 
tion of  which  the  noise  is  genei'ated),  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  the 
intermediate  and  lofty  altitudes  of  Teneriife,  occurring  more  parti- 
cularly in  the  damp  laurel- woods  from  about  2000  to  3000  feet  above 
the  sea.  In  such  situations  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  at 
Las  Mercedes,  on  the  sylvan  mountains  above  Taganana,  near  Ycod 
el  Alto,  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  even  (in  the  "  Retama  "-district) 
on  the  elevated  Ciunbre  above  it.  The  species  may  be  known  by  its 
large  size  and  dark -brown  surface,  which  (in  fresh  and  unrubbed  ex- 
amples) is  more  or  less  ornamented  with  paler  scales  at  the  sides  of 
its  prothorax,  as  well  as  about  the  humeral  region  and  apex  of  its 
elytra — which  last  have  likewise  a  small  patch  on  the  fore  disc  of 
each,  and  a  much  broken  postmedial  fascia. 

519.  Plinthus  velutinus. 

Plinthus  velutinus,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vi.  19  (1860). 

Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis Teneriffae, usque  ad8000's.m.  ascendens. 

Like  the  P.  musicus,  the  present  species  seems  to  be  confined  to 
Teneriff'e,  though  to  a  higher  altitude  than  that  insect.  Indeed  most 
(if  not  aU)  of  the  few  examples  of  it  which  I  have  yet  seen  were  cap- 
tured on  the  two  lofty  Cumbres — above  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  adjoin- 


330  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

ing  the  Canadas  ;  whereas  the  musicns,  although  ranging  to  an  equal 
elevation,  descends  to  about  2000  feet  above  the  sea.  In  my  Paper 
on  these  two  Plintlu,  I  have  stated  that  the  P.  velutinus  "  nearly  re- 
sembles the  mnsicus  ;  nevertheless  its  much  darker  surface  and  almost 
total  freedom  from  additional  decumbent  seta3,  as  well  as  its  nearly 
obsolete  elytral  patches  (which,  luhen  not  obliterated,  are  reduced  to 
four  small  punctures,  or  spots),  in  conjunction  with  its  sHghtly  shorter 
and  broader  rostrum  (which  is  rather  more  distinctly  widened  at  the 
base,  immediately  in  front  of  the  eyes),  its  nearly  tm^ninctured  pro- 
thorax,  and  the  entire  and  less  laterally-constricted  apex  of  its  more 
feebly  sculptiu'ed  elytra,  will  readily  separate  it  from  that  species." 
And  I  may  further  add  that  its  prothorax  is  a  trifle  more  rounded 
and  produced,  or  less  straightly  truncated,  at  the  apex  (though  not 
so  much  so  as  is  the  case  in  the  P.  ciwuUiis) ;  and  that  its  elytral  in- 
terstices (when  denuded  of  their  scales)  will  be  seen  to  be  rather 
more  shining — being  a  Little  less  roughened,  and  consequently  less 
opake. 

520.  Plinthus  cucuUus,  n.  sp. 

P.  inter  musicum  et  velutinum  aliquo  modo  situs,  sed  minor,  rostro  ad 
apicem  vix  magis  subito  dilatato,  prothorace  (in  disco  minus  evi- 
denter  biimpresso)  densius  punctato  iiecuon  antice  in  medio  magis 
rotundato-producto  (nee  truucato),  elytris  ad  humeros  paulo  minus 
porrectis  (?'.  e.  vix  magis  obli(]ue  truncatis). 

Cum  musico  colore  general!  elytrorumque  interstitiis  subopacis 
rugulosis  necnon  femoribus  antieis  fortiter  spinosis  congruit ;  sed 
rostro  breviusculo  crassiusculo  elytrisque  ad  ajiicem  obtusis  integris 
velutinum  potius  simulat. —  Long.  corp.  lin.  S^. 

Habitat  in  montibus  humidis  Canariae  Grandis ;  die  21.  Apr.  a.d. 
1858  exemplar  unicum  cepi. 

Having  but  a  single  example  of  this  Plinthus  to  judge  from,  I 
should  have  been  disinclined  to  believe  that  the  few  peculiarities 
which  it  presents  were  indicative  of  an  additional  species  did  not  its 
Jiabitat  (in  the  laurel-districts  of  Grand  Canary)  render  such  a  priori 
probable.  Although  with  many  characters  in  common  with  them 
both,  it  certainly  does  not  accord  with  either  of  those  just  enumerated, 
being  in  many  respects  indeed  intermediate  between  the  two.  If  the 
individual  now  before  me  be  a  normal  one,  the  P.  cucullus  seems  to 
differ  from  both  of  its  Teneriifan  allies  in  being  a  little  smaller,  with 
its  rostrum  perhaps  somewhat  more  suddenly  dilated  at  its  apex,  with 
its  prothorax  (which  is  less  evidently  impressed  on  its  disc,  on  either 
side  of  the  keel)  more  thickly  besprinkled  with  large  punctures,  and 
more  produced  (or  rounded)  in  the  centre  at  its  apex,  and  in  its 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  331 

elytra  being  a  trifle  less  porrect,  or  more  drawn  in,  at  the  shoulders. 
In  its  general  colouring,  as  well  as  in  the  interstices  of  its  elytra 
being  (when  the  scales  are  removed)  opake  and  rugulose,  and  in  its 
more  acutely  spined  femora,  it  agrc^es  best  with  the  P.  miisicus ;  but 
in  its  somewhat  shorter  and  thicker  rostrum,  as  well  as  in  its  elytra 
beiug  obtuse  and  entire  at  their  extremity  (instead  of  separately 
pointed),  it  accords  better  with  the  velutinus. 

The  unique  specimen  I  captured  between  Guia  and  Osorio,  on  the 
mountains  of  Gi'and  Canary — in  the  laurel-region  (fast  decreasing) 
which  represents  the  ancient  forest  of  El  Dorames. 

Genus  208.  XENOMICRUS  (nov.  gen.). 

Genus  affinitate  cum  Liosomate  Steph.,  conjimctum  atque  illud  prima 
facie  simulans,  sed  corpore  parce  pubescente  (nee  glabro),antennis 
ad  (nee  pone)  apicem  (sensim  dilatatum)  rostri  bre\doris  crassioris 
et  minus  arcuati  insertis,  oculis  majoribus,  prothorace  cylindrico, 
scutello  conspicue  observando  pedibusque  longioribus  gracilioribus 
certe  distinctum  vidctiir. 

A  ievos,  mirabilis,  et  yuapos,  parvus. 

The  little  Curculionid  from  which  the  above  structural  diagnosis 
has  been  drawn  out  is  closely  related  to  Liosomus,  with  which  indeed, 
until  critically  examining  it,  I  had  supposed  it  to  be  congeneric  ; 
nevertheless  when  acciu-ately  inspected  it  will  be  seen  to  difier  in 
most  of  its  details  from  the  members  of  that  group.  Thus,  it  is 
pubescent  (even  though  minutely  and  sparingly  so),  instead  of  being 
glabrous ;  its  rostrum  is  shorter,  thicker,  and  less  arcuated,  and  is 
much  more  expanded  at  the  apex — where  the  antennee  are  inserted 
(instead  of  at  some  distance  behind  it) ;  its  eyes  (although  equally 
sunken)  are  larger  ;  its  prothorax  is  cylindrical ;  its  scutellum  is  con- 
spicuous and  rounded ;  its  elytra  are  inflated  and  elliptic  (being  acute, 
and  constricted,  at  their  apex)  ;  and  its  legs  are  rather  longer  and 

slenderer. 

521.  Xenomicrus  apionides,  n.  sp. 

X.  piceo-niger  elytris  subaenescentibus,  pube  brevi  demissa  cinerea 
parcissime  vestitus ;  capite  prothoraceque  (leviter  punctato)  sub- 
opacis,  subtilissime  alutaceis,  rostro  longitudin alitor  rugoso  ;  ely- 
tris eUipticis  (antice  angustatis,  postice  acute  subconstrictis),  con- 
vexis,  ad  basin  singulatim  oblique  subrotundatis,  nitidis,  sat  pro- 
funde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  uuiseriatim  punctatis  ;  antennis 
rufo-ferrugineis,  ad  apicem  piceis  ;  pedibus  piceis,  tarsis  (et  inter- 
dum  tibiis)  clarioribus  ;  femoribus  simplicibus. 

Variat  (immaturus)  capite  prothoraceque  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  1-1|^. 
Habitat  in  sylvaticis  intermediis  Tenerifias  et  Palmse,  rarissimus. 


332  CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA. 

Apparently  extremely  rare,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  obsei'ved 
hitherto)  to  the  moist  sylvan  regions  in  Teneriffe  and  Palma,  of  a 
rather  lofty  elevation.  Thus,  during  May  of  1858,  I  captured  it  in 
the  latter — from  amongst  damp  herbage  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua ; 
and,  exactly  a  year  afterwards,  in  the  former — on  the  densely  wooded 
mountains  above  Taganana.  Its  elytra  are  more  or  less  obscurely 
brassy  (occasionally  with  even  a  greenish  tinge) ;  and,  when  imma- 
ture, its  head  and  prothorax  are  sometimes  rufosccnt. 

(Subfam.  BYIISOPSIDES.) 

Genus  209.  GRONOPS. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  157  (1826). 
Although  placed  so  mdely  apart  from  each  other  in  Schonherr's 
most  artificial  classification,  that  they  are  treated  as  members  of  dif- 
ferent /Subfamilies,  I  am  nevertheless  persuaded  that  the  present 
genus  and  Ehytidorhinus  are  intimately  related.  Indeed  it  appears  to 
me  that  they  are  but  just  separable ;  for  after  the  most  careful  com- 
parison of  the  various  details  of  their  structure,  the  only  real  difi'er- 
ential  features  which  I  can  detect  arc,  that,  whilst  Gronops  is  winged 
and  has  only  the  basal  joint  of  its  funiculus  enlarged,  Ehytidorhinus,  on 
the  contrary,  is  apterous  and  has  its  first  and  second  funiculus- joints 
elongated.  Nearly  all  the  other  details  of  the  genera,  although  made 
to  sound  diifurent  in  the  respective  diagnoses,  are,  when  actually  ex- 
amined, found  to  be  identical, — those  characters  oiRhytidorhinus  which 
are  based  upon  the  larger  size  and  more  uneven  surfaces  of  the  several 
representatives  being  merely  in  degree,  and  not  in  kind.  My  own 
belief  is  that  they  should  be  regarded  as  Sections  of  a  single  group  ; 
nevertheless,  since  the  smallness,  in  Gronops,  of  the  second  articula- 
tion of  the  funiculus,  which  is  quite  as  short  and  transverse  as  the 
third,  and  its  developed  wings  are  real  and  structural  differences 
(whatever  value  may  be  attached  to  them),  it  will  perhaps  be  desi- 
rable to  consider  the  genus,  however  nearly  allied  to  Mhytidorhinits,  as 
at  any  rate  distinct  from  it,  and,  thus  far  at  least,  to  endorse  the  ordi- 
nary ideas  on  the  subject*. 

522.  Gronops  lunatus. 

Curculio  lunatus,  Fab.,  Syst.  Ent.  148  (1775). 
Rhynchsenus  costatus,  Gyll.,  Lis.  Suec.  iii.  89  (1813). 
Gronops  lunatus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec,  Cure.  ii.  253  (1834). 

*  Since  the  above  remarks  vpere  written,  I  am  happy  to  perceive  that  tliey  have 
been  fully  borne  out  by  Lacordaii'e,  who  places  the  two  genera  referred  to  in  juita- 
position. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA.  333 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  ct  Fuerteventura,  sub  lapidibus  in  arenosis 
vulgaris :  etiam  in  TenerifFa  (in  ipsa  urbe  Sanctse  Crucis)  specimen 
unum  deprehendi. 

I  cannot  detect  any  real  difference  between  the  Canarian  specimens 
which  I  refer  to  the  above  insect  and  the  ordinary  British  ones, — 
though,  since  the  species  is  so  exceedingly  variable  both  in  the  colour 
of  its  scales  and  in  the  greater  or  less  development  of  its  fascia3,  cer- 
tain extreme  individuals  if  taJcen  alone  might  almost  have  been  re- 
garded as  distinct.  Nevertheless  out  of  58  examples  now  before  me 
(hardly  two  of  which  are  precisely  alike)  I  seem  to  have  all  the  va- 
rieties which  are  indicated  amongst  my  English  specimens ;  and  I 
have  therefore  no  hesitation  in  identifying  the  whole  of  them  with 
the  European  O.  limatus.  It  is  an  insect  which  has  exactly  the  same 
habits  as  the  Rhytidorhinns  hrevitarsis,  with  which  indeed  it  is  usually 
found  in  company.  I  have  captured  it  in  similar  spots  both  in  Lan- 
zarote  and  Fuerteventura,  namely  beneath  scoriae — within  the  holes 
and  inequalities  of  which  it  is  apt  to  secrete  itself,  and  out  of  which 
it  is  often  difficult  to  extract  it^  It  would  appear  to  exist  in  Tene- 
riffe  also,  for  I  once  met  with  a  single  example  of  it  in  S'''  Cruz. 

Genus  210.  RHYTIDORHINUS. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  102  [script.  Rhytirhimis]  (1826). 

523.  Rhytidorhinus  brevitarsis,  n,  sp. 

R.  subovato-oblongus,  squamis  fuscis  et  albido-fuscis  densissime  ne- 
bulosus ;  rostro  profunde  canaliculate,  ad  basin  bituberculato  ;  pro- 
thorace  valde  inaequah,  in  dorso  late  canaliculato,  utrinque  profun- 
de longitudinaliter  impresso,  apice  in  medio  elevato,  antice  rotun- 
dato-ampliato,  postice  angustiore  ;  elytris  obsolete  nigro-irroratis, 
profunde  punctato-striatis  (pimctis  magnis),  sutura  intcrstitiisque 
alternis  costato-elevatis,  pra^scrtim  ante  apicem  (desilientem)  no- 
des efficientibus;  an  tennis  pedibusque  brevibus,  illis  rufo-piceis,  his 
squamosis,  femoribus  plus  minus  nigro-annulatis,  tarsis  brevibus. 

Variat  elytris  in  medio  obsoletissime  transversim  subpallido-fasciatis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  2^-3. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  Crronops 
lunatus  degens :  sub  scoriis  in  arenosis  aridis  hinc  inde  abundat. 

The  present  Rhytidorhinus  is  very  closely  allied  to  two  species  now 
before  me,  which  were  taken  by  the  Rev.  Hamlet  Clark  in  the  south 
of  Spain,  particularly  however  to  one  of  them  (which  may  perhaps 
be  the  crispatus,  Schon.).  Nevertheless  from  both  it  may  immediately 
be  recognized  by  its  shorter  antennae  and  legs,  the  tarsi  especially 
having  the  basal  and  apical  joints  much  more  abbreviated — a  struc- 


334  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

tural  character  of  considerable  importance.  In  minor  particulars, 
the  Canarian  insect  has  its  elytra  perhaj)S  a  trifle  more  expanded  be- 
hind the  middle  than  is  the  case  in  the  Spanish  species  which  it  most 
nearly  resembles ;  and  their  nodules,  formed  by  the  interrupted  al- 
ternate ridges,  at  that  particular  point,  are,  if  anything,  somewhat 
more  developed  ;  whilst  their  apex  itself  is  a  little  more  drawn  in,  or 
suddenly  shortened. 

The  R.  hrevitarsis  seems  to  be  confined  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventura,  where  it  is  far  from  imcommon — occurring  beneath  stones 
and  scorice  in  arid  places,  particularly  sandj-  ones  of  a  low  elevation. 
Under  such  circumstances  it  was  taken  sparingly  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself  in  Lanzarote,  during  January  1858  ;  in  which  island,  however, 
I  captured  it  much  more  plentifully  during  March  of  the  following- 
year — in  submaritime  spots  between  Arrecife  and  Yaiza,  as  well  as 
at  Papagayo  in  the  extreme  south  :  and  1  like'oise  met  with  it  a  few 
weeks  later,  in  equal  abundance,  at  the  edges  of  the  coast-road,  to  the 
north  of  Puerto  de  Cabras,  in  Puerteventura ;  and,  more  sparingly, 
in  the  little  island  of  Lobos  in  the  Bocayna  Strait.  It  is  very  gre- 
garious, often  congregating  in  clusters  beneath  a  single  stone. 

(Subfam.  BRACHYCEPIDES.) 

Genus  211.  BRACHYCERUS. 

Fabricius,  Sijst.  Elm.  ii.  412  (1801). 

524.  Brachycerus  opacus,  n.  sp. 

J5.niger,opacus,valdeinaxiualis;  capiteprothoracequeparcissime])unc- 
tatis  variolisque  maximis  notatis,  illo  supra  oculos  singulos  altissirae 
lobato  (lobo  alterum,  minorem  sod  sat  magnum,  retrorsum  ]ii-o- 
ductum,  ad  basin  rostri  situm,  attingcnte),  hoc  ad  latera  in  medio 
acute  angulato  necnon  per  discum  plicis  duabus  maximis  altis  loii- 
gitudinaliter  instructo,  postice  inter  plicas  obsolete  carinato,  antice 
utrin(]ue  late  impresso ;  elytris  subquadratis,  grosse  transversim 
plicato-nodosis,  in  disco  singulorum  necnon  in  limbo  plica  altiore 
grosse  dentata  serrato-rugatis. — Long.  corp.  Un.  7. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Lanzarotae  borealis,  semel  tantum  captus. 

The  unique  specimen  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled, and  which  was  captured,  during  March  1859,  on  the  hills  above 
Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  differs  from  every  Brachycerus  with 
which  I  am  acquainted  in  its  entirely  opake  body  (even  when  de- 
nuded of  tlie  mud-like  scales  with  which  it  is  a  good  deal  clothed) ; 
by  its  excessively  %ineven  surface  (the  elytra  being  densely  beset  with 
very  elevated  transversely-subconfluent  nodules,  or  undulated  'plicft;. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  335 

and  with  a  zigzag  line  of  still  larger  prominences  clown  the  disc,  as 
well  as  along  the  outer  margins  of  each)  ;  by  its  immense  occipital 
humps  (which  constitute  a  ridge  above  either  eye)  almost  touchinr/ 
anteriorly  the  smaller,  though  svffi,ciently  large,  backwardly-produced 
one  on  each  side  of  the  base  of  the  rostrum ;  and  by  the  two  longi- 
tudinal folds  of  its  (laterally  angulated)  prothorax  being  considerably 
raised,  and  comparatively  well  defined.  Its  elytra,  although  thus 
fringed  with  enormous  notches,  or  remote,  unequally  shaped  teeth, 
are  nearly  square  in  outline. 

(Subfam.  OTIORHYNCHIDES.) 

Genus  212.  ATLANTIS. 
Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  361  (1854). 
Whether  the  five  insects  described  below  be  strictly  referable  to 
the  same  genus  as  the  ordinary  Madeiran  Atlantkles  I  will  not  under- 
take, in  my  present  doubt  as  to  the  actual  value  of  certain  structural 
characters  in  this  immediate  department  of  the  CurcuUonidce,  to  pro- 
nounce for  certain.  But  that  they  cannot  be  assigned  to  Laparocerus 
proper  (of  which  the  L.  morio  was  Schonherr's  acknowledged  type) 
I  am  satisfied, — seeing  that  their  7nvch  tludcer  antenna3  (the  scajie 
of  which  is  rather  less  ahrnptly  clavated  at  its  tip)  and  the  different 
proportions  of  their  more  obconical  funiculus-joints  (of  which  the 
second  is  conspicuously  longer  than  the  first)  will  of  themselves,  I 
think,  more  than  suffice  to  prevent  such  an  amalgamation.  It  is, 
however,  no  less  true  that  in  several  particulars  they  do  not  tally 
with  the  normal  members  of  Atlantis ;  nevertheless  the  features  in 
which  they  agree  with  the  latter,  I  am  inclined  to  believe,  are  more 
important  than  those  which  would  tend  to  affiliate  them  with  Lapa- 
roeerus  (and,  a  fortiori,  with  Eremnus,  of  southern  Africa)  ;  so  that 
I  prefer,  for  the  present,  treating  them  as  Atlcmtides  to  the  risk  of 
erecting  a  new  genus  (or — which  would  rather  be  necessary — two 
new  genera)  for  their  reception  in  this  extensive  and  obscure  division 
of  the  Rhynchopliora. 

§  I.  Corpus  parviim ;  scrohe  valde  2^'>'ofundd,  brevi,  auriculiformi, 
siirsum  (^supra  marginetn  oculi  superiorent)  ascendente ;  ocidis  mi- 
nutis,  ohlique  stibconicis,  postice  alte  prominentihus.  Fades  sexualis 
valde  dissimilis,  sed ptedibus  in  iitroque  sexu  fere  similibus.  (Subg. 
Amphora,  Woll.) 

525.  Atlantis  canariensis. 

A.  piceo-  vel  fusco-nigra,  subnitida,  subcinereo-  (vix  submetaUico-) 
squamoso-tesseUata   setisque  suberectis  in  elytris  obsita ;  rostro 


336  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

crasso,  subtriangnlari,  sat  rugose  subpunctato,  canalicula  valde 
profunda  (inter  ocnlos  parvos,  oblique  subconicos,  postice  alte  pro- 
minentes,  latiore,  fovea^formi)  impresso  ;  prothoracc  dense  et  pro- 
funde  punctato,  carinato ;  elytris  prcfunde  crenato-striatis,  sutura 
postice  interstitiisque  alteruis  plus  minus  obscure  subcinereo-tes- 
sellatis  ;  an  tennis  pedib  usque  robustis,  fusco-ferrugineis. 

Mas  paulo  minor,  angustior ;  rostro  vix  graciliore ;  prothorace  cre- 
brius  et  rugosius  punctato,  minus  carinato  (carina  tamen  rarius 
omuino  obsoleta) ;  elytris  anguste  et  regulariter  ovalibus,  paulo 
levius  crenato-striatis,  setulis  superadditis  brevibus. 

Foem.  jiaulo  major,  latior ;  rostro  vix  crassiore ;  prothorace  minus 
crebre  et  magis  cequaliter  punctato,  in  disco  valde  carinato  (carina 
interdum  altissime  elevata) ;  elytris  subobtriangularibus  (basin 
versus  latiusculis),  vix  profundius  crenato-striatis,  setis  super- 
additis longioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-3. 

Laparocerus  canariensis  {Chevr.),Sclio)i.,Gen.et  <S^;. C'»/T.vii.228(1843). 
Habitat  supra  regionem  sylvaticam  in  montibusvalde  excelsis  Tene- 
riffae,  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens :  sub  lapidibus  scoriisque  inter 
arbusculas  Sjxirt'n  nubigence  congregat. 

As  indicated  in  my  Sectional  diagnosis,  this  insect  is  so  peculiar 
in  many  respects  that  I  believe  it  will  eventually  be  found  desirable 
to  erect  a  separate  genus  for  its  reception  :  nevertheless,  as  this  may 
possibly  be  necessary  for  the  four  succeeding  species  likewise,  and 
I  am  anxious  not  to  establish  additional  groups  amongst  these  ob- 
scure Rhynchophorous  forms,  I  have  thought  it  better  to  refer  them 
all  to  Atlantis  (since  *'  Laparoceri  "  they  clearlj^  are  7iot)  ;  and  I 
have  consequently  given  merely  a  subgeneric  name  to  each  of 
the  Divisions,  in  the  anticipation  of  further  data  rendering  their 
isolation  absolutely  unavoidable.  Thus,  the  A.  canariensis  is  more 
especially  remarkable  for  its  deep,  short,  and  upwardly-directed 
scrobs,  for  its  excessively  prominent,  minute,  and  obliquely -conical 
eyes  (which  are  consequently  greatly  elevated  behind,  instead  of  at 
their  middle  point),  and  for  the  curious  dissimilarity  of  its  sexes — 
the  females  being  not  only  larger  and  wider  than  the  males  (which 
is  of  very  common  occurrence  amongst  the  Curculionida;),  but  also 
with  their  prothorax  less  closely  and  more  regularly  punctured,  and 
with  the  central  keel  (which  is  always  much  smaller,  and  sometimes 
nearly  obsolete,  in  the  opposite  sex)  more  or  less  greatlj'  elevated ; 
whilst  the  suberect  seta5  with  which  the  elytra  are  beset  are  con- 
siderably longer. 

Through  the  kindness  of  M.  Chevrolat  I  have  been  enabled  to 
examine  the  type  of  Schonherr's  Laparocems  canariensis,  which  was 
furnished  originally  by  his  collection,  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  337 

it  is  identiccal  with  our  present  species.  It  is,  however,  a  rather 
small,  rabhed,  and  not  quite  mature  (male)  example,  in  which  the 
prothoracic  keel  is  but  slightly  developed.  These  facts  may  account 
in  some  measure  for  the  excessive  badness  of  Boheman's  description, 
though  they  cannot  justify  absolute  misstatements,  in  which  the 
diagnosis  and  description  are  made  to  contradict  each  other. 

The  A.  canariensis  appears  to  be  confined  to  very  lofty  altitudes 
in  TenerifFe,  never  descending  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto) 
even  into  the  wooded  districts,  but  occupying  the  elevated  regions 
which  are  specially  characterized  by  the  presence  of  the  Spartlmn 
nuhigena,  or  ''  Retama  " — the  superb  Broom  pecuHar  to  those  upland 
tracts.  In  such  situations  I  took  it  abundantly,  during  May  1859, 
from  beneath  stones  and  scoriae,  on  the  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Caiiadas, 
above  Ycod  el  Alto  (from  about  8000  to  9000  feet  above  the  sea) ; 
as  well  as  on  the  opposite  Cumbre,  above  the  Agua  Mansa.  In  the 
former  of  those  localities  it  has  been  also  found,  more  recently,  by 
Dr.  Crotch. 

§  II.  Corpus  sat  m%gnum ;  scrobe  postice  lata  divaricatd ;  ocuUs  modice 
prominentibus.  Fades  sexiialis  hand  valde  dissimiUs,  sed  pedibvs 
secundum  sexum  plus  minus  dlversis.     (Subg.  Canopus,  WoU.) 

526.  Atlantis  subnebulosa,  n.  sp. 
A.  fusco-nigra,  subopaca,  parce  et  minute  submetallico-squamoso- 
tessellata;   rostro  parallelo,  minute  et  leviter  subpimctato,  late 
concave,  canalicula  (antice  tenui  sed  postice  inter  ociilos  parvos 
prominentes  profuiidfi  foveoeformi)  impresso  ;  prothorace  angustulo, 
profunde  et  dense  ruguloso-punctato,  carina  antice  evanescente 
instructo ;  scutello  parvo ;  elytris  profunde  punetato-striatis,  in- 
terstitiis  exterioribus  postice  subelevatis ;  antennis  pedibus<iue  vix 
dilutioribus. 
Mas  adhuc  latet. 
Foem.  tibiis  posticis  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1858  semel  tan- 
tum  lecta. 

Judging  from  the  unique  example  (a  female  one)  of  this  insect 
now  before  me,  I  think  it  will  be  impossible  to  regard  it  as  an  insular 
modification  of  the  A.  tibialis,  though  in  size  and  general  proportions 
it  has  certainly  much  in  common  with  it.  Nevertheless  its  rather 
browner  and  more  opake  surface,  which  is  sparingly  tessellated  all  over 
(though  particularly  on  the  elytra)  with  minute  palish-metallic  scales, 
in  conjunction  with  its  more  rugose  prothorax  (on  which  there  is  a 
distinct  central  keel,  which  vanishes  in  front),  its  rather  less  dimi- 
nutive scutellum,  the  somewhat  smaller  punctures  of  its  striye,  and 


338  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  fact  of  its  outer  elytra!  interstices  being  perceptibly  (though  but 
a  little)  raised  behind,  will  all  tend  to  remove  it  from  that  species. 
The  single  indi\'idual  described  from  was  captured  by  myself,  during 
the  spring  of  1858,  in  Grand  Canary ;  but  whether  in  the  district  of 
El  Monte  or  in  the  Isleta  I  cannot  now  exactly  recall. 

527.  Atlantis  tibialis,  n.  sp. 

A.  nigra,  subnitida,  (oculo  fortissime  armato)  subtilissime  et  brevis- 
sime  pubescens ;  rostro  minute  et  leviter  striguloso-subpunctato, 
late  coneavo,  canalicula  (antice  tenui  sed  postice  inter  oculos  par- 
vos  prominentes  profunda  foveseformi)  impresso ;  prothorace  pro- 
funde  et  dense  punctato  ;  scutello  minutissimo  ;  elytris  basi  con- 
junctim  subemarginatis,  ad  humeros  oblique  rotundatis,  profunde 
punctato-striatis  (punctis  magnis)  ;  antennis  tarsisque  piceo-ferru- 
gineis  ;  femoribus  tibiisque  nigro-piceis. 

Mas  vix  angustior,  tibiis  posticis  intus  ante  apicem  subito  sed  leviter 
rotundato  -  ampliatis . 

Foem.  vix  latior,  tibiis  posticis  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  in  inferioribus  sub  lapidibus, 
passim. 

This  large  and  black  species,  so  well  distinguished  by  its  dull  and 
only  slightly  shining  surface,  deeply  punctured  prothorax,  excessively 
minute  scutellum,  the  enormous  punctures  of  its  elytral  striae,  and 
by  the  two  hinder  tibiae  of  its  male  sex  being  increased,  a  little  be- 
fore their  inner  apex,  by  a  slight  flattened  amplification,  or  as  it  were 
by  a  small  portion  suddenly  rounded  outwards,  is  apparently  not 
uncommon  at  low  elevations  in  TenerifFe  and  Palma.  In  the  former 
of  those  islands  I  have  taken  it  frequently,  from  beneath  stones,  in 
the  diy  cindery  region  around  the  Puerto  of  Orotava — a  locality  in 
which  it  was  likewise  found  hj  Mr.  Gray  ;  whilst  in  the  latter  I  met 
with  it,  in  similar  situations,  in  the  Barranco  immediately  above  S*" 

Cruz. 

528.  Atlantis  tetrica. 

A.  speciei  prsecedenti  simihs,  sed  \dx  minor,  angustior,  nitidior,  magis 
atra  et  paulo  magis  glabra  ;  prothorace  sensim  convexiore,  in  disco 
minus  profunde  et  minus  dense  punctato  (punctis  minoribus  sub- 
obsoletis)  ;  scutello  in  utroque  sexu  majore  (sed  parvo)  ;  elytris  ad 
basin  paulo  rectius  truncatis,  striarum  punctis  vix  minoribus. 

Mas  vix  angustior,  tibiis  posticis  intus  ante  apicem  latiusculum  le- 
viter excavatis. 

Ff^em.  vix  latior,  tibiis  posticis  fere  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
4-4  i 

'±    '±2. 

Eremnus  telvicuR,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  542  (1834). 
Otiorhynchus  simplex,  Briille,  m  Wehh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  71  (1838). 
Laparocerus  tetricus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  vii.  228  (1843). 


OANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  339 

Habitat  Teneriifam,  in  inferioribus  prope  Sanctam  Crucem  sub  la- 
pidibus  necnon  in  plantarum  bifurcationibns  baud  infrequens. 

From  types  wbicb  bave  been  communicated  to  me  by  M.  Cbevro- 
lat,  I  am  enabled  to  state  for  certain  that  Scbonberr's  Laparocerus 
tetricus  is  the  Curculionid  which  I  would  desire  now  to  characterize 
— and  not  the  preceding  one  :  indeed  the  published  diagnosis  of  it, 
though  far  from  accurate,  is  sufficiently  clear  on  several  points  (par- 
ticularly the  punctation  of  the  prothorax)  to  prevent  its  being  con- 
founded with  that  insect.  Nevertheless  it  is  unquestionably  very 
nearly  allied  to  it — so  much  so,  in  fact,  that  until  I  had  overhauled 
the  two  critically  I  had  regarded  them  as  the  sexes  of  a  single  species. 
But  finding,  on  closer  examination,  that  I  possess  males  and  females 
of  both  of  them,  and  which  present  features  which  I  had  at  fii'st 
overlooked,  I  now  perceive  that  such  cannot  be  the  case.  It  may  be 
known  easily  from  the  A.  tibialis  by  being,  on  the  average,  a  trifle 
smaller  and  narrower,  as  well  as  rather  more  shining  and  of  a  deeper 
black;  by  its  prothorax  being  a  little  convexer  and  more  lightly, 
finely,  and  distantly  punctured  on  the  disc ;  by  its  scutellum  (although 
minute)  being  perceptibly  larger  than  is  the  case  in  that  insect ;  by 
its  elytra  being  a  trifle  less  conjointly-emarginated  (or  more  straiglitly 
truncated)  at  their  base,  and  with  the  punctures  of  their  stria;  perhaps 
less  immense  ;  and  by  the  two  hinder  tibiae  of  its  male  sex  being  rather 
scooped-out  internally  at  a  short  distance  from  their  apex,  causing 
them  to  appear  curved  inwards  (and  rather  enlarged)  at  the  tip. 

I  have  observed  the  A.  tetrica  only  in  Teneriife,  and  hitherto 
merely  at  low  elevations  near  S'"  Cruz,  where  it  woiild  seem  to 
occupy  much  the  same  sort  of  position  as  the  tibialis  does  around 
Orotava.  It  was  also  found  in  the  vicinity  of  S*"  Cruz  by  the  late 
Rev.  W.  J.  Armitage ;  and  it  has  recently  been  sent  therefrom  by 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  who  captured  it  "  in  CacaUce  bifurca- 
tionibus  "  in  the  Barranco  Santo. 

The  Otiorliynclms  simplex  of  M.  Brulle  appeared  to  me,  from  the 
type  which  I  examined  in  Paris,  to  be  founded  on  nothing  more  than 
an  immature  example  of  this  species ;  and  indeed  his  description 
(such  as  it  is)  would,  I  think,  imply  that  it  cannot  be  referable  to  the 
A.  tibialis,  since  he  expressly  states  of  the  prothorax,  "  sa  surface 
inferieure  et  laterale  est  fortement  ponctuee ;  sa  surface  dorsale  est 
au  contraire  presque  depourvue  de  points." 

529.  Atlantis  angustula. 

A.  angustulo-subcylindrica,  atra,  subnitida,  subtiliter  pubescens  pi- 

z  2 


340  CANAKTAN  COLEOPTERA. 

lisque  elongatif?  erectis  in  elytris  obsita  ;  rostro  crassiuscixlo,  piinc- 
tato,  supra  baud  concavo,  oculis  rotundatis,  prominentibus ;  pro- 
thorace  convexo,  per  basin  ipsissimam  subsinuato  et  distincte  mar- 
ginato,  sat  profundc  subruguloso-punctato  punctiilisqne  minntis 
intermcdiis  valde  distinctis  parum  crebre  irrorato ;  elytris  sub- 
cylindricis,  profundc  punetato-striatis  ;  antennis  tarsisque  piceis  ; 
femoribus  tibiisque  nigris. 
In  utroque  sexu  fere  similis. — Long.  eorp.  lin.  3-4|. 

Atlantis  angustula,  Wall,  Ann.  Nat.  IliU.  xi.  219  (1863). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  sub  lapidibus  in  inferioribus  et  inter- 
mediis  late  diffusa. 

This  well-defined  species  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  Grand  Canary, 
where  it  is  probably  universal  at  low  and  intermediate  elevations. 
During  the  spring  of  1858  I  took  it  throughout  the  region  of  El 
Monte,  particularly  on  the  Bandama  mountain ;  as  also,  in  tolerable 
abundance,  at  Arguiniguin,  in  the  south-west  of  the  island ;  and  it 
was  captured  by  the  Eev.  R.  T.  Lowe  in  the  Isleta  (to  the  north  of 
Las  Palmas).  It  may  be  known  immediately  by  its  rather  narrow 
and  subcylindric  outline,  intensely  black  hue,  and  minutely  pubescent 
siuface  (which  is  studded  on  the  elytra  with  long,  erect  additional 
hairs),  by  its  rather  thick  rostrum  (which  is  7iot  concave  above,  as 
is  the  case  with  the  three  preceding  species),  by  its  prominent  eyes, 
by  its  roughly  punctured  and  somewhat  convex  prothorax  (which  is 
strongly  margined  along  its  posterior  edge),  and  by  its  sexes  being 
almost  identical  in  their  external  features. 

Genus  213.  LAPAROCERUS. 

Schonlierr,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  530  (1834J. 
As  may  be  gathered  from  a  glance  at  the  following  pages,  Lajmro- 
cerus  plays  a  most  significant  part  amongst  the  Canarian  Curculionicla; 
— no  less  than  thirty  well-defined  species  having  already  been  de- 
tected throughout  the  archipelago.  It  is  intimately  allied  to  the 
genus  Atlantis,  which  is  so  strongly  expressed  at  the  Madeiras,  but 
which  seems  to  have  but  few  representatives  (and  those  somewhat 
aberrant  ones)  in  these  islands.  It  would  appear  indeed  that,  whilst 
both  genera  are  foimd  in  the  two  Groups,  Laparocerus  is  as  essentially 
Canarian  as  Atlantis  is  Madeiran — since  but  three  exj)onents  of  the 
former  have  hitherto  been  observed  in  Madeira,  whilst  of  the  latter 
only  five  ahnormal  ones  have  yet  been  brought  to  light  at  the  Cana- 
ries. Apart  from  minor  distinctions,  the  Laparoceri  may  be  known 
immediately  from  the  Atlantides  by  the  construction  of  their  scape 
— which  is  excessively  slender  but  suddenly  clubbed  at  its  extreme 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEllA.  3-11 

apex,  whilst  in  Atlantis  that  portion  of  the  antennae  is  robust  and 
thick  throughout,  it  being  gradvAxlly  incrassated  from  its  base. 

530.  Laparocerus  morio. 

Laparocerus  morio,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  S^jec.  Cure.  ii.  531  (1834). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  3Iad.  360.  tab.  vii.  f.  1  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  113  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  mihi  baud  obvius,  a  Barone  "  Cas- 
tello  de  Paiva  "  benigne  communicatus. 

The  L.  morio,  which  absolutely  swarms  througbout  every  portion 
of  the  Madeiran  Group,  has  not  yet  come  beneatb  my  own  observa- 
tion in  these  islands.  Nevertheless  three  specimens  of  it  have  been 
communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  which  I  can  have 
no  doubt  are  (as  they  profess  to  be)  truly  Canarian,  so  that  I  have 
not  any  hesitation  in  admitting  the  species  into  this  Catalogue.  Two 
of  these,  he  informs  me,  were  captured  by  himself  on  a  dry  cindery 
hill  near  Orotava  in  Teneriffe,  whilst  the  other  was  sent  to  him  by 
a  Spanish  correspondent  from  Gomera. 

The  L.  morio  may  be  known  from  all  the  other  Laparoceri  here 
enumerated  by  its  dark  hue  and  dull,  most  minutely  pubescent  (but 
often  obscurely  subtessellated)  surface;  by  its  convex,  subglobose 
prothorax  (which  is  regularly  punctured  and  densely  beset  with  ex- 
tremely diminutive  punctules  between  the  larger  ones) ;  and  by  the 
structure  of  its  tibiae — the  anterior  four  of  which  are  more  evidently 
armed  with  a  minute  horizontal  spine  at  their  inner  apex,  whilst  the 
hinder  pair  of  the  males  have  their  internal  angle  largely  scooped 
out,  or  emarginated,  so  as  to  form  an  obtuse  and  slightly  prominent 
heel  at  a  considerable  distance  behind  the  extremity, 

531.  Laparocerus  sculptus. 

L.  brunneo-niger  (immaturus  rufo-brunneus),  subopacus,  minute  et 
densissime  sculpturatus  necnon  pube  minutissima  brevissima  de- 
missa  ubique  eonfertim  obsitus ;  prothorace  angustulo,  minute  et 
densissime  punctulato  ;  elytris  convexis,  basi  subrecte  truncatis, 
callo  humerah  incrassato,  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  minutissime 
et  densissime  transversim  substriguloso-rugatis ;  antennis  pedibus- 
que  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  Hn.  5|. 

Otiorhynchus  sculptus,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  71  (1838). 
Habitat  Palmam,  in  lauretis  editioribus  humidis,  rarissimus. 
The  nearly  opake  and  very  minutely  pubescent  surface  of  this  large 
Laparocerus,  in  conjunction  with  its  exceedingly  dense  but  extremely 
fine  sculpture  (the  head  and  prothorax  being  most  closely  and  deli- 


342  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

cately  pvuictulated,  whilst  the  elytra  are  roughened  by  diminutive, 
transversely-confluent  punctules  which  form  as  it  were  irregidar 
strigce),  will  sufficiently  characterize  it.  Its  prothorax,  like  that  of 
the  L.  undatus,  is  rather  narrow  and  slightly  conical ;  and  its  entire 
colour  when  immature  is  of  a  more  or  less  reddish  brown — except 
the  limbs,  which  are  pale  rufo -ferruginous.  Hitherto  I  have  met 
with  it  only  in  the  laurel-districts  of  the  island  of  Palma,  where  it 
would  seem  to  be  extremely  rare  in  damp  spots  of  intermediate  and 
rather  lofty  elevations.  I  captured  the  four  specimens  (female  ones) 
from  which  the  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  towards  the  upper  ex- 
tremity of  the  Barranco  de  Galga,  and  on  the  ascent  of  the  Cumbre 
above  Buenavista*. 

532.  Laparocerus  undatus,  n.  sp. 

L.  subellipticus,  niger,  obsoletissime  subfenesceus,  subnitidus ;  rostro 
longiusculo  ;  prothorace  angustido,  inajqualiter  subpunctulato-ru- 
guloso  et  punctis  majoribus  levibus  parce  adsperso ;  elytris  basi 
subrecte  truncatis,  postice  subproducto-acutiusculis,  callo  humerali 
incrassato,  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  undulato-insequahbus,  sub- 
rugulosis,  punctis  perpaucis  magnis  sed  valde  levibus  notatis  et 
pilis  brevibus  suberectis  cinereis  valde  remotis  obsitis  ;  antennis 
tarsisque  ferrugineis  ;  femoribus  tibiisque  nigro-piceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  5|-5|^. 

Habitat  in  humidis  sylvaticis  TenerifiPae,  supra  Tagananam  captus. 

This  is  perhaps,  on  the  average,  the  largest  of  the  Canarian  Lapa- 
roceri  as  yet  detected  ;  and  it  may  at  once  be  known  by  its  somewhat 
elliptic  outline  (it  being  rather  acute  both  before  and  behind) ;  by 
its  only  slightly  shining,  dull-black  surface,  which  has  a  just  percep- 
tible senescent  tinge ;  and  by  its  elytral  interstices  being  waved  (or 
undulated) ,  less  evidently  transversely- strigulose  than  in  the  L.  sculp- 
tus,  but  with  a  few  very  large  though  extremely  shallow  punctures, 
as  well  as  a  few  exceedingly  distant,  suberect  haii's,  down  each. 
Like  the  L.  scidptus  it  is  of  the  greatest  rarity,  being  attached  to 
similar  spots  as  that  insect,  though  in  Teneriife  instead  of  Palma, 
Indeed  the  only  region  in  which  I  have  observed  it  hitherto  is,  at  a 
high  elevation,  on  the  damp  laurel-clad  mountains  above  Taganana 
— where  during  May  of  1859  I  met  with  the  four  specimens  (all 
females)  from  which  my  diagnosis  has  been  drawn  out. 

*  Althougli  M.  Brulle's  "  description  "  does  not  indicate  a  single  character  by 
which  his  Otiorhynchus  scidptiin  could  by  any  possibility  be  identified,  I  am 
nevertheless  enabled  to  state  for  certain  that  the  present  Laparocerus  is  the  species 
to  which  he  referred,  having  myself  examined  his  type,  which  still  exists  at  Paris, 
in  the  collection  at  the  Jardin  des  Plantes. 


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533.  Laparocerus  excavatus. 
L.  niger,  nitidus,  fere  calvus ;  prothorace  convexo,  minutissime,  dense 
et  levissime  punctulato  punctisqiie  majoribus  sed  vix  profundis 
parce  (in  disco  antico  saepius  parcissime)  notato,  fere  simplici  (i.  e. 
in  medio  \dx  lineato);  elytris  basi  subbisinuato-truncatis,  callo 
humerali  valde  incrassato,  profimde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis 
minutissime  transversim  substriguloso-rugatis  et  punctis  (versus 
suturam  parvis)  remote  obsitis ;  antennis  rufo-ferrugineis,  pedibus 
rufo-piceis. 
Mas  saepius  subiiitidior,  tibiis  anticis  intus  versus  apicem  profunde 

excavatis,  posticis  fortiter  sed  parce  serratis. 
Foem.  ssepius  subopacior,  tibiis  fere  simplicibus. 
Var.  /3.  lugahris  [an  species?].  Paulo  major,  opacior  et  fere  omnino 
(etiam  ociilo  fortissime  armato)  calvus ;  prothorace  densius  punc- 
tate ;  elytrorum  interstitiis  magis  asqualibus  punctulisquo  minoi'i- 
bus  adspersis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5i. 

Laparocerus  excavatus,  JVoll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  xi.  219  (I860). 
Habitat  in  montibus  sjlvaticis  TeneriflPae,  prsesertim  inter  muscos 
et  Hchenes  ad  truncos  arborum  crescentes,  necnon  sub  ligno  marcido 
latens. 

The  present  insect,  which  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  Tene- 
riife,  is  essentially  a  sylvan  one, — the  few  examples  which  I  have  met 
with  in  more  barren  spots  being,  as  I  should  imaghie,  the  result  of  an 
accidental  transportation,  either  through  the  instrumentality  of  floods 
or  other  contingencies.  Thus,  for  instance,  it  is  rather  common  on  the 
damp  laurel-clad  mountains  at  Las  Mercedes  (beneath  stones,  pieces 
of  wood,  and  under  moss  and  lichen  growing  upon  the  trunks  of 
trees);  and  on  one  occasion  I  captured  a  stray  specimen,  at  an  alti- 
tude only  slightly  higher  than  that  of  S'''  Cruz,  even  towards  the  en- 
trance of  the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto — ivliicli,  however,  takes  its  rise 
in  the  Las  Mercedes  ratige.  But  in  the  forest  districts  of  intermediate 
and  rather  lofty  elevations  it  appears  to  be  pretty  widely  spread  over 
the  island.  On  the  sylvan  slopes  above  Taganana  and  Point  Anaga, 
as  well  as  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  it  is  by  no  means  scarce. 

The  L. excavatus  may  be  recognized  by  its  dark,  shining,  and  (except 
under  a  high  magnifying  power)  almost  glabrous  surface — there  being 
only  a  few  longer  hairs  at  the  apex  of  its  elytra ;  by  its  convex  pro- 
thorax,  which  is  a  good  deal  rounded  at  the  sides,  most  minutely, 
finely,  and  densely  pimctulated,  and  with  larger  and  deeper  punctures 
(which  are  usually  more  or  less  obsolete  on  the  anterior  disc)  sparingly 
intermixed ;  by  the  front  tibiae  of  its  male  sex  being  deeply  scooped 
out  internally,  whilst  the  hinder  pair  are  powerfully  crenulated  ;  and 
by  its  elytra  being  somewhat  bisinuated  along  their  basal  edge,  with 


344  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

their  humeral  callus  a  good  deal  developed,  and  with  their  interstices 
rather  coarsely  transversely-substrigulose  and  studded  with  remote, 
shallow  punctures — which  are  tolerably  large  towards  either  side, 
but  smaller  and  less  impressed  towards  the  suture. 

The  few  specimens  which  I  have  treated,  in  my  diagnosis,  as  a 
"  var.  jS  "  of  the  present  species,  and  which  I  hardly  imagine  can  be 
truly  distinct,  are  a  little  larger  and  less  shining  than  the  ordinary 
type,  ^vith  their  prothorax  more  closely  sculptured,  with  their  elytral 
interstices  more  even  (caused  partially  by  the  few  scattered  punctures 
being  smaller),  and  with  their  entire  surface  even  balder  still, — the 
minute  hairs  with  which  the  species  is  sparingly  beset  being  so  di- 
minutive as  to  be  scarcely  traceable  even  beneath  the  microscope.  One 
of  them  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  on  the  subsylvan  mountains  above 
Ycod  el  Alto ;  and  the  remainder  by  myself  at  the  Agua  Garcia. 

534.  Laparocems  grossepunctatus,  n.  sp. 

L.  subellipticus,  niger  (vix  obsoletissime  subaenescens),  parum  nitidus, 
parce  metallico-squamosus  ;  rostro  subgracili,  grosse  punctato,  pro- 
funde  canalieulato  ;  prothorace  parvo,  profunde  punctato  pixnctu- 
lisque  minutis  intermediis  sat  dense  irrorato,  in  medio  simplici  (?'.  e. 
baud  lineato) ;  elytris  apice  acutiusculis,  callo  himierali  fere  obso- 
leto,  profunde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  inaequalibus,  pimctis 
perjiaucis  maximis  profundis  notatis  et  pilis  suberectis  valde  re- 
motis  proesertim  postice  obsitis  ;  antennis  rufo-ferrugineis,  pedibus 
piceis. 

Mas  tibiis  auticis  intus  versus  apicem  leviter  sinuato-excavatis,  pos- 
ticis  intus  rectis  et  minutissime  subcrenulatis. 

Fcem.  tibiis  fere  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4. 

Habitat  in  lauretis  humidis  TeneriffiB,  rarissimus. 

The  only  two  examples  of  this  Laparocerus  which  I  have  yet  seen 
were  captured  by  myself  in  Teneriffe,  on  the  damp  laurel- clad  moun- 
tains above  Taganana,  during  May  of  1859.  The  species  may  easily 
be  known  by  its  rather  narrow  and  deeply  channeled  rostrum,  by  its 
somewhat  small  and  coarsely  punctured  prothorax,  by  its  surface 
being  more  or  less  sparingly  tessellated  with  metallic  scales,  and  by 
the  immense  punctures  of  its  elytral  interstices.  It  is  the  last  of  these 
characters,  in  conjunction  with  its  somewhat  narrower  rostrum  and 
its  totalh/  unkeeled  and  rather  less  basally-margined  prothorax,  which 
appears  to  distinguish  it  prlncipalhj  from  the  L,  squamosus. 

535.  Laparocerus  squamosus. 

L.  niger  vel  piceo-niger,  parum  nitidus,  parcc  metallico-squamosus  ; 
rostro  crassiusculo,  grosse  longitudinaliter  striguloso-punctato,  pro- 


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funde  canaliculato  ;  prothorace  angustulo,  profunde  punctato  punc- 
tulisque  minutis  intermediis  irrorato,  in  medio  obsolete  carinato, 
per  basin  anguste  sensim  marginato ;  elytris  callo  humerali  fere 
obsoleto,  profunde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  punctis  valde  per- 
paucis  levibus  notatis  et  pilis  brevibus  suberectis  remotis  prsesertim 
postice  obsitis ;  aji tennis  rufo-ferrugineis,  pedibus  rufo-piceis. 

Mas  tibiis  anticis  intus  versus  apicem  vix  sinuato-excavatis,  posticis 
intus  rectis  et  minutissime  subcrenulatis. 

Foem.  tibiis  fere  simplicibus. — Long,  corp,  lin.  3^4. 

Otiorhynchus  squamosus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (  Col.)  71  (1838). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  intermediis  Teneriffae,  rarissimus. 

The  rather  small,  deeply  and  somewhat  densely  punctured  pro- 
thorax  of  this  species,  which  is  obsoletely  keeled  down  the  middle  and 
narrowly  (but  conspicuously)  margined  along  its  basal  edge,  combined 
with  its  roughly  longitudinally-sculptured,  rather  deeply  channeled 
rostrum,  and  its  coarsely  punctate-striated  elytra,  which  (even  in 
unrubbed  examples)  seem  to  be  but  sparingly  squamose  and  studded 
(particularly  on  their  posterior  half)  with  a  few  short,  very  distant, 
and  suberect  bail's,  will  serve  to  distinguish  it  from  its  allies.  Its  in- 
terstices are  most  remotely  besprinkled  with  a  very  few  shallow  punc- 
tures, which  are  nearly  evanescent  towards  the  suture  ;  and  its  pos- 
terior male  tibire  are  rather  sharp  and  straightened  along  their  inner 
edge,  where  they  are  very  minutely  and  obscurely  crenulated.  I 
have  little  hesitation  in  identifjing  it  with  M.  Brulle's  Otiorhynchus 
squamosus,  since  the  type  of  that  insect,  which  I  examined  in  Paris, 
although  a  very  unsatisfactory  one,  appeared  to  agree  sufficiently  weU 
\vith  the  few  examples  (captured  by  myself  in  the  intermediate  ele- 
vations of  Teneriffe,  namely  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  A.gua  Mansa,  and 
Ycod  el  Alto)  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  drawn  out. 
M.  Brulle's  descrijition  applies  equally  to  the  whole  of  these  imme- 
diate species,  containing  no  allusion  to  any  single  feature  which  could 
possibly  be  regarded  as  diagnostic. 

536.  Laparocerus  crassirostris,  n.  sp. 

L.  angustulo-elongatus,  subdepressus,  fusco-piceus,  subnitidus,  parce 
metaUico-squamoso-tessellatus  sed  pilis  superadditis  fere  carens ; 
capite  crasso,  minutissime  et  dense  punctulato,  rostro  brevi  crasso 
subquadrato  vix  canaliculato  sed  postice  inter  oculos  fovea  magna 
profunda  impresso ;  prothorace  brevi,  apice  subsinuato-truncato, 
minute  et  dense  punctulato  pimctisque  majoribus  (sed  hand  magnis) 
sat  crebre  obsito  ;  elytris  elongato-suboblongis,  pimctato-striatis ; 
antennis  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  pedibus  rufo-piceis. 

Mas  (nisi  fallor)  tibiis  (etiam  posticis)  intus  simplicibus. 

Fosm.  adhuc  latct. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|. 


346  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canariae  Grandis  ;  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  ex- 
emplar unicuni  in  pineto  quodam  excelso  regionis  "  Tarajana"  dictse 
deprehendi. 

In  its  narrow,  elongate  outline,  its  short,  thick  rostrum,  and  its  api- 
cally  truncated  prothorax,  the  specimen  from  which  the  above  dia- 
gnosis has  been  compiled  somewhat  resembles  at  first  sight  a  Brachy- 
deres ;  nevertheless  its  longer  antennae  and  dififerently  formed  scrobs, 
in  conjunction  with  the  deeply  excavated  tip  of  its  rostrum  and  the 
excessively  minute  subhorizontal  spine  with  which  the  inner  angle 
of  its  tibiae  is  armed,  will  of  themselves  at  once  remove  it  from  the 
members  of  that  group.  Amongst  the  Laparoceri  it  (or  at  any  rate 
the  sex  which  I  have  examined)  is  remarkable  for  its  slender,  elon- 
gate form  and  comparatively  depressed,  brownish-piceous  surface  ; 
for  its  rostrum  being  short,  thick,  subquadrate,  and  densely  and  mi- 
nutely punctulated,  but  only  slightly  channeled  ;  by  its  thick  forehead 
having  a  very  deep  longitudinal  fovea  between  the  eyes  ;  and  by  its 
prothorax  being  rather  abbreviated,  much  truncated  (and  faintly  sub- 
sinuate)  along  its  anterior  edge,  and  with  the  double  system  of  punc- 
tures comparatively  dense  and  well  defined.  The  individual  described 
from  was  taken  by  myself,  during  April  1858,  in  the  lofty  Pinal  of 
Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolome,  in  the  centre  of  Grand  Canary. 

537.  Laparocerus  crassifrons. 

L.  niger  vel  piceo-niger,  parum  nitidus,  plus  minus  dense  et  grosse 
submetallico-squamoso-tessellatus  ;  capite  convexo,  crasso,  rostro 
crasso  subtriangulari  grosse  denseque  punctato  et  profunde  canali- 
ciilato,  oculis  sat  parvis  rotundatis  ;  prothorace  convexo,  punctato 
punctulisque  minutis  intermediis  dense  irrorato  ;  elytris  oblongo- 
subovalibus,  callo  humerali  obsolete,  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis 
vix  punctulatis  et  pUis  brevibus  suberectis  remotis  pra^sertim  postice 
obsitis  ;  antennis  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  pedibus  rufo-piceis. 
Mas  angustior,  nitidior,  elytris  profundius  striatis. 
Fcem.  latior,  paulo  opacior,  elytris  minus  profunde  striatis. — Long, 
corp.  Hn.  3^5, 

Laparocerus  crassifrons,  Woll,  Aii/i.  Nat.  Hist.  xi.  220  (1863). 
Habitat  sub  lapidibus  scoriisque  in  regionibus  valde  elevatis  Tene- 
riffoe,  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  present  Laparocerus,  which  is  most  variable  in  stature,  seems  to 
be  peculiar  to  the  lofty  altitudes  of  Teneriffe  which  are  characterized 
by  the  presence  of  the  Sparfmni  nuhigetui  (or  "  Retama  "),  above  the 
sylvan  districts,  and  embracing  from  about  6000  to  9000  feet  above 
the  sea.  In  such  situations  it  abounds,  beneath  scoriae,  on  the  ele- 
vated Cumbre  adjoining  the  Canadas,  above  Ycod  el  Alto ;    as  well 


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as  on  the  opposite  Cumbre,  above  the  Agua  Mansa, — on  both  of  which 
I  met  with  it  in  profusion  during  May  1859,  and  on  the  former  of 
which  it  has  lately  been  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

The  L.  crassifrons  may  be  known  by  its  convex  head  and  thick, 
subtriangular,  coarsely  punctured  rostrum ;  by  its  convex  and  rather 
densely  punctured  prothorax  (on  which  the  larger  and  smaller  systems 
of  punctures  are  strongly  expressed);  by  its  somewhat  oblong-oval 
elytra  (which  have  their  humeral  callus  and  the  punctures  of  their 
interstices  obsolete) ;  and  by  its  surface  being  more  or  less  clothed 
with  robust,  yellowish- brown, and  but  faintly  metallic,  piliform  scales. 

538.  Laparocerus  scapularis,  n.  sp. 

L.  fere  ut  L.  crassifrons,  sed  multo  minor,  rostro  graciliore  (vix  lon- 
giore)  et  minus  tiiangulari,  oculis  minoribus  rotundatioribus  et 
paulo  magis  prominentibus,  prothorace  minus  profunde  sed  magis 
confertim  punctato,  elytris  vix  magis  pilosis  necnon  ad  apicem  ip- 
sum  sensim  magis  deflexis,  antennis  pedibusque  brevioribus  et 
saepius  paUidioribus,  illarum  scapo  magis  curvato,  horum  tarsis 
sensim  angustioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-1—3. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  excelsam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  prsecedens :  sub 
lapidibus  et  scoriis  inter  arbusculas  Spartii  nubigence  humi  jacentibus 
etiam  ultra  9000'  s.  m.  ascendit. 

In  habits  the  L.  scapularis  does  not  differ  from  the  L.  crassifrons, 
with  which  indeed  it  is  found  in  company — on  the  elevated  Cumbres 
of  Teneriffe,  from  about  6000  to  at  least  9000  feet  above  the  sea. 
It  may,  however,  be  easily  recognized  from  it  by  its  considerably 
smaller  bulk ;  by  its  rostrum  being  slenderer,  and  (though  scarcely 
longer)  rather  straighten'  at  the  sides,  or  less  triangular;  by  its  eyes 
being  smaller,  rounder,  and  more  prominent ;  by  its  prothorax  being 
less  deeply  and  more  closely  punctured ;  by  its  elytra  being  usually 
perhaps  a  trifle  more  pilose,  and  just  perceptibly  more  decurved  at 
their  apex ;  and  by  its  antennae  and  legs  being  shorter  and  generally 
paler,  with  the  scape  of  the  former  more  curved,  and  the  feet  of  the 
latter  distinctly  narrower.  I  took  it  less  abundantly  than  the  L. 
crassifrons ;  and  I  have  three  specimens  now  before  me  which  were 
captured  on  the  Canadas  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

539.  Laparocerus  setMops,  n.  sp. 

L.  ater,  nitidus,  ealvus ;  rostro  subconcavo,  sat  profunde  longitudi- 
naliter  punctato,  leviter  canaliculato ;  prothorace  subconvexo,  ad 
latera  rotundato,  sequaliter  et  sat  profunde  punctato  punctulisque 
minutissimis  intermediis  indistinctis  irrorato ;  elytris  punctato- 
striatis,  interstitiis  punctulis  perpaucis  minutissimis  notatis ;  an- 


348  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

tennis  tarsisque  fcrrugineis  ;  femoribns  tibiisquc  piceo-nigris,  ge- 
nibus  nifescentioribus. — Long.  corj).  lin.  35-4. 

Habitat  in  montibus  ins.  Hierro,  sub  lapidibus  in  graminosis  apertis 
degens. 

The  bald,  shining,  and  intensely  black  surface  of  this  species,  com- 
bined with  its  rather  excavated,  or  concave,  rostrum,  its  evenly 
punctured  and  laterally-rounded  prothorax  and  the  excessively  minute 
punctules  of  its  interstices,  wiU  serve  to  separate  it  from  all  the  other 
Laparoceri  here  enumerated.  So  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto,  it 
is  confined  to  the  lofty  elevations  of  Hierro — where,  on  the  21st  of 
February  1858,  I  met  with  it,  beneath  stones,  on  the  open  grassy 
Cumbre  immediately  above  the  district  of  El  Golfo,  whilst  crossing 
the  (comparatively  flat)  mountain-region  which  constitutes  the  cen- 
tral ridge,  or  backbone,  of  that  remote  island. 

540.  Laparocerus  hirtus,  n.  sp. 

L.  nigcr,  vix  sxiboenescens,  nitidus,  parce  submetallico-squamoso-tes- 
sellatus  pilisque  longissimis  mollibus  crectis  prasscrtim  in  elj'tris 
obsitus ;  prothorace  parvo,  breviusculo,  subconvexo,  grosse  punc- 
tato  sed  punctulis  intermediis  minutissimis  fere  obsoletis ;  elytris 
oblongis,  profunda  punetato-striatis,  interstitiis  altcrnis  (prajsertim 
postice  et  ad  latera)tubcrciJato-ina3qualibus,tubercuHs  paulo  squa- 
moso-fasciculatis  ;  antennis  tarsisque  ferrugineis,  femoribus  tibiis- 
que  ferrugineo-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  4, 

Habitat  in  montibus  Cauaria3  Grandis,  semel  tantum  lectus. 

The  exceedingly  elongate,  soft,  and  erect  hairs  with  which  this 
LajMrocerus  is  rather  densely  studded  (particularly  on  its  elytra),  in 
conj  miction  with  the  large  but  not  very  deep  jmnctui'es  of  its  small 
and  transverse  prothorax  (on  which  the  intermediate  punctules  ap- 
pear to  be  almost  obsolete),  and  its  oblong  and  deeply  pimctate-stri- 
ated  elji;ra,  which  have  their  alternate  interstices  (at  any  rate  towards 
the  sides  and  behind)  undulated  with  large  and  slightly  squamose 
tubercles,  will  sufficiently  characterize  it.  It  is  barely  possible  that 
it  may  be  but  an  insular  modification  (peculiar  to  Grand  Canary)  of 
the  following  species, — a  question,  however,  which  can  be  decided 
only  by  the  inspection  of  further  material.  The  unique  example 
from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  drawn  out  was  captured 
by  myself  on  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary  (I  believe,  in  the  lofty 
Pinal  above  San  Bartolome,  in  the  district  of  Tarajana),  during  the 
spring  of  1858. 

541.  Laparocerus  insequalis. 
L.  a;ncscenti-nigcr,  nitidus,  parce  submetallico-squamoso-tessellatus 


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pilisque  plus  minus  elongatis  ereetis  fulvescentibus  praesertim  in 
elytris  parce  obsitus  ;  prothoraee  parvo,  angusto,  subcylindi'ico- 
conico,  sat  grosse  sed  vix  profunde  punetato  punctulisque  minu- 
tissimis  intermediis  dense  irrorato  ;  elytris  latiusculis,  subquadrato- 
oblongis,  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  alternis  valde  taberculato- 
inaequalibus,  tuberculis  paulo  fulvescenti-squamoso-fasciculatis  ; 
antennis,  tibiis  tarsisque  ferrugineis,  femoribus  ferrugineo-piceis. 
—  Long.  Corp.  lin.  3-4. 

Laparocerus  inrequalis,  Wall.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  xi.  220  (1863). 
Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  in  lauretis  editioribus  supra  Taga- 
nanam  Maio  exeunte  a.d.  1859  sat  copiose  deprehensus. 

This  distinct  and  beautiful  Laparocenis  appears  to  be  confined  to 
the  damp  laurel-clad  regions  of  a  high  elevation  in  Teneriffe.  It 
may  readily  be  known  by  its  distinctly  jenescent  tinge  ;  by  its  surface 
being  more  or  less  sparingly  clothed  with  dull  metalKc-yellow,  or 
brownish-golden,  scales,  as  well  as  studded  (particularly  on  the  ely- 
tra) with  distant  and  suberect  fulvescent  hairs  ;  by  its  narrow,  sub- 
cylindric- conical  pro  thorax  being  beset  with  rather  large  but  not 
very  deep  punctures,  and  with  the  intermediate  punctules  close  and 
apparent ;  and  by  its  wide,  squarish-oblong  elytra  having  their 
alternate  interstices  more  powerfully  undulated  (and  fasciculated) 
with  large  squamose  tubercles  than  is  the  case  in  the  L.  Jiirtiis — an 
arrangement  which  causes  them  to  be,  also,  for  the  most  part,  more 
conspicuously  tessellated  with  small  tufts  of  fulvescent,  or  brownish- 
golden,  scales. 

The  specimens  (34  in  number)  which  I  have  examined  hitherto 
of  the  L.  incequaUs  were  all  brushed  from  out  of  the  rank  fern,  and 
other  vegetation,  at  the  edges  of  the  Vueltas  leading  down  to  Taga- 
nana,  through  the  dense  forest  of  laurels,  from  the  Cumbre  above  it, 
during  May  1859. 

542.  Laparocerus  globulipennis,  n.  sp. 

L.  speciei  praecedenti  similis,  sed  colore  squamisque  omnino  obscimo- 
ribus,  elytris  sensim  rotmidatioribus  (/.  e.  paulo  minus  oblongis), 
ad  humeros  vix  magis  prominentibus,  profimdius  punctato-striatis, 
pilis  paulo  longioribus,  magis  mollibus  ac  minus  fulvescentibus 
obsitis,  necnon  in  interstitiis  alternis  minus  conspicue  faseiculato- 
tuberculatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4. 

Habitat  in  locis  similibus  ac  prsecedens,  sed  in  Palma  (nee  Tene- 
riffa). 

The  only  two  examples  of  this  species  which  I  have  seen  were 
taken  by  myself,  during  May  1858,  in  the  damp  laurel-woods  towards 
the  upper  extremity  of  the  Barranco  de  Galga,  in  Palma.     It  would 


350  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

seem,  therefore,  to  be  the  representative  in  that  island  of  the  Tene- 
rifFan  L.  mce.qtiaUs  ;  for  I  think  it  would  certainly  be  unsafe  to  treat 
it  as  an  insular  modification  of  the  same.  It  may  be  known  from 
its  ally  by  the  altogether  darker  colour  both  of  its  surface  and  clothing ; 
and  by  its  elytra  being  a  little  rounder  or  more  ventricose,  with  the 
punctures  of  their  striae  considerably  larger,  the  hairs  with  which 
they  are  studded  somewhat  longer,  softer,  and  less  fulvescent,  and 
with  their  alternate  interstices  less  conspicuously  imdulated  with  ob- 
tuse tubercles — the  tubercles  themselves  being  not  only  less  elevated, 
or  defined,  but  also  less  clothed  (and  more  darkly  so)  with  decum- 
bent scales. 

543.  Laparocerus  occidentalis,  n.  sp. 

L.  niger  vel  fusco-niger,  subnitidus,  parce  et  obscure  submetallico- 
squamoso-tessellatus  sed  pilis  superadditis  carens  (tan turn  setulis 
minutissimis  brevissimis  demissis  obsitus)  ;  rostro  subplano ;  pro- 
thorace  angustulo,  subconvexo,  ad  latera  rotundato,  profunde  et 
aequaKter  punctato  punctulisque  minutissimis  intermediis  distinctis 
crebre  irrorato ;  elytris  ovalibus,  latiusculis,  crassis,  convexis,  punc- 
tato-striatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  breviusculis,  robustis,  illis  tar- 
sisque  ferrugineis,  scapo  curvato  ;  femoribus  tibiisqiie  piceis  ;  pe- 
dibus  liosticis  prtesertim  brevibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4^. 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro,  ad  rupes  humidas  sylvaticas  excelsas  in 
regione  "El  Golfo"  dicta  mense  FebruarioA.D.1858  a  meipso  repertus. 

The  unique  example  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been 
compiled  was  captured  by  myself,  during  February  1858,  from  amongst 
vegetation  on  some  wet  rocks  at  a  lofty  elevation  in  the  island  of 
Hierro — namely,  on  the  wooded  mountains  above  the  district  of  El 
Golfo.  It  may  readily  be  known  by  its  large  size  and  only  slightly 
shining,  obscure-  (though  scarcely  brownish-)  black  surface ;  by  its 
rostrum  being  somewhat  flattened,  and  with  the  channel  not  much 
impressed  ;  by  its  prothorax  being  regularly,  evenly,  and  deeply  punc- 
tured, with  the  minute  intermediate  punctules  close  and  distinct ;  by 
its  elytra  being  thick,  oval,  and  convex  (the  alternate  interstices  not 
being  tubercled  as  in  the  three  preceding  species) ;  by  its  antennae 
and  legs  (particularly  the  posterior  pair)  being  rather  short  and  ro- 
bust (the  former,  also,  having  their  scape  a  good  deal  curved) ;  by 
its  scales  being  of  a  dull  brownish-metallic  hue ;  and  by  its  surface 
being  free  from  additional  erect  hairs,  though  beset  on  the  elytra 
(especially  behind)  with  excessively  abbreviated  and  minute  decum- 
bent seta;.  The  L.  occidentalis,  gJohtdipennis,  inaqualis,  and  hirttis, 
although  most  distinct  inter  se,  belong  to  much  the  same  fy2^e ;  and 
perhaps  the  oht riangularis  might  be  included  with  them. 


CANADIAN  COLKOPTERA.  351 

544.  Laparocerus  obtriangularis,  n.  sp, 
L.  niger,  vix  subaenescens,  subnitidus,  parce  metallico-squamoso-tes- 
sellatus  pilisque  longiusculis  suberectis  robustis  nigrescentibus  in 
elytris  parce  obsitus  ;  rostro  angustulo,  longiusculo,  oculis  subde- 
missis  ;  prothorace  subcylindrico,  grosse  et  profimde  rugoso-punc- 
tato,  in  disco  antico  leviter  canaliciilato  ;  elytris  obtriangularibus 
(basi  latis  truncatis,  ad  humeros  siibporrectis,  apicem  versus  gra- 
datim  acutioribus),  profunde  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis  tarsisque 
ferrugineis  ;  femoribus  tibiisque  fiisco-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam,  semel  tantum  lectus. 

The  only  example  (a  female)  which  I  have  yet  seen  of  this  Lapa- 
rocerus was  taken  by  myself  in  the  sylvan  regions  of  Teneriffe — 1 
believe,  at  the  Agua  Mansa.  It  may  immediately  be  recognized  by 
its  rather  elongate  rostrum  and  its  subcylindrical,  rugosely  punctured 
prothorax,  by  the  obtriangular  outline  of  its  sparingly  setose  elytra 
(which  are  wide  and  truncated  at  the  base,  with  the  shoulders 
slightly  porrect,  and  gradually  acuter  to  the  apex),  and  by  its  surface 
being  tessellated  with  robust,  greenish-metallic  scales.  It  is  pro- 
bable, however,  that  the  peculiarity  in  the  shape  of  its  elytra  would 
(as  in  the  case  of  the  Atlantis  canariensls)  be  less  expressed  in  the 
male  sex. 

545.  Laparocerus  eUipticus. 

L.  vel  ferruginous  vel  piceus,  subnitidus,  dense  et  grosse  sericeo- 
metallico-squamoso-tesseUatus  pilisque  elongatis  suberectis  versus 
elytrorum  apicem  obsitus  ;  rostro  crasso,  leviter  canaliculato,  oculis 
magnis ;  prothorace  parvo,  angusto,  subcylindrico,  ruguloso-sub- 
alutaceo,  parce  et  leviter  punctato,  per  basin  subemarginato  ;  ely- 
tris convexis,  ovato-ellipticis  (versus  humeros  angustis,  inde  pone 
medium  gradatim  latioribus,  sed  ad  apicem  parum  subito  acutis), 
basi  conjunctim  trisinuatis,  leviter  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  al- 
ternis  plus  minus  laete  tessellatis  ;  antennis  subrobustis  pedibusque 
rufo-ferrugineis  (femoribus  tibiisque  ssepe  obscurioribus). 

Mas  vix  minor,  angustior,  tibiis  paulo  magis  curvatis  necnon  ad 
apicem  internum  distinctius  uncinatis. 

Fcem.  vix  major,  latior,  tibiis  paulo  rectioribus,  ad  apicem  internum 
fere  simplicibus.— Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Laparocerus  eUipticus,  Woll.,  Aim.  Nat.  Hist.  xi.  220  (1863). 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  excelsis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  vel  inter  muscos 
lichenesque  ad  truncos  arborum  crescentes,vel  subcortice  laxo  latitans. 

This  large  and  beautiful  Laparocerus,  which  I  have  observed 
hitherto  only  at  a  rather  high  elevation  within  the  sylvan  districts  of 
Teneriffe  and  Palma,  is  at  once  conspicuous  by  its  sericeous,  densely 
squamose  surface  (the  preponderating  colour  of  the  scales  being  either 
an  obscure  metallic  green  or  a  pale  coppery  or  golden  brown)  and 


352  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

by  its  peculiar  outline, — the  prothorax  being  extremely  smaU  and 
narrow,  whilst  the  elytra  are  inflated  and  convex  (being  much  rounded- 
off  at  the  shoulders,  gradually  widened  to  behind  the  middle,  and 
then  suddenly  contracted  so  as  to  cause  the  apex  to  be  pointed  and 
acute).  In  minor  respects,  it  may  be  known  by  its  large  (but  not 
particularly  prominent)  eyes  ;  by  its  prothorax  (which  is  subemargi- 
nated  along  its  posterior  edge)  having  its  punctures  rather  fine  and 
tolerably  distant ;  by  its  elytra  (which  are  somewhat  trisinuated  at 
their  base)  having  their  alternate  interstices  more  or  less  conspi- 
cuously tessellated,  and  their  apical  portion  beset  with  a  few  long 
and  suberect  hairs ;  and  by  its  antennae  being  a  trifle  thicker  than 
is  the  case  in  the  ordinary  Laparoceri . 

Although  by  no  means  common,  the  L.  elJipticus  appears  to  be  uni- 
versal throughout  the  wooded  regions  of  Teneriffe,  particularly  in  the 
laurel-forests  of  a  rather  high  elevation.  I  have  taken  it  by  brush- 
ing the  dense  herbage  in  the  rankest  and  dampest  spots,  and  also  from 
amongst  the  moss  and  lichen  growing  on  the  trunks  of  trees,  as  well 
as  from  beneath  dead,  loosened  bark  (where  it  delights  to  secrete 
itself).  In  such  situations  I  have  frequently  met  with  it  at  Las 
Mercedes,  Taganana,  the  Agua  Garcia,  &c.  It  was  also  captured  by 
the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe  at  a  lofty  altitude  on  the  mountains  above  the 
Agua  Mansa ;  and  it  has  recently  been  communicated  by  the  Barao 
do  Castello  de  Paiva.  During  May  of  1858  I  obtained  it,  in  similar 
situations,  in  the  island  of  Palma. 

546.  Laparocerus  lepidopterus,  n.  sp. 

L.  niger  vel  piceo-niger,  subopacus,  dense  submetallico-squamoso- 
tessellatus  piHsque  plus  minus  elongatis  mollibus  erectis  in  elytris 
obsitus  ;  rostro  crassiusculo,  subdepresso,  leviter  canaliculate,  ocuhs 
magnis,  oblongis,  hand  valde  promincntibus  ;  prothorace  ad  latera 
rotundato,  in  disco  leviter  scd  utrinque  profundius  subremote  pune- 
tato  punctulisque  intermediis  valde  distinctis  dense  irrorato,  obso- 
lete carinato  ;  elytris  oblongo-ovalibus,  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis 
tarsisque  rufo-ferrugineis ;  femoribus  tibiisque  sajpius  obscuriori- 
bus. 

Var.  /3  [an  species  ?].  Vix  minor,  colore  obscuriore,  nitidior,  protho- 
race paulo  levins  punctato,  elytrorum  pilis  brevioribus.  [/».s.  Ca- 
naria  Grandis.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  4- 4i. 

Habitat  in  Teneriff'a,  Palma  et  Hierro,  in  sylvaticis  rarissimus : 
"  var.  ft  "  ad  Canariam  Grandem  pertinet. 

The  four  examples  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled, collected  in  widely  distant  localities  (indeed,  each  of  them,  in 
different  islands),  have  perhaps  fewer  distinguishing  characteristics 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  353 

than  is  the  case  with  any  of  the  other  Lcqiaroceri  here  enumerated ; 
and  I  feel  therefore  that  fiu'ther  material  must  be  obtained  before  we 
are  able  to  pronounce  satisfactorily  on  the  limits  of  the  species,  and 
to  decide  whether  or  not  what  I  have  now  regarded  as  the  "  var.  /3  " 
(from  Grand  Canary)  should  rank  as  a  separate  though  nearly  allied 
form.  The  L.  lepidopterus  appears  to  be  a  sylvan  insect ;  and  its 
most  marked  features  seem  to  consist  in  its  surface  being  somewhat 
opake,  of  a  dull  ijiceous-black,  and  densely  tessellated  with  brownish- 
or  fulvo-metallic  scales,  whilst  its  elytra  are  additionally  beset  with 
fine,  erect,  elongate  hairs  ;  in  its  rostrum  being  thickish  and  flat- 
tened, and  with  the  central  channel  but  lightly  impressed  anteriorly  ; 
in  its  eyes  being  large  and  oblong,  but  not  very  prominent ;  in  its 
prothorax  being  rather  sparingly  punctured  (finely  so  on  the  disc), 
but  with  the  intermediate  punctules  dense  and  conspicuous ;  and  in 
its  oblong-ovate  elytra  not  being  very  coarsely  punctate-sti'iated. 
Whether  the  males  present  any  tibial  modifications  I  am  unable  to 
state,  the  female  sex  only  having  come  hitherto  beneath  my  notice. 

Of  the  specimens  now  before  me,  the  first  ("  var.  (3  ")  was  taken 
in  the  lofty  Pinal  of  Grand  Canary  above  San  Bartolome  (in  the  dis- 
trict of  Tarajana)  ;  the  second  at  the  Agua  Garcia  in  Tenerift'e ;  the 
third  in  Palm  a  (I  believe,  in  one  of  the  wooded  Barrancos  in  the  east 
of  the  island)  ;  and  the  fourth  in  the  forest-region  of  El  Golfo,  on  the 
western  slopes  of  Hierro.  The  last  one  has  the  additional  erect  pile 
of  its  elytra  rather  shorter  than  is  the  case  with  the  second  and  third  ; 
but  it  does  not  appear  to  dififer  from  them  in  anything  essential. 
The  Grand-Canarian  one,  ho^^'ever,  is  a  trifle  smaller,  darker,  and 
more  shining  than  the  rest,  with  its  prothorax  a  little  more  finely 
punctured  and  the  hairs  of  its  elytra  less  developed ;  and  it  is  pos- 
sible therefore  (as  already  intimated)  that  it,  at  all  events,  may  be 
specifically  distinct. 

547.  Laparocerus  seniculus,  n.  sp. 

L.  niger  vel  piceo-niger,  subopacus,  sat  dense  cinereo-metallico-squa- 
moso-tesscllatus  pilisque  longiusculis  erectis  ad  elytronim  apicem 
solum  obsitus  ;  prothorace  dense  et  minutissime  punctulato  punc- 
tisque  majoribus  sed  levissimis,  valde  remotis  (in  disco  antico  fere 
obsoletis)  parce  adsperso,  carina  loevi  tenui  sensim  (prsesertim  pos- 
tice)  instructo,  per  basin  distincte  marginato ;  elytris  oblongis, 
valde  profunde  punctato-striatis  (punctis  magnis)  ;  pedibus  rufo- 
piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  -4. 

Habitat  in  Canaria  Grandi,  hand  procul  ab  urbe  Las  Palmas  captus. 

Although  I  have  but  two,  imperfect  examples  of  this  Laixirocerus 


3o4  CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 

to  judge  from,  nevertheless,  since  they  certainly  cannot  be  referred  to 
any  of  the  other  species  here  enumerated,  I  have  ventured  to  treat 
them  as  distinct — believing,  in  addition,  that  their  mere  habitat  alone 
would  of  itself  tend  to  that  conclusion.  They  were  captured  near 
Las  Palmas,  in  Grand  Canary  ;  but  whether  in  the  sandy  region  im- 
mediately to  the  north  of  the  town  or  on  the  Isleta,  I  cannot  now 
exactly  recall.  Judging  therefore  from  the  specimens  before  me,  I 
may  add  that  the  L.  senimlvs  appears  to  be  mainly  characterized  by 
the  o/w^r^o»s-metallie  scales  with  which  it  is  tessellated,  and  by  its 
surface  being  free  from  erect  hairs  except  at  the  apex  of  its  (oblong 
and  very  deeply  punctate-striated)  elytra.  Its  prothorax  is  most 
denselj'  covered  with  minute  but  rather  coarse  punctules,  and  has 
some  larger  but  extremely  shallow  and  distant  ones  intermixed ; 
whilst  a  fine  and  obscure  polished  keel  is  traceable  down  its  disc — 
more  especially  behind. 

548.  Laparocerus  rasus,  n.  sp. 

L.  piceo-nigcr  vel  piceus,  parum  nitidus,  sericeo-metallico-squamoso- 
tessellatus  sed  pilis  erectis  carens ;  rostro  ssepius  rufescentiore,  sub- 
tereti,  supra  planiusculo,  vix  canaliculato  sed  postice  inter  oculos 
fovea  impresso,  minute  et  leviter  punctidato  ;  prothorace  parvo,  mi- 
nute et  leviter  punctidato  punctisque  paulo  majoribus  sed  levibus 
irrorato,  antice  saepius  obsoletissime  subcarinato ;  elytris  ovahbus, 
punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  alternis  plus  minus  distincte  tessel- 
latis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-ferrugineis ;  funiculi  art°  2^°  primo 
sensim  longiore. 

Mas  paulo  nitidior,  tibiis  ad  apicem  internum  distinctius  horizonta- 
liter  uncinatis,  anticis  intus  vix  minutissime  subcreuulatis. 

Fcem.  paulo  opacior.  tibiis  fere  simplioibus. 

Va7\  /3.  Elytris  profundius  punctato-striatis,  pedibus  panlo  obscu- 
rioribus  (et  vix  brevioribus  ?).  \_Ins.  Euerteventura.] — Long.  corp. 
lin.  31-4^. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Lanzarotce  et  Fuerteventurre,  sat  rarus. 

The  present  Laixirocerus  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  Lanzarote  and 
Fuertcventura — though  it  is  more  particularly  the  former  in  which 
I  have  hitherto  observed  it,  since  the  single  example  which  I  have 
yet  seen  from  the  latter  has  a  few  trifling  characters  of  its  own  in 
which  it  differs  from  the  Lauzarotan  type  ;  nevertheless  I  cannot  re- 
gard them  as  indicative,  at  the  utmost,  of  more  than  a  mere  insular 
variety,  or  phasis,  of  the  species.  On  the  hills  above  Haria,  in  the 
north  of  Lanzarote,  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during 
January  1858  ;  and  I  subsequently  met  with  it  in  the  same  locality 
during  March  of  the  following  year.     It  was  likewise  captured,  by 


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the  Rev.  R.  T,  Lowe,  on  the  summit  of  the  Monte  Famara,  more  than 
2000  feet  above  the  sea. 

The  L.  rasus  may  be  known  by  {inter  alia)  its  surface  being  densely 
tessellated  with  fine  and  sericeous  (though  metallic)  scales,  but  alto- 
gether free  from  additional  erect  hairs  ;  by  its  rostrum  (which  is  only 
minutely  and  lightly  punctulated,  and  usually  subrufescent)  being 
comparative!  1/  subcylindric,  though  flattish  above  and  but  obscurely 
channeled ;  by  its  (small)  prothorax  being  delicately  and  faintly  punc- 
tiu'ed  (though  with  a  few  somewhat  larger,  but  shallow,  punctures 
intermixed)  ;  and  by  the  oval  outline  of  its  elytra. 

549.  Laparocerus  mendicus,  n.  sp. 

L.  fusco-niger,  subnitidus,  parce  cinereo-  (vix  siibmetallico-)  squa- 
moso-tessellatus  setulisque  brevissimis  subereetis  in  elytris  obsitus  ; 
rostro  nitidiore,  angustulo,  concavo-canaliculato,  parce  et  leviter 
punctate,  oculis  rotundatis,  prominentibus ;  prothorace  parce  et 
profunde  punctato  punctulisque  minutissimis  le-\-ibus  intermediis 
dense  irrorato ;  elytris  ovalibus,  profunde  punctato-striatis  ;  an- 
tennis  pedibusque  rufo-fcrrugineis,  his  plus  minus  obscurioribus  ; 
fimiculi  art"  2'^"  prime  sensim  longiore. 

Mas  tibiis  anticis  vix  magis  sinuatis ;  posticis  intus  versus  apicem 
obsolete  subserratis. 

Fcem.  tibiis  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-3|. 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro,  sub  lapidibus  in  montibus  haud  infrequens. 

The  brownish -black  surface  of  this  Laparocerris,  which  is  sparingly 
clouded  with  didl-cinereous  scales  (which  are  almost  free  from  any 
metallic  tinge),  and  has  its  elytra  beset  with  very  short  and  rather 
stiff  hairs,  which  are  extremely  abbreviated,  and  subdecumbent,  an- 
teriorly, in  conjunction  with  its  narrowish,  concave,  somewhat  polished 
and  remotelj^  sculptured  rostrum,  its  prominent  eyes,  its  deep  and 
distantly  punctured  prothorax,  and  its  coarsely  punctate-striated  ely- 
tra, will  sufficiently  characterize  it.  As  in  the  case  of  the  last  species 
and  the  four  following  ones,  the  second  joint  of  its  funiculus  is  very 
distinctly  longer  than  the  first.  The  L.  vrendicus  appears  to  be  pe- 
culiar to  the  mountains  of  Hierro ;  in  which  island  I  captured  it, 
during  February  1858,  from  beneath  stones,  on  the  hills  around  Val- 
verde,  as  well  as  on  the  open  grassy  Cumbre  to  the  south  of  S.  Andre. 

550.  Laparocerus  obscurus,  n.  sp. 

L,  niger,  stibopacus,  minute  et  parce  cinereo-squamoso-irroratus  sed 
pilis  erectis  carens  (versus  apicem  elytrorum  setulis  bre\"ibus  sub- 
demissis  parce  obsitus);  rostro  minute  et  leviter  punctato,  concavo- 
canaliculato,  oculis  sat  parvis,  rotundatis  ;  prothorace  subconvexo, 
parum  profunde  punctato  punctulisque  minutissimis  intermediis 

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356  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

levibus  irrorato ;  elytris  subtilissime  subalutaeeo-rugulosis,  punc- 

tato-striatis,  per  basin  trisinnatis;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-pieeis  ; 

funiculi  art'  2''°  primo  multo  longiore. 
Mas  gracilis,  tibiis  antieis  intns  versus  apicem  sat  distincte  subexca- 

vato-sinuatis. 
Foem.  adhuc  latet. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3. 

JTahhat  Teneriffam,  a  raeipso  semel  tantum  repertus. 

The  unique  example  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled was  captured  by  myself  in  Teneriffe  ;  but  I  have  unfortunately 
no  recollection  as  to  its  precise  locality.  I  believe,  however,  that  it 
was  probably  found  either  in  the  vicinity  of  Orotava  or  else  of  S*" 
Cruz.  Luckily  the  species  has  such  decided  characters  of  its  own 
that  a  single  individual  is  abundantly  sufficient  for  distinguishing  it. 
Perhaps  its  most  remarkable  feature  is  the  comparatively  immense 
length  of  its  second  fnniculus-joint,  which  is  almost  (if  not  indeed 
qiate)  twice  as  long  as  the  basal  one.  But  apart  from  this,  the  L. 
ohscurus  may  be  fiirther  recognized  by  its  black  surface,  which  is 
sparingly  clothed  with  minute  cinereous  scales,  or  pubescence,  but 
which  is  free  from  additional  erect  hairs ;  and  by  its  rather  opake, 
subalutaceous,  and  Ijasally-trisinuated  elytra.  Its  eyes  are  somewhat 
small  and  round ;  and  its  prothorax  (which  is  a  little  convex)  is 
deeply  and  sharply  punctured,  but  with  the  diminutive  intermediate 
punctules  shallow  and  not  very  dense.  Its  male  sex  (of  which  I  can 
alone  speak)  is  slender  in  outline  ;  but  in  all  probability  the  females 
would  be  broader  and  more  ovate. 

551.  Laparocerus  gracilis,  n.  sp. 

L.  gracilis,  piceus  vol  fusco-piceus,  subnitidus,  parce  cinereo-squa- 
moso-ncbulosus  ;  rostro  subconcavo-canaliculato,  minute  et  leviter 
punctate,  oculis  rotundatis,  prominentibus  ;  prothorace  parce  punc- 
tato  punctuHsque  minutissimis  intcrmediis  obsoletis  irrorato  ;  elj'- 
tris  elongato-ovalibus,  leviter  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis  pedibus- 
que rufo-ferrugineis ;  funiculi  art"  2''"  primo  sensim  longiore. 

Mas  gracilior  (interdum  valde  gracilis),  pilis  carens,  tibiis  antieis 
intus  versus  apicem  sat  profimde  excavatis. 

Foem.  elytris  versus  apicem  pilis  perpaucis  suberectis  obsitis,  tibiis 
simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-3|. 

Hahitat  Gomcram,  in  clivis  mox  supra  oppidum  Sanctum  Sebasti- 
anum,  Februario  incunte  a.i).  1858,  captus ;  in  foliis  Chrysantliemi 
frntesce))fis  Linn,  prjecipue  gaudet. 

This  is  one  of  the  most  distinct  Laparoceri  hithei-to  detected,  and 
apparently  peculiar  (so  far  at  least  as  observed  hitherto)  to  Gomera 
— where,  at  the  beginning  of  February  1858,  I  brushed  it  from  off 


C'ANAIUAX  C'OLEOrTERA.  357 

the  plants  of  the  Chrysanthemum  frutescens,  Linn,  (known  locally  as 
the  "  Magarza  "),  upon  the  slopes  of  the  low  mountain-ridge  imme- 
diately outside  (and  to  the  north  of)  San  Sebastian.  It  was  in  toler- 
able profusion,  and  many  of  the  specimens  were  in  coitu.  It  was 
captured  also  by  Mr.  Gray,  though  more  sparingly,  in  the  same  loca- 
lity. The  L.  gracilis  may  be  known  by  its  slender  outline  (particu- 
larly of  the  male  sex),  by  its  remotely  (but  not  deeply)  punctured 
prothorax,  by  its  elongate-oval  (or  elliptic)  elytra,  which  fall  away  a 
good  deal  at  the  shoulders,  and  by  its  surface  being  more  or  less 
clothed,  and  tessellated,  with  cinereous  scales,  which  have  scarcely 
any  metallic  tinge.  Its  males  (which  are  often  extremely  narrow^) 
have  their  front  tibiae  a  good  deal  scooped- out  towards  their  apex  in- 
ternally, and  are  free  from  additional  erect  pile  ;  but  in  the  opposite 
sex  there  are  a  few  tolerably  robust  hairs  scattered  over  the  apical 
portion  of  the  elytra. 

552.  Laparocerus  dispar,  n.  sp. 

L.  fusco-piceus,  subnitidus,  parce  cinereo-  (vix  submetallico-)  squa- 
moso-nebiilosus  sed  pilis  erectis  carens  ;  rostro  nitidiore,  subtereti, 
supra  planiusculo  vix  canaliculato,  minute  puuctulato,  oculis  ro- 
tundatis,  prominentibus  ;  prothoracc  parcissime  sed  profuude  punc- 
tate ;  elytris  convexis,  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis  robustis  pedi- 
busque  rufo-ferrugineis ;  funiculi  art"  2'^"  prime  scnsim  loiigiore. 
Mas  minor,  multo  angustior,  prothoracis  punctulis  minutissimis  in- 

termediis  obsoletis,  tibiis  anticis  vix  sinuatis. 
Foem.  major,  multo  crassior,  prothoracis  punctulis  minutissimis  inter- 
mediis  distinctis,  tibiis  simplicibus. — Long  corp.  lin.  2-2j. 
Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  sub  lapidibus  in  aridis  \'ix  supra 
"  Salinas  "  captus. 

The  only  four  examples  which  I  have  yet  seen  of  the  present 
insect  were  captured  on  the  rocky  ground  at  the  base  of  the  lofty 
cliffs  known  as  the  "  Risco,"  immediately  behind  the  Salinas,  in  the 
extreme  north  of  Lanzarote.  One  of  them  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray, 
and  the  other  three  by  myself.  The  species  is  remarkable,  inter  alia, 
for  the  unusual  dissimilarity  of  its  sexes — the  females  being  more 
decidedly  broader  and  intiated,  as  compared  with  the  males,  than  is 
the  case  in  the  generality  of  the  Laparoceri  hitherto  detected.  It 
may  be  further  recognized  by  its  small  size  and  brownish-piceous 
hue  ;  by  its  surface  being  sparingly  clouded  with  cinereous,  or  fulvo- 
cinereous,  scales,  but  destitute  of  erect  hairs  ;  by  its  prothorax  being- 
very  remotely,  but  rather  deeply,  punctured  (and  with,  the  minute^ 
intermediate  punctules  obsolete  in  the  male  sex,  but  sufficiently  con  - 
spicuous  in  the  female)  ;  and  by  its  antenntc,  particularly  of  the 


358  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA 

males,  being  robuster  than  in  the  ordinary  Lcqxiroceri,  and  with  their 
scape  more  r/radualh/  clavated, — though  I  think,  nevertheless,  from 
its  manifest  affinity  with  the  species  with  which  I  have  associated  it, 
that  it  is  better  referred  to  Laparocerus  than  to  Atlantis. 

553.  Laparocerus  vestitus,  n.  sp. 

L.  niger  vel  piceus,  nitidus,  paree  cinereo-squamoso-uebulosus  pilis- 
que  elongatis  erectis  molHbus  obsitus ;  rostro  leviter  punctato, 
concavo-canalicnlato  ;  prothorace  minutissime  et  dense  punctnlato 
punctisque  majoribus  (pra^sertim  versus  latera)  parce  irrorato ; 
elytris  oblongo-ovalibus,  profunde  punctato-striatis,  interstitiis 
densissime  sed  obsolctissime  et  levissime  subpunctulatis  punctu- 
Usque  paulo  majoribus  (scd  minutis)  parcissime  irroratis ;  an- 
tennis  pedibusque  piceo-ferrugineis ;  funiculi  art"  2''°  primo  di- 
stincte  longiore. 

In  utroque  scxu  tibiis  inter  se  fere  similibus. 

Var.  fi.  affinis.  Elytris  vix  subconvexioribus,  minus  profunde  punc- 
tato-striatis sed  punctidis  minutissimis  paido  distinctioribus. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  sub  lapidibus  in  inferioribus,  passim. 

This  appears  to  be  the  common  Luparocerus  throughout  the  di'y 
cindery  region  around  the  Puerto  Orotava,  in  Tenerifie  ;  and  I  tliink 
I  may  also  add,  around  S'''  Cruz, — for  the  very  slight  differences 
which  the  examples  from  that  district  present,  as  contrasted  with 
those  from  Orotava,  cannot,  I  imagine,  be  regarded,  at  the  utmost, 
as  indicative  of  more  than  a  local  phasis  of  the  species.  The  L.  ves- 
titus may  easily  be  known  by  its  surface  being  sparingly  clouded 
with  rather  robust  subcinereous  scales,  and  beset  all  over  (though 
particularly  on  the  elytra)  with  soft,  erect,  elongate  hairs ;  by  its 
prothorax  being  densely  covered  with  minute  punctules,  and  re- 
motely studded  with  larger  punctm-es  ;  by  the  second  joint  of  its 
funiculiLS  being  considerably  longer  than  the  first ;  and  by  its  sexes 
being  almost  similar  both  in  outline  and  tibiae. 

It  is  possible  that  what  I  have  treated  as  the  "  car.  /3 '*  may  be 
specifically  distinct,  though  (as  just  mentioned)  I  do  not  believe  such 
to  be  the  case.  It  seems  to  be  the  form  which  obtains  around  S'" 
Cruz,  and  differs  from  that  from  the  vicinity  of  Orotava  in  having  its 
elytra  just  perceptibly  more  inflated  or  convex,  and  less  coarsely 
punctate- striated,  though  with  their  minute  and  closely-set  punc- 
tules perhaps  more  evident. 

Around  Orotava  and  the  Puerto  the  state  which  T  have  assumed 
to  be  the  typical  one  of  the  L.  vestitus  is  imiversal ;  in  which  dis- 
trict it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray.     The  var.  (3  is  equally  common 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  359 

in  the  neighbourhood  of  8'"  Cruz — where  I  have  frequently  taken 
it,  and  whence  it  has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Cas- 
tello  de  Paiva. 

554.  Laparocerus  sulcirostris,  n.  sp. 
L.  uiger,  subopaeus,  compactus,  parce  et  obscure  subfulvescenti- 
squamoso-nebulosus  sed  pilis  carens  (sc.  setulis  brevissimis  pubi- 
formibus  subdemissis  a^gre  observandis  obsitus)  ;  rostro  brevi,  sub- 
triangulari,  crasso,  minutissime  punctulato,  profunde  et  argute 
sulcato,  oculis  parvis,  subdemissis ;  prothorace  subconico,  minute 
et  parce  punctato  punctulisque  minutissimis  intermediis  levibus 
densissime  obsito ;  elytris  parallelo-oblongis,  per  basin  conjunctim 
subemarginato-truncatis,  ad  humeros  subporrectis,  punctato-stri- 
atis,  interstitiis  subtilissime  et  densissime  subalutaceo-rugulosis ; 
antennis  pedibusquo  piceo-ferrugineis  ;  funiculi  art'*  1"'°  et  2*^"  elon- 
gato-obconicis,  subaequalibus. 

In  utroqm  sexii  (nisi  fallor)  tibiis  fere  simplicibus. — Long.  corp. 
Un.  21. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canarite  Grandis,  semel  tantum  Icctus. 
The  present  Laparocerus  and  the  following  one,  in  their  curiously 
compact  and  rather  parallel  outline  and  basally  subemarginated 
elytra  (causing  the  shoulders  to  be  comparatively,  though  slightly, 
porrect),  in  conjunction  with  theii-  thick,  sub  triangular,  sharply  chan- 
neled rostra,  and  their  small  aiid  less  prominent  eyes,  would  seem, 
at  first  sight,  almost  to  merit  generic  isolation  from  the  species  with 
which  I  have  associated  them  ;  nevertheless  I  cannot  detect  any 
structural  characters  of  sufficient  importance  to  warrant  their  re- 
moval from  the  remainder, — particularly  since,  in  external  contour, 
they  (especially,  howe\'er,  the  L.  sulcirostris)  are  singularly  sugges- 
tive, albeit  on  an  absurdly  diminutive  scale,  even  of  the  L.  morio, 
which  is  the  actual  type  of  the  group — indeed  far  more  so  than  is 
the  case  with  most  of  the  Laparoceri  here  described.  And  yet,  in 
spite  of  this,  their  minute  size,  and  most  of  their  other  features, 
would  certainly  tend  rather  to  affiliate  them  with  the  L.  tesseUatas 
and  its  allies  than  with  the  comparatively  gigantic  insects  with 
which  I  have  commenced  the  genus. 

Unluckily  I  have  but  a  single  individual  of  the  L.  sulcirostris  to 
judge  from ;  nevertheless  I  believe  it  to  be  truly  distinct  from  the 
folio-wing  species.  It  was  taken  by  myself  on  the  mountains  above 
San  Mateo,  in  Grand  Canary,  during  the  spring  of  1858. 

555.  Laparocerus  compactus,  n.  sp. 
L.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  minor,  subpicescentior,  paulo  densius  squa- 
mosus  setulisque  sensim  longioribus  (sed  brevibus)piliformibus  sub- 


OGO  CANARIAN  COLKOPTEEA. 

erectis  dense  obsitus ;  oculis  etiam  subminoribus ;  prothorace  vix 
densiiis  profundiusque  punctulato  ;  elytris  per  basin  vix  minus  con- 
jimctim  emarginatis,  interstitiis  paulo  minus  rugulosis  (quare  minus 
opacis);  tarsis  sensim  angiistioribus,  brevioribus  ;  funiculi  art'*  1"'° 
et  2"^"  (subsequalibus)  distincte  brevioribus  et  (prajsertim  illo)  magis 
obovatioribus (i.e. minus  el ongato-obconicis). — Long.corp.lin.l|-2. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  pra;cedens. 

I  believe  that  the  four  specimens  from  which  the  above  diagnosis 
has  been  compiled  cannot  be  referred  to  the  L.  sakirostris,  though 
(as  already  stated)  they  have  much  in  common,  both  in  outline  and 
general  aspect,  with  that  insect.  They  are,  however,  considerably 
smaller  and  more  densely  clothed — both  with  dull  fulvescent  scales 
and  short  suberect  setae  (the  latter  being  very  e'sddcntly  longer  than 
is  the  case  in  that  species) ;  their  eyes  are,  if  anything,  even  stiU 
more  minute ;  their  prothorax  is  a  trifle  more  thicldy  and  coarsely 
punctulated;  their  elytra  are  perhaps  somewhat  less  conjointly  scooped 
out  (or  more  straightly  truncated)  at  the  extreme  base,  and  with  the 
interstices  less  perceptibly  rugulose  (and  therefore  rather  less  opake) ; 
their  tarsi  are  narrower  and  more  abbreviated ;  and  the  first  and 
second  joints  of  their  funiculus  (although  subequal)  are  manifestly 
shorter — the  former  being  relativehj  a  little  thicker  and  less  obco- 
nical  (or  more  obovate). 

Like  the  L,  sulcirostris,  the  present  siJecies  was  captured,  during 
the  spring  of  1858,  on  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary. 

550.  Laparocerus  tessellatus. 

L.  ovatus,  piceo-  vel  fusco-niger,  subnitidus,  interdum  obsolete  sub- 
senescens,  cinerco  -fulvescenti  -  submetallico  -  sqiiamoso  -  tessellatus 
sed  pilis  superadditis  fere  carens  ;  rostro  planiusculo,  Icviter  cana- 
liculate, minute  et  parce  punctulato ;  prothorace  profunde  et  plus 
minus  dense  pimctato  ;  elytris  convexis,  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  vel  rufo-  vel  piceo-ferrugineis. 

In  titroque  scant  tibiis  inter  se  fere  similibus.- — Long.  corp.  lin. 
2-2|. 

Omias  tessellatus  ?,  Bndle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (  Col.)  72.  pi.  1.  f.  15  (1838). 

Habitat  in  Tenerifl^a,  Palma  et  Hierro,  in  intermcdiis  editioribus- 
que  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

This  appears  to  be  rather  a  common  insect  in  certain  districts  of 
intermediate  and  lofty  elevations  in  Teneriffe ;  and  it  was  taken  by 
Mr.  Gray  in  Palma  also,  and  by  myself  in  Hierro.  In  Teneriffe 
(where  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch)  it  seems  to  be  widely 
spread  over  the  island  ;  thus,  I  have  met  with  it  in  the  laurel-woods 
above  Taganana,  at  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  Souzal,  the  Agua 


CANARIAN  COLEOr'TERA.  361 

Garcia,  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  at  the  Agua  Man.sa ;  as  well  as,  in  pro- 
fusion, on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre  above  the  last  of  these  localities. 
Although  M.  Brulle's  description  and  figure  are  alike  absolutely- 
worthless,  I  am  induced  to  refer  his  Omias  tessellatus  to  the  present 
species  through  the  simple  fact  of  the  small  size  which  he  records  for 
it;  for  I  know  of  no  Canarian  Laparoceri  which  would  so  well  tally 
with  it  in  that  respect  as  this  common  Teneriffan  one  and  the  L.  oh- 
situs ;  whilst  if  it  had  been  the  latter  to  which  he  wished  to  allude, 
he  could  scarcely  have  failed  to  notice  the  suberect  setae  with  which 
that  insect  is  densely  studded. 

The  L.  tessellatus  varies  a  little  according  to  the  region  in  which 
it  occurs, — being,  on  the  average,  somewhat  larger,  and  with  the 
limbs  correspondingly  a  little  more  developed,  within  the  sylvan  dis- 
tricts than  elsewhere ;  though  I  believe  I  am  able  to  connect  its  two 
extremes  of  form  most  completely.  As  compared  with  the  other  La- 
IKtroceri  here  described,  it  may  be  known  by  its  small  size  and  ovate 
outline ;  by  its  more  or  less  strongly  punctured  j)rothorax  ;  and  by 
its  (frequently  subsenescent)  surface  being  obscurely  tessellated  with 
cinereous-brown  scales  (which  have  often  a  yellowish,  as  well  as 
slightly  submetaUic,  tinge),  but  free  from  additional  erect  hairs — it 
being  merely  beset  with  short  and  subdccimibent  setae  which  are  only 
traceable  beneath  a  lens. 

557.  Laparocerus  obsitus,  n.  sp. 
L.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  plerumque  paiilo  minor,  setulis  suberectis 
in  elytris  obsitus  ;  prothorace  minus  profunde  punctate,  postice  ad 
latera  \'ix  magis  rotundato ;  elytris  sensim  oblongioribus,  ergo  ad 
latera  subrectioribus  necnon  ad  humeros  paulo  minus  rotundatis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  lf-2J^. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canarioe  Grandis,  hinc  inde  parum  vulgaris. 

I  am  not  altogether  satisfied  that  this  Laparocerus  is  more  than  an 
extreme  insular  state  of  the  last  one  ;  nevertheless,  since  the  L.  tessel- 
latus seems  to  remain  sufiiciently  constant  in  the  three  islands  of  Te- 
neriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro,  I  can  scarcely  assume  that  the  decided 
(even  though  not  very  important)  differences  which  the  Grand-Ca- 
narian  insect  presents  can  be  in  any  way  the  result  of  mere  isolation. 
The  main  points,  however,  in  which  the  L.  ohsitus  appears  to  recede 
from  its  ally  are  in  its  elytra  being  rather  more  oblong  (or  straighter 
at  the  sides,  and  with  the  shoulders  less  falling  away),  and  densely 
beset  with  suberect  seta?,  or  short  stiffish  hairs.  Its  prothorax  is 
a  little  more  finely  punctured,  and,  if  anything,  perhaps  a  trifle  rounder 
laterally.     It  is  widely  spread  over,  and  somewhat  abundant  in,  the 


362  CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA, 

intermediate  and  lofty  elevations  of  Grand  Canary — where,  duiiiig 
the  spring  of  1858, 1  captured  it  throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte, 
and  also  on  the  mountain-slopes  above  San  Mateo  (on  the  ascent  to 
the  E,oca  del  Soucilho),  as  well  as  on  the  ascent  to  the  old  Pinal  of 
Tarajana  above  San  Bartolome. 

558.  Laparocerus  tenellus,  n.  sp. 

L.  ovatus,  niger,  subopacus,  subtilissime  fulvescenti-cinereo-squa- 
moso-tessellatus  sed  pilis  superadditis  carens  ;  rostro  gracili,  grosse 
punctato-rugoso,  canaliculate,  oculis  minutis,  rotundatis,  promi- 
nentibus  ;  prothorace  densissime  et  argute  rugoso-punctato  ;  ely- 
tris  leviter  punctato-striatis,  ad  apicem  subito  decurvis  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  brevibus ;  illis  rufo-piceis,  ad  basin  necnon  in  funiculo 
clarioribiis  ;  his  piceo-nigris,  tarsis  rufescentioribus. 

Mas  tibiis  (prsesertim  anterioribus)  spina  horizontali  armatis. 

Foem.  adhuc  latet. — Long,  coi-p.  lin.  l^lf . 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  editioribus  Teneriffse,  rarissimus. 

Apparently  of  the  greatest  rarity, — the  only  two  specimens  which 
I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself,  from  beneath  small 
stones,  at  the  base  of  the  Organo  Rocks,  above  the  Agua  Mansa,  in 
Teneriffe.  It  is  the  smallest  of  the  Laparoceri  hitherto  detected, 
and  one  which  may  immediately  be  known  by  its  ovate  outline  and 
short,  slender  limbs  (of  which  the  legs  are  blackish-piceous,  though 
"with  theii'  tarsi,  like  the  base  and  funiculus  of  the  antennae,  more 
rufescent)  ;  by  its  rostrum,  which  is  narrow,  being  closely  and 
coarsely  roughened  ;  by  its  prothorax  being  very  densely  and  sharply 
punctured  (the  punctures  being  deep  and  exceedingly  closely  packed, 
but  not  particularly  large)  ;  by  its  eyes  being  mimite,  rounded,  and 
prominent ;  by  its  elytra  being  finely  i)unctatc-striated,  and  rather 
suddenly  deciu'ved  towards  their  apex ;  and  by  its  (black  and  sub- 
opake)  surface  being  obscurely  tessellated  with  extremely  minute 
fulvo- cinereous  scales,  but  free  from  additional  erect  hairs. 

559.  Laparocerus  puncticollis,  n.  sp. 

L.  piceo-niger,  subnitidus,  parce  sed  grosse  cinereo-  (vix  submetal- 
lico-)  squamoso-nebulo.sus  pilisque  elongatis  suberectis  mollibus 
in  clytris  obsitus ;  rostro  prothoraceque  profunde,  dense  et  argute 
punctatis,  iUo  planiusculo  vix  canaKculato,  hoc  sat  magiio  subovaH  ; 
oculis  rotundatis,  valde  prominentibus ;  elytris  nigrescentioribus 
(saipius  nigris),  suboblongis,  punctato-striatis  ;  antennis  tarsisque 
rufo-fernigineis  ;  femoribus  tibiisque  rufo-piceis. 

Mas  tibiis  anticis  intus  versus  apicem  sat  profunde  excavatis. 

Foem.  tibiis  fere  simplicibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2. 

Habitat  in  ins.  Hierro,  die  16.  Feb.  a.d.  1858  in  intermediis  parce 

captus. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOrTERA.  363 

This  very  distinct  little  species  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in 
Hierro — where,  on  the  16th  of  February  1858,  I  brushed  five  ex- 
amples of  it  from  off  vegetation  at  the  edges  of  the  I'oad  about  mid- 
way between  Valverde  and  the  district  of  El  Golfo  (at  an  elevation, 
I  should  imagine,  of  not  more  than  perhaps  1000  feet  above  the  sea). 
It  may  at  once  be  known  by  its  deeply,  closely,  and  regularly  punc- 
tured head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which  is  proportionaJJij  a 
little  larger,  and  more  oval,  than  is  the  case  in  the  generality  of  the 
Laparoceri),  by  its  extremely  prominent  eyes,  and  by  its  (oblong) 
elytra  being  studded  all  over  with  soft,  elongate,  suberect  hairs.  Its 
surface  is  either  black  or  piceous-black  (the  head  and  jirothorax  being 
rather  more  picescent  than  the  elytra),  and  more  or  less  sparingly 
tessellated  with  robust  cinereous  or  fulvo-cinereous  (and  but  slightly 
metallic)  scales.  The  front  tibia3  of  its  male  sex  have  their  inner 
apical  half  somewhat  conspicuously  scooped  out. 

Genus  214.  TKACHYPHL(EUS. 

Germar,  Ins.  Spec.  i.  403  (1824). 

560.  Trachjrphlceus  scaber. 

CurCLilio  scaber,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  176  (17G1). 

Trachvpliloeus  scaber,  Schan.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  490  (1834). 

,  WvU.,  Ins.  Mad.  394  (1854). 

— ,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  118  (1857). 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Teneriffae,  sub  lapidibus,  rarissimus. 

The  common  European  T.  scaber,  which  is  universal  in  Madeira, 
appears  to  be  extremely  rare  at  the  Canaries.  Hitherto  indeed  I 
have  observed  it  only  in  the  intermediate  elevations  of  TenerifFe — 
where,  at  the  end  of  April  1859,  I  captured  a  single  specimen  from 
beneath  a  stone  on  the  open  Sierra  above  the  Agua  Garcia,  and,  a 
week  later,  four  more,  on  a  lofty,  grassy  headland,  at  the  edge  of  the 
deep  Barranco  immediately  below  Ycod  el  Alto. 

Genus  215.  LICHENOPHAGUS. 
WoUaston,  Ins.  Mad.  389.  tab.  viii.  f.  1  (1854). 

561.  Lichenophagus  auctus,  n.  sp. 

L.  squamulii  minutissimis  fuseo-nigris  et  submetaUico-fusco-cinereis 
densissime  et  obscure  tessellatus  sed  setulis  fere  carens  (sc.  brevis- 
simis,  segre  observandis) ;  rostro  late  concave,  argute  angusteque 
canaliculate,  antiee  obscure  pallidiore ;  oculis  minutis,  domissis ; 
prothorace  breviusculo,  ad  latera  fortiter  rotundato,  argute  sed  vix 
grosse  punctate,  obscure  et  irregulariter  paUido-trilineato,  postice 


3G4  CVXAIUAX  COLKOPTERA. 

carina  media  brevissima  laevi  instructo  ;  clyti-is  elougato-subovatis 
(ad  hnmeros  gradatim  paulo  deticientibus,  per  basin  singvdatim 
subrotundatis  ct  postice  subito  decm'\'is),  sutura  interstitiisque  ob- 
scure pallido-tesseUatis  ;  antennis  brevibus,  scapo  crasso  robusto, 
funiculi  art"  2**°  aucto  (primo  sensim  majore),  reliquis  brevissimis 
snbajqualibus  monUiformibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2l-2|. 
Habitat  ins.  Hierro,  in  clivis  inter  mare  et  oppidum  Valverde,  mense 
Februario  a.d.  1858,  sub  lapidibus  parce  repertus. 

Of  tbe  present  Lichenophagus  I  have  seen  hitherto  but  five  ex- 
amples, all  of  which  were  taken  by  myself  in  the  island  of  Hierro, 
about  midway  up  the  ascent  from  Port  Hierro  to  Valverde,  during 
February  1858  ;  and  it  is  a  curious  fact  that  they  are  totally  distinct 
specifically  from  others  (the  L.  suhnodosus,  described  below)  which  I 
captured  at  a  slightly  higher  elevation,  near  to  Valverde  itself.  Apart 
from  minor  features,  the  L.  audus  is  remarkable  for  its  comparatively 
swollen  second  funiculus-joint — which,  if  anything,  is  altogetlier  a 
trifle  larger  than  the  first  (not  merely  in  length,  but  even  in  breadth), 
whilst  the  remaining  articulations  are  exceedingly  short,  subequal, 
and  monUiform.  In  less  important  particulars,  it  may  be  known  by 
its  (rather  abbreviated)  pi'othorax  being  a  good  deal  rounded  at  the 
sides,  with  the  punctures  well  defined  but  not  very  large,  and  with 
the  rudiments  of  a  glabrous  central  keel  at  the  extreme  base ;  by  its 
elytra  (which  are  not  very  coarsely  punctate-striated)  being  subovate 
in  outline  (that  is,  a  little  narrowed  anteriorly,  with  the  shoulders  a 
good  deal  falling  away,  ratlier  suddenly  decurvcd  at  the  apex,  and 
separately  rounded  along  their  base) ;  by  the  seta)  of  its  entire  sur- 
face being  so  minute  as  to  be  traceable  only  under  a  high  magnifying 
power ;  and  by  its  antennse  being  altogether  shortish,  and  Avith  their 
scape  not  very  much  cm-ved. 

562.  Lichenophagus  tesserula,  n.  sp. 

L.  prsecedenti  similis  sed  plerumque  lajtius  tesseUatus  et  setulis  sen- 
sim longioribus  (sed  brevibus)  obsitus ;  rostro  obscure  (nee  solum 
antice)  pallidiore ;  prothorace  paulo  longiore,  ad  latera  minus  ro- 
tundalo,  profundius  punctate  (punctis  magnis),  simplici  (postice  in 
medio  baud  carinato)  ;  elytiis  paulo  magis  oblongis  (ad  latera  sen- 
sim rectioribus,  per  basin  conjunctim  suborn  a  rginatis,  ad  humeros 
oblique  truncates  vix  magis  porrectis,  et  postice  minus  subito  de- 
curvis)  ;  antennis  vix  longioribus,  scapo  sensim  magis  curvato  et  ad 
basin  etiam  robustiore,  funiculi  gracilioris  art"  2''"  prin!o  angustiore, 
reliquis  brevibus  (sed  vix  brevissimis). — Long.  corp.  lin.  2\-2^. 
Habitat  in  inferioribus  intermediis(|ue  Tenerift'a;,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 
This  species  appears  to  be  widely  spread,  at  low  and  intermediate 

elevations,  in  the  north  of  Tcneriff"e — where  it  occurs,  during  the 


CAXARIAN  COLF.OPTERA.  305 

winter  and  (more  particularly)  the  spring  months,  from  the  sea-level 
to  an  altitude  of  about  3000  feet.  On  the  rocky  ground  along  the 
shore,  between  the  Puerto  Orotava  and  the  Lazaretto,  I  have  cap- 
tured it  sparingly,  from  beneath  stones  ;  but  a  little  below  the  alti- 
tude of  the  Villa  it  becomes  more  common — being  at  times,  and  in 
certain  spots,  extremely  abundant.  It  differs  from  the  L.  auctus  in 
being,  on  the  average,  more  brightly  tessellated,  and  beset  all  over 
with  very  evident  and  rigid  (though  at  the  same  time  short)  setae ; 
in  its  prothorax  being  more  coarsely  punctured,  a  trifle  longer,  less 
rounded  at  the  sides,  and  free  from  the  glabrous  abbreviated  keel 
which  is  there  so  evident  in  the  centre  behind  ;  in  its  elytra  being 
more  oblong  (or  a  little  straighter  at  the  sides,  with  the  shoulders 
more  porrect  but  obliquely  truncate,  and  slightly  scooped-out  con- 
jointly along  the  basal  edge),  as  well  as  more  deeply  punctate-stri- 
ated and  more  drawn-out  towards  the  apex ;  and  in  its  antennae 
being  perhaps  a  trifle  longer,  with  their  scape  even  thicker  still  (at 
any  rate  at  the  base)  and  more  flexuose,  and  with  their  funiculus 
slenderer — the  second  joint  being  distinctly  narrower  than  the  first, 
and  the  remaining  ones  somewhat  less  moniliform. 

563.  Lichenophagus  persimilis,  n.  sp. 

L.  species  L.  tesserxJam  simulans,  sed  plerumque  paulo  major  et 
squamulis  subpallidioribus  nebulosus,  antennis  sensim  longioribus 
et  (prassertim  in  scapo)  gracilioribus. 
•  Var.  j3.  seriesetosa.  Elytris  paulo  evidentius  setulis  subpallidioribus 
seriatim  obsitis.     [Ins.  Palma.] — Long.  eorp.  lin.  2|-vix  3. 

Habitat  in  intermediis  TenerifFse  et  Palmae,  var.  (3  ad  banc  solam 
pertinente. 

So  very  closely  does  the  present  Liclienopliagus  resemble  the  L. 
tesserida  that  until  lately  I  had  regarded  it  as  a  variety  of  that 
insect ;  nevertheless,  after  a  careful  examination  of  a  very  extensive 
series  of  them  both,  I  find  that  (however  slightly  so)  the  antennae  of 
the  L.  persimilis  are  so  invariahly  longer  than  those  of  its  ally,  and 
with  their  scape  so  conspicuously  slenderer,  that  I  cannot  but  believe 
it  to  be  specifically  distinct ;  and  more  particularly  so  since  it  is  not 
confined  to  merely  a  single  district,  or  even  island  (which  would 
probably  be  the  case  were  it  but  a  phasis  of  the  other),  but  is  found 
equally  in  both  Teneriffe  and  Palma.  In  minor  respects  it  is,  on  the 
average,  a  trifle  larger  and  paler  than  the  tesserida ;  and  the  Palman 
examples  have  the  longitudinal  rows  of  short  setae  with  which  the 
elytra  are  beset  somewhat  longer  and  paler  (and  therefore  more  per- 
ceptible) . 


366  CANARIAN  COLEOPTKRA. 

I  took  the  L.  pershniUs  in  profusion,  diu'ing  May  of  1859,  from 
beneath  stones,  in  the  Barranco  at  Ycod  el  Alto,  in  TenerifFe— im- 
mediately above  the  bridge ;  and  I  also  met  with  the  var.  /3,  though 
more  sparingly,  in  the  Barranco  above  S'"  Cruz,  of  Palma,  early  in 
June  of  the  preceding  year. 

564.  Lichenophagus  subnodosus,  n.  sp. 

L,  species  a  L.  persimili  baud  valde  remota,  sed  prothorace  magis 
cylindrico  (?'.  e.  ad  latera  paulo  minus  rotundato),  elytris  setis  lon- 
gioribus  crassis  robustissimis  parce  obsitis,  interstitiis  plus  minus 
elevatis  interruptis  nodes  plus  minus  distinctos  efficientibus,  an- 
tennarum  scapo  ad  basin  sensim  graciliore. 

Variat  squamulis  vel  fusco-,  vel  (rarius)  etiam  submetallico-fusco- 
cinereis,  vel  (strpius)  omnino  brunneis. 

Var.  ft.  suhcalva.  Elytrorum  setis  brevioribus.  \_Ins.  Hierro.] — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  2^—3. 

Habitat  Teneriifam  sylvaticam,  in  intermediis  degens :  var.  ft  ad 
insulam  Hierro  solam  pertinet. 

The  present  Lichenophagus  seems  to  occur,  on  the  average,  at  a 
rather  higher  elevation  than  the  last  one,  and  to  attain  its  maximum 
within  the  sylvan  districts  of  intermediate  altitudes.  It  will  pro- 
bably be  found  to  be  universal  throughout  the  central  and  western 
portions  of  the  Group,  though  hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in 
TenerifFe  and  Hierro.  It  may  be  known  by  its  elytra  being  spa- 
ringly studded  with  rather  elongate  and  very  robust  (often  indeed 
almost  subclavate)  setae,  and  in  having  their  interstiQps  more  or  less 
raised  and  interrupted,  so  as  to  form  (greater  or  less)  nodules — in 
both  of  which  respects  it  agrees  with  the  L.  impressieoUis ;  though 
that  insect  has  those  characters  not  only  much  exaggerated,  but  also, 
apart  from  the  sexual  peculiarities  of  its  tibiae,  others  in  addition. 
In  the  colour  of  its  scales  it  is  extremely  variable  ;  for  although  the 
generality  of  specimens  are  of  a  dull  uniform  brown,  more  highly 
developed  ones,  on  the  contrary,  have  often  a  fusco-cinereous  (and 
occasionally  even  a  yellowish,  or  slightly  metallic)  tinge — with  some- 
times the  sutural  and  sometimes  the  lateral  region  paler  than  the 
rest  of  the  surface.  The  only  individuals  which  I  have  yet  seen 
from  Hierro  (five  in  number,  and  which  were  captured  by  myself  on 
the  hills  immediately  outside  the  town  of  Valverde)  have  their  bristles 
considerably  shorter  than  is  the  case  in  the  Teneriffan  ones ;  but  I 
can  perceive  nothing  about  them  to  warrant  the  suspicion  that  they 
are  specifically  distinct.  I  have  not  been  able  to  detect  any  appre- 
ciable difference  in  the  tibia}  of  its  two  sexes. 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA.  367 

The  L.  sidmodosus  is  widely  spread  over  the  wooded  districts  of 
TenerifFe.  I  have  taken  it  on  the  laurel-clad  mountains  above  Ta- 
ganana,  at  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  the  Agua  Garcia,  and  the 
Agua  Mansa. 

565.  Liclieiiophagiis  sculptipennis,  n.  sp. 

L.  species  inter  L.  suhnodosum  et  impressicollem  aliquo  mode  sita  sod 
(nisi  fallor)  vere  distincta ;  pra)sertim  elytris  multo  grossius  sculp- 
turatis  (punctis  striarura  maximis,  inter  se  fere  subconfluentibus 
quasi  arete  adpressis)  bene  dignoscitur.  Forma  genei-ali  et  colore, 
f route  minus  profunde  excavata,  prothorace  aequali  necnon  elj'tro- 
rum  setis  hand  longissimis  cum  illo  congruit,  sed  antennis  rostro- 
que  sublongioribus,  sculptura  omnino  grossiore  et  nodis  elevatiori- 
bus  differt. 

Var.  jS  [an  species  distincta? — forsan  L.  st(b7iodosi  mera  varictas]. 
Minor,  elytris  paulo  minus  profunde  sculp turatis. — Long.  eorp.  lin. 
(var.  ft  excepta)  2|-3. 

Habitat  Palmam,  in  intermediis  (praesertim  sylvaticis)  rarior. 

In  certain  respects  the  present  Lichenopliagns  is  intermediate  be- 
tween the  L,  subnodosus  and  impressicollts ;  nevertheless,  apart  from 
minor  distinctions,  the  enormous  size  of  its  elytral  punctures,  which 
are  consequently  (even  whilst  somewhat  fewer  in  number)  more 
closely  packed  together,  will  serve,  prima  facie,  to  separate  it  from 
them  both.  In  the  majority  of  its  details,  however  (as,  for  instance, 
its  general  outline  and  hue,  its  less  deeply  excavated  forehead,  its 
unimpressed  prothorax,  and  its  shorter  setae),  it  agrees  better  with  the 
former  of  those  species  than  it  does  with  the  latter ;  yet  its  very  much 
coarser  sculpturfe,  in  conjunction  with  its  just  perceptibly  longer  an- 
tennae and  rostrum  and  its  more  developed  nodes,  would  seem  to 
imply  that  it  cannot  be  referred  to  it.  But  what  I  have  regarded 
as  the  "  var.  /3  "  I  am  more  doubtful  about,  being  far  from  sure  that 
at  any  rate  the  few  specimens  of  it  which  I  have  examined  are  more 
than  the  exponents  of  a  mere  insular  state  of  the  subnodosus — from 
which  they  seem  mainly  to  differ  in  the  rather  more  coarsely  punc- 
tured striae  of  their  elytra.  Until,  however,  further  material  has  been 
obtained,  I  prefer  keeping  them  in  their  present  position — though 
their  smaller  size  and  less  deeply  sculptured  sxu'faee  do  apparently 
tend  to  remove  them  from  their  assumed  type. 

The  L.  sculptipennis  (both  in  its  normal  state  and  the  "  var.  ft  ") 
I  have  met  with  hitherto  only  in  the  intermediate  elevations  of 
Palma — in  which  island  I  captured  it  sparingly,  duiing  June  of 
1858,  in  the  Barranco  above  S*''  Cruz,  as  well  as  in  the  laurel-woods 
on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre  above  Buenavista. 


368  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

5GG.  Lichenophagus  impressicoUis,  n.  sp. 

L.  species  L.  suhnodoso  et  sculptlpenni  afRnitate  proxima,  sed  ple- 
rumque  paulo  major,  nigrescentior  ;  elytris  quadratioiibus,  mixlto 
magis  nodosis  setisque  multo  loiigioribus  obsitis  ;  rostro  et  fronte 
valde  profunde  excavatj-concavis  ;  prothorace  basi  sensim  angus- 
tato,  profimdiiis  punctate,  conspicne  inteqiiali  (sc.  in  disco  late 
longeque  impresso  necnon  iitrinque  fovea  media  laterali  subrotun- 
data  obscuriore  notato). 

Variat  elytris  ad  biimeros  necnon  in  fascia  postmedia  valde  fracta 
plus  minus  obsoleta  niveo-squamosis. 

Mas  tibiis  anticis  intus  minutissime  serratis  necnon  ante  apicem  sat 
distincte  subexcavato-sinuatis. 

Fcem.  tibiis  anticis  sensim  latioribus,  intus  giabris  rufo-ferrugineis 
simpHcibus  et  ante  apicem  minus  (tamen  evidenter)  subexcavato- 
sinuatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  sylvaticam,  in  lauretis  ad  Las  Mercedes  et 
supra  Tagananam  hand  infrequens. 

This  is  the  only  LiclienopJiagus  in  which  I  have  been  able  to  detect 
any  sexual  modifications  (at  all  appreciable)  in  the  anterior  tibiae. 
Even  in  this  one  indeed  the  characters,  however  decided,  are  rather 
small ;  nevertheless,  when  carefully  inspected,  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
males  have  their  front  tibite  very  minutely  serrated  internally,  and 
rather  conspicuously  sinuated  (or  subemarginate)  before  the  apex, 
whereas  in  the  opposite  sex  the  tibiae  are  not  only  a  trifle  broader 
and  less  evidently  scooped  out,  but  likewise  with  their  inner  surface 
fllahrous,  rufo-ferruginous,  and  shining,  and  perfectly  simple  along 
the  edge.  But,  apart  from  this  sexual  peculiarity,  the  L.  hnpressi- 
colUs  is  well  distinguished  by  its  somewhat  dark  surface  (which  in 
fresh  and  highly  coloured  examples  is  often  ornamented  with  a  few 
small  dashes  of  snowy-white  scales — particularly  at  the  shoulders 
and  across  the  hinder  disc  of  the  elytra,  in  which  latter  position  they 
occasionally  assume  the  form  of  a  broken,  transverse  fascia) ;  by  its 
forehead  (or  perhaps,  more  properly,  the  base  of  its  rostrum)  being 
very  widely  and  deeply  concave  ;  by  its  prothorax  (which  is  percep- 
tibly narrowed  at  the  base  and  most  coarsely  punctured)  being  un- 
even (that  is,  with  a  broad  but  rather  shallow  impression  along  the 
fore  disc,  which  is  gradually  contracted  posteriorly,  as  well  as  with 
an  obscurer  and  rounded  one  on  either  side  about  the  middle)  ;  and 
by  its  elytra  being  comparatively  square,  considerably  wider  at  the 
shoulders  than  the  prothorax,  with  their  nodes  greatly  developed  and 
sparingly  beset  with  extremely  elongate  setae.  It  is,  on  the  average, 
a  trifle  larger  than  any  of  the  Lichmophagi  as  yet  detected. 

The  L.  hnpressicolJls  is  eminentlj'  a  sylvan  insect.     Indeed  hitherto 


CAKAEIAN  COLEOPXERA.  369 

I  have  observed  it  only  in  the  laurel -forests  on  the  north-eastern 
mountains  of  Teneriffe — at  Las  Mercedes,  Taganana,  and  towards 
Point  Anaga — where  (like  the  Tarphii)  it  occurs  beneath  stones  and 
pieces  of  rotten  wood  in  damp,  shady  spots. 

(Subfam.  BEACHYDERIDES.)* 

Genus  216.  HERPYSTICUS. 

Gemiar,  Ins.  ^lec.  i.  413  (1824). 

The  genus  Herpiisticus  (which  seems  to  be  peculiarly  Canarian)  is 

remarkable  for  the  large  and  apterous  insects  which  compose  it,  and 

which  reside  under  stones  in  the  most  diy  and  barren  places, — the 

only  instance  in  which  I  have  ever  obsei'ved  them  elsewhere  being 

on  one  occasion,  at  the  Banda,  in  Palma,  where  they  were  tolerably 

common  on  the  flowers  of  the  Opuntia  tuna,  or  Prickly  Pear.     Their 

antennte  are  exceedingly  short;  and  the  funiculus  appears  at  fii'st 

sight  to  be  only  6 -articulate,  but  this  merely  arises  from  the  fact  of 

*  I  may  insert  here,  as  its  probable  right  location,  a  reputed  Teneriffan 
weevil,  tlie  original  type  of  which  has  been  lent  uie  by  M.  Chevrolat  (in  whose 
collection  it  exists) — tlie  Curcul/o  cribrarius  of  Olivier.  Schonherr,  wlio  (by 
his  own  admission)  never  examined  it  at  all,  followed  Dejean  and  placed  it  in 
Geoncmus — to  which,  however,  it  clearly  does  not  belong ;  and  I  think  it  is  far 
more  likely  that  M.  Jekel's  conjectxire  is  nearer  the  truth,  that  it  should  bo  assigned 
to  the  South-African  genus  Gatamonus  [Schon.,  Mant.  Cure.  422].  It  does 
not,  however,  accord  precisely  with  the  published  diagriosis  even  of  Gatamonus  ; 
nevertheless,  in  the  absence  of  a  type  to  judge  from,  I  am  content  to  cede  it  to 
that  group  provisionally, — the  following  short  description  being  sufficient,  I  think, 
to  determine  at  any  rate  the  ajiecies  (with  which  more  particularly  I  am  now  con- 
cerned). Although  recorded  by  Olivier  as  a  Teneriffan  insect,  I  do  not  apolo- 
gize for  refusing  it  a  place  in  this  Catalogue  except  in  a  foot-note,  because  I 
suspect  that  some  mistake  may  have  arisen  as  to  the  country  from  whence  it  was 
obtained,  and  I  am  loth  to  admit  anything  into  the  body  of  the  work  wliich  rests 
upon  doubtfid  evidence.  Considering  the  enormous  mass  of  Canarian  material 
which  has  passed  under  my  eye,  I  am  at  least  in  a  position  to  offer  an  opinion  as 
to  the  iwohahility,  or  otherwise,  of  its  supposed  habitat  being  correct ;  and  I  am 
bound  to  add  that  it  recedes  so  entirely  from  all  the  Eht/ncJiophorous  tyj^es  which 
I  have  yet  seen  from  these  islands,  that  I  cannot  but  believe  that  it  must  have 
been  erroneously  referred  to  them. 

Gatamonus  ?  cribrarius. 
G.  elongato-ovatus,  squamulis  submetallico-fuscis  et  submetallico-cinereis  densis- 
sime  tectus ;  rostro  longiusculo,  obsolete  tricarinato,  apice  subdilatato ;  oculis 
oblongis,  demissis ;  prothorace  parvo,  subtriangidari,  rugoso-pimctato,  angulis 
posticis  subrectis,  obsolete  canaliculato ;  elytris  profunde  punctato-striatis,  apice 
singulatim  acuminatis  sed  baud  divaricatis,  singulis  intra  apicem  subgibbosis, 
puncto  discali  medio  albido  ornatis  necnon  ad  marginem  obsolete  subalbido- 
irroratis,  interstitiis  alternis  obsoletissime  subelevatis ;  antenuis  pedibusque 
longiusculis,  subgracilibus. — Long.  corp.  liu.  6. 

Cm-culio  cribrarius,  Oliv.,  Ent.  v.  83.  34S.  tab.  24.  f.  344  (1807). 
Geoncmus  cribrarius,  Bej.,  Gat.  (edit.  3)  284  (1837). 

,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Gurc.  vi.  214  (1842). 

Habitat  "in  Teneriffa"  (sec.  cl.  Olivier),  mihi  non  obvius;  forsan  ex  Africa 
australi  deportatus. 

2b 


370  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  seventh  joint  being  much  enlarged,  and  so  closely  applied  to  the 
club  that  it  seems  to  (and  in  fact,  in  some  measui'e,  does)  form  a 
portion  of  it.  Their  tibise  are  minutely  serrated  along  their  inner 
edge ;  and  their  prothoraces  are  rather  uneven,  having  a  tendency 
(more  or  less  expressed  in  the  several  races  and  species)  to  be  branded 
with  a  transverse  irregular  fovea,  or  flexuose  line,  on  either  side  in 
the  middle,  and  two  small  rounded  impressions  (which  are  often 
nearly  obsolete,  and  always  a  good  deal  concealed  beneath  the  mi- 
nute, hardened,  granuliform  scales  with  which  the  surface  is  covered) 
on  each  side  of  the  central  Hne  on  the  disc.  I  have  constantly  cap- 
tured them  in  coitu  ;  but  after  a  most  careful  comparison  of  the  two 
sexes,  I  can  detect  no  external  difFei'ences  between  them,  either  in 
outline  or  structure,  unless  it  be  that  the  males  are  occasionally  just 
perceptibly  narrower  and  with  their  legs  a  trifle  more  robust. 

The  Herpystici  are  essentially  variable,  both  in  stature  and  clothing, 
assuming  slightly  different  phases  according  to  the  region  which  they 
inhabit,  but  which  pass  so  imperceptibly  into  each  other  (however 
opposite  in  the  tAVO  extremes)  that  it  is  impossible  to  regard  any  of 
them  as  of  specific  imj)ortance.  Thus,  what  I  have  treated  as  the 
type  of  the  H.  eremita  (mainly  from  the  fact  of  the  insect  having 
been  originally  described  from  an  individual  of  that  particular  state), 
although  sometimes  small,  ascends  to  a  large  size  and  has  its  elytra 
usually  entirely  fi'ee  from  erect  hairs — with  the  exception  of  a  very 
few  towards  their  apex.  This  is  the  form  which  seems  to  obtain 
(subject  to  trifling  modifications)  throughout  Teneriff'e,  Gomera,  and 
Palma.  But  in  certain  districts  of  Grand  Canary  the  examples  have 
the  additional  pile  not  confined  merely  to  the  apex,  but  more  or  less 
developed  over  the  entire  surface  of  the  elytra, — the  hairs  being 
sometimes  short,  decumbent,  and  but  faintly  traceable  (at  any  rate 
anteriorly),  sometimes  considerablj'  longer  and  more  erect,  whilst  at 
others  they  are  exceedingly  elongated,  fine,  and  thicldy  set  together. 
Nevertheless  I  have  observed  so  many  instances  in  which  this  deve- 
lopment of  the  pubescence  is  unmistakeably  a  mere  topographical 
character  and  not  a  specific  one — as  in  the  Piotes  inconstans  of  the 
Ptinidce,  and  the  Sitones  latipennis  of  the  present  family — that  I  do 
not  consider  it  so  significant  as  it  might  at  first  sight  appear  to  be. 

§  I.  Funiculi  articidi  primus  et  secnndus  inter  se  longitudine  sub- 
cequales  (i.  e.  secundo  primo  I'ix  Jongiore). 

5G7.  Herpysticus  eremita. 
H.  elongatus,  niger,  squamis  minutis  duris  gTanulifornoibus  (vel  fuseo- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA.  371 

cinereis  vel  submetallico-fuscis)  nebulosus ;  capite  prothoraceque 
leviter  rugose  subpunctatis,  rostro  longitudinaliter  canaliculate,  hoc 
subinajquaH  (utrinque  fovea  irregular!  transversa  media  laterali 
necnon  punctis  duobus  soepe  obsoletis  juxta  canaliculam  discalem 
impresso),  mox  intra  apicem  anguste  constricto ;  elytris  elongato- 
ovatis,  striato-punctatis ;  antennis  brevibus ;  pedibus  elongatis, 
crassis, 

n  (status  typicus).  Elytris  sat  profunde  striato-punctatis,  pilis  erectis 
(etiam  versus  ajjicem)  fere  earentibus. 

/8.  snbvestita.  Elytris,  praesertim  postice,  pilis  erectis  mollibus  sed 
hand  dense  obsitis. 

y.  lanata.  Paulo  magis  rugulosa  squamisque  pallidioribus  vestita,  ely- 
tris pilis  erectis  mollibus  elongatis  cinereis  densissime  obsitis  et 
minus  profunde  striato-punctatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5-8. 

Cm-culio  eremita,  Oliv.,  Ent.  v.  85.  321.  tab.  24.  f.  38-3  (1807). 
Herpysticus  Igesicollis,  Germ.,  Ins.  Spec.  i.  413.  tab.  2.  f.  3  (1824). 

,  ScJwn.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  i.  556  (1833). 

eremita,  Brtdle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  72  (1838). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  sub  lapidibus 
in  aridis  degens. 

Witb  the  exception  of  the  typical  one  (or  that  from  which  the  in- 
sect was  originally  described),  I  have  given  names  to  the  states  indi- 
cated above  of  this  variable  Curculionid,  in  case  that  either  the  /8  or 
y  should  prove  eventually  to  be  specifically  distinct.  My  belief,  how- 
ever, is,  as  before  expressed,  that  they  cannot  be  so  regarded ;  for  I 
think  that  I  am  able  to  complete  the  passages  between  the  whole  of 
them,  and  that  it  is  impossible  therefore  to  look  upon  them  as  more 
than  topographical  varieties — brought  about  by  surrounding  circum- 
stances and  the  more  or  less  calcareous  nature  of  the  regions  in  which 
they  occur.  Indeed  the  tendency  which  many  insects  possess  of  hav- 
ing their  clothing  more  developed  in  sandy  and  calcareous  cUstricts 
than  elsewhere  I  have  more  than  once  had  occasion  to  comment  upon, 
though  for  what  purpose  they  should  be  thus  additionally  pubescent 
I  am  quite  unable  to  conjectui'e.  Certainly,  however,  it  appears  to  be 
a  fact, — no  less  than  that  scaly  species  are  apt  to  have  their  scales 
perceptibly  whiter,  or  more  cinereous,  in  such  localities. 

In  accordance  with  the  above  remarks,  it  appears  to  me  that  this 
unstable  insect  is,  on  the  average,  rather  darker  and  larger  in  the 
more  western  islands  of  the  Group — TenerifFe,  Gomera,  and  Palma 
(and  doubtless  Hierro  also,  though  I  did  not  happen  to  meet  with  it 
there) — than  it  is  in  Grand  Canary, — and  that  its  elytra  are  usually 
almost  entirely  free  from  additional  erect  hairs,  with  the  exception 
of  a  very  few  towards  their  apex.  It  was  from  a  Teneriffan  speci- 
men that  it  was  originally  described — as  I  am  able  to  vouch  for  cer- 

2b2 


372  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

tain,  since  M.  Chevrolat  has  kindly  communicated  to  me  an  Olivierian 
tifpe  from  his  collection.  In  Grand  €anary,  however,  the  examples 
show  a  more  evident  tendenci/  to  become  pubescent, — even  the  com- 
paratively bald  ones  being  seldom  free  from  traces  of  a  shght  addi- 
tional pile ;  whilst  some  (as  those  from  the  arid  neighbourhood  of 
Las  Palmas)  have  the  hairs  much  more  developed,  and  others  (as  is 
the  case  in  the  sandy  region  of  Maspalomas,  in  the  extreme  south  of 
the  island)  are  excessively  pilose  and  of  a  paler  hue — being  densely 
beset  with  very  fine,  Avoolly,  elongate  cinereous  hairs.  These  last  I 
have  indicated  as  the  "  y.  lanata.'''  Assuming  therefore  that  I  am 
correct  in  regarding  these  states  as  conspecific  with  each  other,  the 
H.  eremita  may  be  said  to  be  universal  throughout  the  low  and  in- 
termediate elevations  of  (at  all  events)  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Go- 
mera,  and  Palma — in  each  of  which  I  have  taken  it,  more  or  less 
abundantly.  From  Teneriffe  it  has  likewise  been  communicated  by 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva ;  where,  as  well  as  in  Gomera,  it  was 
captured  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

§  II.  Funiculi  articuhis  seciindus primo  distincte  Jongior. 
568.  Herpysticus  calvus,  n.  sp, 
//.  praicedenti  similis  sed  paulo  minor ;  capite  prothoraceque  minus 
sculpturatis,  illo  saepius  canaHcula  longiore  impresso  et  plaga  parva 
obscura  frontaH  albidiore  distinctius  ornato,  oculis  paulo  magis  pro- 
minentibus,  hoc  minus  incequali ;  elytris  \'ix  magis  ovatis,  plus  mi- 
nus brunneo-subtesseUatis,  fere  calvis,  profunde  striato-punctatis, 
intcrstitiis  minus  rugulosis ;  antennis  pecUbusque  paulo  graciliori- 
bus  et  saepius  minus  pilosis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4|-6. 

Herpysticus  eremita,  Hartimq  [nee  OlivX  Geolog.  VerliaUn.  Lanz.  und 
Fuert.  141  &  142. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

After  allowing  so  wide  a  range  for  variation  in  the  H.  eremita,  it 
may  perhaps  appear  inconsistent,  prima  facie,  that  I  should  regard 
the  present  insect  as  distinct  from  it ;  nevertheless,  not  to  mention 
its  many  other  features,  I  believe  that  the  fact  of  the  second  joint  of 
its  funiculus  being  so  much  more  evidently  longer  than  the  basal  one 
is  a  structural  character  which  would  of  itself  suffice  to  establish  its 
specific  claims.  Apart  from  this,  however,  it  has  many  pecidiarities 
essentially  its  own.  Thus,  it  is  on  the  average  a  trifle  smaller  than 
the  eremita ;  its  head  and  prothorax  (when  deprived  of  their  scales) 
are  less  sculptured,  and  the  former  of  these  has  the  rostral  channel 
usually  somewhat  longer,  the  eyes  more  prominent,  and  (in  unrubbed 
specimens)  a  more  decided  (though  small)  paler  frontal  patch,  whilst 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  373 

the  latter  is  less  uneven  (oi-  with  the  inequalities  shallower)  ;  its  ely- 
tra are  generally  more  ovate  (or  a  little  rounder  behind  the  middle), 
jierfectly  free  from  erect  pile,  and  with  the  interstices  less  rugulose ; 
and  its  antennae  and  legs  are  both  slenderer  and  less  hairy. 

In  addition  to  the  above  particulars,  the  H.  calvus  seems  to  be  re- 
stricted to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where  it  takes  the  place  of 
the  eremita  which  is  so  universal  throughout  the  remainder  of  the 
archipelago.  In  the  latter  of  those  islands  it  was  found  also  by  Mr. 
Gray,  and  examples  have  likewise  been  communicated  from  them  by 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  That  it  is  the  species  which  M.  Har- 
tung  registers  as  the  "  II.  eremita,  Oliv."  there  can  be  no  doubt,  for 
I  have  received  one  of  his  specimens,  thus  named,  from  Dr.  Heer 
who  compiled  the  Catalogue. 

569.  Herpysticus  oculatus,  n.  sp. 

H.  calvo  similis,  sed  paulo  minor  squamisque  albidioribus  tectus  ;  ocu- 
lis  subminoribus,  multo  magis  prominentibus  ;  prothorace  variolis 
pjofundis  parce  impresso ;  eljtris  pilis  brevibus  albicantibus  sub- 
demissis  distinctius  obsitis ;  antennis  (paulo  brevioribus  ot  pices- 
centioribus)  pedibusque  vis  gracilioribus  ac  paulo  magis  pilosis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Habitat  in  calcariis  intermediis  Lanzarotae,  rarior. 

Although  very  closely  allied  to  the  preceding  one,  the  present  Her- 
pysticus  must,  I  think,  be  regarded  as  distinct.  It  appears  to  be,  on 
the  average,  a  trifle  smaller  than  the  calvus,  and  altogether  whiter  or 
more  cinereous ;  its  eyes  are  somewhat  rounder  and  very  much  more 
prominent ;  its  prothorax,  when  deprived  of  its  scales,  will  be  seen 
to  be  pitted  with  large  and  deep  varioles ;  its  elytra  are  rather  more 
evidently  beset  with  a  short,  silvery,  subdecumbent  pile  ;  and  its 
limbs  are  perhaps  a  trifle  slenderer, — the  antennae  being,  also,  per- 
ceptibly shorter  and  more  pieescent,  whilst  the  legs  are  rather  more 
hairy.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  calcareous  districts  of 
Lanzarote,  but  it  will  probably  occur  in  Fuerteventui-a  likewise.  My 
specimens  were  taken,  on  the  22nd  of  January  1858,  from  beneath 
stones,  on  the  arid  hills  between  Haria  and  San  Miguel  de  Teguise ; 
and  I  have  a  single  Lanzarotan  example  which  was  captured  by  M. 
Hartung.  , 

Genus  217.  THYLACITES. 
Germar,  Ins.  Spec.  i.  410  (1824). 

The  only  member  of  this  genus  which  I  have  detected  hitherto  at 
the  Canaries  belongs  to  a  small  and  rounded  type  which  has  much 
the  appearance,  ^5run(f /ftCi'e,  of  a  Cneorhinus ;  and  which  further  re- 


374  CANABIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

cedes  from  the  ordinary  Thylacites  in  having  its  fiiniciilus-joints  free 
from  rigid  setse,  its  prothorax  comparatively  narrow  and  cylindric, 
and  its  third  tarsal  joint  very  much  less  expanded  or  bilobed.  From 
the  CiieorJiim,  however,  it  may  immediately  be  known  by,  inter  alia, 
its  rostrum  being  less  deeply  excavated  at  the  tip,  by  its  scuteUum 
not  being  visible,  and  by  its  surface  being  studded  with  long  and 
erect  hairs.  Its  legs  also  are  slenderer  than  is  the  case  in  the  repre- 
sentatives of  that  group, — the  tibiae,  particularly  however  the  ante- 
rior ones,  being  (although  more  evidently  fringed  with  minute  spi- 
niiles)  less  dilated  at  their  extreme  apices. 

570.  Thylacites  obesulus,  n.  sp. 

T.  densissime  albido-squamosus  et  pilis  longissimis  suberectis  moUi- 
bus  parce  obsitus ;  capite  prothoraceque  vix  subochraceo-tinctis, 
hoc  angusto,  subcylindrico,  mox  ante  basin  transversim  constricto, 
longitudinaliter  vix  sublineato-macidato  ;  elytris  valde  convexis, 
rotundato-subquadratis,  irregulariter  nigro-maculatis,  maculis 
valde  irregularibus  plus  minus  confluentibus  et  versus  sutiiram 
longitudinahter  dispositis ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-ferrugineis, 
illis  subcalvis,  his  albo-squamosis ;  tarsorum  articulo  tertio  vix 
dilatato. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  ;  in  aridis  maritimis  arenosis  prope  oppidum 
Arrecife,  mense  ApriH  a.d.  1859,  exemplar  unicum  cepi. 

A  single  specimen  only  of  this  very  distinct  Thylacites  has  hitherto 
come  beneath  my  notice.  It  was  captured,  during  April  1859,  at  the 
roots  of  sand-plants,  on  a  sandy  slope  behind  the  sea-beach  of  Lan- 
zarote,  about  a  mile  to  the  south  of  Arrecife. 

Genus  218.  SITONES. 
Germar,  Im.  Sjx'c.  i.  414  (1824). 

571.  Sitones  gressorius. 

Curculio  gressorius,  Fab.,  Eat.  Si/st.  i.  ii.  465  (1792), 
Sitones  gressorius,  Schdn,,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  97  (1834). 
Sitona  gressoria,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  72  (1838). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  403  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad  Col.  119  (1857). 

Habitat  in  TenerifFa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  super  folia  Liijpini 
termis  Forsk.  hinc  inde  sat  abundans. 

As  in  Madeira,  the  S.  gressorius  of  Mediterranean  latitudes  appears 
to  be  attached  in  these  islands  to  the  Lupines  (Lupinus  termes,  Forsk.), 
which  are  often  cultivated  at  intermediate  elevations.  Under  such 
circumstances  I  have  captured  it  near  Las  Mercedes  and  about 
Orotava  in  Teneriffe  ;    in  the  Barranco  above  8'"  Cruz  of  Palma ; 


CANAKIAN  colt;opter\.  375 

and  near  Valverde  in  Hierro — in  the  last  of  which  islands,  as  well . 
as  in  Gomera,  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gra3\  In  TeneriiFe  it 
was  met  with  also  by  Dr.  Crotch,  who  informs  me  that  it  is  called 
"San  Pedro"  by  the  inhabitants. 

572.  Sitones  latipennis. 

Sitones  latipennis,  ScJtdn.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  99  (1834). 
Sitona  verrucosa*  P,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  72  (1838). 

latipennis,  WoU.,  Ins.  Mad.  404  (1854). 

,  /(/.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  119  (1857). 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Canariae  et  TeneriiFae,  ad  folia  Genlstce  degens. 

This  insect,  which  is  common  on  the  Genista  scoparia  in  Madeira, 
occurs  likewise,  though  less  abundantly,  at  the  Canaries — where  it 
is  found  on  the  same  shrub,  as  also  on  the  Spanish  Broom,  at  inter- 
mediate elevations.  I  have  taken  it  on  the  hills  at  Osorio  in  Grand 
Canary,  and  outside  the  wood  of  Las  Mercedes  in  TeneriflFe.  The 
specimens  from  these  islands  differ  from  the  Madeii'an  ones  in  being 
rather  more  densely  and  ivhitely  scaly,  and  in  the  pile  with  which 
their  elytra  are  additionally  studded  being  both  longer  and  much 
more  erect.  I  am  satisfied,  however,  that  this  peculiarity  of  their 
clothing  is  merely  a  geographical  one,  and  does  not  indicate  a  sepa- 
rate, closely  allied,  species  ;  for  although  the  generality  of  the  Cana- 
rian  examples  are  furnished  on  their  elytra  with  these  erect  elongate 
hairs,  still  the  length  of  the  pubescence  varies  consiclerahhj  (even  in 
the  same  locality),  so  that  in  some  individuals  it  is  as  short  as  in 
those  from  Madeira.  Moreover  I  have  already  shown,  in  several  in- 
stances, how  variable  a  character  the  pilosity  is  apt  to  become,  under 
particular  circumstances — as  in  the  case  of  the  Piotes  inconstans  of 
the  Ptinidce,  and  as  in  the  genus  Herpysticus  (already  noticed)  of  the 
present  family.  I  conclude  therefore  that,  all  other  particulars  being 
the  same,  this  tendency  of  the  pubescence  to  be  more  developed  in  the 
Canaries  than  at  Madeira  is  a  fact  of  some  local  interest  but  without 
any  specific  signification. 

573.  Sitones  punctiger. 

S.  oblongus,  niger,  squamis  griseis  et  cinereis  variegatus  setisque  pili- 
formibus  demissis  obsitus  ;  cajjite  prothoraceque  profunde  rugoso- 

*  I  have  little  doubt  that  M.  Brulle's  *S.  verrucosa  was  established  on  a  small 
example  of  this  variable  insect.  At  any  rate  the  few  and  imimportant  particulars 
to  which  he  calls  attention  are,  all  of  them,  those  which  belong  to  the  S.  latipennis, 
except  the  one  in  which  he  says  "  le  troisieme  intervalle  des  stries  est  petit  de  sa 
nature  et  un  pen  plus  eleve  que  les  autres"  ;  but  since  the  whole  of  his  descri])- 
tions  which  I  have  yet  had  an  opportunity  of  testing  are  wanting  in  accuracy,  I 
am  not  di9)')osed  to  lay  nnich  stress  upon  this  character. 


376  CAJfARIAX  COLEOPTERA. 

punetatis,  illo  postice  punctis  duobus  cinereis  ornato  oeulis  oblongo- 
rotundatis  valde  prominentibus,  hoe  ad  latera  pallidiore  rotundato, 
linea  media  et  punctis  2  vel  3  utrinque  aniiexis  pallidioribus  or- 
nato ;  elytris  cjiindricis,  per  suturam  obscure  albidis,  interstitiis 
alternis  tete  fulvo  nigroque  tessellatis  ;  antennis  ad  basin  pedi- 
busque  (squamosis)  clarioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3. 

Sitones  punctiger,  WolL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  xi.  220  (1863). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventurara,  sub  lapidibus  in  aridis 
arenosis  et  calcariis  degens. 

This  large  Sitones  is  at  once  remarkable  for  its  deeply  sculptured, 
rounded  prothorax  (which,  in  addition  to  a  few  scattered  and  some- 
times obsolete  ones,  has  two  or  three  small  cinereous  punctiform 
spots  on  either  side  of  its  paler  central  line)  ;  for  its  cylindric,  prettily 
tessellated  elytra  (the  suture  of  which  is  of  a  more  or  less  obscure 
chalky  white)  ;  for  its  extremely  prominent  eyes  ;  and  for  the  two 
subaj)proximated  cinereous  specks  (similar  to  those  on  the  prothorax) 
with  which  the  hinder  portion  of  its  head  is  ornamented.  It  appears 
to  be  very  rare  (or,  at  all  events,  extremely  local),  and  confined  to  the 
two  eastern  islands  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — in  the  former 
of  which  I  took  it,  not  uncommonly,  during  March  and  April  of  1859, 
from  beneath  stones,  in  the  flat  sandy  district  to  the  south  of  (and 
adjoining)  Arrecife  ;  whilst,  in  the  latter,  I  met  with  it,  though  more 
sparingly,  a  few  weeks  later,  on  the  calcareous  hill  immediately  out- 
side the  little  town  of  S'*  Maria  Betancuria. 

574.  Sitones  cambricus. 

Sitona  cambrica  (Mi/),  Steph.,  Ill  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  140  (1831). 
Sitones  cribricoUis,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  101  (1834). 
Sitona  cambrica,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  405  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  120  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  rarior. 

The  European  S.  cambrici's,  which  is  common  in  the  east  of  Ma- 
deira and  in  Porto  Santo,  is  decidedly  scai'ce  in  these  islands — where 
hitherto  I  have  met  with  it  only  in  Grand  Canary  and  Tenerifffe.  In 
the  latter,  however,  it  is  widely  spread,  my  specimens  being  from  the 
vicinity  of  Orotava,  the  mountains  above  S*"  Cruz,  the  Agua  Garcia, 
and  the  Agua  Mansa. 

575.  Sitones  lineatus. 

Curculio  lineatus,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  183  (1761). 
Sitones  lineatus,  Schon.,  Ge7i.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  109  (1834). 
Sitona  lineata,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  406  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  120  (1857). 

Habitat  Canariam,TenenfFam  et  Palmam,  prsecipue  in  eultis  degens. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  377 

This  common  insect,  which  is  universal  throughout  Europe,  and 
which  occurs  also  in  Madeira,  and  is  recorded  by  M.  Morelet  at  the 
Azores,  is  by  no  means  abundant  at  the  Canaries — where  (as  in  Ma- 
deira) it  may  very  probably  have  been  introduced  from  more  north- 
ern latitudes.  I  have,  however,  taken  it  about  Las  Palmas  in  Grand 
Canary,  around  Orotava,  ifec.  in  Teneriffe,  and  in  Palma.  From  Tene- 
rifFe  it  has  likewise  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch  and  the  Barao 
do  Castello  de  Paiva*. 

576.  Sitones  hunieralis. 

Sitona  hunieralis  {Kbt/),  Stoph.,  III.  Bnt.  Ent.  iv.  138  (1831). 
Sitones  proniptus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  ii.  113  (1834). 
Sitona  hunieralis,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  407  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  120  (1857). 

Habitat  ins.  omnes  Canaricnses,  passim,  praesertira  in  aridis  calcariis. 

*  Evidently  akin  to  the  <S'.  lineafus  is  a  reputed  Teneriffan  species,  which  I 
would  briefly  describe  as  follows : — 

Sitones  setuliferus. 
8.  oblongus,  niger,  squamis  einereo-albidis  densissime  teetus  setulisquo  brevissi- 

mis  adspersus ;  capite  prothoraceque  ad  latera  obsolete  suboehraceo-tinctis,  illo 

oculis  oblongo-rotundatis,  hoc  linea  media  albidiore  ornato ;  elytris  leviter 

jjuiictato-striatis,  interstitio  quarto  per  discum  posticum  ochraceo-tiucto  ;  pe- 

dibus  clarioribus,  albo-squamosis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^. 

Sitones  setidiferus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  vi.  273  (1840). 

Habitat  (sec.  Dom.  Chevrolat)  in  Teneriffa,  milii  non  obvius. 

The  above  diagnosis  has  been  compded  from  a  unique  specimen  wliich  M. 
Chevrolat  has  been  kind  enough  to  lend  me,  and  wliich  is  the  actual  type  described 
in  Sehonlierr's  work.  It  is  somewhat  singidar  that  I  have  met  with  no  other  ex- 
ample of  the  species  either  amongst  the  enormous  amoimt  of  material  amassed 
by  myself  in  these  islands,  or  in  the  smaller  collections  formed  by  others ;  and  I 
cannot  but  feel  a  little  doubtful,  therefore,  whether  some  mistake  may  not  have 
arisen  as  to  its  habitat — more  particularly  since  another  Curculionid,  likewise 
registered  as  Teneriffan,  from  the  collection  of  M.  Chevrolat,  namely  the  Cata- 
ononus  cribrarius,  and  wliich  is  so  large  and  conspicuous  that  it  seems  scarcely 
possible  that  it  should  have  escaped  our  combined  observations  (and  which,  I  may 
further  add,  has  nothing  in  common  with  any  of  the  known  Canariau  types),  is 
in  exactly  the  same  predicament.  My  impression  is  that  both  of  them  may  have 
come  from  some  other  country,  and  may  perhaps  have  been  accidentally  mixed  up 
afterwards  with  insects  from  Teneriffe.  Nevertheless  since  theii-  published  habitat 
cannot  be  disallowed  until  the  S2)ecies  have  been  redetectcd  elsewhere,  and  since  it 
is  of  course  possible  that  they  may,  after  all,  be  tridy  Canariau,  I  have  thought  it 
desirable  to  include  their  diagnoses,  at  any  rate  as  foot-notes,  in  tliis  Catalogue, 
though  I  cannot  without  fin'ther  evidence  admit  them  into  the  body  of  the  work. 

Judging  from  the  specimen  before  me,  the  S.  setidiferus  is  of  about  the  size  of  the 
common  lineatus,  but  is  much  more  densely  clotliect  with  robust  cinereous-white 
scales,  and  closely  besprinkled  with  coarser,  but  very  abbreviated,  seta; ;  its  eyes 
are  a  trifle  smaller  and  less  roiuided  ;  its  prothorax  has  a  most  distinct  white  line 
down  the  centre  ;  and  its  elytra  are  scarcely  ornamented  with  longitudinal  lines. 
Their  third  interstice,  however,  is  curiously  (though  obsciu'ely)  ocJiraceous  down 
the  hinder  disc  of  each  elytron — a  colour  which  is  likewise  faintly  expressed  about 
the  shoulders,  as  also  along  either  side  of  the  head  and  prothorax.  Altogether  it 
appears  to  me  as  though  it  might  be  a  small  and  rather  highly-coloui-ed  variety 
of  a  species  which  I  have  received  from  Dr.  Schaum  mider  the  name  of  <S'.  alter- 
nans  ;  though,  with  only  a  solitary  example  (of  both)  to  judge  fi-om,  it  is  of  course 
impossible  to  say  this  for  certain. 


378  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

The  European  S.  humeralis,  which  is  scattered  sparingly  over  the 
Madeiran  Group,  is  universal,  though  by  no  means  common,  at  the 
Canaries — in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  cap- 
tured it.  In  Palma  it  was  likewise  found  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  from 
Teneriffe  it  has  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch  and  the  Barao  do 
Castello  de  Paiva.  It  occurs  more  particularly  in  diy,  calcareous 
spots. 

577.  Sitones  setiger. 
/S.  oblongus,  niger,  squamis  griseis  inaequaliter  vestitus ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  densissime  et  profunde  rugoso-punctatis,  illo  oculis  ob- 
longo-rotundatis  prominentibus,  hoc  subcylindrico,  intra  apicem 
(subelevatum)  constricto,  ad  utrumque  latus  linea  paulo  albidiore 
omato ;  elytris  profunde  pmictato-striatis,  vel  obscure  variegatis 
(interstitiis  alternis  obsolete  tessellatis)  vel  dense  fusco  aut  ochra- 
ceo-fusco  squamosis,  saepius  versus  latera  squamis  albidioribus  ob- 
scure plagiatis,  interstitiis  setosis  (setis  nigrescentibus  sed  in  inter- 
stitiis alternis  setis  albidioribus  clistantibus  commixtis);  antennis 
(brevibus)  pedibusque  rufo-fcrrugineis,  capitulo  fcmoribusque  ob- 
scurioribus. — Long.  corj).  lin.  l|-2, 

Sitones  setiger,  WolL,  Aim.  Nat  Hist.  xi.  221  (18G3). 

Habitat  in  aridis  insularum  Canariensium,  in  Palma  sola  hactenus 
hand  detectus. 

Judging  from  the  diagnosis,  this  little  Sitones  is  probably  allied  to 
the  S.  seriesetosus,  Schon.,  from  Egypt.  Unless,  however,  the  pub- 
lished description  of  that  insect  is  so  inaccurate  as  to  be  absolutely 
worthless,  the  two  species  cannot  possibly  be  identical ;  for  the  pro- 
thorax  of  the  seriesetosus  is  said  to  be  remotely  and  lightly  punctured, 
and  with  two  approximated  paler  lines  down  its  disc,  whereas  that 
of  the  setiger  is  most  densely  and  coarsely  so,  with  the  longitudinal 
lines  extremely  wide  apart  (being  in  fact  completely  lateral);  then, 
its  elytra  are  described  as  "  tenuissime  punctato-striata  "  and  with 
the  interstices  alutaceous,  whereas  in  the  Canarian  insect  they  are 
deeply  punctate-striated,  and  the  interstices  (which  are  shining)  have 
not  the  slightest  tendency  to  be  alutaceous ;  and,  lastly,  the  eyes  of 
the  Egyptian  species  are  stated  to  be  round,  whereas  (although  a  Httle 
variable  in  outline)  they  are  never  quite  round  in  the  setiger,  being 
more  frequently  oblong. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  S.  setiger  is  universal  throughout 
the  archipelago,  though  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in 
Palma ;  but  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe, 
and  Hierro  I  have  taken  it,  more  or  less  abundantly ;  and  in  Gomera 
it  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  (who  also  met  with  it  in  Grand  Canary 
and  Teneriffe).     In  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Teneriffe  it  was 


CANAIIIAN  COLEOPTERA.  379 

found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray.  It  occurs  principally  in  dry  spots  at 
low  and  intermediate  elevations — often  abounding  around  S'"  Cruz 
and  Orotava  in  TenerifFe  ;  as  also  near  Las  Palnias  and  throughout 
the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary. 

Genus  219.  BRACHYDERES. 
Schonherr,  Cure.  Disp.  Meth.  102  (1826). 

578.  Brachyderes  rugatus,  n.  sp. 

B.  elongatus,  niger,  nitidus,  pube  subcinerea  demissa  parce  tectus ; 
capite  prothoraceque  punetatis,  hoc  in  disco  obsolete  canaliculato 
et  ibidem  levius  punctato  ;  elytris  ellipticis,  levissime  substriato- 
punctatis,  interstitiis  minutissime  subasperato-punctulatis  et  trans- 
versim  rugulosis  ;  antenuis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis. 

Mas  elytris  angustis,  vix  profundius  striato-punctatis,  apice  obtuse 
rotundatis. 

Foem.  elytris  multo  latioribus,  apice  lateraUter  subcompressis  acuti- 
uscuhs. — Long.  corp.  lin.  41-6. 

Habitat  Palmam,  super  folia  floresque  Phii  canariensis  in  elevatis 
degens. 

Both  of  the  Brachyderes  here  described  are  attached  to  the  foliage 
and  flowers  of  the  Pinus  canariensis,  at  loftj  altitudes  ;  and  although 
they  are  certainly  veiy  closely  related  inter  se,  I  can  hardly  suppose 
them  to  be  insular  modifications  of  the  same  species.  The  B.  rugatus 
abounds  in  the  old  Finals  of  Palma — where  I  observed  it  in  consi- 
derable numbers,  during  June  1858,  in  that  extensive  one  which 
clothes  the  region  from  the  elevated  plains  known  as  "  Los  Llanos  " 
up  to  the  edges  of  the  great  Caldeira.  It  is,  on  the  average,  a  trifle 
larger  than  the  sc^dpturatus,  and  is  more  thickly  beset  with  a  some- 
what paler  and  more  decumbent  pile ;  and  its  elytra  are  much  more 
finely  punctate-striated,  with  their  interstices  rather  more  densely 
transversely-rugulose . 

579.  Brachyderes  sculpturatus,  n.  sp. 
B.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  vix  minor,  pube  paulo  magis  robusta  et 
erecta  parcius  obsitus  (pube  praesertim  ad  apicem  necnon  per  su- 
turam  saepius  submetallica) ;  elytiis  in  utroque  sexu  multo  pro- 
fimdius  striato-punctatis,  interstitiis  minus  dense  transversim -ru- 
gulosis, in  sexu  foemineo  ad  apicem  ipsissimum  vix  minus  acutis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  4-5^. 

Habitat  in  locis  similibus  ac  praecedens,  sed  in  montibus  Canarise 
et  Tenerifiae  (nee  Palmae). 

Whilst  the  last  species  occurs  in  the  ancient  Pinals  of  Palma,  the 
present  one  I  have  observed  in  those  of  Grand  Canary  and  Teneriff'e 


380  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA, 

— where  it  is  found  in  similar  spots  at  a  high  altitude.  On  the  lofty 
mountains  of  the  former,  above  San  Bartolomd,  in  the  district  of  Tara- 
jana,  I  brushed  it,  not  uncommonly,  during  April  1858,  from  off  the 
foliage  of  the  gigantic  pine-trees  which  clothe  those  elevated  slopes  ; 
and  a  month  later  I  met  with  it  in  the  great  Pinal  above  Ycod  de  los 
Vinhos  of  Teneriffe.  It  differs  from  the  B.  rugaius  in  being  perhaps 
a  trifle  smaller  ;  in  the  pubescence  with  which  it  is  beset  being  more 
sparing,  but  nevertheless  a  little  robuster  and  more  erect,  as  well  as 
(at  any  rate  posteriorly  and  along  the  suture)  of  a  more  decidedly 
metallic  tinge  ;  and  in  its  elytra  (which  are  just  perceptibly  less  acute 
at  their  extreme  apex)  being  much  more  deeply  punctate-striated, 
though  with  their  interstices  a  little  less  closely  rugulose. 

Fam.  46.  BRUCHIDiE. 

Genus  220.  BRUCEUS. 
Geoffi-oy,  Ins.  dc  Park,  i.  103  (1762). 

580.  Bruchus  pisi. 

Bruchus  pisi,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  i.  ii.  G04  (1767). 

,  Schon.,  Qen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  i.  57  (1833). 

Fabfe?,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  71  (1838). 

pisi,  Lticas,  Col.  de  VAlycrie,  401  (1849). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  cultis  et  granariis  vulgaris. 

The  European  B.  pisi  (which  occurs  sparingly  in  Madeira)  is  uni- 
versal at  the  Canaries,  in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which,  except 
Gomcra,  I  have  myself  captured  it ;  and  in  Gomera  it  was  taken, 
during  the  spring  of  1S02,  by  Dr.  Crotch.  In  Palma  and  Hierro  it 
was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  from  Teneriffe  it  has  been 
communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  It  is  closely  alKed, 
at  first  sight,  to  the  B.  rufimanns  ;  though,  when  carefullj"  inspected, 
it  •will  be  seen  to  be  abundantly  distinct.  Thus,  apart  from  minor 
characters,  it  is  not  only,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  larger  and  more  ob- 
long (seldom,  if  ever,  descending  to  so  small  a  size  as  certain  examples 
of  that  insect),  but  its  antennaB  are  a  little  shorter  and  thicker,  its  pro- 
thorax  is  somewhat  broader,  with  the  lateral  angle  more  prominent 
and  spiniform,  its  elytral  interstices  are  rather  more  coarsely  punc- 
tured, its  pygidium  (and  indeed  its  entire  surface)  is  more  brightly 
variegated  with  black  and  white  scales  (the  two  black  patches  at  the 
apex  being  larger  and  more  conspicuous),  its  anterior  pair  of  legs  have 
their  femora  always  darker  than  the  (rufescent)  tibiee  and  feet,  whilst 
the  intermechatc  tibial  are  more  or  less  rufo-ferruginous  at  their  apex. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  381 

its  hinder  femora  are  armed  beneath  with  a  much  longer  and  more 
powerful  spine,  and  its  third  tarsal  joint  is  perceptibly  more  expanded. 

581.  Bruclius  rufimanus. 

Bruchus  rufimanus,  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  i.  58  (1833). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  419  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col  123  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  proDcedens, 
vulgaris. 

This  common  European  BnicJms,  which  occiu'S  also  in  Madeira  (and 
which  has  probably  been  imported  into  both  Groups  from  more  north- 
ern latitudes),  is,  like  the  B.  pisi,  universal  at  the  Canaries,  in  the 
whole  seven  islands  of  which,  except  Gomera,  I  have  myself  captured 
it ;  whilst  in  Gomera  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  (who  also  met  with 
it  in  Palma).  In  Lanzarote,  Palma,  and  Hierro  it  was  taken  like- 
wise by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  in  Teneriflc  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva 
and  M.  Hartung.  As  in  the  case  of  its  ally,  it  abounds  principally 
in  houses,  granaries,  and  about  cultivated  grounds. 

582.  Bruclius  terminatus,  n.  sp. 

B.  fere  rufimanum  simulans,  sed  paulo  minus  ovatus  ;  antennis  bro- 
vioribus,  crassioribus,  articulis  inter  se  magis  transversis  ;  oculis 
sensim  minus  profunde  excavatis  ;  prothorace  ad  latera  argiitius 
angiilato ;  olytris  oblongioribus  ;  tibiis  anticis  crassioribus,  inter- 
mediis  angustioribus  rectioribus  necnon  ad  angulum  internum  spina 
valde  obtusa  subbifida  terminatis ;  tarsis  intermediis  (ut  pedibus 
anticis)  Isete  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|^. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  montibus  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  repertus. 

Two  examples  only  of  this  Bruchus,  captiu'ed  by  myself  in  Tene- 
riffe  (on  the  mountains  above  S"'  Cruz),  have  as  yet  come  beneath 
my  notice.  The  species  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  B.  rtifimamis, 
for  which  at  first  sight  it  might  be  mistaken  ;  nevertheless,  judging 
from  the  individuals  before  me,  it  is  a  trifle  smaller  and  more  oblong ; 
its  antennae  are  shorter  and  thicker,  the  subclaval  joints  being  more 
transverse ;  the  excavation  of  its  eyes  is  not  quite  so  deep  (a  struc- 
ture which  causes  the  eye  itseK  to  be  slightly  broader,  or  less  scooped 
out) ;  its  prothorax  is  more  angulated  on  either  side  in  the  centre  ; 
its  pubescence  is  browner ;  its  elytra  are  a  little  less  ovate ;  its  front 
tibite  are  thicker ;  its  intermediate  pair  are  slenderer  and  straighter, 
and  are  terminated  at  their  inner  apical  angle  by  a  robust,  blunt,  up- 
wardly-directed, subbifid  spine,  or  process  (which  is  best  seen  when 
the  insect  is  viewed  with  its  abdomen  foremost) ;  and  its  middle  feet 
are,  like  the  whole  anterior  legs,  of  a  bright  rufo- testaceous  hue. 


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583.  Bruchus  Teneriffae. 

B.  ovatus,  niger,  subtus  dense  cinereo-,  supra  insequaliter  cinereo- 
et  fusco-squamosus,  antennarum  basi  pedibusque  rufo-testaceis ; 
femoribus  (prajsertim  posticis,  subtus  denticulo  minutissimo  inter- 
dum  aegre  observando  ai'matis)  tibiisque  posticis  basi  nigris  ;  capite 
prothoraceque  subconico  punctatis  ;  elytris  teniiiter  subcrenato- 
striatis ;  antennis  versus  apicem  vel  rufo-  vel  nigro-brunneis. 

Mas  elytris  vix  quadratioribus ;  anteruais  pedibusque  (praesertim 
tibiis  tarsisque  posterioribus)  longioribus  ;  tibiis  posticis  sensim 
gracilioribus,  extus  minus  evidenter  subserratis  ;  pygidio  sequaliter 
cinereo-tomentoso  (nee  nigro-subbimaculato). — Long.  corp.  lin. 
1J_11 

Bruchus  TeueriffcB  (Steven),  Schon.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.  v.  105  (1839). 
Habitat  in  montibus  Canariae,  TenerifFai  et  Palmae,  floribus  Spartii 
et  Ci/tisi  gaudens. 

"Were  it  not  for  the  habitat  "  insula  Teneriffa,  in  Spartio,"  it  would 
scarcely  have  been  possible  to  recognize  the  present  Bruclms  in  the 
long  but  inaccurate  description  given  in  the  'Gen.  et  Spec.  Cure.'; 
but  as  it  is,  I  feel  perfectly  satisfied  that  it  is  the  species  there  re- 
ferred to.  It  abounds  in  certain  districts,  chiefly  of  a  high  elevation, 
on  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  and  Palma ;  and  on 
the  lofty  Cumbre  of  TenerifFe,  above  Ycod  el  Alto  and  adjoining  the 
Caiiadas,  as  well  as  on  the  opposite  Cumbre  above  the  Agua  Mansa, 
it  absolutely  teems — occurring  on  the  flowers  of  the  Spartium  mibi- 
gena  (or  "  Retama  "),  and  being  most  common  from  about  7000  to 
9000  feet  above  the  sea.  Nevertheless  it  is  also  found,  though  less 
profusely,  at  lower  altitudes  :  thus,  in  Grand  Canary  I  have  taken  it, 
from  off  the  blossoms  of  Cytisus  prolifenis,  throughout  the  region  of 
El  Monte,  as  well  as  on  the  mountain-slopes  above  San  Mateo  (to- 
wards the  Roca  del  Soucilho),  and  on  the  ascent  to  the  Pinal  of 
Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolome.  And  whilst  in  Palma,  during  June 
1858, 1  met  with  it  in  the  great  Pinal  of  the  Banda  above  the  plains 
known  as  "  Los  Llanos,"  on  the  western  side  of  that  island.  Li 
Teneriffe  it  was  likewise  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  though  sparingly, 
on  the  Canadas. 

The  B.  Teneriffoi  is  remarkable,  inter  alia,  for  a  certain,  though 
not  very  considerable,  sexual  dissimilarity  which  it  presents  (for  I 
think  I  can  scarcely  be  mistaken  in  regarding  the  two  forms  now 
before  me  as  sexes  of  a  single  species).  Thus,  the  male  (which  would 
seem  to  be  rather  the  rarer  of  the  two)  is,  on  the  average,  a  little 
larger  and  squarer  in  outline,  and  has  its  pygidium  more  uniformly 
cinereous  (there  being  no  indication  of  the  obscure,  ill-defined  darker 


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patches  towards  the  apex  which  are  seldom  absent  in  the  opposite 
sex),  and  its  antennae  and  legs  are  longer ; — added  to  which,  the  two 
hinder  tibiae  are  perceptibly  slenderer,  and  perhaps  a  trifle  less  evi- 
dently subserrated  along  their  outer  edge,  than  is  the  case  in  the 
females. 

584.  Bruchus  floricola,  n.  sp. 

B.  minutus,  ovatus,  niger,  subtns  dense  cinereo-,  supra  insequaliter 
cinereo-  et  fusco-squamosus,  antennarum  (robustarum)  basi  pedi- 
busque  rufo-testaceis ;  femoribus  (praesertim  posticis,  subtus  den- 
ticulo  minutissimo  vix  observando  armatis)  tibiisque  posticis  basi 
nigris  ;  cajjite  prothoraceqne  subconico  dense  punctiilatis  ;  elytris 
striatis,  interstitiis  subnitidis,  leviter  subreticulato-rugulosis;  tibiis 
posticis  robustis. 

Variat  antennis  vel  omnino  rufo-testaceis,  vel  versus  apicem  obscu- 
rioribus. — Long.  Corp.  lin.  |-1. 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Gomera  et  Palma  solis  baud  obser- 
vatus. 

This  excessively  minute  Brucfms  would  seem  to  be  the  represen- 
tative in  these  islands  of  the  Madeiran  B.  lichenicola,  which  at  first 
sight  it  very  closely  resembles.  Nevertheless,  when  accurately  in- 
spected, it  will  be  seen  to  differ  from  that  insect  in  many  particulars. 
Thus,  its  antennae  and  legs  are  a  httle  longer  and  thicker ;  its  femora 
and  two  hinder  tibiae  are  black  at  their  respective  bases  ;  the  latter 
are  very  perceptibly  broader  and  rather  less  straightened ;  and  the 
third  joint  of  its  four  anterior  feet  is  somewhat  more  expanded.  Its 
elytra,  also,  are  a  trifle  convexer  and  less  opake ;  and  its  prothorax 
perhaps  is  a  little  more  deeply  sinuated  posteriorly. 

The  B.  floricola  is  probably  universal  throughout  the  Group,  though 
I  did  not  happen  to  observe  it  in  either  Gomera  or  Palma ;  but  in 
Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Hierro  I 
have  captured  it,  more  or  less  abundantly.  It  occurs  more  espe- 
cially, on  flowers,  in  calcareous  spots  of  intermediate  elevations.  My 
Fuerteventuran  examples  are  from  Agua  Bueyes  and  the  Rio  Palmas  ; 
the  Canarian  ones  from  the  vicinity  of  Tafira  (adjoining  the  region 
of  El  Monte)  ;  and  the  Teneriffan  ones  from  the  mountains  above 
gta  (jj.u2.  Those  from  Lanzarote  were,  I  think,  taken  at  Haria,  and 
the  Hierro  ones  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Valverde. 

585.  Bruchus  antennatus,  n.  sp. 
B.  ater  sed  minute  subflavescenti-pubescens,  subopacus  ;  eapite  pro- 
thoraceqne conico  densissime  ruguloso-punctulatis  ;  elytris  sub- 
crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  densissime  et  minute  subpunctulato- 
rugulosis ;  antennis  pedibusque  vix  dilutioribus ;  illis  in  maribus 


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longissimis  serratis,  his  in  iitroqiie  sexu  elongatis  gracilibus  ;  fe- 
moribus  posticis  vix  edeuticiilatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  Ig-lf  • 

Hahltat  in  montibus  Canarise,  TenerifFo)  et  Palmse,  in  pinetis  parce 
degens. 

This  most  interesting  Bruclms,  so  remarkable  for  its  deep-black 
hue  (the  surface,  however,  being  more  or  less  clothed  with  a  very 
minute,  short,  decumbent,  yellowish-  or  whitish-brown  pubescence), 
its  excessively  conical  prothorax,  slender  legs,  and  the  enormous  length 
of  its  male  antennaj,  would  seem  to  be  extremely  rare,  though  widely 
spread  over  the  archipelago,  and  confined  (so  far  at  least  as  I  have 
observed  hitherto)  to  those  regions  of  a  high  elevation  occupied  by 
the  ancient  Pinals ;  though,  at  the  same  time,  I  am  not  absolutely 
certain  that  it  is  in  any  way  actually  dependent  upon  the  fir-trees. 
I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  TeneriiFe,  and  Palma ;  in  the  first 
of  these  in  the  Pinal  of  Tarajana  (above  San  Bartolome),  in  the  second 
at  the  Agua  Mansa  (close  to  a  Piniis  cananensis),  and  in  the  third 
in  the  great  Pinal  of  the  Banda  (above  the  plains  of  Los  Llanos)  to- 
wards the  Caldeira.  It  will  probably  be  found  in  all  the  islands  of 
the  Group  except  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura. 

Fam.  47.  AGLYCYDERID^. 

Genus  221.  AGLYCYDERES. 

Westwood,  in  Proc.  Ent.  Soc.  Loncl.  (1803). 

Corpus  oblongum,  subdepressum,  rugosum,  valde  subsquamoso-seto- 
sum ;  capite  deplaiiato,  ocidis  minutis  rotundatis  alte  prominenti- 
bus,  in  foemineis  triaugulari  apice  truncate,  in  maribua  latissimo 
necnon  ante  oculos  in  cornu  utrinque  producto  et  mox  pone  oculos 
rigide  setoso-penicillato.  Antennce  rectte,  graciles,  filiformes,  11- 
artieulatfe  ;  art°  1""°  longiusculo  crassiusculo,  ultimo  elongato-ovali. 
Mandibulce  validte,  breves,  crassaj,  subtriangulares,  obtuse  triden- 
tatse.  MaxiUce  lobis  singiilis  subtriangularibus,  intus  spinis  rigidis 
curvatis  ciliatis,  instructaj.  Palpi  maxiUares  brevissimi,  crassi, 
conici,  articuKs  1'"°,  2''°  3'"'que  brevissimis  ;  lahiales  minuti,  conici. 
Pedes  breves,  crassi,  ad  basin  (praesertim  postici)  parum  distantes ; 
tarsis  brevissimis,  4-articulatis,  articuHs  1"'"  et  2'*"  subbilobatis,  3"° 
minuto,  ultimo  longiore  late  clavato  unguiculis  simplicibus  munito. 

The  affinities  of  this  most  anomalous  genus,  -^hich  Prof.  Westwood 
has  not  discussed,  are  extremely  difficult ;  and  whilst  placing  it  in 
the  present  position,  I  do  so  with  the  utmost  hesitation  ;  for  although 
in  many  respects  it  certainly  approaches  the  Anthrihidce,  yet  the 
structure  of  its  oral  organs  (as  evinced  by  its  triangular  mandibles 
and  maxilla),  and  its  short,  thick,  conical  palpi)  is  unmistakcably  that 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  385 

of  the  sub-Ehynchophoroiis  Xylophagous  groups  (such  as  Hylastes, 
&c.)  at  the  opposite  extremity  of  the  Curcidionidce.  Yet  its  entire 
external  conformation,  particularly  of  the  antennae,  removes  it  com- 
pletely from  all  such  forms  ;  whilst  its  4-jointed  (or  "  pseuclotrime- 
rous  ")  feet  (the  third  articulation  being-  excessively  minute)  render 
its  relationship  still  more  dubious.  Upon  the  whole,  it  seems  to  me 
to  combine  the  two  ojyjiosite  extremes  of  the  Rliyncliopliora  (as  repre- 
sented by  the  Hylesinidce  and  Antlirihidce)  with  certain  setose  genera 
of  the  Colydiadoi  (such  as  Sarrotrium  and  Diodesma)  in  which  the 
body  is  hispid  and  the  tarsi  quadriarticulate.  Nevertheless,  not 
venturing  to  assign  it  positively  to  the  Antlirihidce,  I  have  been  com- 
pelled to  place  it  in  a  separate  Family. 

586.  Aglycyderes  setifer. 
A.  niger  vel  piceo-niger,  opaeus,  valde  asperato-rugosus  setisque  ro- 
bustis  squamiformibus  fuseo-albidis  (in  capite  prothoraceque  sub- 
demissis,  sed  in  eljtris  erectis)  obsitus  ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  ad 
latera  rotundato,  profunde  canaliculato  ;  elytris  dense  et  rugose 
punctato-striatis,  interstitiis  subelevatis ;  antennis  (gracilibus) 
pedibusque  (robustis)  paulo  picescentioribus,  squamosis. — Long, 
corp.  lin.  1-1 3. 

Aglycyderes  setifer,  Westtv.,  loc.  cit.  (1863). 
Habitat  in  infcrioribus  intermcdiisque  Lanzarotse,  Fuerteventuree, 
Canarise,  Teneriffse  et  Palmae,  vel  in  caulibus  Euphorbiari'm  putridis 
vel  sub  cortice  Ficorum  arido  laxo,  hinc  inde  congregans. 

This  curious  little  insect,  so  remarkable  (even  prima  facie)  for  its 
dark,  brownish-black,  opake,  setose  surface,  thick,  abbreviated  legs, 
slender  antennae,  and  for  its  (flattened)  head  being  in  the  female  sex 
triangular,  whilst  in  the  male  it  is  dilated  in  front  of  either  eye  into 
a  lateral  lobe,  or  horn,  wiU  almost  certainly  be  found  universally 
throughout  the  Group,  though  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have 
been  observed  in  either  Gomera  or  Hierro  ;  but  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerte- 
ventura  (or  rather  on  the  little  island  of  Lobos,  off  the  extreme  north 
of  it).  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma  I  have  taken  it  (more  or 
less  abundantly).  I  first  detected  it  congregating  beneath  the  dry 
loosened  bark  of  a  fig-tree  in  the  waste  ground  above  the  Puerto 
Orotava  of  Teneriffe  ;  and  I  subsequently  met  with  it  under  similar 
circumstances  in  the  Banda  of  Palma.  Nevertheless  even  in  those 
instances  it  was  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  Euphorbias  ;  and  since 
I  have  also  actually  captured  it  (on  the  mountains  of  Teneriffe,  above 
Laguna,  as  well  as  in  Lobos,  and  elsewhere)  within  the  rotten  stalks 
of  the  Euphorbia  canariensis,  I  suspect  that  it  is,  at  any  rate  in  its 
earlier  stages,  of  ^M^:)7io»-5/rt -infesting  habits. 

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Fam.  48.  CERAMBICID^. 


Genus  222.  HYLOTRYPES. 
Semlle,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  iii.  77  [script.  Hylotrupes]  (1834). 

587.  Hylotrypes  bajulus. 

Cerambyx  Bajulus,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  489  (1746), 
Callidium  Bajulus,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  62  (1838). 
Hylotrupes  Bajulus,  Mtds.,  Longic.  de  France,  55  (1840). 
,  Wall,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  125  (1857). 

Habitat  TeneriiFam,  in  urbe  Sanctae  Crucis  baud  infrequens ;  certe 
introductus. 

Tbis  common  European  insect  bas  been  introduced  into  tbe  Cana- 
ries, in  like  manner  as  it  bas  into  Madeira  and  at  tbe  Azores.  It 
appears,  bowever,  to  be  scarce.  I  bave  taken  it  occasionally  in  Tene- 
riffe,  in  tbe  streets  and  bouses  of  S*''  Cruz  ;  and  it  bas  likewise  been 
communicated  from  tbe  same  island  by  tbe  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva. 

Genus  223.  BLABINOTUS. 

Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  426  (1854). 

588.  Blabinotus  spinicollis. 

Blabinotus  spinicollis,  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  426.  tab,  ix.  f,  1  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  126  (1857), 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  sub  cortice  laxo  in  lauretis  parum 
excelsis  parcissime  degens. 

Tbe  B.  spinicoUis,  ^o  generally  (tbough  sparingly)  distributed  over 
tbe  laurel-districts  of  Madeira,  occurs  in  similar  situations  at  tbe 
Canaries — wbere,  bowever,  it  would  seem  to  be  of  tbe  utmost  rarity. 
At  tbe  end  of  May  1858  I  captured  a  single  example  of  it  in  tbe 
island  of  Palma  (bigb  up  in  tbe  Barranco  de  Galga);  and  a  few 
weeks  later  I  met  witb  a  second,  in  TenerifFe — under  the  dry,  loosened 
bark  of  an  old  laurel  in  tbe  wood  of  Las  Mercedes. 

Genus  224.  OXYPLEURUS. 

Mulsant,  Longic.  de  France,  57  (1840), 

589.  Oxypleurus  pinicola. 
Oxypleurus  pinicola,  Woll,,  Jotirn.  of  Ent.  ii.  102  (1863). 

Habitat  Palmam  ;  exemplar  uuicum  (mortuum)  in  cono  quodam 
Pini  canariensis  arido,  tempore  vernali  a.d,  1858,  collegi. 

Tbe  OL  leric  distinctions  between  Oxypleurus  and  Blabinotus  bave 
been  fully  pointed  out  in  my  Paper  "  on  tbe  Canarian  Longicorns." 


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But,  apart  from  minor  characters,  I  may  just  add  that  the  present 
insect  may  at  once  be  recognized  from  the  B.  spinicolHs  by  its  paler 
or  more  reddish-brown  hue  and  less  hairy  (though  pubescent)  sur- 
face, by  its  convexer  and  more  even  head  and  prothorax,  larger  and 
more  emarginated  eyes,  and  by  its  antennae  being  more  distant  at 
their  base  and  with  their  third  joint  a  trifle  shorter  (instead  of  longer) 
than  the  fourth.  Its  prothorax,  also,  is  more  abbreviated — being 
truncated  at  the  apex,  where  its  edge  is  drawn  in  and  subsinuated 
(instead  of  being  slightly  raised  and,  if  anything,  somewhat  produced). 
The  only  example  of  the  0.  pinicola  which  I  have  seen  was  taken 
by  myself,  dming  the  spring  of  1858,  from  within  a  dried  cone  of  a 
Pinus  canariensis  in  the  island  of  Palma — high  up  in  the  Barranco 
above  S**  Cruz.  It  will  probably  be  found,  therefore,  to  occur  gene- 
rally (though  perhaps  sparingly)  in  the  Finals  of  intermediate  eleva- 
tions. It  is  closely  allied  to  the  0.  Nodieri  of  southern  Europe ; 
but  is  a  little  less  pubescent ;  with  its  prothorax  altogether  a  trifle 
narrower,  more  contracted  behind  (where  the  sides  are  rather 
straighter,  though  very  oblique),  and  with  the  lateral  spine  shorter 
and  more  anyuliform ;  and  with  its  elytra  almost  free  from  the  small, 
rounded,  punctiform,  subglabrous  spaces  which  are  tolerably  evident 
(and  have  somewhat  the  appearance,  prima  facie,  of  tubercles)  in  that 
species.  From  the  Madeiran  0.  Bewichii  it  may  be  known  by  its 
prothorax  being  more  coarsely  punctured,  less  conspicuously  margined 
along  the  anterior  edge,  and  with  the  lateral  spine  very  much  shorter 
and  more  angidiform,  and  by  its  elytra  being  comparatively  free 
from  subglabrous  spaces. 

Genus  225.  CRIOCEPHALUS. 
Mulsant,  Longic.  de  France,  63  (1840). 

590.  Criocephalus  rusticus. 
Cerambyx  rusticus,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  492  (1746). 
CaUidium  rusticum,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  62  (1838). 
Criocephalus  rusticiis,  Muk.,  Lonqic.  de  France,  63  (1840). 
,  Woll.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  124  (1857). 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Teneriffse  et  Palma?,  rarissimus. 

The  European  C.  rusticus,  which  occurs  in  the  pine-woods  of  com- 
paratively recent  introduction  on  the  moimtains  of  Madeira,  is  appa- 
rently rare  at  the  Canaries — though  perhaps  it  might  be  found  more 
abundantly  if  the  ancient  Pinals  were  diligently  searched.  Hitherto, 
however,  I  have  myself  met  with  it  only  in  Palma — where,  during 
June  of  1858,  I  obtained  a  few  specimens  at  the  Banda,  on  the 
western  side  of  that  island.     Nevertheless  a  Teneriffan  example,  pur- 

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porting  to  have  been  taken  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  has  been  communi- 
cated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

The  Canarian  examples  have  the  tubercles  on  either  side  of  their 
prothorax  a  trifle  more  developed  than  is  the  case  in  specimens  which 
I  have  examined  from  the  south  of  Europe,  and  the  posterior  edge  of 
their  pronotum  is  somewhat  less  thickened  and  more  sinuated  ;  but 
I  can  detect  no  diff'erence  about  them  of  sufficient  importance  to  war- 
rant the  suspicion  that  they  are  specifically  distinct. 

591.  Criocephalus  pinetorum. 

Criocephalus  pinetorum,  JVoU.,  Journ.  of  Ent.  ii.  103  (18G3). 

Habitat  Palmam,  in  trunco  vetusto  Pini  canariensis,  in  pineto 
quodam  antique  elevato  crescentis,  Junio  ineunte  a.d.  1858  repertus. 

The  example  from  which  this  Criocephalus  was  described  was  cap- 
tured by  myself,  in  the  pupa  state,  from  the  dead  stump  of  a  Finns 
canariensis,  in  the  old  Pinal  of  the  island  of  Palma  between  the 
plains  of  Los  Llanos  (of  the  Banda)  and  the  great  Caldeira.  Un- 
fortunately it  is  scarcely  mature ;  but  I  beheve  that  it  is  truly  the 
exponent  of  a  separate  species,  and  cannot  be  regarded  as  a  depau- 
perated individual  of  the  C.  rusticus.  Nevertheless,  until  further 
specimens  have  been  obtained,  I  can  hardly  consider  that  its  differ- 
ential characters  have  been  satisfactorily  defined. 

Assuming,  however,  the  example  above  alluded  to  to  be  typical,  I 
may  add  that  the  C.  pmetorum  would  appear  to  be  smaller  and  paler 
than  the  rusticus — being  of  a  reddish-brown,  with  the  Umbs  bright 
rufo-ferruginous;  its  forehead  is  more  triangularly-impressed  between 
the  eyes,  but  less  deeply  foveolated  in  the  centre ;  its  prothorax,  on 
which  the  lateral  tubercles  are  fewer,  has  its  anterior  and  posterior 
margins  straighter  (or  less  sinuated)  ;  and  its  elytra  are  rather  more 
abbreviated  behind,  and  have  their  longitiulinal  costaj  less  evident. 

"Whether  distinct  or  not  from  the  C. rusticus,  the  present  Criocephalus 
is  decidedly  common  in  the  Pinal  of  Palma  already  referred  to  (and 
perhaps,  therefore,  throughout  the  Pinals  generally)  ;  but  as  my  visit 
there  happened  to  be  at  the  wrong  season  of  the  year  for  the  perfect 
insect,  I  could  only  obtain  larvae  and  pupae — both  of  which,  however, 
were  abundant  in  the  decaying  trimks  of  the  pine-trees. 

Genus  226.  HESPEROPHANES. 

Miilsant,  Longic.  de  France,  66  (1840). 

592.  Hesperophanes  senex. 

Trichoferus  senex,  Wall.,  Lis.  Mad.  428.  tab.  ix.  f.  3  (18.54). 
Hesperophanes  senex,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  127  (1857). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  389 

Habitat  TeneriiFam,  a  Barone  "  Castello  de  Paiva  "  communicatus  ; 
mihi  non  obvius. 

Apparently  extremely  rare  at  the  Canaries,  the  only  specimen 
which  I  have  seen  having  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Cas- 
tello de  Paiva — by  whom  it  was  obtained  from  an  old  (but  very  ac- 
curate) collection  which  was  formed  many  years  ago  in  Teneriffe.  At 
Madeira  it  occurs  sparingly,  principally  at  low  elevations  around 

Funchal. 

593.  Hesperophanes  roridus. 

Callidium  (Hesperophanes)  roridum,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.) 
62.  pi.  1.  f.  6  (1838). 

Habitat  ? 

I  can  give  no  information  about  this  insect,  though  I  think  that 
even  M.  Brulle's  description  will  prevent  its  being  assigned  to  any 
of  the  Longicorns  enumerated  in  the  present  Catalogue.  It  must  at 
any  rate,  therefore,  have  been  included  amongst  the  scanty  material 
collected  by  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot,  and  which  M.  Brulle  under- 
took to  describe  for  their  gigantic  work  ;  but  as  the  latter  never  in- 
serted a  single  critical  remark  upon  any  of  the  species — pertaining  to 
their  structure,  habits,  or  habitat — I  am  unable,  inter  alia,  to  state 
even  the  island  in  which  it  was  found. 

Genus  227.  CLYTUS. 
Fabricius,  Si/st.  Eleu.  ii.  345  (1801). 

594.  Clytus  Webbii. 

Leptura  4-punctata  (var.)  ?,  Geoff r.,  Hist,  des  Ins.  213  (1762). 
Clytus  4-punctatus  (var.)?,  Fab.,  But.  S>/st.  i.  ii.  337  (1792). 

Webbii,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  63  (1838). 

Webbei,  Gory,  Mon.  des  Clytus,  80  (1841). 

Habitat  TeneriiFam  (sec.  Dom.  Gory),  mihi  non  obvius. 

In  my  Paper  "  on  the  Canarian  Longicorns,"  I  stated  my  reasons 
for  suspecting  that  this  insect  (which  M. Brulle  considered  to  be  a  mere 
variety  of  the  European  C.  ^-jMnctatus)  is  not  properly  a  Canarian 
one — or,  at  any  rate,  that  its  habitat  appears  to  have  been  so  confused 
by  Mr.  Webb,  who  would  seem  to  have  reported  it  both  for  Madeira 
and  the  Canaries,  that  nothing  certain  can  be  affirmed  respecting  it. 
It  is  far  from  unlikely  that  Mr.  Webb  (whose  excessive  inaccuracy 
in  mixing  up  his  Madeiran  and  Canarian  material  has  been  more  than 
once  commented  upon,  and  of  which  I  possess  the  most  conclusive 
evidence)  may  have  obtained  it  in  Fvmchal  (perhaps  introduced  with 
foreign  timber),  then  taken  it  (as  he  undoubtedly  did  many  of  his 


390  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

species — both  of  insects  and  shells)  to  Teneriffe,  and  finally  reported 
it  for  both  Groups — when  in  reality  it  pertained  to  neither  of  them  ! 
At  least,  taking  all  things  into  account,  some  such  solution  as  this 
seems  to  be  highly  probable.  Nevertheless,  since  it  is  cited  (even 
though  on  Mr.  "Webb's  authority)  for  Tenerilfe  by  M.  Gory,  and  ad- 
mitted (on  the  same  authority)  by  M.  Brulle  as  Canarian  (for  it  was 
not  the  habit  of  the  latter  to  record  the  particular  island  in  which 
aw?/  of  Mr.  Webb's  species  were  taken),  I  have  no  choice  but  to  in- 
clude it  in  the  present  Catalogue*. 

Genus  228.  GRACILIA. 
Serville,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  ile  France,  iii.  81  (1834). 

595.  Gracilia  pygmaea. 

Callidiimi  pygmseum,  Fah.,  Ent.  Syd.  i.  ii.  323  (1792). 
Obrium  miuutum,  Steijh.,  III.  Brit  Ent  iv.  250  (1831). 
Gracilia  pygmaea,  Muls.,  Lungic.  de  France,  103  (1840). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  prsesertim  in  vi- 
mineis  circa  domes,  hinc  inde  parum  vulgaris. 

This  common  European  insect  has  doubtless  been  naturaliged  at 
the  Canaries  from  more  northern  latitudes.  It  seems  to  be  attached 
principally  to  the  different  kinds  of  wicker-  and  basket-work,  and 
to  occiir  consequently  in  (or  about)  houses  more  frequently  than  else- 
where. Thus,  at  the  Souces,  in  the  island  of  Palma,  I  took  it 
abundantly,  in  May  1858,  emerging  from  its  perforations  on  the  sides 
of  the  light  open  trays  in  which  silkworms  were  fed ;  and  during 
April  1859 1  met  with  it  in  the  Eio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura.  More 
recently  a  single  example  has  been  communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
captured  by  himself  in  Gomera.  It  is  found,  though  sparingly,  in 
similar  situations  at  Madeira  f. 

*  A  (supposed)  second  Clyius  (the  C.  griseus)  is  indeed  quoted  by  M.  Gory 
as  Tenerilfan,  and  by  M.  Brulle  as  Canarian,  in  both  eases  on  the  authority  of  a 
specimen  in  the  collection  of  Mr.  Webb ;  but  I  really  cannot  conscientiously  in- 
clude it  also  in  the  body  of  tliis  work, — first,  because  the  evidence  for  its  admis- 
sion is  quite  as  unsatisfactory  as  in  the  case  of  the  C.  Webbii ;  and,  secondly,  be- 
cause the  C.  griseiis  is  allowed  in  the  Eiu-opean  Catalogues  to  be  a  mere  variety 
of  the  common  4:-2ninctatiis,  Fab. — to  which  species  it  is  probable  that  even  the  C. 
Webbii  equcdiy  pertains\  Hence,  apart  from  all  consideration  of  the  reasons 
(alluded  to  above)  for  which  I  would  esjjunge  them  both  from  the  Canarian  fauna, 
I  think  that  if  one  of  the  two  is  admitted  (on  the  unsatisfactory  evidence  of  Mr. 
Webb)  it  is  as  much  as  should  be  ventured  upon  ;  seeing  that  the  utmost  that 
can  be  conjectiu-ed  is  that  some  slightly  erratic  state  (or  states)  of  the  C.  i-jmnc- 
tatus  may  perhaps  have  been  obtained  by  Mr.  Webb  in  (either  Madeira  or)  Te- 
neriffe ! 

t  In  a  Paper  on  "Additions  to  the  Madeiran  Coleoptera  "  published  in  the 
'Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist.'  for  December  1858,  I  inadvertently  quoted  the  above  insect 
as  the  Obrium  brunneum.  Fab. — from  which,  however,  it  is  totally  distinct. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  391 

Fam.  49.  LAMIAD^. 

Genus  229.  LEPROSOMA. 
(Dejean)  Thorns.,  Essai  Classif.  Ceramb.  23  (1860), 

596.  Leprosoma  gibbiun. 

Leprosoma  asperatum,  De/.,  Cat.  372  (1837). 

Lamia  gibba,  Brum,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  62.  pi.  1.  f.  6  (1838). 

Leprosoma  asperatum,  Thorns.,  Essai,  23  (1860). 

gibbum,  WolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i.  178  (1862). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  et  Teneriffam,  in  truncis  Euphorbiarum 
emortuis  degens. 

Of  this  singular  insect,  which  is  attached  exclusively  to  the  decay- 
ing stems  and  branches  of  the  various  Euphorbias  (within  which  it 
undergoes  its  transformations),  I  gave  a  full  description  in  my  Paper 
"  on  the  Eupliorhia-mie^im^  Coleoptera  of  the  Canary  Islands."  At 
the  beginning  of  April  1859  I  took  it,  both  in  the  imago  and  pupa 
state  (though  particularly  the  latter),  on  the  hills  above  8*''  Maria 
Betancuria,  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura ;  and  during  the 
following  month  (as  well  as  in  the  preceding  February)  I  met  with 
it  on  the  mountain-slopes  of  Teneriffe  between  S**  Cruz  and  Las  Mer- 
cedes, and  towards  Lagima.  Teneriffan  examples  (obtained  from  an 
old  collection)  have  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello 

de  Paiva. 

Genus  230.  STENIDEA. 

Midsant,  Coleopt.  de  France  {LaineU.  Suppl.)  (1842), 

The  insects  enumerated  below  I  carelessly  referred,  in  my  Paper  "  on 

the  EuphorUa-hxiestm^  Coleoptera  of  the  Canary  Islands,"  to  Blabi- 

notus.     In  reality,  however,  they  belong  to  a  totally  different  Section 

of  the  Eucerata  (as  has  been  recently  pointed  out  by  Mr.  Pascoe), — 

their  deflexed  head,  more  deeply  emarginate  and  less  prominent  eyes, 

the  apically- acute  (instead  of  securiform)  last  joint  of  their  palpi,  and 

their  much  longer  antennae,  all  tending  to  remove  them  from  the  Calli- 

dium-f orma  of  the  Gerambiddce  into  the  Saperdideous  ones  of  the  La- 

miadce — the  position,  in  fact,  which  is  ordinarily  conceded  to  the  genus 

which  must  undoubtedly  receive  them. 

597.  Stenidea  annulicornis. 

Cerambyx  annulicornis,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  62,  pi,  1.  f,  3 

(1838), 
Blabinotus  annulicornis,  Woll,  Travis.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i,  179  (1862), 
Stenidea  annulicornis,  Id.,  Journ.  of  Ent.  ii,  108  (1863). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  sub  cortice  Euphorbiarum  emor- 

tuarum  laxo  latitans. 


392  CANABIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

The  S.  ammlicornis,  the  distinctive  characters  of  which  I  have  fully 
pointed  out  in  my  Paper  "on  the  Enjihorbi  a -infesting  Coleoptera  of  the 
Canary  Islands,"  occurs  beneath  the  bark,  and  within  the  branches,  of 
dead  Euphorbias — in  which  situations  I  have  taken  it  on  the  moun- 
tains above  S*"  Cruz  of  TenerifFe,  and  in  the  lower  regions  of  El  Golfo 
on  the  western  side  of  Hierro.  A  Teneriffan  specimen  has  also  been 
communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

598.  Stenidea  albida. 

Ceramb^'x  albidus,  JBrulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)62.  pi.  1.  f.  4(1838). 
Blabinotus  albidus,  JFolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i.  180  (1862). 
Stenidea  albida,  Id.,  Journ.  of  Ent.'\\.  109  (18G3). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Teneriffam,  in  iisdem  locis 
ac  prascedens. 

The  whiter  and  less  dense  pubescence  of  the  S.  albida,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  its  nearly  concolorous  prothorax  (which  is  free  from  a  broad 
pale  band  down  the  centre,  and  has  the  lateral  spiae  still  more  power- 
fully developed),  its  less  evident  and  more  broken  elytral  lines,  and 
its  usually  more  conspicuous  elytral  (punctiform)  spots,  will  readily 
suffice  to  distinguish  it  from  the  S.  annuUcornis.  Like  that  species, 
it  is  found  (I  believe  exclusively)  beneath  the  loose  outer  fibre  of  the 
various  Euphorbias — under  which  circumstances  I  have  captured  it 
in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  as  well  as  at  Taganana  and  on  the 
mountains  above  S*'''  Cruz  in  Teneriffe. 

599.  Stenidea  pilosa. 

Blabinotus  pilosus,  WoU.,  Trans.  Ent,  Soc.  Lond.  i.  181  (1862). 
Stenidea  pilosa,  Id.,  Jmirn  of  Ent.  ii.  109  (1863). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  Eupho7-biis  emortuis,  rarissima. 

The  present  Stenidea  would  appear  to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity — 
three  specimens  only,  all  of  them  from  Lanzarote,  having  as  yet  come 
beneath  my  notice.  The  first  of  them  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray, 
during  January  1858,  near  Haria,  in  the  north  of  that  island  ;  and 
the  other  two  by  myself,  in  the  same  region,  exactly  twelve  months 
afterwards.  Like  the  two  preceding  species,  I  believe  it  is  strictly  of 
Euphorbia-iniesting  habits. 

600.  Stenidea  Hesperus. 

Stenidea  Hesperus,  WoU.,  Journ.  of  Ent.  ii.  110  (1863). 
Habitat  ins.  Hierro  ;  die  11.  Feb.  a.d.  1858,  exemplar  unicum  supra 
folia  Eumicis  Innarice  depi'ehendi. 

The  present  Stenidea  is  hitherto  unique,  the  specimen  described 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  393 

from  in  my  Paper  on  the  Canarian  Longicorns  having  been  beaten  off 
a  busli  of  the  Bumex  lunaria,  on  the  11th  of  Pebrnaiy  1858,  in  the 
island  of  Hierro — at  a  low  elevation  (scarcely  indeed  above  the  sea- 
level)  on  the  ascent  from  Port  Hierro  to  Valverde.  Prima  facie  it 
somewhat  resembles  a  minute  example  of  the  S.pilosa;  nevertheless 
it  is  much  smaller  than  that  insect,  and  its  antenna?  are  considerably 
longer ;  its  pubescence  is  more  cinereous  (or  of  a  less  yellowish  white) ; 
its  surface  is  entirely  free  (except  at  the  apex  of  the  elytra  and  on  the 
prothorax)  from  additional  erect  hairs ;  its  prothorax  is  concolorous, 
rather  less  constricted  behind,  and  has  its  lateral  spine  (although 
small)  more  defined,  or  less  anguliform ;  and  its  elytra  are  more 
rounded- off  separately  at'  theii'  tip,  and  are  more  perceptibly  orna- 
mented with  broken  longitudinal  darker  lines. 

Genus  231.  AGAPANTHIA. 

Serville,  Ami.  de  la  Soe.  Ent.  cle  France,  iv.  35  (1835). 

601.  Agapanthia  cardui. 

Cerambyx  cardui,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  (ed.  12)  i.  632  (1767). 
Saperda  suturalis,  Fah.,  Si/st.  Fleu.  ii.  326  (1801). 
Leptura  suturalis,  Brum,\n  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  63  (1838). 
Agapauthia  suturalis,  Mills.,  Longic.  tie  France,  178  (1840). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  ad  flores  carduorum,  tem- 
pore vernali  hand  infrequens. 

The  A.  cardui,  which  is  pretty  general  throughout  the  south  of 
Europe  and  the  north  of  Africa,  is  widely  spread  over  these  islands 
— where  it  occurs,  principally  on  the  flowers  of  thistles,  at  interme- 
diate elevations.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand 
Canary,  at  Las  Mercedes  in  Teneriffe,  and  in  Palma. 

Fam.  50.  CRIOCERID^. 

Genus  232.  LEMA. 
Fabricius,  Ent.  Syst.  v.,  Snp2Jl.  90  (1798). 

602.  Lema  melanopa. 

Clirysomela  melanopa,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  573  (1761). 
licma  melanopa,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  BeHh.  {Col.)  74  (1838). 

-,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  436  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  129  (1857). 

,  Hartumj,  Geolog.  Verhiiltn.  Lcinz.  and  Fuert.  141. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  vulgaris,  praesertim  in  cultis 
degens. 


394  CAJTARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

This  common  European  insect  (which  is  universal  also  at  the  Ma- 
deiras— being  found  in  Madeira  proper,  Porto  Santo,  and  on  the 
Desertas)  abounds  in  the  Canarian  Group,  in  the  whole  seven  islands 
of  which  1  have  myself  captured  it  except  in  Gomera — where,  how- 
ever, it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  met  with 
likewise  by  M.  Hartung ;  in  Teneriffe  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva  and  Dr.  Crotch  ;  and  in  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch  and  Mr.  Gray. 
It  occurs  chiefly  in  cultivated  spots,  particularly  corn-fields,  and  has 
probably  been  introduced  from  more  northern  latitudes. 

Genus  233.  CRIOCERIS. 
Geoflfroy,  Ins,  des  Env.  de  Paris,  i.  237  (1764). 

603.  Crioceris  nigropicta,  n.  sp. 

C.  pallide  flava,  nitida  ;  capite,  prothoracis  disco  scutelloque  aeneo- 
nigrescentioribus ;  iUo  trapeziformi,  latiusculo,  intra  oculos  inte- 
gros  dcpresso,  grosse  substriguloso-ruguloso  et  ibidem  profunde  ca- 
naliculate ;  hoc  breviter  cylindrico  (ad  basin  vix  constricto),  parce 
punctato ;  elytris  profunde  seriatim  punctatis,  laete  nigro-pictis  (so. 
in  sutura,  humeris,  plagis  parvis  mediis  subconfluentibus  subba- 
salibus,  fasciisque  duabus  abbreviatis  subobluniformibus  pone  me- 
dium positis,  nigris);  an  tennis  pedibusque  robustis,  iUis  testaceo- 
ferrugineis,  his  testaceis,  tibiis  (preesertim  anticis)  extus  in  medio 
plus  minus  evidenter  nigro-plagiatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  rarissima ;  mense  Aprili  a.d.  1858  in 
foliis  Arundinis  donacis  ad  Mogan  parcissime  capta. 

This  beautiful  Crioceris,  so  remarkable  for  its  light-yeUow  elytra 
being  prettily  ornamented  with  black  spots  and  broken  fascise,  and 
which  has  the  head  and  (though  more  palely  so)  the  prothoracic  disc 
of  a  brassy-black,  appears  to  be  one  of  the  rarest  of  all  the  Coleoptera 
of  this  archipelago.  Indeed  the  only  four  specimens  which  I  have 
seen  were  collected  by  myself  in  Grand  Canary — brushed  from  off 
some  plants  of  Arundo  donax,  on  the  l(3th  of  April  1858,  at  Mogan, 
in  the  south-western  district  of  that  island. 

Fam.  51.  EUMOLPID^. 

Genus  234.  PSEUDOCOLASPIS, 
Laporte,  Hist.  Nat.  des  Ins.  Col.  ii.  514  (1840). 

§  I.  Scutelhim  siihsemicirculare. 

604.  Pseudocolaspis  divisa,  n.  sp. 

P.  obscui'c  asnea,  grosse  sed  breviter  argenteo-pubcscens,  dense  et 
parum  minute  punctulata ;  prothorace  longiuscido,  convexo,  ad 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  395 

latera  rotundato-ampliato ;  elytris  breviusculis,  convexis,  ad  latera 
rotundatis,  vix  siibseriatim  pubescentibus ;  antennis  nifescentibus, 
apicem  versus  obscurioribus  ;  pedibus  infuscato-rufescentibus,  fe- 
moribus  obscurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  li-l|. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  sub  lapidibus  in  aridis,  rarissima. 

The  present  Psevdocolaspis,  which  appears  to  be  of  the  greatest 
rarity,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  Lanzarote, 
may  be  known  from  the  other  species  here  enumerated  by  its  pro- 
thorax  and  elytra  being,  both  of  them,  more  convex  and  more  rounded 
at  the  sides,  and  by  the  former  being  a  little  longer,  whilst  the  latter 
are  very  evidently  shorter,  than  is  the  ease  in  any  of  its  allies ;  by  its 
scutellum  being  more  semicircular  (instead  of  subquadrate),  and  less 
truncated  behind ;  and  by  its  surface  being  more  regularly  brassy,  and 
somewhat  less  densely  clothed  with  short  silvery  pile.  The  few  spe- 
cimens which  I  have  seen  were  taken  in  the  extreme  north  of  Lan- 
zarote— from  beneath  stones  on  the  dry  rocky  ground  at  the  base  of 
the  Risco,  and  immediately  behind  the  Salinas. 

§  II.  Scutellum  subquadratum. 

605.  Pseudocolaspis  dubia,  n.  sp. 

P.  praecedenti  fere  similis,  sed  paulo  minus  seuea ;  prothorace  ely- 
trisque  minus  convexis  necnon  ad  latera  minus  rotundatis,  illo 
breviore,  his  longioribus,  magis  oblongis ;  antennis  pedibusque  sub- 
gracilioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|-1|. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859  in  Rio  Palmas 
capta. 

In  its  subquadrate  scuteUum  and  oblong  outline,  this  species  has 
more  in  common  with  the  following  two  than  it  has  with  the  pre- 
ceding one  ;  nevertheless  in  some  respects  it  is  intermediate  between 
the  latter  and  them.  It  may  be  known  from  the  splendidula  and 
obscurijpes  (with  which  alone,  from  the  shape  of  its  scutellum,  it  need 
be  compared)  by  its  somewhat  shorter  prothorax  (which  is  obscurely 
ferruginous  along  its  anterior  edge),  by  its  rather  convexer  and  more 
rounded  elytra,  slenderer  limbs,  and  altogether  slightly  different  hue. 
The  only  three  examples  which  I  have  seen  were  captured  by  myself 
in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859. 

606.  Pseudocolaspis  splendidula. 

P.  laete  ajneo-cuprea,  grosse  sed  breviter  argenteo-pubescens,  dense 
et  minute  punctulata  ;  elytris  plus  minus  obsolete  subseriatim  pu- 
bescentibus :  antennis  rufescentibus,  apicem  versus  plus  minus  ob- 
scurioribus ;  pedibus  rufescentibus. 


396  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Varkit  femoribus  plus  minus  obscure  nigro-maculatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  11-21. 

Pseudocolaspis  spleudidula,  Woll.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  ix.  442  (1862). 

Hahitat  in  Canaria,  Palma  et  Hierro,  in  locis  inferioribus  et  inter- 
mediis  (prsesertim  illis)  degens. 

This  is  certainly  the  most  beautiful  of  the  four  species  of  Pseudo- 
colaspis here  enumerated ;  and  it  would  seem  likewise  to  be  more 
widely  spread  over  the  archipelago,  having  been  observed  in  Grand 
Canary,  Palma,  and  Hierro — occurring  principally  in  low  and  sunny 
spots,  and  becoming  gradually  rarer  to  an  elevation  of  about  1000  feet 
above  the  sea.  Thus,  in  the  low  sandy  region  around  Maspalomas, 
in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand  Canary,  it  abounds,  on  various  shrubs 
which  stud  that  arid  tract ;  and  extends  also  to  a  certain  distance  on 
the  mountains  which  rise  gradually  to  the  north  of  it.  In  Palma  I 
took  it  sparingly  in  the  Barranco  above  S***  Cruz.  And  in  Hierro  a 
single  example  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray — at  a  low  altitude  (scarcely 
indeed  above  the  sea-level)  on  the  ascent  fi'om  Port  Hierro  to  Val- 
verde,  on  the  11th  of  February  1858. 

The  P.  splendidula  may  easily  be  recognized  by  its  more  beautifully 
metallic  surface  (which  is  generally  of  a  coppery-brassy  hue)  and  by  its 
brightly  rufo-ferruginous  limbs  (the  club  of  the  antennae  being  alone 
obscured).  The  short  silvery  pubescence  with  which  it  is  clothed  is 
perhaps  somewhat  denser  than  is  the  case  in  the  ohscuripes,  and  is  on 
the  elytra  rather  less  evidently  disposed  in  longitudinal  lines  ;  never- 
theless the  individuals  now  before  me  from  Palma  and  Hierro  have  this 
latter  peculiarity  a  little  less  apparent  than  in  the  ordinary  Grand- 
Canarian  ones. 

607.  Pseudocolaspis  obscuripes. 

P.  obscure  senea,  grosse  sed  breviter  argenteo-pubescens,  dense  et  pa- 
rum  minute  punctulata ;  elytris  obsolete  seriatim  pubescentibus  ; 
antennis  nigrescentibus,  articulo  secundo  ad  basin  rufescentiore ; 
pedibus  submetallico-nigris. — Long.  corp.  lin.  li-S. 

Pseudocolaspis  obscimpes,  Wall.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  ix.  441  (1862). 

Hahitat  Canariam  Grandem,  ad  flores  Cistorum  (sc.  C.  monspeliensis 
et  vagantis)  in  montibus  excelsis  crescentium,  deprehensa. 

The  altogether  obscurer  surface  of  this  Pseudocolasjyis,  which  is  of 
a  dull-brassy  hue  with  the  limbs  (except  the  second  antennal  joint) 
of  a  metallic  black,  in  conjunction  with  the  short  silver}^  pile  with 
which  it  is  clothed  being  on  the  elytra  perhaps  rather  more  percepti- 
bly disposed  in  longitudinal  rows,  will  serve  to  distinguish  it  from  the 
P.  splendidida.     I  have  observed  it  hitherto  only  in  Grand  Canary, 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  397 

where  it  would  seem  to  be  conlined  to  lofty  altitudes,  and  to  be  par- 
ticularly attached  to  the  flowers  of  the  ClstL  Thus,  in  the  elevated 
Pinal  of  Tarajana,  above  San  Bartolome,  I  captured  it,  during  April 
1858,  on  the  blossoms  of  the  Cistus  vagans  and  monspeliensis,  Linn., 
rather  abundantly. 

Fam.  52.  CRYPTOCEPHALID^. 

Genus  235.  CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 

Geoffroy,  Hist.  Abr.  dcs  Ins.  de  Paris,  i.  231  (1702). 

608.  Crjrptocephalus  nitidicollis,  n.  sp. 

C.  uitidus,  flavo-testaceus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  (convexo)  nitidis- 
simis,  minute,  parce  et  levissime  punctatis  (stepe  fere  impuuctatis), 
iUo  longitudinaliter  in  fronte  et  hoc  utrinque  in  disco  antico  plus 
minus  rufo-fulvescenti-obscurioribus ;  ely tris  profunde  striato-pune- 
tatis,  vel  omnino  pallidis  vel  per  suturam  necnon  utrinque  in  plaga, 
longitudinal!  subobUqua  discali  plus  minus  obscurioribus  ;  antennis 
(gracilibus)  pedibusque  pallide  testaceis,  iUis  versus  apicem  obscu- 
rioribus. 

Vnriat  (prsesertim  in  locis  editioribus)  maculis  plagisque  fere  nigres- 
centibus  ;  necnon,  in  locis  valde  elevatis,  etiam  pedibus  obscuriori- 
bus.— Long,  corp,  lin.  1-1 1. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  longe  lateque  parce  diffusus — 
ab  era  maritima  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  present  Cri/ptocephahis  is  universal  throughout  the  Canarian 
archipelago,  in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  cap- 
tured it  except  in  Gomera — where,  however,  four  examples  (now 
before  me)  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch.  In  Lanzarote  and  Palma  it 
was  met  with  also  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  TeneriiFe  by  the  Barao  do 
CasteUo  de  Paiva.  Although  nowhere  very  common,  it  occurs  inde- 
pendently of  elevation — from  the  level  of  the  shore  to  about  9000 
feet  above  the  sea ;  and  in  the  higher  altitudes  it  is  apt  to  vary  a 
good  deal  in  hue — the  obscure  portions  of  its  surface  (and  occasion- 
ally even  the  limbs)  becoming  at  times  almost  black.  In  this  state 
I  have  brushed  it  off  the  blossoms  of  the  "  Ketama ''  on  the  lofty 
Cumbre  of  TeneriiFe  above  Ycod  el  Alto  and  adjoining  the  Caiia- 
das  (where  it  was  likewise  found,  subsequently,  by  Dr.  Crotch),  as 
well  as  on  the  opposite  Cumbre  (above  the  Agua  Mansa).  My  other 
Teneriffan  specimens  are  principally  from  the  Agua  Mansa,  Orotava, 
and  the  mountains  above  S''^  Cruz.  In  Grand  Canary  it  is  pretty 
general  throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte,  as  well  as  at  Maspalomas 
(in  the  south  of  the  island) ;  whilst  my  Palman  examples  are  chiefly 


1398  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

from  the  Barraneo  de  Agua,  and  the  Hierro  ones  from  the  region  of 
El  Golfo. 

Both  of  these  Canarian  Cryptoctpliali  are  closely  related  to  the  C. 
crenatus*  of  Madeira,  and  are  also  very  nearly  allied  inter  se ;  but 
that  they  are  not  sexual  forms  of  a  single  species  I  am  convinced, 
inasmuch  as  I  possess  males  and  females  of  them  both.  Apart,  how- 
ever, from  the  greater  instability  of  its  colour,  and  its  apparently 
wider  range  (both  horizontal  and  vertical),  the  C  nitidicoUis  may 
immediately  be  known  by  its  bright  and  almost  unpunctured  pro- 
thorax,  and  by  its  elytral  stria?  being  less  impressed. 

609.  Cryptocephalus  puncticollis,  n.  sp. 
C.  prsecedenti  simiiis  et  valde  affinis,  sed  prothorace  vix  breviore  mi- 
nusque  convexo  necnon  subopaco  (baud  nitido)  et  profunde  dense- 
quo  punctato  ;  elytris  ad  apiccm  sensim  minus  singulatim  rotun- 
datis,  striis  (profunde  pimctatis)  magis  impressis,  quare  iuterstitiis 
paulo  magis  convexis ;  pedibus  vix  crassioribus. — Long,  corp.  lin. 

1-13 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  sat  rarus. 

As  may  be  gathered  from  what  has  already  been  said,  the  present 
Cryptoce'phalus  may  immediately  be  recognized  from  the  last  one  by 
its  prothorax  being  a  trifle  shorter  and  less  convex,  as  also  subopake 
and  deeply  and  closely  punctured  (instead  of  being  bright  and  nearly 
impunctate)  ;  by  its  elytra  (which  are  rather  less  rounded  off,  sepa- 
rately, at  their  respective  apices)  having  their  coarsely  punctured 
strife  more  impressed,  and  therefore  their  interstices  a  little  more 
convex ;  and  by  its  legs  being,  on  the  average,  perhaps  somewhat 
thicker,  or  more  robust.  Moreover  the  sixteen  specimens  now  before 
me  are  uniformly  pale,  there  being  no  trace  of  the  darker  markings 
which  certain  examples  of  the  nitidicoUis  (particularly  those  from  the 
higher  elevations)  tend  to  assume ;  but  whether  this  character  is  a 
constant  one,  I  am  of  course  unable  to  aifirm. 

The  0.  puncticollis  appears  to  be  rather  scarcer,  and  less  widely 
spread,  than  its  ally,  and  may  perhaps  be  confined  to  the  central  and 
western  islands  of  the  archipelago.  At  any  rate  I  have  observed  it 
hitherto  only  in  Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro,  in  the  first  of  which  it 
has  also  been  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Teneriffan  examples  are  from 
Taganana,  Souzal,  and  the  Agua  Garcia. 

*  The  Madeiran  C.  crenatus  differs,  inter  alia,  from  both  of  the  Canarian  spe- 
cies in  having  its  elytral  strite  finely  and  closely  crenated  (instead  of  deeply  and 
remotely  punctured).  In  the  sculpture  of  its  prothorax  it  is  somewhat  inter- 
mediate between  the  nitidicoUis  and  puncticollis — though  nearer,  I  tliink,  to  the 
former. 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA.  399 

Genus  236.  STYLOSOMUS. 

SufFrian,  in  Linn.  Ent.  iii.  140  (1848). 

610.  Stylosomus  biplagiatus,  n.  sp. 

S.  flavo-testaceus ;  capite  prothoraceqiie  sat  grosse  punctatis,  hoc  im- 
maculato  sed  basin  versus  (elevatam)  saepius  paulo  infuscatiore ;  elj'- 
tris  profunde  substriato-punctatis,  oculo  armato  minute  seriatim 
pubescentibus,  pone  scutellum  obsoletissime  et  pone  medium  obso- 
lete transversim  nigro-fasciatis  (fascia  antica  interdum  omnino  ob- 
soleta,  et  postica  ssepius  fracta — vel  plagam  parvam  singulam  vel 
plagas  duas  disjunetas  efficiente);  an  tennis  versus  apicem  tarsisque 
plus  minus  nigrescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Ohs. — Sp.  S.  tamarisci  affinis,  sed  paulo  major,  pallidior  et  minus 
pubescens  ;  capite  prothoraceque  immaculatis  ;  elytris  per  suturam 
concoloribus  sed  transversim  obsolete  bifasciatis  (fasciis  saepius  ob- 
soletis,  postica  plagam  parvam  solam  postmediam  in  elytris  singulis 
positam  efformante). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  in  foliis  Tamaricis  galUcce  infra  oppidu- 
lum  Betancuriam,  Aprili  ineunte  a.d.  1859,  sat  copiose  deprehensus. 

Although  with  similar  habits,  the  present  Stylosomus  is  certainly 
distinct  from  the  S.  tamarisci ;  and,  judging  from  the  diagnoses,  I 
think  it  can  scarcely  be  referred  to  any  of  the  few  other  members  of 
the  genus  hitherto  recorded.  It  was  detected  by  myself  in  the  Rio 
Palmas  of  Puerteventura,  at  the  beginning  of  April  1859 — where  I 
brushed  it,  not  uncommonly,  off  the  shrubs  of  Tamarix  gallica  at  a 
short  distance  below  the  little  town  of  S*''  Maria  Betancuria. 

Fam.  53.  CHRYSOMELID^. 

Genus  237.  CHRYSOMELA. 
Linnaeus,  Syst.  Nat.  edit.  1  (1735). 

611.  Chrysomela  sanguinolenta. 

Chrysomela  sanguinolenta,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  165  (1701). 

lucidicollis  ?,  Kiist.,  Kaf.  Europ.  ii.  73  (1844). 

ssx}ig\xmo\sn.i&, Hartmiy,Geoloy.  Verhdltn.L(mz.undFuert.l41,l'i2, 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  insulis  Canariensibus,  in  Gomera  et  Hierro 
solis  adhuc  hand  detecta. 

The  Canarian  examples  of  this  Chrysomela  recede  a  little  from  the 
ordinary  European  ones,  and  may  perhaps  be  referable  to  the  C.  lu- 
cidicollis, Kiist. — which  is  admitted,  however,  to  be  a  mere  variety 
of  the  sanguinolenta.  They  differ  in  having  their  prothorax  much 
more  shining  and  almost  impunctate  (except  at  the  sides),  and  in 
their  enormous  elytral  punctures  (or  varioles)  being  perhaps  a  trifle 


400  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

more  distant  inter  se.  Although  undoubtedly  constant,  I  cannot  think 
that  such  small  modifications  of  a  ti/jye  so  u'ell  marked,  both  in  colour 
and  sculpture,  as  that  embodied  by  the  C.  sangulnohnta  can  be  indi- 
cative of  more  than  a  slight  geographical  phasis  of  that  insect. 

The  C.  sanguinolenta  is  common  (particidarly  in  low  and  sandy 
spots)  in  the  eastern  portion  of  the  archipelago,  but  seems  to  become 
gradually  rarer  as  we  approach  the  west.  In  all  probability  it  is 
universal,  though  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed 
in  either  Gomera  or  Hierro  ;  but  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand 
Canary,  TenerifFe,  and  Palma  I  have  myself  captured  it,  more  or  less 
abundantly.  In  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  it  was  found  also  by 
M.  Hartung  ;  in  the  former  of  those  islands  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  from 
Teneriffe  it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva. 

012.  Chrysomela  bicolor. 

Chrysomela  bicolor,  Fab.,  Si/st.  Ent.  95  (1775). 

regalis,  Oliv.,  Ent.  v.  91.  538.  tab.  7.  f.  98  (1807). 

canariensis,  BnilU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  73  (1838). 

regalis,  Hartung,  Geolog.  Verlialtn.  Lanz.  uml  Fuert.  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  sub  lapidibus 
hand  infrcquens. 

This  large  and  superb  Chrysomela,  so  well  distinguished  by  its 
oblong  outline,  shining,  brassy-green  surface,  and  by  the  immense 
punctures  (or  varioles)  of  its  elytra  being  extremely  wide  apart, 
each  of  them  encircled  by  (or,  as  it  were,  set  into)  a  rounded  purple 
spot,  and,  although  irregularly  disposed,  having  a  tendencij  to  ar- 
range themselves  in  pairs  (a  peculiarity  which  causes  certain  of  the 
spots  to  be  either  almost  or  entirely  confluent),  appears  to  be  con- 
fined, so  far  as  observed  hitherto,  to  the  eastern  portion  of  the  archi- 
pelago— occurring  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Grand  Canary. 
In  the  first  of  these  (where  it  was  found  also  by  M.  Hartung)  I  have 
taken  it,  from  beneath  stones,  on  the  open  grassy  plain  above  Los 
Valles  de  S''^  Catalina,  about  two  miles  to  the  south  of  Haria ;  in 
the  second  (from  whence  it  has  likewise  been  communicated  by  the 
Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva)  near  Port  Gabras  ;  and  in  the  third  it  was 
tolerably  abundant  around  Maspalomas,  in  the  extreme  south  of  that 
island,  during  April  1858.  The  specimens  off'er  scarcely  any  appre- 
ciable diiference  from  a  Sicilian  one  in  my  collection,  unless  it  be  that 
the  elytra  have  a  less  tendency  to  be  obsoletely  striated  and  to  be 
sprinkled  with  minute  and  shallow  punetules  between  the  varioles. 

1  have  adopted  the  specific  name  of  bicolor  (which  is  prior  to  that 
of  regalis)  for  this  insect  on  the  authority  of  the  '  Cat.  Col.  Europae  '; 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  401 

but  it  would  certainly  have  been  altogether  impossible  to  recognize 
the  present  Chrysomela  in  the  absurd  "  diagnosis  "  (so  called)  given 
of  it  by  Fabricius. 

613.  Chrysomela  obsoleta. 

C.  rotujidato-oblonga,  crassa,  obscure  viridi-seneo-micans,  ubique 
(oculo  fortiter  armato)  subtilissirae  alutacea  ;  capite  prothoraceque 
minutissime  et  levissime  punctulatis,  hoc  utrinque  versus  latera 
postice  impresso  (imprcssione  antice  omnino  evanescente)  ;  elytris 
vage,  parce  et  irregulariter  subseriatim  suboblique  punctatis  et 
punctulis  minntissimis  intermediis  paree  irroratis ;  antennis  tar- 
sisque  nigro-piceis  ;  alis  minutissimis,  angustissimis,  ad  apicem 
fusco-maculatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-6. 

Chrysomela  obsoleta,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  73  (1838). 
,  Hartung,  Geolot/.  Verhultii.  Lanz.  imd  Fiuirt.  141. 

Habitat  in  TeneriiFa  et  Gomera,  pra3scrtim  in  regionibus  parum 
elevatis  sylvaticis,  hinc  inde  hand  infrequens. 

The  obscure  brassy-green  hue  of  this  large  and  thick  Chrysomela 
(which,  however,  is  exceedingly  variable  in  size),  combined  with 
its  very  minutely  (sometimes  scarcely  perceptibly)  punctulated  head 
and  j)rothorax  (the  latter  of  which  is  broadly  margined,  on  either 
side,  only  behind, — the  impression  becoming  evanescent  anteriorly), 
and  the  small,  distant,  and  widely  scattered  punctures  of  its  elytra 
(the  larger  ones  of  which  have  a  tendency  to  arrange  themselves  in 
suboblique  longitudinal  rows),  wiU  serve  readily  to  distinguish  it. 
In  its  general  aspect  it  is  a  little  suggestive,  at  first  sight,  of  the  com- 
mon European  O.  Banksii,  though  abundantly  distinct  when  closely 
examined.  It  is  widely  spread  over  Teneriffe,  and  in  certain  districts 
(particularly  sylvan  ones  of  a  rather  high  elevation)  tolerably  com- 
mon. Thus,  I  have  taken  it  in  considerable  numbers  from  under 
the  loose  moss  growing  on  the  trunks  of  old  trees  on  the  summit  of 
the  Las  Mercedes  range  ;  as  also  from  beneath  the  outer  fibre  of  dead 
Euphorbias  on  the  mountains  between  S"*  Cruz  and  Laguna ;  as  well 
as  at  Taganana,  Souzal,  the  Agua  Garcia,  and  the  Agua  Mansa.  And 
I  have  met  with  it,  at  even  a  low  altitude,  in  the  Barranco  do  Passo 
Alto,  near  S'"  Cruz ;  in  which  locality,  however,  it  had  probably  be- 
come naturalized  (either  through  the  medium  of  floods  or  human 
agency)  from  the  heights  above.  It  was  also  found  by  M.  Hartung 
in  Teneriff'e,  from  whence  additional  specimens  have  been  communi- 
cated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  It  seems  to  exist  likewise 
in  Gomera,  for  I  have  examined  an  indi^'idual  which  was  captured 
by  Dr.  Crotch  at  Hermigua*. 

*  The  C.  ohsok'ta  is  cited  by  M.  Hartung  as  coming  even  from  Lanzarote : 

2d 


402  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

614.  Chrysomela  fortunata,  n.  sp. 

C.  praocedenti  similis,secl  cyanescens  (nee  viridi-feneus),antenms  pcdi- 
busque  Isete  rufo-fcrnig-ineis ;  prothoracc  distinctius  (sed  minute 
et  le\assinie)  puuctulato,  antice  paulo  magis  aequaliter  angustato, 
angulis  auticis  sensini  acutioribus  ;  elytronim  punctis  minoribus. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  4|. 

Habitat  Palmarn,  in  montibus  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  semel  lecta. 

Whether  the  single  individual  from  which  the  present  diagnosis 
has  been  compiled,  and  which  was  taken  by  myself  in  the  Barranco 
above  S*''  Cruz  in  the  island  of  Palma,  be  indicative  of  a  species  truly 
distinct  from  the  preceding  one,  or  merely  of  a  well-marked  insular 
variety,  it  is  scarcely  possible,  in  the  absence  of  further  material,  to 
decide  ;  nevertheless,  since  the  differential  characters  which  separate 
it  from  that  insect,  although  perhaps  not  very  important  in  Ic'ind,  are 
so  extremely  conspicuous,  I  think  that  it  would  scarcely  be  safe  to 
treat  it  as  a  phasis  of  the  O.  ohsoleta.  If  the  example  now  before 
me  be  a  normal  one,  the  C.  fortunata  may  be  known  from  that  species 
by  its  bluish  (instead  of  brassy-green)  hue  and  bright  rufo-fernxgi- 
nous  limbs.  Its  prothorax,  likewise  (though  very  minutely  and 
lightly  so),  is  rather  more  evidently  punctulated,  and  is  a  little  more 
regularly  attenuated  in  front  (causing  the  anterior  angles  to  be  per- 
ceptibly acuter) ;  and  its  elytral  punctures  are  altogether  smaller. 

615.  Chrysomela  rutilans,  n.  sp. 

C  similis  C  obsoletcp,  sed  nitidissima  (nee  minute  alutacea),  Isetissime 
ssneo-micans ;  prothoracc  majore,  longiore,  transverso-subquadrato 
(antice  minus  angustato),  paulo  distinctius  (sed  minute  et  levissime) 
punctulato  necnon  utrinque  ad  latera  multo  profimdius  impresso 
(impressione  fere  ad  marginem  anticum  ducta)  ;  elytrorum  punctis 
minoribus,  sed  magis  numerosis ;  alis  par^-is,  angustis  (vix  minu- 
tissimis  angustissimis)  et  ad  apicem  fusco-maculatis. —  Long.  corp. 
lin.  4|-5. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  rarissima. 

Hitherto  three  specimens  only  of  this  large  and  superb  Chrysomela 
have  come  beneath  my  notice.  They  were  all  of  them  taken  in  the 
Barranco  above  San  Sebastian  in  the  island  of  Gomera, — one  by  Mr. 

but  I  have  not  the  slightest  hesitation  in  regarding  this  habitat  as  erroneous  ; 
and  more  particularly  so  since  I  have  already  had  occasion  to  notice  other 
instances  in  wiiich  a  confusion  has  manifestly  arisen  through  his  having  mixed 
up  his  material  frtm  the  different  islands — which  was,  in  consequence,  misquoted 
subsequently  by  Dr.  Heer  (who  prepared  the  Catalogue  for  M.Hartung's  volume). 
And  this  is  all  the  more  probable,  inasmuch  as  I  have  received  the  species  from 
Dr.  Heer  himself  (from  M.  Ilartung's  collection)  labelled  as  coming  from  "  Te- 
neriffe." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  403 

Gray,  another  by  myself,  and  the  third  (more  recently)  by  Dr.  Crotch. 
It  may  readily  be  known  from  the  C.  ohsoleta  by  its  much  more 
brilliant,  unaliitaceous,  and  bright-brassy  surface  ;  by  its  larger  and 
squarer  prothorax  being  perhaps  a  trifle  more  evidently  punctulated, 
and  very  much  more  deeply  impressed  on  either  side  (the  impres- 
sion, moreover,  running  from  the  extreme  base  to  almost  the  anterior 
margin);  by  its  elytral  punctures  being  smaller  and  rather  more 
numerous ;  and  by  its  wings  (although  minute  and  narrow)  being 
somewhat  less  narrowed  than  is  there  the  case,  and  Hkewise  infus- 
eated  more  decidedly  throughout  their  entire  apical  portion  (whereas 
the  wings  of  the  C.  ohsoleta  are  more  often  maculated  with  a  cloudy 
spot  in  the  middle  only). 

616.  Chrysomela  gemina. 

C.ovalis,  nitidissima,  vel  oeneo-cuprea,  vel  viridi-euprea,  vel  senea,  vel 
viridi-senea ;  capite  parce  punctulato ;  prothorace  fere  impunctato 
(oculo  fortissimo  armato  punctulis  subtilissimis  plus  minus  perspi- 
cuis  adsperso),  utrinque  (punctis  perpaucis  notato)  vel  integro  vel 
jiostice  versus  latera  obsoletissime  (plus  minus  perspicue)  impresso  ; 
elytris  parce  subseriatim  punctatis,  seriebus  alternis  inter  se  paulo 
approximatis  ;  antennis  pcdibusque  picescentioribus. 

Variat  in  ins.  Palma  elytrorum  punctis  paulo  majoribus. — Long.corp. 
Hn.  3-5. 

Chrysomela  gemina  et  nitens,  BruUe,  in  Webh  et  Berth.  {Col.')  73,  74 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

Judging  from  the  diagnoses,  and  taking  into  account  the  very 
scanty  material  of  Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot  which  M.  Brulle 
appears  in  nearly  all  instances  to  have  described  from,  I  have  little 
doubt  that  the  C.  gemina  and  nitens  of  the  latter  were  founded  on 
extreme  individuals  of  this  variable  Chrysomela ;  for  although  he 
speaks  of  the  former  of  them  as  having  the  thorax  entire,  and  the 
other  as  furnished  with  "  un  demibourrelet  sur  les  cotes  du  corselet," 
it  seems  to  me,  after  the  inspection  of  213  examples,  collected  in 
many  locahties  widely  separated  from  each  other,  that  the  majority 
of  them  might  be  said  to  have  the  prothorax  *'  entire,"  though  there 
is  a  tendency  in  a  certain  number  to  possess  a  slight  longitudinal  de- 
pression on  either  side  behind,  which  in  rare  instances  becomes  rather 
decidedly  expressed.  And  I  tliink  it  is  more  than  probable,  there- 
fore, that  M.  Brulle  may  have  di-awn  up  his  diagnoses  from  a  large 
•arid  small  individual,  in  which  these  differences  chanced  to  be  more 
than  usually  appreciable,  and  in  which  also  the  colour  was  respectively 
ceneous  and  coppery. 

2d  2 


404  OANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

The  C.  gemina  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  TeneriiFe  and 
Palma ;  in  the  former  of  which  it  is  rather  common — occurring  in 
many  districts  and  at  various  altitudes,  and  attaching  itself  to  very 
opposite  kinds  of  plants.  Thus,  in  Teneriffe  it  was  captured  by  Mr. 
Gray  and  myself,  near  the  Puerto  Orotava,  during  January  1858, 
almost  exclusively  on  the  Lavandula  ahrotanokles ;  whereas  in  the 
woods  above  Taganana  it  seems  to  prefer  a  species  of  Bystropogon 
(after  the  fashion  of  the  curious  C.  onycMna  of  Madeira),  where  I 
have  seen  bushes  of  that  plant  absolutely  sparkling  with  it.  And  I 
have  also  met  with  it  around  the  roots  of  Euphorbias  on  the  moun- 
tain-slopes forming  the  northern  side  of  the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto, 
near  S''''  Cruz,  as  well  as  at  the  Agua  Garcia  and  the  Agua  Mansa. 
My  Palman  specimens  are  from  the  Barranco  above  S*'''  Cruz  of  that 
island.  Examj)les  from  Teneriffe  have  also  been  communicated  by 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  and  Dr.  Crotch ;  in  which  island  it 
was  likewise  met  with  by  my  friend  the  late  Rev.  "W.  J.  Armitage. 

Genus  238.  PH^DON. 
(Megerle)  in  Bald,  Cat.  74  (1823). 

617.  Phaedon  menthse,  n.  sp. 
P.  ovale,  feneum,  nitidum,  ubique  minute  et  Icvissimc  punctulatum  ; 
elytris  leviter  substriato-punctatis  ;  antennis  (longiuscuhs),  tibiis 
ad  apicem  tarsisque  j)lus  minus  pallide  rufo-ferrugineis,  femoribus 
tibiisque  piceis  ;  metasteruo  profunde  sed  parce  punctate. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Chrysoniela  rufipes  ?,  Bnille  [nee  De  Geer\  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (  (Jol^  74 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  intermediis  humidis  Canariae  Grandis,  foliis  Mentha} 
gaudens. 

Although  it  does  not  entu'ely  agree  with  his  diagnosis,  I  think  it 
is  far  from  improbable  that  this  insect  is  the  ChrysomeJa  rufipes  of 
M.  Brulle  ;  nevertheless,  since  the  specific  title  of  rufipes  was  already 
preoccupied  in  the  genus  ChrysomeJa  by  De  Geer,  M.  BruUe's  name 
would  of  necessity  have  to  be  suppressed — which  is  the  less  to  be 
regretted  since  I  am  by  no  means  certain  that  the  present  Phcedon  is 
absolutely  identical  with  his  insect  *. 

The  P.  menthce  may  readily  be  known  by  its  bright- aeneous,  densely 

*  Thus,  he  speaks  of  "  le  corselet  obseur,"  which  does  not  in  the  least  apply  to 
the  P.  menthce,  wliere  the  entire  surface  is  uniformly  wneous  and  equally  sJiining 
tliroughout.  Then,  he  omits  all  alkision  to  the  dense  (though  light)  punctation 
of  its  whole  upper  surface ;  though,  as  it  is  his  habit  to  avoid  noticing  the  most 
distinctive  features  of  his  several  species,  citing  those  only  wliich  are  common  to 
all  of  the  same  gi'oup,  I  lay  but  little  sti-ess  upon  tliis  latter  circumstance. 


CAN-AEIAN  COLEOPTEBA. 


405 


pnnctulated  surface,  and  by  its  antennoe  (which  are  exceedingly- 
elongate  for  a  Phcedon)  and  tarsi  being  of  a  more  or  less  pallid  rufo- 
testaceous  hue.  Its  femora  and  tibiae  are  piccous,  though  the  ex- 
treme apices  of  the  latter  (and  occasionally  of  the  former  also)  are 
rather  paler.  I  have  observed  it  hitherto  only  in  Grand  Canary — 
whore,  during  the  spring  of  1858,  I  took  it  abundantly  from  the 
foliage  of  a  large  Mentha  growing  in  the  stream  at  San  Mateo  (in  the 
region  of  El  Monte),  and  subsequently  (under  similar  circumstances) 
at  the  edges  of  the  small  river  at  Teror. 

Genus  239.  PHRATORA. 
(Chevrolat)  Redt.,  Fua  Austr.  554  (1849). 

618.  Phratora  vulgatissima. 

Chrj'somela  vulgatissima,  Linn.,  St/st.  Nat.  i.  ii.  589  (1767). 

,  Biffis.,  Fna  Amtr.  iii.  210  (1825). 

Phaedon  miicolor,  Stcph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  336  (1831). 

Habitat  Palmam  ;  exemplar  unum  deprehendit  W.  D.  Crotch. 

A  single  example  only  of  this  common  European  insect  has  hitherto 
come  beneath  my  notice  at  the  Canaries.  It  was  captured  by  Dr. 
Crotch  in  the  island  of  Palma,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  I  can 
detect  in  it  no  appreciable  difference  from  the  ordinary  type ;  but  it 
is  an  important  addition  to  the  fauna,  seeing  that  we  have  no  evidence 
of  its  existence  in  any  other  of  the  Atlantic  Groups. 

Fam.  54.  GALLEEUCID^. 

Genus  240.  CALOMICRUS. 

Stephens,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  293  (1831). 

619.  Calomicrus  WoUastoni. 

Calomicrus  WoUastoni,  Paim,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  viii.  210  (1801). 

Hahitat  in  TenerifFa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  floribus  Cistontm  [sc.  va~ 
gantis  et  monsjpeliensis  Linn.]  in  intermediis  prsecipue  gaudens. 

This  large  and  truly  indigenous  Calomicrus,  so  remarkable  for  its 
extremely  pallid  upper  and  dark  under  surfaces,  I  have  captured  in 
Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro — where  it  would  appear  to  delight  espe- 
cially in  the  flowers  of  the  Gistus  vcujans  and  monspeliensis,  between 
the  limits  of  about  1 500  and  3000  feet  above  the  sea.  In  Teneriffe 
I  have  observed  it  only  at  the  Agua  Mansa  ;  in  Palma  (where  it  was 
found  also  by  Dr.  Crotch)  chiefly  in  the  regions  occupied  by  the 
Pinals ;  and  in  Hierro,  in  the  sylvan  district  of  El  Golfo,  on  the 
western  slopes  of  that  island. 


406  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Fam.  55.  HALTICIDiE. 

Genus  241.  HALTICA. 
Geoffroy,  Hist.  Ahr.  des  Ins.  i.  244  [script.  Altica]  (1762). 

(Subgenus  Crepidodera,  CJiev.) 

620.  Haltica  Allardii. 

Haltica  Allardii,  Woll,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  1  (1860). 

Crepidodera  Allardii,  Allard,Ann.  de  hiSoc.Mit.deFrance,312  (1862). 

Habitat  TcnerifFam,  foliis  Physalklls  aristatce  circum  Portum  Oro- 
tavae  gaudens. 

This  interesting  little  Haltica,  so  remarkable  for  its  pubescent  sur- 
face, coarsely  punctured,  basally-impressed  prothorax,  deeply  punc- 
tate-striated elytra,  and  pallid  hue  (the  suture  and  an  abbreviated 
medial  elytral  fascia  being  alone,  in  normally  coloured  specimens, 
more  or  less  dark),  is  closely  allied  to  the  European  H.  atropce.  It 
is,  however,  a  trifle  smaller  than  that  insect,  and  its  head  and  pro- 
thorax  are  pale  rufo-testaceous  (instead  of  black)  ;  its  limbs  also  are 
paler,  its  punctation  (although  coarse)  is  not  quite  so  riigose,  and 
the  dark  portions  of  its  elytra  are  very  much  narrower  and  less 
developed.  Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  the  district  around 
the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe,  where  it  is  tolerably  common  during 
the  spring  months  on  the  foliage  of  the  Physalis  aristata — a  shrub 
intimately  related  to  the  Atropa  belladonna,  on  which  its  more  north- 
ern ally  exclusively  subsists. 

621.  Haltica  lubrica,  n.  sp. 
H.  subovalis,  convexa,  nitida,  rufo-ferruginea,  elytris  paulo  magis 
testaceis ;  capite  prothoraccquc  minutissime  et  levissime  pimctu- 
latis,  hoc  angusto  angulis  posticis  obtiisis,  postice  in  medio  levissime 
transversim  impresso  sed  utrinque  foveji  parva  profunda  notato ; 
elytris  profunde  striate- punctatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  li. 

Habitat  TcnerifFam ;  exemplar  unicum  tempore  vernaU  a.d.  1862 
deprehendit  W.  D.  Crotch. 

The  present  Haltica  is  a  good  deal  allied,  at  first  sight,  to  the 
European  H.  ventralis,  lUig. ;  it  is,  however,  a  Httle  larger,  more 
shining,  and  convex,  its  colour  is  considerably  darker,  or  more  ferru- 
ginous, its  prothorax  is  altogether  narrower  (especially  in  front),  less 
deeply  impressed  at  the  base,  and  with  its  posterior  angles  more  ob- 
tuse, and  its  elytra  are  somewhat  moi'e  oval  and  more  deeply  punc- 
tate-striated. The  unique  example  described  from  was  taken  by 
Dr.  Crotch  in  Tenerilfe,  during  the  spring  of  1862. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  407 

(Subgenus  Phyllotreta,  Chev.) 

622.  Haltica  variipennis. 

Ilaltica  variipennis,  Boiehl.,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  477  (1859). 

Phyllotreta  varians,  Foudr.,  AUisides,  248  (1860). 

variipennis,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent,  de  France,  385  (1860). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  reperta ;  forsan  ex  alienis 
introducta. 

A  single  specimen  of  a  Haltica  which  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Teneriife  appears  to  me  to  present  no 
diiferences  of  sufficient  importance  from  the  H.  variipennis  of  Medi- 
terranean latitudes  to  warrant  its  separation  therefrom.  Judging 
from  two  examples  of  that  insect  which  have  been  communicated  by 
M.  Allard,  the  Canarian  individual  seems  merely  to  be  a  little  larger, 
and  to  have  its  two  longitudinal  testaceous  elytral  bands  somewhat 
broader  and  more  developed  (so  as  to  extend  over  a  larger  space,  and 
to  be  less  scooped  out  externally)  ;  but  in  its  depressed,  finely  punc- 
tured surface  and  general  colouring,  as  well  as  in  the  enlarged  fifth 
joint  of  its  antennae,  and  in  the  apices  of  its  elytra  being,  separately, 
a  little  rounded  off,  it  agrees  entirely  with  the  variipennis. 

(Subgenus  Aphthona,  Chev.) 

623.  Haltica  Paivana. 

Haltica  Paivana,  Woll.,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  2  (1860). 

Aphthona  Paivana,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  333  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  foliis  Euphor- 
biarum  gaudens. 

This  beautifully  metallic  species  (which,  however,  is  very  variable 
in  tint,  shading  off  from  bright  cyaneous-blue  into  golden-green,  or 
even  into  coppery-brown,  whilst  the  tibia3  and  tarsi,  and  sometimes 
the  four  entire  anterior  legs,  are  testaceous)  is  peculiar  to  the  foliage 
of  the  various  Euphorbias — on  which  I  have  taken  it  abundantly  in 
the  north  of  Lanzarote  (where  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray),  on 
the  mountains  above  San  Mateo  in  Grand  Canary,  near  the  Puerto 
Orotava  in  Teneriffe,  and  in  the  region  of  El  Golfo  on  the  western 
side  of  Hierro.  From  Teneriffe  it  has  likewise  been  communicated 
by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  after  whom  the  species  was  ori- 
ginally named.  M.  Allard  states  concerning  it,  "  Cette  espece  est 
tres-facile  a  reconuaitre  a  sa  couleur  d'un  vert  ou  bleu  elair,  a  sa 
ponctuation  extremement  forte  et  ruguouse,  et  a  sa  forme  etroite  et 
lua  peu  aplatie  qui  la  rapprocho  de  VA.  FoiipilUeri,  mihi." 


4U8  CAJTARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

624.  Haltica  plenifrons,  n.  sp. 

H.  oblongo-ovata,  parum  iiitida,  la^te  cyanea;  capitc  omnino  pro- 
thoraceque  fere  impunctatis,  illo  subrotundato  couvexo,  hoc  bre\i 
transverse,  postice  in  medio  brevissime  at  obsolete  carinato,  angnlis 
ipsissimis  posticis  acute  et  conepicue  exstantibus,  ad  latera  antice 
distincte  sed  postice  (necnon  per  marginem  posticiim)  vix  margi- 
nato  ;  elytris  ovalibus,  minute  subpunctulato-rugulosis  ;  antonnis 
femoribusque  postieis  fusco-j)iceis,  illis  versus  basin  pedibusqiie 
anterioribus  infuscato-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  Palmam,  mihi  non  obvia,  aW.  D.  Crotch  semel  tantum  lecta. 
The  single  individual  from  which  the  above  description  has  been 
compiled  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  the 
island  of  Palma.  In  its  bright-cyaneous  hue  it  is  very  similar  to  the 
majority  of  the  examples  of  the  H.  Paivana  ;  nevertheless  it  is  larger 
and  broader  than  that  species,  not  quite  so  shining,  and  very  much 
less  coarsely  punctured.  Indeed  its  head  and  prothorax  (particularly 
the  former,  which  is  rounded  and  convex)  are  almost  unsculptured, 
and  its  elytra  (although  rather  rugulose)  are  but  very  minutely  punc- 
tulated.  Its  prothorax  is  relatively  shorter  and  more  transverse  than 
in  the  //.  Paivana,  with  its  lateral  edges  distinctly  margined  ante- 
riorly, but  (like  the  basal  one)  scarcely  at  all  so  behind,  and  has  its 
extreme  posterior  angles  more  conspicuously,  though  minutely,  pro- 
minent ;  and  the  apices  of  its  tarsi  are  less  evidently  darkened. 

025.  Haltica  crassipes. 

Ilaltica  crassipes,  WulL,  Jount.  of  Ent.  i.  3  (1860). 

Aphthona  crassipes,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  331  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  prsesertim  in  foliis  plantarum 
{Sempervivi,  et  ca>t.)  ad  rupes  locorum  editiorum  crescentium. 

The  present  insect  and  the  Longitarsus  Meiniiperda  are  prima  facie 
somewhat  ahke ;  nevertheless,  apart  from  the  generic  characters  (of 
the  longer  logs  and  hind  feet,  &c.)  of  the  latter,  the  H.  crassipes  may 
be  recognized  by  its  more  quadrate  prothorax,  stouter  antennae  (which 
have  foiu'  of  their  basal  joints,  instead  of  only  three,  more  or  less  tes- 
taceous), and  by  its  more  finely  punctured  elytra.  Its  four  anterior 
male  tarsi  have  their  basal  joint  greatly  dilated,  so  as  far  to  exceed 
the  second — a  structure  which  is  more  or  less  expressed  in  most  of 
the  Halticiche,  but  which  in  the  H.  crassipes  is  peculiarly  conspicuous. 
M.  Allard  says,  "  Cette  espece  a  beaucoup  d'analogie  avec  VA.Jlavi- 
ceps,  milii,  cependant  cette  derniere  est  plus  etroite,  son  prothorax  et 
ses  antennes  sont  plus  courts  et  les  tarses  du  <S  sont  moins  dilates." 
It  is  a])parcntly  rare  ;  nevertheless  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Mansa 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  409 

in  TeneriiFe ;  and  from  plants  (I  believe  Semperviva)  growing  on  the 
damp  rocks  in  the  deep  sylvan  ravines  of  Palma — especially  the  Bar- 
ranco  da  Agua,  towards  the  north-east  of  that  island. 

Genns  242.  LONGITAESUS. 

Latreille,  Fam.  Nat,  des  Ins.  405  [script.  Longitarse]  (1825), 

626.  Longitarsus  kleiniiperda. 

Longitarsus  Kleiniiperda,  WoIL,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  4  (1860). 
Teinodact\la  Kleiniiperda,  Allurd,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  325 
(1862)." 

Habitat  in  Teneriifa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  folia  Kleinim  nerii- 
folloi  destniens. 

This  large  and  pallid  Longitarsus  appears  to  be  peculiar  (or  nearly 
so)  to  the  foliage  of  the  Kleinia  neriifolia,  DeCand.,  whole  plants  of 
which  I  have  frequently  observed  to  be  destroyed  by  it  entirely.  I 
have  taken  it  abundantly  in  the  waste  cindery  district  above  the 
Puerto  Orotava,  as  well  as  near  S*''  Cruz  and  in  the  sylvan  regions  of 
Taganana  and  the  Agua  Garcia,  in  Teneriffe  ;  in  the  Barranco  above 
!S'''  Cruz  in  Palma ;  and  in  the  lower  part  of  El  Golfo  on  the  western 
side  of  Hierro.  In  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  it  was  found  also  by  Dr. 
Crotch.  At  first  sight  it  somewhat  resembles  the  L.  tabidus  of  more 
northern  latitudes  ;  it  is,  however,  less  convex  and  more  strongly 
punctured  than  that  species,  its  prothorax  is  less  abbreviated  and 
rather  more  narrowed  in  front,  its  limbs  are  longer,  and  the  basal 
joint  of  its  four  front  male  feet  is  altogether  larger  and  broader. 

627.  Longitarsus  persimilis. 

Longitarsus  persimilis,  WoH.,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  4  (1860). 
Teinodactyla  persimilis,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France^  319 

(1862). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  ot  Hierro,  foliis  Ecliiorum  (prsesertim  E.  sim- 
plicis)  in  subeditioribixs  crescentium  gaudens. 

This  beautifvd  Lomjitarsus  is  at  once  remarkable  for  its  testaceous 
prothorax  and  elytra,  the  latter  of  which  have  a  large  patch  on  the 
disc  of  each,  a  smaller  dash  at  either  shoulder,  and  their  suture  (ex- 
cept at  the  extreme  apex)  more  or  less  black.  Its  head,  together 
with  the  apical  half  of  its  two  hinder  femora,  and  its  antennae  (ex- 
cept the  two  or  three  basal  joints)  are  either  piceous  or  piceous- 
black ;  and  its  elytra  are  densely  and  coarsely  punctured,  and  longi- 
tudinally striated — especially  towards  either  side.  It  appears  to  be 
peculiar  to  the  foliage  of  the  various  Echia — particularly  to  a  gigantic 
species  allied  to  the  Madeirun  E.  camlicans,  and  which  the  llev.  R. 


410  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

T.  Lowo  informs  me  is  probably  the  E.  simplex ;  on  which  plant  I 
have  taken  it,  rather  abundantly,  at  the  base  of  the  Organo  Rocks  in 
the  sylvan  region  of  the  Ag-ua  Mansa  in  Teneriffe.  Whilst  in  the 
island  of  Hierro,  however,  during  February  1858,  I  captured  it  spa- 
ringly from  a  smaller  Echium  (I  believe  the  common  E.  violaceum) 
on  the  hills  to  the  westward  of  Valverde.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  met 
with  also  by  Dr.  Crotch*. 

628.  Longitarsus  messerschmidtisB. 
Longitarsus  mcsserschmidtijB,  JVoIL,  Journ.  of  Ent.  i.  6  (1860). 
Teinodactyla  messerschmidtise,  Allanl,  Ann.  ae  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France, 
319  (1862). 

Habitat  in  TenerifTa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  ad  folia  Messersclimidtioe 
fruticosce  hinc  inde  frequens. 

In  my  Paper  "  on  the  Canarian  Ilalticidce,"  above  referred  to,  I 
said,  concerning  this  species,  "  It  is  not  without  some  little  hesita- 
tion I  regard  the  present  Lonr/itarsus  as  distinct  from  the  preceding 
one ;  nevertheless,  since  its  normal  fades  is  very  dissimilar,  and  its 
habits  different,  I  tliinli  it  is  scarcely  safe  to  amalgamate  the  two. 
Indeed  in  its  general  aspect  it  is  so  unlike  the  L.  persimilis  that  no 
one  could  ever  suppose  them  to  be  identical,  did  not  an  occasional 
(though  very  rare)  variety  of  the  present  insect  make  such  a  curious 
approach,  in  the  arrangement  of  its  colouring,  to  its  ally,  as  to  lead 
one  to  suspect  that  it  may  be  but  a  phasis  of  the  latter,  gradually 
assumed  through  the  adoption  of  a  totally  different  plant  for  its  sub- 
sistence. Still  this  is  but  conjecture,  and  I  therefore  prefer  treating 
the  two  as  separate.  In  its  typical  state,  the  L.  messerschmidtice  isj 
on  the  average,  a  trifle  smaller  and  narrower  than  its  ally,  its  sculp- 
ture is  less  deep,  and  it  is  of  a  uniformly  pale,  brownish -testaceous 
hue.     Its  elytra,  however  (in  which  case  the  apices  of  its  posterior 

*  The  L.  pcrsimilis  very  closely  resembles  at  first  sight  the  Macleiran  L.  Maso7ii 
[=iso2}lcxidis  olim);  "nevertheless,  on  a  nearer  inspection,"  as  I  stated  in  my 
Paper  on  the  Canarian  Halticklce,  "  it  possesses  such  a  number  of  minor  cha- 
racters peculiarly  its  own  that  I  cannot  feel  justified,  despite  tlie  many  points  of 
resemblance  in  the  two  insects,  in  regarding  them  as  otherwise  than  truly  distinct, 
though  clearly  members  of  the  same  geographical  province.  The  Canarian  spe- 
cies may  be  readily  known  from  the  Madeiran  one  by  its  uniformly  smaller  size, 
rather  shorter  and  more  lunulate  prothorax  (which  is  a  little  more  truncated  in 
front,  and  has  the  hinder  angles  more  rounded  off,  and  the  sides  somewhat  more 
angulated  in  the  middle),  and  by  its  entire  sculpture,  which  is  denser  and  very 
much  more  coarse,  especially  on  the  elytra  (which  are  also  more  evidently  striated 
than  is  the  case  in  the  L.  Masoni).  Its  elytra,  likewise,  are  slightly  more  trun- 
cated at  their  apex,  its  whole  surface  is  much  less  opake,  and  fts  coloration  is 
altogether  a  little  different — its  head  being  less  black,  or  more  piceous,  its  pro- 
thorax  more  evidently  r??/b-testaceous,  its  legs  and  elytra  not  quite  so  pale,  and 
the  dark  portions  of  the  latter  smaller  in  size  ;  /.  e.  the  humeral  and  discal  iJatches 
are  reduced  in  dimensions,  and  the  sutural  line  is  equal  tlu'oughout." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEBA.  411 

femora  are  also  dark),  have  an  occasional  tendency  to  become  clouded 
about  tbeir  disc,  suture,  and  shoulders ;  and  in  one  or  two  highly 
coloured  specimens  (out  of  many  hundreds  which  I  possess)  the  discal 
cloud  assumes  the  form  of  a  well-defined  patch  (and  even  the  hu- 
meral one  is  somewhat  concentrated) — thus  causing  them  to  re- 
semble very  much  the  paler  examples  of  the  L.  persimilis.  Such 
individuals,  however,  are  extremely  scarce ;  and  even  in  them  the 
lighter  sculpture  prevails  (as  in  the  ordinary  ones);  and  therefore, 
in  spite  of  their  prima  facie  approach  to  the  last  species,  I  must  re- 
gard their  connectiveness  as  more  apparent  than  real.  So  far  as  I 
have  observed  hitherto,  the  present  Longitarstis  is  exclusively  at- 
tached to  the  fragrant  Messersclimidtia  fruticosa — on  which  shrub, 
when  carefully  examined,  I  have  scarcely  ever  failed  to  detect  it. 
Its  range  is  consequently  somewhat  lower  than  that  of  the  L.  per- 
similis,  which  feeds  on  the  Ecliia  of  more  lofty  elevations.  I  have 
taken  it  abundantly  in  the  waste  grounds  above  the  Puerto  Orotava, 
as  well  as  between  Ycod  de  los  Vinhos  and  Garachico,  of  Teneriffe ; 
on  the  rocks  between  the  plains  of  Los  Llanos  and  the  Pinal,  in  the 
Banda  of  Palma ;  and  a  little  above  the  sea-coast,  in  the  district  of 
El  Golfo,  on  the  west  of  Hierro." 

G29.  Longitarsus  ochroleucus. 

Chrysomela  ochroleuca,  Mshm,  Eid.  Brit.  202  (1802). 

Thjamis  ochroleuca,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  311  (1831). 

Altica  ochroleuca,  Lucas,  Col.  de  VAlgerie,  547  (1849). 

Teiuodactyla  ochroleuca,  Allarcl,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  131 

(1860). 
Longitarsus  ochroleucus  et  cognatus,  Well.,  Joiirn.  of  Ent.  i.  7  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  minus  frequens. 

The  common  European  L.  ochroleucus,  so  well  distinguished  by  its 
small,  laterally  rounded,  almost  unsculptured  pro  thorax,  its  very  finely 
punctulated  elytra,  and  its  excessively  pallid,  whitish-testaceous 
upper  surface  (the  antennaj  alone,  except  the  basal  joints,  and  the 
apical  half  of  the  two  hinder  femora  being  dark),  appears  to  be  both 
local  and  rather  scarce  in  these  islands — into  which  it  may  very 
likely  have  been  introduced  from  more  northern  latitudes.  I  have 
taken  it  in  Grand  Canary  (on  the  mountain-slopes  above  San  Mateo, 
on  the  ascent  to  the  Roca  del  Soucilho),  and  also  around  Orotava 
and  S'"  Cruz,  as  well  as  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  in  Tcneriff'e — in  the 
latter  of  which  islands  it  was  found  also  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

After  a  more  careful  comparison  of  the  specimen  (captured  by  Mr. 
Gray  in  Fuerteventura)  which  I  described,  in  1860,  under  the  spe- 


412  CANzVKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

cific  name  of  cognatns,  I  believe  that  it  cannot  be  regarded  as  more 
than  a  slightly  infiiscated  individual  of  the  ocliroJeucus,  in  which  the 
elytral  punctures  are  even  less  conspicuous  than  usual ;  and  I  have 
therefore  treated  it  accordingly. 

630.  Longitarsiis  brevipennis. 

Longitarsus  brevipennis,  IVoU.,  Jvurn.  of  Ent.  i.  8  (18G0). 
Teiuodactyla  brevipennis,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  320 
(18G2). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  ad  plantam  Heliophyti  erosl  Lem.,  per  litus 
arenosum  crescentem  prope  oppidum  Arrecife,  Aprili  A.D.1859,captus. 
Of  the  present  Longitarsus  I  have  seen  but  three  or  four  examples 
— which  were  taken  by  myself,  near  Arrecife,  in  the  island  of  Lan- 
zarote,  during  April  1859.  They  were  found  on  a  plant  of  Helio- 
plujtum  erosum,  Lemann,  growing  on  the  loose  sand  behind  the  sea- 
beach  ;  but  I  unfoi'tunately  lost  all  of  them  except  one.  The  spe- 
cies (judging  from  the  single  ty^ie  now  before  me)  maybe  known  by 
its  n^fo-piceous  head,  convex,  riifo-testaceous  prothorax,  and  short, 
testaceous  elytra  (the  suture  of  which,  particularly  in  the  middle,  is 
blackened).  Its  prothorax  and  elytra  are  finely  but  sharply  punc- 
tulated ;  and  its  antennas  (which,  like  the  two  hinder  femora,  are 
darker  towards  their  apex)  are  rather  abbreviated.  M.  Allard,  of 
Paris,  to  whom  I  formerly  submitted  it  for  inspection,  returned  it 
with  the  observation,  "■  affinis  Teinodactgla'  atricajnlke  Dufts.,  sed 
alitor  colorata,  capite  et  prothorace  latioribus,  antennis  brevioribus, 
et  cset." 

G31.  Longitarsus  strigicollis,  n.  sp. 
L.  oblongo-ovalis,  nitidus,  alutaeeus,  infuscato-testaceus,  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  paulo  rufescentioribus,  parvis ;  hoc  punctato,  punctis 
postice  subconfluentibus,  fere  strigas  obliquas  eiRcientibus,  ad  latera 
rotundato  et  grosse  margin ato,  angulis  posticis  rotuudatis  ;  elytris 
subovalibus,  sat  distincte  punctulatis,  singulis  stria  suturali  im- 
j)ressis  ;  antennis  brevibus,  versus  apicem  infuscatis ;  pedibus  tes- 
taceis,  femoribus  posticis  nigro-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch  detectus. 

The  single  specimen  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  TeneriiFe,  during  the  spring  of 
1862.  It  may  be  known  by  its  oblong-oval  oiitline,  brownish-tes- 
taceous hue  (the  apex  of  the  antennae,  and  the  two  posterior  femora, 
being  alone  darker),  by  its  small  head  and  prothorax,  somewhat 
coarsely  punctured  surface,  and  short  antenna?.  Its  j)unctures  have 
a  tendency  to  be  subconfluent  on  the  hinder  region  of  its  prothorax — 
an  arrangement  which  causes  them  almost  to  form  oblique  (though 


CANARIAN  COLEOrTEKA.  413 

very  obscure)  strigse.  Its  liead  is  a  Kttle  darker  (or  more  rufescent) 
than  the  prothorax,  and  the  prothorax  (which  is  coarsely  bordered 
at  the  sides)  than  the  elytra — which  last  are  impressed  (particularly 
behind)  with  a  rather  evident  sutural  stria. 

632.  Longitarsus  nubigena. 

Longitarsus  nubigena,  TFolL,  Ins.  Mad.  447  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  133  (1857). 

,  Id.,  he.  cit.  8  (18G0). 

Teinodactyla  nubigena,  AUard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Eid.  de  France,  329 
(1862). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  in  ilia  a  Dom.  Crotch  sed  in  hac  a 
Dom.  Gray  et  meipso  semel  captus. 

The  brownish -testaceous  hue  and  coarsely  sculptured  surface  of 
this  rather  insignificant  Lonc/itarsus,  which  has  its  prothorax  trans- 
verse-quadrate (the  sides  being  nearly  straight),  and  its  elytral  punc- 
tures somewhat  large  and  closely  packed  together  and  with  a  slight 
tendency  to  be  arranged  in  longitudinal  rows,  will  sufficiently  distin- 
guish it  from  its  aUies.  M.  Allard  states  concerning  it,  "  il  a  beau- 
coup  d' analogic  avec  la  T.  brunniceps,  mihi,  dont  il  differe  principale- 
ment  en  ce  qu'il  est  ferrugineux  en  dessous  et  non  pas  noir."  A 
single  specimen  of  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray,  near  San  Sebastian,  in 
Gomera,  at  the  beginning  of  February  1858 ;  a  second  (which  differs, 
however,  in  being  rather  paler,  and  in  having  its  prothorax  perhaps 
a  trifle  less  abbreviated  and  with  the  lateral  margin  less  thickened, 
but  which  I  believe  to  be  an  immature  example  of  the  nubigena)  was 
found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862 ;  and  I 
myself  met  with  a  third,  in  Teneriffe,  during  May  of  1859*.  It 
occurs  likewise,  though  sparingly,  in  Madeira. 

633.  Longitarsus  dorsalis. 

Clirysomela  dorsalis^  Fab.,  Maid.  Ins.  i.  77  (1787). 
Thyamis  dorsalis,  Stcph.,  III.  Brit.  Fut.  iv.  315  (1831). 
Teinodactyla  dorsalis,  Allard,  Aim.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  deFrance,  104  (1860). 
Longitarsus  dorsalis,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  8  (1860). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  in  graminosis  herbidis  circa  oppi- 
dum  Haria,  tempore  vernali  hand  infrequens. 

The  only  region  in  these  islands  in  which  the  European  L.  dorsalis 
has  (so  far  as  I  am  aware)  been  observed  is  the  north  of  Lanzarote 
— where  it  was  captured,  during  January  1858,  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself  (and  subsequently,  by  myself,  in  March  of  1859),  around 
Haria.     The  dark  colour  of  its  head,  broad  sutural  stripe,  and  two 

*  The  last  of  these  is  of  a  rather  darker  hue,  and  lias  the  hinder  disc  of  each 
elytron,  as  well  as  its  two  posterior  femora,  piceous. 


414  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

hinder  femora,  whilst  the  prothorax  and  the  remainder  of  the  elytra 
and  limbs  are  pale  testaceous,  will,  apart  from  minor  features,  suffi- 
ciently distinguish  it.     It  is  recorded  also  from  the  north  of  Africa. 

634.  Longitarsus  pusillus. 

L.  oblongo-ovalis,  nitidiis,  capite  prothoraceque  rufo-piccis  (hoc  pal- 
lidiore),  elytris  pallide  infuscato-tcstaceis  ;  prothorace  brevi,  trans- 
verso,  ad  latera  marginato,  angulis  posticis  subi-otundato-obtusis, 
obsoletissime  et  parce  punctulato,  tenuiter  canaliculato  nccnon  jios- 
tice  subiuDequali ;  elytris  distinctius  et  parum  dense  punctulatis ; 
antennis  pedibusque  testaceis,  illis  versus  apicem  femoribusque  pos- 
ticis paulo  obscurioribus. — Long,  coi'p.  hn.  vix  1. 

Haltica  pusilla,  Oyll.,  Im.  Stiec.  iii.  549  (1813). 

Thyamis  pusilla,  Steph.,  El.  Brit.  JEnt.  iv.  313  (1831). 

Teinodactyla  pusilla,  Allard,Ann.  dela  Soc.Ent.  (feJF'/'a«c<',  125(1860). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  deprehensus. 

I  cannot  detect  any  differences  of  sufficient  importance  in  the  sin- 
gle (and  rather  immature)  example  from  which  the  above  diagnosis 
has  been  compiled  (and  which  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Tene- 
riffiB)  to  warrant  the  supposition  that  it  is  specifically  distinct  from 
the  common  European  L.  pusillus ;  for  although  the  punctation  of 
its  elytra  is  just  perceptibly  stronger,  and  that  of  its  prothorax 
perhaps  even  somewhat  still  finer,  than  is  the  case  in  the  ordinary 
northern  type,  yet  such  characters  ai'c  so  trifling  in  a  group  so  essen- 
tially variable  as  Longitarsus  that  I  cannot  attach  any  weight  to 
them  at  all.  Moreover  its  prothorax  is  a  little  less  convex  (or  more 
uneven),  and  has  its  central  canal  better  expressed;  but  this  like- 
wise is  very  unimportant,  and  may  possibly  (as  the  specimen  is  ill- 
developed)  be  merely  accidental ;  so  that  I  have  but  little  hesitation 
in  identifying  it  as  above. 

635.  Longitarsus  inconspicuiis. 

Variat  vel  omnino  vel  fere  infuscato-testaceus,  vel  dilute  piceus  ely- 
tris vix  magis  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |-vix  1. 

Longitarsus  inconspiciuis,  Woll.,  he.  cit.  9  (1860). 
Teiuodactyla  incouspicua,  Allarcl,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  317 
(1802). 

Habitat  Teneriifam,  in  elevatis  parce  degens. 

Four  specimens  only,  caj)tured  by  myself  in  Teneriife,  of  this  in- 
significant little  Longitarsus  have  as  yet  come  beneath  my  notice. 
Two  of  them  were  taken  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  a  third  on  the  ascent 
to  the  Cumbre  above  it,  and  the  remaining  one  on  the  mountains 
above  Taganana.     It  would  seem  therefore  to  be  an  insect  of  inter- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  415 

mediate  and  lofty  elevations.  According  to  M.  AUard,  it  is  a  good 
deal  allied  to  the  European  L.  tliorackus,  Steph. ;  from  which  it  ap- 
pears, mainly,  to  recede  in  its  smaller  size,  more  elliptic  outline,  dif- 
ferent colour,  and  coarser  punctation. 

636,  Longitarsus  vilis,  n.  sp, 

L.  fusco-piceus,  nitidus,  subdepressus  ;  prothorace  parvo,  subconico- 
transverso,  postice  recte  truncato,  minute  et  levissime  j)unctulato  ; 
elytris  subovalibus,  autico  facile  angustioribus,  distinctius  (sed  mi- 
nute) et  parum  dense  punctatis  ;  antennis  (breviusculis)  pedibus- 
que  plus  minus  piceo-testaceis,  illis  versiis  apicem  et  prajsertim  fe- 
moribus  posticis  picescentioribus. — Long,  corp,  lin,  vix  1. 

Habitat  in  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  parum  rarus. 

This  ordinary-looldng  little  species  has  much  the  (brownish- 
piceous)  colour  of  the  common  European  L.  luridm  ;  nevertheless  it 
is  considerably  smaller  and  less  convex  than  that  insect ;  its  jiro- 
thorax  is  rather  smaller,  and  a  little  more  laterally-compressed  in 
front  (giving  it  a  more  conical  appearance  from  above) ;  its  elytra 
are  less  dilated  in  the  middle  and  more  regularly  narrowed  towards 
the  shoulders ;  and  its  entire  punctation  is  both  finer  and  denser. 
I  took  a  single  example  of  it  in  Grand  Canary,  during  the  spring  of 
1858 ;  and  four  more  were  captured  by  Dr,  Crotch  in  Teneiiffe  in 
1862. 

637.  Longitarsus  fuscoseneus. 

Longitarsus  fuscopeneus,  Medt.,  Fna  Austr.  535  (1849). 
Teinodactyla  fuscofenea,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  92 

(1860), 
Longitarsus  fuscofeneus,  Woll.,  he.  cit.  9  (1862), 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  et  TenerifFflm,  in  foliis  EcMorum  degens. 

The  European  and  North- African  L.  fuscoasneus  occurs  sparingly 
at  the  Canaries — on  the  leaves  of  the  Echium  violaceum,  L.  It  was 
taken  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Fuerteventura ;  and  by  myself  on  the  moun- 
tains above  S'''  Cruz,  as  well  as  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  in  TenerifFe — 
in  which  latter  island  it  was  found  subsequently  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

638.  Longitarsus  ecliii. 

Haltica  Echii,  Illig.,  Mag.  fur  Ins.  vi,  171  (1807). 
Longitarsus  excurvus,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  133  (1857), 
Teinodactyla  Echii,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Fnt.  de  France,  90  (1860). 
Longitarsus  Echii,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  9  (1860). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneritfa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  in  locis  similibus 
ac  prajcedens. 

This  Longitarsus,  which  is  widely  spread  over  central  and  southern 


416  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Europe,  and  which  occurs  also  in  the  north  of  Africa  and  at  the  Ma- 
deiras, is  found  sparingly  in  these  islands,  chiefly  in  company  with 
the  last  species.  I  have  taken  it  from  the  Ecliimn  violaceum,  near 
San  Mateo,  in  Grand  Canary,  as  well  as  at  the  Agua  Garcia  in 
Teneriffe ;  and  it  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Gomera  and  Palma.  In 
Teneriffe  it  was  mot  with  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  has  much  the 
general  aspect  and  colouring  of  the  L.  fuscoameus,  but  is  considerably 
larger  and  more  coarsely  pimctured ;  it  has  often  (in  addition  to  the 
noi-mal  brassy  one)  a  greenish  or  bluish  tinge  ;  and  the  extreme 
apices  of  its  elytra  arc  less  obtuse  (or  separately  rounded  off). 

Genus  243.  PSYLLIODES. 

Latreille,  Fain.  Nat.  des  Ins.  405  [script.  PsijlUode]  (1825). 

639.  Psylliodes  hospes. 

Psylliodes  hospes,  Woll,  Ins.  3Iad.  449  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  134  (1857). 

,  AUard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  340  (18G0). 

,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  10  (18G0). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  herbidis  vulgaris. 

The  present  Psylliodes,  which  is  universal  throughout  the  Madeiran 
archipelago,  is  equally  universal  at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven 
islands  of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it,  more  or  less  abimdantly. 
In  Lanzarote,  Gomera,  and  Hierro  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray. 
Its  brassy-green,  densely  punctured  surface,  less  convex  body,  small 
pro  thorax,  and  testaceous  legs  (and  base  of  antennae),  the  two  hinder 
femora  being  alone  infuscated,  will  sufiiciently  distinguish  it.  It 
is  particularly  partial  to  the  foliage  of  plants  of  the  Sinaiyis-gvoM^  ; 
and  would  seem  to  be  the  representative  of  the  P.  cuprea  of  more 
northern  latitudes.  Indeed  M.  Allard  observed  concerning  it,  "Psyll. 
cuprece  111.  affinis,  et  ut  ilia  in  elytris  punctato-striata,  sed  differt 
interstitiis  punctulatis,  prothorace  ad  latera  minus  recto,  et  cset." 

640.  Psylliodes  vehemens. 

Psylliodes  vehemens,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  451  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  134  (1857). 

,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  341  (18G0). 

,  Woll,  loc.  cit.  10  (1800). 

Hahitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  passim. 

The  P.  veliemens,  which,  like  the  last  sj^ecies,  is  universal  in  the 
Madeiran  Group,  is  likewise  universal  at  the  Canaries, — Gomera 
(where  however  it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of 
1862)  being  the  only  island  of  the  seven  in  which  I  have  not  myself 


CANARIAN  COLEOl'TERA.  417 

captured  it.  In  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma  it  was  found 
also  by  Mr.  Gray.  As  in  the  neighbouring  archipelago,  it  is  ex- 
tremely variable  in  hue — being  sometimes  entirely  testaceous,  at 
others  with  the  prothoracic  disc  and  the  suture  dark,  whilst  in 
highly-coloured  individuals  nearly  the  whole  of  the  prothorax  and  a 
large  portion  of  the  elytra  are  blackened.  The  generaliti/  of  the  Cana- 
rian  specimens,  however,  are  altogether  pale,  like  the  Porto-Santan 
ones, — the  darker  states,  which  are  the  rule  rather  than  the  excep- 
tion in  Madeira  proper,  being  comparatively  rare  in  these  islands. 
M.  Allard  writes,  of  the  P.  vehemens,  "  Cette  belle  espece  ressemble 
beaucoup  au  P.  crassicollis,  Fairm.,  mais  son  corselet  est  un  peu  plus 
court  et  plus  etroit,  la  ponctuation  des  elytres  est  plus  forte,  et  la  co- 
loration est  differente." 

041.  Psylliodes  stolida. 

Psylliodes  stolida,  JFoll,  he.  cit.  11  (18G0). 

,  Allard,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  340  (1860). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  foliis  Mercurkdis  anmice 
gaudens. 

This  small  Psijlliodes,  which  is  of  a  brownish-pieeous  hue  with 
more  or  less  of  an  obscure  brassy  or  even  greenish  tinge,  and  the 
prothorax  of  which  is  convex,  delicately  alutaceous,  and  studded  with 
very  minute  and  shallow  punctules,  is  peculiar,  8o  far  as  observed 
hitherto,  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — in  the  former  of  which 
it  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  on  the  common  Mercurialis 
annua,  during  January  1858,  around  Haria  (in  which  locality  I 
again  met  with  it  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year) ;  whilst,  in 
the  latter,  I  took  it  sparingly,  at  the  end  of  March  1859,  at  Oliva. 

Genus  244.  DIBOLIA. 
Latreillo,  Regne  Anim.  v.  139  (1829). 

642.  Dibolia  obtusa,  n.  sp. 

D.  oblonga,  nitida,  ubique  parce  punctulata,  nigra,  capite  prothorace- 
que(subconico)  distincte  sed  elytris  vix  aenescentibus,pLinctis  in  ely- 
tris  subseriatim  dispositis  ;  antennis  ad  basin,  pedibus  anterioribus 
et  tibiis  tarsisque  posticis  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  1|. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  ;  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1859  exemplar  uni- 
cum  collegi. 

Of  the  present  Dibolia  a  single  example  was  captured  by  myself 
in  Fuerteventura  (I  believe,  in  the  llio  Palmas),  during  the  spring  of 
1859.  It  is  unquestionably  distinct  from  five  of  the  European  spe- 
cies of  which  M.  Allard  has  kindly  communicated  types,  though  per- 


418 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


haps  nearer  in  size  and  sculpture  to  the  D.  occultans  than  to  any  of 
the  remainder.  It  is,  however,  a  little  larger  and  more  oblong  than 
that  insect,  its  colour  (instead  of  being  cyaneous)  is  of  an  obscm-e 
brassy-black,  and  its  four  anterior  legs  and  two  hinder  tibi?e  and 
feet  are  bright  rufo-testaceous. 

Genus  245.  CH.ffi:TOCNEMA. 

Stephens,  III.  Brit.  E)d.  iv.  325  (1831). 

643.  Chaetocnema  tarsalis. 

Chastocnema  tarsalis,  Woll.,  loc.  cit.  11  (18G0). 

Plectroscelis  tarsalis,  AUard,  Ann.  de  la  Sac.  Ent.  de France,  337  (1860). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  graminosis  ad  Argiiiniguin,  per  niar- 
ginem  paludis  ejus  juxta  mare  sitae,  Aprili  a.d.  1858,  reperta. 

The  prima  facie  aspect  of  this  ClKxtocnema  is  almost  identical  with 
that  of  the  common  European  C.  aridella,  except  that  it  is  a  little 
more  aeneous  and  shining,  with  its  prothorax  somewhat  more  trun- 
cated (or  less  produced)  behind,  and  with  the  intermediate  joints  of 
its  antennaj  rather  slenderer ;  and  it  was  not  until  I  had  closely  over- 
hauled it  that  I  detected  a  structural  character  which  will  at  once 
separate  it  from  its  more  northern  ally.  This  consists  in  the  forma- 
tion of  its  tarsi,  which  are  very  much  narrower  and  more  elongated 
than  those  of  the  aridella,  ■\\dth  their  apical  joint  particularly  (as  com- 
pared with  the  corresponding  one  in  that  species)  long  and  slender. 
The  penultimate  one,  also,  is  less  dilated  than  is  there  the  case,  and 
the  whole  foot  has  a  different  appearance.  It  was  detected  by  my- 
self, on  the  14th  of  April  1858,  at  Arguiniguin,  in  the  south  of  Grand 
Canary,  where  I  obtained  several  specimens  by  brushing  the  short 
grass  at  the  edges  of  the  small  freshwater  lake  immediately  behind 
the  sea-beach. 

Fam.  66.  HISPID.ffi, 

Genus  246.  HISPA. 
Linnaeus,  Syst.  Nat.  (1766). 

644.  Hispa  occator. 

H.  species  H.  tesfacea?  simillima,  sed  paulo  major,  elytris  ad  apiccm 
minus  truncato-decurvis,  et  alitor  colorata.  Supra  pallidior,  tes- 
tacea  (nee  rufo-ferruginea)  pilisque  longioribus  demissis  magis  au- 
reis  vestita,  prothorace  postice,  scutello,  sutura  tarsisque,  necnon 
infra  (in  mcso-  et  meta-sternis  abdomineque)  plus  minus  nigres- 
centibus  (nee  concoloribus) ;  elytrorum  spinis  e  nodulis  submajori- 
bus  ac  latins  nigris  singulatim  surgentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-3. 

Hispa  occator,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  73.  pi.  i.  f.  17(1838). 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


419 


Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  prsesertim  acl  folia 
Cistormn  in  pinetis  crescentium,  hinc  inde  viilgatissima. 

Whether  this  insect  should  be  regarded  as  a  geographical  modifi- 
cation of  the  IT.  testacea  of  southern  Europe,  I  will  not  undertake  to 
pronounce  for  certain  ;  but  as  it  has  already  been  erected  into  a  spe- 
cies by  M,  Brulle,  and  it  does  undoubtedly  possess  certain  differential 
characters  (though  perhaps  not  very  important  ones)  which  essen- 
tially separate  it  therefrom,  I  do  not  think  it  desirable  to  treat  it  as  a 
mere  variety.  It  is,  on  the  average,  a  little  larger  than  the  H.  tes- 
tacea ;  its  elytra  are  less  suddenly  drawn  in,  or  truncated,  behind ; 
and  it  is  clothed  with  a  rather  coarser  decumbent  golden  pile ;  the 
colour  also  of  its  upper  surface  is  paler,  or  more  testaceous  (instead 
of  being  rufo-ferruginous) ,  but  nevertheless  the  posterior  region  of 
its  prothorax,  as  well  as  its  scutellum  and  suture,  are  more  or  less 
darkened.  The  tubercles,  likemse,  of  its  elytra,  from  which  the 
spines  arise,  are  blacker  and  (if  anything)  somewhat  larger ;  and  the 
under  segments  of  its  body — at  least  the  meso-  and  meta-sterna  and 
abdomen — are,  together  with  the  feet,  also  blackish. 

The  H.  occator  abounds  in  certain  districts  of  a  rather  high  eleva- 
tion in  Teneriffe  and  Palma,  occurring  more  particularly  in  the  va- 
rious Finals  (which  are  frequently  difficult  of  access),  and  attaching 
itself  to  the  foliage  of  the  shrubby  Cisti  (the  C.  vagaus  and  monspe- 
liensis)  which  characterize  those  altitudes.  In  such  situations  I  have 
taken  it  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  in  Teneriffe ; 
as  well  as  throughout  the  immense  Pinal,  of  Palma,  extending  down 
the  western  slopes  of  the  mountain-range  above  S'"  Cruz  and  Buena- 
vista,  and  occupying  the  extensive  tract  of  country  between  the  Banda 
and  the  edges  of  the  Great  Caldeira.  Teneriffan  specimens  have  also 
been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

Fam.  57.  CASSIDID^. 

Genus  247.  CASSIDA. 
Linnfeus,  Si/st.  Nat.  i.  (1735). 

645.  Cassida  hemisphaerica. 

Cassida  hemisphserica,  Hbst,  Kiif.  viii.  226  (1799). 

,  Lucas,  Col.  de  VAlgerie,  514  (1849). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  440  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  130  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Can  aria,  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  passim. 

The  European  C.  hemisphcerica,  which  occurs  sparingly  at  Madeira, 

is  widely  spread  over  these  islands,  where  very  probably  it  is  universal. 

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420  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Hitherto,  however,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Grand  Canary  (through- 
out the  region  of  El  Monte),  TenerifFe  (at  Souzal  and  about  Oro- 
tava),  Palma  (at  the  Banda),  and  Hierro.  In  TenerifFe  it  vras  found 
also  by  the  late  Rev.  \Y.  J.  Armitage,  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva^ 
and  Dr.  Crotch  ;  and  in  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch  and  Mr.  Gray.  I  have 
once  or  tvrice  met  with  it  rather  abundantly  amongst  the  mulberry- 
leaves,  in  houses,  on  which  silkworms  are  fed. 

Fam.  58.  EROTYLID^. 

Genus  248.  XESTUS  (nov.  gen.). 
Corpus  sat  parvum,  elli])ticum,  calvum,  Throsci  formam  prima  facie 
simulans:  capite  exserto:  protliorace  subconico,  apice  truncato,  basi 
trisinuato,  angulis  posticis  productis,  prostcrno  apice  truncato,  pos- 
tice  inter  coxas  anticas  parallelo  et  levitcr  j^roducto  nccnon  ad  basin 
paulo  emarginato  :  scutdJo  sat  magno,  transverso-sciitiformi :  ah- 
domine  e  segmentibus  5  composito.  Antennce  ll-arf*,  robustoe, 
pariun  clavatfe,  mox  ante  oculos  sub  margine  capitis  insertae  et  inter 
otium  sub  margine  prothoracis  (sed  hand  in  foveis)  repositse,  art'* 
2mo  g^  2^"  brevibus,  3"°  longiusculo,  4'°  ad  8'"'"  latitudine  \-ix  eres- 
centibus,  reliquis  clavam  laxam  pcrfoliatam  baud  abruptam  3-arti- 
culatam  efEicientibus  (9""  poculiformi,  10'"°  magis  transverso,  ult""' 
subgloboso).  Lahrvm  submembranaceum,  transversum,  apice  vix 
emarginatum,  angulis  anticis  rotundatis  ciliatis.  Mandibulo'  ajjiee 
valde  incurvoe,  uncinatae,  acutse,  infra  uncum  denticulo  armatse,  et 
mox  infra  hunc  valde  pubeseentes  membranaceae.  MaxUlce  bilobje, 
lobis  brevibus,  pubescentibus  :  inferno  apice  ineiirvo,  uncinate. 
Palpi  maxiUarcs  art"  1"'°  olongato  subcylindrico,  2'*''  et  3"°  bre- 
vioribus  crassioribus  subpoculiformibus,  ult"""  maximo  securiformi : 
labiales  art°  1""°  flexuoso,  2^"  miilto  latiore  sed  vix  longiore,  ult""* 
magno  subseciiriformi.  Mentmn  elongato-quadi'atum,  apice  late 
sed  leviter  emarginatum  et  (nisi  fallor)  dente  medio  brevi  instruc- 
tum.  Ligula  membranacea,  subquadrata,  apice  paulo  emarginata, 
angulis  anticis  rotundatis  ciliatis.  Pedes  erassi,  ad  basin  leviter 
distantes :  tihiis  ad  apicem  externum  oblique  truncatis  ciliatis,  ad 
internum  calcaribus  minutis  \ix  observandis  terminatis :  tarsis 
5-art*%  subtus  longc  ciliatis,  art'"  1°'°,  2"°  et  3"°  longitudine  sub- 
fequalibus,  3''°  supra,  excavato  4"""  minutum  recipiente,  ult'""  lon- 
giiisculo  unguicvlis  simjilicibus  munito. 
A  Searoi,  ealvus. 

The  affinities  of  the  curious  insect  from  which  the  above  generic 
details  have  been  compiled  are  by  no  means  clear ;  nevertheless,  after 
a  careful  consideration  of  its  several  parts,  T  am  induced  to  think  that 
it  has  perhaps  more  in  common  with  the  European  Avhicoehilus  than 
with  any  other  form  with  which  I  am  acquainted — its  oral  organs 
and  feet  beinor  not  verv  dissimilar  from  those  which  obtain  in  that 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  421 

group.  Nevertheless,  in  its  external  fades,  elliptic  outline,  and  the 
produced  hinder  angles  of  its  prothorax,  it  is  so  curiously  suggestive 
of  a  gigantic  Throsciis,  that  at  first  I  could  scarcely  resist  the  con- 
viction that  it  must  at  least  belong  to  the  same /((mil  >/  as  the  latter; 
though,  in  rcalit}',  its  exposed  head  (consequent  on  the  fact  of  its 
pronotuni  and  prosternum  being,  both  of  them,  truncated  anteriorly), 
its  freedom  from  under-grooves  for  the  reception  of  its  antennae  when 
laid  back  in  a  state  of  repose,  not  to  mention  innumerable  differences, 
of  primary  signification,  in  its  various  structural  minutia',  will  at  once 
remove  it,  on  a  closer  inspection,  from  the  Throscuhe. 

646.  Xestus  throscoides,  n.  sp. 

X.  ellipticus,  nitidus,  calvus,  piceo-niger  ;  capite  prothoraceque  pavdo 
obscurioribus  (evidentius  subtiKssime  alutaceis)  et  argute  punctu- 
latis,  illo  paulo  rufescentiore,  hoc  (saltern  in  disco)  convexo,  ad 
latera  et  distinctius  per  marginem  trisinuatum  posticum  (praesertim 
in  lobo  medio)  marginato ;  elytris  in  disco  convexis,  mox  pone 
basin  obsolete  subangulatim  latioribus,  inde  ad  apicem  (rufo-ferru- 
gineum)  regulariter  acuminatis,  leviter  striato-punctatis,  intersti- 
tiis  vage  miuutissirae  punctulatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-tes- 
taceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Habitat  in  lauretis  humidis  Teneriffae,  in  montibus  supra  Taga- 
uanam  ad  fungos  necnon  etiam  sub  cortice  arborum  laxo  putrido  par- 
cissime  captus. 

Not  to  mention  its  Throscoideous  contour  already  alluded  to,  the 
piceous-black  surface  of  this  singular  insect,  which  has  its  limbs  and 
the  apex  of  its  elytra  alone  more  or  less  rufo-ferruginous,  in  con- 
junction with  its  sharply  punctulated  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter 
of  which  is  margined  along  its  obliquely-straight  sides  and  trisinuated 
basal  edge — particularly  in  the  centre),  and  its  lightly  striate-punc- 
tate,  apically-acuminated  elytra,  will  prevent  its  being  confounded 
with  anything  else  with  which  we  have  here  to  do.  It  appears  to 
be  of  the  greatest  rarity  and  of  fungivorous  habits — the  few  spe- 
cimens which  I  have  seen  (eleven  in  number)  having  been  captured 
by  myself,  in  Teneriffe,  during  May  of  1859,  from  ^vithinflm(Jfi,  in 
the  damp  and  elevated  laurel -woods  which  clothe  the  mountains  above 
Taganana  and  Point  Anaga ;  as  well  as  from  beneath  the  loosened 
putrid  bark  of  trees,  under  which  minute  Ciyptogams  were  more  or 
less  evident. 

Fam.  59.  COCCINELLIDiE. 

Genus  249.  COCCINELLA. 

Linnseus,  S>/st.  Nat.  edit.  i.  [script.  Coccionella]  (1735). 


422  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

647.  Coccinella  7-punctata. 

Coccinella  7-punctata,  Linn.,  Fna  Suec.  477  (1761). 

,  Brum,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  74  (1838). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  462  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  1.36  (1857). 

,  Hartumi,  Geoloy.  Verhciltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  141,  142. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  vulgaris. 

This  common  and  widely  spread  insect,  which  is  universal  in  the 
Madeiran  Group,  is  universal  also  at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole 
seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it.  In  Lanzarote  and 
Fuerte Ventura  it  was  taken  likewise  by  M.  Hartung ;  in  TenerifFe 
by  the  late  Eev.  W.  J.  Armitage,  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  and 
Dr.  Crotch ;  in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch ;  and  in  Palma  by  Mr.  Gray. 
It  is  called  by  the  inhabitants  "  San  Antonio." 

648.  Coccinella  Miranda,  n.  sp. 

C.  rotundato-ovalis  ;  capite  prothoraccque  nigris,  illo  maculis  duabus 
frontalibus  pallido-flavis  ornato,  hoe  brevi  lato  transverse,  antice 
et  ad  latera  (grosse  marginata)  anguste  sed  ad  angulos  anticos  pro- 
funde  et  quadrate  pallido-flavo  ;  elytris  vel  flavis,  vel  pallido-flavis, 
grosse  marginatis,  ad  humeros  obtuse  rotundatis,  linca  suturali 
hastiformi  (a  scutello  nigro  fere  ad  apicem  ducta,  sed  gradatim 
angustiore)  et  singulis  plagis  duabus  elongatis  arcuatis  [una  sc.  in 
disco  antico,  longitudinali,  et  altera  bre"vaore  subtransversa  pone 
discum  posticum]  nigris ;  antennis  pallido-testaceis ;  pedibus  ni- 
gris, tarsis  dilutioribus. 

Variat  elytrorum  plagis  plus  minus  latioribus,  plaga  antica  elongata 
vel  antice  vel  postice  in  lineam  suturalem  continuata  necnon  in- 
terdum  macula  parva  media  sublaterali  aucta, 

Var.  ft  [an  species  distincta  ?].  Elytra  magis  rufescentia,  linea  su- 
turali ad  scutellum  vix  sed  in  medio  sensim  latiore  necnon  usque 
ad  apicem  ipsissimum  ducta,  plaga  longitudinali  antica  in  maculas 
parvas  late  fi'acta  et  altera  laterali  subrotundata  (nee  sublaterali 
elongata)  aucta,  plaga  transversa  postica  fere  evanescente,  i.  e.  in 
maculas  minutas  3  vel  4  fracta. — Long.  corp.  lin.  lf-2^. 

Coccinella  hieroglyphica,  Brullc  [uec  Oliv.~\,  in  Webb  et  Berth,  (Cul.)  74 
(1838). 

Habitat  Canariam,  TenerifFam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  in  intermediis 
et  elevatis  degens,  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  present  Coccinella  has  much  the  j^'imd  facie  appearance  of  the 
European  C.  Iiieroglyphica ;  nevertheless,  when  closely  inspected,  it 
will  be  found  to  be  abundantly  distinct.  Thus,  in  addition  to  its 
markings  (both  dark  and  light  ones),  which  are  differently  shaped, 
it  is  rounder  and  broader  in  outline  and  its  edges  are  more  coarsely 
margined ;  its  prothorax  particularly  is  wider  and  more  transverse ; 
its  humeral  angles  arc  rounder,  or  more  obtuse ;  and  its  legs  are 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  423 

rather  slenderer.  In  its  markings  it  is,  like  most  of  the  CoccineJUdce, 
extremely  variable ;  but  normally  it  may  be  described  as  having  its 
prothorax  (which  is  more  constant  than  the  elytra)  nan-owly  edged 
along  its  front  and  lateral  margins  with  pale  straw-yellow,  of  which 
colour  there  is  a  larger  subquadrate  spot  (confluent  with  the  border) 
at  each  anterior  angle.  The  elytra  are  yellow,  with  a  long  hastate 
strij)e  doAvn  the  suture  (reaching  from  the  scutellum,  where  it  is  broad, 
and  gradually  narrowing  to  almost  the  extreme  apex)  and  two  arcu- 
ated ones  on  each  elytron  (one  of  which  is  longitudinal  and  down 
the  fore  disc,  whilst  the  other  is  transverse  and  placed  between  the 
hinder  disc  and  the  apex)  black.  And  there  is  frequently  a  small, 
additional,  sublateral  dash  about  the  middle  of  the  outer  edge  of  the 
anterior  curved  band. 

The  C.  Miranda  is  widely  spread  over  the  archipelago,  where 
(though  we  did  not  happen  to  observe  it  in  Hierro)  it  is  almost  cer- 
tainly universal  throughout  at  any  rate  the  central  and  western 
islands.  '  It  occurs  at  intermediate  and  lofty  elevations,  and  is. per- 
haps more  abundant  in  the  latter  than  in  the  former — ascending  to 
an  altitude  of  at  least  9000  feet  above  the  sea.  I  have  taken  it  on 
the  hills  above  San  Mateo,  on  the  ascent  to  the  Roca  del  Soucilho, 
in  Grand  Canary ;  from  the  blossoms  of  the  Retama  on  the  lofty 
Cumbre,  of  Teneriffe,  above  Ycod  el  Alto  and  adjoining  the  Caiiadas, 
as  well  as  on  the  opposite  Cumbre  above  the  Agua  Mansa  and  at  the 
Agua  Mansa  itself;  and  in  the  Barranco  above  S*'""  Cruz  in  Palma. 
It  was  first  detected  by  Mr.  Gray,  who  met  with  three  specimens  of 
it  in  the  valley  above  San  Sebastian,  in  Gomera,  during  our  short 
visit  to  that  island  in  his  yacht  "  the  Miranda  "  early  in  February  of 
1858;  and  I  am  glad  to  commemorate  our  pleasant  sojourn  in  that 
admirable  little  vessel  by  the  adoption  of  the  above  specific  name. 
Mr.  Gray  likewise  captured  it,  a  short  time  afterwards,  in  Palma ; 
and  it  has  subsequently  been  found  in  that  island,  Gomera,  and  Tene- 
riffe by  Dr.  Crotch. 

649.  Coccinella  Doublieri. 

Harmonia  Doublieri,  Muls.,  Securi]).  de  France,  118  (1846). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  in  foliis  Tamaricis  galUcoi  deprehensa. 

Although  I  have  no  type  for  comparison,  I  have  little  doubt, 
judging  from  the  description,  that  the  present  small  Coccinella  is 
conspecific  with  Mulsant's  C.  Doublieri,  which  is  said  to  occur  on 
Tamarisks  in  the  south  of  France.  The  only  Canarian  examples 
(thirteen  in  number)  which  I  have  seen  were  captured  by  myself 


424 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


from  the  bushes  of  Tamo.rix  gallica,  a  short  distance  below  the 
town  of  Betancuria,  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuertoventnra,  at  the 
beginning  of  April  1859.  The  species  may  be  known  by  its  small 
size  and  pale  yellow  surface,  which  has  ofteii  a  slightly  roseate  hue, 
and  which  is  ornamented  with  numerous  black  patches  and  spots, 
arranged  as  follows — two  on  the  forehead,  seven  on  the  prothorax, 
and  nine  on  each  elytron.  These  last  are  placed  somewhat  thus : 
(1)  subhumeral,  and  comparatively  elongate,  being  prodiiced  ob- 
liquely in  the  direction  of  the  suture ;  (2)  rounded  and  subbasal, 
midway  between  the  humeral  one  and  the  suture ;  (3)  rounded,  sub- 
medial,  and  sublateral ;  (4)  close  to,  and  a  little  larger  than,  the 
last,  and  likewise  submedial,  but  further  removed  from  the  lateral 
margin ;  (5  and  6)  a  little  further  behind  than  the  last  two,  but 
nearer  the  suture,  and  united  so  as  to  form  a  semicircle  with  its 
convexity  turned  towards  the  apex,  and  in  highly  coloured  examples 
having  a  brownish  line  arising  from  the  inner  extremity  of  the  curve 
and  produced  backwards  for  a  considerable  distance,  almost  parallel 
to  the  suture  and  towards  the  scutellum ;  (7,  8,  and  9)  subapical, 
and  equidistant  from  each  other,  the  central  one  being  the  longest  of 
the  three,  and  the  inner  one  the  roundest*. 

Genus  250.  CHILOCORUS. 

Leach,  Edinb.  Encycl.  xv.  116  (1815). 

650.  Chilocorus  renipustulatus. 

Coccinella  reuipustulata,  Scriba,  Journ.  276  (1790). 

Cacti,  3Iskm,  Ent.  Brit.  163  (1802). 

Chilocorus  renipustulatus,  Steph.,  III.  lirit.  Ent.  iv.  374  (1831). 
,  3Ms.j  Semrip.  ile  Frfmce,  168  (1846). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  jirjesertim  in  apricis  inferi- 
oribus,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

This  common  European  insect  is  universal  throughout  the  Canarian 
archipelago,  where  it  occurs  principally  in  low  and  hot  situations,  and 
is  particularly  partial  to  the  Opimiia  tuna  (or  Prickly  Pear),  as  also 
to  the  Plocama  pendula.  T  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canarj',  Teneriife, 
Gomera,  and  Hierro ;  in  which  last  island,  as  well  as  in  Lanzarote 
and  Palma,  it  was  foimd  by  Mr.  Gray.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  likewise 
captured  by  the  late  Eev.  W.  J.  Armitage  and  Dr.  Crotch ;  and  in 
Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch  ;  whilst  from  Fuerteventura  it  has  been  com- 

*  There  is  a  CoeiuueUu  included  by  M.  Brulle  in  liis  short  and  inaccurate 
catalogue,  in  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  gigantic  work,  under  the  title  of  "  C. 
scmi-pusfidafa,  Oliv."  ;  but  to  what  it  can  possibly  refer  I  have  no  means  of 
ascertaining,  inasinuich  as  he  giAcs  (as  usual)  no  single  observation  concerning  it 
— except  indeed   '  Eepi-cc  dii  niidi  dc  I'Europe." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  425 

municated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  My  own  Toneriffun 
specimens  are  principally  from  the  vicinity  of  S*'^  Cruz  and  the  hills 
above  it,  Taganana,  and  Orotava. 

Genus  251.  EPILACHNA. 

Chevrolat,  Diet.  Univ.  (VHist.  Nat.  iv.  43  (1844). 

651.  Epilaclina  4-plagiata,  n.  sp. 

E.  nitida,  oculo  fortissimo  armato  minutissime  et  parce  punctulata 
necnon  (saltem  in  prothorace  elytrorumque  limbo)  siibtilissime 
pubescens,  nifo-testacea,  capite,  prothoraeis  disco  (linea  media 
interdum  excepta)  elytrorumque  marginibus  angustissimis  et  ma- 
culis  parvis  duabus  in  singulis  positis  plus  minus  nigrescentioribus  ; 
elytris  tenuiter  margiiiatis,  ad  humeros  rotundatos  latis,  prothorace 
multo  latioribus.— Long.  corp.  lin.  1-|— 1^. 

Habitat  in  aridis  arenosis  Fuerteventurse,  rarissima. 

The  almost  imperceptibly  punctulated,  rufo-testaceous  surface  of 
this  species,  which  has  its  head  and  prothoracic  disc  more  or  less 
blackened,  or  infuscated,  as  well  as  two  small  spots,  or  dashes  (one 
anterior,  and  the  other  posterior),  on  each  of  its  elytra  darker,  will 
sufficiently  disting-uish  it.  The  latter  (which  are  considerably  broader 
at  their  base  than  the  prothorax)  have  their  humeral  angles  porrect 
and  very  obtusely  rounded,  and  their  suture  and  outer  margins  are 
most  narrowly  black.  The  only  three  specimens  which  I  have  seen 
were  captured  by  myself  in  the  arid,  sandy  district  at  Corralejo,  in 
the  extreme  north  of  Fuerteventui'a,  during  the  spring  of  1859. 

652.  Epilachna  bella,  n.  sp. 

E.  nitidissima,  paulo  distinctius  (sed  tamen  minutissime)  punctulata 
necnon  (saltem  in  prothorace  elytrorumque  limbo)  subtilissime 
pubescens,  nigra,  prothoraeis  lateribus  elytrorumc^ue  margine  la- 
teraU  ab  humeris  usque  ad  medium  et  maculis  duabus  magnis  sub- 
confiuentibus  in  singulis  positis,  rufo-testaceis ;  elytris  sat  grosse 
marginatis,  rotundatioribus,  ad  humeros  rotundatos  prothorace 
parum  latioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  l^-. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  arenosis  ad  Maspalomas  capta. 

The  black  and  very  shining  upper  surface  of  this  Epilachna,  which 
has  the  edges  of  its  prothorax,  and  half  of  the  lateral  margins  of  its 
elytra  (i.  e.  from  either  shoulder  to  about  the  middle),  as  well  as  two 
large  subconfluent  patches  on  the  disc  of  each  of  the  latter,  rufo-tes- 
taceous, will  serve  to  characterize  it.  Although  very  minutely  so,  it 
is  rather  more  evidently  punctulated  than  the  E.  A-plagiata  ;  and  its 
elytra  are  more  rounded  at  the  sides  (and  therefore  not  so  immensely 
wider  at  their  extreme  base  than  the  prothorax),  and  arc  also  more 


426  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

coarsely  margined.  The  unique  example  from  which  the  above  dia- 
gnosis has  been  compiled  I  captured  in  the  sandy  region  at  Maspa- 
lomas,  in  the  extreme  south  of  Grand  Canary,  during  April  1858. 

653.  Epilaclma  10-plagiata. 

Scymnus  10-plagiatus,  TFolL,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  137  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  rarissima. 

The  present  little  Epilaclma  may  at  once  be  known  from  both  of 
the  preceding  species  by  the  comparatively  long  and  coarse  silvery 
pile  with  which  it  is  clothed,  by  the  more  porrect  anterior  angles 
of  its  prothorax,  and  by  its  surface  being  more  deeply  punctiired, 
and  black, — the  elytra  alone  having  five  rufo-testaceous  spots  on  each 
of  them.  It  appears  to  be  rare,  occurring  sparingly  at  low  and  inter- 
mediate elevations.  I  have  taken  it  near  S*"  Cruz  and  at  Las  Mer- 
cedes in  Teneriffe,  as  also  in  the  Barranco  above  S*'*  Cruz  in  the 
island  of  Palma.  It  occurs  likewise  in  Madeira,  where,  however,  it 
is  extremely  scarce. 

Genus  252.  SCYMNUS. 

Kugelann,  in  Schneid.  3Iuy.  515  (1794). 

654.  Sc3rmnus  canariensis,  n.  sp. 

/S'.  rotundato-ovalis,  nitidus,  minutissime  punctulatus,  cinereo-pubes- 
cens,  niger ;  elytris  vel  rufis  vel  rufo-testaceis,  sod  in  parte  magna 
triangulari  basali,  sutuni,  macula  centrali  in  disco  postico  singu- 
lorum  posita  necnon  in  niargine  laterali  ab  humeris  etiam  ultra 
medium  ducta  et  dein  in  curva  obscurji  (interdum  obsoleta)  nebulosa 
usque  ad  suturam,  sed  mox  ante  apicem  ejus,  oblique  continuatii, 
nigris  ;  pedibus  testaceis,  plus  minus  infuscatis. 

Jirts  capite  et  prothoracis  lateribus  i)lus  minus  testaceis. 

Var.  /3.  Elytris  singidis  in  disco  immacidatis. 

Var.  y.  rujipennis  [an  species  ?].  Sensim  distinctius  punctulata,  ely- 
tris in  parte  basali  triangulari,  sutura  et  in  medio  marginis  late- 
ralis solum  nigris. — Long.  corp.  hn.  1-1^. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  vulgaris. 

This  most  inconstant  Scymnus  is  abundant  throughout  the  Canarian 
archipelago,  in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  cap- 
txu-ed  it.  In  Lanzarote,  Gomera,  Palma,  and  Hierro  it  was  found 
also  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  in  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
It  varies  a  great  deal  in  bulk,  and  is  usually  smaller  in  exposed  arid 
districts  than  elsewhere.  In  its  normal  state  it  may  be  described  as 
black  with  rufous  elytra — the  latter,  however,  being  ornamented 
with  a  lai-ge  triangular  region  at  the  base,  their  suture  (to  almost  its 
extreme  apex),  a  central  spot  on  the  hinder  disc  of  each,  and  about 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA.  427 

two-thirds  of  the  lateral  margin  (namely,  from  either  shoulder  to 
bei/ond  the  middle — at  which  latter  point  the  line  curves  inwards, 
nearly  parallel  to  the  elytral  margin  itself,  and  joins  the  sutural  stripe 
at  its  extremity,  i.  e.  immediately  before  the  apex),  all  of  which  are 
black.  One  of  its  principal  aberrations  is  that  indicated  above  (var./3), 
in  which  merely  the  discal  spot  of  each  elytron  is  entirely  absent 
(the  apical  fascia  remaining,  at  the  same  time,  strongly  expressed). 
All  the  examples  which  I  have  as  yet  observed  in  Hierro  belong  to  this 
particular  state ;  and  I  may  add  that  hitherto  I  have  not  detected  it 
in  any  of  the  other  islands  of  the  Group.  In  Palma,  on  the  contrary, 
the  greater  number  of  the  specimens  are  highly  decorated,  the  discal 
patch  being  frequently  enlarged  so  as  to  coalesce  with  either  the 
sutural  or  lateral  stripe  (or  even  with  both  of  them).  In  the  phasis 
var.  y  its  elytral  markings  are  stiU  further  reduced — not  merely  the 
discal  patch  being  absent  but  also  the  subapical  cloud-like  fascia,  and 
the  whole  of  the  mai-ginal  line  except  a  smaU  portion  of  it  about  the 
middle.  This  variety  is  usually  a  trifle  more  coarsely  punctulated, 
and  may  perhaps  be  universal  throughout  the  archipelago — though 
the  examples  before  me  are  merely  from  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary, 
TeneriiFe,  Gomera,  and  Palma. 

The  S.  canariensls  is  most  closely  allied  to  the  Madeiran  S.  Du- 
rantce;  nevertheless  it  descends  to  a  very  much  smaller  bulk,  and 
the  head,  which  in  that  species  is  pale  in  both  sexes,  is  in  the  Cana- 
rian  one  testaceous  in  the  males  only.  The  8.  Durantce,  also,  is  a 
trifle  more  densely  and  coarsely  punctulated ;  and  the  dark  patch  on 
the  posterior  disc  of  each  elytron  is  usually  composed  of  two,  con- 
fluent ones— thus  assuming  the  form  of  a  fascia,  and  breaking  up  the 
rufous  space  so  as  to  cause  the  latter  to  have  somewhat  the  prima 
facie  appearance  of  two  detached  reddish  spots. 

655.  Scymiius  oblongior,  n.  sp. 

/S'.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  minor,  oblongior,  scnsim  minus  con- 
vexus  minusque  crebre  punctulatus,  elytris  paUidioribus  (testaceis), 
singulis  macula  parva  obseura  secunda  (in  disco  antico  posita)  or- 
natis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  TenerifFaj,  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m.  as- 
cendens. 

Considering  the  excessive  variability  of  the  8.  canariensis,  I  feel 
a  little  doubtful  whether  I  ought  to  regard  the  pi-esent  Scymnus  (of 
which  I  have  but  two  examples  to  judge  from)  as  a  state  of  that 
insect  peculiar  to  the  loftiest  elevations  of  Tencriffe,  or  as  specifically 
distinct.     I  believe,  however,  that  the  latter  wiU  be  the  safer  course  ; 


428  CANAETAN  COLEOPTERA. 

for  although  in  mere  colouring  it  scarcely  differs  from  certain  pale 
(though  spotted)  individuals  of  the  canariensis  (such  as  are  often  met 
with  in  barren  districts,  in  Fnerteventxira  and  elsewhere),  still  its 
more  oblong  outline  and  rather  less  convex  upper  surface  do  not 
seem  to  be  paralleled  in  any  of  the  numerous  phases  of  its  ally  which 
I  possess  from  so  many  remote  parts  of  the  archipelago.  So  that 
when  I  consider  the  immense  altitude  at  which  the  two  examples 
now  before  me  were  taken  (they  having  been  captured  by  myself  on 
the  Cumbre,  overlooking  the  Canadas,  above  Ycod  el  Alto — upwards 
of  9000  feet  above  the  sea),  I  am  inclined  to  suspect  that  they  may 
prove  to  be  the  exponents  of  a  separate  species  having  a  very  elevated 
range. 

656.  Scymnus  cercyonides,  n.  sp. 
S.  species  S.  ccinariensi  affinis,  sed  multo  minor,  paulo  oblongior,  paulo 
minus  convexus,  sensim  brevius  pubescens  densiusque  punctulatus  ; 
prothorace  antice  subangustiore  ;  elytris  rufis,  in  parte  basali  tri- 
angulari  (per  suturam,  uscjue  ad  medium,  obscure  suffiisis),  et  in- 
terdum  obsoletissime  mox  ante  apicem,  nigrescontibiis. 
Mas  i)rothorace  ad  latera  paulo  dilutiore  ;  capite  (nisi  fallor),  ut  in 
sexu  foemineo,  nigro. — Long.  corp.  Hn.  -J. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  passim. 

It  is  scarcely  possible,  I  think,  that  this  small  Scymnus  (which  is 
curiously  suggestive,  at  first  sight,  of  a  minute  Cercyon  with  rufous 
elytra)  can  be  any  modification  (even  the  most  extreme  one)  of  the 
S.  canarieiisis ;  nevertheless  it  occurs  often  in  company  with  that 
insect,  though  very  much  the  rarer  of  the  two.  It  differs  from  it  in 
being  considerably  smaller  and  a  little  more  oblong,  somewhat  less 
convex  and  more  closely  punctulated,  and  in  its  elytra  being  rufous, 
with  only  a  triangular  basal  patch  (which  is  generally  prolonged  a 
little,  though  in  a  diffused  manner,  along  the  suture)  black.  There 
is  sometimes,  however,  a  slight  trace  of  an  obsolete  infuscated  jiortion 
immediately  before  their  extreme  apex ;  and  I  believe  that  its  head  is 
black  in  both  sexes, — merely  the  prothoracic  edges  being  rather  di- 
luted in  the  males.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in  Tencriffe  and  Palma, 
and  it  was  found  in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Teneriffan  specimens 
are  principally  from  S*''  Cruz  and  the  mountains  above  it,  and  from 
the  vicinity  of  the  Puerto  Orotava. 

657.  Scymnus  maculosus,  n.  sp. 

S.  rotundato-ovalis,  minute  pimctulatus,  cinereo -pubescens,  nitidus, 
piceo-niger  ;  prothorace  ad  latera  paulo  dilutiore  ;  elytris  singulis 
ad  apicem  necnon  in  maculis  sex  (tribus  sc.  confluentibus  in  disco 
postico  sitis,  fasciam  dentatam  transversam  efficientibus,  una  sub- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  429 

longitudinal!  intra  discum   anticum  posita,  una  subhumerali,  et 
sexta  pone  banc  sublaterali)  rufo-testaceis  omatis  ;  pedibus  piceo- 
testaceis. 
Variat  elytrorum  maculis  plus  minus  confluentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
|-vix  1. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Palma, 
parum  rarus. 

This  beautiful  little  Scymnus,  so  well  distinguished  by  its  dark  pi- 
ceous-black  hue,  laterally-diluted  prothorax,  and  macidated  elytra, 
each  of  which  is  ornamented  with  six  more  or  less  confluent  testaceous 
patches  (the  three  postmedial  ones  being  apparently  always  united, 
so  as  to  form  a  transverse  zigzag  fascia),  is  widely  spread  over  the 
archipelago,  though  nowhere  common.  I  have  taken  it  in  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventura;  at  Maspalomas  in  Grand  Canary  ;  at  the  Agua 
Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  near  Orotava  in  TenerifFe  ;  ahd  likewise 
in  Palma.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  foimd  also  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Tene- 
riife  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  closely  allied  to  the  Madeiran  S.jlavopictus, 
but  is  a  trifle  larger,  and  more  obtuse  anteriorly  (its  head  and  pro- 
thorax  being  perceptibly  wider),  and  the  colour  both  of  its  pale  and 
dark  portions  is,  in  both  instances,  conspicuously  darker. 

658.  Scymnus  arcuatus. 

Coccinella  arcuata,  Rossi,  Mant.  Ins.  ii.  88  (1794). 
Scymuus  arcuatus,  Mills.,  Securii).  de  France,  245  (1846). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  468  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  138  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Palma,  rarissimus. 

The  S.  arcuatus  of  Mediterranean  latitudes,  which  is  so  excessively 
abundant  around  Fmichal  in  Madeira,  would  appear  to  be  extremely 
rare  at  the  Canaries.  Indeed  the  only  three  specimens  which  I  have 
seen  of  it  hitherto  were  taken  by  myself — one  between  the  Puerto 
Orotava  and  Realejo  in  Teneriffa,  and  the  other  two  in  the  Barranco 
da  Agua  of  Palma.  It  may,  however,  be  expected  to  occur  (as  in 
Madeira)  about  gardens  and  cultivated  grounds. 

659.  Scymnus  minimus. 

Coccinella  minima,  Rossi,  Mant.  Ins.  ii.  89  (1794). 
Scynuius  minimus,  Mtds.,  Securi]}.  de  France,  260  (1846). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  470  (1854). 

-^,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  188  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses.  in  Palma  sola  hactenus  hand  obser- 

vatus. 

The  minute  size,  rounded  outline,  and  uniformly  black,  distinctly 


430  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

punctulated  surface  of  this  European  Scymnus,  in  conjunction  with  its 
pallid  limbs,  will  sufficiently  characterize  it-  It  occurs  in  the  Ma- 
deiran  Group,  and  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  it  is  universal  at 
the  Canaries,  though  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  noticed 
in  Palma.  I  have,  however,  myself  taken  it  in  Lanzarote  ;  at  Agua 
Bueyes  and  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura  ;  in  Grand  Canary ; 
near  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe ;  and  close  to  Valverde  in  Hierro. 
In  Gomera  it  was  captured  both  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch,  the 
former  of  whom  found  it  in  the  valley  above  San  Sebastian. 

Genus  253.  RHIZOBIUS. 
Stephens,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  396  [script.  Rhyzohius]  (1831). 

660.  Rhizobius  litura. 

Nitidiila  litura,  Fah.,  Mard.  Lis.  i.  -52  (1787). 
Rhyzobius  litura,  Sfcph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  iv.  396  (1831). 
Cacidula  litura,  BritUe,  in  Wvhb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  74  (1838). 
Rhyzobius  litura,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  472  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  139  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Gomera  sola  adhuc  hand  detectus. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  this  common  European  insect,  which 
is  universal  throughout  the  Madeiran  Group,  and  which  has  been 
recorded  from  the  Azores,  is  imiversal  also  at  the  Canaries — though 
hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  Gomera.  But 
in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Hierro  I 
have  myself  captured  it ;  and  it  was  found  in  Palma  and  Hierro  by 
Mr.  Gray.     In  Teneriffe  it  was  met  with  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  254.  LITHOPHILUS. 

Frolilich,  Naturforsch.  xxviii.  11  (1799). 

Corpiis  fere  ut  in  Cocciduld  sed  multo  major  ;  prothorace  antice  pro- 
finidius  excavato,  postice  magis  contracto,  ad  latera  late  subre- 
curvo-explanato.  Antenna}  10- (ncc  ll-)articulat8e,  art"'  1™°  sat 
magno  robusto,  2''''  minore,  3""  ad  7""""  gracOioribus  (3*'°  elon- 
gate), reliquis  clavam  triarticulatam  baud  abruptam  efficientibus 
(ult"'"  intus  oblique  truncate).  Lahrum  transversum,  submem- 
branaceum,  apice  integrum.  Mandihidce  ad  apicem  acute  bifida^, 
intus  membrana  breviter  ciliata  auctae.  MaxiUoi  bilobse,  breves, 
lobis  pubescentibus,  apice  subito  incurvis.  Palpi  niaxiUares  elon- 
gati,  art"  1™°  parvo,  2''''  longissimo,  3""  bre\dore,  ult™"  maximo  se- 
curiformi :  lahiahs  art**  1"""  parvo,  2*^°  et  3"°  longioribus,  longitu- 
dine  suba;qualibus  (3"'*  fusiformi).  Mentum  parvum,  corneum, 
subobtriangulare  basi  truncatum,  apicem  versus  regulariter  latins, 
apice  uitegrum.  Ligtda  elongata,  apice  mcmbranacca  integra. 
Pedes  longiores  et  validiores  quam  in  Cocciduld  :   tarsis  fere  simili- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  431 

bus,  seel  longioribus  ;  unguiculis  multo  majoribus,  intus  (ut  in  ilia) 
denticulo  minuto  armatis. 

The  general  aspect  of  the  unique  insect  from  which  the  above  cha- 
racters have  been  drawn,  combined  with  its  posteriorly  narrowed  pro- 
thorax,  its  bifid  (or  internally  dentate)  claws,  and  the  tendency  of  its 
larger  elytral  punctures  to  arrange  themselves  in  longitudinal  rows, 
will  at  once,  apart  from  the  minutice.  of  its  oral  organs,  affiliate  it  with 
the  European  LithophUus  (a  near  ally  of  Coccidula) ;  and  as  I  have 
no  access  to  any  published  details  of  that  genus,  I  have  thought  it 
desirable  to  enunciate  it  formally.  In  its  i^Ji-jointed  antennte  (with 
their  elongated  third  articidation),  its  very  much  larger  size,  and  its 
totally  different  pro  thorax  (which  is  deeply  excavated  in  front,  greatly 
rounded,  and  flattened  out,  at  the  sides,  and  much  more  contracted 
behind),  as  weU  as  in  its  longer  and  robuster  legs  and  claws,  it  is  at 
once  separated  from  Coccidula  proper. 

661.  LithophUus  deserticola,  n.  sp. 

L.  oblongus,  latiusculus,  grosse  fulvo-pubescens,  subopacus,  rufo- 
ferrugineus ;  prothorace  minute  punctato,  ad  latera  rotundato-ex- 
planato,  postice  angustato ;  elytris  in  disco  late  nigrescentioribus, 
minutissime  punctulatis  punctisque  magnis  (subseriatim  dispositis) 
parce  irroratis,  interstitiis  obsoletissime  subelevatis. — Long.  corp. 
Hn.  2. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram ;  sub  lapide  in  arenosis  aridis  ad  Corralejo, 
Martio  exeunte  a.d,  1859,  exemj)lar  unum  coUegi. 

The  single  siiecimen  described  above  was  captured  by  myself,  from 
beneath  a  stone,  in  the  dry  sandy  region  at  Corralejo,  in  the  extreme 
north  of  Euerteventura,  at  the  end  of  March  1859. 

Fam.  60.  CORYLOPHID^. 

Genus  255.  SERICODERUS. 

Stephens,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  188  (1828). 

662.  Sericodems  lateralis. 

Cossyphus  lateralis  (Mer/.),  Gi/ll.,  Ins.  Suec.  iv.  516  (1827). 
Sericodems  thoracicus,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  ii.  188  (1828). 

lateralis,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  478  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  142  (1857). 

ira6?'toiEuerteventuram,Canariam,TeneriffametGomeram,  passim. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  abounds  beneath  vegetable 
refuse  in  Madeira,  and  which  was  captured  by  Mr.  Bewicke  at  even 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  appears  to  be  scarce  in  these  islands ;  though 


432  CANAPJAN  COLEOPTERA. 

from  its  minute  size  it  may  perhaps  merely  have  escaped,  hitherto, 
more  extensive  observation.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of 
Fuerteventiira ;  in  Grand  Canary ;  and  at  Souzal,  the  Agua  Garcia, 
and  near  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  TenerifFe  ;  and  six  specimens  are  now 
before  me  which  were  found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862, 
in  Gomera,  In  all  probability  it  is  universal  thi'oughout  the  archi- 
pelago. 

Fam.  61.  ENDOMYCHID^. 

Genus  256.  LYCOPERDINA. 

Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Ins.  iii.  73  (1807). 

663.  Lycoperdina  humeralis,  n.  sp. 

L.  elliptica,  latiuscula,  depi'essa,  fere  impunctata,  fere  calva,  subnitida 
(minutissime  alutacea),  piceo-nigra  ;  prothorace  versus  latera  in- 
sequaliter  nifescentiore,  transverso-quadrato,  angulis  posticis  rectis, 
utrinque  ad  basin  profunde  longitudinaliter  impresso  ;  elytris  pone 
basin  rotundato-ampliatis,  ad  humeros  laete  rutis  necnon  ad  apicem 
ipsum  paulo  rufescentibus,  singulis  stria  suturali  tenui  notatis ; 
antennis  tarsisque  fusco-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  rarissima ;  in  lauretis  excelsis  humidis  supra 
Tagananam,  mense  Maio  a.d.  1859,  specimen  unicum  cepi. 

This  beautiful  Lycoperdina  is  a  little  larger,  broader,  more  ellip- 
tical and  more  flattened  than  the  European  L.  bovistce  ;  it  is  also  less 
shining  (being  minutely  alutaeeous),  and  almost  free  from  pubescence  ; 
its  colour  (at  least  of  the  pro  thorax)  is  of  a  more  rufescent  black,  with 
the  shoulders  brightly  rufous,  and  the  extreme  apex  of  its  elytra  di- 
luted in  hue ;  and  its  sutural  stria  is  very  much  finer  and  less  im- 
pressed. It  would  a^jpear  to  be  one  of  the  rarest  of  the  Canarian 
Coleoptera,  the  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  having  been  cap- 
tured by  myself  in  TeneriflPe,  during  May  1859,  in  the  damp  laui*el- 
woods  which  clothe  the  mountain-range  above  Taganana. 

Genus  257.  DAPSA. 
(Ziegler)  Latreille,  Hef/ne  A7iim.  (edit.  2)  v.  159  (1829). 

664.  Dapsa  edentata,  n.  sp. 
D.  rufo-ferruginea,  fulvo-pubescens ;  capite  prothoraceque  sat  pro- 
funde punctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  edentato,  antice  rotundato-ampliato, 
angulis  anticis  obtusis,  posticis  subrectis,  in  disco  canaliculato,  pos- 
tice  utrinque  profunde  longitudinaliter  impresso  ;  elytris  eUipticis 
basi  truncatis,  postice  acutiusculis,  serrato-punctulatis,  macula  ob- 
liqua  postmedia  in  singulis  posita  (obscura,  interdum  obsoleta)  ni- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  433 

grescente ;  antennis  pedibusque  vix  clarioribus ;  femoribus  ad  basin 
ipsam  nigrescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|— vix  2. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  subsylvaticisque  Canariao,  TenerifFse  et  Palmaj, 
hinc  inde  parum  vulgaris. 

It  is  just  possible  that  the  present  Dapsa  may  be  identical  with  the 
D.  harhara  of  northern  Africa ;  nevertheless,  judging  from  the  dia- 
gnoses of  the  latter  given  both  by  Lucas  and  Gerstacker,  and  from 
the  figure  published  by  the  former,  I  hardly  think  that  such  is  the 
case — for  the  D.  harhara  is  described  as  having  its  prothoracic  disc, 
as  well  as  a  mere  postmedial  "  punctum  "  of  its  elytra,  black.  The 
D.  eclentata  is  remarkable  for  its  very  elliptic  elytra  (which  are  sud- 
denly rounded-outwards  at  a  short  distance  behind  theii'  base,  and 
thence  regularly  narrowed,  or  acute,  to  their  apex),  and  for  the  ob- 
scure (occasionally  obsolete)  darker  dash  which  is  placed  so  obliquely 
on  the  hinder  disc  of  either  elytron  as  to  unite  at  the  suture  (in  highly 
coloured  examples)  in  somewhat  the  form  of  the  letter  V.  It  is  rather 
a  common  insect  in  certain  localities  in  these  islands — occurring  gene- 
rally beneath  dry  fallen  leaves  in  sylvan  and  subsylvan  spots,  under 
moss  and  rubbish  at  the  base  of  old  walls,  and  amongst  dense  herbage 
in  semicultivated  grounds.  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  Tene- 
riffe,  and  Palma.  My  Tenerifi'an  examples  are  principally  from  above 
Taganana,  from  Las  Mercedes,  Souzal,  La  Esperanza,  the  Agua  Mansa, 
and  the  vicinity  of  the  Puerto  Orotava. 

Fam.  62.  ZOPHOSID^. 

Genus  258.  ZOPHOSIS. 
Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Lis.  ii.  146  (1807). 

6G5.  Zophosis  4-cariiiata. 

Z.  oblongo-ovalis,  subopaca,  alutacea  ;  capite  prothoraceque  distincte 
(epistomate  dense  et  profunde)  punctatis  ;  elytris  ante  apicem  trun- 
cate-desilientibus,  parcius  minutissime  asperato-punctulatis  (aut 
fere  granulatis),leviter  malleato-ina^quaUbus,  singulis  costis  duabus 
elevatis  (antice  et  praesertim  postice  evanescentibus),  necnon  tertia 
versus  suturam  minus  distincta  et  multo  magis  abbreviata,  longi- 
tudinaliter  iustructis. — Long.  corp.  Hn.  2g. 

Zophosis  4-carinata,  Deyrolle  (in  hoc  opusculo  citato), 
Haliitat  Teneriffam,  a  Barone  "  Castello  de  Paiva  "  communicata. 
The  present  Zopliosis,  which  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in 
Teneriffe,  may  readily  be  known  by  each  of  its  elytra  being  furnished 
with  two  very  elevated  longitudinal  costae,  and  a  third  one  (nearer  to 

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CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 


the  suture)  whicli  is  considerably  shorter  and  less  distinct ;  from 
which  it  would  appear  that  one  of  the  three  lateral  ones  is  entirely 
absent.  It  is  more  oblong,  rather  less  convex,  much  less  shining, 
and  a  little  more  coarsely  punctured  than  the  Z.  plicata  ;  it  is  also  of 
a  somewhat  less  intense  black  (being  often  just  perceptibly  subtencs- 
cent) ;  and  its  elytra,  although  without  any  tendency  to  be  obscurely 
widened  behind,  are  nevertheless  rather  more  decidedly  subtruncated, 
or  lent  downwards,  before  the  apex.  The  few  specimens  of  the  Z. 
4-carinata  which  I  have  seen  were  communicated  from  Teneriffe  by 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

66G.  Zophosis  plicata. 

Z.  subovalis,  (prsesertim  postice)  latiuscula,  convexa,  nitida,  aterrima  ; 
capite  iDrothoraceque  minute  (epistomate  densius  et  distinctius) 
punctatis ;  elytris  ante  apicem  subtruncato-desilientibus,  parcius 
minute  subasperato-punctulatis,  grosse  maUcato-ina?quaHbus,  sin- 
gulis costis  tribus  latiusculis  elevatis  (antice  et  jira^sertim  postice 
evanescentibus),  necnon  quarta  versus  suturam  minus  distincta  sed 
hand  obsoleta,  longitudinaHter  instructis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-3. 

Zophosis  plicata,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  64  pi.  i.  f.  8  (18,38). 

vagans,  Hartung*  [nee  Br.\  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert. 

140,  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  necnon  etiam  in  insulis 
parvis  adjacentibus  (sc.  Graciosa  et  Lobos),  ubique  vulgaris. 

This  is  the  common  Zophosis  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where 
it  abounds  at  nearly  all  elevations,  occurring  likewise  in  the  small 
adjacent  islands  of  Graciosa  and  Lobos  (off  the  extreme  north  of  the 
former,  and  latter,  respectively).  It  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
M.  Hartung,  and  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva.  I  think  there  can  bo  no  doubt  that  it  does  not  extend  further 
westward  in  the  archipelago,  unless  indeed  the  Z.  vagans,  from  Grand 
Canary,  should  be  regarded  (which,  however,  is  scarcely  possible)  as 
an  insular  modification  of  it. 

The  Z.  plicata  differs  in  being  rather  more  shining  than  the  other 
species  here  enumerated,  and  in  having  its  elytra  very  uneven  (or  mal- 
leated)  and  furnished  with  broader  and  more  elevated  longitudinal 
plicae — the  three  outer  ones  (on  each  elytron)  being  considerably 
raised,  whilst  even  the  more  anteriorly-abbreviated  one,  nearer  to 
the  suture,  is  sufficiently  consiDicuous  on  the  hinder  disc.    It  is  also, 

*  Dr.  Heer  having  sent  me  a  type  of  what  he  regarded  (though  erroneously)  as 
the  Z.  vagans,  in  the  list  whicli  he  ]3repared  for  M.  Hartung's  volume,  I  can  state 
for  certain  that  his  species  there  alluded  to  is  in  reality  tlie  Z.  j^Hcafa.  Indeed, 
that  being  apparently  the  only  Zophms  found  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, 
such  a  conclusion  would  in  any  case  have  been  inevitable. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  435 

relatively,  a  little  more  convex  and  ovate  than  its  allies,  having  a 
somewhat  more  evident  tendency  to  be  faintly  widened  beliind  the 
middle  of  the  elytra  ;  at  which  point  it  is  also  a  trifle  more  snddenly 
curved  downwards,  or  truncated — at  any  rate  more  so  than  is  the 
case  in  any  of  the  following  species,  though  scarcely  so  much  so  as  in 
the  preceding  one. 

667.  Zophosis  vagans. 

Z.  praecedenti  sirailis,  sed  plerumque  paulo  minor  angustior  oblongior 
(versus  apicem  nullo  modo  latior  et  ibidem  panlo  minus  evidentius 
desilienti-subtruncata),  sensim  minus  nitida  (evidentius  alutacea), 
minus  convexa  et  minus  atorrima  (interdum  obsoletissime  subasnes- 
cens);  capite  prothorace(|ue  profundius  punctatis  ;  elytris  densius, 
profundius  ac  magis  asperato-punctatis,  sat  minus  malleato-in- 
aeqxialibus,  singulis  brcvius  ac  minus  alte  3-costatis,  costa  quarta 
(versus  suturam)  obsoleta. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-2^. 

Zophosis  vagans,  BndU,  in  Wehb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  64  (1838). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  proesertim  in  montibus  interioris  de- 
gens. 

Whilst  the  last  species  is  peculiar  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, 
the  present  one  seems  to  be  found  only  in  Grand  Canary — occurring 
more  particularly,  I  believe,  in  the  central  districts  (as  Tarajana,  tfec.) 
of  that  island.  It  differs  from  the  plicata  in  being,  on  the  average, 
a  little  smaller,  narrower,  and  more  oblong  (it  having  apparently  no 
tendency  to  be  slightly  widened  behind  the  middle,  where  also  it  is 
just  perceptibly  less  truncated,  or  ^vith  the  apical  region  somewhat 
more  drawn  out);  in  its  surface  being  less  shining  (or  more  coarsely 
alutaceous),  a  little  more  strongly  punctured,  and  not  quite  so  in- 
tensely black  (there  being  often  a  barely  traceable  senescent  tinge); 
and  in  its  elytra  being  less  uneven,  and  with  their  costse  veri/  much 
less  raised — the  three  outer  ones  being  also  somewhat  shorter,  and 
the  fourth  one  (towards  the  suture)  obsolete.  It  agreed  sufficiently 
well  with  the  tyijes  of  M.  Brullo's  Z.  vagans,  which  I  examined  in 
Paris,  to  leave  little  doubt  on  my  mind  that  it  was  conspecific  with  it. 

668.  Zophosis  Clarkii. 

Z.  prsecedenti  (sc.  Z.  var/anti)  valde  affinis,  sed  paulo  magis  regularitcr 
ovalis  (antice  vix  sublatior)  et  obsoletissime  subcyanescenti-  (potius 
(juam  subtenescenti-)  atra  ;  elytris  vix  minus  malleato-ina^quali- 
bus,  costis  sensim  angustioribus,  costa  secunda  in  singulis  antice 
magis  abbreviata,  tertia  in  disco  sensim  argutius  et  rectius  deter- 
minatji  (sed  hand  magis  elevata).- — Long,  coi'p.  lin.  2-2^. 

Zophosis  Clarkii,  Deyrolle  {in  hoc  opusculo  citatci). 
Habitat  in  iutei-mediis  Canariae  Grandis,  passim. 

2  F  2 


436  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

This  Zophosis  (which  is  likewise  from  Grand  Canary)  is  excessively 
near  to  the  last  one,  and  is  in  some  respects  intermediate  between  it 
and  the  bicannata  ;  nevertheless  it  is  certainly  more  closely  related 
to  the  vagans  than  to  the  latter.  It  differs,  however,  from  that  species 
in  being  a  little  more  regularly  oval,  or  just  perceptibly  wider  in  front ; 
in  its  colour  being  of  a  deeper  black,  with  a  slight  tendency  to  a  sub- 
cyaneous  (rather  than  a  subsenescent)  tinge  ;  and  in  its  elytra  being 
a  little  more  even,  or  less  maUeated,  and  with  their  costse  a  trifle 
narrower — the  second  one  of  which  is  more  abbreviated  anteriorhj, 
whilst  the  third  is  somewhat  more  straightly  and  sharply  defined.  Its 
less  rounded  outline  and  very  much  more  developed  plicce  will  at  once 
separate  it  from  even  the  most  costate  phasis  of  the  biearinata.  I  have 
observed  it  hitherto  only  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary ; 
but  it  is  probably  elsewhere  diffused. 

669.  Zophosis  biearinata. 

Z.  subrotundato-ovalis,  subnitida,  vel  aterrima  vel  obsoletissime  sub- 
metaUico-tincta  ;  capite  prothoraccque  minutissimc  et  leviter  (epi- 
stomate  densius  et  distinctius)  punctatis ;  clytris  parcius  minutis- 
sime  granulatis,  subnsqualibus  (rarius  maUeatis),  singiilis  vol  costis 
duabus  valde  indistinctis  instructis  vol  simplicibus  (costis  obsoletis). 

a.  Soepius  obsoletissime  subcyaneo-tiiicta,  elytris  singulis  costis  dua- 
bus (sc.  laterali  et  discali)  valde  indistinctis  instructis  (eosta  secunda 
et  quarta  obsoletis).     [Ins.  Canaria  Greindis  (borealis).] 

ft.  Obsoletissime  subcyaneo-tincta,  elytris  singulis  costa  una  (sc.  dis- 
cali) instructis  (reliquis  obsoletis).     [Ins.  Gomera.^ 

y,  [=Z.  vilmita?,  Br. J  Sa^pius  obsoletissime  subajnescenti-tincta, 
elytris  simplicibus  (costis  omnibus  obsoletis).     [Ins.  Teneriffa.'] 

I.  Obsoletissime  subcyaneo-tincta,  vix  nitidior,  capite  prothoraccque 
paulo  evidentius  punctatis,  elytris  plus  minus  malleato-ina^quali- 
bus,  vel  simplicibus  vel  costa  laterali  parum  distincta  instructis. 
[Ins.  Canaria  Grandis  (australis).] — Long.  corp.  lin.  2- vix  3. 

Erodius  minutus?,  Fah.,  Eni.  Si/st.  i.  93  (1792). 

Zophosis  biearinata,  Sol,  Ann.de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  iii.  617(1834). 

et  minuta?,  BndU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  64  (1838). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

If  it  be  admitted  that  the  four  states  which  I  have  indicated  above 
are  but  insular  modifications  of  a  single  species  (and  I  think  it  will 
scarcely  be  possible  to  regard  them  as  otherwise),  the  present  Z-ophosis, 
although  extremely  local,  would  appear  to  be  more  widely  distributed 
over  the  archipelago  than  any  of  the  others  here  enumerated.  Its 
clytral  costal,  even  when  traceable,  are  excessively  indistinct ;  and  it 
would  seem  as  if  their  greater  or  less  development  was  dependent  in 
some  way  upon  certain  local  influences  which  have  served  gradually 


CANARIAN  COLEOPIEEA,  437 

to  establish  races  which  are  permanent,  although  included  within  ex- 
ceedingly narrow  limits.  Thus,  on  the  low  sandy  isthmus  of  Grand 
Canary,  between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta,  where  the  insect  abounds, 
the  specimens  have  usually  their  discal  and  lateral  keels  more  or  less 
traceable  (though  often  very  obscurely  so),  whilst  occasionally  there 
are  faint  indications  of  even  the  second  one.  The  Gomeran  examples, 
judging  from  a  type  now  before  me  which  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch, 
have  the  discal  carina  pretty  evident,  but  the  others  hardly  percep- 
tible ;  whilst  a  large  array  of  individuals  from  Teneriflfe,  which  were 
met  with  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  near  S'"  Cruz,  have  all  the  ridges 
entirely  effaced.  This  last  state  has  Likewise  been  communicated, 
from  Teneriife,  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

Apart  from  this  peculiarity  of  the  elytral  costae,  which  are  either 
very  indistinct  or  else  totally  obsolete,  the  Z.  hicarinata  may  be  known 
by  its  rather  rounded  outline  and  light  sculpture.  In  Grand  Canary 
its  surface  is  generally  of  an  intenser  black  than  in  Teneriffe — having 
in  the  former  case,  more  frequently,  a  just  perceptible  subcyaneous, 
and  in  the  latter  a  subaenescent  tinge. 

It  is  barely  possible  that  what  I  have  treated  as  the  state  "  o  " 
may  be  specifically  distinct,  but  I  think  that  its  few  diiferential  cha- 
racters are  not  constant  enough  to  render  such  probable.  I  captured 
it  near  to  Maspalomas,  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary  ;  and  it  recedes 
from  the  state  "  a  "  (found  in  the  north  of  that  island)  in  having  its 
head  and  prothorax  a  trifle  less  alutaceous  and  rather  more  evidently 
punctured,  and  in  its  elytra  being  more  or  less  uneven,  or  malleated. 
This  inequality  of  the  surface  makes  it  difficult  to  decide  whether  the 
obscure  keels  are  developed,  or  not ;  but  the  lateral  one  in  some  ex- 
amples appears  to  be  weU  expressed,  whilst  in  others  it  is  scarcely 
traceable. 

Fam.  63.  ERODIAD^. 

Genus  259.  ARTHRODES. 
Solier,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  iii.  513  [script.  Arthrodeis]  (1834). 
Although  M.  Brulle  consigns  aU  the  Canarian  members  of  this 
famUy  to  Erod'ms,  citing  only  one  of  them  (his  E.  sid>costatus)  as  refer- 
able to  (what  he  would  seem  to  regard  as  the  suftgenus)  "ArtJirodeis,'" 
nevertheless,  after  a  most  careful  inspection  of  them,  I  am  satisfied 
that  they  are  aU*  exponents  of  a  single  group — differing  mainly  from 

*  Whilst  asserting,  however,  that  they  are  "  all "  exponents  of  a  single  group, 
I  do  not  mean  to  include  that  particular  species  (whatsoever  it  may  be)  wliich  M. 
Brulle  cited  (p.  63)  as  the  "Eroditis  europeus,  Fab.,"  and  which  (whether  rightly 


438  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Erodius  proper  in  its  narrower  and  transversely -elongate  eyes  (a 
character,  however,  which  varies  slightly  according/  to  the  species),  in 
its  epistome  (which  has  a  tendency  to  be  more  or  less  tridentate  an- 
teriorly) being  separated  from  the  forehead  by  a  l-cel  (for  the  most 
part  exceedingly  conspicnons,  but  occasionally  subobsolete  *),  in  its 
antennal  club  being  a  little  broader  or  more  transverse,  and  in  its 
elytra  having  their  longitiidinal  costse  either  altogether  or  very  nearly 
absent,  and  the  angiilated  edge,  or  lateral  p)lica,  of  their  epipleiu-ge 
(which  is  uninterrupted  in  Erodius)  either  entirely  or  only  posteriorly 
rounded  and  effaced.  The  admission,  however,  of  so  large  a  number 
of  additional  representatives  into  Arthrodes  may  possibly  necessitate 
a  slight  readjustment  of  its  generic  formula.  Indeed  Lacordaire 
(simply  follo%vang  M.  Brulle)  quotes  the  E.  suhcostatus  only  (of  all 
the  Canarian  species)  as  an  Arthrodes ;  but  had  he  inspected  them 
himself  he  would  have  seen  that  they  are  all  referable  to  the  same 
(/roup,  and  consequently  that  the  "  yeux  mediocres,  non  trans- 
versaux"  could  not  be  maintained  as  a  structural  peculiarity  of 
Arthrodes, — any  more  than  the  allusion  to  its  members  as  "petits 
inseetes,"  while  some  of  them  exceed  in  biilk  the  largest  Erodius  with 
which  I  am  acquainted. 

The  species  oi  Arthrodes  are  both  numerous  and  local  throughout 
the  Canarian  archipelago,  almost  every  island  having  apparently  some 
representative  essentially  its  own.  They  reside  principally  beneath 
stones,  burrowing  into  either  the  volcanic  soil  of  the  intermediate 
elevations,  or  else  into  the  loose  sand  adjoining  the  sea-shore — a  mode 
of  life  which  their  powerful  and  strongly  palmated  anterior  tibias 
would  clearly  indicate.  If  it  be  thought  that  I  have  erected  too  many 
species  amongst  forms  thus  obscure,  I  can  only  say  that  the  structural 
characters  of  their  epii^leural  plica  and  epistome  apjjear  so  little  sub- 
ject to  variation  that  I  cannot  conscientiously  reduce  the  number. 


identified  or  not)  seemed  to  me,  when  I  examined  it  hastily  in  Paris,  to  be  at  any 
i-ate  an  Erodius.  Nevertheless,  since  I  feel  far  from  satisfied  tliat  the  examples 
of  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot  may  not  have  been  accidentally  imported  into  the 
islands  (a  possibility  which  is  not  diminished  by  the  consideration  that  a  true 
Erodius  is  now  before  me  which  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  on  the  Mole  at  S'"  Cruz 
in  TenerifTe — escaped  from  the  actual  vessel  in  which  he  had  himself  arrived  from 
Mogadore !),  I  cannot  admit  the  genus  Erodius  into  this  Catalogue  witliout  at  all 
events  further  evidence.  Indeed,  Arthrodes  being  so  essentially  the  reiirtscnfufive 
of  Erodius  at  the  Canaries,  where  moreover  it  is  so  universal,  it  might  involve  a 
serious  geogi-aphical  blunder  to  include  the  latter  (wliich  may  perhaj^s  have  been 
a  mere  chance-introduction  from  the  African  coast). 

*  May  not  Solier's  genus  Auodcxis  have  been  erected  on  one  of  the  larger  sjdo- 
cies  of  Arthrodes,  in  which  the  frontal  carina  is  subobsolete  and  the  eyes  much 
elongated  ? 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  439 

§  I.  Epistoma  aiiice  plus  minus  evidenter  tridentatum. 
a.  Ejiiphurce pJka  humercdis  ohsoleta. 

670.  Arthrodes  inflatus,  n.  sp. 

A.  ater,  convexissimus,  subopacus ;  capite  prothoraeeque  subtiliter 
et  parce  punctulatis,  illius  carina  frontali  areuata  distinctri,  hoc  ad 

.  latera  subrotundato  et  vix  marginato  ;  elytris  subtilissime  et  parce 
granulatis,  leviter  subreticulato-malleatis,  epiplouris  valdc  rotun- 
dato-obtusis ;  pedibus  brevibus,  tarsis  brevibus  et  una  cum  antennis 
nigro-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5-5|. 

Habitat  in  insuM  parva  "  Graciosa,"  juxta  Lanzarotam  borealeni 
sita,  d.  11.  Mart.  a.d.  1859  deprehensus. 

The  excessively  convex  and  inflated  body  of  this  Arthrodes,  which 
has  its  head  and  prothorax  minutely  and  rather  sparingly  puuctulated, 
whilst  its  elytra  (which  are  slightly  malleated)  are  beset  with  ex- 
tremely diminutive,  almost  imperceptible  granides,  combined  with  its 
somewhat  laterally  rounded  and  very  obscurely  margined  prothorax 
and  its  shortish  limbs  and  feet,  will  sufiiciently  distinguish  it.  Its 
epipleuroD  are  greatly  rounded  and  obtuse,  and  the  humeral  plica  at 
their  base  is  obsolete — a  structure  which  causes  the  shoulders  to  ap- 
pear a  little  drawn  or  nipped  in,  so  that  the  base  of  the  prothorax 
rather  exceeds  in  width  the  base  of  the  elytra.  The  only  specimens 
which  I  have  taken  (five  in  number)  were  captured  in  the  little  island 
of  Graciosa,  off  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote,  on  the  11th  of  March 

1859. 

671.  Arthrodes  curtus. 

A.  antice  subangustior,  subnitidus  (interdum  subopacus),  subtUissime 
et  parcissime  punctulatus  ;  carina  frontali  areuata,  distincta  ;  pro- 
thorace  ad  latera  et  antice  sat  grosse  marginato  ;  elytris  ina^qua- 
libus,  i.  e.  plus  minus  mallcatis  necnon  plus  minus  distincte  longi- 
tudinaliter  interrupte  sulcatis  ;  pedibus  elongatis. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
5-6. 

Erodius  cm-tiis,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  63.  pi.  i.  f.  7  (1838). 
Habitat  in  montibus  Canaria)  Grandis,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 
A  most  distinct  species,  which  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in 
Grand  Canary.  It  may  readily  be  known  by  its  large  size  and  elon- 
gate legs,  and  by  its  elytra  being  usually  extremely  xineven  and  more 
or  less  evidently  (though  irregidarly  and  interruptedly)  longitudinally 
sulcate.  This  last  character,  however,  is  subject  to  considerable 
variation,  according  to  the  district  in  which  the  insect  is  foimd.  And 
it  is  further  remarkable  for  its  outline  being  comparatively  (though 
but  slightly)  narrowed  anteriorly,  for  its  surface  being  usually  more 
shining  than  is  the  case  in  the  other  species  here  eniimcrated,  and 


440  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

likewise  most  minutely,  remotely,  and  evenly  punctiilated  all  over, 
and  for  its  pro  thorax  being  rather  coarsely  margined  at  the  sides  and 
(though  less  evidently  so)  in  front.  That  it  is  correctly  identified 
with  M.  Brulle's  E.  curtus  I  am  enabled  to  vouch  for  certain,  having 
examined  his  original  tj^ies  in  Paris. 

The  A.  curtus  is  locally  abundant  on  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary. 
I  have  taken  it  on  the  slopes  above  San  Mateo,  towards  the  Eoca  del 
Soucilho ;  and  during  April  1858  it  occurred  in  profusion,  crawling 
sluggishly  across  the  pathway  on  the  ascent  to  the  Pinal  of  Tarajana, 
above  San  Bartolome. 

b.  Epipleuroi  plica  Jmmeralis  brevissima. 

672.  Arthrodes  obesus. 

A.  praecedenti  paulo  minor,  subrotundatior  ;  carina  frontali  sensim 
minus  arcuatii ;  prothorace  ad  latera  et  antice  paulo  minus  grosse 
marginato,  anguhs  anticis  minus  productis  ;  elytris  evidentius  (sed 
minute)  densiusque  punctulatis  et  multo  magis  aequalibus  (nee  sul- 
catis),  plus  minus  leviter  malleatis  ;  antoiniis  picescentioribus. 

Var.  fi.  simiUhna  [an  species  distincta?].  Elytris  magis  a^qualibus, 
parcius  et  sensim  etiam  levins  punctulatis  ;  fronte  interdum  minute 
bifoveolata  ;  pedibus  picescentioribus.  [Ins.  Palma  et  Hierro.] — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  3-5. 

Erodius  obesus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  63  (1838). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  varietate  /3  ad  Palmam  et  Hierro  pertinentc. 

The  six  examples  now  before  me  agree  sufficiently  well,  I  think, 
with  M.  Brulle's  types,  which  I  examined,  and  also  with  his  "  de- 
scription," to  leave  little  doubt  that  they  are  (at  any  rate  the  Tene- 
riffan  form,  if  not  the  "  var.  /3  "  also)  conspceific  with  his  Erodius 
ohesus.  Apart  from  their  possessing  (at  the  humeral  angles  of  the 
elytra)  a  very  short  epipleural  plica,  which  does  not  exist  in  the  A. 
curtus,  the  A.  ohesus  may  be  known  from  that  insect  by  its  rather 
smaller  size  and  perhaps  somewhat  rounder  outline,  by  its  frontal 
keel  being  perceptibly  less  curved,  by  its  prothorax  being  a  little 
more  finely  margined  along  the  lateral  and  anterior  edges,  by  its  ely- 
tra being  more  coarsely  and  closely  (though,  at  the  same  time,  very 
minutely)  punctulated,  as  well  as  much  more  even  (being  free  from 
longitudinal  sulci,  and  apparently  only  a  little  malleated),  and  by  its 
antennae  being  rather  more  picescent.  These  remarks  apply  more 
particularly  to  what  I  have  regarded  as  the  normal  state  of  the  species 
(represented  by  the  Teneriff'an  indi\idual  described  from,  and  which 
was  communicated  from  S'^'^  Cruz  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva) : 
and  I  should  perhaps  add  that  the  types  which  I  inspected  in  Paris 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  441 

had  the  surface  of  their  elytra  altogether  a  Httle  more  uneven  ;  but 
the  more  or  less  maUeated  sculpture  is  so  variable  that  I  attach  but 
slight  importance  to  its  development. 

The  "  var.  /3,"  however,  from  Palma  and  Hierro  may  possibly  be 
the  exponent  of  a  nearly  allied  species  (in  which  the  elytra  are  still 
more  even,  and  a  trifle  more  sparingly  and  finely  punctulated) ;  but 
I  believe  that  it  is  a  mere  insular  state  of  the  ohesus. 

673.  Arthrodes  byrrhoides,  n.  sp. 
A.  convexus,  subopacus,  A.  inJJnto  prima  facie  propinquans,  sed  patdo 
minus  convexus,  prothorace  ad  latera  minus  rotundato  et  etiam  evi- 
dentius  immarginato,  elytris  densius  et  multo  subtilius  granidatis 
(granulis  minutissimis,  nisi  oculo  fortissimo  armato  observandis)  et 
plica  humeraU  distincta  (nee  obsoleta),  parum  incrassata. — Long, 
corp.  lin.  4|. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  a  meipso  parce  repertus. 

The  two  specimens  from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  com- 
piled were  taken  by  myself  in  Fuerteventura,  but  I  am  not  quite  cer- 
tain as  to  the  precise  locaUty.  In  their  very  convex  body  and  com- 
paratively uusculptured  surface  (the  head  and  prothorax  being  most 
minutely  punctured,  and  the  elytra,  wliich  are  slightly  malleated, 
beset  with  infinitesimal,  scarcely  distinguishable,  granules),  they  have 
much  the  prima  facie  appearance  of  the  A.  injlattis ;  nevertheless, 
judging  from  the  examples  before  me,  the  species  would  appear  to  be 
rather  smaller  and  less  convex,  and  to  have  a  conspicuous  (though 
short)  humeral  plica — which  causes  the  extreme  base  of  the  elytra 
to  be  a  little  wider  than  the  extreme  base  of  the  prothorax.  The 
latter,  also,  is  even  stiU  more  decidedly  immarginate ;  and  its  elytral 
granules  are  denser  and  (if  possible)  smaller  stUl,  being  barely  trace- 
able even  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power.  Its  humeral  costa  is 
rather  longer  than  in  the  obesiis,  but  not  so  long  as  in  the  members 
of  the  following  Section. 

674,  Arthrodes  laticoUis. 

A.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  nitidus,  vix  minus  convexus,  carina  fron- 
tal! magis  elevata  ;  capite  prothoraceque  parcius  minutissime  punc- 
tvdatis,  hoc  latiusculo,  convexo,  immarginato,  ad  angulos  ipsissimos 
posticos  elytrorum  basin  sensim  superante  et  ibidem  sutura  (inter 
prothoracem  et  elytra)  quasi  in  fissuram  desiliente  ;  elytris  multo 
parcius  minutissime  granulatis  (granulis  aegerrime  observandis), 
paulo  grossius  sed  parcius  maUeatis,  plica  humerali  crassiore  (sc. 
valde  incrassata)  sed,  ut  in  iUo,  brevissima. — Long.  corp.  Un,  4-4^. 

Erodius  laticollis,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  63  (1838). 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  parum  rarus. 


442  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

I  have  little  hesitation  in  identifying  three  8])ecimens  now  before 
me  (and  which  were  captured  by  myself,  either  in  Fuerteventura  or 
else  in  the  little  adjacent  island  of  Lobos)  with  M.  Brnlle's  Erodius 
hiticoUis ;  for  the  notes  which  I  took  whilst  in  Paris,  after  an  ac- 
curate inspection  of  his  ty^^es,  are  in  almost  precise  accordance  with 
the  Arthrodes  now  under  consideration ;  whilst  the  fact  of  his  ex- 
amples being  labelled  as  coming  from  "  Fuerteventura  "  would  tend 
still  further  to  corroborate  my  conclusion.  In  the  excessive  short- 
ness of  its  humeral  plica  the  A.  laticoUis  (as  here  defined)  agrees 
with  the  hyrrlioides,  but  although  thus  abbreviated  the  plait  is  very 
much  thicker  than  in  that  species ;  and  yet,  in  spite  of  this,  the  ex- 
treme base  of  the  elytra  does  not  surpass  in  width  the  base  of  the 
prothorax — but  rather  the  reverse,  inasmuch  as  the  hinder  protho- 
racic  angles  project  perceptibly  beyond  the  humeral  ones.  There  is 
also  a  peculiarity  in  that  particular  region,  from  the  surfaces  of  the 
elytra  and  prothorax  not  being,  there,  in  a  continuous  curve,— both 
of  them  somewhat /a ZZ«i(/  away,  so  as  to  produce  a  slight  fissure,  or 
lacuna,  at  either  end  of  the  sutural  line  which  separates  the  two  seg- 
ments. In  other  respects,  the  A.  Jaticollis  is  remarkable  for  being- 
shining,  and  for  having  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which 
is  transverse  and  immarginate)  most  minutely  and  rather  distantly 
punctulated ;  whilst  the  elytral  granules  are,  in  hke  manner,  exces- 
sively diminutive  and  remote — indeed  but  just  distinguishable  even 
beneath  a  high  magnifying  power.  Its  frontal  carina  is  considerably 
raised,  and  rather  angulated  in  the  centre. 

c.  Epipleurce  plica  liumeralis  longior  {sed  vioc  ad  mediu^n  ducta). 

675.  Arthrodes  Hartungii,  n.  sp. 

A.  fere  ut  A.  punctatidus,  sed  forsan  major,  punctura  omnino  multo 
subtiliore,  miilto  leviore  et  multo  remotiore  (punctis  in  capite  pro- 
thoraceciue  vix  nisi  oculo  armato  observandis) ,  carina  frontali  paulo 
distinctiore  ac  minus  curvata,  prothorace  ad  latera  minus  grossc 
marginato.— Long.  corp.  lin.  6. 

Erodius  obesus ?, //a/'<.  [nee Br.\Geolog.  VerhaUn.Lanz.imilFuert.  141. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  a  Dom.  Hartung  repertus. 

Although  very  unwilling  to  erect  a  species,  in  a  genus  like  the 
present  one,  from  the  evddence  afforded  by  a  single  example,  yet  a 
large  Arthrodes  now  before  me  (which  was  taken  by  M.  Hartung  in 
Fuerteventura)  differs  so  widely  in  its  sculpture  from  the  A.  puncta- 
talus  that  1  cannot  believe  it  to  be  referable  to  any  state  of  that  in- 
sect.    It  (Ufters  mainlj-  in  the  punctules  of  its  entire  surface  being 


CANAUrAN  COLEOPXEEA.  443 

very  much  smaller,  lighter,  and  more  remote  (indeed  those  on  the 
head  and  prothorax  are  but  just  perceptible  even  under  a  lens),  and 
in  its  frontal  keel  being  rather  more  e\ddent  and  somewhat  less  curved. 

67G.  Arthrodes  punctatulus,  n.  sp. 

A.  speciebus  prajcedentibus  affinis,  sed  ubique  distincte,  argute  et  sat 
dense  punctulatus  (punctis  iu  clytris  asperatis),  carina  frontali  cur- 
vata  indistincta  (sajpe  etiam  subobsoleta) ,  prothorace  ad  latera  (pra3- 
sertim  postice)  parum  grosse  marginato  et  plicfi  humerali  (ut  in 
speciebus  sequentibus)  longiuscula. 

Var.  /3.  Punctunt  omnino  paulo  leviore,  prothorace  ad  latera  vix 
minus  distincte  marginato,  [Jns.  Fuerteventura.] — Long.  corp.  lin. 
4-5|. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  hand  infrequens. 

The  present  species  seems  to  be  universal  throughout  Lanzarote, 
where,  however,  it  is  by  no  means  abundant — occurring  principally, 
beneath  stones,  at  intermediate  elevations.  It  may  easily  be  recog- 
nized by  its  surface  being  distinctly  and  sharply  punctured  tdl  over 
(the  punctxires  on  the  elytra  being  rather  obliquely  impinged,  and 
having  therefore  the  appearance  of  granules  when  viewed  in  a  parti- 
ciilar  direction),  by  the  lateral  edges  of  its  prothorax  being  some- 
what coarsely  margined  posteriorly  but  more  hghtly  so  in  front,  and 
by  its  frontal  keel  being  indistinct  and  often  obsolete.  Its  epiplcural 
costa  is  well  defined,  and  reaches  (from  the  humeral  angles)  almost 
halfway  to  the  apex — as  in  the  other  species  of  this  Section.  It  was 
likewise  taken  in  Lanzarote  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M.  Hartimg. 

I  took  two  examples  in  Fuerteventura  which  differ  only  from  the 
Lanzarotan  ones  in  being  altogether  a  little  more  lightly  punctured, 
and  in  having  the  lateral  edges  of  their  prothorax  rather  less  dis- 
tinctly margined.  They  retain,  however,  the  essential  characters  of 
the  species,  and  I  have  therefore  treated  them  as  the  exponents  of 
a  slight  insular  variety. 

677.  Arthrodes  parcepunctatus,  n.  sp, 

A.  subnitidus,  ubique  distincte  sed  parce  punctatus  (punctis  in  elj- 
tris  paulo  majoribus) ;  carina  frontali  distinctti  sed  minus  curvata  ; 
prothorace  ad  latera  oblique  subreeto  et  ibidem  (necnon  etiam  an- 
tice,  sed  minus  evidenter)  sat  gi'osse  marginato  ;  el}i;ris  parum  mal- 
leatis,  plica  humerali  postice  subabrupte  terminate. — Long.  corp. lin. 
.3-3|. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  DD.  Gray  et  Crotch  lectus. 
This  and  the  following  three  species  are  considerably  smaller  than 
the  other  members  of  the  genus  here  enumerated ;  and  of  the  pre- 


444  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

sent  one  I  have  seen  as  yet  but  two  exami^les,  both  of  which  were 
captured  in  Gomera — one  of  them  by  Mr.  Gray  during  February 
1858,  near  San  Sebastian,  and  the  other  during  the  spring  of  1862 
by  Dr.  Crotch.  The  A.  ixirce])unctatiis  may  be  known  by  its  surface 
being  less  opake  than  is  the  case  in  its  allies,  and  sparingly  but  dis- 
tinctly punctured  all  over — the  elytral  punctures,  however,  being  a 
trifle  larger  than  the  remainder.  Its  frontal  carina  is  conspicuous, 
but  not  greatly  arcuated ;  its  prothorax  is  somewhat  obliquely- 
straight  at  the  sides  (or,  if  anything,  even  a  little  incurved  behind 
the  middle),  and  rather  coarsely  margined ;  its  elytra  are  slightly 
malleated ;  and  its  epipleural  costa  is  subabruptly  terminated  beliind. 

§  II.  Epistoma  apice  vd  fere  vel  omnino  simpliciter  emarginatum. 
a.  Epipleurce  pAica  Jmmeralis  ohsoleta. 

678.  Arthrodes  subciliatus,  n.  sp. 

A.  globoso-ovatus,  subnitidus,  in  limbo  (prasscrtim  antice)  parce  fulvo- 
pilosus ;  capite  prothoraceque  dense  et  profunde  punctatis,  illius  ca- 
rina frontali  recta  valde  elevata,epistomate  antice  obsoletissime  sub- 
tridentato  (interdum  quasi  simphciter  emarginato),  hoc  ad  latera 
fere  baud  (sed  antice  scnsim)  marginato  ;  clytris  convexis,  subtilius 
asperato-punctulatis,  paulo  mallcatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  longi- 
usculis,  graciliusculis,  ilHs  una  cum  tarsis  rufo-piceis,  tibiarum  an- 
ticarum  spinis  duabus  elongatis. — Long.  corp.  Hn.  25-vix  3. 

Hahitat  Fuerteventuram,  ad  radices  plantarum  in  aridis  arenosis 
submaritimis  fodiens. 

Apart  from  its  small  size  and  subglobose  body,  which  has  the  edges 
(and  the  underside  immediately  beneath  them)  sparingly  studded,  as 
in  many  other  sand-insects,  with  a  few  fulvcscent  hairs,  and  its  epi- 
plcurae  greatly  rounded  and  obtuse,  with  their  lateral  costa  entii-ely 
obsolete,  this  remarkable  little  species  may  immediately  be  known  by 
its  rather  shining  surface,  by  its  head  and  prothorax  being  densely 
and  very  coarsely  punctured,  whilst  the  elytral  punctules  are  smaller 
and  asperate,  by  its  frontal  keel  being  straight  and  much  elevated, 
and  by  its  antennae  and  legs  being  comparatively  rather  long  and 
slender.  The  two  spines  of  its  anterior  tibiae  are  acute  and  consi- 
derably developed,  and  its  epistome  is  so  obsoletely  tridentate  in  front 
that  even  the  rudiments  of  a  central  tooth  (although  sometimes  ap- 
parent) seem  often  to  be  totally  inappreciable — when,  of  course, 
there  is  merely  an  emargination. 

The  A.  subciliatus  is  eminently  a  sand-burrowing  insect,  occurring 
at  the  roots  of  plants  on  the  small  hillocks  of  drifted  sand  adjoining 
the  sea-coast  in  Fuerteventura.     In  such  situations  it  was  taken  by 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  445 

Mr.  Gray  and  myself  about  a  mile  to  the  south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras, 
in  January  1858  ;  and  by  myself,  during  the  spring  of  the  following 
year,  in  the  arid  district  of  Corralejo,  at  the  extreme  north  of  that 
island. 

679.  Arthrodes  subcostatus. 

A.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  plerumque  paulo  minor  et  scnsim  minus 
convexus,  punctura  omnino  densioro  et  snbfortiore  sed  elytris  sin- 
gulis in  lineis  duabus  vel  tribus  valde  irrcgularibus  indistinctis  lon- 
gitudinalibus  lajvioribns  sensim  minus  punctatis ;  capite  vix  angus- 
tiore ;  prothorace  immarginato,  angulis  anticis  paulo  magis  por- 
rcctis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2|. 

Erodius  (Arthrodeis)  subcostatus,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  04 
(1838). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  locis  similibus  ac  prascedens,  in  ari- 
dis  arenosis  juxta  urbem  Las  Palmas  deprehensus. 

The  present  Arthrodes  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  preceding  one, 
and  is  apparently  peculiar  to  Grand  Canary,  residing  in  much  the 
same  sort  of  localities — at  the  roots  of  sand -plants,  where  it  burrows 
into  the  loose  drifting  sand.  In  such  situations  I  took  it,  between 
Las  Palmas  and  the  Puerto  da  Luz,  during  the  spring  of  1 858.  It 
agrees  with  the  A.  suhciliatus  in  its  general  outline  and  structure,  as 
well  as  in  its  laterally-pilose  body,  rather  slender,  elongate  limbs, 
and  the  greatly  produced  spines  of  its  anterior  tibiae  ;  but  differs  from 
it  in  being,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  smaller  and  less  convex,  in  its 
punctation  being  altogether  a  little  denser  and  perhaps  somewhat 
coarser,  but  with  two  or  three  obscure  ill-dejined  lines  (or  spaces) 
down  each  of  its  elytra,  which  are  comparatively  glabrous  (or  free 
from  sculpture),  by  its  head  being  perceptibly  narrower,  and  by  its 
prothorax  being  destitute  of  even  an  obscure  margin  along  its  ante- 
rior edge,  and  with  its  front  angles  a  little  more  porrect.  Having  ex- 
amined M.  Brulle's  types,  I  am  enabled  to  state  for  certain  that  the 
species  is  correctly  identified. 

b.  Epijpleuroe  plica  humeralis  distincta  (sed  vix  ad  medium  ducta). 
680.  Arthrodes  costifrons,  n.  sp. 

A.  afRnis  A.  subciliato,  sed  paulo  major,  oblongior,  minus  convexus, 
minus  nitidus  et  in  limbo  calvus  (nee  ciliatus) ;  carina  frontali  ut 
in  hoc  valde  elevata  sed  curvata  (nee  recta)  ;  epistomate  antice  fere 
simpliciter  emarginato  sed  sub  lente  fortissima  minutissime  trisi- 
nuato  (quasi  dentes  4,  internos  obsoletissimos,  efficiente)  ;  protho- 
race ad  latera  sensim  (sed  antice  baud)  marginato,  una  cum  capite 
densius  (sc.  dcnsissime)  et  subtilius  punctato ;  elytris  subgrossius 
maUeatis  sed  multo  subtilius  parciusque  punctulatis  (punctulis  baud 


446  CANAKTAN  COLEOPTERA. 

asperatis  ct  irrcgulariter  dispcrsis)  ;  antennis  tarsisqiie  sensim  ob- 
scurioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  i^g-3. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram  ;  in  hac  hand  infrequens, 
una  cum  A.  subcUiato  in  arenosis  fodiens  ;  sed  ab  ilia  exemplar  unum 
(a  meipso  captum)  adhuc  vidi. 

The  A.  costiffons  is  a  Fuerteventuran  species,  and  appears,  like 
the  A.  subciliatus  (with  which  it  is  found  in  company),  to  be  of  sand- 
burrowing  propensities ;  nevertheless  it  is  not  pilose  at  the  edges  of 
its  body.  Although  small,  it  is  a  little  larger,  as  well  as  more  oblong 
and  less  convex,  than  that  insect ;  its  surface  is  more  opake  ;  its 
frontal  keel  (which  is  equally  elevated)  is  considerably  curved,  instead 
of  being  straight ;  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which  is 
narrowly  margined  at  the  sides,  but  immarginatc  in  front)  are  much 
more  densely  and  finely  punctured,  wdiilst  the  punctules  of  its  elytra 
are  excessively  diminutive  and  distant  (being,  also,  irregularly  dis- 
persed) ;  and  its  epipleiu-al  costa  (instead  of  being  obsolete)  is  de- 
veloped, though  not  much  incrassated.  Its  epistome  appears  at  first 
sight  to  be  simply  emarginated  at  the  apex ;  but  when  viewed 
beneath  a  very  powerful  glass  it  will  be  seen  to  be  most  minutely 
trisinuated,  so  as  to  shape  out  four  points,  the  two  inner  ones  of  which 
are  barely  traceable  and  sometimes  quite  obsolete.  The  A.  eostifrons 
seems  to  occur  also  in  Lanzarote,  a  single  example  now  before  me 
having  been  taken  by  myself  in  that  island. 

681.  Arthrodes  malleatus,  n.  sp. 

Yl.pra3cedenti  (A.costifronti)  similis,  sed  pavilo  major,  oblongior;  capite 
prothoraceque  \'ix  profundius  punctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  vix  evdden- 
tius  marginato  ;  elytris  multo  magis  malleatis  punctidis(pie  (irrc- 
gulariter dispositis,  i.  e.  in  lacunis  solis  sitis)  sensim  majoribus ; 
pedibus  paulo  minus  graciUbus,  tibiarum  anticarum  spinis  duabus 
magis  obtusis,  apicali  minus  curvata. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-3^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  sub  lapidibus  in  intcrmediis  degens. 

Although  closely  allied  to  the  eostifrons,  this  Arthrodes  is  certainly 
distinct  from  it ;  occurring,  apparently,  in  the  intermediate  districts 
of  Lanzarote,  where  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during 
the  winter  of  1858,  in  the  extreme  north  of  that  island ;  and  by  my- 
self, during  the  spring  of  the  following  year,  in  the  little  adjacent 
island  of  Graciosa.  It  difters  from  the  eostifrons,  mainly,  in  being  a 
little  larger  and  more  oblong ;  in  its  elytra  being  considerably  more 
uneven,  or  much  malleated,  and  in  having  their  punctures  (which  are 
collected  into  merely  the  depressions,  leaving  the  more  elevated  parts 
of  the  surface  almost  free  from  sculpture)  a  good  deal  lai'ger ;  and 


CANARIAN  COLEOrTEKA.  447 

in  its  legs  being  rather  less  slender,  -with  the  two  spines  of  their  an- 
terior tibiae,  the  apical  one  of  which  is  considerably  less  curved,  both 
shorter  and  more  obtuse. 

682.  Arthrodes  emarginatus,  n.  sp. 

A.  species  A.  costifronti  similis,  et  cum  hoc  structura  tibiarum  anti- 
carum  congruens,  sed  forsan  paulo  major  obtusior  ;  capite  protho- 
raceque  multo  parcius  punctulatis,  illius  carina  frontali  multo  mi- 
nus elevata  ae  paulo  minus  curvata,  epistomate  apice  omnijio  sim- 
pliciter  emarginato,  hoc  sensim  latiore  et  omnino  immarginato  ;  ely- 
tris  densius,fequaliter  et  minute  asperato -punctulatis ;  tibiarum  an- 
ticarum  spinis  elongatis,  acutis,  apicali  cxirvata. — Long,  corp,  lin.  3. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  semel  tantum  repertus. 

I  have  but  a  single  example  of  this  Arthrodes,  caj)tured  by  myself 
in  Fuerteventura,  to  judge  from ;  but  it  appears  to  be  exceedingly 
distinct  from  both  the  subciUatics  and  costifrons,  with  which  I  believe 
that  it  was  taken  in  company.  Indeed  the  structure  of  the  teeth  of 
its  anterior  tibiae  is  precisely  the  same  as  in  those  sand-burrowing 
species  ;  and  its  general  aspect  is  very  much  that  of  the  A.  suhciliatus. 
It  is,  however,  a  little  larger  and  more  obtuse  ;  its  head  and  protho- 
rax  (the  latter  of  which  is  not  only  perceptibly  wider,  but  also  en- 
tirely immarginate)  are  much  more  sparingly  punctulated  ;  its  frontal 
keel  is  considerably  less  elevated,  and  not  quite  so  curved  ;  the  emar- 
gination  of  its  epistome  is  unmistakeably  simple ;  and  its  elytra  are 
more  closely  and  equaUy  punctulated,  the  punctures  moreover  being 
conspicuously  asperate. 

683.  Arthrodes  geotrupoides,  n.  sp. 

A.  prascedenti  similis,  sed  multo  major ;  carina  frontali  minus  elevatsx, 
subobsoleta ;  plica  humcrali  magis  incrassata,  subcurvata  ;  et  spi- 
nis tibiarum  anticarum  obtusioribus,  minus  productis,  apicali  mi- 
nus curvata. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-5. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  parum  rarus. 

In  its  form,  sculpture,  and  subopake  surface,  as  well  as  in  the 
perfecfli/  simple  emargination  of  its  epistome,  the  present  Arthrodes 
is  coincident  with  the  last  one  ;  and,  like  it,  it  was  taken  by  myself, 
though  more  abundantly,  in  Fuerteventura.  It  is,  however,  con- 
siderabl}'  larger  ;  its  frontal  keel  is  still  less  elevated,  indeed  almost 
obsolete  ;  its  humeral  plica  is  thicker,  and  slightly  arcuate  ;  and  the 
two  teeth  of  its  anterior  tibiae  are  blunter  and  less  produced,  the 
apical  one  moreover  being  less  outwardly  curved.  This  last  character 
indeed  is  perhaps  the  most  significant  of  them  all — implying,  I  think, 
a  rather  different  mode  of  life ;  for  the  spines  of  the  anterior  tibiae 


448  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

being  comparatively  elongated  and  acute,  and  the  apical  one  of  them 
somewhat  curved,  is  a  structure  which  appears  to  be  more  particularly 
indicative  of  the  sand-burrowinrj  species,  which  reside  near  the  coast. 

Fam.  64.  TENTYRIAD^. 

Genus  260.  TENTYRIA. 
Latreille,  Hist.  Nat.  dcs  Crust,  d  L>s.  x.  270  (1804), 

684.  Tentyria  interrupta. 
Tentpia  interrupta  [Latr.  ?],  Bndle,in  Webb ct  Bcrth.{Col.)  GG  (1838). 

Habitat  ? 

I  know  nothing  of  this  insect,  except  that  I  examined  it  hastily 
whilst  in  Paris,  and  that  it  is  unquestionably  distinct  both  from  the 
T.  elongata  and  the  Pa'ivcea  hispida.  As  M.  Brulle  vouchsafes  neither 
a  description  of  it  nor  its  habitat,  I  am  of  course  perfectly  unable  to 
say  even  in  what  island  it  was  found.  Indeed  his  short  notice  of  it 
is  about  as  vague  and  unsatisfactory  as  it  is  well  possible  to  be  in  a 
published  Fauna ;  for  he  did  not  seem  to  have  made  up  his  mind 
whether  it  should  be  referred  to  the  hiternipta  of  Latreille,  or  the 
maroccana,  or  whether  it  is  distinct  from  both  of  them ;  and,  more- 
over, his  tijpe  is  likewise  labelled  with  the  name  of  "  marginicoUis  " ! 
Instead  of  inserting  a  diagnosis,  by  which  at  all  events  the  species 
might  be  recognized,  the  following  is  his  elaborate  account  of  it : — 
"  Tentyria  inteerupta,  Latr,,  ou  Maroccana.  Du  midi  do  la  France 
et  du  nord  de  I'Afi'ique.  Les  individus  que  nous  avons  sous  les  yeux 
ne  se  rapportent  exactement  ni  a  I'une  ni  a  I'autre  de  ces  especes,  et 
ne  scmblent  cepcndant  pas  devoir  constituer  une  cspece  nouvelle. 
Peut-etre  sont-ils  le  lien  qui  doit  rcimir  les  deux  autres?  "  Consi- 
dering the  great  liability  of  certain  Coleoptera  to  become  accidentally 
imported  in  trading  vessels  from  the  African  coast,  I  feel  a  slight  hesi- 
tation in  admitting  this  Tentyria  into  the  Catalogue  at  all. 

(Subgenus  Eulipus,  WoU.) 
Corpus  angustum,  gracile,  sat  profunde  punctatum ;  ocidis  magnis, 
prominentibus,  regulariter  reniformibus  (infra  vix  angustatis);  an- 
tennis pedibusc^Q  longissimis,  gracilibus,  wn^mcwZis  valde  elongatis. 

685,  Tentyria  elongata. 
T.  gracilis,  angusta,  atra,  nitida  ;  capite  prothoraceque  (illo  sat  den- 
sius)  punctatis,  iUius  epistomate  obtuse  rotundato  producto,  hoc 
convexo  postice  gradatim  angustiore,  angulis  posticis  acutis  sed 
argute  determinatis  necnon  ad  latera  et  basin  grosse  marginato ; 
elytris  cllipticis  postice  acuminatis,  profunde  et  sat  parce  pimctatis. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  449 

ad  lateraet  basin  grossemarginatis;  anteniiis  pedibusque  (praeser- 
tim  tarsis)  picescentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-7. 

Tentyria  (3fcsoste»a)  elougata*,  Bridle,  in  Wehh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  66 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  arenosis  submaritimis  Fuerteventurae  et  Canariae,  ad 
radices  plantarum  juxta  mare  ci'escentium  latens. 

This  large  and  slender  insect,  with  its  greatly  elongated  limbs, 
would  appear  to  reside  amongst  the  loose  sand  which  collects  into 
small  hillocks  by  drifting  around  the  roots  of  shrubby  plants,  within 
a  short  distance  of  the  sea-shore  (though  not  upon  the  actual  beach). 
In  such  situations  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  about  a  mile 
to  the  south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras  in  Fuerteventxira  during  January 
1858  (in  which  locality  I  again  met  with  it  in  April  of  the  following 
year) ;  and  by  myself,  and  subsequently  by  Dr.  Crotch,  on  the  low 
sand-hills  of  Grand  Canary  between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta.  The 
Grand-Canarian  specimens  are,  on  the  average,  larger  than  the 
Fuerteventuran  ones. 

Genus  261.  PAIV^A  (nov.  gen.). 

Instrumenta  cibaria  fere  ut  in  Tentyria,  sed  corpus  alitor  constructj,im 
pilisque  elongatis  erectis  obsitum ;  ejyistomate  ad  apicem  acute  an- 
gulato-producto ;  antennarxmi  articulo  ultimo  penultimo  minore, 
oblique  truncato  ;  prothorace  antice  latiore,  basi  bisinuato,  angulis 
posticis  vix  subrectis,  argute  determinatis  ;  scutello  multo  breviore, 
sc.  brcvissimo,  transverso,  costiformi ;  elytris  ad  basin  grossius 
marginatis,  ad  humeros  magis  angalatis ;  antenuis  pedibusqae  ro- 
bustis,  pilosis. 

Ohs. — In  honorem  amici  mei  periti,  Baronis  "  Castello  de  Paiva  " 
Lusitanici,  qui  scientiae  naturali  deditus,  solertissimus  cultor  ac 
observator  acutus,  per  tot  annos  nomen  Lusitanicum  ornavit. 

Although  the  oral  organs  of  nearly  the  whole  of  these  immediate 
groups  are  almost  similar,  there  can  be  little  doubt,  I  think,  that 

*  M.  BruUe  cites  this  species  as  a  membei'  of  (what  he  would  appear  to  regard 
as,  thougli  very  erroneously,  the  st(bgeniis)  Mcsosfena.  It  has,  however  (judging 
from  the  diagnosis),  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  that  group — though,  superfici- 
ally, it  certainly  possesses  the  comparatively  slender  body  of  the  Mesosfencs.  But 
the  form  of  the  eyes  and  the  greatly  elongated  tliird  joint  of  its  antennae  (even 
inore.  so,  perhaps,  than  in  the  true  TentyricE)  entirely  remove  it  from  Mcsostena  ; 
whilst  from  Axumia  it  is  as  readily  separated  by  its  last  antennal  joint  being  as 
broad  as  the  penultimate  one,  as  well  as  by  its  perfectly  distinct  scutellum  and 
its  convex  body.  Nevertheless  it  is  by  no  means  a  very  normal  Tentyria,  and 
may  perhaps  constitute  the  type  of  a  closely  allied  genus — its  much  narrower 
and  slenderer  outline  and  more  deeply  punctui'ed  surface,  in  combination  with 
its  larger  and  more  prominent  eyes  (which  are  regularly  reniform,  and  therefore 
but  slightly  contracted  in  their  lower  half),  the  more  defined  posterior  angles  of 
its  prothorax,  and  its  very  much  longer  and  thinner  limbs  and  claws,  all  tending 
to  remove  it  from  the  ordinary  representatives  of  that  group. 

■■^  2  G 


450  CANARIAN  COIEOPTERA. 

the  insect  from  which  the  above  characters  have  been  drawn  is  truly 
distinct  from  Tentyria — its  external  peculiarities  being  more  than 
sufficient  to  render  its  isolation  therefr'om  not  only  desirable,  but 
necessary.  Its  two  main  differential  features  consist  in  its  scuteUum 
being  excessively  short  and  transverse  (constituting  in  fact,  as  in  He- 
geter,  a  mere  portion  of  the  marginal  rim  at  the  base  of  the  elytra), 
and  in  its  surface  being  sparingly  studded  with  long  and  erect  hairs. 
In  other  respects,  its  epistome  is  much  produced,  and  acute,  in  the 
centre  ;  the  terminal  joint  of  its  antennae  is  considerably  smaller  than 
the  preceding  one,  and  obliquely  truncated  at  the  apex ;  its  prothorax 
(which  is  wide  anteriorly  and  narrowed  behind)  is  somewhat  bisinu- 
ated  along  the  basal  edge,  and  has  the  posterior  angles  well  defined 
ami  rather  acute ;  the  humeral  angles  also  of  its  elytra  are  sharply 
defined  by  the  greatly  thickened  marginal  rim ;  its  entire  surface  is 
irregularly  punctured  (the  punctui'es,  which  are  very  variable  in  size, 
being  composed  of  a  double  series — large  and  small) ;  and  its  limbs 
are  thickened  and  pilose. 

686.  Paivaea  hispida. 

P.  atra,  nitida,  pUis  elongatis  erectis  fulvescentibus  (prsesertim  in 
elytris,  sed  vix  in  capite)  parce  obsita ;  capite  sat  profunde  sed 
parce  insequaliter  punctate ;  prothorace  cordato-subquadrato,  in 
disco  convexo,  ad  latera  et  basin  grosse  marginato,  angulis  posticis 
acutiusculis,  parcius  leviusque  inaequalitcr  punctate ;  elytris  vix 
rugulosis,  leviter,  parce  et  insequaliter  pimctatis  (punctis  majoribus 
obsolete  subseriatim  dispositis)  ;  antennis  pedibusque  robustis,  pi- 
losis, plus  minus  picescentioribus. 

Variat  pimctis  plus  minus  distinctis  et  incequalibus,  punctis  majori- 
bus in  prothorace  elytrisque  interdum  sat  magnis  ;  clji;ris  seepe  ob- 
soletissime  subsulcatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Tentyria  hispida,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  66  (1838). 
,  Hartung,  Geolotj.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  unci  Fuert.  140,  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  necnon  in  insulis  parvis 
adjacentibus  (sc.  Graciosa  et  Lobos),  sub  lapidibus  vulgaris. 

A  universal  insect  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  (and 
the  adjacent  islands  of  Graciosa  and  Lobos),  occurring  beneath  stones. 
I  do  not  believe  that  it  exists  further  westward  in  the  archipelago  ; 
for  although  I  have  received  it  from  Paris  as  Teneriifan,  it  was  pro- 
bably regarded  as  such  through  the  mere  fact  of  its  having  been  sent 
from  Teneriffe  (even  whilst  obtained  elsewhere  in  the  Group).  It 
was  captured  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M.  Hartung;  and  from 
Fuerteventura  it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de 
Paiva,  to  whom  I  have  had  much  pleasure  in  dedicating  the  genus. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  451 

Gemis262.  HEGETER. 
Latreille,  Hist  Nat.  des  Crust,  et  Ins.  iii.  172  (1802). 

Although  it  is  possible  that  some  few  of  the  Hegeters  enumerated 
below  may  be,  in  reality,  but  permanent  varieties,  rather  than  un- 
doubted species,  nevertheless,  since  I  have  been  enabled  to  catch  their 
true  distinctions  through  the  fact  of  my  having  worked  them  out  from 
an  enormous  mass  of  material  collected  in  the  several  islands  of  the 
Group,  and  since  many  of  them  have  already  been  published  by 
Messrs.  "Webb  and  Berthelot,  I  think  it  wUl  be  more  convenient  to 
acknowledge  the  whole  of  them  as  of  specific  importance — seeing 
that  they  are  for  the  most  part  sufficiently  weU  defined,  and  since 
the  admission  that  any  of  them  are  mere  phases  peculiar  to  certain 
districts  would  involve  considerable  difficulty  in  dealing  with  the 
remainder.  Nevertheless  I  am  far  from  satisfied  that  the  genus  is 
not  essentially  a  variable  one,  and  consequently  suspect  that  certain 
of  these  forms  may  be  but  races,  gradually  matured  by  the  local  in- 
fluences to  which,  in  their  own  particular  regions,  they  may  happen 
to  have  been  long  exposed :  but  as  we  have  no  actual  proof  to  that 
effect,  I  do  not  think  that  it  would  be  prudent  to  acknowledge  them 
as  of  a  lower  rank  than  true,  though  at  the  same  time  nearly  allied, 
species.  Having  taken  some  pains,  whilst  in  Paris,  to  examine  M. 
Brulle's  types,  I  believe  I  may  venture  to  say  that  his  species  (as  re- 
enuneiated  below)  are  correctly  identified*. 

§  I.  Elytra  eUiptlca  (i.  e.  antice  et  postice  paulo  magis  angustata, 
quare  in  medio  sensim  magis  rotundata). 
687.  Hegeter  tristis.    . 

Blaps  tristis,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/sf.  i.  108  (1792)  [sec.  Dom.  Schaum']. 

elongata,  Oliv.,  Unt.nl  60.  pi.  i.  f.  7  (1795). 

Hegeter  striatus,  Lat.,  Hist.  Nut.  des  Crust,  et  Ins.  x.  276  (1804). 

,  Bndlc,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  64  (1838). 

elongatus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  510.  tab.  xi,  f.  7  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mud.  Col.  157  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  sub  lapidibus  in  aridis,  necnon 
in  cavemis  tufae,  vulgaris. 

*  In  my  '  Ins.  Mad.'  I  stated  tlie  inner  maxillary  lobe  of  Hegeter  to  be  unarmed 
at  the  apex — an  opinion  wliich  has  been  reiterated  by  Lacordaire,  who  reports 
that  he  also  dissected  the  H.  elongatus  (i.  e.  tristis)  and  found  that  my  observation 
was  correct.  It  certainly  was  from  that  species  that  my  generic  formida  was 
compiled ;  but  I  can  only  say  that  I  have  just  now  taken  out  the  maxillae  of  no 
less  than  three  members  of  the  group  (namely,  the  tristis,  amaroides,  and  im- 
pressiis),  besides  those  of  the  T/ialpojjhila  plicifrons  and  polita,  and  I  fmd  that 
in  all  instances  the  inner  lobe  is  powerfully  uncinated  at  its  tip,  as  in  the  allied 
genera.  Both  lobes,  however,  are  very  densely  clothed  with  long  pile,  and  it  is 
probable  therefore  that  I  failed  originally,  no  less  than  Lacordaire,  to  perceive 
the  small  but  acute  claw  which  terminates  the  inner  one  of  the  H.  tristis,  on 
account  of  its  having  been  concealed  in  the  mass  of  hairs. 

2  G  2 


452  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

This  is  not  only  the  largest  of  aU  the  known  Hegeters,  but  by  far 
the  most  Avidcly  spread.  Indeed  it  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  whilst 
nearly  aU  the  others  are  extremely  local,  partaking  more  (as  it  were) 
of  the  character  of  races,  the  present  one  occurs  in  the  whole  of  these 
Atlantic  Groups — having  been  detected  in  the  Azores,  Madeiras, 
Canaries,  and  the  Cape  de  Verdes,  as  weU  as,  also,  on  the  northern 
and  western  coasts  of  Africa.  Throughout  the  Canarian  archipelago 
it  is  universal,  in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself 
captiu'ed  it,  except  Fuerteventura  and  Gomera ;  but  from  the  former 
it  has  been  communicated,  in  profusion,  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva,  who  obtained  it  sparingly  from  the  latter  also  (where  it  was 
likewise  met  with,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch). 

Apart  from  its  much  larger  bulk,  the  H.  tristis  may  be  recognized 
by  its  comparatively  sulcated,  elliptic  elytra,  and  by  the  hinder  angles 
of  its  subquadrate  prothorax  being  almost  right  angles.  Its  surface, 
particularly  of  the  head  and  prothorax,  is  more  or  less  ojiake,  and  so 
minutely  punctulated  that  the  punctules  are  often  scarcely  traceable 
even  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power.  In  a  living  state  it  is  fre- 
quently clothed  with  a  didl  bluish-white,  or  lead-coloured,  bloom 
(which  however  is  soon  destroyed) — a  peculiarity  to  which,  although 
I  had  often  noticed  it,  my  attention  has  lately  been  directed  by  Mr. 
Bewicke,  of  Madeira. 

688,  Hegeter  Webbianus. 

H.  praecedenti  simUis  et  ab  iUo  (nisi  fallor)  vix  distinctus,  sed  minor, 
punctulis  etiam  magis  indistinctis  (oculo  etiam  fortissimo  armato 
aegre  discernendis),  ergo  quasi  impunctatus  ;  prothorace  per  basin 
paulo  magis  bisinuato,  angulis  posticis  sensim  acutioribus  (ncc 
subrectis);  antennis  pedib usque  (praesertim  tarsis)  subgracihoribus, 
tibiis  anticis  minus  evidenter  serratulis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Hegeter  Webbianus,  Heinehcn,  Zool.  Jmirn.  v.  40  (1835). 

Habitat  montes  Canaritc  Grandis,  in  regione  "  Tarajana  "  captus  : 
etiam  TenerifFam  apud  cl.  Heineken  colore  dicitur. 

I  scarcely  think  that  this  Hegeter  is  more  than  a  race,  or  state,  of 
the  tristis ;  and  certainly,  had  it  been  unpublished,  I  should  not  my- 
self have  treated  it  as  anything  more  important ;  nevertheless,  as  I 
have  little  doubt  that  it  is  the  particular  form  which  Dr.  Heineken 
described  as  the  H  Webbianus,  I  am  unwiUing  to  cancel  the  name 
which  he  imposed  upon  it.  It  differs  from  the  tristis,  merely,  in 
being  smaller  and  (if  anything)  even  more  indistinctly  punctulated 
still  (the  punctules  being  so  barely  traceable,  even  beneath  a  high 
magnifying  power,  that  the  surface  might  well  be  defined  as  "  im- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


453 


punctate  ") ;  in  its  prothorax  being  a  little  more  decidedly  bisinuated 
along  the  basal  edge,  and  consequently  mth  the  posterior  angles 
somewhat  acuter  (or  less  evidently  right  angles) ;  in  its  limbs  (par- 
ticularly the  tarsi)  being  just  perceptibly  slenderer ;  and  in  its  ante- 
rior tibiae  being  a  little  less  roughened,  or  serrated.  The  only  region 
in.  which  I  have  myself  observed  it  is  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary, 
where,  during  April  1858,  I  took  it,  not  imcommonly,  on  the  ascent 
to  the  Pinal  above  San  Bartolome. 

689.  Hegeter  glaber. 
H.  affinis  H.  Wehbiano,  quasi  (etiam  oculo  fortissimo  armato)  im- 
punctatus,  prothorace  apice  paulo  minus  profunde  emarginato,  per 
basin  sensim  grossius  mai-ginato ;  scutello  etiam  magis  transverse  ; 
elytris  subconvexioribus  et  minus  evidenter  subsidcatis  (ssepe  om- 
nino  simplicibus)  ;  antennis  pedibusque  vix  rninus  gracilibus. 
Variat  interdum  subnitidus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-6. 

Hegeter  glaber,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  65.  pi.  1.  f.  9  (1838). 
Habitat  Palmam,  hinc  inde  sub  lapidibus. 

This  Hegeter,  which  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in  Palma,  agrees 
with  the  two  preceding  ones  in  its  comparatively  elliptic  elytra  (which 
are  rather  more  narrowed  before  and  behind,  and  therefore  somewhat 
more  rounded  in  the  middle),  and  it  is  of  about  the  same  size  as  the 
H.  Webhianus ;  nevertheless  its  prothorax  is  a  little  less  scooped-out 
at  the  apex  and  somewhat  more  broadly  margined  along  the  basal 
edge,  its  scutellum  is  just  perceptibly  more  transverse,  its  elytra  are 
less  sulcated  (indeed  often  quite  simple)  and  if  anything  more  convex, 
and  its  limbs  (especially  the  anterior  tibiae)  are  perhaps  a  trifle  less 
slender.  Of  M.  Brulle's  types,  one  pertained  to  this  species,  and  the 
other  was  the  large  variety  of  the  H.  amaroides ;  I  have  therefore 
regarded  the  present  one  as  the  insect  he  intended  to  describe. 

690.  Hegeter  amaroides. 

H.  parum  similis  H.  tristi,  sed  minor  (plerumque  multo  minor),  punc- 
tm-a  paulo  distinctiore  (sed  tamen  minutissima)  ;  prothorace  sub- 
breviore,  antice  vix  angustiore ;  elytris  sensim  oblongioribus  (vix 
eUipticis)  et  plerumque  minus  evidenter  sulcatis  ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque minus  elongatis. 

Variat  elytris  interdum  (praesertim  in  speciminibus  majoribus)  paulo 
magis  eUipticis  et  fere  hand  sulcatis  [=ir.  polito,  Br.],  necnon  in 
ins.  Hierro  punctura  subdistinctiore  :  in  Oomera  prothorax  ad  basin 
est  paulo  magis  bisinuatus,  angulis  anticis  vix  magis  porrectis. 

Var.  ft.  subglabra  [an  species?].  Multo  minor,  elytris  simplicibus 
(sulcis  ouinino  obsoletis). — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-5|. 

Hegeter  amaroides,  Sol.,  Ann.  dela  Soc.  Ent.  de France,  iv.  378  (1835). 


464  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Hegeter  amaroides,  Bmlle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  G4  (1838). 
politus,  Id.,  loc.  cit.  65  (1838). 

Habitat  in  Teneriflfa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  sub  lapidibus  vulgaris. 

This  appears  to  be  a  very  variable  species,  both  in  size  and  in  its 
more  or  less  evidently  sulcated  elytra.  The  larger  form,  -which  is 
abundant  around  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriife,  has  the  elytra 
sometimes  a  little  more  elliptic  and  shining  than  in  the  ordinary 
examples,  and  almost  free  from  longitudinal  furrows,  thus  manifestly 
approaching  the  H.  gJaher;  but  after  comparing  accurately  an  immense 
series  of  specimens,  I  am  quite  unable  to  separate  it  from  the  smaller 
and  more  typical  state,  into  which  it  merges  by  imperceptible  grada- 
tions. Nevertheless  that  particular  race  is  clearly  identical  with 
M.  Brulle's  H.  politus — as  is  evident  both  from  his  description  and 
from  one  of  his  two  types  (for  the  other  seemed  to  me  to  be  specifi- 
cally different).  The  examples  from  Hierro  are  a  little  more  sharply 
punctulated  than  those  from  TenerifFe ;  and  the  Gomeran  ones  have 
their  prothorax  usually  a  trifle  more  bisinuated  along  the  basal  edge 
and  with  the  anterior  angles  perhaps  somewhat  more  porrect. 

The  H.  amaroides  may  generally  be  known  by  its  being  consider- 
ably smaller  than  the  tristis,  by  its  punctation  (although  very 
minute)  being  a  little  more  distinct,  by  its  prothorax  being  a  trifle 
shorter  and  less  quadrate  (being  for  the  most  part  rather  narrower 
in  front  than  behind),  by  its  elytra  being  perceptibly  more  oblong 
(or  less  elliptic)  and  somewhat  less  coarsely  sulcated,  and  by  its  Umbs 
being  relatively  shorter.  I  have  taken  it,  in  profusion,  in  TenerifFe, 
Gomera,  and  Hierro,  in  all  three  of  which  it  was  likewise  found  by 
Mr.  Gray ;  whilst  from  the  first  it  has  also  been  communicated  by 
the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe,  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  M.  Hartung, 
Dr.  Crotch,  and  my  late  friend  the  Rev.  "W".  J.  Armitage.  I  believe 
that  M.  Solier's  type  is  coincident  with  the  smaller  and  more  sul- 
cated form,  which  is  common  about  S^''  Cruz  (and  elsewhere)  in 
TenerifFe.  The  smallest  state  of  all,  however,  which  I  have  regarded 
as  the  "  var.  (i,'"  is  somewhat  peculiar,  and  possibly  should  have 
been  treated  as  a  separate  species.  It  is  verT/  much  smaller  than 
the  ordinary  phasis  of  the  insect,  and  has  its  elytra  quite  simjile 
(the  sulci  being  obsolete).  It  has  more  the pnmd  facie  aspect  of 
the  H.  brevicollis ;  but  is  more  elliptic  in  outline,  and  when  closely 
inspected  its  prothorax  will  be  seen  to  be  differently  shaped,  and 
the  third  joint  of  its  antennae  to  be  perceptibly  longer.  It  was  sent 
from  TenerifFe  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva,  and  was  caj)tured, 
I  believe,  either  at  Arona  or  at  Las  Mercedes  (probably  the  former). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  455 

§  II.  Elytra  plus  minus  oblongiora. 
691.  Hegeter  transversus. 

//,  oblongus,  vel  latus  vel  latiusculus,  plus  minus  depressus,  opacus ; 
eapite  prothoraceque  plus  minus  minute  (seel  semper  evidenter) 
pimctulatis,  hujus  angidis  posticis  subacutis  ;  elytris  basin  versus 
plus  minus  latis  parallelis,  minutius  (quasi  hand)  punctulatis  sed 
plus  minus  irregulariter  transversim  subrimosis,  ssepius  simplicibus 
(rarissime  obsolete  subsulcatis) ;  antennis  pedibusque  breviusculis, 
crassiusculis. 

a.  Major,  latior,  depressior,  distinctius  punctulatus ;  elytris  antice 
sensim  latioribus,  rectioribus,  ubique  evidentius  irregulariter  ri- 
mulosis.     \_Regionibubs  suhelevatis propiius.'] 

j8.  Minor,  angustior,  paulo  minus  depressus,  minus  evidenter  punctu- 
latus ;  elytris  antice  ssepius  minus  latis  et  omnino  minus  sculptu- 
ratis.  [_In  regionUms  mintts  elevatis,  et  etiam  inferioribus,  occur- 
rens.'] — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-5. 

Hegeter  transversus,  Brtdle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  65  (1838). 
Habitat  Teneriffam*  (prgesertim  borealem),  ab  ora  maritima  usque 
ad  3000'  vel  4000'  s.  m.  ascendens.     a  et  j3,  quamvis  prima  facie  dis- 
similes,  nisi'  faUor  baud  distincti  sunt,  inter  se  gradatim  facUe  mer- 
gentes. 

This  Hegeter,  which  seems  to  be  peculiar  to  TenerifFe,  is  quite  as 
variable  as  the  last  one ;  nevertheless  its  two  extremes  of  form  are 
very  easily  connected.  In  the  higher  regions  it  is  large,  broad,  de- 
pressed, and  evidently  punctulated,  and  its  elytra  are  wide  and  par- 
allel in  front  and  more  or  less  coarsely  (though  irregularly)  trans- 
versely -sc7'atcJied  (or  -rimose) ;  but  as  we  descend  in  elevation  all 

*  Dr.  Heer,  in  the  list  which  he  prepared  for  M.  Hartung's  vohmie,  has  cited 
the  H.  transversus  as  found  in  Fuertevcntura ;  but  I  am  satisfied  that  it  does  not 
exist  in  either  of  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  Group  (probably  indeed  not  be- 
yond Teneriffe),  and  that  the  error  has  arisen  (as  in  other  instances  already 
commented  upon)  from  M.  Hartung's  having  unintentionally  transposed  certain 
of  his  specimens  from  the  dilFerent  islands.  Nevertheless  tlie  species  was  rightly 
identified  by  Dr.  Heer  ;  for  he  has  himself  sent  me  an  example  referred  correctly 
to  the  H.  transversus.  It  is,  however,  comtmmicated  as  coming  from  "Lanza- 
rote,"  even  whilst  he  publishes  the  insect  as  a  Fuerteventuran  (and  not  as  a 
Lanzarotan)  one ! — another  instance  of  the  excessive  inaccuracy,  displayed  alike 
by  himself  and  M.  Hartung,  as  regards  their  meagre  Catalogue.  The  different 
forms  of  Hegeter  (whether  species  or  not)  are  so  unmistakeable,  when  accurately 
inspected,  and  so  topographically  restricted,  that  I  am  convinced  that  the  spe- 
cimen which  he  forwarded  to  me  is  strictly  a  Teneriffan  one,  and  that  it  was 
probably  taken  in  some  part  of  the  Vale  of  Orotava.  In  like  manner  he  registers 
the  H.  brevicollis  as  found  in  both  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  whilst  I  will 
undertake  to  say  that  it  never  occurred  in  either  of  them.  As  in  the  other  case, 
it  is  a  Teneriffan  species,  with  a  slightly  aberrant  state  peculiar  to  Gomera. 
But  as  he  has  not  communicated  a  type  identified  with  the  brevicollis,  it  is  cer- 
tainly possible  (in  tliis  instance)  tliat  he  may  have  fallen  into  a  mere  mistake  of 
names,  and  that  he  in  reality  alludes  to  a  totally  different  Hegeter— or,  more  likely, 
to  the  Thalpophila plicifrons  (wliich  at  any  rate  is  found  in  Fuerteventura). 


456  CANAllIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

these  characters  are  gradiudhj  diminished,  until,  in  the  lower  dis- 
tricts, it  is,  on  the  average,  comparatively  small,  and  relatively  not 
quite  so  broad,  its  sculpture  is  altogether  finer  (though  never  obso- 
lete), and  its  elytra  are  not  quite  so  parallel  (or  so  widened)  ante- 
riorly :  nevertheless,  after  inspecting  carefully  an  immense  series 
of  specimens,  I  am  satisfied  that  the  two  forms  merge  into  each  other 
by  imperceptible  gradations,  and  therefore  cannot  be  retained  as  spe- 
cifically distinct.  The  larger  state  (a)  is  common  in  the  wooded  re- 
gion of  the  Agiia  Mansa  and  above  Ycod  el  Alto  ;  and  the  smaller  one 
(/t3)  is  universal  in  the  lower  portions  of  the  Vale  of  Orotava,  around 
the  Villa  and  Puerto,  where  it  was  also  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  the 
Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe.  From  the  H.  amaroides  its  difterent  outline  and 
more  transverse  prothorax,  in  conjunction  with  its  shorter  and  thicker 
limbs  (the  second  joint  of  its  antcnnse  beuig,  par  excellence,  less  elon- 
gated), will  readily  separate  it. 

692.  Hegeter  brevicollis. 
H.  affinis  H.  transverso  fi,  sed  paulo  minor  angustior  subconvexior, 
vix  minus  opacus,  punctura  etiam  subtiliore  (quasi  omnino  obso- 
leta)  ;  prothorace  ad  basin  minus  bisinuato,  angulis  posticis  sensim 
obtusioribus,  ad  latera  asqualiter  subrotundato. 
Var.  /3.  gonierensis  [an  species  ?].  Subovatior,  paulo  nitidior,  punc- 
tura (subtilissima  sed)  forsan  subdistinctiore  ;  prothoraeis  angulis 
posticis  rectis,  paulo  magis  argute  determinatis  ;  elytris  apice  vix 
minus  acute  productis ;  antennis  pedibusque  sensim  crassioribus. 
\_Ins.  Gomera.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-4. 

Hegeter  brevicollis,  BndU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  65  (1838). 
Habitat  Tenerrffam  et  Gomeram,  varietate  /3  huic  propria. 
The  larger  examples  of  this  Hegeter  approach  very  closely,  at  first 
sight,  to  the  smaller  ones  of  the  "  ft  "-state  of  the  transversus  ;  and 
whilst  the  latter  appears  to  occur  in  the  intermediate  regions  of  the 
Vale  of  Orotava  in  Teneriffe,  not  often  descending  to  the  lowest 
elevations,  the  present  species  I  have  detected  hitherto  only  around 
the  Puerto,  at  but  a  slight  distance  above  the  sea-level.  On  a 
careful  inspection  it  will  be  observed,  always,  to  differ  from  even 
the  smallest  and  most  aberrant  varieties  of  the  H.  transversus  in 
being  relatively  a  trifle  narrower  and  more  convex,  in  its  punctation 
being  so  excessively  fine  as  to  be  barely  traceable  (and,  therefore, 
strictly  obsolete),  and  in  its  prothorax  being  less  bisinuated  along  the 
basal  edge,  with  the  posterior  angles  more  obtuse,  and  with  the  sides 
a  little  more  equally  rounded.  It  is  also,  on  the  average,  smaller 
than  even  the  "  ft  "-state  of  the  transversus,  and  if  anything  a  trifle 
less  opake. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPXEHA.  457 

Whether  the  Gomeran  "insect,  which  I  have  treated  as  a  "  var.  /3  " 
of  the  present  one,  and  which  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself 
(near  San  Sebastian),  during  February  1858,  and  subsequently  by 
the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe  (at  Hermigua),  should  not  rather  be  regarded 
as  a  distinct  species,  I  am  somewhat  doubtful ;  but  I  believe  that  its 
differential  characters  are  scarcely  of  sufficient  importance  to  warrant 
the  conclusion  that  it  is  more  than  a  mere  insular  phasis  of  the  H. 
brevicoUis.  It  is,  however,  a  little  more  convex  and  ovate  in  outline 
(occasioned  by  the  elytra  being  a  trifle  more  drawn  downwards,  or 
less  acuminated,  at  their  apex),  very  perceptibly  more  shining,  and 
with  the  punctation  perhaps  not  quite  so  "  obsolete  " ;  the  basal  angles 
of  its  prothorax,  also,  are  better  defined,  and  more  strictly  right  angles ; 
and  its  antennse  and  legs  are  sensibly  thicker. 

693.  Hegeter  abbreviatus. 

//.  latus,  curtus,  breviter  oblongo-ovalis ;  capite  prothoraceque  sub- 
opacis,  dense  et  (praesertim  illo)  distincte  punctatis,  hoc  transverse 
'angulis  posticis  vix  obtusis ;  elytris  ad  basin  truncatis  (vix  bisi- 
nuatis),  subnitidioribus,  paulo  subtilius  punctulatis  ;  antennis  pe- 
dibusque  subgracilibus,  nigro-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-3. 

Hegeter  abbreviatus,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  QG  (1838). 

Habitat  in  lauretis  excelsioribus  Canariae  Grandis,  rarissimus. 

This  is  one  of  the  best-defined  of  all  the  Hegeters  hitherto  detected, 
its  short  and  broad,  oblong- oval  outline,  combined  vrith  its  distinctly 
and  densely  punctulated  surface  (the  head  and  prothorax  being  sub- 
opake,  whilst  the  elytra,  which  are  straightly  truncated  at  their  base, 
are  rather  more  shining),  being  abundantly  sufficient  to  characterize 
it.  It  would  appear  to  be  exceedingly  scarce,  or  at  any  rate  local, 
the  only  spot  in  which  I  have  observed  it  being  the  laurel-district 
(which  forms  a  portion  of  the  ancient  forest  of  El  Dorames)  between 
Guia  and  Osorio  in  Grand  Canary — where,  on  the  21st  of  April  1858, 
I  captured  eight  specimens,  from  beneath  damp  stones,  at  the  edges 
of  the  mountain-road  below  the  house  of  General  Morales. 

694.  Hegeter  costipennis,  n.  sp. 

//.  oblongo-ovatus,  crassus,  opacus ;  capite  prothoraceque  (ijrsesertim 
hoc)  impunctatis,  hujus  anguHs  posticis  rectis ;  elytris  granulatis, 
singulis  longitudinaliter  3-costatis,  costa  interna  minus  elevata. 

Variat  (an  potius  distinctio  sexualis  ?)  subnitidus,  elytrorum  granulis 
minus  distinctis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canariae  Grandis,  rarissimus,  sub  lapidibus. 
A  most  remarkable  Hegeter,  readily  known  by  its  large  and  thick 
body,  opake  surface,  and  granulated  elytra,  which  have  thi"ce  elevated 


458 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


costso  (the  inner  one  of  which  is  less  raised  than  the  others)  down 
each.  One  of  my  specimens,  however,  is  comparatively  shining,  and 
has  its  elytral  granules  less  distinct ;  but  whether  this  is  due  to  va- 
riation, or  is  merely  a  sexual  peculiarity,  I  am  unable  to  state.  It 
would  appear  to  be  the  rarest  of  all  the  species  hitherto  detected, 
the  only  examples  which  I  have  seen  (five  in  number)  having  been 
captured  by  myself  on  the  ascent  to  the  Roca  del  Soucilho,  above  San 
Mateo,  in  Grand  Canary,  during  the  spring  of  1858. 

695.  Hegeter  impressus. 

H.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  minus  opacus,  capitis  prothoracisque  punc- 
tulis  sensim  evidcntioribus  (sed  tamen  subtilissimis,  ajgre  obser- 
vandis);  elytris  singulis  obsolete  3-costatis,  minutius  grauulatis, 
et  transversim  irregulariter,  sed  valde,  rimoso-corrugatis  (vel  -im- 
pressis). 

Variat  (praecipue  in  regionibus  australibus)  paulo  convexior  angus- 
tior  nitidior,  elytris  minus  evidenter  granulatis  et  costis  magis  nu- 
merosis  (i.  e.  alternis  minus  certe  obsoletis)  sed  omnibus  valde  in- 
distinctis  (interdum  vix  discernendis)  longitudinaliter  instructis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-vix  5. 

Hegeter  impressus,  Brulle,  in  Webh  et  Berth.  {Col.)  64  (1838). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  sub  lapidibus  vulgaris. 

The  present  Hegeter,  which  seems  to  be  almost  universal  in  Grand 
Canary,  and  which  abounds  throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte,  is 
evidently  nearly  allied  to  the  preceding  one,  whose  elyti'al  pecu- 
liarities, of  minute  granules  and  thi'ce  longitudinal  costse,  it  possesses, 
but  to  a  less  extent — the  diminution  in  degree  being,  as  it  were, 
compensated  for  by  the  addition  of  a  transversely  crumpled  (or  cor- 
rugated) sui'face.  This  last  feature,  which  varies  somewhat  in  in- 
tensity, is  generally  very  conspicuous,  being  of  itself  sufficient  to  dis- 
tinguish the  species.  The  H.  impressus  is  a  little  less  opake  than 
the  costipennis ;  and  the  punctules  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  although 
excessively  minute,  are  traceable — which  is  scarcely  the  case  in  its 
ally,  except  when  viewed  beneath  the  microscope.  In  certain  dis- 
tricts, particularly  towards  the  south  and  centre  of  the  island  (as  at 
Arguiniguin  and  above  San  Bartolome),  it  is  a  httle  narrower,  con- 
vexer,  and  more  shining ;  and  its  elytra  are  less  evidently  granuled, 
and  have  their  obscure  costae  (although  perhaps  stUl  less  apparent) 
rather  more  numerous, — the  intermediate  ones,  which  are  obsolete  in 
the  normal  specimens  (and  in  the  H.  costipennis),  being  (however 
faint)  as  distinct  as  the  remainder.  But  the  two  forms  pass  into 
each  other  by  imperceptible  gradations. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA,  459 

696.  Hegeter  subrotundatus,  n.  sp. 

H.  affinis  //.  impresso,  sed  brevior,  paiilo  rotundatior  (sc,  subovalis) 
et  sensim  minus  opacus ;  capite  prothoraceque  distinetius  punctu- 
latis,  hoc  subbreviore,  magis  transverso,  ante  medium  sensim  la- 
tiore,  angulis  omnibus  paulo  obtusioribus  ;  elytris  distincte  granu- 
latis,  regulariter  sed  obsolete  longitudinaliter  sulcatis  et  paulo  mi- 
nus grosse  transversim  corrugatis ;  antennis  breviusculis,  robus- 
tioribus. 
Variat  [an  distinctio  sexualis  ?]  prothorace  antice  ad  latera  subex- 
planato-marginato,  aut  potius  juxta  marginem  longitudinaliter  im- 
presso (impressione  ad  angulos  anticos  oblique  incurvci). — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  3|. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  ad  Arguiniguin  deprehensus. 
Out  of  a  large  series  of  the  H.  impressus  captured  by  myself  at 
Arguinigaiin,  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary,  I  find  three  examples 
which  recede  so  much  from  the  remainder  that  I  can  scarcely  regard 
them  as  a  mere  variety  of  that  species — at  all  events  not  a  local  one, 
inasmuch  as  they  were  found  in  the  same  locality  as  the  others. 
Judging  from  the  types  now  before  me,  the  H.  suhrotimdatus  would 
seem  to  differ  from  its  ally  in  being  of  a  shorter  and  rounder  outline, 
and  rather  less  opake ;  in  its  head  and  prothorax  being  very  much 
more  distinctly,  and  rather  more  remotely,  punctured — the  latter, 
also,  being  somewhat  shorter  and  more  transverse,  more  evidently 
widened  before  the  middle,  with  the  angles  less  acute,  and  not  so 
deeply  bisinuated  along  the  basal  edge ;  and  in  its  antennae  being 
thicker,  with  their  third  joint  perhaps  a  trifle  less  elongated.  Its 
elytra  are  perceptibly  granulate,  and  obsoletely  sulcated — causing 
the  interstices  generally  (and  not  merely  the  alternate  ones),  as  in 
the  variety  indicated  above  of  the  -impressus,  to  appear  slightly  ele- 
vated. If  anything,  however,  they  are  perhaps  a  little  less  corru- 
gated transversely  than  is  the  case  in  that  insect. 

697.  Hegeter  tenuipunctatus. 

H.  subopacus,  subdepressus,  ubique  dense  ct  minute,  sed  tamen  di- 
stincte, punctulatus  (punctuhs  in  elytris  minutissimis) ;  prothorace 
transverso -subquadrato,  ad  latera  a^qualiter  subrotundato,  angulis 
posticis  vix  obtusis ;  elytris  planiusculis,  fere  simplicibus. — Long, 
corp.  lin.  3-4. 

Hegeter  tenuipunctatus?,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  65  (18.38). 

Habitat  in  montibus  valde  excelsis  Teneriffse,  usque  ad  9000'  vel 
10,000'  s.  m.  ascendens  :  Maio  ineunte  a.d.  1859  sub  lapidibus  prope 
Caiiadas  abundabat. 

M.  Brulle's  tyjjes  of  his  H.  tenuipimctatus,  which  I  examined  in 
Paris,  do  not  perfectlij  accord  with  this  Heyeter,  but  I  thought  them 


4G0  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

sufRciently  near  to  render  it  probable  that  the  two  arc  specifically 
identical ;  nevertheless,  if  they  should  prove  hereafter  to  be  distinct, 
I  would  then  propose  for  the  present  one  the  title  of  ascendens.  His 
examples  are  a  trifle  brighter,  and  have  their  prothorax  rather  nar- 
rower in  front  and  more  obliquely-straightened  at  the  sides. 

The  H.  tenuipimctatus  (as  here  defined)  is,  like  the  lateralis,  essen- 
tially an  alpine  insect — occurring  on  the  mountains  of  Teneriffe, 
from  about  7000  to  at  least  9000  (or  perhaps  10,000)  feet  above  the 
sea.  On  the  lofty  Cumbre  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  overlooking  the 
Cafiadas,  I  captured  it  in  profusion,  from  beneath  stones  and  scoriae, 
at  the  beginning  of  May  1859 ;  where  it  was  taken  afterwards, 
though  more  sparingly,  by  Dr.  Crotch.  The  species  may  be  known 
by  its  rather  depressed  body  and  opake  surface,  which  is  densely  and 
minutely  (but  nevertheless  very  evidently)  punctulated  all  over,  the 
punctures  of  the  elytra,  however,  being  exceedingly  minute ;  by  its 
prothorax  being  transversely  quadrate,  equalli/  (though  not  greatly) 
roimded  at  the  sides,  and  with  the  posterior  angles  rather  more  ob- 
tuse than  right  angles ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  almost  simple,  or  with 
scarcely  any  traces  whatsoever  of  longitudinal  stria?. 

698.  Hegeter  lateralis. 

H.  praeeedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  convexior  angustior  nitidior,  sensim 
magis  subcylindrico-ovatus,  punctui'tl  omnino  fortiore  et  vix  par- 
ciore ;  prothorace  ad  latera  minus  asqualiter  rotundato  (i.  e.  mox 
ante  medium  sensim  latiore),  ad  basin  minus  evidentcr  bisinuato, 
angulis  posticis  subobtusioribus ;  elytris  obsoletissime  substriatis, 
ad  latera  paido  magis  rotundatis,  quare  versus  humeros  minus  par- 
aUelis. 

Variat  (forsan  secundum  sexum)  plus  minus  nitidiusculus,  jiunctura 
plus  minus  grossa  et  elytris  plus  minus  evidentcr  substriatis. — 
Long.  corj).  lin.  2|-4. 

Hegeter  lateralis,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  65  (1838). 

Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriffae,  una  cum  specie  prsecedente 
degens. 

This  species  occurs  in  company  with  the  preceding  one,  in  almost 
the  loftiest  elevations  of  Teneriffe,  ascending,  I  believe,  to  about 
10,000  feet  above  the  sea.  Indeed  I  at  first  thought  that  it  might 
perhajis  be  the  other  sex  of  that  insect,  but  on  a  closer  inspection  I 
perceive  that  its  differences  are  too  numerous  to  warrant  that  suspi- 
cion. It  may  be  known  from  it  by  being,  on  the  average,  a  little 
convexer,  narrower,  and  more  shining,  having  more  of  a  subcylindric- 
ovate  outline  than  an  oblong  one;  by  its  jjunctation  being  altogether 
stronger,  and  perhaps  a  trifle  less  dense ;   by  its  prothorax  being 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  461 

rather  less  equally  rounded  at  the  sides  (or  somewhat  wider  before 
the  middle  than  behind  it),  less  bisinuated  along  the  basal  edge,  and 
with  the  hinder  angles  therefore  perceptibly  more  obtuse ;  and  by 
its  elytra  being  very  obsoletely  substriated  (a  character,  however, 
which  varies  a  httle  in  intensity),  and  more  evidently  rounded  at  the 
sides,  or  less  parallel  towards  their  base. 

Genus  263.  THALPOPHILA. 

Solier,  Ann.  tie  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  iv.  370  (1835). 
Although  I  should  not  myself  have  regarded  the  four  insects  enu- 
merated below  as  more  than  aberrant  Hegeters,  for  the  acconmiodation 
of  which  a  separate  Section  might  perhaps  be  desirable,  nevertheless, 
since  they  all  have  their  epistome  armed  in  the  centre  with  a  minute 
tooth,  and  the  &st  of  them  is  Ukewise  remarkable  for  the  greatly  de- 
veloped longitudinal  plait  on  either  side  of  its  forehead  (adjoining  the 
eye),  I  think  that  they  may  safely  be  referred  to  Seller's  genus  Thal- 
pophUa,  of  which  these  two  characters  appear,  from  the  diagnosis,  to 
constitute  the  essential  features  ;  and  moreover  as  the  only  described 
member  of  that  group  (namely,  the  AMs  abbreviata  of  Fabrieius)  is 
found  in  Senegal,  it  seems  still  further  probable,  even  geographically, 
that  these  five  natives  of  the  eastern  portion  of  the  Canarian  archi- 
pelago may  be  truly  congeneric  with  the  one  from  the  African  coast. 
If  such,  however,  should  be  the  case,  the  structural  formula  of  Thal- 
popliUa  wiU  require  a  slight  readjustment ;  for  the  lateral  carinse  of 
the  forehead,  the  "  depressed  "  body,  the  "  rounded  "  angles  of  the 
prothorax,  the  "  cylindrical  "  antennal  joints,  and  the  "  triangular  " 
scutellum  are  not  more  expressed  (except  perhaps  the  fii'st  of  them), 
or  more  generic,  than  they  are  in  Hegeter.  But  the  mucronated  epi- 
stome is  a  character  which  seems  to  hold  good  in  them  all. 

§  I.    Corpus  sat  magnum  ;  oculis  transversis,  reniformibus. 

699.  Thalpophila  plicifrons,  n.  sp. 

T.  oblongo-ovata,  crassa,  subopaca,  minute  et  sat  dense  punctulata ; 
capite  antice  grosse  subangulatim  mucronato,  utrinque  juxta  oculos 
alte  longitudinaliter  plicato  ;  pro tho race  ad  latera  parum  rotundato, 
angulis  posticis  subrectis,  anticis  acutis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  ro- 
bustis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  41-5. 

Hegeter  bre vicollis  ?,  Hart,  [nee  Br.  ],  Geolog.  Verhaltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert. 
140, 141. 

Habitat  FuerteventiU'am,  sub  lapidibus  parum  vulgaris. 

This  species  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  Fuerteventura, 

where  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself  near  Puerto  de  Cabras 


462  CANARIAN  COLEOrTERA. 

during  January  1858,  and  subsequently  by  myself  at  Oliva  in  March 
of  the  following  year  ;  and  I  possess  a  specimen  which  was  captured 
in  the  same  island  by  M,  Hartung.  It  may  readily  be  known  by 
its  rather  large  size  and  thick,  oblong-ovate  body,  by  its  subopake, 
densely  punctulated  surface,  and  by  its  head  having  the  longitudinal 
plait  on  either  side  (adjoining  the  eye)  greatly  raised  or  developed. 
Its  epistome  is  produced  in  front  into  a  robust  subangulated  point ; 
and  its  prothorax  has  the  sides  slightly  rounded,  the  basal  angles 
scarcely  more  than  right  angles,  and  the  anterior  ones  acute. 

700.  Thalpophila  Deyrollii,  n.  sp. 

T.  oblonga,  crassa,  aterrima,  polita ;  capitc  prothoraceque  dense  et 
(prcesertim  illo)  sat  profunde  punctatis,  epistomate  antice  minute 
sed  acute  mucronato  ;  prothorace  brevi,  transverso,  ad  latera  leviter 
rotixndato,  angulis  posticis  subrotundate  subrectis  ;  elytris  minute 
punctulatis  et  postice  plus  minus  e^ddenter  sed  i)arco  tuberculatis, 
angidis  humerahbus  hand  porrectis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  brevius- 
culis. 

Variat  in  insula  parva  "Lobos"  dicta  (juxta  Fuerteventuram  bo- 
realem)  elytris  grossius  asperato-tuberculatis  ;  necnon  in  insuhi 
"  Graciosa  "  (juxta  Lanzarotam  borealcm)  punctura  omnino  sub- 
tiliore  et  subparciore. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-4. 

Hegeter  politus,  Hart.  \jiiQcBr.'],Geolo(f.  Verhaltn. Lcmz.und FuerLUl. 

Halntat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus  ubique  vul- 
garis. Species  in  honorem  Dom.  A.  DeyroUe,  Parisii,  Coleopterorum 
scrutatoris  oculatissimi  acuti,  denominata. 

Although  one  of  M.  Brulle's  (two)  types  of  his  Hegeter  politus  ap- 
peared to  me,  when  I  examined  them  in  Paris,  to  ho  perhaps  refer- 
able to  this  insect,  nevertheless,  as  the  other  was  manifestly  nothing 
but  the  large  and  subglabrous  state  of  the  //.  mnaroides  (found  in 
the  Vale  of  Orotava),  and  since  his  description  (if  such  indeed  it  may 
be  called)  applies  most  evidenthj  to  the  latter,  I  cannot  possibly  iden- 
tify the  present  species  with  his  Hegeter  politus.  Moreover  even  that 
"  one  "  example  (and  which  has  nothing  in  common  with  his  "  dia- 
gnosis") is  labelled  "  Teneriffe";  which  renders  it  more  than  probable 
that  even  it  is  in  reality  distinct  from  the  Thalpophila  now  under 
consideration  :  but,  be  this  as  it  may,  M.  Brulle's  few  words  which 
take  the  place  of  a  description  are  so  decidedly  applicable  to  the  Tene- 
riifan  Hegeter  which  I  have  recorded  as  a  larger  and  somewhat  more 
shining  form  of  the  common  amaroides,  that  no  number  of  (so-called) 
"  types,"  afterwards  assigned  to  them,  could  make  them  tally  with 
this  well-marked  Thalpophila,  which  is  apparently  quite  peculiar  to 
the  eastern  portion  of  the  archipelago. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  463 

The  T.  Deyrollii  is  universal  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventura,  where  it  abounds,  beneath  stones,  independently  of  elevation  ; 
and  it  occurs  likewise  in  the  small  adjacent  islands  of  Graciosa  (off 
the  extreme  north  of  the  former)  and  Lobos  (off  the  extreme  north  of 
the  latter).  It  was  taken  also  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M.  Hartung,  and  has 
been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  It  will  easily 
be  recognized  by  its  thick,  oblong  body  and  shining,  intensely  black 
surface,  which  is  closely  punctured  all  over  and  has  the  hinder  elytral 
region  sparingly  studded  with  small  tubercles  or  granules.  Its  epi- 
stome  is  sharply,  but  minutely,  mucronated  in  the  centre ;  its  pro- 
thorax  is  short  and  transverse,  and  slightly  rounded  at  the  sides ; 
its  humeral  angles  (as  in  the  two  following  species)  are  less  porrect 
than  is  the  case  in  the  various  allied  forms  above  enumerated  ;  and 
its  limbs  are  short*. 

§  II.  Corpus  parvum;  ocidis  minoribus,  magis  lateralibus  (i.  e.  vix  sub 
margine  frontis  laterali  continvxitis),postice  oblique  subcarinato-ter- 
minatis. 

701.  Thalpophila  fuscipes. 

T.  oblonga,  subopaca,  nigra  vel  subfusco-nigTa ;  eapite  prothoraceque 
dense  et  profunde  punctatis,  punctis  versus  latera  oblongis  et  plus 
minus  longitudinaliter  confliientibus,  illius  epistomate  antice  mi- 
nutissime  serrate  et  in  medio  mucronato,  hoc  subtransversim  qua- 
drate angulis  posticis  subobtusis ;  elytris  subtUius  (sod  distincte) 
punctulatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2|^, 

Hegeter  fuscipes,  BruUe,  in  Wehb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  66  (1838). 
,  Hart,  Geolog.  Verhiiltti.  Lanz.  unci  Ftiert.  140. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus  in  inter- 
mediis  vulgaris. 

This  and  the  following  species  are  considerably  smaller  than  the 
two  preceding  ones,  and  have  their  eyes  comparatively  minute,  as  well 
as  less  reniform  and  more  lateral — being  less  transverse,  or  more  con- 
fined to  the  upper  portion  of  the  forehead,  and  terminated  posteriorly 
by  an  oblique  angulated  rim  (or  a  kind  of  obscure  keel).  In  all  of 
these  respects,  no  less  than  in  their  coarsely  sculptured  head  and  pro- 
thorax,  the  lateral  punctures  of  which  have  an  evident  tendency  (par- 
ticularly in  the  T.  submetaUica)  to  become  oblong  and  longitudinally 
confluent,  they  make  a  most  decided  approach  to  the  Gnophota;  from 
Grand  Canary,  enumerated  below ;  nevertheless  the  peculiarity  of 

*  In  its  polished  surface  and  general  sculpture,  tlie  T.  BeyroUii  is  a  good  deal 
allied,  at  first  sight,  to  my  Hegeter  latebricola,  from  the  Salvages  ;  but  that  insect, 
which  is  considerably  larger,  is  a  true  Hegeter  (its  epistome  not  being  mucronated), 
and  has  its  elytra  free  from  tubercles,  with  the  humeral  angles,  as  in  the  Hegeters 
generally,  much  more  porrect. 


464  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

sculpture  just  referred  to  is  very  much  less  expressed,  whilst  at  the 
same  time  their  more  mucronated  epistome  and  the  fact  of  their 
prosternal  lobe  being  Jiorizontal  (or  not  curved  downwards  between 
the  anterior  coxce)  wUl  certainly  remove  them  from  OnopJiota. 

The  T.  fuscipes  is  common  in  Lanzarote  and  Fucrteventura,  where 
it  occurs  beneath  stones  at  intermediate  elevations.  Around  Haria, 
in  the  north  of  the  former,  it  was  taken  abundantly  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself  diiring  January  1858  ;  and  it  was  likewise  captured  in  the 
same  island  by  M.  Hartung.  It  may  be  known  by  its  small  size, 
oblong  outline,  and  but  very  slightly  shining  (often  nearly  opake) 
surface,  which  is  densely  punctulated  all  over  and  of  a  less  intense 
black  than  in  the  allied  forms — having  sometimes  a  just  perceptibly 
brownish,  or  subpicescent,  tinge  :  its  prothorax  has  the  hinder  angles 
slightly  obtuse  ;  and  its  limbs  are  piceous.  The  Fuerteventuran 
examples  have  their  head  and  prothorax  a  trifle  more  coarsely  and 
densely  punctured  than  the  Lanzarotan  ones  ;  and,  judging  from  M. 
BruUe's  type,  which  I  examined  accurately  when  in  Paris,  the  species 
was  founded  on  a  very  small  individual  from  Fucrteventura. 

702.  ThalpopMla  submetallica,  n.  sp. 

T.  pra3cedenti  similis,  sed  minor,  brevier,  sensim  nitidior,  punctura 
fortiore,  elytris  obsolete  submetallicis  ;  capite  prothoraceque  parum 
densius  rvigosiusque  punctatis,  punctis  versus  latera  longitudina- 
liter  magis  confluentibus,  hoe  ad  latera  et  ad  angulos  posticos  paulo 
magis  rotundato ;  elytris  vix  parcius  punctulatis,  per  basin  sub- 
rectius  truncatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  paulo  clarius  rufo-piceis. 

Variat  in  Fucrteventura  sensim  minus  nitida. — Long.  corp.  lin.  I2-2. 

Habitat  LanzarotametFuerteventuram.unacum  praecedente  degens. 

This  is  the  smallest  of  the  Thalpophllce,  and  one  which  occurs  in 
company  with  the  T.  fuscipes,  both  in  Lanzarote  and  Fucrteventura 
(where  it  was  likewise  taken  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  the  latter  by  M. 
Hartung).  At  first  sight  it  might  almost  be  confounded  with  its  ally ; 
but,  apart  from  its  smaller  size,  it  will  be  seen,  when  carefully  inspected, 
to  be  more  shining,  and  to  have  its  elytra  obscurely  submetallic.  Its 
head  and  prothorax  are  more  densely  and  roughly  sculptured,  the 
punctures  towards  either  side  having  a  more  evident  tendency  to  be- 
come oblong  and  longitiidinally  confluent ;  the  sides  and  hinder  angles 
of  the  latter  are  more  decidedly  rounded ;  its  elytra  are  somewhat 
more  straighthj  truncate  (or  less  bisinuated)  at  their  base,  and,  if  any - 
thinri,  more  sparingly  and  sharply  pimctured  ;  and  its  limbs  are  gene- 
rally of  a  clearer  hue.  The  Fuerteventuran  examples  are  usually  a 
trifle  less  shining  than  the  Lanzarotan  ones. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  465 

Genus  264.  GNOPHOTA. 
Erichsou,  in  Wieg.  Archiv,  ix.  237  (1843). 
The  very  remarkable  sculpture  of  the  head  and  prothorax  of  the 
three  insects  described  below  led  me  to  suspect,  even  before  I  had 
accurately  examined  them,  that  they  might  perhaps  be  genericaUy 
distinct  from  the  allied  forms ;  and  I  now  perceive  that  the  construc- 
tion of  their  prosternal  lobe,  which  is  suddenly  curved  downwards 
between  the  anterior  coxae,  and  their  somewhat  smaller  eyes,  which 
are  more  or  less  bounded  posteriorly  by  an  oblique  carina,  or  slightly 
elevated  rim,  will  clearly  refer  them  to  Gnojphota  of  Erichson — a 
group  which  I  believe  to  be  confined,  so  far  as  the  hitherto  acknow- 
ledged members  of  it  are  concerned,  to  the  Cape  de  Yerdes*.  Indeed 
the  two  above-mentioned  peculiarities  seem  to  be  almost  the  only 
ones,  sanctioned  by  Erichson  and  Lacordaire,  to  separate  it  from 
Hegeter ;  but  I  think  that  the  anteriorly  serrated  epistome  (which  is 
'submueronated  in  the  centre)  should  be  added ;  and  I  also  imagine 
that  considerable  stress  ought  to  be  laid  upon  the  very  singular  sculp- 
ture of  the  head  and  prothorax — which  are  coarsely  and  closely  punc- 
tured, the  punctures  having  a  greater  or  less  tendency  to  become 
completely  confluent  longitudinally  (especially  on  either  side)  so  as 
to  produce  somewhat  curved  strigae.  In  the  O.  curta,  a  type  of  which 
has  been  communicated  to  me  by  Schaum,  this  sculpture  is  carried 
to  an  absurd  excess ;  but  even  in  the  Canarian  representatives  of  the 
group  it  is  conspicuously  indicated. 

§  I.   Oculi  transversi,  suhreniformes,  postice  indistincte  carinato- 
terminati. 

703.  Gnophota  cribricollis. 

G.  oblonga,  subdepressa,  subopaca ;  capite  prothoraceque  dense  et 
valde  profunde  punctatis,  punctis  (in  disco  hujus  exceptis)  oblongis 
confluentibus  strigas  longitudinales  plus  minus  efficientibus,  hoc  ad 
latera  leviter  rotundato,  ad  basin  bisinuato,  angulis  posticis  subob- 
tusis  ;  elytris  minutissime  et  parce  pimctulatis ;  antennis  pedibus- 
que  subgracilibus,  piceis,  illarum  articulo  3*'°  quarto  multo  longiore. 

Variat  elytris  vel  simplicibus  vel  obsoletissime  substriatis,  rarius  sub- 
impresso-inaequalibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Hegeter  cribricollis,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  66  (1838). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  prsesertim  in  regionibus  australibus 

degens. 

*  I  say  the  Cape  de  Verdes,  because  it  is  now  a  known  fact  that  the  collector  who 
was  sent  to  Angola  (and  who  died  there)  stopped  at  those  islands  en  passant,  and 
that  his  material  from  the  two  countries  was  amalgamated,  and  afterwards  trans- 
mitted to  Europe  as  Angolan — thus  occasioning  an  amount  of  confusion  which 
a  furtlier  and  more  accurate  knowledge  of  the  respective  faunas  can  alone  dispel. 

9     TT 


466  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

This  Gfnopliota  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in  the  central  and 
southern  districts  of  Grand  Canary — from  the  region  of  Tarajana  to 
Maspalomas  and  Arguinigiiin  ;  and  although  it  possesses  the  generic 
peculiarity  of  sculpture,  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  which  is  perhaps 
even  still  more  strongly  expressed  in  the  two  following  species,  it  may 
nevertheless  be  known  from  them  by  being,  on  the  average,  larger 
and  less  shining ;  by  its  prothorax  being  a  little  less  transverse,  not 
quite  so  rounded  at  the  sides  and  hinder  angles,  and  more  bisinuated 
along  its  basal  edge ;  by  its  elytra,  which  are  either  simple  or  very 
obsoletely  substriate,  being  much  more  minutely  punctulated ;  and 
by  its  limbs  being  longer — its  antennal  joints,  particularly  the  third 
one,  being  conspicuously  more  elongated.  Its  eyes  are  a  little  larger 
and  more  transverse  (or  reniform)  than  those  of  the  0.])unetipennis, 
being  less  evidently  terminated  behind  by  a  slightly  elevated  rim,  or 
keel. 

704.  Gnophota  insequalis,  n.  sp. 

G.  inter  cribricoJleni  et  2}i'''i('^>2^('nnein  aliquo  modo  sita,  sed  in  oculis 
hand  conspicue  carinato-terminatis  cum  ilia  melius  congruens ; 
capite  j)rothoraceque  (ut  in  punctipcnni)  densissime  et  valde  pro- 
fimde  strigoso-punctatis,  sed  hoc  ad  latera  paulo  magis  rotundato, 
angulis  posticis  rotundatioribus  ;  elytris  subovatis  (versus  humeros 
sensim  angustatis),  subdeprcssis,  grosse  impresso-insequalibus,  ar- 
gute sed  parce  punctulatis  necnon  obsoletissime  (valde  inconspicue) 
submetaUico-tinctis  ;  antennarum  articulo  3"°  quarto  parum  lon- 
giore. — Long.  corp.  hn.  2-1-. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  tempore  vernali  a.d.  1858  detecta. 

Three  examples  only  of  this  Onopliota,  which  were  captured  by 
myself  in  Grand  Canary  (I  have  no  note  as  to  the  precise  spot),  are, 
unfortunately,  all  that  I  possess  to  judge  from ;  nevertheless,  though 
to  a  certain  extent  intermediate  between  the  crihicollis  and  puncti- 
pemiis,  I  do  not  think  that  they  can  be  regarded  as  a  phasis  of  either 
of  them.  In  the  structure  of  their  eyes,  which  are  but  very  obscui'ely 
bounded  behind  by  an  oblique  rim,  as  well  as  in  their  comparatively 
distinct  scuteUum,  they  have  more  in  common  with  the  former  of 
those  insects  ;  whilst  in  their  very  densely  and  roughly  sculptured 
head  and  prothorax,  rather  bright  siu'face,  and  apparently  smallish 
size  they  agree  better  with  the  latter— though  the  sides  and  hinder 
angles  of  their  prothorax  are  still  more  rounded  than  is  the  case  in 
that  species.  In  their  sharply  punctured  elytra,  as  well  as  in  the 
length  of  their  limbs,  they  are  intermediate  between  the  two  ;  but 
in  the  outline  of  their  elytra,  which  are  perceptibly  narrowed,  or 
di'awn  in,  at  the  shoulders,  and  which  have  a  barely  traceable  sub- 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA.  467 

metallic  tinge,  and  which  (as  in  the  Hegeter  impressus)  are  uneven, 
or  pitted  transversely  with  a  few  irregular  depressions,  they  recede 
alike  from  both  of  them. 
§  II.   Omli  laterales,  minores,  postice  distmcte  carmato-terminati. 
705.  Gnophota  punctipennis,  n.  sp. 
6r.  minor  et  brevior  quam  O.  crihricolli,  nccnon  subconvexior,  nitidior, 
punctura  omnino  fortiore  ac  paulo  densiore;  prothorace  magis  trans- 
verso,  ad  latera  sensim  magis  rotundato,  per  basin  miaius  bisinuato, 
angulis  posticis  paulo  obtusioribus  ;  scutello  vix  minore  ;  elytris 
per  basin  rectius  truncatis,  interdum  leviter  submalleato-in^qua- 
libus  ;  antennis  pedibusque  brevioribus,  vix  robustioribus,  illarum 
articulis  (praesertim  3"°)  conspicue  minus  elongatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  l|-2. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  vulgaris. 
This  little  Gnopliota  appears  to  be  universal  throughout  the  region 
of  El  Monte,  and  around  Las  Palmas,  in  Grand  Canary  ;  and  it  may 
be  known  from  the  cribricoUis  by  being,  on  the  average,  smaller,  pro- 
portionally shorter  and  more  convex,  more  shining,  and  more  deeply 
and  closely  punctured  (this  last  distinction  being  a  very  conspicuous 
one  as  regards  the  elytra) ;  by  its  prothorax  being  relatively  a  little 
wider  and  more  transverse,  straighter  (or  less  bisinuated)  along  the 
posterior  edge,  and  with  the  hinder  angles  rather  roimder,  or  more 
obtuse  ;  by  its  scutellum  being  perceptibly  smaller,  its  elytra  more 
straightly  truncated  at  their  base,  and  its  limbs  shorter  and  some- 
what more  robust.  The  last  of  these  characters  is  exceedingly  evident 
so  far  as  the  antennal  joints  are  concerned,  the  third  one  of  which 
is  much  less  decidedly  elongated  than  in  the  cribricoUis.  M.  Brulle 
manifestly  alludes  to  this  species  as  a  mere  state  of  his  Hegeter  cri- 
bricoUis ;  but  such  could  only  have  arisen  from  a  most  superficial  in- 
spection, and  from  his  not  having  perceived  its  real  distinctive  features 
at  aU. 

Genus  265.  MELANOCHRUS  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus  ovatum,  curtum,  convexum  :  eiyistomate  minute  serrato  et  in 
medio  sensim  mucronato  ;  oculis  parvis,  subrotundatis,  lateralibus  : 
prothorace  angustulo,  transverso-subconico  apice  truncate ;  pro- 
sterni  lobo  inter  coxas  anticas  terminate  (nee  producto),  aut  potius 
ibidem  subito  decurvo  :  mesosterno  antice  etiam  convexo  (nullo 
modo  emarginato)  ;  scutello  distincto,  triangulari-transverso  :  ehj- 
tris  ovalibus  basi  trimcatis,  apice  acurainatis,  per  basin  marginatis  ; 
epipleuris  subrotundatis,  plica  tenui,  Integra.  Antennce  et  instru- 
ment((  cibaria  fere  ut  in  Onophotd  etHegeteri,  sed  illse  longius  den- 
siusque  pilosae,  arfult"""  parvo,  ovali  (nee  oblique  truncato).  La- 
brum  exsertum,  valde  pilosum,  apice  leviter  emarginatum,  angulis 
anticis  rotundatis.     Maoeillarum  loho  inferno  acute  uncinato.     Pal- 

2u2 


468  CANABIAN  COLEOPTEBA. 

2?orum  art  ulV""  in  maocillarihus  Becuriformi-ovali,  in  lahialibus 
elongato-ovali  apice  paulo  acuminato.  Mentum  transversum,  ad 
latera  valde  rotundatum,  apice  in  medio  emarginatum,  angiilis  an- 
ticis  obtusis.  lAgxda  curta,  pone  mentum  recondita,  antice  biloba 
et  longe  ciliata.  Pedes  antici  fossorii,  valde  robusti,  tihiis  latis, 
compressis  sed  extus  simplicibus,subinciir\ds,  ad  angnilum  internum 
fortiter  bicalcaratis  (calcari  majore  elongato,  curvato)  ;  jjosUi-iores 
elongati,  gracUes,  tihiis  subexcurvis,  tarsis  elongatis,  art"  1™°  lon- 
giusculo, 

A  ^e\m'(i-)Q)ii)s  (^eXas  et  yjioos),  atratus. 

The  curious  insect  from  which  the  above  structural  characters  have 
been  compiled  is  at  once  remarkable  amongst  the  allied  fonns  for  its 
fossorial  habits,  in  which  respect  it  makes  an  approach  to  the  Ero- 
diadce,  though  its  broad  and  much  compressed  anterior  tibiae  are 
not  palmate  externally.  Its  body  is  short,  convex,  and  elliptical-ovate, 
the  prothorax  being  subconical  and  narrower  than  the  elytra,  and  its 
epipleurae  are  rather  rounded  and  obtuse  ;  and  although  their  edges 
are  not  ciliated  as  is  frequently  the  case  in  sand-burrowing  species, 
its  antennce  are  nevertheless  exceedingly  pilose,  being  clothed  with 
elongate  hairs.  Its  epistome  is  minutely  serrated  in  front  and  slightly 
mucronated  in  the  centre ;  and  its  eyes  are  small,  subrotundate,  and 
lateral, — in  both  of  which  respects  it  agrees  with  Gnoplwta.  Its 
prosternal  lobe  also  is  more  in  accordance  with  the  Onophotce  than 
with  the  members  of  the  neighbouring  genera — since  it  is  not  pro- 
duced horizontally  beyond  the  commencement  of  the  anterior  coxae, 
but  may  be  regarded  either  as  there  suddenly  terminated,  or  else  as 
so  completely  bent  downwards  as  to  appear  so  ;  but  its  mesosternum 
has  not  even  a  tendency  to  be  scooped-out  in  front,  being,  on  the  con- 
trary, convex.  Its  scutelhun  is  distinct,  its  elytra  are  margined  along 
their  basal  edge,  and  its  four  hinder  legs  are  slender  and  elongated — 
all  of  which  particulars,  no  less  than  the  smallness  of  its  eyes,  its 
general  outline,  and  its  fossorial  front  tibiae,  will  separate  it  likewise 
from  Oxycara,  to  which  in  some  respects  it  is  akin.  The  last  joint 
of  its  antennae,  although  smallish,  is  not  obliquely  truncated  (as  in 
Hegeter  and  the  allied  groups) ;  neither  are  the  under  segments  of 
its  prothorax  longitudinally  strigose*. 

706.  Melanochrus  Lacordairii,  n.  sp. 
M.  breviter  elliptico-ovatus,  convexus,  niger,  ssepius  obsoletissime 
(vix  perspicue)  submetallico-tinctus,  nitidus,  argute  sed  hand  dense 

*  Concerning  the  affinities  of  this  insect,  Prof.  Lacordaire,  immediately  after 
the  completion  of  his  admirable  volume  on  the  genera  of  the  Heferomera,  wrote 
to  me  as  follows : — "  Cest  bien  une  Tentyriide,  et  im  genre  nouveau  voisin  des 
Gnophofa  et  des  O.ri/cara." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  469 

punctatus  (punctis  in  elytris  sensim  minoribus  et  vix  subasperatis) ; 
prothorace  subconico,  tenuiter  marginato,  angulis  posticis  rotun- 
datis  ;  antennis  fulvo-pilosis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  l|-24-. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  ad  radices  plantarum  in 
arenosis  maritimis  et  submaritimis  fodiens.  Species  in  honorem  Prof. 
Th.  Lacordaire,  per  tot  annos  Historise  Naturalis  et  prsesertim  Ento- 
mologiae  magistri,  dicata. 

Apparently  not  uncommon  in  certain  spots,  adjoining  the  sea-beach, 
in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — where  it  burrows  into  the  sand  at 
the  roots  of  plants,  in  company  with  the  Arthrodes  subcUiatus  and 
costlfrons,  the  Onydiolips  bifurcatus,  Pentatemnus  arenarius,  Saprinus 
lobatus,  and  other  insects  of  similar  habits.  Under  such  circumstances 
it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  at  the  end  of  January  1858, 
to  the  south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras,  in  Fuerteventura ;  and  during  the 
spring  of  the  following  year  I  met  with  it  more  abundantly  in  the 
sandy  region  at  Corralejo,  at  the  extreme  north  of  that  island,  as 
weU  as  to  the  south  of  Arrecife  in  Lanzarote.  I  captured  an  insect 
on  the  sand-hills  to  the  south  of  Mogadore,  on  the  opposite  coast  of 
Africa  (close  to  the  Emperor  of  Morocco's  unfinished  palace),  which 
may  perhaps  be  a  second  species  of  Melanochrus* . 

Fam.  65.  BLAPID^. 

Genus  266.  BLAPS. 
Fabricius,  Syst.  Ent.  254  (1775). 

707.  Blaps  gages. 

Tenebrio  gages,  Linn.,  St/st.  Nat.  ii.  676  [script.,  per  err.,  giyas]  (1767 ). 
Blaps  gages,  Brtdle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  68  (1838). 

*  The  present  position  being  the  proper  one  for  the  Akindce,  I  should  mention 
that  the  Akls  acuminata  of  Fabricius  is  I'ecorded  by  M.  BruUe  as  Canarian,  on 
the  evidence  of  specimens  supposed  to  have  been  captured  by  Messrs.  Webb  and 
Berthelot.  I  examined  them,  when  in  Paris ;  but  as  I  feel  considerable  doubt 
whether  they  are  truly  Canarian,  I  cannot  admit  tiie  species  into  this  Catalogue. 
It  is  far  from  impossible  that  it  may  occur  in  these  islands  ;  but,  at  the  same 
time,  I  think  it  much  ■more  likely  that  the  examples  were  obtained  (perhaps  alive) 
at  S'*  Cruz,  having  been  brought  over  accidentally  in  some  of  the  trading  vessels 
from  the  coast  of  Africa.  Such  importations  are  both  natural  and  by  no  means 
unfrequent ;  and,  indeed,  I  have  now  before  me  specimens  of  a  large  Scaurus,  a 
Timelia,  an  Erodius,  and  of  the  Scarites  yigas  which  were  picked  up  by  Dr.  Crotch 
on  the  Mole  at  S'*  Cruz — escaped  from  the  actual  steamer  in  which  he  had  himself 
arrived  from  Moyadore  (the  insects  having  been  captured  by  liimself  and  the 
sailors  on  the  little  island  off  that  port,  and  afterwards  allowed  to  run  loose  on 
board  the  vessel) !  I  conceive  it  very  probable,  therefore,  that  the  Akis  may  have 
made  its  appearance  in  much  the  same  way ;  or  that,  at  all  events,  further  evidence 
is  necessary  before  it  can  be  conscientiously  cited  as  Canarian. 


470  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Blaps  gages,  WulL,  Ins.  Mad.  506  (1854). 
,  M,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  157  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Goniera,  in  tenebris 
la tens. 

The  European  B.  gages,  which  occurs  likewise  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  as  well  as  at  the  Azores  and  on  the  rocks  of  the  Salvages, 
will  iu  all  probability  be  found  universal  throughout  these  islands ; 
nevertheless  hitherto  I  have  myself  detected  it  only  in  Lanzarote, 
Grand  Canary,  and  Teneriffe  ;  but  it  has  been  communicated  by  the 
Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva  from  Gomera,  In  Teneriffe  it  was  taken 
also  by  M.  Hartung. 

708.  Blaps  alternans. 
Blaps  alternans,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  68  (1838). 
,  Hartuny,  Gedoy.  Verhaltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  140. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventiu-am,  sub  lapidibus  magnis  nec- 
non  in  cavernis  tufae,  in  montibus,  congregans. 

This  large  Blaps,  at  once  remarkable  for  its  elytra  being  densely 
roughened,  or  asperated,  and  closely  beset  with  longitudinal  ridges, 
the  alternate  ones  of  which  have  a  tendency  to  be  more  developed 
than  the  remainder  (a  peculiarity  which  is  more  expressed  in  some 
examples  than  in  others),  seems  to  be  confined,  so  far  at  least  as  has 
been  observed  hitherto,  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — where  it 
congregates  beneath  slabs  of  stone,  and  in  small  basaltic  caverns,  on 
the  mountain-slopes  of  intermediate  elevations.  Under  such  circum- 
stances I  have  captured  it  in  profusion  on  the  hills  above  Haria,  in 
the  north  of  the  former,  in  which  island  it  was  likewise  found  by 

M.  Hartung. 

709.  Blaps  similis. 
Blaps  similis,  Lat,  Hist.  Nat.  Crust,  et  Ins.  x.  279  (1803). 

fatidica,  Sturm,  Deutsch.  Fnu,  ii.  205  (1807). 

,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  68  (1838). 

fatadica,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  508  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  157  (1857). 


Habitat  Fuerteventuram  et  Teneriffam  (circa  domos),  forsan  ex 
alienis  introducta. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  occurs  likewise  in  the  Ma- 
deiran Group  and  at  the  Azores,  seems  to  be  scarce  in  these  islands ; 
though,  being,  in  all  probability,  a  mere  introduction  from  more  north- 
ern latitudes,  it  would  very  likely  bo  found  abundantly  in  the  houses 
and  warehouses,  if  carefully  searched  for.  The  only  examples,  how- 
ever, which  I  happen  to  possess  are  from  Fuerteventura  and  Teneriffe 
(in  the  latter  of  which  it  was  found  by  M.  Hartung). 


CANARIAX   COLEOPTERA.  471 


Fam.  66.  PIMELIAD^. 

Genus  267.  PIMELIA. 
Fabricius,  Si/st.  Ent.  251  (1775). 

§  I.  Scutellum  (lit  in  Pimeliadis  typicis)  conspicuum,  postice 
dilatafo-transversuni. 

710.  Pimelia  lutaria. 

P.  subopaca  (subtilissime  alutacea),  pilis  plus  minus  elongatis  erectis 
praesertim  versus  latera  parce  obsita  et  pube  parva  cinerea  demissa 
hinc  inde  (sed  praecipue  in  limbo  et  postice)  vestita ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  parce  punctatis  (punctis  in  illo  parvis,  in  hoc  minutis- 
simis),  hoc  lato,  postice  truncato,  ad  latera  subsequaliter  rotundato, 
utrinque  tubercuHs  magnis  asperato  ;  elytris  ovalibus  vel  oblongo- 
ovalibus  basi  subemarginatis  (vix  bisinuatis),  leviter  transversim 
rugulosis,  parce  sed  argute  asijerato-tuberculatis,  in  limbo  grosse 
serratis,  costis  tribus  (praeter  lateralem)  indistinctis,  antice  eva- 
nescentibus,  sing-ulis  instructis ;  tibiis  in  facie  superiore  breviter 
cinereo-pubescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  6-11. 

Pimelia  lusaria*,  Brnlle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  68.  pi.  i.  f.  11  (18.38). 

eaiiariensis,  Hart,  [nee  -B/-.],  Geoloq.  VerMltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert. 

140,  141. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventiu'am,  necnon  in  insula  parva 
adjacente  "  Graciosa"  dicta,  sub  lapidibus  vulgaris. 

This  Pimelia  is  universal  (and,  I  think  I  may  add,  the  onlt/  one) 
in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  where  it  abounds,  independently  of 
elevation — occurring  likewise  in  the  little  island  of  Graciosa,  off  the 
north  of  the  former.  It  was  captured  also  both,  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M. 
Hartung ;  and  was  wrongly  referred  by  Dr.  Heer  (who  prepared  the 
list  for  M.  Hartung's  volume)  to  Brulle's  P.  canariensis — which  is  a 
totally  different  insect,  found  by  Messrs.  "Webb  and  Berthelot  on  the 
extreme  summit  of  the  Peak  of  Teneriffe. 

Apart  from  its  numerous  secondary  characters,  the  P.  lutaria  may 

*  The  inaccuracy  of  M.  BrulM's  catalogue  seems  to  extend  even  to  the  very 
correcting  of  the prgss.  In  the  text  tliis  Pimelia  is  called  " lusaria"  ;  but  it  is 
evident  that  lutaria  is  the  title  which  was  intended,  not  merely  because  if  is  so 
spelt  upon  the  plate,  but  likewise  from  the  fact  that  that  term  is  peculiarly  appli- 
cable to  the  present  species — the  short  wliitish,  deciunbent  pubescence  with  which 
it  is  partially  clothed  having  the  prima  facie  appearance  of  mud,  or  a  kind  of 
earthy  deposit  (such  as  the  insect  might  have  accumulated  from  the  dry  volcanic 
soil  into  which  it  often  half-buries  itself,  beneath  the  stones,  so  as  to  remain  con- 
cealed). But  it  is  curious  to  observe  how  a  blunder  of  this  sort  is  apt  to  beget 
others  ;  for  Lacordaire,  having  aj)parently  omitted  to  glance  at  the  plate,  and 
perceiving  the  absurdity  of  such  a  name  as  '■'■  lusaria,"  corrects  it  into  lusoria; 
and  thus  the  original  title,  which  was  a  tolerably  distinctive  one.  is  entirely  lost 
sight  of ! 


472  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

readily  be  known  b}^  its  broad,  very  lightly  punctured  prothorax  ;  and 
by  its  entire  surface  (particularly  towards  the  sides)  being  sparingly 
studded  with  more  or  less  elongate,  erect  hairs,  and  clothed  in  parts 
with  a  short,  decumbent,  cinereous  under-pile,  which  at  first  sight 
has  more  the  appearance  of  a  muddy  or  earthy  deposit  than  of  any- 
thing else.  Its  elytra  are  slightly  wrinkled  transversely,  and  sharply 
asperated  with  small,  remote  tubercles ;  and  have  their  three  costse 
sufficiently  distinct  behind,  but  evanescent  in  front. 

711.  Pimelia  canariensis. 

Pimelia  canariensis,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  67  (1838). 

Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  TenerifFise,  in  summo  ijiso  monte  "  Pico 
de  Teyde"  (12,100'  s.m.)  a  DD.  Webb  et  Berthelot  deprehensa. 

I  have  not  myself  captured  this  Pimelia — perhaps  owing  to  the  fact 
that  considerations  of  health  did  not  permit  me  to  ascend  higher  than 
about  9000  or  10,000  feet  on  the  mountains  of  Teneriffe  ;  for  it  would 
appear,  from  a  note  attached  to  the  types,  that  it  was  taken  by  Messrs. 
Webb  and  Berthelot  on  the  summit  of  the  ""Peak  "  itself*.  It  is  the 
only  insect,  throughout  the  entire  collection,  in  which  I  could  detect 
any  appended  observation  bearing  upon  its  habits  ;  nevertheless  even 
that  one,  although  of  such  extreme  topographical  interest,  is  of  course 
totally  ignored  by  M.  Brulle.  I  examined  the  specimens  with  great 
care,  whilst  in  Paris,  and  came  to  the  conclusion  that  the  species  is 
exceedingly  distinct  from  aU  the  others  hitherto  detected  in  these 
islands.  It  appeared  roundish  in  outline,  and  clothed  with  a  fine, 
short,  yellowish  pubescence  :  its  prothorax  is  impunctate  ;  and  each 
of  its  elytra  is  furnished  with  two  beautifully  defined  outer  rows  of 
equal  tubercles  and  a  large  raised  costa  nearer  to  the  suture — the 
intermediate  tubercles  being  rather  distant,  rounded,  and  distinct. 

712.  Pimelia  fomicata. 

Pimelia  fomicata,  Hbst,  Natwsyst.  viii.  79.  tab.  122.  f.  8  (1799). 

obesa,  Sol.,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  v.  191  (1836). 

,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (CuL)  67  (1838). 

Habitat? 

I  have  not  observed  this  Mediterranean  species  at  the  Canaries ; 
nevertheless  I  examined  carefully  the  types  of  Messrs.  Webb  and 
Berthelot,  when  in  Paiis,  and  they  seemed  to  me  to  be  correctly 
identified  with  the  fomicata.  M.  Brulle,  who  compiled  the  list  for 
Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  work,  of  course  gives  no  information 

*  The  note  to  which  I  allude  is  as  follows :  '■  Sous  les  pierres  ou  dans  des  ea- 
rites  souterraines  dopuis  des  cotes  j usque  sur  le  pie,  a  1600  toises  d'elevation." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  473 

concerning  the  specimens ;  so  that  I  am  unable  to  state  in  which  of 
the  seven  islands  they  were  obtained. 

713.  Pimelia  ascendens,  n.  sp. 

P.  subnitida  ;  capite  antice  transversim  subelevato  et  ibidem  profundc 
punetato  ;  prothorace  apice  subsinuato,  miiiutissime  et  parcissime 
punctulato,  ntrinque  tuberculis  magnis  obsito ;  elytris  oblongo- 
ovalibus  apice  subacuminatis,  grosse  et  dense  subasperato-tuber- 
culatis,  in  limbo  leviter  serratis,  singulis  eostis  tribus  (praeter  late- 
ralem)  latis  obtusis  sed  valde  distinctis  (sublaterah  tuberculato- 
subserrata,  sed  discali  et  subsuturali  simplicibus,  postice  subito  ab- 
breviatis),  instnictis ;  antennis  tarsisque  piccis. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
81-11. 

Pimelia  barbara,  Br.  [nee  Sol.'],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  67  (18.38). 
Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriffae,  usque  ad  10,000'  s.  m. 
ascendens. 

This  is  essentially  an  alpine  Pimelia,  being  confined  (so  far  as  I 
have  observed  hitherto)  to  almost  the  loftiest  elevations  of  TenerifFe — 
ascending  to  at  least  10,000  feet  above  the  sea.  Under  such  circum- 
stances I  took  it  in  profusion,  at  the  beginning  of  May  1859,  on  the 
Cumbre  adjoining  the  Cafiadas,  above  Ycod  el  Alto ;  where  it  was 
also  captured,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  whence 
it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  and 
M.  Hartung.  It  may  easily  be  known  by  its  narrowish,  oblong  outline 
(the  elytra  being  but  little  rounded  at  the  sides,  and  not  much  di'awn 
downwards  at  their  apex);  by  its  prothorax  being  subsinuated  along 
the  anterior  edge  ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  very  densely  beset  with 
large,  round,  coarse  tubercles  (which  become  less  raised  towards  the 
suture,  and  smaller  towards  the  sides),  and  with  the  three  costse,  on 
each,  considerably  developed,  broad,  and  obtuse — the  sublateral  one 
being  more  or  less  evidently  composed  of  elongated  tubercles,  whilst 
the  discal  and  subsutural  ones  are  simple,  and  suddenly  abbreviated 
behind. 

An  examination  of  M.  Brulle's  types,  in  Paris,  convinced  me  that 
this  is  the  Pimelia  which  he  referred,  in  his  very  inaccurate  catalogue, 
to  the  P.  barbara  of  Solier.  It  is,  however,  totally  distinct,  even 
superficially,  from  that  species — being  not  only  smaller,  narrower, 
and  very  much  less  roughly  sculptured,  but  likewise  with  its  pro- 
thorax  conspicuously  less  widened,  muc7i  less  coarsely  margined  both 
before  and  behind,  simply  sinuated  (or  subemarginate)  in  front, 
instead  of  being  somewhat  bisinuated,  and  with  only  a  few  tubercles 
on  either  side ;  with  its  scutelliun  shorter,  and  differently  shaped ; 


474  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

with  its  elytra  less  rounded  at  the  edges,  less  raised  along  the  suture, 
and  with  their  costse  relatively  broader  and  more  obtuse ;  and  with 
its  limbs  less  robust — the  antennae  and  tarsi  being  also  rufo-piceous 
instead  of  black. 

714.  Pimelia  radula. 

P.  proecedenti  similis,  sed  minus  oblonga  (elytris  rotundatioribus  et 
postice  mag-is  desilienti-truncatis) ;  prothorace  apice  baud  sinuato ; 
elytris  tuberculis  paulo  minoribus  sed  sensim  magis  asperatis  ob- 
sitis,  in  limbo  paulo  minus  grosse  serratis,  singulis  costis  tribus 
angustioribus  minus  elevatis  (sed  sublaterali  et  discali  magis  tuber- 
culato-serratis,  subsuturali  antice  laevi  subevanescente  sed  postice 
in  tuberculam  parvam  gradatim  mergente)  instructis. 

a.  Elytrorum  tuberculis,  praesertim  versus  sutui-am,  minus  distinctis. 
[Circa  Orotavam  vulgaris.] 

ft  {granidata'l ,  Lat.,  ined.).  Elytrorum  tuberculis  grossius  asj^eratis. 
[Circa  et  supra  Sanctum  Crucem  prsecipue  degens.] — Long.  corp. 
lin.  7|-10. 

Pimelia  radiila,  DeJ.,  ined. 

,  Sol,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  E)d.  de  Franci;  v.  136  (183G). 

Habitat  Tenerifiam,  prsecipue  in  inferioribus  occurrens. 

Whilst  the  last  Pimelia  is  peculiar  to  the  higher  elevations  of  Tene- 
riffe,  this  one  occurs  principally  in  the  lowest  (even  on  the  level  of 
the  sea-shore),  though  occasionally  ascending  into  the  intermediate 
districts.  I  have  taken  the  state  "  a  "  (which  has  its  elytral  tuber- 
cles less  strongly  defined)  around  the  Puerto  Orotava,  and  the  "  ft  " 
in  the  vicinity  of  S'"  Cruz  ;  the  latter  has  also  been  communicated  by 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  That  it  is  truly  conspecific  with  the 
P.  radula  of  Solier  I  can  vouch  for  certain — having,  through  the 
kindness  of  M.  Deyrolle,  received  the  loan  of  two  specimens  which 
have  been  compared  with  Solier's  tj'pes  in  the  collection  of  the  Conat 
Breme  at  Turin.  Curiously  enough,  one  of  these,  which  he  regards 
as  " tout-a-fait  tyinque,"  is  identical  with  my  state  "a,"  as  enun- 
ciated above ;  whilst  the  other,  which  was  labelled  in  the  original 
collection  of  Dejean  as  "  radida,  var."  (though  with  the  erroneous 
habitat  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope),  is  a  small  example  of  my  state 
"  ft."  And  this  is  the  more  satisfactory,  inasmuch  as  I  had  drawn 
out  the  above  diagnosis  before  I  had  even  glanced  at  M.  Deyrolle's 
individucils. 

The  P.  radula  is  less  oblong  than  the  ascendens,  its  elytra  being 
more  rounded  at  the  sides  and  more  bent  downwards  (or  truncated) 
towards  their  apex ;  its  prothorax  is  straighter  along  the  anterior 
edge ;  and  its  elytra  have  their  tubercles  rather  smaller,  but  a  little 
more  obliqtiehj-im/tin</ed  (or  asperate),  and  their  three  costa)  less  clc- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA.  475 

vated,  and  not  so  broad  and  obtuse — the  sublateral  one  being  more 
serrated  with  denser,  or  closely  set,  tubercles,  whilst  even  the  discal 
one  (instead  of  being  simple)  is  similarly,  though  less  coarsely,  con- 
structed :  the  subsutural  one  (instead  of  being  simple  and  well  defined 
throughout,  and  terminated  suddenly  behind)  is  simple,  and  indis- 
tinct, in  front,  merging  posteriorly  into  a  series  of  small  tubercles. 

715.  Pimelia  sparsa. 

Pimelia  sparsa,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth  ( Col.)  67  (1838). 
Habitat  ? 

I  did  not  meet  with  this  insect  during  my  Canarian  researches  ; 
but  I  examined  it,  when  in  Paris,  and  do  not  feel  altogether  siu'e 
that  it  is  more  than  a  variety  of  the  radula  in  which  the  elytral  tu- 
bercles are  very  much  less  numerous.  Still,  as  I  could  not  compare 
it  with  sufficient  accuracy,  and  since  I  have  no  example  amongst  my 
extensive  series  of  the  radula  which  at  all  approaches  it  in  this  pe- 
culiarity of  the  elytral  sculpture,  I  do  not  think  it  would  be  safe,  at 
any  rate  without  further  evidence,  to  treat  it  as  a  mere  phasis  of 
that  species.  M.  Bridle,  of  course,  gives  us  no  information  as  to 
the  island  in  which  it  was  obtained. 

716.  Pimelia  ambigua,  n.  sp. 

P.  subopaca  ;  capite  antice  transversim  subelevato  et  ibidem  profunde 
punctato;  prothorace  subinaequali,  apice  subsinuato,  minutissime 
et  parcissime  punctulato,  utrinque  (praesertim  postice)  tuberculis 
obsito ;  elytris  oblongo-ovalibus,  basi  bisinuatis,  antice  subde- 
pressis,  sutura  baud  elevata,  dense  transversim  undulato-insequa- 
Hbus  et  tuberculis  minutissimis  granuliformibus  (versus  suturam 
evanescentibus)  parce  obsitis,  in  limbo  subinyequaliter  serratis,  sin- 
guHs  costis  tribus  (praeter  lateralem)  acutiusculis  subuiidulato- 
angulatis  (sublaterali  paulo  evidentius  serrata)  instructis. — Long. 
corp.  lin.  8. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  ?  (certe  ab  ilia  ad  Dom"'"  Deyrolle,  Parisium, 
missa). 

A  single  example  of  this  Pimelia  has  been  communicated  by  M. 
Deyrolle,  of  Paris,  as  having  been  sent  to  him  from  Teneriffe.  In- 
deed it  would  appear  from  his  statement  that  there  can  be  no  ques- 
tion that  it  is  Canarian,  though  I  will  not  commit  myself  to  re- 
garding it  as  undoubtedly  Teneriffan.  Its  subopake  and  rather 
oblong  elytra,  which  are  bisinuated  at  their  base,  a  good  deal  flattened 
anteriorly,  with  the  suture  hardly  at  all  raised  (even  behind),  and 
which  are  densely,  though  minutely,  subrugulosc  (or  crumpled)  trans- 


476  CANAUIAN  COLEOPTEUA. 

versely,  so  as  to  cause  the  ridges  (which  are  narrowish  and  aiigiilar) 
to  seem  as  though  delicately  subimdulated,  will  serve  to  separate  it 
from  its  allies.  As  in  the  P.  costipenms,  its  elytral  tubercles  are 
so  far  reduced  in  dimensions  as  to  take  the  form  of  smaU  and  remote 
granules  (Avhich  are  nearly  evanescent  on  the  sutiiral  interval) ;  and 
its  subsutural  ridge  is  rather  suddenly  curved  outwards  at  the  base. 
It  appears,  to  a  certain  extent,  to  be  intermediate  between  that 
insect  and  the  ascend  ens,  having  rather  the  outline  of  the  latter, 
with  somewhat  the  sculpture  of  the  former ;  nevertheless,  of  the 
two,  it  is  certainly  jnore  akin  to  the  costipennis,  and  might  possibly 
be  a  Teneriffan  phasis  of  that  species, 

717.  Pimelia  costipeimis,  n.  sp. 

P.  subnitida  ;  capite  antice  profunde,  postice  minute  et  parce  punc- 
tate ;  j)i"othorace  minutissime  ct  parcissime  punctulato,  utrinque 
tuberculis  magnis  obsito ;  elytris  ovalibus,  tuberculis  parvis  sub- 
asperatis  granuliformibus  (versus  suturam  minus  distinctis)  ob- 
sitis,  in  limbo  leviter  serratis,  singulis  costis  tribus  (praeter  latera- 
lem)  valde  elevatis  (sublaterali  incHstincte  tuberculato-subserrata) 
instructis,  interstitiis  subconcavis  ;  antennis  rufo-piceis. 
a.  Paulo  minor,  pedibus  graciUoribus,  rufo-piceis.  \^Ins.  Hierro.] 
j(3  (yalidipes).  Paulo  major,  pedibus  robustioribus,  piceis.  \_Ins.  Go- 
mera.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  7-11. 

Habitat  in  Gomera  et  Hierro,  hinc  inde  vulgaris :  insectum  vile, 
valde  spernendum ;  in  stercore  humane  arido  sese  occultare  delectat. 

I  can  detect  no  difference  between  the  states  a  and  /3,  above  enun- 
ciated, except  that  the  former  (which  abounds  in  Hierro)  is  a  little 
the  smaller  of  the  two,  and  has  its  limbs  slenderer ;  whilst  the  latter 
(which  is  apparently  general  throughout  Gomera)  is  perceptibly 
larger,  and  with  the  legs  thicker.  I  therefore  conclude  that  they 
are  but  insular  phases  of  a  single  species.  The  "  /3  "  was  taken  by 
Mr.  Gray  and  myself  near  San  Sebastian,  and  was  subsequently  com- 
municated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  from  Hermigua  (on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  island). 

The  P.  costipennis  may  be  known  by  its  prothorax  being  very 
sparingly  and  most  minutely  punctulated,  and  by  its  elytra  being 
sprinkled  all  over  with  small,  but  remote,  granuliform  tubercles 
(which,  however,  are  less  evident  towards  the  suture),  and  with  their 
costse  much  raised — the  sublateral  one  being  indistinctly  serrated 
(sometimes  quite  plain  in  the  middle),  whilst  the  discal  and  sub- 
sutural ones  (the  latter  of  which  is  faint,  and  a  good  deal  bent  out- 
wards at  the  base)  are  simple,  except  quite  behind.     The  great  eleva- 


CANARXAN  COLEOPTERA  477 

tion  of  the  ridges  causes  the  spaces  between  them  to  appear  some- 
what concave. 

718.  Pimelia  laevigata. 

P.  praecedenti  simiKs,  sed  nitidior  (saepius  laete  nitida),  elytrorum 
tuberculis  obsoletis  (versus  apicem  necnon  in  spatio  lateral!  solum 
observandis,  et  etiam  ibidem  minutissimis,  granuliformibus)  nec- 
non costis  antice  subevanescentibus  et  etiam  postice  paulo  minus 
elevatis,  antennis  pedibusque  Isetius  rutb-piceis. 

Variat  elytris  leviter  transversim  malleatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  7-10. 

Pimelia  levigata,  Brulle,  in  Webb  ct  Berth.  (Col.)  67  (1838). 

Habitat  TenerifFam  et  Palmam ;  in  ilia  mihi  baud  obvia,  sed  in 
hac  vulgaris. 

I  have  not  myself  observed  this  Pimelia  except  in  Palma — where 
I  captured  it  abundantly,  during  May  and  June  of  1858,  in  the 
Barranco  above  S'"  Cruz  ;  nevertheless,  as  Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthe- 
lot's  examples  are  labelled  as  coming  from  Teneriffe,  and  since  I 
have  others  before  me,  both  from  M.  Hartung  and  Dr.  Crotch,  which 
were  professedly  taken  in  that  island,  I  can  scarcely  disallow  it,  in 
my  Topographical  Catalogue,  as  a  Teneriffan  insect  likewise.  It  is 
a  well-defined  species,  and  one  which  may  easily  be  recognized  by  its 
shining  and  comparatively  unsculptured  surface  and  by  the  more 
rufescent  hue  of  its  limbs.  Its  elytral  tubercles  are  quite  obsolete, 
except  towards  the  apex  and  along  the  lateral  interval — where  they 
are  excessively  minute,  distant,  and  granuliform ;  and  its  costae,  al- 
though considerably  raised  behind,  are  indistinct  (or  subevanescent) 
anteriorly. 

719.  Pimelia  serrimargo. 

P.  nitida  vel  subnitida ;  capite  parcissime  (apice  distincte,  postice  mi- 
nutissime)  punctate  ;  prothorace  apice  saepius  subsinuato,  utrinque 
tuberculis  magnis  remotis  obsito  necnon  minoribus  etiam  antice  et 
postice  (vix  in  disco  ipso)  irrorato  ;  elytris  ovalibus,  in  limbo  valde 
et  acute  serratis,  singulis  costis  tribus  (praeter  lateralem)  plus 
minus  distinctis  (sed  saepius  sublateraU  acute  serrata,  discali  multo 
minus  elevata  postice  parce  serrata,  et  subsuturali  simplici,  vel 
omnino  vel  antice  solum  obsoleta)  instructis,  interstitiis  valde  re- 
mote subseriatim  tubereulatis,  tuberculis  in  spatio  laterali  parvis, 
sed  versus  suturam  gradatim  majoribus  (nunc  maximis  verrucifor- 
mibus,  nunc  obsoletis)  ;  tibiis  in  facie  superiore  baud  concavis. — 
Long.  Corp.  Hn.  4|-8. 

Pimelia  verrucosa,  Br.  [nee  Fisch.  de  Waldh.,  1821],  in  Webb  et  Berth. 
(Col.)  67  (1838). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  late  diffusa  :  species  in  statura,  necnon 
in  elytrorum  tuberculis,  valde  instabilis. 


478  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

So  excessively  variable  is  this  Pimelia,  both  in  stature  and  in  the 
greater  or  less  development  of  its  elytral  tubercles,  that,  were  only  a 
few  examples  of  it  present,  representing  the  extremes,  they  might 
well  be  regarded  as  specifically  distinct;  nevertheless,  after  a  most 
careful  inspection  of  a  large  series,  collected  in  the  different  districts 
of  Grand  Canary  (to  which  island  it  seems  to  be  peculiar),  I  am 
quite  satisfied  that  they  merge  gradually  into  each  other,  and  must 
all  of  them  be  referred  to  a  single  species.  Apart,  however,  from 
this  instability  of  the  elytral  tubercles,  which  are  either  immensely 
developed,  and  wart-like,  or  else  obsolete  (but  which,  when  present, 
are  always  exceedingly /(?w  in  number,  somewhat  longitudinally  dis- 
posed between  the  costse,  and  in  every  instance  minute  on  the  lateral 
interval),  the  insect  may  be  known  by  its  usually  rather  shining 
surface  ;  by  the  tubercles  of  its  prothorax  being  large  and  compara- 
tively remote  at  the  sides,  and  with  a  tendency/  to  spread  themselves 
over  the  rest  of  the  surface  (except  the  actual  disc),  where,  however, 
they  are  smaller  ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  most  roughly  and  sharply 
serrated  along  their  margin,  or  lateral  ridge,  and  with  the  sublateral 
one  also  similarly  (though  less  coarsely)  constructed,  whilst  the  discal 
one  is  sparingly  serrated  behind  but  simple  and  indistinct  in  front, 
and  the  sixtural  one  is  simple,  and  more  or  less  obsolete,  throughout. 
The  P.  serrimartjQ  is,  on  the  average,  a  smaller  species  than  any  of  the 
others  here  enumerated,  descending  to  a  comparatively  diminutive 
size  for  a  Pimelia ;  and  the  upper  face  of  its  tibiae  is  less  concave. 

M.  Bi-ullo's  name  of  verrucosa  cannot  be  retained  for  the  species, 
it  having  been  preoccupied  for  a  Pimelia  by  Fischer  de  Waldheim 
in  1821. 

§  II.  Scutellum  hrevissimum,  pronoto  tectum  (nee  pone  basin  ely- 
trorum  ipsissimam  extendens),  ergo  superne  vix  ohservanehmi. 
[Subg.  Aphanaspis,  Woll.] 

720.  Pimelia  granulicollis,  n.  sp. 

P.  subopaca ;  capite  parcissime  et  leviter  punctate  ;  prothorace  an- 
gustulo,  minus  convexo,  basi  in  medio  obsoletissime  (vix  perspicuc) 
angulatim  subproducto,  dense  et  minute  granulato  et  granulis 
majoribus  versus  latera  (praesertim  postice)  parce  adsperso  ;  elytris 
rotundato-ovalibus,  dense,  sed  minute  et  leviter,  malleato-rugu- 
losis,  versus  latera  parcissime  et  leviter  tuberculatis  (tuberculis 
postice  in  granula  mergentibus),  in  limbo  leviter  serratis,  sin- 
gulis costis  tribus  (sublaterali  panim  distincta,  tuberculato-ser- 
rata,  sed  discali  et  subsuturali  minus  elcvatis,  antice  simijlicibus) 
instructis  ;  tibiis  in  facie  superiore  brevatcr  cinereo-pubescentibus. 
— Long.  corp.  lin.  9-12. 


OANAKTAN  COLEOPTEEA.  479 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandcm,  in  arenosis  subinaritimis  jiixta  Las 
Palmas  capta. 

The  present  species  and  the  following  one  may  at  once  be  known 
from  the  others  here  enumerated  by  the  somewhat  anomalous  fact 
(for  the  Pimeliadai)  of  their  scutellum  being  so  completely  covered 
by  the  pronotum  as  to  be  perfectly  in\-isible  from  above,  except 
when  the  prothorax  is  unnaturally  bent  downwards  so  as  to  leave  the 
mesonotum  exposed.  It  is  consequently  so  extremely  short  that  it 
does  not  extend  in  the  slightest  degree  beyond  the  basal  line  of  the 
elytra.  I  cannot,  however,  detect  any  other  structural  pecuKarities 
to  warrant  their  generic  separation  from  the  remainder. 

The  P.  (jranulkolUs  is  remarkable  for  its  subopake  surface,  and 
rather  narrow,  and  densely  and  minutely  granulated,  prothorax. 
Its  elytra  are  roundish  in  oiitline  (being  a  good  deal  subtruncated 
posteriorly),  closely  and  minutely,  but  lif/hth/,  uneven  (or  malleated), 
and  have  the  lateral  of  theii'  three  costse  pretty  distinct,  and  made  up 
(particularly  behind)  of  closely-set  tubercles  which  form  a  serrated 
line,  whilst  the  two  inner  ones  (though  well  defined)  are  but  faintly 
raised — the  subsutural  one  being  quite  simple  anteriorly,  and  the 
discal  one  nearly  so.  As  in  the  following  species  and  the  P.  lutaria, 
the  upper,  or  concave,  face  of  its  tibiae  is  densely  clothed  with  a 
minute  decumbent  cinereous  pubescence.  It  appears  to  be  exceed- 
ingly rare,  the  only  specimens  which  I  have  seen  (six  in  number) 
having  been  captured  by  myself  in  Grand  Canary — on  the  sand-hills 
between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta — during  March  1858. 

721.  Pimelia  auriculata. 

P.  oblongior  quam  prrecedens,  ac  multo  nitidior;  prothorace  paulo 
latiore  convexiore,  basi  sensim  rectius  truncate,  esculpturato  (tu- 
berculis  lateralibus  exceptis)  ;  elytris  minus  ruguloso-ina3qTialibus, 
sed  juxta  suturam  grosse  sod  levissime  transversim  malleatis,  gra- 
nules perpaucis  minutis  (versus  suturam  minutissimis)  parcissime 
asperatis,  singulis  costa  sublaterali  tubercula  majora  ac  multo 
pauciora  efflciente,  discali  vel  indistincta  (sensim  serrata)  vel  obso- 
leta,  et  subsuturali  obsoleta ;  spatio  parvo  ante  oculos  (mox  intra 
genas  auriculatas)  tibiisque  in  facie  superiore  breviter  cinereo- 
pubescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  8-12. 

Pimelia  bajula,  Br.  [nee  Kltig,  1830],  in  Wehbet Berth.  ( Col.)  57 (1838). 
Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  hinc  inde  vulgaris. 
That  this  is  the  Pimelia  referred  by  M.  Brulle  to  the  Egyptian  P. 
bajula  I  can  state  for  certain,  having  examined  his  specimens  care- 
fully, whilst  in  Paris.     I  have  not  been  able  to  procure  an  example 


480  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

of  the  hajida  for  inspection  ;  nevertheless  I  am  informed  by  Schaum, 
who  compared  accurately  the  Canarian  insect  with  King's  type  in 
the  Royal  Museum  at  Berlin,  that  it  is  certainly  distinct  from  the 
latter*.  "Whether  the  same  peculiarity  of  the  scutellum  exists  in  its 
Egyptian  ally  I  cannot  say,  as  I  omitted  to  draw  the  attention  of 
Schaixm  to  that  particular  feature. 

The  P.  auriculata  is  more  oblong  and  shining  than  the  gmnuUcollis, 
its  surface  being  comparativeli/  unsciilptured ;  its  prothorax  is  a  little 
wider  and  more  convex,  and,  although  with  tubercles  on  either  side, 
perfectly  free  from  the  minute  granules  which  so  densely  crowd  the 
pronotum  of  that  insect ;  and  its  elytra  are  less  malleated  (or  mi- 
nutely roughened),  though  there  are  indications  of  a  few  large,  but 
faint,  transverse  impressions  towards  the  suture,  most  sparingly 
studded  with  a  few  very  diminutive  asperated  granides  (which  become 
rather  coarser  towards  the  sides),  and  have  their  sublateral  costa  well 
developed,  and  composed  of  large  but  usiially  very  remote  tubercles, 
whilst  the  discal  one  is  either  very  indistinct  and  subserrated,  or  else, 
lihe  the  subsutm'al  one,  obsolete.  It  appears,  like  the  P.  granuHcollis, 
to  be  peculiar  to  Grand  Canary,  though  very  much  more  common 
and  widely  distributed  over  the  island.  Indeed  it  would  seem  to  be 
nearly  universal,  since  I  have  taken  it  around  Las  Palmas  (in  the 
extreme  north),  in  the  central  disti'ict  of  Tarajana,  and  near  Mas- 
palomas  (in  the  south).  It  varies  a  little,  according  to  the  region  in 
which  it  is  found. 

Fam.  67.  CONIONTID^. 

Genus  268.  CRYPTICUS. 
Latreille,  Begn.  An.  (t^dit.  i.)  iii.  298  (1817). 

722.  Crypticus  punctatissimus,  n.  sp. 

C.  obovato-ellipticus,  subnitidus,  densissime  et  distincte  punctidatus, 
minute  fulvo-pubescens  ;  prothorace  subconvexo,  postice  utrinque 
necnon  intra  angulos  posticos  obsolete  impresso,  angulis  posticis 
acutiusculis,  productis  ;  elytris  postice  acutiusculis,  parum  di- 
stincte striato-punctatis ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibusque  rafo-ferru- 
gineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-3|. 

Habitat  Palmam,  in  lauretis  parum  elevatis  sub  foUis  prolapsis 

degens. 

This  large  Criipticus  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in  Palma,  where 

*  "Your  P/mel/a"  says  Schaum,  "is  quite  distinct  from  (though  allied  to) 
the  bajida,  Oliv.,  Klug.  The  external  part  of  the  elytra  is  much  more  scabrous 
in  the  true  hajulo,  though  without  that  conspicuous  row  of  tubercles  so  remark- 
able in  your  insect." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


481 


it  seems  to  be  universal  in  the  laurel-districts  of  intermediate  and 
lofty  elevations.  In  such  situations  I  have  taken  it,  from  beneath 
stones  and  fallen  leaves,  on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre  above  Buena- 
vista,  as  well  as  high  up  in  the  Barrancos  of  Agua  and  Galga ; 
and  it  was  also  met  with  in  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch.  Two  specimens 
have  indeed  been  communicated  by  Prof.  Heer  as  coming  from  Tene- 
riffe;  but  as  M.  Hartung,  who  obtained  them,  visited  Palma,  and 
since  I  have  already  had  occasion  to  notice  the  excessive  inaccuracy 
of  many  of  his  habitats,  I  have  no  doubt  whatsoever  that  these 
examples  are  in  reality  Palman  ones.  The  C.  punctatissimus  may 
be  known  by  its  large  size  and  distinctly  punctulated  surface,  and  by 
its  elytra  being  very  evidently  striate-punctate.  Like  the  following 
species,  it  is  minutely  pubescent  and  navicular  in  outline;  never- 
theless it  is,  relatively,  not  qtiite  so  much  widened  at  the  junction  of 
its  prothorax  and  elytra  as  that  insect. 

723,  Crypticus  navicularis. 

C.  eUipticus  (antice  et  postice  magis  aequaliter  aeutus),  subopacus, 
dcnsissime  sed  minus  distincte  punctulatus,  minute  fulvo-pubes- 
cens ;  prothorace  postice  utrinque  necnon  intra  angulos  posticos 
obsolete  impresso,  angulis  posticis  acutis,  productis  ;  elytris  postice 
acutis,  obsolete  substriato-subpunctatis  ;  antennis,  palpis  pedibus- 
que  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  Corp.  lin.  Sg. 

Crypticus?  navicularis,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  69  (1838). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  locis  simiUbus  ac  praecedens,  supra  Taga- 
nanam  captus. 

This  Crypticus  is  closely  allied  to  the  preceding  one,  of  which  it 
may  be  regarded  as  the  TenerifPan  representative.  It  differs  from  it 
in  being  a  little  more  regularly  elliptic  (or  a  trifle  more  equally  attenu- 
ated before  and  behind) ;  in  its  surface  being  rather  more  opake,  and 
its  punctation  finer ;  in  its  prothorax  (which  is  less  convex)  having 
the  basal  angles  (although  as  much  produced)  perceptibly  acuter,  or 
at  all  events  more  sharply  defined ;  and  in  its  elytral  striae  being 
both  fainter  and  less  decidedly  punctured.  Its  posterior  tibiae  are 
perhaps,  if  anjrthing,  somewhat  more  inwardly-curved.  It  inhabits 
precisely  similar  districts  as  the  last  species,  only  in  Teneriffe  instead 
of  Palma.  It  would  appear,  however,  to  be  scarce,  the  only  specimens 
which  I  have  captured  being  from  the  laurel- woods  above  Taganana. 
I  compared  them  accurately,  when  in  Paris,  with  M.  Brulle's  types, 
with  which  they  seemed  to  agree  entirely. 

724.  Crypticus  canariensis,  n.  sp. 

C.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  minor,  oblongior  (i.  e,  sensim  angustior  ac 

2i 


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CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


minus  navicularis),  multo  minus  pubescens  (sc.  fere  calvus),  vix 
magis  depressus  et  punctura  sensim  fortiore ;  prothorace  minus 
conico,  angulis  posticis  minus  jDroductis ;  elytris  distinctius  sub- 
striato-punctatis  ;  tarsis  minus  elongatis. 
Variat,  in  locis  Teneriffaj  valde  elevatis,  subangustior  et  opacior, 
punctura  elytrorumque  striisvix  levioribus. — Long,  corp.lin.  2|-3^. 

Cn-pticus  glaber,  Br.  [nee  Fah.\  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  69  (1838). 
Habitat  in  TeneriiFa  et  Hierro,  sub  lapidibus  foliisque  dejectis 
degens ;  per  regiones  sylvaticas  usque  ad  9000'  vel  etiam  10,000'  s.  m. 
ascendit. 

This  is  the  common  Crupticus  of  the  intermediate  and  lofty  ele- 
vations of  Teneriffe,  occurring  beneath  stones  and  fallen  leaves.  It 
is  found  likewise  in  Hierro  ;  though  the  only  example  which  I  met 
with  in  that  island  (namely,  in  the  forest- district  of  El  GoKo)  is  a 
trifle  more  shining,  and  has  its  punctation  just  perceptibly  stronger. 
In  Teneriife  it  is  tolerably  abundant  at  Las  Mercedes,  and  more  so 
at  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  above  Ycod  el  Alto,  on  the 
lofty  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Caiiadas  (where  it  ascends  to  about  9000  or 
perhaps  even  10,000  feet  above  the  sea),  and  on  the  opposite  Cumbre, 
above  the  Agua  Mansa.  The  specimens  from  these  very  elevated 
regions  are,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  narrower  and  more  opake,  and 
have  their  sculpture  just  perceptibly  finer ;  but  they  shade  off"  gra- 
dually into  the  others,  and  I  have  searched  in  vain  for  anything  ap- 
proaching to  a  constant  difference  which  might  serve  to  separate  them. 
The  species  has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva. 

The  C.  canariensis  is  smaller  and  more  oblong  than  the  navicularis, 
being  narrower  (or  less  widened  at  the  junction  of  its  prothorax  and 
elytra) ;  it  is  a  trifle  less  convex,  and  much  less  jDubescent  (being 
usually  almost  bald,  except  when  viewed  beneath  a  high  magnifying 
power) ;  its  punctation  and  elytral  striae  are  a  little  coarser ;  its 
prothorax  is  less  conical,  and  with  the  hinder  angles  less  produced ; 
and  its  feet  are  less  elongated.  An  examination  of  M.  BruUe's  type 
has  convinced  me  that  it  is  the  species  which  he  referred  (in  doubt) 
to  the  European  C.  glaber.  It  has,  however,  in  reality,  nothing 
whatever  in  common  with  that  insect — scarcely  even  its  generic  cha- 
racters. 

725.  Crypticus  oblongus,  n.  sp. 

C.  minor  quam  C.  canariensis  et  sensim  angustior,  oblongior  (i.  e. 
minus  ellipticus),  fere  omnino  calvus  (vix,  oculo  fortissimo  armatb, 
etiam  minute  pubescens),  punctura  subtihore  necnon  prsesertim  in 
elytris  parciore ;  prothorace  ad  latera  magis  rotundato,  angulis 


CAXARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


483 


posticis  subrotundatis,  obtusis  (nuUo  modo  prodiictis),  et  intra  aii- 
gulos  subintegro  (I'arius  irapresso)  ;  elytris  paulo  argutius  striato- 
punctatis ;  pedibus  sensim  brevioribus,  tibiis  aiiticis  vix  robusti- 
oribus  ac  magis  cnrvatis. 
Tar.  /3.  Elytris  levius  striato-punctatis.  [Im.  Hierro.] — Long.  corp. 
lin.  2|-2i. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  in  locis  similibus  ac  prajcedens. 

This  species  has  much  the  same  range  as  the  C.  canariensis — 
occurring,  like  it,  in  the  intermediate  and  lofty  altitudes  of  TenerifFe 
and  Hierro.  In  the  former  (where  it  was  found  also  by  M.  Hartung, 
and  whence  it  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva)  I  have  taken  it  abundantly  at  the  Agua  Mansa  and  above 
Ycod  el  Alto,  and  more  sparingly  on  the  elevated  Cumbre  overlooking 
the  Caiiadas ;  whilst  in  the  latter  it  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
myself  near  Valverde,  and  by  myself  on  the  grassy  summit  of  the 
island  above  the  sylvan  region  of  El  Golfo.  It  may  at  once  be  known 
from  the  C.  canariensis  by  its  smaller  size  and  strictly  oblong  outline  ; 
by  its  surface  being  nearly  free  from  any  traces  of  pubescence,  even 
when  viewed  under  the  highest  magnifying  power ;  by  its  punctation 
being  finer,  and  (especially  on  the  elytra)  more  remote ;  by  its  pro- 
thorax  (which  is  visually  unimpressed  within  the  basal  angles)  being 
rounder  at  the  sides,  with  the  hinder  angles  more  obtuse  and  totally 
unproduced ;  by  its  elytra  being  rather  more  sharply  stiiate-punctate  ; 
and  by  its  legs  being  a  little  shorter,  with  their  anterior  tibiae  just 
perceptibly  robuster  and  more  curved.  The  examples  from  Hierro 
differ  from  the  Teneriffan  ones,  merely,  in  having  their  elytra  less 
coarsely  striate-punctate. 

726.  Crypticus  minutus. 

C  affinis  C.  oblongo,  sed  minor,  angustior,  sensim  (prajsertim  in  pro- 
thorace)  nitidior  ;  prothoraee  convexiore,  ad  latera  magis  rotundato, 
angulis  posticis  rotundatioribus,  profundius  densiusque  punetato 
(punctis  versus  latera  plus  minus  longitudinaliter  subconfluen- 
tibus) ;  elytris  vix  densius  distinctiusque  punctulatis,  sed  multo 
levius  (sc.  obsolete)  subpunctato-striatis  ;  pedibus  vix  brevioribus 
et  subgracilioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  If. 

Crypticus  minutus,  Bntlle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  69  (1838). 
Habitat  in  intermediis  et  elevatis  Canarise  Grandis,  rarissimus. 
Two  specimens  only  of  this  minute  Crypticus  (with  the  exception  of 
M.  Brulle's  type,  which  I  examined  when  in  Paris)  have  as  yet  come 
beneath  my  notice.  They  were  captured  by  myself,  during  the  spring 
of  1858,  in  Grand  Canary — one  of  them  in  the  district  of  El  Monte  ; 
and  the  other,  at  a  high  elevation  on  the  mountains,  about  a  mile  to 

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484  CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  soiith  of  the  Roca  del  Soucilho.  Apart  from  its  small  bulk,  the 
species  may  be  recognized  by  its  prothorax  being  convex,  compa- 
ratively rounded  both  laterally  and  at  the  basal  angles,  and  very 
closely  punctured  (the  punctures  being  somewhat  coarse  towards 
either  side,  and  with  a  tendency  there  to  become  longitudinally  sub- 
confluent — as  in  the  Qnophoto')  ;  by  its  elytral  stria?  being  very  faint, 
or  nearly  obsolete ;  and  by  its  legs  being  rather  short  and  slender. 
It  is  also  a  little  more  shining  than  the  C.  ohlongus,  especially  the 
prothorax. 

Fam.  68.  PEDINID^. 

Genus  2G9.  MELASMA  (nov.  gen.). 

Genus  Heliopatlies  affinitate  proximum,  sed  structuia  pedum  charac- 
teribusque  sexualibus  certe  distinctum.  Corims  et  instrumenta 
cibariaiere  ut  in  iUo,  ^ed  protlioraee  ad  apicem  vix  emarginato,  ad 
basin  recte  truncato,  angulis  posticis  obtusiusculis  (nullo  modo  pro- 
ductis) ;  elytris  ad  humeros  rotundatis,  deficientibus,  plica  hume- 
rali  tenui,  superne  vix  observanda :  pedihus  gracilioribus,  mlcarihus 
tihialihus  multo  minoribus  ;  tihiis  anticis  baud  dilatatis,  omnibus  (in 
utroque  sexu)  intus  fere  calvis.  In  maribus,  tihiis  intus  (oculo  for- 
tissime  armato)  minutissime  serratis,  anticis  ante  mediimi  spinula 
minutissima  (tegerrime  observanda)  subtus  armatis,  tarsis  anticis 
late  dilatatis,  supra  pilosis,  subtus  densissime  spongiosis. 
A  neXcKT/ja,  color  niger. 

Apart  from  other  features,  the  greatly  dilated  fore  feet  of  its  males 
will  at  once  assign  this  genus  to  the  Pedinidce ;  whilst  its  completely 
divided  eyes,  together  with  the  fact  of  its  mentum  not  being  trilobed 
in  front,  and  the  hinder  angles  of  its  prothorax  not  being  applied 
against  the  base  of  the  elytra  (within  either  shoulder),  would  aU 
tend  to  identify  it  with  Heliopathes.  The  construction,  however,  of 
its  legs,  in  both  sexes  (though  particularly  in  the  males),  removes  it 
entirely  from  that  group ;  and  even  the  external  configuration  of  its 
prothorax  and  elytra — of  primary  importance  in  the  Pedinidce — gives 
it  a  character  essentially  its  own.  The  former  of  these  is  transverse- 
quadrate,  being  almost  straightly  truncated  both  before  and  behind 
—the  posterior  angles  being  rather  obtuse  and  without  even  a  ten- 
dency to  be  produced,  so  as  to  rest  against  the  base  of  the  elytra ; 
whilst  the  latter  are  completely  rounded-off  at  the  shoulders,  with 
their  humeral  plait  thin  and  not  at  all  prominent.  It  is,  however, 
in  the  legs  that  its  main  peculiarity  resides,  which  are  much  slenderer 
than  in  Heliopathes,  and  with  their  fore  tibiae  not  at  cdl  dilated :  the 
tibial  spurs,  also,  are  comparatively  minute.     This  applies  equally  to 


CANAR1A.N  COLEOrTERA.  485 

both  sexes  ;  but  the  males  are  further  remarkable  for  having  the  inner 
edge  of  their  tibiae  most  delicately  serrated,  the  anterior  pair  being 
additionally  armed  (at  a  considerable  distance  behind  the  apex)  with 
an  infinitesimal  spinule  (both  it  and  the  serrations  being  so  small  as 
to  be  barely  traceable  except  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power) .  The 
anterior  male  feet  are  broadly  dilated,  sparingly  pilose  above,  and 
most  densely  spongiose  below. 

727.  Melasma  lineatum. 
M.  pieeo-nigrum,  subnitidum,  ubique  densissime  punctatum,  punctis 
in  capite  prothoraceque  majoribus  et  ibidem  plus  minus  longitu- 
dinaliter  subcoiifluentibus ;  prothorace  transverso-quadrato,  teniiis- 
sime  marginato,  anguHs  posticis  obtusiusculis(nullo  modo  productis) 
sed  argute  determinatis,  ad  latera  sequaliter  subrotundato  ;  elytris 
oblongo-ovalibus  (antice  et  postice  subaequaHter  angustioribus),  le- 
viter  costatis;  antennis  pedibusque  piceis. — Long,  corp.lin.  2^-21. 

Phylax ?  lineatus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  G9  (1838). 
,  Hartimg,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  140. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  necnon  etiam  in  insula 
parva  adjacente  Graciosa,  sub  lapidibus  vulgaris. 

A  common  insect  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — occur- 
ring beneath  stones  at  most  elevations,  though  particularly  at  inter- 
mediate ones  ;  and  I  have  taken  it  also  in  the  little  island  of  Graciosa, 
ofi^  the  extreme  north  of  the  former.  In  Lanzarote  it  was  captured 
likewise  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M.  Hartung  ;  and  from  Fuerteventura  it 
has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 


Fam.  69.  OPATRID^. 

Genus  270.  CNEMEPLATIA. 
Costa,  Ann.  Aspir.  Nat.  Nap.  (ser.  2)  i.  146  (1847).  . 

728.  Cnemeplatia  laticeps. 

Autocera  laticeps,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  155.  fig.  2  (1857). 

Habitat  TenerifiFam,  a  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  tantum  lecta. 

A  single  example  of  this  curious  and  minute  insect  was  found  by 
Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  and  it  is  the  only 
one  which  I  have  as  yet  seen  from  these  islands.  It  occurs  sparingly 
in  Madeira,  and  was  described  by  myself  from  a  specimen  which  I 
captured,  in  June  of  18-55,  on  the  ascent  from  S*"  Cruz  to  S.  Antonio 
da  Serra  (in  the  latter  of  which  localities  it  has  subsequently  been  re- 
discovered by  Mr.  Bewicke) .     It  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  Italian 


486  CANAEIAN  COIjEOPTEKA. 

C.  Atropos,  but  differs  from  it  in  its  head  and  prothorax  being  jier- 
ceptibly  wider — the  former  having  the  eyes  more  prominent  and  coni- 
cal ;  whilst  the  latter  is  altogether  a  little  larger,  or  more  developed, 
considerably  less  attenuated  behind,  where  it  is  of  precisely  the  same 
breadth  as  (instead  of  conspicuously  narrower  than)  the  base  of  the 
elytra,  merely  rounded,  instead  of  bisinuated,  along  the  posterior  edge 
(and  therefore  less  lobed  in  the  centre,  in  front  of  the  scutellum),  with 
the  extreme  hinder  angles  much  less  prominent,  and  A^dth  the  two 
discal  impressions  transverse  (instead  of  being  rounded)*. 

Genus  271.  SCLERUM. 
(Dej.)  Hope,  Col.  Man.  iii.  Ill  [script.  Sderon]  (1840). 

729.  Sclerum  aspernlum,  n.  sp. 

S.  parallelo-oblongum,  squamis  pallido-fuscis  lutosis  densissimc  tec- 
tum ;  prothorace  antice  lato  rotundato,  per  basin  profunde  bisinu- 
ato,  grossc  asperato-granulato,  j)ostice  utrinque  longitudinaliter 
impresso ;  elytris  parallehs,  striato-punetatis  (punctis  magnis  sed 
haud  profundis),  interstitiis  alternis  valde  costato-elevatis  (costis 
minute  crenulatis);  antennis  pedibusque  brevibus,  piceis,  tibiis 
anticis  extus  in  medio  valde  angulatim  dilatatis. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
2-vix  3. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem  australem,prope  Maspalomas  repertum. 

The  mere  generic  characters  of  this  insect,  such  as  the  greatly  di- 
lated fore  tibiic  and  the  costate  alternate  interstices  of  its  elytra, 
added  to  its  asperated,  anteriorly-widened  prothorax  and  densely 
squamose  surface  (the  scales  of  which  are  of  pale  muddy-brown),  will 
prevent  its  being  confomided  with  any  of  the  Opatridce  enumerated 
below.  It  appears  to  be  both  rare  and  extremely  local — the  only  sjjot 
in  which  I  have  hitherto  observed  it  being  at  the  edges  of  a  small 
water-course  close  to  Maspalomas,  in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary, 
Avhere,  during  the  spring  of  1858,  I  captured  it,  not  uncommonly, 
from  beneath  stones. 

Genus  272.  OPATRUM. 

Fabricius,  Syst.  Ent.  76  (177-3^. 

§  I.  Alis  magnis. 

730.  Opatrum  lutosum,  n.  sp. 

0.  paraUelo-oblongum,  dense  fusco-pubescens  et  -squamosum  ;  genis 
ante  oculos   valde   exstantibus,  angulatis ;  prothorace  granulato, 

*  Although  these  distinctions  are  small,  and  necessarily,  therefore,  somewhat 
difficult  of  observation,  they  are  not  the  less  real — being  very  distinct  when  the 
two  species  are  viewed,  side  by  side,  under  the  microscope. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  487 

utrinque  explanato,  ad  latera  rotundato  sed  antiee  stepius  paulo 
latiore,  angulis  anticis  obtusiiisculis  ;  elytris  punctato-striatis  ; 
antennis  tarsisque  breviiisculis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3^-4^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus  in  aridis 
degens. 

This  is  the  common  Opatrum  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, 
where  it  occurs  beneath  stones  in  arid  spots  at  low  and  intermediate 
elevations  ;  but  I  have  not  observed  it  in  any  of  the  other  islands  of 
the  Group.  It  is  closely  allied  to  the  0.  fuscum,  but  is  on  the  ave- 
rage a  trifle  larger  and  more  obtuse  anteriorly,  and  usually  more 
densely  covered  with  reddish-brown  mud-like  scales.  Its  prothorax 
is  just  perceptibly  wider  in  front,  with  the  anterior  angles  less  acute, 
and  more  broadly  flattened  at  the  sides ;  and  its  antennae  and  tarsi 
are,  if  anything,  a  little  shorter.  Its  main  difference,  however,  con- 
sists in  the  development  of  its  gence,  which  are  both  more  prominent 
and  more  anguliform,  in  front  of  either  eye.  This  character  is  not 
only  a  constant  one  but  likewise  conspicuous,  the  distance  from  the 
eye  to  the  apex  of  the  gena  being  appreciably  greater  than  it  is  in 
the  0.  fuscum. 

731.  Opatrum  fuscum. 

0.  subparallelo-oblongum,  griseo-pubescens  et  -squamosum ;  genis 
ante  oculos  minus  exstantibus,  rotundato-anguJatis  ;  prothorace 
granulato  et  subtilissime  ruguloso,  utrinque  minus  explanato,  ad 
latera  sequaliter  rotundato,  angulis  anticis  acutiusculis ;  elytris 
punctato-striatis ;  antennis  tai'sisque  sensim  longioribus, — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  3-4. 

Opatrum  fuscum,  Hbst,  Kiif.  v.  225.  tab.  52.  f.  1  (1793). 

fuscum,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  68  (1838). 

rusticum,  3Iuk.,  Col.  de  France  (Latig.)  171  (1854). 

errans,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  501.  tab.  xi.  f.  3  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  156  (1857). 

fuscum,  Hartung,  Oeolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Fuert.  140. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  et  Teneriffa,  praeser- 
tim  in  aridis  sed  longe  lateque  diffusum. 

The  0.  fuscum  of  Mediterranean  latitudes  is  widely  spread  at  the 
Canaries,  where  in  all  probability  it  is  universal — though  hitherto  it 
has  been  observed  only  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary, 
and  Teneriff'e.  It  is,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  smaller  than  the  last 
species,  and  has  its  antennae  and  feet  just  perceptibly  longer  ;  and  it 
is  also,  for  the  most  part,  less  densely  clothed  with  mud-like  scales. 
Its  gena;  (or  lateral  edges  of  the  clypeus)  are  neither  so  prominent 
nor  so  angular — the  distance  being  perceptibly  less  from  either  eye 
to  their  tip  (which  is  itself  a  little  more  obtuse);  and  its  prothorax 


488 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


is,  if  anything,  shorter,  and  more  equally  rounded  at  the  sides  (where 
it  is  somewhat  less  broadlj-  flattened),  and  has  the  anterior  angles 
aciiter.  It  appears  to  be  rather  scarce  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteven- 
tura  (in  the  former  of  which  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
M.  Hartung),  but  more  abundant  in  Grand  Canary  (particularly  in  the 
sandy  districts  near  Las  Palmas  and  Maspalomas — in  the  north  and 
south,  respectively),  and  locally  common  in  Teneriffe  (whence  it 
has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva  and 
Dr.  Crotch).  It  is  found  in  the  Madeiran  Group, — a  recent,  and  more 
accurate,  comparison  of  my  0.  errans  with  types  of  the /ifscwm  having 
convinced  me  that  the  two  are  conspecific*. 

732.  Opatmm  hispidum. 

0.  elongato-oblongum,  dense  et  grosse  griseo-  vel  fulvescenti-pubes- 
cens  (sed  baud  squamosum) ;  genis  ante  oculos  (magnos)  rotundatis, 
multo  minus  exstantibus  ;  prothorace  brevi,  transverse,  profunde 
punctato,  ad  latera  aequaliter  vix  rotundato,  angiiHs  omnibus  acutis; 
elytris  punctato-striatis. 

Mas  paulo  minus,  tarsis  intermediis  artieulo  basilari  subtus  retrorsum 
pectinato-setoso. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^-3. 

Opatrum  tomentosum,  Dcj.,  Cat.  (edit.  3)  214  (1837). 

hispidum,  Brnlle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  68  (1838). 

prolixum,  Erich.,  in  Wiegm.  Archiv,  248  (1843). 

fuscum,  WoU.  [nee  Hbst],  Ins.  Mad.  500.  tab.  xi.  f.  1  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  156  (1857). 

septentrionale,  Falderni.,  ined. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

I  have  already  stated  that  I  erroneously  regarded  this  Opatrum,  in 
my  '  Ins.  Mad.,'  as  the  fuscimi  (or  rusticum)  of  southern  Europe  ; 
which  led  me  into  the  additional  mistake  of  describing  the  latter  as 
a  new  species  (under  the  name  of  errans).  It  is,  really,  the  hispidum 
of  Brulle,  and  (according  to  M.  Deyrolle)  may  perhaps  be  identical 
with  the  affine  of  Billberg ;  in  which  case  the  latter  title  would  have 
the  priority.  That  it  is  Erichson's  pro^t.i'M«i  (cited  as  Angolan,  but 
in  reality  from  the  Cape  de  Verdes  f)  I  can  state  for  certain,  having 
received  two  original  types  (a  S  and  $  )  of  that  species  from  Schaum. 
It  is  a  common  insect  throughout  the  whole  of  these  Atlantic  Groups, 
aboimding  at  the  Madeiras  and  the  Cape  de  Verdes.  At  the  Canaries 
it  is  universal,  I  having  myself  captured  it  in  the  whole  seven  islands, 
more  or  less  profusely.     In  Gomera  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray 

*  In  my  '  Ins.  Mad.'  I  applied  the  name  of  fuscum  to  the  wrong  insect — 
namely,  to  the  hispidum,  Brulle  ;  and  so  fell  into  the  error  of  regarding  the  true 
fuscum  as  a  new  species. 

t    Vide  supra  (p.  465,  note). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 


489 


and  Dr.  Crotch,  iii  Palma  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch 
and  the  Barao  do  Castcllo  de  Paiva.  It  occurs  principally  in  hot  and 
dry  spots  of  a  rather  low  elevation. 

Its  somewhat  less  parallel  outline  and  short,  deeply  punctured, 
anteriorly  narrower  prothorax,  in  conjunction  with  its  larger  eyes, 
rounder  and  less  prominent  genae,  and  more  pubescent  (though  tm- 
scaly)  surface,  will,  apart  from  the  curious,  backwardly-directed 
bristles  with  which  the  underside  of  the  basal  joint  of  its  interme- 
diate male  feet  are  pectinated  (a  structure  which  I  have  not  seen 
noticed,  except  in  my  '  Ins.  Mad.'),  at  once  separate  the  0.  hisjiidum 
from  the  other  Ojpatra  here  enumerated. 

§  II.  Alls  parvis,  fere  obsoletis. 
733.  Opatrum  oblitum,  n.  sp. 

0.  oblongum,  subcalvum  (subtilissime,  brevissime  et  parcissime  pu- 
bescens),  sed  plus  minus  lutoso- squamosum ;  genis  ante  oculos 
valde  exstantibus,  rotundato-angulatis ;  prothorace  parcc  ct  raiimto 
granulato  (vix  punctato)  et  subtilissime  ruguloso,  ante  medium 
lato,  ad  latera  valde  rotundato,  angulis  anticis  acutis,  postieis  acute 
subrecurvo-prominuHs  ;  elytris  punctato-striatis,  subtilissime  ru- 
gulosis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  clare  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp. 
Un.  2i-2|. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  in  aridis  arenosis  et  cal- 
cariis,  praesertim  submaritimis,  degens ;  necnon  in  insula  parvil  Gra- 
ciosa  observavi. 

This  Opatrum,  which  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventura,  is  smaller  than  any  of  the  preceding  ones,  and 
much  less  pubescent — being  merely  besprinkled  sparimjly  with  ex- 
cessively diminutive  decumbent  setae,  though  often  densely  covered 
with  mud-hke  scales ;  its  prothorax  is  of  a  totally  different  shape — ■ 
being  wide  in  front,  greatly  rounded  at  the  sides,  and  with  the  ex- 
treme hinder  angles  acutely  prominent ;  its  genae  project  considerably, 
in  front  of  either  eye  ;  and  its  legs  are  of  a  more  or  less  clear  rufo- 
ferruginous  hue.  It  closely  resembles  a  species  which  I  have  received, 
from  Nice,  as  the  "  O.pygmceum,  Dejean  " :  but  its  genae  are  a  little 
less  obtuse  at  the  apex ;  its  prothorax  has  the  anterior  angles  some- 
what more  porrect  and  acute,  and  the  posterior  ones  conspicuously 
less  prominent ;  its  elytra  are  more  coarsely  punctate-striated,  with 
their  humeral  angles  much  rounder  (or  less  of  right  angles)  ;  and  its 
wings,  instead  of  being  powerfxilly  developed,  are  very  small  and 
rudimentary.  I  have  taken  it  in  dry,  calcareous,  and  sandy  spots, 
of  a  low  elevation,  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  particularly  at  a 


490  CANAHIAN  COLEOPXERA. 

short  distauee  behind  the  sea-beach.  In  such  situations  it  is  not  un- 
common to  the  south  of  Arreeife  in  the  former,  and  of  Puerto  de 
Cabras  in  the  latter  (where  it  was  likewise  found  by  Mr.  Gray)  ;  and 
1  also  met  with  it  on  the  little  island  of  Graciosa,  off  the  extreme 
north  of  Lanzarote. 

Genus  273.  HALONOMUS. 

WoUaston,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vii.  201  (1801). 

734.  Halonomus  salinicola. 

H.  fusco-piceus  (fere  niger),  subopaeus,  setulis  brevibus  demissis  ciae- 
reis  irroratus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  in  limbo,  antennis  pedibusque 
rufescentioribus ;  geiiis  ante  oculos  rotundatis,  vix  exstantibus ; 
prothorace  punctate,  ad  latera  explanato  et  parum  rotundato  ;  ely- 
tris  profunde  et  argute  crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  minutissime  et 
parce  pimctulatis. 

Var.  /3.  Subopacior,  prothorace  vix  angustiore  et  vix  densius  punc- 
tate.    l^Ins.  Canaria  Grandis.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^vix  3. 

Halonomus  .salinicola,  WolL,  loc.  cit.  203  (1861). 

Habitat  sub  lapidibus  in  salinis  Lanzarotaj  et  Canariae  (praesertim 
illius),  valde  grcgarius.  Species  H.  ovato  (Dej.),  Erich.,  nimis  affinis 
et  forsan  ejus  varietas  geographica ;  sed  genis  mox  ante  oculos  paulo 
minus  exstantibus  et  minus  subreciirvis  necnon  per  marginem  latera- 
lem  obliquum  rcetioribus  (sensim  minus  sinuatis),  prothorace  ad  la- 
tera vix  magis  rotundato,  elytris  sensim  minus  rugulosis  ae  multo 
profundius  argutiusque  crenato-striatis. 

This  insect  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  Heterophaga  ovata  *  of  De- 
jean's  Catalogue  (^  =  Opatrum  ovatum,  Erich.,  and  Halonomus  Orayii, 
Woll.),  of  which  perhaps  it  may  be  only  a  geographical  state.  It 
appears  to  differ  merely  in  having  its  gente  a  little  less  prominent 
(or  more  obtuse),  and  also  a  little  less  recurved,  in  front  of  either  eye, 
as  well  as  a  trifle  straighter  (or  less  sinuated)  along  their  oblique 
lateral  edge;  in  its  pro  thorax  being,  perhaps,  just  perceptibly  more 
rounded  at  the  sides  ;  and  in  its  elytra  being  less  evidently  rugulose, 
and  much  more  deeply,  and  sharply,  crenate-striated.  It  was  taken 
abundantly  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  January  1858,  from  be- 
neath stones  at  the  edges  of  the  Salinas,  and  around  the  salt-works, 

*  This  insect,  which  is  recorded  by  Dejean  from  Senegal,  occurs  also  in  the 
south  of  Europe — a  Sicilian  example  having  been  communicated  to  me  by  M. 
Deyrolle.  It  is  found  likewise  at  the  Cape  de  Verdes,  and  was  first  descriljed  by 
Erichson,  evidently  from  examples  obtained  from  those  islands  \_vide  supra,  p.  465, 
nofe^  in  his  paper  on  (supposed)  "  Angolan  "  C'oleoptera.  I  was  unaware  of 
this  circumstance,  in  my  enumeration  of  the  Coleoptera  of  St.  Vincent  (in  the 
'  Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist.'  in  1861),  and  so  re-enunciated  the  species  under  the  trivial 
name  of  Grayii. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  491 

in  the  north  of  Lanzarote — a  locality  in  which  I  again  met  with  it 
in  March  of  the  following  year ;  and  I  also  captured  a  single  speci- 
men at  Maspalomas,  the  extreme  southern  point  of  Grand  Canary. 

Genus  274.  MELANSIS  (nov.  gen.). 
Genus  Phylad  proximum,  sed  tlhiis  onmihus  mascuUs  (praesertim  pos- 
terioribus)  per  marginem  internum  versus  apicem  minutissime  sed 
argute  serratis,  tibiis  anticis  in  utroque  sexu  angustioribus  (nee 
dUatatis)  et  snhS.ex\iosis,  j^osteriorlhus  in  maribus  subflexuosis  sed 
in  foeminis  rectis  ;  sculpturd  omnino  fortiore,  rugosiore ;  elijtris 
alte  et  argute  costatis,  nullo  modo  (nee  longitudinaliter  nee  etiam 
in  interstitiis)  punctatis. 
A  fxeXavcris  (fxeXaivu),  denigro). 

In  their  general  j^rimd  facie  aspect  and  structure  the  two  insects 
described  below  might  be  referred  to  Phylax;  nevertheless  the  curious 
formation  of  their  male  tibiae,  which  are  minutely  serrated  along  the 
apical  half  of  their  inner  edge  (as  in  Xenoscelis,  of  the  Cucujidxe), 
combined  with  other  features  of  secondary  importance — such  as  the 
narrower  (or  undilated)  front  tibioB  of  both  sexes,  their  more  roughly 
and  coarsely  sculptured  surface,  and  their  longitudinally  costate  elytra 
(which  are  totally  free  from  any  appearance  of  panctation) — give 
them  a  character  essentially  their  own.  But  in  the  shape  of  their 
prothorax,  and  the  dentiform  humeral  angles  of  their  elytra,  they 
agree  with  Phi/lax. 

§  I.  Antemiw  lorujiores,  artf  3*'°  valde  elongato. 

735,  Melansis  costata. 

M.  oblonga,  atra,  opaca ;  capite  prothoraceque  densissime  et  profundc 
rugoso-punctatis  (punctis  subconfluentibus),  hoc  transverso,  ad  la- 
tera  explanato  rotundato,  angidis  anticis  acutiuscidis  porrectis, 
posticis  minute  subprominuhs ;  elytris  subparallelis,  angulis  hu- 
meralibus  minute  exstantibus,  singulis  costis  7  valde  elevatis  ar- 
gute instructis,  interstitiis  subtilissime  densissimeque  granulatis 
et  granulis  paulo  majoribus  obscuris  obsolete  et  parce  irroratis ;  an- 
tennis  pedibusque  picescentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3|-. 

Phylax  costatus,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col)  69  (1838). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canariae  Grandis,  in  regione  "  Tarajana  "  capta. 

The  parallel,  oblong  outline,  deep-black  hue,  and  opake  surface  of 
this  insect,  combined  with  its  coarsely  and  densely  sculp tiu-ed  head, 
and  prothorax,  and  the  seven  sharp  and  greatly  raised  costae  with 
which  each  of  its  elytra  is  furnished  (the  interstices  being  most  closely 
and  minutely  granulated),  will  sufficiently  distinguish  it.  It  appears 
to  be  extremely  local,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto) 


492  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

to  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary,  where  it  occurs,  beneath  stones 
and  under  refuse,  at  a  rather  high  elevation.  In  such  spots  I  took  it, 
not  uncommonly,  during  April  1858,  on  the  ascent  to  the  Pinal  above 
San  Bartolome,  in  the  central  regiqn  of  Tarajana.  I  compared  it 
carefully,  when  in  Paris,  with  M.  Brulle's  Phylax  costatus,  with  which 
it  agreed  precisely. 

§  II.  Antennce  paulo  hrevlores,  art"  3''°  longiusculo. 

736.  Melansis  angulata,  n.  sp. 

M.  praecedenti  simihs,  sed  minor,  angustior,  subovatior,  colore  plus 
minus  evidenter  piceseentiore ;  capite  jirothoraceque  paulo  minus 
opacis  et  vix  minus  dense  rugoseque  sculp turatis,  hoc  sensim  lon- 
giore,  angulis  anticis  acutioribus,  ad  latcra  minus  explanato  necnon 
ante  angulos  posticos  (sensim  exstantioribus)  magis  excavato  ;  ely- 
tris  vix  convexioribus  ;  tarsis  brevioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2\-2^. 

Habitat  Palmam,  sub  lapidibus  in  intermediis,  rarissima. 

Distinguished  from  the  preceding  species  by,  inter  alia,  its  smaller 
size,  narrower  and  rather  less  parallel  outline,  and  less  intensely  black 
hue  (the  limbs  being  considerably  more  rufescent) ;  by  its  head  and 
prothorax  being  less  opake,  and  rather  less  densely  and  coarsely  sculp- 
tured ;  by  the  latter  being  relatively  longer  (or  less  transverse) ,  less 
flattened-out  at  the  sides,  with  the  anterior  angles  more  porrect  and 
acute,  and  the  posterior  ones  more  prominent  (occasioned  by  the  sides 
being  more  excavated  immediately  in  front  of  them) ;  by  its  elytra 
being  somewhat  less  depressed ;  and  by  its  antennae  and  feet  being  a 
little  shorter.  It  seems  to  be  excessively  rare,  and  confined  to  Palma 
— where,  during  June  1858,  I  captured  about  twenty  examples  of 
it,  from  beneath  stones,  high  up  in  the  Barranco  above  S'"  Cruz. 

Fam.  70.  TRACHYSCELIDiE. 

Genus  275.  PSEUDANEMIA  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus  et  instrumenta  cibaria  fere  ut  in  Anemia,  sed  illud  minus,  in 
limbo  calvum  (nee  ciliatum) ;  capite  minore ;  prothorace  brevissimo, 
transverso,  angulis  posticis  nullis,  omnino  rotundatis ;  oculorum 
parte  siiperiore  minore,  valde  demissa  ;  palpis  etiam  labialihis  (ut 
maxillaribus)  longissimis  ;  necnon  antennis  certe  10-  (nee  11-)  ar- 
ticulatis — art"  1'"°  parum  elongato,  ad  basin  gracili  subflexuoso, 
apicem  versus  clavato,  2*^"  breviore  sed  vix  graciUore,  3"",  4'°,  5'" 
et  6*°  minutis  brevibus  suba3qualibus,  reliquis  clavam  elongatam 
abruptam  4-articulatam  efiicientibus. 
A  iljev^os,  mendacium,  et  Anemia. 
Until  examining  recently,  with  great  care,  the  unique  beetle  from 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  493 

which  the  above  structural  diagnosis  has  been  compiled,  I  had  regarded 
it  as  merely  a  small  and  short  Anemia  {Cheirodes,  Dej.),  with  which 
in  most  respects  it  is  identical.  But  an  accurate  inspection  of  its 
antennae  shows  them  to  be,  without  doubt,  only  fen- articulate — the 
third  joint  being  apparently  absent*.  The  few  differential  characters, 
of  secondary  signification,  which  accompany  this  primary  feature, 
consist  in  the  shape  of  the  prothorax,  which  is  much  more  abbreviated, 
with  the  hinder  angles  obsolete  (or  almost  completely  rounded  off), 
in  its  head  being  narrower  and  less  developed,  with  the  upper  divi- 
sion of  the  eyes  smaller,  in  its  labial  palpi  being  relatively  as  much 
elongated  as  the  maxillary  pair,  and  in  the  fact  of  the  edges  of  its 
body  being  bald  (as  in  7nost  of  the  Phalerke)  instead  of  ciliated — a 
character  of  no  shght  importance  in  a  sand-burrowing  insect.  Of 
the  antennal  joints,  the  first  one  is  rather  long,  slender  and  subflex- 
uose  at  the  base,  and  clavated  at  the  apex,  the  second  shorter  but 
scarcely  slenderer,  the  following  four  are  minute  and  subequal,  and 
the  remainder  constitute  an  abrupt,  elongated,  quadiiarticulate  club 
— more  abrupt  at  the  base  than  in  Anemia.  Its  wings  are  largely 
developed ;  and  its  legs,  as  in  that  genus,  are  eminently  fossorial — 
its  tibiae,  especially  the  anterior  pair,  being  powerfully  bidentate  (and 
crenulated  at  theii"  base)  externally. 

737.  Pseudanemia  brevicollis,  n.  sp. 

P.  breviter  oblonga,  rufo-ferruginea,  subnitida,  supra  necnon  in  limbo 
fere  calva ;  capite  prothoraceque  transversim  subscabroso-granu- 
latis,  hoc  brevissimo,  tenuiter  marginato,  ad  latera  necnon  ad  an- 
gulos  posticos  rotundato ;  elytris  profunde  subasperato-2)unctatis 
(punetis  versus  suturam  obsoletissime  subseriatim  dispositis),  panic 
transversim  rugosis ;  pedibus  robustissimis,  fossoriis,  tibiis  (prae- 
sertim  anticis)  extus  fortiter  bidentatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  ;  in  arenosis  maritimis  juxta  Arrecife,  Aprili 
A.D.  1859,  exemplar  unicum  deprehendi. 

A  single  example  of  this  curious  insect  was  captured  by  myself  in 
Lanzarote,  during  April  1859 — on  the  low  sand-hills  (or,  more  pro- 
perly, on  a  low  sandy  ridge)  immediately  behind  the  sea-beach,  about 
a  mile  to  the  south  of  Arrecife. 

Genus  276.  TRACHYSCELIS. 
Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  et  Ins.  iv.  379  (1809). 

*  I  find  that  I  am  corroborated  in  this  statfiment  by  a  most  admirable  drawing 
which  has  been  made  for  me  by  Professor  Westwood,  in  which  he  has  exliibited 
the  antenna  (with  liis  usual  accuracy)  as  composed  of  merely  ten  articulations. 


494  CANARIAX  COLEOPTERA. 

738.  Trachyscelis  aphodioides. 

Trachyscelis  aphodioides,  Lat.,  he.  cit.  (1809). 
,  Guerin-Men.,  Icon.,  Ins.  pi.  .31.  f.  3. 

Hahitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  sub  fucis  nec- 
non  ad  radices  plantarum  in  arenosis  maritimis  crescentium  fodiens. 

This  little  insect  of  Mediterranean  latitudes  is  locally  abundant  in 
the  more  eastern  islands  of  the  archipelago — burrowing  beneath 
marine  rejectamenta  on  the  sea-beach,  as  well  as  at  the  roots  of  plants 
in  the  loose  sand  immediately  behind  it.  In  such  situations  I  have 
taken  it  to  the  south  of  Arrecife  in  Lanzarote,  at  Corralejo  and  near 
Puerto  de  Cabras  (where  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray)  in  Fuerte- 
ventura,  and  between  Las  Palmas  and  the  Isleta  in  Grand  Canary. 

Fam.  71.  PHALERIAD^E. 

Genus  277.  PHALERIA. 
Latreille,  Hist,  des  Crust,  et  Ins.  iii.  103  (1802). 

739.  Phaleria  cadaverina. 

P.  ovata,  subopaca,  infuscato-testacea,  minute  punctulata  (punctis  in 
capite  fortioribus),  in  limbo  subcalva  (nee  ciliata);  prothorace  sub- 
convexo,  tenuiter  marginato,  ad  latera  subasqualiter  leviter  rotim- 
dato,  angulis  posticis  subrotundato-obtusis,  basi  utrinque  foveola 
bi'evissima  punctiformi  impresso  ;  elytris  convexis,  profunde  sub- 
crenato-striatis,  aut  concoloribus  aut  singulis  plaga  discali  irre- 
gular! obscurii  nigrescente  ornatis.- — Long.  corp.  lin.  21-2^. 

Tenebrio  cadaverinus,  Fah.,  Ent.  Sijst.  i.  113  (1792). 

,  Sturm,  Deutseli.  Fna,  ii.  230.  pi.  47.  f.  A  (1807). 

Phaleria  cadaverina,  Steplt.,  111.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  15  (1832), 

Hahitat  Gomeram,  juxta  oram  maritimam  ad  Sanctum  Sebastianum, 
tempore  vernali  a.d.  18B2,  a  cl.  W.  D.  Crotch  reperta. 

Four  specimens  of  the  common  European  P.  cadaverina  were  taken 
by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Gomera,  "  close  to  the 
sea-shore  at  San  Sebastian," — the  only  ones  which  I  have  as  yet  seen 
from  these  islands. 

740.  Phaleria  ornata. 
P.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  minor,  nitidior,  subtilius  punctulata, 
sensim  minus  convexa,  in  limbo  ciliata,  clarius  testacea,  elytris  con- 
spicue  et  laetius  nigro-maculatis  (maculis  plerumque  maximis  con- 
fluentibus,  interdum  elytra  fei'e  tegentibus) ;  prothorace  vix  minore, 
ad  latera  minus  sequaliter  rotundato  (basin  versus  sensim  rectiore), 
angulis  posticis  argutius  determinatis,  paulo  angustius  marginato  ; 
elytrorum  striis  evidentius  crenulatis. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  495 

Variat  prothorace  vel  immaculato,  vel  in  disco  nigrescente. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Phaleria  cadaverina,^/-?///e  [necFab.],  in  WebbetBe7-t/i.{Col.)70{183S). 
picta,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vii.  246  (1861). 

Habitat  in  arenosis  maritimis  Lanzarotte,  Fuerteventurae  et  Canariae, 
hinc  inde  vulgaris. 

I  have  found  it  necessary  to  alter  the  trivial  name  of  this  Phaleria, 
that  of  picta  having  been  preoccupied  by  Mannerheim  (in  1843)  for 
a  species  from  Sitka.  It  is  common  on,  and  near,  the  sea-shore  in 
Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Grand  Canary  (in  the  first  of  which 
it  was  also  found  by  Mr.  Gray) — where  it  burrows  in  the  sand 
beneath  marine,  and  other,  rejectamenta.  It  is  abundantly  distinct 
from  the  P.  cadaverina — not  merely  in  colouring,  but  likewise  in  its 
brighter  and  more  finely  punctulated  surface,  in  the  edges  of  its  body 
being  conspicuously  ciliated,  and  in  its  prothorax  and  elytra  being, 
both  of  them,  a  Httle  less  convex — the  latter  having  also  their  striae 
more  evidently  crenulated,  whilst  the  former  is  a  trifle  smaller  and 
more  narrowly  margined,  as  well  as  less  equally  rounded  at  the  sides 
(which  are  straighter  posteriorly,  causing  the  hinder  angles  to  be 
somewhat  more  sharply  defined).  The  black  discal  patch  of  each 
elytron  is  nearly  always  so  immensely  developed  that  the  two  are 
confluent ;  and  in  highly  coloured  examples  they  cover  (when  thus 
united)  almost  the  whole  surface  except  the  margins.  The  P.  ornata 
is,  on  the  average,  a  trifle  smaller  than  the  cmlavenna ;  its  paUid 
portions  are  usually  of  a  clearer  testaceous-yellow ;  and  its  protho- 
racic  disc  is  frequently  much  darkened.  In  M.  BruUe's  inaccurate 
Catalogue  it  is  referred  (without  even  a  comment)  to  the  cadaverina 
— as  I  ascertained  for  certain,  when  in  Paris,  by  an  examination  of 
Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot's  specimens  (which  are  normal  ones  of 
the  ornata,  and  were  found,  according  to  a  label  appended  to  them, 
in  "  Grand  Canary  ")  *. 

Fam.  72.  ULOMIDiE. 

Genus  278.  GNATHOCEEUS. 
Thunberg,  Act.  Holmiens.  47  (1814). 

*  In  general  colouring  the  P.  ornata  has  a  good  deal  in  common  with  tlie  P. 
Clarkii,  from  the  Cape  de  Verdes ;  but  that  insect  is  more  oblong  and  much  less 
convex,  less  shining  (or  more  coarsely  alutaceous),  and,  like  the  P.  cadaverina, 
almost  entirely  free  from  any  appearance  of  cilia  at  its  edges :  its  prothorax  is 
considerably  smaller,  quite  equally  rounded  laterally,  and  with  the  basal  fovejB 
deeper  and  more  elongate  ;  its  elytra  are  straighter  at  the  sides,  more  rectangular 
at  the  shoulders,  with  the  dark  portions  differently  shaped,  with  their  stria;  very 
much  finer,  and  with  their  interstices  flatter ;  and  its  tibife  and  feet  are  slenderer. 


496  CANARIAN  COLKOPTEEA. 

741.  Gnathocerus  comutus. 

Trogosita  cornuta,  Fab.,  Ent.  Si/st.  Suppl  51  (1798), 
Uloma  coruuta,  BruUe,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  70  (1838). 
Cerandria  cornuta,  Wall.,  Ins.  Mad.  490  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  151  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  in 
domibus  offieinisque  pistoriis,  ex  alienis  introductus. 

This  insect  will  probably  be  found  to  occur  pretty  generally  in  gra- 
naries and  about  bouses,  being  (like  the  TriboUum  ferrugineuni)  sub- 
ject to  constant  introduction  amongst  fai'inaceous  substances  and 
other  articles  of  commerce.  I  have  taken  it  in  Fuerteventui'a,  Grand 
Canary,  and  Hierro ;  and  it  was  found  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  Being  (as  in  Madeira)  a  mere  importation  from  more 
northern  latitudes,  it  has  but  little  significance  in  our  present  fauna. 

Genus  279.  TRIBOLIUM. 
MacLeay,  Ann.  Jainm.  47  (1825). 

742.  TriboUum  ferrugineum. 

Teiiobrio  ferrugineus.  Fab.,  ^ec.  Ins.  i.  324  (1781). 
Triboliuin  castaneum,  MacLeay,  Ami.  Javan.  47  (1825). 

ferrugineum,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  491  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  151  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  certe  introductura. 

Like  the  Gnatliocerus  comutus,  this  insect  is  almost  cosmopolitan, 
being  liable  to  introduction,  in  civilized  coxuitries,  amongst  various 
articles  of  food  and  commerce.  Although  occasionally  abundant  at 
Madeira,  it  appears  to  be  scarce  at  the  Canaries, — Fuerteventura  and 
Teneriffe  (in  the  latter  of  which  it  was  likewise  taken  by  the  Barao 
do  Castello  de  Paiva)  being  the  only  islands  in  which  I  have  myself 
observed  it.  It  was,  however,  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera ; 
and  in  all  probability  it  will  be  found  to  be  universal,  if  searched  for 
in  the  warehouses  and  towns*. 

Genus  280.  PSEUDOSTENE. 
WoUaston,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vii.  247  ( 1861). 


*  In  every  diagnosis  to  wliich  I  have  had  access  (including  my  own,  in  the 
'Ins.  Mad.')  the  sexes  of  Triholmm.  arc  regarded  as  jserfectly  similar  (externally) 
infer  se.  But  an  accurate  inspection  has  lately  convinced  me  that  such  is  not,  in 
reality,  the  case,- — one  of  them  (which  I  presume  to  be  the  male)  being  not  only 
less  opake  and  with  its  prothorax  appreciably  narrower  behind,  but  having  like- 
wise its  genffi  just  perceptibly  more  prominent  and  angular  in  front  of  either  eye, 
and  its  antennal  club  much  less  abrupt,  or  more  gradually  iovvneA  (occasioned  by 
the  subclaval  joint,  or  joints,  being  wider). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  497 

743.  Pseudostene  fossoria. 

P.  lineari-angusta,  picea  vel  iiigro-picea,  nitida ;  capite  dense  rugu- 
loso,  antice  ferrugineo,  genis  rotundatis  (uec  ante  oculos  exstanti- 
bus) ;  prothorace  magno,  convexo,  antice  latiore,  ad  latera  oblique 
subrotundato,  sat  profunde  punctato  ;  eljiiris  angustioribus,  subcy- 
lindricis,  leviter  transversim  rugulosis,  tenuiter  sed  distincte  punc- 
tulato-striatis,  interstitiis  minute  punctulatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque 
pallida  rufo-ferrugineis,  tibiis  anticis  valde  dilatatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  1|— vix  1^. 

Pseudostene  fossoria,  Wall.,  loc.  cit.  250  (1861). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  salinis  necnon  sub  confervis  per  oram  ma- 
ritimam  arenosam  fodiens. 

In  my  Paper  (above  referred  to)  in  the  *  Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist.'  for 
1861,  I  described  three  nearly  allied  species  of  this  genus — the  P. 
angusta  (from  the  Cape  de  Yerdes) ,  the  present  one,  and  the  P.  sub- 
clavata  (from  Egypt).  And,  alluding  to  their  habits,  I  there  stated 
that  they  "  would  seem  to  be  more  or  less  fossorial,  living  under  sea- 
weed on  sandy  shores,  or  in  other  salt  places — a  mode  of  Kfe  which 
their  largely  dilated  anterior  tibife,  accompanied  by  a  considerable 
development  of  the  prothorax,  would  prima  facie  indicate."  In  such 
situations  I  detected  the  P.  fossoria,  during  the  spring  of  1859,  in 
Lanzarote — both  to  the  south  of  Arrecife  (beneath  marine  rejecta- 
menta) and  at  the  Salinas  (or  salt-works)  in  the  extreme  north  of  the 
island.     It  would  appear,  howevei",  to  be  excessively  rare*. 

Genus  281.  ALPHITOBIUS. 

Stephens,  HI.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  11  (1832). 

744.  Alphitobius  diaperinus. 

Tenebrio  diaperinus,  Kugel.,  in  Panz.  Fna  Ins.  Germ.  37.  16  (1797). 

■  ovatus,  Hbst,  Natursyst.  viii.  (1799). 

Heterophaga  opatroides,  Dej.,  Cat.  (edit.  3)  220  (1837). 
Uloma  opatroides,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  70  (1838). 
Alphitobius  diaperinus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  498  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  154  (1857). 

,         Crypticus  opatroides  ?,  Hartung,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Puert.142. 

Habitat  Canariam  et  Teneriffam,  in  domibus  mercatorumque  repo- 
sitoriis,  ex  alienis  introductus. 

This  widely  spread  insect  has  been  introduced  into  these  islands, 
as  at  Madeira,  occurring  sparingly  about  houses,  and  amongst  fari- 

*  The  P.  angusta,  from  the  Cape  de  Verdes,  is  just  perceptibly  narrower  than 
its  Canarian  ally ;  its  prothorax  is  a  trifle  less  convex,  and  rather  straigkter  both 
along  its  lateral  and  basal  edges  (causing  the  posterior  angles  to  be  somewhat  less 
obtuse) ;  and  its  elytra  are  more  lightly  striated :  but  I  am  exceedingly  doubtful 
whether  it  is  more  than  a  mere  state  of  the  fos.so)ia. 

2k 


498  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

naceous  substances,  in  the  villages  and  towns.  Not  having  thought 
it  worth  while  to  search  in  such  localities,  I  do  not  happen  to  have 
observed  it  except  in  Grand  Canary  and  TeneriiFe ;  but  in  all  proba- 
bility it  will  be  found  generally  distributed.  Teneriffan  specimens 
have  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  and  Dr. 
Crotch.  I  have  little  doubt  that  it  is  the  insect  referred  to  in  M. 
Hartung's  volume  under  the  title  of  "  Cryptims  opatrokles  "  [inserted 
without  any  cmtlwr-ity  to  the  specific  name !] ;  but  how,  in  a  work 
so  recently  published,  it  could  possibly  be  assigned  to  Crypt'ums,  with 
which  it  has  really  nothing  whatever  in  common,  it  is  difficult  to  con- 
jecture. Nevertheless  I  am  the  more  satisfied  that  such  is  the  case, 
inasmuch  as  no  Crypticus  has  ever  been  described  under  the  name 
of  "ojjatroides";  nor,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  Juts  any  viember  of  that 
genus  been  as  yet  detected  in  either  Lanzarote  or  Fuerteventura. 

Genus  282.  HYPOPHL(EUS. 
Fabricius,  Skrivt.  af  Natur.  Schk.  (1790). 

§  I.   Oculi  magm,  superne  valde  eonspieui :  clypeus  a  f route  distincte 
et  rede  separatus:  elytra  pygidio  multo  hi'eviora. 

745.  Hypophlceus  pini. 

H.  cyhndrico-linearis,  rufo-ferrugineus,  subnitidus ;  capite  protho- 
raceque  sat  dense  punctulatis,  ilHus  clypeo  ad  latera  vix  elevate, 
hoc  convexo,  clongato-subquadrato  ;  scutello  parum  magno  ;  ely- 
tris  punctulatis  (nee  striatis) ;  antennis  brevibixs,  valde  (prtesertim 
in  medio)  incrassatis,  fusiformibus,  subperfoliatis ;  pedibus  robustis, 
rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Hypophlceus  pini,  Panz.,  Fnn  Ins.  Germ.  67.  19. 

,  Dufts.,  Fna  Austr.  ii.  310  (1812). 

,  Re'dt,  Fna  Austr.  592  (1849). 

nocivus,  WoIL,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  ix.  442  (1862). 

Habitat  in  pinetis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  arbores  antiquas  perforans. 

This  large  species,  so  well  defined  by  its  cylindi'ic  outline,  its 
greatly  developed  eyes,  its  scarcely  at  all  expanded,  almost  un- 
recurved  gense,  its  posteriorly-shortened,  uniformly  punctured,  un- 
striated  elytra,  and  its  immensely  thickened,  fusiform  antennae,  the 
joiiits  of  which  {for  an  HypopTdoeus)  are  rather  loosely  connected 
together,  or  subpcrfoliated,  docs  not  appear  to  be  distinct  from  the 
European  H.  pini ;  though  I  inadvertently  treated  it  as  such  in  the 
Paper  above  referred  to.  It  seems,  in  these  islands,  to  be  confined 
to  the  pine-trees  of  intermediate  elevations,  beneath  the  loose  rotten 
bark  of  which  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agua  Mansa  in  Teneriffe,  and 
in  the  Barranco  above  8'"  Cruz  of  Palma. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEBA.  499 

§  II,   Oculi  minores :  clypeus  a  fronte  minus  evidenter  et  minus  recte 
separatus :  elytra  pygidio  vix  hreviora. 

746.  Hypophlceus  euphorbiae. 

H.  subfusiformi-linearis,  angustus,  riifo-ferrugineus,  subnitidus  ;  ca- 
pite  prothoraceque  sat  dense  punctulatis,  illiiis  clypeo  ad  latera  vix 
elevato,  hoc  elongato-siibquadrato ;  scutello  parvo ;  elytris  levis- 
sime  substriato-punctiilatis,  interstitiis  miniitissime  uniseriatim 
punctulatis ;  antennis  longioribus,  articulis  inter  se  parum  arete 
adpressis  ;  pedibus  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  -j— vix  1. 

Hypophlceus  euphorbiae,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  i.  183  (1862). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Canaria,  TenerifFa  et  Hierro,  sub  cortice  Eu- 
'phorhiarum  emortuo,  rarissimus. 

This  very  minute  and  narrow  Hypopldceus  seems  to  be  peculiar  to 
the  rotten  stems  of  the  various  Euphorbias — beneath  the  loose  bark 
of  which  I  have  taken  it  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  as  also  in  Grand 
Canary,  on  the  mountains  above  S'''  Cruz  in  TenerifFe,  and  in  the 
district  of  El  Golfo  on  the  west  of  Hierro.  It  is  alHed  to  the  Ma- 
deiran  H.  amhigims,  but  has  the  edges  of  its  clypeus  somewhat  less 
reflected,  its  antennae  and  prothorax  considerably  longer  (with  the 
punctation  of  the  latter  a  little  finer  and  more  dense),  its  elytral 
striae  fainter  and  composed  of  smaller  punctures,  and  its  elytra  and 
legs  less  abbreviated. 

747.  Hypophlceus  subdepressus,  n.  sp. 
H.  subfusiformi-linearis,  subdepressus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  subnitidus  ; 
capite  prothoraceque  sat  dense  punctulatis,  illius  clypeo  ad  latera 
(usque  ad  basin)  elevato,  oculos  fere  occultante,  hoc  transverso- 
subquadrato,  antice  sensim  latiore  ;  scutello  brevi,  valde  transverso  ; 
elytris  leviter  striato-punctatis,  interstitiis  minutissime  uniseriatim 
punctulatis  ;  antennis  brevissimis,  articulis  inter  so  arctissime  ad- 
pressis; pedibus  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Ohs. — Species  H.  depresso  Fab.  valde  afiinis,  sed  vix  depressior, 
omnino  levins  sculptiu'ata,  punctis  in  prothorace  elytrorumque 
striis  sensim  densioribus ;  clypeo  etiam  postice  (i.  e.  supra  et  pone 
oculos)  utrinque  distincte  elevato,  oculos  superne  fere  occultante  ; 
epistomate  a  clypeo  minus  evidenter  separate  ;  antennis  etiam  sub- 
brevioribus. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  in  Rio  Palmas  sub  stercore  camelino(!) 
captus. 

I  have  unfortunately  but  a  single  individual  to  judge  from  of  this 
small  Hypopldoeus,  which  was  taken  by  myself,  at  the  beginning  of 
April  1859,  from  beneath  camels'  dung(!),  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of 
Fuerte Ventura.  It  so  nearly  resembles,  at  first  sight,  the  European 
H.  depressus,  that  until  I  had  examined  it  closely  I  imagined  it  to  be 

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500  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

conspeeific  with  that  insect.  A  more  accurate  comparison,  however, 
has  satisfied  me  that,  although  nearly  allied  to  the  depressus,  it  is 
truly  distinct  from  it — being  not  only  a  little  Hatter  and  more  lightly 
sculptured  (the  punctures  of  its  prothorax  and  elytral  stria3  being 
likewise  denser),  but  having  its  clypeus  very  perceptibly  elevated  not 
merely  in  front  of  the  eyes  (as  in  that  species)  but  also  above  and 
behind  them,  on  either  side  (so  as  more  nearly  to  conceal  them  when 
viewed  from  above).  The  line  of  separation  between  the  clypeus  and 
opistome,  which  is  pretty  evident  in  its  ally,  is  less  traceable  in  the 
suhdepressus ;  and  the  latter  has  its  antennae,  perhaps,  if  anything, 
even  still  shorter. 

Fam.  73.  COSSYPHID^. 

Genus  283.  COSSYPHUS. 
Olivier,  Md.  iii.  44  bis  (1795). 

748.  Cossjrphus  insularis. 

Cossyphus  siculus,  De/.,  Cot.  220  (1837). 

iusularis,  Luporte,  Hist,  des  Col.  ii.  228  (1840?). 

,  Brhne,  Ess.  sur  les  Cossyph.  ii.  16.  pi.  2.  f.  2  (1846). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  mihi  non  obvius. 

It  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  I  have  not  myself  observed  this 
insect  at  the  Canaries,  and  yet  that  I  should  have  received  Teneriffan 
examples  of  it  from  no  less  than  foiw  different  quarters, — namely, 
the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva  (out  of  an  old,  and  accurate,  collec- 
tion which  was  formed  in  the  island  many  years  ago),  Dr.  Heer  of 
Ziu'ich  (the  specimens  having  been  obtained  by  M.  Hartmig),  M, 
DeyroUe  of  Paris,  and  Mr.  A.  Fry  of  London.  They  all  agree  per- 
fectly, in  every  respect,  and  I  have  no  doubt  were  captui'ed  in  the 
same  region  (wheresoever  it  may  have  been),  though,  apparently,  it 
did  not  fall  to  my  lot  to  visit  it.  The  species  does  not  seem  to  differ, 
so  far  as  I  can  detect,  from  the  C.  siculus  of  Dejean's  Catalogue — a 
type  of  which  (captured  by  himself  in  Sicily)  was  given  to  me  by  the 
late  Mr.  Melly  of  Liverpool. 

Fam.  74.  TENEBRIONID^. 

Genus  284.  TENEBRIO. 
Linnaeus,  Si/st.  Nat.  edit.  6  (1748). 

749.  Tenebrio  obscurus. 

Tenebrio  obscurus,  Fab.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  Ill  (1792). 
_^  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Erit.  v.  8  (1832). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA,  501 

Tenebrio  molitor*  ?,  Bridle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  68  (1838). 

obscurus,  Woll,  Itis.  Mad.  497  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad  Col.  153  (1857). 

Habitat  Fuerteventiiram,  Canariam,  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Pal- 
mam,  in  domibus,  granariis,  et  praecipue  sub  recremento  farris  circa 
basin  acervorum  tritici  sparso,  certe  introductus. 

This  common  European  Tenebrio  (which  is  found  also  in  Madeira 
and  at  the  Azores)  abounds  at  the  Canaries,  where  it  has  doubtless 
been  introduced  from  more  northern  latitudes,  and  where  it  occurs 
not  only  about  houses  and  granaries  but  (more  particularly)  beneath 
the  rubbish  around  the  base  of  corn-stacks.  In  such  situations  I  have 
taken  it  in  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriife,  and  Palma  ;  and 
it  has  been  communicated  from  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by  the  Barao 
do  CasteUo  de  Paiva.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  must  exist 
equally  in  Lanzarote  and  Hierro,  and  that  it  is,  consequently,  uni- 
versal. 

750.  Tenebrio  olivensis,  n.  sp. 
T.  praecedente  minor  ac  nitidior,  scutello  multo  minore,  triangulari 
(nee  transversim  pentagono),  elytris  valde  profunde  crenato-striatis, 
tibiis  sensim  gracilioribus ;  capite  prothoraceque  dense,  sat  pro- 
funde et  argute  punctatis,  hoc  convexo,  ad  latera  grosse  sed  ad 
basin  tenuiter  marginato,  angulis  anticis  acutis  porrectis,  posticis 
acutissimis  productis ;  elytris  basi  profunde  bisinuatis,  iuterstitiis 
convexis,  minutissime  et  parce  sed  argute  punctulatis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  4. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram ;  Martio  exeunte  a.d.  1859  exemplar  unum 
sub  lapide  prope  Olivam  coUegi. 

A  single  example  of  this  well-marked  Tenebrio  was  captured  by 
myself,  on  the  3J  st  of  March  1859,  in  Fuerteventura — from  beneath 
a  stone,  in  the  flat  ground  about  half  a  mile  to  the  south  of  Oliva. 
Its  comparatively  smaU  size  and  triangular  scuteUum  would,  even  of 
themselves,  distinguish  it  from  the  obscurus  and  molitor,  in  which 
that  organ  is  large  and  transversely  pentagonalf;  but  it  is  further 
remarkable  for  the  acute  angles  of  its  prothorax  (which  is  convex, 
and  broadly  margined  at  the  sides),  and  for  its  elytra  being  greatly 
bisinuated  at  their  base  and  very  deeply  crenate-striate,  with  their 

*  Although  it  is  very  possible  that  the  common  European  T.  molitor  may  like- 
wise have  been  introduced  at  the  Canaries,  nevertheless,  as  neither  I  nor  any  of  the 
collectors  with  whom  I  have  been  associated  have  detected  any  traces  of  it,  wliilst 
the  obscurus  absolutely  abounds  (and  could  scarcely,  therefore,  have  escaped  the 
observation  of  even  Messrs.  Webb  and  Berthelot),  1  have  little  doubt  that  the  "  T. 
7nolifor  "  of  M.  Brulle's  most  inaccurate  list  was  inserted,  in  reahty,  from  ex- 
amples of  the  obscurus. 

t  Lacordaire  calls  it  Acragonal ;  but  if  the  basal  line  be  straight  (as  I  take  it  to 
be),  the  scutelluni  of  the  molitor  and  obscurus  cannot  be  more  than  a  pentagon. 


502  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

interstices  convex  and  minutely  (though  sharply  and  rather  spa- 
ringly) punctulated.  Its  head  and  prothorax  are  likewise  sharply, 
but  more  closely  and  coarsely,  punctured. 

Genus  285.  BOROMORPHUS. 
Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad  492.  tab.  xi.  f.  9  (1854). 

751.  Boromorphus  parvus,  n.  sp. 

B.  angusto-subcyHndricus,  subopacus,  parce  sed  grosse  fulvescenti- 
cinereo-ijubeseens,  fusco-piceus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  saepius  paulo 
rufescentioribus,  densissime  rugoso-punctatis  (punctis  longitudina- 
liter  subconfluentibus),  hoc  elongato-quadrato  (postice  vix  ang-us- 
tiore);  elytris  subparallelis,  minute  et  levissime  pimctulatis  (punctis 
indistinctis  et  vix  longitudinaliter  dispositis)  ;  antennis  pedibusque 
rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-lj. 

Obs. — Species  quam  B.  tagenioides  Lucas  (=B.  madene  Woll.) 
minor  ac  magis  eylindrica,  elytris  antice  et  prothorace  postice  mi- 
nus angustatis,  oculis  minoribus,  puncturji  in  capite  prothoraceque 
densiore  ac  magis  rugosa,  sed  in  elytris  subtiliore  ac  le\aore  (sc.  le- 
vissima),  antennis  gracilioribus,  pedibus  brevioribus  sed  femoribus 
forsan  sublatioribus. 

Habitat  in  montibus  Lanzarotse,  Fuerteventurae  et  TenerifFae,  raris- 
simus. 

This  little  Boromorphus  seems  to  occiu'  at  rather  lofty  altitudes  in 
the  eastern  and  central  portions  of  the  archipelago,  and  is  evidently 
very  scarce.  I  have  taken  it  from  beneath  small  stones  in  the  cre- 
vices of  the  rocks  on  the  top  of  one  of  the  highest  hills  about  a  mile 
to  the  south  of  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote ;  as  well  as  on  the 
summit  of  the  Atalaya,  above  the  Eio  Palmas,  in  Fuerteventura — 
the  most  elevated  mountain  in  that  island :  and  a  single  specimen 
was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  TenerifFe 
— I  believe  at,  or  near,  Ycod  el  Alto.  It  is  exceedingly  distinct  from 
the  B.  tagenioides,  of  Mediterranean  latitudes  and  Madeira,  being 
smaller  and  more  parallel,  or  cylindric  (the  bases  of  the  prothorax 
and  elytra  being,  each  of  them,  less  narrowed,  or  drawn  in),  with  the 
punctation  of  its  head  and  prothorax  denser  and  more  rugose,  whilst 
that  of  the  elytra  is  both  finer  and  lighter  (the  punctules  being  very 
obscure  even  under  a  lens),  with  its  eyes  smaller,  its  antennae  slen- 
derer, and  its  legs  shorter. 

Fam.  75.  HELOPID^. 

Genus  286.  HELOPS. 
Fabricius,  Sj/st.  Ent.  257(1775). 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  503 

752.  Helops  altivagans,  n.  sp. 

H.  niger,  nitidus,  in  elytris  subopacus  et  obsoletissime  subaenesccns ; 
cajjite  prothoraceque  sat  profunde  et  dense  iDunctatis,  illius  clypeo 
antice  late  et  recte  truncate,  utrinque  ante  oeulos  elevate  et  sub- 
angulatim  exstante,  hoc  convexo,  ad  latera  rotundato  subexplanato, 
ante  angiilos  posticos  obtusos  vix  sinuate  ;  elytris  subellipticis  (an- 
tice paulo  angustatis),  leviter  et  tenuiter  subcrenulato-striatis,  in- 
terstitiis  minute  et  levissime  punctulatis  sed  hand  transversim  ru- 
gulosis  nee  tuberculatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  riifo-piceis. — ^Long. 
Corp.  lin,  4-vix  5, 

Habitat  in  montibus  valde  excelsis  Tenerifffe,  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m. 
ascendens. 

This  Helops  appears  to  be  peculiar  to  almost  the  loftiest  altitudes 
of  TenerifFe,  the  only  four  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been 
captured  by  myself  on  the  elevated  Cumbre  (overlooking  the  Caiiadas) 
above  Ycod  el  Alto,  and  on  the  opposite  Cumbre  above  the  Agua 
Mansa.  It  may  be  known  by  its  elytra  being  elliptical  (or  a  good 
deal  drawn -in  at  the  shoulders),  in  their  having  an  exceedingly  faint, 
just  perceptible,  metallic  tinge,  and  in  being  very  lightly  and  finely 
subcrenate-striated,  with  the  interstices  most  minutely  punctulated 
and  scarcely  at  all  wrinkled  transversely ;  by  its  prothorax  being 
convex,  considerably  rounded  at  the  sides,  and  but  very  slightly  si- 
nuated  in  front  of  the  hinder  angles  (which  are  obtuse)  ;  and  by  its 
clypeus  being  straightly  and  broadly  truncated  anteriorly,  and  rather 
conspicuously  raised  and  prominent  (or  subangulated)  before  either 
eye. 

753,  Helops  elliptipennis,  n.  sp. 

H.  prajcedenti  nimis  affinis,  sed  sensim  aenescentior,  punctura  in  ca- 
pite  prothoraceque  paulo  grossiore  sed  in  elytris  etiam  subtiliore 
(ajgre  observanda) ;  clj'peo  antice  minus  recte  truncate  necnon  ante 
oeulos  minus  elevate  et  minus  exstante ;  prothoracis  angulis  pos- 
ticis  obtusioribus  (sc.  valde  obtusis);  elytris  antice  vix  magis  an- 
gustatis, vix  levins  subcrenulato-striatis,  interstitiis  postice  obsole- 
tissime et  remote  seriatim  tuberculatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  ru- 
fescentioribus  ac  paulo  brevioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  in  sylvaticis  parum  elevatis  degens. 

In  its  elliptic,  lightly  sculptured  elytra  and  just  perceptibly  senes- 
cent hue  this  species  much  resembles  the  preceding  one,  of  which 
it  is  barely  possible  that  it  may  be  but  a  permanent  state  peculiar  to 
the  sylvan  districts  of  a  rather  lower  elevation.  Unfortimately  I 
have  but  a  single  example,  taken  by  myself  at  the  Agua  Mansa  in 
Teneriffe,  to  judge  from  ;  but  if  it  be  normal  of  its  kind,  the  H.  elUp- 
tipemiis  differs  from  the  altivagans  in  the  above-mentioned  pecu- 


504  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

liarities  being  more  expressed ;  in  its  clypeus  being  less  straightly, 
and  less  widely,  truncated  at  the  apex,  as  well  as  more  rounded-off 
(or  less  prominent)  in  front  of  either  eye ;  in  the  hinder  angles  of 
its  prothorax  being  still  more  obtuse  (the  sides  not  being  at  all  si- 
nuated  immediately  before  them);  and  in  its  limbs  being  both  shorter 
and  more  rufescent. 

754.  Helops  congener,  n.  sp. 

H,  ater  (interdum  obsoletissime  subasnescens),  parum  nitidus ;  capite 
prothoraceque  dense  punctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  ante  angnlos  posticos 
(vel  subrectos  vel  obtusiusculos)  plus  minus  evidenter  sinuato;  ely- 
tris  plus  minus  profunde  crenulato-striatis,  interstitiis  vel  convexis 
vel  planiusculis,  plus  minus  distincte  punctulatis  et  plus  minus 
transversim  rugulosis,  versiis  apicem  interdum  obsolete  seriatim 
tuberculatis ;  antennis  tarsisque  rufescentioribus. 

a.  turgidicollls.  Major;  clypeo  ante  oculos  paulo  magis  rotunda  to 
(minus  exstante);  prothoraee  densissime  et  rugose  punctato,  ad 
latera  et  postice  subexplanato-impresso,  ante  angulos  posticos  di- 
stincte sinuato  ;  elytrorum  interstitiis  convexis  et  sat  grosse  trans- 
versim rugulosis.     [/h  elevatis  sj/lvaticis  Palmse.] 

ft.  Minor,  paulo  minus  dense  rugoseque  sculpturatus  ;  prothoraee  sae- 
pius  aequali  (rarius  ad  latera  et  postice  subexplanato-impresso), 
ante  angulos  posticos  vel  distincte  vel  in  distincte  sinuato  ;  elytro- 
rum interstitiis  vel  convexiusculis  vel  depressiusculis.     [Teneriffa.] 

y,  Punctnlis  in  elytrorum  interstitiis  fere  obsoletis.     [Hierro.] 

3.  Prothoraee  densissime  sed  vix  minus  profunde  punctato  ;  elytro- 
rum interstitiis  versus  apicem  evidentius  seriatim  tuberculatis. 
[/«  regione  El  Monte  Canarise  Grandis.] — Long.  corp.  Hn.  3|-6. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  hinc  inde  sub  la  - 
pidibus  congregans. 

This  appears  to  be  the  most  widely  spread  of  the  Canarian  mem- 
bers of  the  genus,  and  by  far  the  most  variable — ^having  a  slightly 
different  phasis  for  nearly  every  district  in  which  it  occurs.  It  will 
probably  be  found  to  be  nniversal  throughout  the  central  and  western 
portions  of  the  archipelago,  though  hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only 
in  Grand  Canary,  Teneiiffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro, — namely,  in  the  re- 
gion of  El  Monte,  of  the  first ;  around  Orotava,  the  Agua  Mansa, 
Ycod  el  Alto,  the  Agua  Garcia,  Taganana,  and  Las  Mercedes,  of  the 
second ;  just  below  the  Cumbre  above  Buenavista,  of  the  third  ;  and 
near  Yalverde,  of  the  fourth.  In  Teneriffe  it  was  taken  likewise  by 
Dr.  Crotch  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

The  larger  state  (a),  which  may  possibly  be  distinct  specifically, 
of  the  H.  congener  has  a  certain  aifinity  with  the  Madeiran  H.  Vul- 
canus,  whilst  the  smaller  ones  are  still  more  evidently  allied  to  the 


CANARIAN  COLKOPTERA. 


505 


Madeiran  confertus — of  which  indeed  the  species  might  ahnost  be  re- 
garded as  a  geographical  modification.  Apart,  however,  from  obscurer 
characters,  the  rather  narrower  prothorax  of  the  H.  congener,  which 
is  also  a  little  less  rounded,  and  less  coarsely  margined,  at  the  sides, 
combined  with  its  just  perceptibly  broader  eyes  (longitudinally)  and 
its  almost  entire  freedom  from  tubercles  on  the  hinder  portion  of  its 
elytral  interstices  (which  even  in  the  state  "2,"  from  Grand  Canary, 
are  coniparativeh/  but  ill  expressed),  wiU  serve  to  separate  it  from  the 
(equally  variable)  H.  confertus. 

755.  Helops  carbunculus. 

H.  preecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  minor  et  minus  ater  (interdum  etiam 
subpicescens)  ;  prothorace  vix  longiore,  antice  convexiore,  ad  latera 
minus  rotundato,  ante  angulos  posticos  paulo  minus  evidenter  si- 
nuate sed  ibidem  plus  minus  lateraliter  compresso,  angulis  anticis 
acutioribus  et  sensim  magis  porrectis,  in  disco  plerumque  paulo 
levins  punctato  ;  elytris  vix  opacioribus,  levins  ac  magis  tenuiter 
crenato-striatis,  interstitiis  soepius  subdepressis,  paulo  minus  ru- 
gulosis  ac  subtilius  (sc.  subtilissime)  punctulatis. 

Var.  j3.  congesta.  Prothorace  ad  latera  ante  angulos  posticos  etiam 
minus  evidenter  sinuato,  elytris  plerumque  parum  profundius  sculp- 
turatis.     [/hs.  Palma  ct  Hicrro.] — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-4|. 

Helops  transversus  ?,  BrtdU*,  in  Webb  et  Beiih.  (Col.)  70  (1838). 
carbunculus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  519  (note)  (1854). 

Habitat  in  TenerilFa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  prsecipue  in  subinferioribus 
degens. 

This  Heh]ps  has  been  observed  in  TenerifFe,  Palma,  and  Hierro,  and 
was  described  by  myself  (in  a  foot-note  of  the  '  Ins.  Mad.')  in  1854, 
from  a  specimen  which  was  received  from  the  first  of  those  islands 
by  M.  Rousset,  of  Funchal.  In  Teneriife  it  is  the  common  species 
around  ^^^  Cruz,  and  occurs  likewise  about  the  Puerto  Orotava ;  in 
both  of  which  localities  (though  particularly  the  former)  I  have  met 
with  it  rather  abundantly,  and  from  the  latter  of  which  (where  it  was 
found  by  Mr.  Gray)  it  has  also  been  communicated  by  the  Rev.  R. 
T.  Lowe  and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva.  In  Palma  I  captured 
it  in  the  Barranco  above  S'''  Cruz ;  and  in  Hierro,  in  the  district  of 
El  Golfo.  Although  extremely  variable,  it  is  on  the  average  a  little 
smaller  than  the  H.  congener ;  and  the  larger  examples  of  it  are  not 

*  I  examined,  when  in  Paris,  M.  Brulle's  types  of  his  H.  transversus  (the  "  de- 
scription" of  which  gives  no  chie  whatsoever  to  the  characters  of  any  single  spe- 
cies), and  thought  it  barely  possible  that  they  might  be  conspecific  with  my  H. 
carbunculus.  Nevertheless,  as  I  was  far  from  satisfied  about  this,  I  do  not  consi- 
der it  safe  to  identify  them  accordingly  without  further  evidence.  I  need  scarcely 
add,  however,  that  if  a  future  and  more  accurate  inspection  of  them  should  prove 
the  two  to  be  coincident,  M.  Brulle's  name  will  of  course  have  the  priority. 


506  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEBA, 

always  readily  separable,  at  first  sight,  from  the  smaller  ones  of  that 
insect.  Nevertheless  I  believe  it  to  be  truly  distinct — differing  from 
it  in  its  less  intensely  black  hue  (which  is  occasionally  even  subpi- 
cescent),  and  in  its  less  shining  and  less  coarsely  sculptured  elytra, 
the  strioe  of  which  are  hoiYi.  Jinet'  and  more  lightly  impressed,  whilst 
the  interstices  (which  are  generally  rather  flattened,  and  but  sHghtly 
rugose)  are  so  minutely  punctulated  that  the  punctules  are  often 
barely  traceable.  Its  prothorax  is  a  trifle  longer,  and  convexer  an- 
teriorly, though  somewhat  more  lateraUy -compressed  on  either  side 
before  the  posterior  angles,  its  front  angles  are  appreciably  acuter  and 
more  porrect,  and  the  punctures  on  its  disc  are  usually  smaller  and  less 
deep.  The  specimens  from  Palm  a  and  Hierro  have  their  prothorax 
almost  ^insinuated  at  the  sides  (in  front  of  the  basal  angles),  and  their 
elytra  usually  a  little  more  coarsely  sculptured. 

756.  Helops  aterrimus,  n.  sp. 

//.  affinis  H.  carhunculo,  sed  aterrimus,  nitidissimus ;  prothorace  ad 
apicem  quasi  profundius  bisinuato  (angulis  anticis  valde  et  acute 
porrectis),  in  disco  levius  subtiliusque  sed  versus  latera  densius 
punctato ;  pedibus  masculis  sensim  crassioribus. — Long.  corp.  hn. 
4-5^. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  sub  lapidibus  prope  Sanctum  Sebastianum  vul- 
garis. 

This  is  the  common  HeJops  around,  and  above,  San  Sebastian  in 
Gomcra — where  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  from  beneath 
stones,  during  February  1858.  It  may  be  known  by  its  intensely 
black  hue  and  highly  polished  siu'face ;  by  its  prothorax  being  lightly 
and  finely  punctured  on  the  disc,  but  densely  and  coarsely  so  at  the 
sides,  with  the  anterior  angles  very  porrect  and  acute  (which  causes 
the  apical  edge,  when  viewed  from  above,  to  appear  as  though  deeply 
bisinuated) ;  and  by  the  thickness  of  its  male  legs. 

757.  Helops  nitens,  n.  sp. 

H.  breviusculus,  obsoletissime  submetallico-ater,  nitidissimus  ;  capite 
prothoraeeque  dense  et  profundc  punctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  ante  an- 
gulos  posticos  argute  obtusiusculos  vix  sinuato  ;  elytris  leviter  cre- 
nato-striatis,  interstitiis  depressis,  minutissime  punctulatis  ac  paulo 
transversim  rugulosis,  versus  apicem  obsolete  seriatim  tuberculatis  ; 
antennis  pedibusque  la^te  rufo-piceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  4. 

Habitat  Teneriff'am,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  repertus. 

A  single  example  of  this  Helops  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Tene- 
riff"e  (I  believe,  above  Ycod  el  Alto),  during  the  spring  of  1862.  It 
has  somewhat  the  shajie  of  (though  a  Uttle  broader  and  shorter  than) 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  507 

the  //.  congener,  with  the  highly  polished  surface  of  the  aterrimus  : 
but  it  may  be  known  by  its  deep-black  hue  having  a  faint  cyaneous, 
or  greenish-cyaneous,  tinge ;  by  its  prothorax  being  closely  and  coarsely 
punctured,  almost  unsinuated  on  either  side  before  the  posterior  an- 
gles, and  with  the  anterior  ones  (as  in  the  H.  congener)  not  porrect ; 
and  by  its  elytra  having  their  striae  most  lightly  impressed,  with  the 
interstices  flattened  and  very  minutely  punctulate. 

758.  Helops  quadratus. 

H.  piceo-niger,  subaenescens,  nitidissimus,  ubique  dense  punctatus, 
punctis  in  capite  prothoraceque  majoribus ;  clypeo  ante  oculos  ro- 
tundato  (nullo  modo  exstante) ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  angulis 
anticis  acute  porrectis,  quare  ad  apicem  quasi  profuude  bisinuato, 
ad  latera  minus  rotundato,  ante  angulos  posticos  (vel  subrectos  vel 
obtusiusculos)  sat  conspicue  sinuate  necnon  utrinque  pone  medium 
lateraliter  compresso  ;  elytris  leviter  punctato-striatis,  striis  rarius 
evanescentibus  et  plerumque  conspicue  punctatis  ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque  pallide  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  3^4^, 

Helops  quadratus?,  BrulU,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  70  (1838). 

Ilahitnt  in  montibus  Canarise  Grandis,  rarior. 

Although  the  types  of  M.  BruUe's  H.  quadratus,  which  I  examined 
in  Paris,  do  not  perfectly  agree  with  my  examples  of  this  species 
(their  elytral  striae  being  finer,  and  less  evidently  punctured),  never- 
theless they  appeared  to  me  to  be  sufficiently  near  to  render  it  pro- 
bable that  they  are  conspecific  with  them ;  and  such  seems  the  more 
likely  from  the  fact  of  one  of  my  individuals  having  the  striae  of  its 
elytra  almost  evanescent.  In  the  event,  however,  of  the  two  proving 
hereafter  to  be  distinct,  I  would  then  propose  for  the  present  one  the 
trivial  name  of  montanus. 

In  its  subaeneo-piceous  hue  and  shining,  densely  punctured  surface, 
the  H.  quadratus  (as  here  defined)  has  somewhat  the  prima  facie 
appearance  of  the  common  European  H.  caraboides  ;  but  the  resem- 
blance is  merely  a  superficial  one,  for  when  more  closely  inspected 
it  will  be  seen  to  have  abundant  characters  of  its  own.  Thus,  it  is 
more  shining,  and  more  coarsely,  though  rather  less  densely,  punc- 
tured ;  its  prothorax  is  a  good  deal  longer  and  more  quadrate,  with 
the  anterior  angles  mucJi  more  porrect  and  acute,  and  the  posterior 
ones  less  obtuse,  as  also  straighter  (and  more  laterally-compressed) 
at  the  sides,  but  more  sinuated  in  front  of  the  basal  angles  ;  its  ely- 
tral striae  are  considei-ably  lighter  (in  rare  instances  subobsolete), 
though  much  more  evidently  punctured ;  and  its  eyes  are  differently 
shaped.    The  only  locality  in  which  I  have  observed  it  is  at  a  high  ele- 


508  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

vation  on  the  mountains  of  Grand  Canary — namely  in  the  Pinal  above 
San  Bartolome,  in  the  central  region  of  Tarajana ;  where,  dm-ing 
April  1858,  I  captured  it  not  uncommonly,  from  beneath  stones, 
under  the  fir-trees. 

759.  Helops  rimosus,  n.  sp. 

H.  angustulus,  niger,  parum  nitidus ;  capite  prothoraceque  dense 
punctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  subsequaliter  rotundato,  ante  angulos  pos- 
ticos  argute  obtusos  vix  sinuato  ;  elytris  cylindrico-ovalibus  antice 
angustatis,  profunde  crenulato-striatis,  interstitiis  grosse  trans- 
versim  rimosis  sed  quasi  impunctatis  (/.  e.  punctuhs  subtilissimis, 
nisi  oculo  fortissime  armato  baud  discernendis) ;  antenuis  pedi- 
busque  piceis,  tarsis  dilutioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4|. 

Ohs. — H.  congeneri  ali(|uo  modo  similis,  sed  angustior,  el}i;ris 
magis  cylindrieis,  tamen  antice  angustioribus,  in  interstitiis  multo 
magis  transversim  rugosis  (so.  valde  ac  profunde  rimosis)  necnon 
multo  subtilius  punctulatis  (punctulis  aegerrime  observandis),  pro- 
thorace  ad  latera  magis  a^qualiter  rotundato,  genis  vix  minus  ex- 
stantibus,  tibiis  sensim  gracilioribus  antennarumque  articulo  3"° 
minus  elongato. 

Habitat  Puerteventuram,  a  Dom.  Gray  Januario  exeunte  a.d.  1858 
scmel  tantum  repertus. 

A  single  example  of  this  distinct  Helops  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray 
in  Fuerteventura,  at  the  end  of  January  1858.  Although  with  some- 
what the  prhnd  facie  aspect  of  the  //.  conge^ier,  it  may  easily  be 
known  by  its  narrowish  outline  and  convex,  though  anteriorly-con- 
tracted elytra,  the  interstices  of  wliich  are  very  coarsely  wrinkled 
(or,  rather,  craclced,  or  rimose)  transversely,  but  with  their  punc- 
tules  so  excessively  diminutive  that  they  are  quite  invisible  except 
beneath  a  high  magnifying  power.  Its  prothorax  is  a  good  deal 
(and  subequally)  rounded  at  the  sides;  its  tibige  are  rather  slender, 
and  its  third  antenna!  joint  is  less  elongated  than  is  usual  in  the 

allied  species. 

760.  Helops  porrectus,  n.  sp. 

//.  aterrimus,  nitidus ;  capite  prothoraceque  densissime  sed  vix  pro- 
funde punctatis,  hoc  transverso-quadrato,  ad  latera  minus  rotun- 
dato, angulis  anticis  acutis  porrectis  (ergo  ad  apicem  quasi  pro- 
funde bisinuato),  posticis  subrectis  (rarius  obtusiusculis),  per  basin 
subarcuato-truncato  ;  elytris  profunde  striato-punctatis,  interstitiis 
minute  punctulatis. — Long.  corp.  Un.  5-6. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  rarior. 

The  large  size  and  shining,  intensely  black  surface  of  this  species, 
combined  with  its  subquadrate  and  thickly  (though  not  very  coarsely) 
punctured  prothorax,  which  has  its  front  angles  rather  acute  and 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  509 

very  porrect  (causing  the  anterior  margin,  when  viewed  from  above, 
to  appear  as  though  deeply  bisinuated),  the  basal  ones  more  or  less 
right  angles,  and  the  sides  not  much  rounded,  will  serve  to  distinguish 
it.  It  was  taken  sparingly  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  January 
1858,  near  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote  ;  and  again,  by  myself, 
in  the  spring  of  1859,  in  the  same  district. 

761.  Helops  aethiops,  n.  sp. 

H.  praecedenti  similis  sed  ad  staturam  minorem  descendens,  saepius 
obsoletissime  (vix  perspicue)  subajneo-tinctus ;  oculis  vix  majo- 
ribus ;  prothorace  subconvexiore,  ad  latera  magis  rotundato,  an- 
gulis  anticis  minus  porrectis,  posticis  obtusioribus,  vix  parcius  pro- 
fundiusque  punctato,  per  basin  minus  arcuato-truncato  ;  elytrorum 
iuterstitiis  plerumque  etiam  subminutius  punctulatis. — Long.  corp. 
Hn.  3i-6. 

Habitat  Lauzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

In  the  large  size  of  at  any  rate  the  larger  examples,  deep-black 
hue,  and  shining  surface,  this  species  is  at  first  sight  scarcely  separable 
from  the  preceding  one;  nevertheless  it  appears  to  descend  to  a 
smaller  stature  than  that  insect,  and  the  shape  of  its  prothorax  is  ex- 
ceedingly different — being  somewhat  convexer  and  less  quadrate, 
with  the  sides  rounder,  the  anterior  angles  less  porrect,  the  posterior 
ones  more  obtuse,  and  its  basal  edge  rather  less  arcuated.  Its  eyes 
are  a  trifle  more  developed  (or  longitudinally  broader);  its  prothorax 
is,  if  anything,  a  little  less  closely  and  more  coarsely  punctured  ;  the 
punctules  of  its  interstices  are,  if  possible,  even  still  more  minute ; 
and  its  surface  has  very  often  a  just  perceptible  senescent  tinge.  It 
seems  to  be  confined  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  in  both  of  which 
I  have  taken  it,  though  especially  the  latter  (where  it  was  likewise 
found  by  Mr.  Gray  and  M.  Hartung).  My  Fuerteventui'an  specimens 
are  chiefly  from  the  vicinity  of  Puerto  de  Cabras  and  Oliva ;  and  I  met 
with  it  even  on  the  little  island  of  Lobos,  in  the  Bocayna  Strait. 

762.  Helops  picescens,  n.  sp. 

£r.  fusco-piceus,  minus  nitidus ;  capite  prothoraceque  densissime 
punctatis,  hoc  ad  latera  suba;qualiter  rotundato  (ante  angulos 
posticos  obtusiusculos  hand  sinuato)  ;  elytris  tenuiter  punctato- 
striatis,  iuterstitiis  minutissime  punctulatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque 
plus  minus  clare  rufo-ferrugineis. 

Variat  in  Fuerteventura  prothorace  vix  levins  parciusque  punctato. 
— Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-4. 

Ql)S, — Species  exemplaribus  minoribus   fere   in   pnecedentem 
prima  facie  raergens,  sed  tamen  nisi  fallor  vere  distincta :  in  sta- 


510  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

tura  haud  ultra  lin.  4  ascendit,  necnon  in  colore  plus  minus  fuseo- 
picescente  (nee  aterrimo)  differt ;  corpore  ssepius  minus  nitido, 
punctura  in  capite  prothoraceque  subdensiore  et  vix  subtiliore, 
elytris  plerumque  vix  magis  tcnuiter  striatis  atque  in  interstitiis 
forsan  subdensius  distinctiusque  (tamen  subtilissime)  punctulatis. 

Helops  caraboides  ?,  Bridle  [nee  Linn.'],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  69 

(1838). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura  (proesertim  illtx)  hinc  inde 
vulgaris. 

The  larger  examples  of  this  Helops  would  seem,  at  first  sight,  al- 
most to  merge  into  the  smaller  ones  of  the  H.  cethiojjs ;  yet  I  be- 
lieve that  the  species  are  positively  distinct  from  each  other,  even 
though  extreme  individuals  of  the  two  (in  opposite  directions)  are 
not  alwaj^s  readily  separable — at  any  rate  without  a  very  accurate 
comparison  of  them.  The  largest  specimens  which  I  have  been  able 
to  detect  of  the  ff.  picescens  are  so  veri/  much  smaller  than  those  of 
the  aitliiops  that  in  their  ordinary  states  no  species  could  be  better 
defined ;  but,  apart  from  this,  the  much  less  blackened  hue  of  the 
former  (which  is  more  or  less  of  a  dark  reddish-brown,  with  the 
limbs  pale  rufo-ferruginous),  combined  with  its  somewhat  more 
densely  and  finely  punctured  head  and  prothorax,  and  (however  mi- 
nutely) rather  more  evidently  punctulated  elytral  interstices,  will 
additionally  separate  it  from  that  insect. 

The  size,  coloiir,  and  general  appearance  of  this  Helops  give  it 
slightly  the  |»'????«  facie  aspect  of  the  European  H.  caraboides,  and 
I  have  little  doubt  that  it  is  the  species  referred  to  that  insect  in  M. 
Brulle's  most  inaccurate  and  loosely-compiled  list*.  The  most  super- 
ficial inspection  of  it,  however,  will  suffice  to  prove  that  it  belongs 
in  reality  to  a  totally  different  type — in  which  the  body  is  always 
apterous,  the  eyes  rather  less  developed,  and  the  prothorax  totally 
unflattened  at  the  sides  ;  whilst  it  is  fiu'ther  distinguished  from  the 
caraboides  by  its  longer  genae,  its  somewhat  less  closely  and  more 
coarsely  punctured  prothorax  (which  is  convexer  and  less  evidently 
margined),  and  by  its  elytra  having  their  strife  considerably  lighter  but 
more  decidedly  punctured,  with  the  punctules  of  their  interstices  com- 
parativehj  imperceptible.  In  the  development  of  its  male  tarsi  it  is 
a  little  variable. 

*  From  Prof.  Heer,  of  Zuricli,  I  have  received  it  (and  so  lias  Dr.  Sehaiim) 
actually  identified  with  the  earahoidcs,  and  labelled  as  coming  from  "  Teneriffe  "  ; 
whereas,  in  reality,  it  has  nothinn;  whatever  to  do  with  the  caraboides,  and  most 
unquestionably  is  not  Teneriffan !  His  examples  were  received  from  M.  Har- 
tung ;  and  I  mi/^rlf  took  others  of  them  out  of  M.  Hartung's  own  boxes  (by  his 
permission),  lehere  they  luerc  (fhev)  righfly  cissociated  with  liis  material  fi-om  Lan- 
zarote. 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA.  511 

The  H.  picescens  seems  to  be  peculiar  to  Lanzarote  and  Fuerte- 
ventura.  but  is  more  common  in  the  former  than  the  latter.  It  was 
taken  abundantly  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  Januaiy  1858, 
around  Haria  and  Magui,  in  the  north  of  the  former — where  I  again 
met  with  it  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year ;  and  it  was  likewise 
found  (in  Lanzarote),  as  already  stated,  by  M.  Hartung.  My  Fuerte- 
venturan  examples  are  principally  from  the  intermediate  district 
between  La  Antigua  and  the  Agua  Bueyes*. 

763.  Helops  fusculus,  n.  sp. 
H.  fusco-piceus,  subopacus ;  capite  prothoraceque  densissime  punc- 
tatis,  illius  oculis  (longitudinaliter)  angustulis,  hoc  convexo,  ad 
latera  subsequaliter  rotundato,  mox  ante  angulos  ipsos  posticos 
(argute  obtusos  et  obsoletissime  subrecurvos)  vix  sinuato ;  elytris 
fere  simpliciter  striatis  (striis  externis  obsolete  crenulatis),  inter- 
stitiis  minutissime  punctulatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  longiusculis, 
clare  rufo-feiTugincis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  repertus. 

The  single  example  from  which  the  above  diagTiosis  has  been  drawn 
out  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe  (I  believe,  near  Ycod  el  Alto), 
during  the  spring  of  1862.  In  its  fusco-piceous  hue,  very  densely 
punctured  head  and  prothorax,  and  most  minutely  punctulated  inter- 
stices it  agrees  with  the  H.jyicescens  ;  nevertheless  it  is  very  different 
in  most  other  respects.  It  is  well  distinguished  by  its  subopake  sur- 
face, by  its  (longitudinally)  narrowish  eyes,  by  the  convexity  of  its 
prothorax  (which  is  almost  equally  rounded  at  the  sides,  and  has  its 
extreme  hinder  angles  obtuse  and  with  a  faint  tendency  to  be  sub- 
reflected),  and  by  its  elytra  having  their  inner  striae  nearly  simple — 
even  the  outer  ones  being  but  faintly  crenulated. 

Fam.  76.  (EDEMERID^. 

Genus  287.  DITYLUS. 
Schmidt,  in  Linn.  Ent.  i.  87  (1846). 

*  Prof.  Heer,  in  the  list  which  he  prepared  for  M.  Hartung's  volume,  cites  two 
species  of  Helops  (namely,  "  transversalis,  Br."  and  "  qitadrahts,  Br.  ?  ")  for  Lan- 
zarote, and  one  {"  quadrahis,  Br.  ?")  for  Fuerteventura.  Being  mere  catalogue- 
insertiotis,  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to  notice  them,  or  to  conjecture  what  they  were 
intended  to  refer  to;  but  by  '' quadratus,  Br.?"  he  probably  meant  the  H. 
(ethio'ps  (which,  however,  has  nothing  in  common  with  M.  Bridle's  quadratus) : 
whilst  his  "  transvermlis,  Br."  may  perhaps  have  been  applied  to  one  of  the  sexes 
of  the  picescens.  But  I  mvist  remark  that  M.  Brulle  has  no  Helops  called  "  trans^- 
■versalis."'  He  has  an  H.  transversns ;  but  tliat  insect  comes  nearer  to  the  carhun- 
culus  than  to  anything  else  here  enumerated,  and  is  totally  distinct  from  all  the 
three  species  found  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura. 


512  CANABIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

764.  Ditylus  concolor. 
Z).  elongato-cylindricus,  laetissime  aurantiaco-testaceus,  pube  grossa 
demissa  aurautiaco-testacea  densissime  tectus  ;  prothorace  cordato, 
inaequali  (postice  canaliculato,  in  disco  utrinque  longitudinalitei- 
bi-impresso). — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-7. 

Ditvlus  concolor,  Bridle,  in  Wehh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  70.  pi.  i.  f.  13  (1838). 
^  fulvus,  IFolL,  Lis.  Mad.  523  (1854). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  sub  lapidibus 
necnon  juxta  radices  plantarum  (praesertim  Euphorhiarum)  latens. 

This  elegant  Ditylus,  so  remarkable  for  its  pale,  orange-yellow 
surface,  which  is  densely  clothed  with  decumbent  pubescence  of  a 
similar  colour,  is  (although  decidedly  scarce)  widely  spread  over  the 
Canarian  archipelago,  where  in  all  probability  it  is  universal.  It  was 
taken  rather  commonly  by  the  Rev.  R.  T.  Lowe  at  Arguiniguin,  in 
the  south  of  Grand  Canary,  on  the  15th  of  April  1858 ;  and  I  have 
myself  obtained  it  from  the  vicinity  of  the  Puerto  Orotava,  as  well 
as  below  Taganana,  in  Teneriffe,  and  from  the  Barranco  de  Nogales 
in  Palma.  In  Gomei'a  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  ;  and  Teneriffan 
examples  have  likewise  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  Castello 
de  Paiva.  It  seems  to  be  conspecific  with  the  Diti/lus  which  I  de- 
scribed, in  a  foot-note  of  my  '  Ins.  Mad.,'  from  the  rocks  of  the  Salvages 
(where  it  was  captured,  in  1851,  by  Mr.  Leacock,  of  Funchal)  ;  and 
is  also  very  nearly  alhed  to  a  species  which  occurs  at  the  Cape  de 
Verdes,  and  which,  although  with  small  and  constant  distinctions  of 
its  own,  may  possibly  be  but  a  geographical  modification  of  it*. 

Genus  288.  ISCHNOMERAt. 
Stephens,  HI.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  53  (1832). 

705.  Ischnomera  melanura. 

C'antharis  melanura,  Linn.,  Syst.  Nat.  ii.  651  (1767). 
Ischnomera  melanura,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  54  (1832). 

*  This  Ditylus  I  described,  in  the  'Ann.  of  Nat.  Hist.'  in  1861,  under  the 
trivia]  name  of  fallidus  ;  and  I  there  stated  that  "  it  is  not  only  of  a  much  more 
pallid  hue  than  the  concolor  (being  of  a  pale  testaceous,  and  entirely  free  frt^m 
the  beautiful  orange  tint  which  is  always  so  conspicuous  in  that  insect),  but  its 
pubescence  is  distinctly  longer  and  coarser  (particularly  behind),  its  eyes  are  more 
prominent,  its  pronotum  is  somewhat  Jess  uneven,  and  the  first  joint  of  its  an- 
tenna; is  perceptibly  tliicker — a  structm-e  which  is  very  apparent  at  the  base." 

t  Although  Stephens's  genus  Ischnomera  is  composed  of  several  insects  which 
have  since  been  erected  into  separate  genera,  nevertheless,  since  he  takes  the  Can- 
tharis  melanura  as  his  type,  and  even  expresses  his  conviction  that  the  yroiip  re- 
quires in  reality  further  subdivision,  it  seems  most  iinfair  to  give  the  preference 
to  Nacerdes  of  Schmidt,  which  was  established  (to  receive  that,  and  one  other, 
insect)  fourteen  years  afterwards.  On  this  principle  almost  any  of  the  old  genera 
might  be  summarily  disposed  of  by  subsequent,  and  more  accurate,  analyzers. 


CANARIAN  COLKOPTEKA. 


513 


Dityliis  nifus,  Brulle,  in  Webh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  70  (1888). 
Nacerdes  melanura,  Schmidt,  in  Linn.  Ent.  i.  29  (1846). 

Habitat'> 

I  have  not  myself  observed  this  insect  at  the  Canaries,  and  therefore 
I  should  not  have  admitted  it  into  the  present  Catalogue  had  I  not 
examined  carefuUy  the  specimens  of  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot,  which 
are  certainly  conspecific  with  the  Ischnomera  melanura  of  central 
and  southern  Europe.  M,  Brulle,  of  course,  gives  us  no  information 
as  to  the  island  in  which  they  were  found ;  but  it  is  not  unlikely  they 
may  have  been  taken  at  S'''  Cruz  in  Teneriffe,  imported  accidentally 
from  more  northern  latitudes. 


Fam.  77.  MELOIDiE. 

Genus  289.  MELOE. 
Linnaeus,  Si/st.  Nat.  edit.  1  (1735). 

766.  Meloe  tuccius. 

Meloe  tuccia,  Eossi,  Fna  Etrusc.  i.  238  (1792). 

,  Brandt  et  Erich.,  Man.  3Iel.  Nov.  Act.  Acad.  xvi.  121  (1832). 

,  Brum,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  70  (1838). 

,  Lucas,  Col.  de  FAlgerie,  396  (1849). 

,  Hartung,  Geolog.  Verhdltn.  Lanz.  und  Ftiert.  141,  142. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria,  Teneriifa  et  Gomera, 
passim. 

The  M.  tuccius  of  Mediterranean  latitudes,  so  well  distinguished 
by  its  usually  immense  size  and  deeply  pitted  (or  variolose)  surface, 
wiU  almost  certainly  be  found  to  be  universal  throughout  the  Canarian 
archipelago.  At  present,  however,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanza- 
rote,  Grand  Canary,  and  Teneriffe  ;  but  examples  from  Gomera  have 
been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do  CasteUo  de  Paiva,  and  in  Fuerte- 
ventura (as  well  as  in  Lanzarote)  it  was  taken  by  M.  Hartung. 

767.  Meloe  rugosus. 

Meloe  rugosus,  Mshm,  Ent.  Brit.  483  (1802). 

rugulosa,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  70  (1838). 

rugosus,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  527  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  162  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  hinc  inde,  minus  frequens. 

The  European  M.  rugosus,  which  occurs  also  in  the  Madeiran  Group, 
is  found  sparingly  in  these  islands.  I  have  taken  it  in  Teneriffe,  Go- 
mera, and  Hierro  ;  from  the  first  of  which  it  has  likewise  been  com- 
municated by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva. 

2i 


514  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

768.  Meloe  murinus. 

Meloe  murina,  Brandt  et  Erich.,  Man.  Mel.  Nov.  Act.  Acad.  xvi.  127 
(1832). 

— ,  Lucas,  Col.  de  rAlgerie,  398  (1849). 

flavicomus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  528.  tab.  xiii.  f.  1  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  162  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  passim. 

This  Meloe,  whicli  is  also  found  in  Mediterranean  latitudes  and 
which,  is  abundant  in  the  Madeiran  Group,  is,  like  the  rugosus, 
sparingly  distributed  over  the  Canarian  archij^elago,  where  I  suspect, 
however,  that  it  will  be  found  to  be  universal.  At  present  I  have  taken 
it  only  in  Grand  Canary  and  Teneriffe,  but  it  was  obtained  (at  Her- 
migua)  in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  At  first  sight  it  closely  resembles 
the  last  species,  but  is,  07i  the  average,  a  little  smaller  and  with  its 
limbs  slenderer,  and  it  is  more  or  less  clothed  with  a  fine  golden  pu- 
bescence :  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of  which  is  more  deeply 
channeled  behind)  are  more  finely  punctured,  and  its  eyes  are  a  trifle 
less  reniform — being  rather  broader  (longitudinally),  or  more  semi- 
circular. 

769.  Meloe  nudus,  n.  sp. 

M.  (vix  subplumbeo-)  niger,  subopacus,  alutaceo-coriaceus ;  capite 
prothoraceque  parcissimc  sed  argute  punctatis,  hoc  parvo,  basi 
profunde  arcuato-emarginato,  inoequah  (sc.  tenuiter  canaliculato, 
ad  basin  ipsam  profunde  transversim  impresso,  in  disco  antico 
utrinque  foveolato) ;  ocuhs  magnis,  reniformibus. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
7-8. 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  rarissimus. 

Readily  known  from  the  murinus  by  its  freedom  from  pubescence ; 
by  its  very  much  more  sparingly  punctured  head  and  prothorax — the 
former  of  which  is  less  deeply  channeled  behind,  whilst  the  latter  is 
less  transverse  (or  more  quadrate),  as  well  as  less  uneven  and  rather 
more  emarginated  along  its  basal  edge  ;  and  by  its  eyes  being  larger. 
It  would  appear  to  have  more  in  common  with  the  south-European 
M.  majalis,  Linn.,  than  with  any  other  species  with  which  I  am  ac- 
quainted ;  but  is  smaller,  with  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of 
which  is  less  flattened,  and  less  quadrate)  more  sparingly  punctate, 
with  its  elytra  dififerently  sculptured,  and  with  its  eyes  (longitudi- 
nally) broader.  I  have  seen  hitherto  but  thi-ee  examjjles  of  it,  all 
of  which  were  taken  in  Fuerteventura — two  by  myself,  and  one  by 
M.  Hartung. 

770.  Meloe  subcyaneus,  n.  sp. 

M.  subcyanescenti -niger,  subnitidus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  parce  sed 
profunde  punctatis,  illo  postice  hand  canaliculato,  hoc  subquadrato 


CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA.  515 

postice  paulo  angustiore,  subsequali,  basi  vix  emarginato ;  oculis 
elongato-reniformibus,  (longitudinaliter)  angustis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  10. 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Lanzarotae,  semel  tantum  repertus. 

The  obscurely  subcyaneous  and  slightly  shining  surface  of  this 
MeJoe,  combined  with  the  lightness  of  its  under  sculpture  (which  on 
the  head  and  prothorax  is  almost  obsolete),  and  its  narrow  and 
rather  elongate  (-reniform)  eyes,  will  sufficiently  distinguish  it  from 
the  whole  of  the  preceding  species.  Its  head  and  prothorax  (the 
former  of  which  is  imchanneled  except  quite  in  front,  whilst  the  latter 
is  subquadrate  and  comparatively  even)  are  sparingly  but  deeply 
punctured.  The  only  example  of  it  which  I  have  seen  was  taken  by 
myself  in  Lanzarote — I  believe,  on  the  hills  immediately  to  the  north 
of  Los  Valles  de  S'""  Catali'na,  on  the  road  to  Haria.  In  general  aspect 
it  seems  a  good  deal  allied  to  a  European  species  which  I  have  in  my 
collection  under  the  name  of  gaUicus,  but  is  smaller  and  much  less 
brightly  cyaneous,  its  head  and  prothorax  are  less  deeply  punctured, 
and  its  eyes  are  longer  and  narrower. 

Fam.  78.  MORDELLID^. 

Genus  290.  MORDELLISTENA. 

Costa,  Faun,  del  Regn.  Napol,  Mordcll  16  (1849?). 

771.  Mordellistena  pumila. 

Mordella  pumila,  Giill,  Fna  Suec.  ii.  605  (1810). 
,  Steiih.,  ill.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  48  (1832). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  ad  flores  havid  in- 
frequens. 

The  European  M.  purnila  is  widely  spread  over  the  Canarian  archi- 
pelago, where  (although  I  did  not  happen  to  meet  with  it  in  Hierro) 
I  believe  it  wiU  be  found  to  be  universal  in  all  the  islands  except 
Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  (in  which  its  place  is  supplied  by  the 
following  species).  Throughout  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand 
Canary  I  have  taken  it  commonly ;  as  also  at  Souzal,  the  Agua  Garcia, 
and  around  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe,  and  in  the  Barranco  da 
Agua  of  Palma — in  the  last  two  of  which  islands,  as  well  as  in  Go- 
mera, it  was  captured  (during  the  spring  of  1862)  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

772.  Mordellistena  sericata,  n.  sp. 
M.  pumiloe  similis  et  forsan  ejus  varietas  insularis  ;  vix  minor,  pube 
pallidiore  subam-eo-cinerea  sericea  hinc  inde,  sed  prsesertim  per  ely- 

2  L  2 


516  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

trorum  suturam,  (rarius  omnino)  vestita,  quasi  serieata. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  lf-25. 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  hinc  inde  ad  flores. 

Although  on  the  average  a  trifle  smaller,  the  only  real  character, 
that  I  can  detect,  which  separates  this  Mordellistena  from  the  pre- 
ceding one  is  the  fact  of  its  pubescence  being  of  a  paler  (or  some- 
what golden- cinereous)  hue — particularly  down  the  sutural  region  of 
the  elytra ;  which  imparts  to  the  surface,  when  viewed  in  one  direc- 
tion, a  peculiarly  silken  appearance.  It  is  possible,  therefore,  that 
it  may  be  but  an  insular  modification  of  the  pumila  ;  nevertheless,  as 
it  seems  to  obtain  universally  throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteven- 
tura,  whilst  the  ordinary  form  of  that  insect  is  equally  constant  in 
the  other  islands  of  the  Group,  I  am  not  satisfied  that  there  is  suffi- 
cient evidence  for  treating  it  as  such.  In  rare  instances  the  paler 
silken  pubescence  covers  its  entii'e  surface,  but  it  is  more  often  con- 
centrated merely  down  the  suture.  My  examples  are  principally  from 
the  little  island  of  Graciosa  (off  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote),  and 
from  the  vicinity  of  OHva  in  Fuerteventura. 

Genus  291.  ANASPIS. 
Geofiroy,  Hist.  Abr.  cles  Ins.  315  (1762). 

773.  Anaspis  Proteus. 

Anaspis  Proteus,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  532  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  163  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  ab  ora  maritima  usque  ad  9000' 
9.  m.  ascendens. 

This  most  variable  little  Anasjyis,  which  abounds  throughout  the 
Madeiran  Group,  is  equally  universal  (and  almost  equally  abundant) 
at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself 
captured  it.  It  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Lanzarote,  Tene- 
riffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro  ;  by  M.  Hartung  in  Lanzarote  ;  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  Teneriife,  Gomera,  and  Palma ;  and  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de 
Paiva  and  the  late  Rev.  W.  J.  Armitage  in  Teneriff'e.  It  occurs  in- 
dependently of  elevation ;  for  in  Teneriffe  I  have  taken  it  from  the 
sea-level  to  an  altitude  (on  the  Cumbre  overlooking  the  Canadas)  of 
about  9000  feet,  and  it  was  met  with  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  the  same 
upland  region. 

Its  variations  of  colour  seem,  as  in  Madeira,  endless — some  ex- 
amples being  almost  black,  whilst  others  are  well  nigh  testaceous ; 
but,  on  the  average,  the  darJcer  specimens  prevail  more  at  the  Canaries 


CANAPvIAN  COLEOPTERA.  517 

than  in  Madeira.  Nevertheless  the  following  observations,  from  my 
'  Ins.  Mad.,'  are  nearly  as  a^iplicable  here  as  in  the  neighbouring 
Group.  ''  So  great  are  the  changes  of  hue  through  which  it  passes, 
that  at  first  sight  it  would  seem  to  vary  from  a  uniform  testaceous 
into  a  deep  black.  Such,  however,  is  not  in  reality  the  ease  (as  a 
closer  examination  will  prove),  seeing  that  in  the  palest  specimens  an 
obscurer  portion  along  the  suture,  an  ill-defined  cloud  at  the  base, 
and  a  sublateral  dash  towards  either  side  (representing  the  transverse 
medial  band)  are  usually  more  or  less  present  on  the  elytra,  and  there 
are  often  the  rudiments  of  a  patch  on  the  prothoracic  disc ;  whilst  even 
in  those  extreme  varieties  where  these  darker  portions  are  so  increased 
in  size  as  to  occupy  nearly  the  entire  surface  there  are  generally  faint 
indications  of  four  subrufescent  elytral  blotches,  which  at  once  enable 
us  to  identify  them  with  the  rest." 

Fam.  79.  ANTHICIDiE. 

Genus  292.  FORMICOMUS. 

(Motschidsky)  La  Fert^,  Mon.  des  Anth.  70  (1848). 

774.  Formicomus  cseruleipennis. 

Authicus  cferuleipenuis  (Dufoiir),  D(J-,  Cat.  249  (1836). 
Formicomus  cajruleipennis,  La  Ferte,  Mon.  des  Anth.  73  (1848). 
Anthicus  cseruleipennis,  Lucas,  Col.  de  VAlgerie,  369  (1849). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem ;  ad  Arguiniguin  d.  14.  Apr.  a.d.  1858 
duo  exemplaria  deprehendi. 

This  elegant  insect,  so  remarkable  for  its  clear  rufo-ferruginous 
prothorax  and  limbs,  black  head,  viridi-cyaneous  elytra,  and  shining, 
pilose  surface,  appears  to  be  of  the  greatest  rarity  in  these  islands — 
the  only  two  examples  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by 
myself,  on  the  14th  of  April  1858,  by  brushing  the  short  grass  at  the 
edges  of  one  of  the  freshwater  pools  (close  to  the  sea)  at  Arguiniguin, 
in  the  south  of  Grand  Canary.  It  is  recorded  by  La  Ferte  from  Algeria 
and  the  south  of  Spain  ;  and  indeed  I  possess  a  specimen  which  was 
taken  by  the  Eev.  Hamlet  Clark  at  Malaga. 

Genus  293.  ANTHICUS. 
Paykull,  Fna  Suec.  i.  253  (1798). 

775.  Anthicus  floralis. 

Anthicus  floralis,  Fah.,  Srjst.  Eleu.  i.  29  (1801). 
,  Schmidt,  Stett.  Ent.  Zeit.  iii.  131  (1842). 


518  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Anthicus  floralis,  La  FerU,  Mem.  ties  Anth.  150  (1848). 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  164  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  TeneriiFa  et  Gomera,  sub 
quisquiliis  et  in  ciiltis,  hinc  inde  frequens. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  has  been  naturalized  in  the 
most  distant  parts  of  the  world  and  which  is  abundant  around  Funchal 
in  Madeira,  wiU  almost  certainly  be  found  to  be  universal  in  these 
islands.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  taken  it  only  in  Lanzarote, 
Fuerteventura,  and  Teneriffe ;  but  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in 
Gomera.     In  Lanzarote  it  was  captured  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray. 

776.  Anthicus  hispidus. 

A.  niger,  nitidus,  parce  cinereo-pilosus  pilisque  nigris  longissimis 
erectis  obsitus,  ubique  profunde  sed  parce  punctatus  ;  clytris  pone 
basin  fascia  transversa  dentata  testacea  ornatis ;  antennis,  tibiis 
tarsisque  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Notoxus  hispidus,  Rossi,  Mant.  i.  46  (1792). 

Anthicus  hispidus,  La  Ferte,  Mon.  des  Anth.  209  (1848). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  535  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  166  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  semel  tantum  captus. 

Of  the  A.  hispidus  of  Mediterranean  latitudes,  and  which  abounds 
at  rather  low  elevations  in  Madeira,  I  have  taken  but  a  single  ex- 
ample, hitherto,  in  these  islands — namely,  near  Haria,  in  the  north 
of  Lanzarote  :  we  may,  however,  expect  it  to  occur  more  generally. 
It  may  be  known  by  its  black  surface  having  a  transverse,  dentate, 
testaceous  fascia  behind  the  base  of  the  elytra,  and  being  deeply  but 
somewhat  sparingly  punctured,  as  well  as  beset  (in  addition  to  its  de- 
cumbent cinereous  under-pile)  with  exceedingly  long  and  erect  darker 
hairs.  In  the  specimen  before  me  the  prothorax  is  concolorous  with 
the  rest  of  the  surface  ;  but  this  is  probably  accidental,  as  that  portion 
of  the  body  is  nearly  always  more  or  less  obscurely  rufescent  behind. 

777.  Anthicus  crinitus. 

A.  gracilis,  piceo-niger,  nitidus,  parce  sed  grosse  cinereo-pilosus  ; 
capite  prothoraceque  parcissime  et  minute  pimctulatis,  illo  subro- 
tundato-quadrato,  hoc  angusto,  Isete  rufo-ferrugineo  ;  elytris  pro- 
fundius  punctatis,  fascia  magna  transversa  obliqua  mox  pone  basin 
et  macula  parva  communi  postica  centrali  (rarius  obsoleta)  rufo- 
testacea  ornatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  testaceis,  femoribus  apicem 
versus  ph;s  minus  picescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  11-1^. 

Anthicus  crinitus.  La  Ferte,  Mon.  des  Anth.  204  (1848). 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  165  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  parum  rarus. 

This  Anthtctis  is  slenderer  and  more  rufescent  than  the  hispidus  ; 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA.  519 

its  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of  which  is  rufo-ferruginous  and 
less  widened  anteriorly)  are  much  less  coarsely  and  less  closely  punc- 
tured ;  its  elytra  have  their  basal  fascia  larger  and  differently  shaped, 
and  increased  by  an  additional  patch  (rarely  obsolete),  common  to 
them  both,  on  the  suture  behind ;  and  its  surface  is  free  from  the 
elongate,  erect,  darker  hairs  which  are  so  conspicuous  in  that  insect. 
As  at  Madeira,  it  appears  to  be  rare  in  these  islands,  though  widely 
distributed  over  the  archipelago.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  at  San 
Mateo  in  Grand  Canary,  and  near  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe ; 
and  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera.  It  is  recorded  by  La 
Ferte  from  Egypt  and  Senegal. 

778.  AntMcus  humilis. 

A.  colore  facieque  generali  A.  crinito  prima  facie  fere  similis,  sed  pube 
breviore  minutiore  ac  magis  demissa  irroratus ;  capite  prothoraceque 
sensim  minoribus,  minus  nitidis  ac  multo  densius  punctatis,  illo 
ovali  (ergo  postice  rotundatiore,  angulis  posticis  omnino  rotundatis 
obsoletis)  rufescentiore  oculis  minoribus,  hoc  postice  magis  con- 
stricto  ;  elytris  subconvexioribus  (ad  latera  vix  magis  rotundatis) 
subleviusque  punctatis,  pone  basin  minus  evidenter  impressis,  plaga 
postica  communi  submajore  necnon  in  medio  per  sutm-am  evidentius 
bipartita  (i.  e.  in  maculas  duas  divisa). — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^1^. 

Anthicus  humilis,  Genu.,  Fna  Ins.  Eur.  10.  6  (1817). 

constrictus  (Eudd),  Stcph.,  Man.  342  (18.39). 

humilis,  La  Ferte,  Man.  des  Anth.  125  (1848). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  rarissimus. 

The  A.  humilis  of  central  and  southern  Europe  may  easily  be  known 
from  the  crinitus  (to  which  in  its  general  colouring  the  brighter  ex- 
amples of  it  approach  very  closely)  by  having  its  pubescence  shorter, 
minuter,  and  completely  decumbent ;  both  its  head  and  prothorax 
smaller,  rather  less  shining,  and  much  more  densely  punctured — the 
former  being  likewise  more  oval  (or  rounded  behind  the  eyes — which 
are  themselves  less  developed)  and  more  rufescent,  whilst  the  latter 
is  more  constricted  posteriorly  ;  and  by  its  elytra  being  just  percep- 
tibly convexer  and  more  rounded  at  the  sides,  less  evidently  impressed 
behind  the  base,  rather  more  lightly  punctured,  and  with  their  post- 
medial  patch  (or  abbreviated  fascia)  both  larger  and  more  decidedly 
interrupted  (or  divided  into  two  spots)  along  the  suture,  I  have  seen 
hitherto  but  six  examples  of  it,  all  of  which  were  captured  (five  of 
them  by  myself,  and  one  by  Mr.  Gray)  in  Lanzarote — I  believe,  at  the 
Salinas,  in  the  extreme  north  of  that  island. 

779.  Anthicus  opaculus,  n.  sp. 
A,  subopacus,  pube  minuta  fulvo-cinerea  demissa  vestitus ;  capite  pro- 


520  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA, 

thoraceque  rufo-ferrugineis,  densissime  et  (praesertim  illo)  parum 
profunde  punctatis,  illo  siibquadrato  convexo,  hoc  antice  lato  ;  ely- 
tris  subconvexis,  paulo  subtilius  punctatis,  piceo-nigris,  antice  nec- 
non  in  macula  magna  communi  postica  plus  minus  sufiusa  (et  in- 
terdum  etiam  per  suturam)  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  antennis  rufo-ferru- 
gineis ;  pedibus  pallide  rufo-testaeeis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-^1-|- 

Habitat  in  aridis  arenosis  Lanzarotse,  Fuerteventurte  et  Canariae, 
hinc  inde  (prtesertim  in  locis  inferioribus)  vidgaris. 

This  Antliicus  seems  to  be  rather  common  in  dry  sandy  spots,  prin- 
cipally (though  by  no  means  always)  of  a  low  elevation,  in  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventura  (in  the  latter  of  which  it  was  taken  likewise  by 
Mr.  Gray),  and  less  so  in  Grand  Canary.  It  may  easily  be  known 
by  its  rufo-ferruginous  hue  and  rather  opake  surface,  which  is  clothed 
with  a  very  minute  and  entirely  decumbent  fulvo-cinereous  pubes- 
cence ;  by  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of  which  is  squarish 
and  convex,  whilst  the  latter  is  much  widened  anteriorly)  being  veiy 
densely  and  somewhat  deeply  punctured  ;  by  its  elytra  (which  are  a 
little  convex,  and  not  at  all  impressed  in  front)  being  piceous-black 
but  broadly  rufo-ferniginous  at  their  base,  and  with  the  postmedial 
patch  (of  the  same  colour)  which  obtains  equally  in  the  last  two  species 
larger  and  more  suffused,  and  frequently  united  along  the  suture  to 
the  basal  portion ;  and  by  its  legs  being  altogether  pale. 

780,  Anthicus  notoxoides,  n.  sp. 

A.  praecedenti  valdc  similis  sed  paulo  major,  laetius  coloratus,  minus 
opacus  et  pube  sensim  palhdiore  (magis  argentea)  longioreque 
vestitus,  punctis  ubique  submajoribus ;  oculis  multo  magis  promi- 
nentibus ;  jn-othorace  antice  latiore  ;  antennarumque  articulis  inter- 
mediis  vix  longioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  rarissimus. 

Of  this  Anthicus  I  have  but  two  examples  (one  of  which  is  imma- 
ture) to  judge  from ;  nevertheless  it  is  certainly  distinct  from  the 
last  species,  which  in  general  hue  and  markings  it  much  resembles — 
being  larger,  more  brightly  coloured,  and  less  opake,  with  its  pubes- 
cence a  trifle  longer,  paler  (or  more  silvery),  and  less  depressed,  and 
its  punctation  a  little  coarser.  Its  eyes  are  very  much  more  pro- 
minent ;  its  prothorax  is  still  broader  in  front ;  and  its  antennae  have 
their  intermediate  joints  just  perceptibly  more  elongated.  One  of 
my  specimens  I  captured  on  the  hills  above  Haria,  in  the  north  of 
Lanzarote,  and  the  other  in  Fuerteventura*. 

■*  I  had  at  first  imagined  it  possible  that  the  immature  example  (from  Fuerte- 
Tentura)  above  referred  to  might  be  a  pale  and  ill-developed  femote  of  the  Euro- 
pean (and  Madeiran)  A.  instabilis;  but.  baring  identified   it  satisfactorily  with 


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781.  Anthicus  dimidiatus,  n.  sp. 

A.  gracilis,  parum  nitidus,  piceo-niger,  pube  minuta  fulvo-cinerea 
demissa  vestitus,  ubique  miniitissime  et  levissime  punctxilatus ; 
capite  parvo,  ovali  (pone  oculos  rotundato) ;  prothorace  postice 
constricto  ;  elytris  angustis,  subparallelis,  ad  (aiit  potius  mox  pone) 
basin  fascia  maxima  testacea  obliqua  (fere  ad  medium  ducta)  or- 
natis ;  antennis  pedibusque  longiusculis,  graciliusciilis,  pallido-tes- 
taceis,  femoribus  plus  minus  picescentibus. — Long,  coi-p.  lin.  i-1^. 

Habitat  in  salinis  Lanzarotse  et  Canariae,  sed  parum  rarus  ;  necnon 
etiam  in  Gomera,  infra  oppidum  Hermig-ua,  cepit  W.  D.  Crotch. 

The  narrow  outline  and  dark  surface  of  this  little  Anthicus,  which 
has  an  immense  fascia  at  the  base  of  its  subparallel  elytra  (occupying 
almost  their  anterior  half),  together  with  its  antennae,  tibiae,  and 
tarsi,  testaceous,  and  the  punctules  of  its  entire  surface  most  minute 
and  lightly  impressed,  will  sufficiently  distinguish  it.  In  its  small, 
oval  head,  basaUy-constricted  prothorax,  and  rather  slender  and 
elongated  limbs  it  agrees  with  the  A.  htmiilis ;  nevertheless  all  its 
other  characters  (of  colour,  markings,  sculpture,  and  outline)  are 
entirely  different  from  those  of  that  insect ;  whilst  its  total  free- 
dom from  a  postmedial  elytral  patch  will  tend  rather  to  bring  it  into 
juxtaposition  with  the  lapidosus. 

The  A.  dimidiatus  I  have  myself  observed  only  in  salt  places  in 
Lanzarote  and  Grand  Canary — in  the  former  of  which  I  met  with 
it  both  at  the  Salinas  in  the  extreme  north  of  the  island,  and  along 
the  edges  of  the  salt  lake  of  "  Januvio  "  adjoining  the  south-western 
coast ;  whilst,  in  the  latter,  I  took  a  few  examples,  on  the  12th  of 
April  1858,  in  a  precisely  similar  spot,  at  Juan  Grande.  Five  speci- 
mens of  it  were,  however,  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring 
of  1862,  "  below  Hermigua  "  in  Gomera. 

782.  Anthicus  lapidosus,  n.  sp. 

A.  subnitidus,  niger,  pube  grossa  argenteo-cinerea  sat  dense  vestitus, 
ubique  profunde  et  (praesertim  in  elytris)  dense  pxmctatus ;  capite 
quadrato  ;  prothorace  antice  minus  dilatato,  postice  vix  constricto  ; 
elytris  ad  humeros  subrectis,  pone  basin  fascia  parva  valde  obliqua 
indistincta  (interdum  aegre  observanda  sufFusix)  subtestacea  ornatis  ; 

the  other,  and  perfect  one  (from  Lanzarote),  I  now  perceive  that  (even  assuming 
them  both  to  be  females)  they  could  not  be  identical  with'that  species ;  for  (not 
to  mention  the  colour,  which  is  paler  and  quite  different)  its  punctation  is"al- 
together  a  little  coarser,  its  head  is  longer  behind  the  eyes,  its  prothorax  is  wider 
in  front,  its  pubescence  is  not  quite  so  minute,  its  antenna;  are  relatively  some- 
what slenderer,  with  their  intermediate  joints  less  abbreviated,  and  its  legs  are 
entirely  pale.  I  need  scarcely  add  that  if  either  of  these  two  examples  be  males, 
it  is  still  further  separated  from  the  instahilis  by  the  simple  posterior  tibiai  of 
that  sex. 


522  CANAfilAN  COLEOPTERA. 

antennis  pedibusque  infiiscato-testaceis,  illarum  artieiilo  ultimo 
horumque  femoribus  plus  minus  picescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  inter  lapillos  per  marginem  paludis  cujusdam 
parvse  in  "  Barranco  Santo  "  props  Sanctam  Criicem  lectus. 

Readily  known  by  its  small  size,  dark  hue,  thickly  and  (especially 
on  the  elytra)  deeply  punctured  surface  (which  is  rather  densely 
clothed  with  a  robust,  decumbent,  silvery  pile),  by  its  square  head, 
and  by  its  elytra  (which  are  rectangular  at  the  shoulders)  being 
each  of  them  ornamented  immediately  behind  the  base  with  an  ex- 
ceedingly oblique  and  very  obscure  (occasionally  but  just  traceable) 
paler  fascia.  Its  hmbs  are  brownish-testaceous,  with  the  apical 
joint  of  the  antennae,  and  the  femora,  more  or  less  picescent.  The 
only  spot  in  Avhich  I  have  observed  it  is  at  the  extreme  head  of  the 
Barranco  Santo  (close  to  S*''  Cruz)  in  Teneriife — where,  in  June 
1858,  I  captured  it  in  profusion  amongst  wet  shingle  at  the  edges 
of  a  small  stagnant  pool,  in  company  with  the  Perilejjtus  7iigritulus 
and  several  minute  members  of  the  StaphyUnidce. 

783.  Anthicus  angustatus. 

A.  praecedenti  prima  facie  similis,  scd  opacior,  punctura  multo  le- 
\T.ore  ;  capite  prothoracoque  (sensim  longiore)  rufescentioribus  (sc. 
rufo-piceis)  ;  elytris  multo  magis  ovalibus  (ad  humeros  rotun- 
datis,  nee  rectis),  nigris,  immaculatis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  om- 
nino  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Anthicus  angustatus,  Curt.,  Brit.  Ent.  fo.  714. 
^  Stej^h.,  Man.  342  (1839). 

Habitat  Fuerteventiu'am,  a  Dom.  Gray  semel  tantum  repertus. 

Of  this  little  Anthicus  I  have  seen  but  a  single  Canarian  individual, 
which  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Fuerteventura,  and  which  does  not 
appear  to  differ  appreciably  (so  far  as  I  can  detect)  from  the  British 
A.  angustatus.  In  its  small  size,  general  colouring,  robust,  silvery 
pubescence,  and  squarish  head  it  has  somewhat  the  prima  facie 
aspect  of  the  lapidosus ;  nevertheless,  when  viewed  more  closelj'',  it 
will  be  seen  to  be  totally  distinct.  Thus,  it  is  more  opake  and  with 
its  pmictation  much  lighter  ;  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  latter  of 
which  is  a  little  longer)  are  rufo-piceous  instead  of  black  ;  its  elytra 
are  much  more  oval  (or  considerably  rounder  at  the  shoulders), 
black,  and  immaculate ;  and  its  limbs  are  uniformly  piceo-testa- 
ceous. 

784.  Anthicus  guttifer,  n.  sp. 

A.   subnitidus,  nigcr,   pube    fiJvo-cinerea   demissa   parce  vestitus, 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  523 

iibique  dense  punetatus  ;  capite  subquadrato,  oculis  minutis ;  pro- 
thorace  breviusciilo,  basi  marginato ;  elytris  ad  hiuneros  macula 
obliqua  et  in  disco  postico  altera  submajore  transversa,  testaceis, 
iitrinque  ornatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  fusco-testaceis,  femoribus 
picescentioribus. 
Vmiat  (immatnrus)  capite  prothoraceque  rufescentioribus. — Long, 
cori).  lin.  1-1-^. 

Ohs. — A.  tristi  Schmidtii  valde  affinis  et  forsan  ejus  varietas 
geographica.  DifFert  solum  oeiilis  etiam  subminoribus,  prothorace 
panlo  minore,  breviore,  elytris  sublatioribus,  punctura  omnino 
sensim  fortiore  et  pube  vix  minus  fulvescente. 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  praesertim  in  inferioribus 
degens. 

It  is  with  some  hesitation  that  I  regard  this  Anthkus  as  more  than 
a  geographical  modification  of  the  A.  tristis  of  Mediterranean  latitudes 
— with  which,  in  its  dark  hue,  squarish  head,  and  the  two  more  or 
less  brightly  testaceous  spots  (humeral  and  postmedial)  with  which 
each  of  its  elytra  is  ornamented,  it  agrees ;  nevertheless,  since  the 
few  minute  differences  which  it  presents  are  partly  structm-al  ones, 
I  feel  doubtful  whether  it  would  be  safe  to  unite  it  actually  with 
that  species.  Thus,  when  closely  inspected,  it  will  be  seen  that  its 
eyes  are  invariably  even  more  minute  still  than  those  of  the  tristis ; 
its  prothorax  is  altogether  a  little  smaller  and  shorter ;  its  elytra 
are  a  trifle  wider ;  its  punctation  is  appreciably  coarser ;  its  sur- 
face is  rather  less  pubescent,  and  the  pubescence  itself  is  (if  any- 
thing) less  fulvous.  It  is  a  universal  insect,  principally  at  low  ele- 
vations, throughout  the  Group — I  having  myself  taken  it  in  all  the 
islands  except  Gomera  (whence,  however,  there  are  seven  examples 
now  before  me  which  were  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch).  In  Lanzarote 
it  was  met  with  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray. 

785.  Anthicus  canariensis,  n.  sp. 

A.  subnitidus,  pube  cinerea  demissa  tenui  vestitiis,  ubique  levissime 
et  minutissime  punctulatvis  (nisi  oeulo  armato  quasi  impunctatus)  ; 
capite  prothoraceque  vel  nigris  vel  piceis  (interdum  submetaUico- 
tinctis),  illo  subquadrato-rotimdato,  hoc  brevi,  postice  (rarius  om- 
nino) paUidiore  ac  profunde  subconstricto-impresso  ;  elytris  testa- 
ceis, per  suturam  plus  minus  infuscatis  (rarius  concoloribus);  an- 
tennis ad  basin  subgracilibus  testaceis,  versus  ai:)icem  obscurioribus 
sensim  crassioribus  (articulo  ultimo  subincrassato)  ;  pedibus  testa- 
ceis, femoribus  picescentioribus. — Long.  corj).  lin.  1-lg. 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Hierro  sola  adhuc  haud  detectus. 
In  my  notice  of  the  Attains  anthicoides  [vide  p.  224]  I  called  at- 
tention to  the  curious  analogy,  both  of  aspect  and  habits,  which  exists 


524  CAXARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

between  the  present  insect  and  that  one,  despite  their  being  so 
widely  removed  from  each  other  in  affinity.  Indeed,  as  there  stated, 
when  found  in  company  (as  is  frequently  the  case),  it  is  not  always 
easy  at  first  sight  to  define  between  them — as  I  have  often  expe- 
rienced when  collecting  them  (in  Lanzarote)  from  beneath  the  refuse 
lying  upon  the  ground  around  the  base  of  corn-stacks  (a  habitat 
which  is  quite  normal  for  an  AntJiicus,  though  a  very  anomalous  one 
for  a  member  of  the  Malaohiidce).  Its  more  or  less  lurid-testaceous 
hue  (the  head,  the  anterior  portion  of  the  prothorax,  and  the  elytral 
suture  being  alone,  usually,  more  or  less  blackened)  will  at  once 
separate  it  from  the  other  Anthici  here  enumerated ;  nevertheless  it 
is  extremely  variable  in  colour,  inasmuch  as  the  entire  prothorax  and 
elytra  are  sometimes  pale,  whilst  at  others,  on  the  contrary,  the  whole 
surface  is  a  good  deal  infuscated.  Its  antennae  are  rather  slenderer 
at  the  base,  and  more  incrassated  towards  the  apex,  than  is  the  case 
■\\dth  the  Anthici  generally  (the  terminal  joint  itself  being  often  ap- 
preciably enlarged) ;  its  elytra  are  of  a  softer,  or  less  consistent, 
texture  ;  and  its  punctation  is  so  light  and  minute  as  to  be  almost 
obsolete. 

The  A.  canariensis  is  doubtless  universal  throughout  the  Group  : 
indeed  I  have  myself  captured  it  in  all  the  islands  except  Gomera 
and  Hierro,  in  the  former  of  which  it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch.  In 
Lanzarote,  Fuerteventiu-a,  and  Teneriff'e  it  was  found  likewise  by 
Mr.  Gray  ;  and  it  has  been  communicated  from  the  last  by  the  Barao 
do  Castello  de  Paiva.  I  even  met  with  it  on  the  Little  island  of  Gra- 
ciosa,  ofi"  the  extreme  north  of  Lanzarote. 

786.  AntMcus  scydmaBnoides,  n.  sp. 

A.  fusco-piceus,  subnitidus,  pube  subcinerea  demissa  tenui  vestitus  ; 
capite  magno,  subrotundato,  convexo ;  prothorace  brevi,  postice 
valde  angustato  et  subconstricto-impresso  ;  elytris  ellipticis  postice 
acutiusculis,  conspicue  punctatis,  concoloribus  ;  antennis  pedibus- 
que  gracihbus,  illis  fusco-,  his  pallido-testaecis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |. 

Habitat  Teneriff'am,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  re])ertus. 

The  elliptical  (or  somewhat  obovate,  posteriorly  acute)  elytra  and 
brownish-piceous  hue  of  this  excessively  minute  Anthicus  give  it  so 
much  the  jyimu  fucie  appearance  of  a  Scyclmcenus,  that,  before  an 
accurate  examination,  I  had  inadvertently  referred  it  to  that  group. 
Nevertheless  the  outline  of  its  head  and  prothorax,  as  well  as  the 
structure  of  its  antennae,  palpi,  and  feet,  of  course  immediately  re- 
move it,  on  a  closer  inspection,  from  the  Scifdmtenidce.     Its  head  and 


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525 


prothorax  (the  former  of  which  is  large  and  round,  whilst  the  latter 
is  considerably  abbreviated  and  much  narrowed  behind)  are  almost 
free  'from  sculpture,  but  its  elytra  are  rather  distinctly  punctured. 
The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  is  due  to  the  researches  of  Dr. 
Crotch  in  Teneriffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862. 

Genus  294.  OCHTHENOMUS. 

(Dejean)  Schmidt,  Stett.  Ent.  Zeit.  iii.  19G  (1842). 

787.  Ochthenomus  senilis,  n.  sp. 
0.  angustus,  fusco-piccus,  opacus,  pilis  brevissimis  cinereis  argute  ir- 
roratus  et  ubique  dense  punctulatus  ;  capita  elongato-subquadrato, 
inter  oculos  parvos  prominentes  depresso  ;  prothorace  parvo,  tenui, 
basi  magis  testaceo ;  elytris  subparaUelis,  mox  pone  basin  fascia 
magna  transversa  necnon  ad  apicem  ipsum  macula  distinctiore  has- 
tata,testaceis,  ornatis ;  an  tennis  elongatis,  apicem  versus  incrassatis, 
ferrugineis ;  pedibus  gracilibus,  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  Kn.  vix  1-|. 

Habitat  Palmam,  ad  rupes  excelsas  aquosas  semel  repertus. 

A  single  example  of  this  beautiful  Oclitlienomus  was  captured  by 
myself,  during  June  1858,  at  a  high  elevation  in  the  island  of  Palma 
— at  the  base  of  some  damp,  trickling  rocks  above  the  Pinal  of  the 
Banda,  close  to  the  edge  of  the  great  Caldeira. 

Genus  295.  XYLOPHILUS. 

(BonelH)  Latr.,  Fam.  Nat.  383  (1825). 

§  I.  Corjotis  gracile,  suhcylindricum.  Antennce  in  niaribus  longissimce, 
intus  serratce,  art"  2^°  (in  utroque  sexti)  brevi.  Oculi  magni,  in  ma- 
ribus  maximi  supra  fere  contigui.  Pedes  longiusculi.  (Euglenes, 
Westiv.)  • 

788.  XylopMlus  oculatissimus,  n.  sp. 

X.  testaceus,  dense  et  (prtesertim  in  elytris)  profunda  punctatus,  pube 
grossa  subdemissa  fulvescente  dense  vestitus ;  capite  transverse - 
rotundato,  paulo  fuscescentiore ;  prothorace  parvo,  subconico-qua- 
drato,  basi  transversim  impresso,  angulis  posticis  subrectis ;  ely- 
tris parallelis,  in  medio  fascia  indistineta  suffiisa  (antice  per  sutu- 
ram  et  ad  latera  per  marginem  ducta)  fuscescente  nebulosis,  basi 
conjunctim  subemarginatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  11. 

Habitat  Palmam,  cum  OchtJienomo  senili  deprehensus. 

This  beautiful  XylopMlus,  the  elongated  antenniB  of  which  (with 
their  abbreviated  second  joint)  and  enlarged  subconfluent  eyes,  in  the 
male  sex,  would  refer  it  to  the  subgenus  Euglenes,  is  remarkable,  inter 
alia,  for  its  testaceous  surface — which  has  merely  a  suffused,  indis- 
tinct, cloudy  fascia  across  the  central  region  of  its  elytra  (and  more 
or  less  produced  along  the  lateral  margins  and  the  anterior  portion 


526  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

of  the  suture)  slightly  darkened.  Its  head,  however,  would  appear 
to  be  sometimes  a  little  infuscated.  I  have  seen  hitherto  but  three 
examples  of  it,  which  were  taken  by  myself  at  a  high  elevation  in 
the  island  of  Palma — in  the  same  locality  as  (and  indeed  in  com- 
pany with)  the  Ochthenomus  senilis,  described  above. 

§  II.  Corpus  ovatum.  Antennce  {in  utroque  sexu)  hreviores,  haud  ser- 
ratce,  articulis  intertnediis  hrevihus,  inter  se  subcequalibus.  Ocidi  mi- 
nores,  in  utroque  se.vu  distantes.  Pedes  hreviores.  (Phytobtenus, 
Sahlh.) 

789.  Xylophilus  pallescens. 

X.  testaceus,  dense  sed  minutissime  punctulatus  (capite  fere  impunc- 
tato),  pube  subtilissima  brevissima  valde  demissa  cinereo-fulves- 
cente  densissime  vestitus  (quasi  sericatus)  ;  capite  subtriangulari ; 
prothorace  transverso-quadrato,  antiee  vix  latiore,  ad  latera  versus 
angulos  posticos  argute  obtusiusculos  oblique  subtruncato,  basi  in- 
tra angulos  minute  foveolato  ;  elytris  ovalibus,  subconvexis,  conco- 
loribus,  basi  conjunctim  trisinuatis. — Long.  cori>.  lin.  vix  1. 

Xylophilus  pallescens,  Wall,  Ins.  3Ind.  538.  tab.  xiii.  f.  3  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  167  (1857). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  in  collibus  mox  suj^ra  Sanctam  Crucem  lectus. 

A  single  example  of  this  insect,  which  occurs,  not  uncommonly, 
beneath  vegetable  refiise  around  Funehal  in  Madeira,  was  taken  by 
myself  on  the  ascent  of  the  mountains  immediately  behind  S'"  Cruz 
of  Teneriffe — in  the  direction  of  El  Campo  and  the  Las  Mercedes 
range. 

Fam.  80.  SCYDM.ffiNID^. 

Genus  296.  SCYDM^NUS. 
Latreille,  Gen.  Crust,  ct  Ins.  i.  232  (1806). 

790.  Scydmsenus  tarsatus. 

S.  piceo-niger,  nitidissimus,  fere  impunctatus,  parce  sed  grosse  ful- 
vescenti-cinereo-pubescens ;  prothorace  ad  basin  foveolis  quatuor 
punetiformibus  notato  ;  elytris  ovalibus,  apice  pygidio  brevioribus, 
basi  hneolis  duabus  impressis  ;  antennis  pedibusque  crassis,  paUide 
rufo-ferrugineis,  tarsis  anticis  dilatatis.— Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Scydmjfinus  tarsatus,  Kimze,  3Ion.  Snjd.  11.  f.  3  (1823). 

— ,  Benny,  Mon.  Pselaph.  et  Sa/d.  57  (1825). 

,  Steph.,  Ill  Brit.  Ent.  v.  80  (1832). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  nuper  repertus. 

Six  examples  of  the  European  S.  tarsatus  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  Teneriffe,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  They  seem  to  accord  pre- 
cisely with  the  ordinary  type — the  species  being  well  distinguished 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 


527 


by  its  bright  and  coarsely  pubescent  but  almost  impunctate  surface, 
by  the  four  rounded,  punctiform  foveae  at  the  base  of  its  prothorax, 
and  by  the  robustness  of  its  antennae  and  legs,  the  latter  of  which 
have  their  front  tarsi  perceptibly  dilated. 

Fam.  81.  PSELAPHID^. 

Genus  297.  EUPLECTUS. 
(Kirby)  Leach,  Zool.  Miscell.  (1817). 

791.  Euplectus  Karstenii. 
E.  rufo-testaceus ;  capite  dense  punctulato,  antice  transversim  im- 
presso  et  utrinque  sulcato ;  prothorace  in  disco  foveola  impresso, 
basi  profundius  trifoveolato  ;  elytris  depressiuseulis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  vix  |. 

Pselaphus  Karstenii,  Reichcnh.,  Moii.  Pselaph.  71.  tab.  ii.  f.  21  (181G). 
Euplectus  Karstenii,  Denny,  3fon.  Pselaph.  et  Sci/d.  12  (1825). 
,  Aube,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  14G  (1844). 

Habitat  Teneriifam  et  Palmam,  sub  cortice  laxo  putrido  in  sylva- 
ticis  intermediis  degens. 

The  riifo-testaceous  hue  and  distinctly  punctured  head  of  this  Eu- 
plectus, combined  with  its  rather  depressed  elytra  and  other  details, 
seem  to  refer  it  to  the  European  E.  Karstenii.  It  is  rare  at  the  Ca- 
naries, or  at  any  rate  local,  and  confined  apparently  to  the  sylvan 
districts  of  intermediate  elevations.  Under  such  circumstances  I 
have  taken  it  sparingly  (from  beneath  the  loose,  rotting  bark  of  trees) 
at  Las  Mercedes  in  Tenerifte,  and  more  abundantly  high  up  in  the 
Barraneo  da  Agua  of  Palma. 

792.  Euplectus  monticola,  n.  sp. 
E.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  major,  foveis  in  capite  prothoraceque 
levius  impressis;  oculis  sensim  majoribus;  antennis  pedibusque  sub- 
longioribus,  illarum  clava  longiore,  laxiore  (magis  perfoliata),  arti- 
cuhs  penultimo  et  antepenultimo  distincte  majoribus. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  1. 

Habitat  in  montibus  valde  excelsis  Tenerifiiae,  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m. 
ascendens. 

Although  in  general  aspect  and  hue  this  Euplectus  agrees  with  the 
Karstenii,  nevertheless  it  is  certainly  distinct  from  it,  ascending  more- 
over (apparently)  to  a  much  higher  elevation, — the  only  two  exam- 
ples which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself  on  the  lofty 
Cumbre  of  TenerifFe,  overlooking  the  Cafiadas,  about  9000  feet  above 
the  sea.     It  differs  from  the  Karstenii  in  being  a  little  larger,  with 


528  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

the  foveee  of  its  head  and  prothorax  more  lightly  impressed,  in  its 
eyes. being  less  minute,  and  in  its  limbs  being  perceptibly  longer, 
with  the  antennal  club  more  elongated  and  perfoliate  (the  penulti- 
mate and  antepenultimate  joints  being  more  loosely  connected,  and 
very  appreciably  larger). 

793.  Euplectus  sanguineus. 

E.  piceiis  vel  piceo-castaneus ;   capite  utrin(|ue  punctulato,  antice 

transversim  impresso  et  utrinque  profunde  sulcato  ;  prothorace  in 

"  disco  foveola  impresso,  basi  profundius  trifoveolato ;  elytris  con- 

vexiusculis,  postice  sensim  latioribus ;  antennis  pedibusque  piceo- 

testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |. 

Euplectus  sanguineus,  Denny,  Mon.  Pselaph.  et  Scyd.  10  (1825). 

,  Heer,  Fna  Col.  Helv.  362  (1841 ). 

,  Aube,  Ann.  de  la  Soc.  Ent.  de  France,  146  (1844). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  captus. 

A  single  specimen  of  this  insect  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Tene- 
riife,  during  the  spring  of  1862.  I  can  detect  no  character  to  sepa- 
rate it  from  the  European  E.  sanguineus — a  species  which  may  be 
known  by  its, piceous,  or  dark-chestnut,  hue  (the  limbs,  however,  being 
paler  or  more  testaceous),  by  its  head  being  punctured  on  either 
side  (though  less  densely  and  less  coarsely  so  than  in  the  Karstenii), 
and  by  its  elytra  being  rather  convex,  and  rounded  laterally  (or  gra- 
dually somewhat  widened  behind). 

Genus  298.  ENOPTOSTOMUS  (nov.  gen.). 
Schaum*  (in  hoc  opuscule  citatus). 

^^Antennoi  approximatse,  tubercuH  frontalis  lateribus  insertae,  maris 
quatuor,  fceminae  duobus  articulis  ultimis  incrassatis,  ultimo  ma- 
jore.  Palpi  maxiUares  4-articulati  (?),  articulo  secundo  valde  ar- 
cuate, apice  parum  incrassato,  tertio  utrinque  valde  dilatato,  semi- 
lunari,  quarto  in  conum  transversum  dilatato  (ultimis  duobus  ap- 
pendice  laterali  setiformi  instructis).  Tarsi  unguiculis  duobus 
fequalibus. 

"  This  new  genus  is  allied  to  Ctenistes  and  Centrotoma,  especially 
to  the  former ;  the  maxillary  palpi  have  lateral  setiform  appendages 
as  in  those  genera,  but  only  on  the  last  two  joints. 

*  The  little  Pselaphid  which  forms  the  type  of  tlie  above  genus  I  consigned 
recently  for  description  to  Dr.  Scfiaum,  feeling  assm-ed  that  liis  long  and  close 
attention  to  the  P^cIaphidcB  would  enable  him  to  point  out  its  distinctive  pecu- 
liarities with  greater  precision  than  I  should  myself  be  in  a  ]30sition  to  do.  I 
would  wish  therefore  to  state  that  the  generic  and  specific  diagnoses  given  above 
have  been  communicated  by  him,  for  insertion  in  this  Catalogue ;  and  that  I 
consequently  cite  them  verbatim,  without  any  additional  observations  of  my  own 
(beyond  those  relating  to  the  hahitaf). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  529 

''Body  covered  with  squamiform  hairs.  Head  not  broader  than  the 
prothorax  and  a  little  longer  than  broad,  ronnded  behind  and  nar- 
rowed in  front  (the  front  being  produced  into  a  sliort  process),  lon- 
gitudinally divided  by  a  feeble  channel ;  the  forehead  rather  flat, 
and  impressed  with  two  fovese.  Eyes  very  prominent.  Antennoi 
implanted  at  the  sides  of  the  frontal  process,  and  11-jointed;  the 
first  tAvo  joints  thicker  than  the  following  one  (the  1st  being  sub- 
cylindrical,  and  the  2nd  somewhat  rounded),  the  3rd  to  the  7th 
equal  and  subglobular,  the  last  four  different  according  to  the  sex, 
— in  the  male  aU  of  them  being  thickened  (the  8th  considerably 
larger  than  the  7th,  the  9th  also  larger  than  the  7th  but  smaller 
than  the  8th,  the  10th  a  little  larger  than  the  8th,  the  11th  much 
incrassated,  twice  as  long  as  the  10th,  and  rounded,  with  a  some- 
what oblique  apex);  whilst  in  ih.e  female  the  last  two  joints  only 
are  thickened  (the  8th  being  even  a  trifle  smaller  than  the  7th  and 
9th,  which  are  of  equal  size),  but  a  little  smaller  than  in  the  male. 
Maxillary  paljii  4  (?)-jointed, — the  basal  joint  (if  existing)  mi- 
nute and  not  visible  without  dissection,  the  second  strongly  bent 
(being  almost  elbowed  behind  the  middle)  and  slightly  thickened 
at  the  apex,  the  third  greatly  dilated  (more  so  on  its  inner  than 
its  outer  side)  and  almost  semilunar  (being  rounded  at  the  base 
and  nearly  straight  along  its  anterior  edge — the  outer  horn  being 
produced  into  a  long  setiform  appendage,  whilst  on  the  inner  horn 
the  last  joint  is  implanted),  and  the  fourth  of  the  same  size  as  the 
preceding  one  but  forming  a  transverse  cone,  and  equally  fur- 
nished with  a  lateral  setiform  appendage.  Prothorax  not  longer 
than  broad,  with  a  round  and  large  fovea  in  the  middle  behind, 
and  a  deep  longitudinal  impression  on  either  side.  Elytra  longer 
than  the  prothorax,  rounded  at  the  shoulders  and  dilated  towards 
their  apex,  transversely  impressed  along  their  hinder  edge,  and 
more  thickly  covered  in  this  impression  (or  groove)  with  squami- 
form hairs ;  with  an  entire  stria  (on  each)  alongside  the  suture, 
and  another  in  the  middle  which  is  more  deeply  impressed  at  the 
base.  Ahdomen  with  four  segments  uncovered;  the  first  three 
have  a  thick  margin,  and  the  second  is  densely  clothed  with  squa- 
miform hairs  at  its  base.  Legs  slender  ;  tihue  a  little  bent ;  tarsi 
narrow  and  short  (the  four  hinder  ones  being  four  times  shorter 
than  the  tibiae),  and  all  of  them  terminated  by  two  equal  and  mi- 
nute claws." 

794.  "  Enoptostomus  Wollastoni,  n.  sp. 

"E.  rufo-testaceus,  nitidus,  subdepressus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |." 
Habitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  sub  lapidibus  rarissimus. 
Apparently  both  rare  and  local.  The  only  examples  (about  twenty 
in  number)  which  I  have  seen  (except  one  which  was  found  by  Dr. 
Crotch  in  Gomera)  were  captured  by  myself  close  to  S'^''  Cruz,  in  Tcne- 
riffe — from  beneath  small  stones,  under  some  fig-trees,  at  a  low  ele- 
vation in  (and  on  the  southern  side  of)  the  Barranco  do  Passo  Alto. 

2  M 


.630  "  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Fam.  82.  STAPHYLINID^. 

(Subfam.  I.  ALE0CHARIDE8.) 

Genus  299.  FALAGRIA. 
(Leach)  Mannerheim,  Brachel  86  (1831). 

795.  Falagria  obscura. 

Aleocbara  obscura,  Gruv.,  Col.  Micrcqjt.  74  (1802), 
Falagria  obscm-a,  Mann.,  Brachel.  87  (1831). 

,  Woll,  Lis.  Mad.  541  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  169  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Lanzarota  et  Hierro  hactenus  baud 
deteeta. 

This  common  European  insect  (which  abounds  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo)  is  widely  spread  over  the  Canarian  Group,  where  it  is 
doubtless  universal — though  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been 
observed  in  either  Lanzarote  or  Hierro.  But  in  Fuerteventui'a,  Grand 
Canary,  TenerifFe,  and  Palma  I  have  myself  taken  it ;  and  in  Gomera 
it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch.  In  Pahna  it  was  likewise  met  with  by 
Mr.  Gray.  It  occurs  piincipaUy  at  rather  low  elevations,  but  does 
not  appear  to  be  anywhere  abundant. 

Genus  300.  ECHIDNOGLOSSA  (nov.  gen.). 

Corpus  angustum  ;  capite  rotundato,  per  coUum  angustum  prothoraci 
connexo  ;  eh/iris  brevissimis  ;  abdomine  basi  valde  constricto.  Ayi- 
tennce  articulis  l*"",  2^^"  et  3''**  reHquis  longioribus.  Lahrnm  trans- 
versum,  aritice  rotundatum  subintegrum  (obsolete  trilobatum). 
Mandibulce  elongatae,  basi  subrectae,  apice  incurva^  acutissime,  in- 
tus  pone  apicem  usque  ad  basin  membrana  angustissima  tenuissima 
(aegerrime  observanda)  minute  ciliata  auctae  necnon  in  una  denti- 
culo  minutissimo  pone  medium  armatse.  Maxillce  lobo  extenio  basi 
apiceque  membranaceo,  apice  pubescente  ;  intenio  vix  breviore,  in- 
tus  membranaceo  spinulisque  elongatis  omnino  ciliato.  Palpi  lon- 
gissimi ;  maxilla  re.'i  articulis  2^°  et  3""  elongatis  clavatis  (hoc  cras- 
siore),  4'°  tenui  aciculari ;  lahiales  3-articulati,  articulis  inter  se 
longitudine  subaequaUbus,  latitudine  decrescentibus  (3'"*  tenui  cy- 
lindrico).  Mentum  transversum,  apice  late  sed  leviter  emargina- 
tum.  Ligula  antice  in  medio  longissima,  angustissima,  parallela, 
membranacea,  summo  apice  minutissime  bifida  ;  j)('^'(f9^ossis  nuUis. 
Tarsis  omnibus  certe  5-articulatis,  posticis  articulis  quatuor  basa- 
libus  gradatim  paulo  decrescentibus. 
Ab  e'xtSva,  vipera,  et  yXuirTaa,  ligula. 

In  its  round  but  excessively  pedunculated  head  (which  is  joined  to 
the  thorax  by  an  extremely  narrow  neck),  as  well  as  in  its  peculiar 
outline,  greatly  abbreviated,  subconvex  elytra,  and  basaUy-constricted 


CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEBA, 


531 


abdomen,  the  unique  insect  from  which  the  above  structural  cha- 
racters have  been  drawn  has  much  the  appearance  of  a  large  Autalia 
or  Falagria  (especially  the  former) ;  nevertheless  all  its  tarsi  are 
most  unquestionably  5-articulate,  and  it  has  no  visible  paraglossae. 
In  both  of  these  latter  respects,  and  in  the  narrow,  parallel,  greatly 
produced  anterior  portion  of  its  Hgula,  it  agrees  with  Ocalea ;  but 
the  majority  of  its  external  features  are  so  completely  on  the  Autalia- 
type  that  I  cannot  but  think  that  it  would  be  unnatiu'al  to  remove  it 
far  from  that  group.  "With  the  exception  of  its  extremely  elongated 
and  straightened  ligula,  its  oi-al  organs  are  nearly  similar  to  those  of 
Homalota ;  but  its  front  feet  are  (like  the  remainder)  pentamerous, 
and  in  its  general  fades  it  is  totally  different  from  the  members  of 
that  genus. 

796.  Echidnoglossa  constricta,  n.  sp. 
E.  rufo-ferruginea,  subnitida,  alutacea  (vix  punctulata),  parce  pu- 
bescens ;  capite  paulo  obscuriore ;  prothorace  angusto,  ante  me- 
dium angulatim  sublatiore,  canaliculate  (canalicula  in  disco  obso- 
leta,  sed  postice  in  foveam  latiorem  mergente) ;  elytris  brevissimis, 
subconvexis,  ad  latera  vix  obscurioribus  ;  abdomine  postice  obscu- 
riore ;  antennis  pedibusque  infuscato-testaceis,  illis  versus  apicem 
nigrescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  TenerifFajn,  prope  oppidulum  Guia  a  W.  D.  Crotch  reperta. 

Apparently  extremely  rare,  the  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen 

having  been  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  (during  the  spring  of  1862)  near 

the  little  town  of  Guia  (opposite  to  Gomera)  o]i  the  western  side  of 

Teneriffe. 

Genus  301.  PHYTOSUS*. 
(Rudd)  Curtis,  Brit.  Ent.  xv.  718  (1838). 

797.  Phytosus  minyops,  n.  sp. 

P.  angustissimus,  testaceus,  opaeus,  dense  cinereo-pubescens ;  capite 
vix  rufescentiore ;  elytris  brevissimis ;  abdomine  in  medio  nigri- 
cante. — Long.  corp.  hn.  vix  Ig. 

Ohs. — Species  nigriventri  Chev.  affinis,  sed  angustior,  capite  pal- 
lidiore  oculisque  minoribus  magis  rotundatis.  A  haltico  Kraatzii 
differt  corpore  majore  pallidiore,  abdomine  densius  subtiliusque 
punctulato  et  basi  pallido  (nee  nigrescente). 

Phytosus  nigriventris,  WoU.  [nee  Chev.],  Cat.  3fad.  Col.  169  (1857). 
Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  sub  fucis  per  oram  maritimam  semel 
captus. 

*  Lacordaire  and  Kraatz,  following  Erichson,  have  defined  Phytosus  as  having 
merely  its  front  feet  4-articiilate  ;  but,  after  mounting  in  balsam  the  whole  six 
legs  both  of  the  nigriventris  and  spinosus.  I  am  quite  satisfied  that  the  four  ante- 
rior tarsi  are  tetramerous  (as  indeed  was  originally,  and  correctly,  stated  by  Curtis). 


532  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

The  only  Canarian  example  of  this  FJu/tosvs- v^hich  I  have  hitherto 
seen  was  taken  by  myself  in  Fuerteventura — from  beneath  sea-weed 
on  the  sandy  beach  about  a  mile  to  the  south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras. 
Although  I  do  not  possess  at  present  a  Porto-Santan  specimen  for 
comparison,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  regarding  it  as  conspecific  with 
the  Phytosvs  which  I  identified  (I  now  believe,  wrongly),  in  my  Ma- 
deiran  Catalogue,  with  the  nii/rivetitris  of  more  northern  latitudes. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  is  very  closely  allied  to  that  insect ; 
but  it  is  rather  narrower,  its  head  is  scarcely  (if  at  all)  darker  than 
the  prothorax  and  elytra,  and  its  eyes  are  very  appreciably  smaller 
and  rounder.  In  some  respects  it  approaches  nearer  to  the  halticus 
of  Kraatz ;  but  is  larger  and  altogether  paler,  and  its  abdomen  (which 
is  more  densely  and  finely  pimctulated)  has  the  basal  half  of  a  rufo- 
testaceous  instead  of  a  piceous  hue. 

798.  Phytosiis  spinifer. 
P.  praecedente  vix  latior  magisquc  parallelus,  niger,  opacias,  densis- 
sime  cinereo-pubescens  ;  elytris  prothorace  sensim  longioribus,  de- 
pressis,  postice  gradatim  plus  minus  testaceis ;  antennis  (articulo 
ultimo  obscuriore  excepto)  pedibusque  infuscato -testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  Im.  vix  1^. 

Phytosus  spinifer?,  Cmiis,  Brit.  Ent.  xv.  718  (1838). 
,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  44  (1858). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuertevcnturam  in  locis  similibus  ac  proe- 
cedcns. 

Although  I  have  no  actual  type  of  the  P.  spinifer  for  comparison, 
I  believe  this  to  be  the  Phytosus  which  is  referred  by  Kraatz  to  that 
species,  and  which  corresponds  with  one  of  the  (supposed)  sexes  de- 
scribed by  Curtis  (the  other  being  probably  either  the  nigriventris  or 
the  halticus).  It  is  darker  and  more  parallel  than  the  other  Phytosi 
hitherto  detected,  merely  the  hinder  portion  of  its  elytra  (in  addition 
to  the  limbs)  being  gradually  more  or  less  testaceous.  Its  elytra, 
likewise,  are  more  flattened  and  less  abbreviated ;  and  its  whole  sur- 
face is  very  densely  clothed  with  cinereous  pubescence, — the  entire 
insect  being  somewhat  suggestive  at  first  sight  of  a  PhJoeopora,  or  of 
an  excessively  diminutive  Aleochara  of  the  ohsntreUa-tYpe.  I  have 
taken  it  rather  commonly  from  beneath  sea-weed  on  the  sandy  shores 
of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura, — namely,  to  the  south  of  Arrecife 
of  the  former  and  of  Puerto  de  Cabras  of  the  latter  (in  which  second 
locality  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray).  It  will  probably  occur 
generally  throughout  those  latitudes,  if  searched  for  in  the  proper 
places,  for  I  observed  it  in  precisely  similar  spots  atMogadore  on  the 
opposite  coast  of  Morocco. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  533 

Genus  302.  PHLCEOPORA. 
Erichson,  Kiif.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  311  (1837). 

799.  Phlceopora  corticina,  n.  sp. 
P.  nigro-picea,  subopaca  ;  prothorace  quadi-ato,  fuscesceiitiore ;  ely- 
tris  rufo-testaceis,  versus  basin  et  latera  plus  minus  infuscatis  ;  an- 
tennis  brevibus,  incrassatis,  ad  basin  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  1:^1 1. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Teneriffae  et  Palmse,  sub  cortice  arborura  la  tens. 

Somewhat  intermediate  between  the  European  P.  reptans  and  cor- 
ticalis — agreeing  more  with  the  former  in  its  size  and  colour,  but 
with  the  latter  in  its  less  transverse,  subquadrate  prothorax.  When 
viewed,  however,  beneath  the  microscope,  it  will  be  seen  to  be  rather 
more  strongly  and  sparingly  punctured  than  either  of  them,  and  to 
have  its  antennae  (if  anything)  even  thicker  still.  As  in  the  reptans, 
its  elytra  are  almost  entii'ely  rufo-testaceous  (though  perhaps  a  little 
more  infuscated  towards  the  base  and  sides) ;  but  its  prothorax  is 
generally  of  a  paler  tint,  being  for  the  most  part  only  a  shade  darker 
than  the  elytra.  The  P.  corticina  I  have  observed  hitherto  merely  in 
Teneriffe  and  Palma — where  it  is  extremely  local,  occurring  imder 
the  bark  of  trees  within  the  sylvan  districts  of  intermediate  elevations. 
In  the  former  I  have  taken  it  in  the  laurel- woods  above  Taganana 
and  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  as  well  as  from  beneath  the  bark  of  a  felled 
Pinus  canariensis  at  the  Agua  Mansa ;  and  in  the  latter  in  the  Bar- 

ranco  de  Galga. 

Genus  303.  TACHYUSA. 

Erichson,  Kdf.  der  Mark  Brand  i.  307  (1837). 

800.  Tachyusa  raptoria. 

T.  atra,  nitida,  minutissime  et  densissime  punctulata,  subtilissime  pu- 
bescens  ;  capite  ovali,  oculis  magnis  ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  in- 
tegro ;  elytris  apicem  versiis  paulo  fuscescentioribus ;  abdominc  pos- 
tice  attenuate  ;  pedibus  elongatis,  femoribus  tibiisque  piccseentibus, 
tarsis  paUide  testaceis,  posticis  longissimis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  11. 

Tachyusa  raptoria,  Wall.,  Lis.  Mad.  542  (1854). 
,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  170  (1857). 

Habitat  Palmam,  Maio  exeunte  a.d,  1858  exemplar  unum  in  Bar- 
ranco  de  Galga  coUegi. 

A  single  example  of  this  insect,  captured  by  myself  in  Palma  (by 
the  edge  of  a  small  stream  in  the  Barranco  de  Galga),  is  the  only  one 
which  I  have  as  yet  seen  from  the  Canaries  ;  and  it  may  therefore, 
as  in  Madeira,  be  regarded  as  exceedingly  rare.  Its  intensely  black 
hiie,  elongated  legs,  and  palKd  feet  (the  hinder  pair  of  which  arc  ex- 


534  CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

tremely  long),  combined  with  its  posteriorly  attenuated  abdomen,  its 
oval  head  and  large  eyes,  its  subquadrate  prothorax,  and  its  most 
minutely  (though  densely)  punctulated  surface,  will  sufficiently  dis- 
tinguish it.  Like  the  Chiloporce,  it  is  of  subaqiiatic  habits — as  indeed 
its  general  structure  and  rapid  movements  would  seem  to  indicate. 

801.  Tachyusa  simillima,  n.  sp. 

T.  depressa,  fuseo-nigra,  subnitida,  densissime  punctulata,  dense  ci- 
nereo-pubescens ;  capite  quadrate,  in  fronte  longitudinaliter  im- 
presso,  oculis  parvis  ;  prothorace  late  canalieulato  ;  elytris  vix  fus- 
cescentioribus  ;  abdominc  nigro ;  antennis  j)edibusque  infuscato- 
testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Ohs. — Species  T.  sulcake  Kiesenw.  nimis  affinis,  et  forsan  ejus 
varietas  geographica.  Differt  solum  corpore  subminore,  subangus- 
tiore,  elytris  subminoribus,  punctiu'a  (praesertim  in  capite)  sensun 
fortiore  necnon  colore  dilutiore  (sc.  magis  fuscescente,  antennis  pe- 
dibusque  pallidioribus). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  fucis  per  eras  arenosas 
maritimas  degens. 

I  am  doubtful  whether  this  Tacliijusa  should  be  regarded  as  more 
than  a  geographical  modification  of  the  European  T.  sulcata  ;  never- 
theless, since  it  unquestionably  has  a  few  differential  features  of  its 
own,  and  as  the  acknowledged  distinctions  between  the  species  of  this 
immediate  type  are  very  minute,  I  do  not  think  it  should  be  absolutely 
identified  with  that  insect*.  It  seems  to  be  altogether  a  trifle  smaller 
and  narrower  than  the  sulcata,  with  its  elytra  somewhat  less  deve- 
loped ;  its  punctation  (particularly  on  the  head)  is  a  little  stronger, 
and  its  colour  is  less  black — the  head,  prothorax,  and  elytra  being 
appreciably  browner  and  the  Hmbs  more  testaceous.  From  the  Ma- 
deiran  T.  maritima  it  is  abundantly  distinct — not  merely  in  its  much 
smaller  size  and  narrower  outline,  but  likewise  in  its  browner  hue,  its 
flatter  and  more  sulcated  head,  and  its  thicker  antennae  (the  joints  of 
which  are  less  elongated,  or  more  moniliform).  The  only  two  speci- 
mens which  I  have  seen  were  taken  by  myself  (from  under  sea-weed) 
on  the  sandy  shores  of  Lanzarote  and  Fuerieventura  respectively, — 
namely,  to  the  south  of  Arrecife  of  the  former  and  of  Puerto  de  Ca- 
bras  of  the  latter. 

Genus  304.  XENOMMAt. 
Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  54:3  (1854). 

*  Dr.  Kraatz,  to  whom  I  sent  one  of  my  specimens  for  examination,  returned 
it  with  tlie  remark  "  Tachyusce  sidcatce  Kiesenw.  affinis,  sed  minor,  capite  fortius 
punctato." 

t  Whether  Xenomma  can  be  retained  as  a  distinct  genus,  I  will  not  venture  to 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  535 

802.  Xenomma  muscicola,  n.  sp. 

X  angusto-lineare,  infuscato-testaceum,  nitidiim,  fere  impunctatum  ; 
capite  subrotundato,  convexo,  oeulis  minutissimis  ;  prothoraee  sub- 
quadrato,  postice  paulo  rotundato  sed  vix  angustiore ;  elytris  bre- 
vissimis  ;  abdomiiie  subparallelo,  apicem  versus  obscuriore  ;  anten- 
nis  brevibus,  fiiscescentibus ;  pedibus  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  captum. 

It  is  not  impossible  that  this  somewhat  insignificant  little  insect 
may  be  identical  with  the  Madeiran  X.  Jiliforme ;  nevertheless,  as  I 
have  no  type  of  that  species  at  present  for  comparison,  I  do  not  think 
it  would  be  safe  to  treat  it  as  such.  The  few  examples  which  I  have 
seen  were  taken  by  myself,  from  beneath  moss  and  fallen  leaves,  in 
the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  during  the  spring  of  1858. 

Genus  305.  HOMALOTA. 
Mannerlieim,  Brachel.  73  (1831). 

803.  Homalota  rufofusca,  n.  sp. 

H.  rufo-fusca,  subopaca,  flavescenti-cinereo-pubescens,  minutissime 
(in  capite  parcissime)  punctulata ;  capite  rotundato,  oeulis  parvis ; 
prothoraee  transverso-siibquadrato,  postice  paulo  angustiore  et  ob- 
soletissime  sed  latissime  canaliculato ;  elytris  brevissimis  ;  antennis 
ad  basin  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  elevates  humidos  sylvaticos  Teneriffge,  in  lauretis  supra 
Tagananam  Maio  a.d.  1859  parcissime  capta. 

The  subopake,  reddish-brown  surface  of  this  Homalota  (to  which  its 
somewhat  yellowish  pubescence  imparts  a  slightly  flavescent  tinge), 
combined  with  its  pallid  legs,  small  eyes,  and  excessively  abbreviated 
elytra,  wUl  serve  to  distinguish  it.  I  have  observed  it  only  in  the 
sylvan  districts  of  a  high  elevation  in  Teneriife — my  few  specimens 
having  been  obtained  from  the  damp  laurel-clad  mountains  above 

Taganana. 

804.  Homalota  mfobadia,  n.  sp. 

H.  prajcedenti  similis,  sed  minor,  paulo  nitidior  minusque  pubeseens, 
colore  omnino  rufescentiore ;  capite  vix  magis  ovali,  oeulis  etiam 

pronounce  positively ;  but,  apart  from  its  secondary  characters — of  most  diminu- 
tive eyes,  greatly  abbreviated  elytra,  apterous  body,  &c. — it  seems  impossible  to 
amalgamate  it  either  with  Mi/rmedonia  or  Homalota  on  account  of  its  5-jointed 
anterior  tarsi ;  whilst  from  Oxypoda  the  structure  of  its  hinder  feet  (which  have 
their  articulations  of  subequal  length)  will  alike  remove  it.  At  the  same  time  I 
must  express  my  conviction  that  there  are  few  details  less  satisfactory  for  estab- 
lishing genera  upon  than  the  tarsi  of  these  minute  members  of  the  Staphylinidce, 
which  are  often  so  difficult  of  observation  that  the  highest  powers  of  the  micro- 
scope are  apt  to  leave  us  in  doubt  as  to  the  precise  number  of  the  joints  wliich 
compose  them. 


536  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

subminoribus ;  prothorace  in  disco  magis  depresso ;  abdomine  levins 
pimctulato ;  antennis  pallidioribiis  ac  midto  brevioribus,  articiilis 
magis  transversis  (ultimo  minus  acuto). — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Habitat  in  locis  similibus  ac  praecedens,  sed  in  Palma  (nee  Teneriffa). 

This  species  seems  to  have  exactly  the  same  habits  as  the  last  one, 
occiirring,  however,  in  Palma  instead  of  Teneriffe.  It  differs  from  it 
in  being  smaller,  more  shining,  and  less  pubescent ;  in  its  head  being 
a  little  more  oval  (or  less  rounded),  and  with  the  eyes  perhaps  even 
smaller  still ;  and  in  its  coloiu-  being  a  shade  darker,  or  more  rufes- 
cent, — the  antenna?,  however  (which  arc  much  shorter,  with  their 
joints  more  transverse),  being  paler. 

805.  Homalota  trogopMceoides,  n.  sp. 

H.  subdepressa,  nigra,  subopaca,  densissime  et  grosse  fulvescenti-ci- 
nereo-pubescens  et  coriaceo-alutacea  ;  capite  ovali,  oculis  magnis ; 
prothorace  transverso-quadrato,  angulis  posticis  argiite  determina- 
tis,  postice  in  medio  levissime  sed  latissime  impresso ;  elytris  qua- 
dratis  ;  antennis  brunneis,  ad  basin  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  Ij-l^. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  sub  fucis  in  arenosis  maritimis  latens. 

This  most  distinct  Homalota  (which  was  examined  by  Kraatz,  and 
regarded  by  him  as  new)  seems  to  be  a  littoral  species,  residing  be- 
neath marine  rejectamenta  on  the  sandy  shores.  In  such  situations 
it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  at  the  end  of  January  1858, 
about  a  mile  to  the  south  of  Puerto  de  Cabras  in  Fuerteventura.  Its 
very  square  elytra  and  general  contour,  combined  with  its  subopake 
surface  and  dark  hue  (the  legs  alone  being  pale),  give  it  somewhat 
the  primd  facie  appearance  of  a  large  Trogopliloius ;  and  it  is  further 
remarkable  for  its  rather  coarse  fulvo-cinereous  pubescence,  and  for  its 
(transverse-quadrate)  prothorax  having  the  posterior  angles  sharply 
defined. 

806.  Homalota  amnicola,  n.  sp. 

H.  subdepressa,  nigra,  subopaca,  dense  pubescens,  alutacea ;  capite 
subrotundato,  oculis  magnis ;  prothorace  angustulo,  subquadi-ato, 
basi  foveola  media  impresso;  elytris  latiuscuhs,  quadratis;  antennis 
pedibusque  longiusciilis,  iUis  ad  basin  vix  dilutioribus,  his  infus- 
cato-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  If- 2. 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  ad  margines 
rivulorum  in  intermediis  (prassertim  sjdvaticis)  degens. 

This  rather  large  Homalota  (which  was  examined  by  Dr.  Kraatz, 
and  considered  to  be  new)  appears,  like  the  H.  gregaria,  the  Madeiran 
//.  obliquepuHctata,  &:c.,  to  be  of  subaquatie  habits — residing  beneath 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  537 

stones  and  shingle  at  the  edges  of  the  small  streams  at  intermediate 
elevations,  particularly  within  the  sylvan  districts.  In  such  situations 
I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma ;  and  in  Go- 
mera  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Teneriffan  examples  are  from 
the  AgTia  Garcia  (where  it  aboimds),  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza, 
and  Ycod  el  Alto.  It  is  slightly  blacker  than  the  ohUquepunctata, 
and  relatively  a  little  broader  (both  its  head  and  elytra  being  appre- 
ciably more  developed) ;  its  antennae  also  are  distinctly  darker ;  and 
its  elytra  are  not  quite  so  flattened,  and  (although  sometimes  very 
obscurely  impressed)  free  from  the  few  rounded  punctiform  foveae 
which  are  placed  obliquely  across  either  disc  in  that  species.  Its 
pubescence  likewise  is  a  shade  darker,  or  less  fulvescent. 

807.  Homalota  gregaria. 

H^.subparallela,  depressa,  nigra,  subopaca,  minute  fulvescenti-cinereo- 
pubescens ;  capite  rotundato ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  basi  rotun- 
dato  et  fovea  media  impresso  ;  elytris  postice  gradatim  lurido-tes- 
taceis  ;  antennis  brunneis  ;  pedibus  infuscato-testaceis,  femoribus 
picescentibus. 

Variat  (rarius)  elytris  omnino  concoloribus. — Long.  corp.  Hn.  li- 
vix  If. 

Homalota  gTegaria,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Stapli.  87  (1839). 
Tacliyusa  immuuita,  Id.,  Gen,  et  Spec.  Stap>h.  916  (1839). 
Homalota  gregaria,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  550  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  174  (1857). 

Habitat  in  inferioribus  intennediisque  Lanzarotse,  Fuerteventurae, 
Canaries,  Teneriffae  et  Gomerge,  inter  lapillos  per  margines  rivulorum 
hinc  inde  abundans. 

The  H.  gregaria,  so  widely  spread  over  Europe,  and  which  occurs 
in  the  Madeiran  Group,  is  probably  universal  at  the  Canaries — though 
hitherto  I  have  myself  detected  it  only  in  Lanzarote,  Euertcventura, 
Grand  Canary,  and  Teneriffe  (in  the  first  of  which  it  was  taken  like- 
wise by  Mr.  Gray).  It  was,  however,  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in 
Gomera.  It  is  more  particularly  abundant  at  low  and  intermediate 
elevations,  residing  at  the  edges  of  the  smaU  streams.  It  may  be 
known  by  its  rather  parallel  outline  and  depressed,  subopake  surface, 
by  the  small  fovea  at  the  base  of  its  posteriorly-rounded  prothorax, 
by  its  elytra  being  gradually  of  a  more  or  less  lurid-testaceous  hue 
behind,  by  its  brown  and  somewhat  robust  antennsD,  and  by  the 
femora  of  its  pallid  legs  being  more  or  less  infuscated. 

808.  Homalota  amnigena,  n.  sp. 

H.  depressa,  fusco-nigra,  subopaca,  dense  pubescens  ;  capite  rotun- 
dato-ovali ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  leviter  canaliculate,  canalicida 


538 


CAN  AM  AN  COLEOPTERA, 


in  f  oveara  parvam  mcdiam  basalem  mergente ;  antennis  ad  basin 
infuscato-,  pedibus  pallido-testaceis, — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^vix  1^. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  per  margines  rivulorum 
necnon  in  humidis  intermediis  (proesertim  sylvaticis),  rarior. 

In  babits  and  general  contour  this  little  HomaJota  has  much  in 
common  with  the  last  two  species.  It  is,  however,  much  smaller 
than  either  of  them,  of  a  browner  or  more  pieescent  hue,  and  its  ely- 
tra are  scarcely  a  shade  paler  than  the  head  and  prothorax.  Its  head, 
also,  is,  if  anything,  a  trifle  more  oval  (or  less  rotundate),  its  pro- 
thorax  is  lightly  channeled,  and  its  legs  are  extremely  pale  *.  Like 
the  H.  ohliquejnmctafa,  it  seems  to  reside  at  the  edges  of  the  small 
streams,  and  on  the  damp  ledges  of  rocks,  at  intermediate  elevations, 
particularly  within  the  sylvan  districts.  In  such  situations  I  have 
taken  it  sparingly  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  Souzal,  La  Esperanza,  and  at 
Las  Mercedes,  in  TeneriiFe,  as  well  as  in  similar  localities  both  in 
Palma  and  Hierro.  TeneriiFan  specimens  have  also  been  communi- 
cated by  Dr.  Crotch. 

809.  Homalota  persimilis,  n.  sp. 
H.  praecedenti  valde  afRnis,  scd  paulo  minor  angustior  et  densius  sed 
etiam  subtilius  pubescens,  sculptura  (oculo  fortissime  armato)  multo 
densiore  (sc.  densissima)  et  paulo  fortiore ;  capite  sensim  minore, 
rotundatiore  ;  prothorace  subbreviore,  basi  sublatiore ;  elytris  vix 
minoribus ;  antennis  i)edibus(]ue  paulo  brevioribus  gracilioribus, 
his  vix  magis  infuscatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  in  inferioribus  TencriiFa3,  prope  Portum  Orotavoe  (per  aerem 
volitantem)  deprehensa. 

Judging  from  the  single  individual  now  before  me,  the  prima  facie 
aspect  of  this  insignificant  Homalota  is  very  much  that  of  the  amni- 
gemt ;  nevertheless  I  am  quite  satisfied  that  it  is  altogether  distinct 
specifically,  as  indeed  its  habits  would  seem  to  imply — it  having  been 
captured  by  myself  immediately  outside  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Tene- 
riffe  (scarcely  above  the  sea-level),  whilst  that  insect  is  essentially 
one  of  intermediate  elevations.  It  is  a  little  smaller  and  narrower 
than  the  H.  amnigena,  as  also  still  more  densely  and  minutely  pubes- 
cent ;  its  head  is  perceptibly  smaller  and  rounder ;  its  prothorax  is 
shorter,  and  a  trifle  broader  behind ;  its  elytra  are  somewhat  less 
developed ;  its  Hmbs  are  appreciably  shorter  and  slenderer,  with  the 
legs  more  infuscated ;  and  its  entire  sculptui'e,  when  viewed  beneath 
the  microscope,  will  be  seen  (particularly  on  the  abdomen)  to  be  very 
much  closer  and  rather  more  coarse. 

*  It  was  examined  by  Ki'aatz,  wlio  i'etui"ned  it  as  "Homalota,  n.  sp." 


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810.  Homalota  longula. 

H.  angusto-linearis,  depressa,  nigra,  siibnitida,  pubescens,  confertis- 
sime  subtilissimeque  coriaceo-alutacea  ;  capite  punctiilis  levissimis 
obscuris  superadditis  dense  obsito,  in  fronte  foveolato  ;  prothorace 
subquadrato,  canaliculato  ;  elytris  vix  fuscescentioribus ;  abdomine 
confertissime  subtilissimeque  punctulato  ;  antennis  gracilibus,  ni- 
gro-fuscis;  pedibus  brevibus,  saturate  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Homalota  longula  (C'hevrier),  Heer,  Fna  Col.  Helv.  334  (1841). 

tbinobioides,  Kraatz,  in  Stett.  Ent.  Zeit.  xv.  125  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  228  (1856). 

,  WolL,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  175  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Teneriffam,  inter  lapillos  ad  margines  aqua- 
rum  degens. 

The  exceedingly  dense  and  fine  sculpture  of  this  small  and  narrow 
Homalota  (the  bead,  pro  thorax,  and  elytra  of  which  are  most  minutely 
and  closely  coriaceo-alutaceous,  whilst  the  abdomen  is  almost  as 
minutely  and  closely  punctulated),  combined  with  its  depressed  sur- 
face, parallel  outline,  slender  antennae,  and  rather  short  legs,  will 
sei-ve  to  distinguish  it.  When  viewed  beneath  the  microscope,  its 
head  will  be  seen  (in  addition  to  the  dense  alutaceous  sculpture)  to 
be  somewhat  thickly  but  very  lightly  subpunctulated.  Like  the 
allied  species,  it  is  of  subaquatic  habits,  residing  amongst  wet  stones 
and  shingle  at  the  edges  of  streams  and  pools.  It  is  probably  com- 
mon throughout  the  Group,  though,  being  so  small  and  insignificant, 
I  do  not  happen  to  have  observed  it  very  generally.  I  have,  however, 
taken  it  sparingly  in  Lanzarote,  as  well  as  near  S^'^Cruz  in  Teneriflfe. 
It  occurs  also  in  Madeira. 

811.  Homalota  fragilis. 

H.  pr^ecedenti  valde  similis,  sed  punctulis  superadditis  in  capite  (oculo 
fortissime  armato)  miuoribus  remotioribus  (sc.  minutissimis,  leger- 
rime  observandis),  abdomine  paulo  nitidiore  et  multo  parcius  scd 
parum  profundius  punctulato  ;  pedibus  pallidioribus  (minus  infus- 
catis). — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Homalota  fragilis?,  Kraatz,  in  Stett.  Ent.  Zeit.  xv.  125  (1854). 
?,  Id.,  Nut.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  223  (1856). 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  in  locis  similibus  ac 
prsecedens. 

Without  the  aid  of  the  microscope  this  species  is  scarcely  separable 
from  the  preceding  one,  with  which  in  its  general  fades  it  is  almost 
coincident.  Nevertheless,  when  placed  under  a  high  magnifying 
power,  its  abdomen  will  be  seen  to  be  very  much  less  closely  and 
rather  more  coarsely  punctulated,  and  with  the  additional  punctules 


540  C.4.NAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

wMcli  stud  its  (densely  alutaceous)  head  considerably  smaller  and 
more  remote — indeed  hut  just  traceable.  Its  abdomen  (througli  being 
more  sparingly  punctured)  is  a  little  less  opake  ;  and  its  legs  are 
usually  less  infuscated,  or  of  a  slightly  clearer  testaceous  hue.  I 
believe  it  to  be  identical  with  the  European  H.fragilis ;  nevertheless, 
as  it  is  very  possible  to  be  mistaken  in  species  thus  small  and  obscure, 
I  have  cited  it  as  such  with  a  mark  of  doubt.  It  occurs  in  precisely 
the  same  kind  of  places  as  the  H.  longula.  I  have  taken  it  in  the 
Barranco  Santo  (near  S'"  Cruz)  in  TenerifFe,  near  San  Sebastian  of 
Gomera  (in  which  island  it  was  found  Likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch),  and 

in  Palma. 

812.  Homalota  cursitans,  n.  sp. 

H.  angustulo-linearis,  nigra  elytris  fuscescentibus,  nitida,  parce  pu- 
bescens,  densissime  subtilissimeque  alutacea  punctuhsque  minutis 
irrorata  ;  capite  subrotundato  ;  prothorace  transverso-subquadrato, 
anguhs  posticis  sat  argute  determinatis  ;  abdomine  grosse  sed  parce 
asperato-punctato ;  antennis  pcdibusque  brevibiis,  crassis,  illis  ad 
basin  vix  dilutioribus,  his  infuscato-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  ultra  oppidum  Haria  parce  capta. 

This  little  species  I  have  observed  hitherto  only  in  the  north  of 
Lanzarote — chiefly  beneath  the  refuse  around  the  roots  of  the  old 
Euphorbias  on  the  rocky  declivities  of  the  "  Eisco."  Its  narrow, 
linear  outline  and  densely  alutaceous  (though,  at  the  same  time, 
rather  shining)  surface,  which  is  studded  with  smaU  additional  punc- 
tules,  combined  with  the  tolerably  well-defined  hinder  angles  of  its 
prothorax,  its  brownish  elytra,  very  thick  antennae,  and  infuscated- 
testaceous  legs,  are  some  of  its  principal  features. 

813.  Homalota  subsericea,  n.  sp. 

H.  prsecedenti  simiKs,  sed  minor,  subangustior,  punctulis  superadditis 
(oculo  fortLssime  armato)  etiam  minoribus,valde  indistinctis  ;  capite 
vix  magis  quadrato ;  prothorace  vix  breviore,  angulis  posticis  rotun- 
datis,  fere  obsoletis ;  elytris  singulis  in  disco  obsolete  impressis  ; 
antennis  vix  brevioribus  minusque  incrassatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  iisdem  locis  ac  pra3cedens. 

This  Homalota  is  very  closely  aUied  to  the  last  one,  and  is  found 
(so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  in  the  same  district — namely,  the 
north  of  Lanzarote.  It  diff'ers  from  it  in  being  smaller  and  rather 
narrower,  and  in  the  punctulcs  of  its  (densely  alutaceous)  surface 
being  still  more  obscure  and  minute,  in  its  elytra  being  obsoletely 
impressed  on  either  disc,  in  its  antenna3  being  appreciably  shorter  and 
less  incrassated,  and  (above  all)  in  the  hinder  angles  of  its  prothorax 
being  more  rounded  off  (or  less  defined) .    I  am  far  from  satisfied  that 


CANAMAN  COLEOPTERA.  541 

it  is  more  than  a  geographical  phasis  of  the  European  //.  sericea, 
Mulsant ;  from  which  it  seems  merely  to  differ  in  its  rather  more 
fuscescent  hue,  in  its  forehead  being  marked  with  a  central  fovea,  in 
its  elytra  being  obscurely  impressed  on  either  disc,  in  the  asperated 
punctules  of  its  abdomen  being  somewhat  coarser,  and  in  its  antennae 
being  (if  anything)  just  perceptibly  shorter, 

814.  Homalota  angustissima,  n.  sp. 

H.  minuta,  angustissime  linearis,  fusco-nigra  elytris  fuscis,  nitida, 
parce  pubescens,  densissimc  subtilissimeque  alutacea  (punctulis 
superadditis  vix,  etiam  oculo  fortissimo  armato,  observandis) ;  ca- 
pite  mag-no,  brenter  oblongo  ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  angulis  pos- 
ticis  subrotundatis  ;  abdomine  parcissime  sed  distincte  pimctulato ; 
pedibus  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  semel  tantum  reperta. 

The  excessively  narrow  and  parallel  outhne  of  this  diminutive 
Homalota,  which  (on  account  of  its  large  and  ohlong  head  being  as 
broad  as  the  prothorax,  and  the  latter  scarcely  narrower  than  the 
elytra)  is  of  almost  equal  breadth  throughout,  in  conjunction  with  its 
fuscescent  elytra,  pale  legs,  and  (except  on  the  abdomen)  nearly  ob- 
solete punctules,  will  suiRce  to  separate  it  from  its  allies.  The  speci- 
men from  which  the  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  was  taken  by  myself 
in  the  north  of  Lanzarote. 

815.  Homalota  misella,  n.  sp. 

H.  minuta,  angusto-linearis,  nigra  prothorace  elytrisque  fuscis,  parce 
pubescens,  densissime  subtilissimeque  alutacea  punctulisque  mi- 
nutissimis  parce  (in  elytris  parum  profunde)  irrorata ;  eapite  magno, 
rotundato,  oculis  parvis  ;  prothorace  brevi,  subsemicirculari ;  ely- 
tris brevissimis ;  antennis  pedibusque  brevibus,  saturate  testaceis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  |^. 

Habitat  ins.  Hierro,  sub  cortice  Euphorhice  cujusdam  laxo  emortuo 
putrido  in  regione  El  Golfo  semel  reperta. 

Having  but  a  single  example  of  this  minute  insect  to  judge  from,  I 
am  unwilling  to  run  the  risk  of  dissecting  it  in  order  to  examine  the 
details  of  its  structure  ;  but  its  very  narrow  outline,  much  abbreviated 
elytra,  and  small  eyes  render  it  possible  that  it  may  be  in  reality  a 
Xenomma.  It  was  taken  by  myself,  from  beneath  the  dead  bark  of 
an  old  Euphorbia,  in  the  region  of  El  Golfo,  on  the  western  side  of 
Hierro,  during  February  1858. 

816.  Homalota  nigra. 
H.  angustulo-sublinearis,  depressa,  nigra,  subopaca,  minute  pubes- 


542  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

cens,  densissime  subtilissimeque  (vix  perspicue)  alutacea  punc- 
tiilisque  minutis  levibus  erebre  irrorata  ;  prothorace  tenuissime 
canaliculato  ;  pedibus  paiilo  dihitioribus  (sc.  nigro-testaceis),  tarsis 
fere  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Homalota  nigra,  Kraatz,  Nat.  tier  Ins.  Deidscli.  ii.  287  (1858). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Fuerteventura  sola  adhue  baud 
detecta. 

The  small  size,  ratber  flattened,  minutely  pubescent,  very  sligbtly 
shining  surface,  and  deep-black  hue  of  this  little  Homalota  (the  legs 
alone,  which  are  blackish  testaceous,  being  slightly  paler)  will  suffi- 
ciently distinguish  it.  It  is  doubtless  universal  throughout  the  archi- 
pelago, in  all  the  islands  of  which,  except  Fuerteventura  and  Gomera, 
I  have  myself  eaptiu'ed  it ;  and  an  extensive  series  of  Gomeran  speci- 
mens are  now  before  me  which  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  remains, 
therefore,  to  be  detected  only  in  Fuerteventura.  It  is  more  common 
within  the  sylvan  districts  of  intermediate  altitudes  than  elsewhere 
(and  therefore  rarer  in  the  two  eastern  islands  of  the  Group) — occur- 
ring beneath  fallen  leaves  and  other  vegetable  refuse.  My  Grand- 
Canarian  examples  are  principally  from  the  region  of  El  Monte  ;  the 
Teneriffan  ones  from  the  hills  towards  Laguna,  Taganana,  Las  Mer- 
cedes, the  Agua  Garcia,  La  Esperanza,  the  Agua  Mansa,  Tcod  el 
Alto,  and  even  from  so  low  an  elevation  as  the  vicinity  of  S''^  Crnz 
and  the  Puerto  Orotava ;  and  the  Palman  ones  from  the  Barranco  de 
Galga.  I  cannot  see  that  it  differs  appreciably  from  the  European 
H.  nigra,  to  which  I  have  accordingly  referred  it. 

817.  Homalota  aleocharoides,  n.  sp. 

H.  subconvexa,  fusca  capite  nigreseentiore,  subnitida,  dense  pubes- 
cens,  parce  minuteque  punctulata ;  prothorace  transverse,  versus 
latera  interdum  obsolete  subpellucido-pallidiore  ;  antennis  nigres- 
centibus,  ad  basin  pedibusque  saturate  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1 . 

HaBitat  Teneriffam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  sat  copiose  lecta. 

At  once  known  from  the  preceding  species  by  its  broader  (and  some- 
what shorter)  outline,  convexer,  unalutaceous,  sparingly  punctured 
surface,  and  browner  hue  (the  head  alone  being  quite  black) ;  by  its 
prothorax  having  a  very  obscure  tendency  to  become  a  little  paler  (or 
subpeDucid)  towards  either  side ;  and  by  its  legs  being  testaceous.  It 
is  an  insect  which  I  did  not  myself  observe  at  the  Canaries,  but  of 
which  a  rather  extensive  series  is  now  before  me  which  was  taken 
by  Dr.  Crotch  (during  the  spring  of  1862)  in  Teneriffe.  Prima  facie 
it  is  somewhat  suggestive  of  a  very  minute  Aleochara,  as  indeed  I 
have  implied  in  its  trivial  name. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.       .  543 

818.  Homalota  atramentaria. 

Aleocliara  atramentaria  {Kby),  Gyll.,  Ins.  Stiec.  ii.  408  (1810). 
Homalota  atramentaria,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  StcqiJi.  Ill  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  555  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  178  (1857). 

Hahitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  stercore  bovino  vulgaris. 

The  deep-black  hue  of  the  European  H.  atramentaria  (the  legs  of 
which  are  dark  piceous,  with  the  tarsi  pale),  in  conjunction  with  its 
somewhat  slender  limbs  and  its  rather  flattened,  densely  pubescent, 
thickly  punctulated  (and  alutaceous)  head,  prothorax,  and  elytra, 
which  have  usually  a  just  perceptible  senescent  tinge,  will  readily 
distir.guish  it.  It  abounds  throughout  the  Madeiran  Group,  and  is 
equally  universal  at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven  islands  of  which 
except  Gomera  (where  it  was  found  both  by  Mr.  Gray  and  Dr.  Crotch) 
I  have  myself  captured  it.  My  Teneritfan  specimens  are  principally 
from  the  neighbourhood  of  S*^  Cruz  and  the  Puerto  Orotava,  Ycod  el 
Alto,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  Taganana.  It  occurs  principally  in  the 
dung  of  cattle. 

819.  Homalota  laeta,  n.  sp. 

H.  subnitida,  parce  pubescens,  densissime  alutacea  piinctuKsque  sat 
crebre  (in  capite  nigro  parce)  subasperata ;  prothorace  rufo-ferru- 
gineo,  postice  in  medio  impresso ;  elytris  rufo-ferrugineis,  hinc 
inde  (prajsertim  versus  latera)  obscure  infuscato-suffusis  ;  abdo- 
mine  nigi-o,  basi  et  praesertim  ad  apicem  rufo-ferrugineo ;  antennis 
nigrescentibus,  ad  basin  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long,  coi-p.  lin.  li. 

Hahitat  Gomeram  ;  tria  specimina  cepit  W.  D.  Crotch. 

The  black  head  and  rufo-ferruginous  prothorax  and  elytra  (the 
latter  of  which,  however,  are  much  infuscated  in  parts — especially 
towards  the  sides  and  scutellum)  of  this  beautiful  Homalota,  combined 
with  the  rufo-ferruginous  apex  of  its  abdomen  and  its  pale-testaceous 
legs,  will  at  once  characterize  it.  Its  general  aspect  and  colouring- 
are  more  in  accordance  with  the  fungivorous  species  ;  but  as  I  have 
not  captui-ed  it  myself,  I  am  unable  to  vouch  for  its  habits.  The  only 
three  examples  which  I  have  seen  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Go- 
mera, during  the  spring  of  1862.  It  is  most  nearly  aUied  to  the  Ma- 
deiran H.  insignis,  with  which  in  colouring  it  is  almost  coincident, 
and  of  which  it  is  barely  possible  that  it  may  be  but  a  geographical 
state.  It  differs  from  that  insect,  merely,  in  being  a  little  smaller 
and  narrower,  in  its  head  being  more  oval  (or  less  transverse),  and  in 
its  prothorax  being  much  more  deeply  (and  rather  more  sparingly) 
punctured,  whilst  the  sculpture  of  its  abdomen  is,  if  anything,  some- 
what denser  and  coarser. 


544  CANARTAN  COLEOPTERA. 

820.  Homalota  canariensis. 

H.  angusto-linearis,  alutacoa,  subopaca,  minute  et  parce  punctulata, 
pubescens  ;  eapite  nigro,  fronte  depressa,  oculis  magnis  promi- 
nentibus  ;  prothorace  subquadrato,  rufo-fusco,  canalicidato  ;  ely- 
tris  fusco-testaceis,  ad  latera  (prajsertim  versus  angulos  posticos) 
suffuse  nigrescentibus ;  abdominc  fusco-testaceo,  pone  medium 
nigrcscente,  antice  subconstricto ;  antennis  brevibus,  crassis,  arti- 
culo  prime  magno,  idtimo  breviusculo,  nigro-fuscis,  ad  basin  pedi- 
busque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l:j— 1  j. 

Homalota  canariensis,  Wall.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  184.  pi.  7.  f.  8  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  in  caulibus  putridis  Etiphorbice 
canariensis  bine  inde  parum  vulgaris. 

The  narrow  outline,  subopake  alutaceous  surface,  basally-narrowed 
abdomen,  depressed  forehead,  and  prominent  eyes  of  this  curious  Ho- 
malota, combined  with  its  thick  and  abbreviated  antennee  (the  first 
joint  of  which  is  much  enlarged,  whilst  the  terminal  one  is  compara- 
tively short  and  oval),  will  at  once  distinguish  it.  Its  colour,  too, 
is  somewhat  peculiar — the  head  and  subapical  abdominal  segments 
being  black,  whilst  the  prothorax  is  reddish  brown,  the  elytra  (which 
are  more  or  less  darkened  towards  the  outer  posterior  angles)  and  the 
base  of  the  abdomen  are  brownish  testaceous,  and  the  legs  are  ex- 
tremely pale.  I  have  observed  it  hitherto  only  in  the  putrid  stalks 
of  the  Eupliorhia  canariensis — under  which  circumstances  I  took  it 
plentifully  in  Gomera,  dui-ing  February  1858,  on  a  hiU-top  to  the 
north-west  of  San  Sebastian ;  and  subsequently,  in  similar  situa- 
tions, on  the  mountains  above  S'-'  Cruz  of  Teneriffe,  in  the  direction 
of  El  Campo  and  Laguna.     In  Teneriffe  it  was  captured  likewise  by 

Dr.  Crotch. 

821.  Homalota  vagepunctata. 

//.  nitidissima,  parce  sed  grosse  pubescens,  parcissime  punctata  (nuUo 
mode  alutacea) ,  nigra  prothorace  ely trisque  castaneo-fuscescentibus 
(his  interdum  etiam  subtestaceo-tinctis)  ;  eapite  parvo,  rotundato  ; 
prothorace  transverse,  convexo,  postice  rotundato,  obsoletissime 
canaliculate  ;  antennis  gracihbus,  ad  basin  pedibusque  saturate 
testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Homalota  vagepimctata,  Woll.,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loncl.  187  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  praesertim  iUam,  inter 
Euphorbias  praecipue  degens. 

The  exceedingly  shining  and  very  sparingly  punctured  surface  of 
this  Homalota,  in  conjunction  with  its  small,  rounded  head  and  slender 
antennae,  its  coarse  but  distant  pubescence,  its  convex,  dark-brown, 
basally-rounded  prothorax,  and  its  more  or  less  castaneous  elytra,  will 


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545 


sufficiently  distinguish  it.  I  have  observed  it  hitherto  only  in  Lan- 
zarote  and  Fuerteventura,  especially  the  former — where  it  is  not  un- 
common amongst  the  old  Euphorbias  (frequenting  even  their  flowers) 
on  the  Risco,  in  the  extreme  north  of  the  island. 

822.  Homalota  clientula. 

IT.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  minus  nitida  (taincu  vix  alutacca), 
densius  pubeseens  et  multo  crebrius  punctata  (punctis  minoribus  ac 
levioribus)  ;  prothorace  sensim  latiore,  angulis  posticis  vix  omnino 
obsoletis  ;  elytris  deusissime  subasperato-punctulatis  ;  autennis  vix 
longioribus  et  crassioribus. 

Varlat  prothorace  elytrisque  aut  fere  nigris,  aut  fuscescentibus,  aut 
etiam  clare  rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Homalota  clientula,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  133  (1839). 

plebeia,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  553  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  176  (1857). 

clientula,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  322  (1858). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  sub  quisquiliis,  in  Gomcra  sola  adhuc 
baud  observata. 

Although  extremely  variable  in  the  colour  of  their  elytra  and  pro- 
thorax  (which,  although  sometimes  ncai'ly  black,  are  usually  more  or 
less  diluted  in  hue,  and  oecasionally  of  a  cleaf  rufo-ferruginous*),  an 
extensive  series  of  specimens  now  before  me  seem  all  referable  to  a 
single  species,  and  that  one  (so  far  as  I  can  judge)  not  differing  from 
the  European  H.  clientula.  Nevertheless  there  are  many  shades  of 
colouring,  and  some  diversity  of  outline t,  amongst  the  mass  of  indi- 
viduals from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  ;  though, 
in  the  details  of  their  sculpture,  and  the  shape  and  size  of  their  ulti- 
mate antennal  joint  (two  of  the  main  characters  of  the  species),  they 
show  but  little  tendency  to  variation.  Assuming  them  therefore  to 
be  all  referable  to  the  H.  clientaJa,  which  I  believe  to  be  the  case,  I 
may  add  that  I  have  no  doubt  the  insect  is  universal  throughout 
the  archipelago — Gomera  being  the  only  island  in  which  it  does  not 
happen  to  have  been  observed.  In  the  remaining  six  islands  of  the 
Group  I  have  myself  captured  it,  more  or  less  abundantlj^ ;  and  in 

*  Erichson  mentions  a  variety,  found  by  Prof.  Ehrenberg  in  Egypt,  in  whieii 
the  prot borax  and  elytra  are  rufo-testaeeoiis. 

t  The  difference  of  outline  is  perbaps  more  apparent  than  real,  for  tbe  general 
fades  of  these  minute  members  of  tbe  StaphyUnidcB  is  marvellously  dependent 
upon  the  exact  manner  in  which  they  liappen  to  be  mounted  for  tbe  cabinet.  Thus, 
in  the  species  of  tliis  immediate  type,  in  which  tbe  protborax  is  much  rounded 
behind,  if  the  head  is  at  all  deflexcd  tlie  whole  of  the  elytra  are  exposed,  and  ap- 
pear consequently  to  be  "well  developed";  but  if,  on  tbe  contrary,  tlie  head  is 
by  chance  raised,  the  posterior  edge  of  tbe  pronotum  slips  over  the  base  of  the 
elytra,  and  occasions  tbe  latter  to  seem  (primii  facie)  as  tho\igb  unusually  abbre- 
viated. 

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546  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Teneriffe  it  was  also  found  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occurs  principally 
beneath  fallen  leaves,  and  other  vegetable  refuse,  at  intermediate 
elevations.  My  Fuerteventuran  examples  are  chiefly  fi-om  the  Rio 
Palmas,  the  Grand-Canarian  ones  from  the  region  of  El  Monte,  and 
the  TenerifFan  ones  from  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and 
Taganana. 

823.  Homalota  coriaria. 

Homalota  sodalis,  m>ll.  [nee  IJru'Ii.,  1837],  I»s.  Mad.  554  (1854). 

coriaria  (Miller),  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Lis.  Denfsch.  ii.  282  (1856). 

,  Woll.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  177  (1857). 

Hahitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Fuerteventura  et  Hierro  solis  hac- 
tenus  baud  detecta. 

The  somewhat  broad  outline  and  finely  punctulated  surface  of  the 
H.  coriaria,  combined  with  its  rather  large  head,  its  short  and  trans- 
verse prothorax  (which  is  very  widely,  though  lightly,  impressed  in 
the  centre  behind),  its  brownish  elytra  (M'hich  are  more  or  less  ob- 
scured, or  blackened,  towards  either  side  and  in  the  region  of  the 
scutellum),  its  dusky-testaceous  legs,  and  its  extremely  thickened  an- 
tennae, will  readily  distinguish  it.  It  is  common  throughout  Europe, 
and  abounds  in  Madeira ;  and  I  have  Uttle  doubt  that  it  is  uni- 
versal at  the  Canaries — Fuerteventxira  and  Hierro  being  the  only 
islands  in  which,  hitherto,  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed. 
I  have,  however,  myself  taken  it  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Tene- 
riffe, Gomera,  and  Palma  ;  and  it  was  found  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch. 
It  occurs  beneath  vegetable  refuse  generally — often  within  the  putrid 
stems  of  the  dead  Eujjhorbias  (in  which  situations  I  have  captured  it 
on  the  mountains  above  S'"  Cruz  in  Teneriffe,  as  well  as  above  San 
Sebastian  in  Gomera).  My  Teneriffan  examples  are  principally  from 
the  Agua  Mansa  and  Tcod  el  Alto. 

824.  Homalota  subcoriaria,  n.  sp. 
H.  coriaria;  valde  affinis,  sed  vix  ejus  varietas  ;  sensim  minor  et  sub- 
densius  punctulata ;  antennis  paulo  brevioribus,  magis  comi:»actis 
(articulis  inter  se  magis  arete  adj^ressis);  prothorace  vix  angiistiore, 
postice  paulo  magis  rotundato  (angulis  posticis  minus  determinatis), 
in  disco  postico  canaliculato  sed  baud  late  impresso  ;  elytris  vix 
minoribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  in  Euphorhid  canariensi  quadam  jjutrida  supra 
Sanctum  Sebastianum  semel  tantum  lecta. 

A  single  specimen  of  a  Ho7nalota  taken  by  myself  in  Gomera 
(in  company  with  the  H.  coriaria,  putrescens,  and  canariensis),  out 
of  some  rotten  EiqyJiorbia-stcms  on  the  hills  above  San  Sebastian, 
seems  to  differ  so  decidedly  from  the  coriaria  (which  nevertheless  it 


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closely  resembles)  that  I  cannot  but  regard  it  as  an  additional,  though 
nearly  allied,  species.  It  recedes  from  that  insect  in  being  a  trifle 
smaller  and  more  densely  punctulated ;  in  its  antennaj  being  shorter 
and  more  compact  (the  joints  being  more  intimately  connected  inter 
se)  ;  in  its  prothorax  being  a  little  narrower,  and  more  rounded  be- 
hind, with  the  posterior  angles  less  defined,  and  witli  the  disc  lightly 
channeled  but  not  widely  impressed  ;  and  in  its  elytra  being,  if  any- 
thing, somewhat  less  developed. 

825.  Homalota  putrescens. 
H.  subnitida,  densissime  alutacea  punctisque  (in  capite  abdomineque 
parcius)  sat  dense  irrorata,  nigra,  elytris  testaceis,  versus  angulos 
posticos  externos  necnon  in  regione  scuteUari  nigreseentibus ;  pro- 
thorace  vix  picescente,  transverso,  lato,  postice  rotimdato  ;  antennis 
erassis,  articulo  ultimo  longiusculo,  nigro-fuscis,  ad  basin  pedibus- 
que  testaceis, — Long.  corp.  lin.  1;^. 

Homalota  putrescens,  WolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i.  185  (18G2). 
Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Canariam  et  Gomeram,  in  truncis  Euphorln^ 
arum  eraortuis  putridis  degens. 

The  short  and  very  wide  prothorax  of  this  species,  which  has  the 
hinder  angles  abnost  completely  rounded  oif,  in  conjunction  with  its 
thick  antennoe  and  its  testaceous  elytra  and  legs  (the  former  of  which 
are  more  or  less  conspicuously  darkened  towards  the  outer  posterior 
angles  and  in  the  region  of  the  scutellum  and  suture),  will  serve  to 
distinguish  it.  I  have  taken  it  sparingly,  out  of  the  damp  rot- 
ting Euphorbia-stems,  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  and  Goraera; 
and  it  will  probably  occur,  like  the  H.  corinria,  beneath  decajdng 
vegetable  refuse  generally. 

826.  Homalota  cacti. 

H.  prsecedenti  similis,  sed  punctura  leviore  et  parciore ;  prothorace 

angustiore,  minus  transverso,  ad  angulos  posticos  minus  rotundato  ; 

antennarum  articulo  ultimo  sensim  minus  elongato  et  paulo  magis 

obtuso. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l\. 
Homalota  cacti,  Woll,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i.  186  (1862). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  in  ilia  in  trunco  EupJiorbice  canari- 
msis  putrido  in  montibus  supra  Sanctam  Cruccm,  sed  in  hac  in  foliis 
marcidis  Cacti  opuntice.  lecta. 

In  size  and  general  colouring  this  Homalota  is  almost  coincident 
with  the  putrescens ;  but  its  prothorax  is  very  much  narrower  (or  less 
transverse),  with  the  posterior  angles  less  rounded  off,  its  punetation 
is  both  finer  and  more  distant,  and  the  terminal  joint  of  its  antennae 
is  a  trifle  shorter  nnd  more  obtuse.     It  is  closely  allied  to  the  Euro- 

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548  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

pean  H.  suhllnearis,  Kraatz,  but  is  smaller  and  less  coarsely  aluta- 
ceous,  its  pubescence  is  less  elongated  and  not  so  pale,  its  head  and 
prothorax  are  appreciably  smaller,  and  its  antennae  are  darker  and 
shorter.  I  have  taken  it  out  of  a  putrid  stalk  of  the  Euphorbia 
canariensis  on  the  mountains  above  S'"  Cruz  in  Teneriffe  ;  and  more 
abundantly  in  the  sodden  leaves  of  the  prickly  pear  in  the  Banda  of 
Palma. 

827.  Homalota  terricola,  n.  sp. 
H.  affinis  H.  mctl,  sed  major,  profundius  densiusque  punctata  ;  pro- 
thorace  paulo  majore,  sublatiore,  convexiore,  ad  angulos  posticos 
sensim  minus  rotundato  ;  elytris  magis  suffuse  coloratis  ;  antennis 
lougioribus  et  paulo  crassioribus,  articiilo  ultimo  vix  longiore. 
Var.  /3.  Paulo  minor,  prothoraee  vix  minore,  antennis  subbrevioribus. 
• — Long.  Corp.  lin.  1^-1|^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Palmam,  sub  quisquiliis,  rarior. 

This  Homalota  is  much  on  the  same  type  as  the  preceding  two 
species,  but  is  certainly  distinct  from  both  of  them — being  larger,  with 
its  antennae  longer  and  more  robust,  its  hinder  prothoracic  angles 
somewhat  less  rounded  oif,  and  its  elytra  more  suffused  in  colouring 
(or  less  maculated).  Its  punctation  is  rather  dense  and  strong,  like 
that  of  the  H.  putrescens;  but  its  prothorax  is  less  abbreviated  and 
not  so  wide,  though  a  little  broader  than  in  the  H.  cacti.  It  appears 
to  be  scarce,  the  few  examjiles  which  I  have  seen  hai-ing  been  taken 
by  myself,  from  beneath  vegetable  refuse,  in  Lanzarote  and  Palma. 
The  only  specimen,  however,  from  the  latter  island,  together  with  one 
(of  the  four)  from  Lanzarote,  are  a  trifle  smaller  than  the  rest,  with 
their  prothorax  and  antennae  a  little  less  developed ;  but  I  do  not  be- 
lieve that  the)'  are  specifically  distinct,  and  have  consequently  treated 
them  as  a  "  var.  /3." 

828.  Homalota  Waterhousii,  n.  sp. 

H.  subnitida,  donsissime  alutacea  punctisque  (in  capite  abdomineque 
parcius)  sat  dense  irrorata,  grosse  pubescens,  subfusco-nigra  elytris 
in  disco  vix  dihitioribus  ;  prothoi'ace  transverso-subquadrato,  pos- 
tice  paulo  rotundato  et  in  medio  foveolato ;  antennis  elongatis,  ad 
basin  paulo  dilutioribus ;  pedibus  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|- 
vix2. 
Habitat  in  editioribus  Teneriffae,  usque  ad  8000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

Species  in  honorem  el.  G.,R.  Waterhouse,  Londiui,  Staphylinorum 

Britanniae  scrutatoris  oculatissimi  indefessi,  citata. 

This  rather  large  Homalota  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  the 

higher  elevations  of  Teneriffe,  where  moreover  it  would  seem  to  be 

scarce.     I  have  taken  it  sparingly  near  Ycod  el  Alto,  as  well  as  at 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  549 

the  Agua  Mansa  and  on  the  Cumbre  above  it  (upwards  of  8000  feet 
above  the  sea) ;  and  a  single  Teneriffan  specimen  is  now  before  me 
which  was  captui'ed  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  appears  to  be,  on  the  average, 
slightly  larger  and  narrower  than  the  H.  terricola,  rather  more 
coarsely  pubescent,  and  more  concolorous  (its  general  surface  being 
of  a  somewhat  browner  black,  whilst  its  elytra,  on  the  contrary,  are 
darker  or  less  diluted  in  hue);  its  head  and  prothorax  are  relatively 
a  little  smaller ;  its  punctation,  particularly  on  the  elytra,  is  a  trifle 
denser ;  and  its  antennae  are  appreciably  slenderer  and  darker. 

829.  Homalota  melanaria. 

Aleochara  melanaria,  Sahib.,  Ins.  Fcnn.  i.  398  (1834). 
Jlonialota  lividipeunis,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  129  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  3Iad.  557  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  179  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omncs  Canarienses,  in  stercorc  bovino  et  equine 
vulgaris. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  abounds  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  and  which  is  so  well  distinguished  by  its  posteriorly  acute 
outline,  its  large  and  wide  prothorax,  its  testaceous  elytra  (which  are 
more  or  less  infuscated  in  the  region  of  the  scutellum  and  at  the  sides), 
and  its  long,  robust,  brownish  antennae,  is  universal  throughout  the 
archipelago,  in  all  the  islands  of  which  except  Gomera  (where  it  was 
found  by  Dr.  Crotch)  I  have  myself  captured  it.  In  Fuerteventiira, 
Teneriife,  and  Palma  it  was  met  with  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray.  It 
occurs  principally  in  the  dung  of  cattle,  and  is  independent  of  eleva- 
tion ;  for  in  Teneriffe  I  have  taken  it  from  the  level  of  the  shore,  at 
S'"  Cruz  and  the  Puerto  Orotava,  to  the  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Caiiadaa 
(upwards  of  8000  feet  above  the  sea). 

Genus  306.  OXYPODA. 
Mannerheira,  Brachel.  69  (1831). 

830.  Oxypoda  exoleta. 

O.rufo-forruginea,subopaca,  dense  sericeo-pubescens,  dense  et  minute 
punctulata ;  capite  abdominisque  segmentis  intermediis,  necnon 
elytris'(sed  obscurius  ac  magis  suffuse)  versus  angulos  externos  et 
in  regione  scuteliari,  plus  minus  nigrescentioribus ;  an  tennis  fuscis 
(articulo  ultimo  crassiusculo),  ad  basin  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  l-lj. 

Oxypoda  exoleta,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  149  (1839). 

,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deidsch.  ii.  179  (1856). 

luiida,  Woll.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  179  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  rarior. 


550  CAKAUIAN  COLEOFIERA. 

After  a  careful  inspection  of  many  examples  of  this  Oxypoda,  found 
in  five  different  islands  of  the  Group,  it  seems  to  me  that  it  ought 
not  to  be  kept  distinct  from  the  European  0.  exoleta;  though,  as  it 
is  clearly  conspecific  with  my  0.  lurida,  which  occurs  sparingly  in 
Madeira,  this  will  necessitate  the  suppression  of  the  latter  name.  In 
the  majority  of  the  specimens  now  before  me,  the  head,  prothorax, 
and  elytra  WlQ  just  perceptibly  larger,  or  more  developed,  than  is  the 
case  in  the  ordinary  English  ones  ;  and  as  this  was  hkewise  traceable 
in  the  few  Madeiran  individuals  which  I  possessed  for  examination 
in  1857, 1  thought  it  safer  to  record  them  as  the  exponents  of  a  closely 
allied  species.  But  further  material  has  convinced  me  that  these 
differences  are  scarcely  more  than  casual  ones — or,  even  if  permanent, 
much  too  insignificant  to  indicate  more  than  a  shght  geogi'aphical 
modification  of  the  insect.  Indeed  the  species  woidd  appear  to  be 
eminently  variable  in  stature,  so  that  a  certain  amount  of  instability 
would  naturally  be  anticipated  in  the  development  of  its  external  parts. 

The  narrow  outline  and  rufo-ferruginous  hue  of  the  0.  exoleta  (its 
head  and  the  intermediate  segments  of  its  abdomen  being  alone  con- 
spicuously darkened — though  the  elytra  are  always  more  or  less  ob- 
scurely infuscated)  will  sufficiently  distingiush  it.  I  have  taken  it, 
from  beneath  stones,  between  Haria  and  Mixgiii,  in  the  north  of 
Lanzarote ;  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary ;  above  the 
Puerto  Orotava  in  Tenerifffe  ;  as  well  as  in  Palma  and  Hierro  :  and 
several  Teneriffan  examples  are  now  before  me  which  were  found 
by  Dr.  Crotch. 

831.  Oxypoda  brevipennis,  n.  sp. 
0.  rufo-testacca,  subopaca,  dense  sericco-pubescens,  dense  et  minute 

punctulata ;  capite  angusto,  ovato,  oeulis  minutis  ;  elytris  brevissi- 

mis ;   antennis  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Hahitat  in  sylvaticis  parum  excelsis  Teneriffae  et  Gomerse,  sub  foliis 
dejectis  necnon  inter  muscos,  rarissima. 

The  uniformly  pale,  rufo-testaccous  hue  of  this  singular  Oxypoda, 
combined  with  its  narrow,  ovate  head,  very  minute  eyes,  and  exces- 
sively abbreviated  elytra,  will  at  once  characterize  it.  It  is  a  good 
deal  allied  to  the  0.  formiceticola  of  more  northern  latitudes,  but  is 
rather  smaller,  narrower,  and  paler,  with  its  eyes  still  more  diminu- 
tive, its  head  much  narrower,  its  prothorax  relatively  longer,  its 
punctation  finer  and  denser,  and  its  antennre  somewhat  less  incrassated 
towards  their  apex.  It  seems  to  be  confined  to  the  sylvan  districts 
of  rather  lofty  elevations,  where,  however,  it  is  decidedly  rare.  I  have 
taken  it  from  beneath  fallen  leaves  and  moss  in  the  laurel-woods 


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above  Taganana  and  on  the  summit  of  the  Las  Mercedes  range  in 
Teneriffe  ;  and  a  single  example  is  now  before  me  which  was  captured 
by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera — I  believe,  above  Hermigua. 

832.  Oxypoda  sethiops,  n.  sp. 

0.  atra,  nitida,  parce  pubescens,  minus  dense  ac  profundius  subas- 
perato-punctata ;  capite  subrotundato,  convexo  ;  elytris  convexis ; 
antennis  pedibusque  concoloribus.— Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Habitat  Palmam,  in  "  Barranco  da  Agua  "  semel  reperta. 

The  intensely  black  hue  of  this  small  Ox>jpoda,  combined  with  its 
shining,  less  pubescent,  rather  deeply  and  less  densely  punctured 
surface,  will  readily  separate  it  from  the  two  preceding  species. 
Hitherto  I  have  seen  but  a  single  example  of  it,  which  was  taken  by 
myself  in  the  Barranco  da  Agua  of  Palma. 

Genus  307.  ALEOCHARA. 

Gravenhorst,  Col.  Micropt.  67  (1802). 

833.  Aleochara  puberula. 

Aleocliara  puberula,  Klufi,  Col.  Madagasc.  51  (1838). 

,  Erich.^  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  165  (1839). 

Armitagei,  Woll,  Ins.  3fad.  559  (1854). 

puberula,  Id.,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  180  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Canariam,  Teneriffam  et 
Gomeram,  sub  quisquiliis  necnon  in  stercore  bovine,  equine,  camelino 
degens. 

The  fusiform  outline  and  closely  punctured,  densely  fulvo-pubescent 
surface  of  this  beautiful  Aleochara,  combined  with  the  suffused,  red, 
oblique  dash  on  each  of  its  elytra,  and  the  paleness  of  its  legs,  as  well 
as  of  the  base  and  apex  of  its  antennae,  will  at  once  distinguish  it. 
It  is  probably  universal  throughout  the  archipelago,  though  I  have 
myself  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary, 
and  Teneriffe ;  but  it  was  captured  in  Gomera  both  by  Mr.  Gray  and 
Dr.  Crotch  (the  former  of  whom  found  it  likewise  in  Fuerteventura, 
and  the  latter  in  Teneriffe).  My  Fuerteventuran  specimens  were 
taken  from  beneath  camels'  dung  in  the  Eio  Palmas,  and  the  Tene- 
riffan  ones  from  the  mountains  above  S'''  Cruz.  It  occurs  in  the  south 
of  Europe,  and  is  not  uncommon  in  the  Madeiran  Group. 

834.  Aleochara  crassinscula. 

Aleochara  crassiiiscida,  Sahib.,  Ins.  Fenn.  i.  396  (1834). 

fiiscipes  ?,  ^n///f' [nee  Grav.^inWebb  et  Berth.  {Col.)  60  (1838). 

■ tristis,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  162  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad  560  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  181  (1857). 


552  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Habitat  insiilas  omnes  Canarienscs,  in  stercore  bo\dno  et  equino 
vulgaris. 

The  more  parallel  outline  and  blacker,  less  pubescent,  and  more 
shining  surface  of  this  common  European  AleocJiara,  in  conjimction 
with  its  darker  limbs  and  more  testaceous  elytral  dash,  will  readily 
separate  it  from  the  puhenda.  It  is  also  more  variable  in  stature — 
ascending  to  a  somewhat  larger,  and  descending  to  a  very  much  smaller 
size.  It  occurs  in  the  dung  of  cattle  (independently  of  elevation), 
and  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago — in  the  whole  seven 
islands  of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it.  In  Lanzarote,  Gomera, 
and  Palma  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Teneriffe  and 
Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  abounds  at  the  Madeiras.  I  have  little 
doubt  that  the  species  referred  to  by  M.  Brulle  under  the  name  of 
•'  A.  fuscipcs,  Grav."  was  entered  in  his  most  inaccurate  list  on  the 
strength  of  a  large  example  of  this  Aleocliara  ;  for  I  have  no  evidence 
of  the  fnscipes  being  found  in  ani/  of  these  Atlantic  Islands,  whereas 
so  universal  and  abundant  an  insect  as  the  A.  a-assiKscula  could 
scarcely  have  escaped  the  observation  of  even  MM.  Webb  and  Ber- 
thelot.  If  such,  however,  be  the  case  (which,  I  think,  is  pretty 
evident),  it  is  surj)rising  how  two  species  which  differ  so  essentially 
from  each  other  could  possibly  have  been  confounded  by  M.  Brulle. 

835.  Aleochara  littoralis,  n.  sp. 

A.  nigra,  subopaca,  grossc  sed  vix  dense  griseo-pubescens,  elytris 
postice  suffuse  (plus  minus  evidenter)  rufescentibus  ;  capite  utriu- 
que  grosse  piinctato  ;  prothorace  multo  minutius  olytrisque  niinu- 
tius  et  densius  punctatis  ;  abdomine  nitido,  parcissime  punctato  ; 
antcnnis  pcdibusque  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  f  i^-^. 

Obs. — Species  A.  r/risea'  Kraatzii  valde  afRnis,  sed  minus  atra, 
elytris  etiam  suffuse  rufescentibus  ;  antennis  (vix  longioribus)  pc- 
dibusque rufo-testaceis  (nee  piceis),  illarum  articulo  ultimo  ob- 
tusiore,  nee  acuto  ;  capite  vix  angustiore. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  in  arenosis  maritimis  sub  putridis  degens. 

In  its  general  contour  and  sculpture,  as  well  as  in  the  coarse  gri- 
seous  pubescence  with  which  its  subopake  surface  is  clothed,  this 
Aleochara  is  intimately  related  to  the  European  A.  grisea,  of  which 
indeed  it  is  barely  possible  that  it  may  be  but  a  geographical  state. 
It  diffei's  in  having  its  head  just  perceptibly  narrower  (or  more 
oval),  in  its  elytra  being  more  suffused  with  a  reddish  tint,  and  in 
its  limbs  being  paler  or  more  testaceous, — the  antennte  being,  also, 
a  trifle  longer,  with  their  apical  joint  obtuser,  or  less  pointed.  It 
was  taken  sparingly  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  from  beneath  a  dead 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEIU.  553 

hen,  on  the  sandy  becach  close  to  Arrecife  in  Lanzarotc ;  and  sub- 
sequently, by  myself,  in  a  similai'  situation,  at  Eerrugo,  in  the  ex- 
treme south  of  that  island. 

836.  Aleochara  funebris,  n.  sp. 

A.  atra,  nitida,  grosse  et  longe  subfulvescenti-pubescens  ;  capite  pro- 
thoraceque  sat  grosse  sed  baud  profunde  punctatis  ;  elj^tris  densius 
punctatis ;  antennis  nigrescentibus,  ad  basin  i^edibusque  rufo-fer- 
rugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Ohs. — Affinis  A.  moeshv.  Grav.,  sed  paulo  major,  fortius  (prse- 
sertim  in  capite  prothoraceque)  punctata,  prothorace  angustiore 
(minus  transverso),  antennis  ad  basin  pedibusque  sensim  palli- 
dioribus. 

Habitat  in  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Palma,  rarior. 

In  its  pubescent,  shining,  intensely  black  surface  and  ferruginous 
legs  the  present  AJeochara  very  closely  resembles  the  European  A, 
ma'sta  ;  and,  although  I  have  not  my  original  specimen  now  for  com- 
parison, I  suspect  that  it  is  probably  conspecific  with  the  insect 
which  I  actually  referred  to  the  moesta  in  my  Madeiran  Catalogue. 
At  any  rate  the  four  Canarian  examples  now  before  me  (one  of 
which  I  captured  at  Taganana  in  Teneriffe,  and  another  in  the  Bar- 
ranco  de  Galga  of  Palma,  whilst  the  remaining  two  were  found  by 
Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera)  differ  from  the  moesta  in  being  (particularly 
on  the  head  and  prothorax)  rather  more  strongly  punctured,  in  their 
prothorax  being  perceptibly  narrower  or  less  transverse,  and  in  their 
legs  and  the  base  of  their  antennae  being  a  little  paler.  The  species 
would  seem,  also,  to  ascend  to  a  somewhat  larger  stature. 

837.  Aleochara  nitida. 

Aleochava  nitida,  Grav.,  Col.  Micropt.  97  (1802). 

,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  1G8  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  5G0  (1854). 

,  Id:,  Cat.  Mad.  CJ.  182  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Cauarieuses,  in  stercore  necnon  in  humidis, 
ab  ora  maritima  usque  ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

The  common  European  A.  nitida,  which  is  universal  in  the  Ma- 
deiran Group,  is  equally  universal  at  the  Canaries — I  having  myself 
captured  it  in  the  whole  seven  islands.  In  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura, 
Palma,  and  Hierro  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray ;  and  in  Tene- 
riife  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occurs  not  merely  in  dung  but 
in-  moist  places  generally — from  the  sea-level  to  an  altitude  of  at 
least  9000  feet  (at  which  elevation  I  have  taken  it  in  Teneriffe,  on 
the  Cumbre  overlooking  the  Canadas). 


554  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

838.  Aleochara  binotata. 

Aleocliara  binotata,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  lOG  (1850). 
,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  182  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Canaria  ct  Gomera,  una  cum 
specie  praecedente  degens. 

I  am  not  at  all  satisfied  that  the  A.  binotata  of  Kraatz  is  truly 
distinct  from  the  nitida ;  for  although  it  is  not  difficult  to  identify 
extreme  specimens  of  each,  it  is  occasionally  next  to  impossible  to 
assign  the  intermediate  ones,  with  any  certainty,  to  their  supposed 
types ;  and,  indeed,  I  am  far  from  convinced  that  some  of  my  examples 
are  not  completely  osculant  between  the  two.  Nevertheless,  since 
some  of  their  characters  may  perhaps  have  escaped  me,  and  there 
can  be  no  question  that  normal  individuals  are  easily  separable,  I 
will  not  venture  to  amalgamate  the  species.  Typically  the  A.  bi- 
notata may  be  defined  as,  on  the  average,  smaller  than  the  nitida 
(though  both  do  occasionally  descend  to  a  very  minute  stature), 
with  its  punctation  just  appreciably  stronger,  its  rufescent  elytral 
spot  larger  and  more  suffused,  and  its  antennae  shorter  (though  the 
last  feature  is  a  somewhat  deceptive  one  on  account  of  the  slight 
difference  in  length  exhibited  by  the  sexes  of  both  insects).  The 
fact,  too,  of  their  being  nearly  always  found  in  company  would  not 
militate  against  the  supposition  that  they  are  but  states  assumed  by 
a  single  species.  I  have  taken  the  A.  binotata  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerte- 
ventura, Grand  Canary,  and  Gomera  (in  the  last  of  which  it  was 
found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch)  ;  but  the  specimens  from  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventiira  are,  I  think,  the  most  typical  ones.  It  occurs 
in  Porto  Santo  of  the  Madeiran  Group. 

839.  Aleochara  morion. 

Aleochara  morion,  6rai:,  Col.  Ilicropt.  07  (1802). 

,  Urich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  175  (18:39). 

,  JVolL,  Ins.  Mad.  501  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  183  (1857). 

Habitat  Teueriff'am,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  minus  frequens. 

The  minute  size,  fusiform  outline,  and  dark,  concolorous,  very 
slightly  shining  surface  of  this  common  European  Aleochara  wiU 
sufficiently  distinguish  it.  As  at  Madeira,  it  occurs  sparingly  in 
these  islands — where  most  probably  it  is  universal.  Hitherto,  how- 
ever, I  have  observed  it  only  at  the  Agua  Mansa  and  Las  Mercedes 
of  Teneriffe,  and  in  Palma  ;  but  three  examples  are  now  before  me 
which  were  captured  in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch  (who  likewise  met 
with  it  in  Tenerift'e). 


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555 


Genus  308.  OLIGOTA. 

Mcannerlieim,  Brachcl.  72  (1831). 

840.  Oligota  castanea,  n.  sp. 

0.  linearis,  rufo-  vel  fusco-castanea,  elytris  abdominisque  apice  fere 
rufo-testaceis,  abdomine  ad  basin  nigrescentiore ;  antennis  ad  basin 
pedibusque  rufo-testaceis,  illarum  articulis  4  vel  5  ultimis  sensim 
crassioribus.— Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  |. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  Teneriffoe,  Gomerte  et  Palmae,  sub  foliis  dejec- 
tis,  rarior. 

The  rather  large  size,  for  an  Oligota,  of  this  (nevertheless  minute) 
insect,  combined  -wdth  its  reddish-castaneous  hue  (the  elytra  and 
apex  of  the  abdomen  being,  however,  generally  of  a  more  or  less 
clear  rufo-testaccous),  its  pale  limbs,  and  the  four  or  five  apical 
joints  of  its  antennae  being  perceptibly  incrassated,  will  sufficiently 
distinguish  it.  It  appears  to  occur  at  intermediate  elevations,  prin- 
cipally within  the  sylvan  districts,  where,  however,  it  is  rare.  I  have 
taken  it,  from  beneath  fallen  leaves,  at  the  Agua  Garcia,  Taganana, 
Las  Mercedes,  and  on  the  mountains  above  S*"  Cruz,  in  Teneriffe,  as 
well  as  in  the  Barranco  de  Galga  of  Palma  ;  and  a  single  specimen 
is  now  before  me  which  was  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  m  Gomera  (I 
believe,  above  Hermigua). 

841.  Oligota  inflata. 

0.  minor,  linearis,  fusco-  vel  nigro-picea,  abdomine  nigro  ad  apicem 
^-ix  chlutiore  ;  antennis  brevioribus,  ad  basin  pedibusque  testaceo- 
pieeis,  illarum  articulis  4  ultimis  sensim  crassioribus. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  vix  -|. 

Microcera  inflata,  Mann.,  Brachcl.  72  (1831). 

Oligota  subtilis,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  180  (1839). 

inflata,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  562  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  184  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  sub  quisquiliis  fo- 
liisque  dejectis  hinc  inde  hand  infrcquens. 

I  think  that  the  brownish-piceous  hue  and  the  distinctly  quadri- 
articulate  antennal  club  of  this  diminutive  Oligota,  combined  with 
the  shape  of  its  prothorax  (which  is  appreciably  narrower  before 
than  behind,  with  the  posterior  angles  tolerably  expressed),  will 
assign  it  to  the  Em-opean  0.  inflata,  rather  than  to  the  pusillinia. 
It  occurs  beneath  vegetable  detritus  at  low  and  intermediate  eleva- 
tions. I  have  captured  it  abundantly,  from  under  the  refuse  around 
the  base  of  corn -stacks,  at  Haria  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  and 
more  sparingly  above  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe  ;  and  a  single 


556  CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA. 

example,  taken  b;y  himself  in  Gomcra,  has  been  communicated  by 
Dr.  Crotch.     It  is  found  likewise  in  Madeira. 

(Bubfam.  II.  TACHYPORIDES.) 

Genus  309.  CONOSOMA. 
Kraatz,  Nat.  der  7«.s.  Dctdsch.  ii.  431  (1856). 

842.  Conosoma  pubescens. 

Stapliylinus  pubescens,  Payh.,  Mon.  Carab.  App.  138  (1790). 
Couurus  pubescens,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  221  (1839). 

,  Woll.,  Im.  Mad.  565  (1854). 

Conosoma  pubescens,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Lis.  Deutsch.  ii.  435  (1856). 
Conurus  pubescens,  Woll,  Cat.  Had.  Col  184  (1857). 

Hahitat  Palmam;  Junio  ineunte  a.d.  1858  specimina  sex  sub  cor- 
tice  arboris  cujusdara  laxo  in  montibus  supra  Sanctam  Crucem  cepi. 

The  only  Cananan  specimens  which  I  have  seen  of  this  common 
European  insect  (which  occurs  sparingly  at  jNIadeira)  arc  six  which 
were  captured  by  myself,  at  the  beginning  of  June  1858,  in  the  island 
of  Palma — from  beneath  the  loosened  bark  of  an  old  tree  high  up  in 
the  Barranco  above  8^"  Cruz. 

843.  Conosoma  lividum. 

Conurus  lividus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  229  (1839). 
Conosoma  lividum,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Dentsch.  ii.  4.36  (1856). 

Hahitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Hierro  sola  adhuc  baud  observatum. 

In  a  long  array  of  specimens  of  this  variable  insect,  now  before  me, 
I  can  detect  no  character  to  warrant  the  suspicion  that  they  are  dis- 
tinct from  the  European  C  lividum, — though,  if  anything,  their  an- 
.tenna^  are  perhaps  a  trifle  longer.  One  or  two  darker  examples 
might  almost  pass  for  the  fusndum  of  Erichson ;  but  I  cannot  per- 
ceive in  them  any  difference  except  that  of  colour  (which  is  essen- 
tially variable  in  the  C.  lividum),  and  I  therefore  think  it  would  be 
imsafe  to  admit  an  additional  species  into  the  fauna  on  such  evi- 
dence. Indeed  the  paler  and  darker  individuals  were  taken  in  com- 
pany, and  I  am  quite  satisfied  that  they  are  all  of  them  conspecific. 
It  occurs  principallj',  beneath  vegetable  refuse,  in  sylvan  and  sub- 
sylvan  spots  of  intermediate  elevations  ;  and  there  can  be  little  doubt 
that  it  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago — Hierro  being  the  only 
island  of  the  seven  in  which  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been 
observed.  I  have  myself  captured  it  in  Lanzarote,  in  the  Rio  Palmas 
of  Fuerteventura,  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canaiy,  at  the 
Agua  Mansa  and  on  the  mountains  above  8''''  Cruz  in  Teneriffc,  as 


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557 


well  as  in  Palma ;  and  a  specimen  has  been  communicated  by  Dr. 
Crotch,  taken  in  Gomera. 

Genus  310.  TACHYPORUS. 

Graveuhorsti  Col.  Micropt.  124  (1802). 

844.  Tachyporus  pusHlus. 

Tachyporus  pusillus,  Grav.,  Mon.  9  (180G). 

' ,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  239  (1839). 

celer,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  567  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  185  (1857). 

marginatus,  Hart. [necFab.'],  Geolog.  VerhaUn.Lanz. wndFuert.  140. 

Hahltat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  passim. 

The  larger  size,  broader  outline,  and  darker  hue  are  almost  the 
only  characters  which  appear  to  distinguish  the  European  T.  jiusllhis 
from  the  hrunneus ;  and  yet  the  two  species  are  easily  separated 
when  seen.  The  T.  pusillus  occurs  at  low  and  intermediate  eleva- 
tions, and  is  universal  throughout  the  Group — in  all  the  islands  of 
which,  except  Palma,  where  it  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray,  I  have  my- 
self captured  it.  In  Lanzarote  and  Hierro  it  was  likewise  taken  by 
Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  abounds  in  the  north 
of  Lanzarote,  and  is  unquestionably  the  species  referred  to  (by  Dr. 
Heer)  in  M.  Hartung's  list  under  the  name  of  "  Tachyporus  marr/i- 
nahis,  F."  It  occurs  sparingly  at  Madeira, — my  T.  celer  appearing 
to  me,  on  a  closer  examination,  not  to  differ  from  the  pusillus. 

845.  Tachyporus  brunneus. 

Oxyporus  bruuneus,  Fab.,  Ent.  Syst.  i.  ii.  535  (1792). 
Tachyporus  bminneus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  241  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  568  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cut.  Mad.  Col.  185  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Fuerteventura  sola  hactenus  hand 
detectus. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  abounds  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  is  doubtless  universal  at  the  Canaries,  though  hitherto  it  does 
not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  Fuerteventura.  •  I  have  myself 
captured  it  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro  ; 
and  it  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera,  and  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Palma. 

Genus  311.  HABROCERUS. 

Erichson,  Kaf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  400  (1839). 

846.  Hahrocerus  capillaricornis. 

Tachyporus  capillaricornis,  Grav.,  Mon.  10  (1806). 

Habrocerus  capillaricornis,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  245  (1839). 


558  .  CANARIAN  COLEOPXKRA, 

Habrocerus  capillaricornis,  JVoll.,  Ins.  Mad.  570  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  185  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Hierro,  in  regione  sylvatica  "  El  Golfo  "  dicta  mense 
Februario  a.d.  1858  exemplar  unum  ccpi. 

The  H.  (■apillarlcornis,  so  widely  spread  (though  by  no  means  com- 
mon) throughout  Europe,  and  which  abounds  in  the  sylvan  districts 
of  Madeira,  is  apparently  of  the  utmost  rarity  in  these  islands.  In- 
deed hitherto  I  have  seen  but  a  single  Canarian  examjjlc  of  it,  which 
was  taken  by  myself  (during  February  1858)  in  the  wooded  region 
of  El  Golfo  on  the  western  slopes  of  Hierro. 

Genus  312.  THICHOPHYA. 

Mannerheim,  Brachcl.  73  (1831). 

847.  Trichophya  pilicornis. 
Aleochara  pilicoruis,  Oi/U.,  Ins.  Siicc.  ii.  417  (1810). 
Tricliopliya  pilicornis,  Mann.,  Brachel.  73  (1831). 
Tricbophyus  pilicoruis,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  208  (1839). 
Trichopbya  pilicornis,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  390  (1850). 

Hahitat  in  Teneriffa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  in  sylvaticis,  rarissima. 

The  European  T.pHieoniis  is  of  the  greatest  rarity  at  the  Canaries, 
and  confined  apparently  to  the  sylvan  districts  of  intermediate  and 
rather  lofty  elevations.  The  few  specimens  which  I  have  seen  were 
taken  by  myself  at  the  Agua  Garcia  and  above  Ycod  el  Alto  in  Tene- 
riffe,  in  Palma,  and  in  the  wooded  region  of  El  Golfo  on  the  western 
side  of  Hierro.  It  is  just  possible  that  the  Madeiran  T.  Huttoni  may 
be  but  a  large  state  of  \h.Q  pilicornis. 

Genus  313.  MYCETOPOEUS. 

Mannerheim,  Brachel.  02  (1831). 

848.  Mycetoporus  rufus,  n.  sp. 
M.  elongato-eUipticus ;  capite,  prothorace  elytrisque  clare  testaceo- 
rutis,  abdomine  (valde  profunde  punctate) nigro,  apice  rufescentiore ; 
antennis  fnscis,  basi,  apice  ipso  pedibusque  rufo-testaceis  ;  protho- 
racis  punctis  4  anticis  a  margine  parum  remotis ;  elytrorum  seriebus 
tribus  parce  sed  distincte  punctatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  -g-vix  3. 

Hahitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  rarissimus. 

The  clear  rufous  (or  testaceo-rufous)  hue  of  the  head,  prothorax, 
and  elytra  of  this  large  and  beautiful  Mycetoporus,  the  abdomen  of 
which  is  dark  and  very  coarsely  punctured,  with  the  apex  more  or 
less  rufescent,  combined  with  its  four  anterior  prothoracic  punctules 
being  situated  at  some  little  distance  behind  the  front  margin,  will 
sufficiently  distinguish  it.     It  seems  to  be  extremely  rare  and  to 


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occur  at  low  and  intermediate  elevations,  the  few  specimens  which  T 
have  seen  ha^ing•  been  captured  bj  myself  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera, 
— namely,  near  S'"  Cruz,  at  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  between  Orotava 
and  Realejo,  of  the  former,  and  close  to  San  Sebastian  of  the  latter. 

849.  Mycetoporus  momlicornis,  n.  sp. 

M.  angustus,  parallelo-elongatus  ;  capite  (angusto,  triangular!,  oculis 
parvis)  prothoraceque  tcstaceis,  elytris  (brevibus)  rufo-testacois, 
abdomine  (sat  profunde  punctate)  rufo-piceo,  basi  apiceque  vix 
pallidiore  ;  antennis  (elongatis,  submoniliformibus)  pedibusque  tes- 
taceis  ;  prothoracis  punctis  4  anticis  fere  ad  marginem  ipsum  sitis  ; 
elytrorum  seriebus  tribus  parce  et  obsolete  punctatis. — -Long.  corp. 
lin.  2. 

Habitat  in  montibus  excelsis  Teneriifae,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  captus. 

At  once  known  from  the  preceding  species  by  its  smaller  size  and 
very  much  narrower  and  more  parallel  outline,  by  the  paler  or  more 
testaceous  hue  of  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of  which  is  nar- 
rower and  with  the  eyes  more  minute),  by  its  shorter  elytra  (the 
three  lines  on  each  of  which  are  more  obsoletely  punctured),  by  its 
more  piceous  and  less  coarsely  punctured  abdomen,  and  by  its  rela- 
tively longer,  paler,  and  more  moniliform  antennae.  Its  four  ante- 
rior prothoracic  punctides,  moreover,  are  placed  nearer  to  the  front 
margin.  The  only  example  which  I  have  seen  was  captured  by  Dr. 
Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Teneriffe — apparently  (from 
the  mark  appended  to  it)  on  the  elevated  Cumbre  adjoining  the  Ca- 
fiadas. 

850.  Mycetoporus  solidicornis,  n.  sp. 

M.  elongato-ellipticus  ;  capite  nigro,  prothorace  elytrisque  rufo-tes- 
taceis,  his  circa  scutellum  necnon  in  disco  suffuse  infuscatis,  abdo- 
mine (sat  profunde  punctato)  piceo-nigro,  apice  paulo  dihitiore ; 
antennis  brevibus,  nigro-fuscis,  basi  pedibusque  testaceis  (tibiis  tar- 
sisque  plus  minus  infuscatis);  prothoracis  punctis  4  anticis  a  mar- 
gine  parum  remotis  ;  elytrorum  seriebus  tribus  valde  distincte  punc- 
tatis.— Long.  Corp.  lin.  1|. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  rei^ertus. 

The  very  much  shorter  antennae  of  this  Mycetoporus,  combined  with 
its  black  head  and  rufo-testaceous  prothorax  and  elytra  (the  latter  of 
which,  however,  are  more  or  less  infuscated,  or  suffused,  about  the 
scutellary  region  and  across  theii*  disc),  will  readily  separate  it  from 
the  two  preceding  species.  Its  general  appearance  is  much  that  of  a 
BoUtohius ;  but  the  minute  aciculatcd  last  joint  of  its  maxillary  palpi 
at  once  assigns  it  to  the  present  genus.  My  only  two  examples 
I  captured  in  the  region  of  El  Monte,  in  Grand  Canarj*. 


560  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Genus  314.  BOLITOBIUS. 

(Leacli)  Stephens,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  171  (1832). 

851.  Bolitobius  luridus,  n.  sp. 

B.  ellipticus,  lurido-testaceus,  ctipite  utrinque,  i^rothorace  in  disco, 
elytris  hinc  inde  (prtesertim  in  djsco  utrocjue  postico)  abdominis(ine 
segmentis  ad  basin  plus  minus  obscure  et  suffuse  infuscato-nebu- 
losis  ;  antennis  apicem  versus  nigrescentibus  paulo  incrassatis,  basi 
pedibusque  testaceis ;  prothoracis  punctis  4  postieis  ad  marginem 
sitis,  minutis  (cxternis  a^gre  observandis,  ad  angulum  utrunuiue 
ipsum  positis)  ;  elytris  amplis,  postice  substriatis,  seriebus  tribus 
parcissime  (sc.  circa  4— G)  punctatis, — Long.  Corp.  lin.  1|— 2. 

Habitat  in  intermediis  sylvaticis  Teneriifoe,  rarissimus. 

The  elliptic  outline  and  compai-ativeh/  large  head  and  elytra  of  this 
Bolitobius,  in  conjunction  with  its  hn-id-testaceous  hue  (the  head  on 
either  side,  the  disc  of  the  pronotum,  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
elytra,  and  the  hinder  half  of  each  of  the  abdominal  segments  being 
more  or  less  obscurely  clouded,  or  infuscate),  will  serve  to  charac- 
terize it.  The  four  punctules  at  the  base  of  its  prothorax  are  ex- 
tremely minute,  and  situated  quite  on  the  margin  itself  (the  outer 
pair  being  very  difficult  to  detect,  from  being  placed  exactly  at  either 
posterior  angle)  ;  and  its  elytra,  which  are  substriated  behind,  have 
their  three  longitudinal  lines  most  remotely  punctured  (the  punctures 
being  usually  not  more  than  from  about  four  to  six  in  number).  It 
appears  to  be  extremely  rare,  and  confined  to  the  sylvan  districts  of 
Teneriffe — the  few  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  taken 
by  myself  at  the  Agua  Garcia  and  in  the  laurel- woods  above  Taga- 

nana. 

852.  Bolitobius  filicornis,  n.  sp. 

B.  elongato-ellipticus,  angustus,  capite  parvo,  nigro,  prothorace  clare 
sed  elytris  infuscate  rufo -testaceis,  abdomine  piceo  (segmentis  basi 
singulatim  rufescentioribus ) ;  antennis  subfiliformibus,  nigro-fuscis, 
basi  pedibusque  testaceis  ;  prothoracis  pmictis  4  postieis  vix  ad  mar- 
ginem ipsissimum  sitis,  distinctis  ;  elj'tris  breviusculis,  seriebus  tri- 
bus distincte  punctatis. 

Variat  (immaturus?)  capite,  elytris  antennisque  pallidioribus. — 
Long.  Corp.  Kn.  l|-vix  1^. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Hierro,  rarissimus. 

The  smaller  size,  very  much  narrower  and  less  elliptic  outline,  and 
less  developed  elytra  of  this  species,  added  to  its  smaller  and  blacker 
head,  its  rufo-testaceous  prothorax  and  elytra  (the  former  of  which 
is  clear  and  immaculate,  whilst  the  latter  are  more  or  less  infuscated) , 
its  slenderer  and  more  filiform  antennpe,  the  larger  size  of  the  four 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA,  561 

punctulcs  at  the  base  of  its  pronotum  (which  are  not  situated  quite 
upon  the  edge  itself),  and  its  more  numerously  punctiu'ed  three  ely- 
tral  lines,  will  at  once  separate  it  from  the  B.  luridus.  In  general 
colouring,  size,  and  aspect  it  is  scarcely  distinguishable,  prima  facie, 
from  the  Mi/cetoporus  soUdicornis ;  nevertheless,  on  a  closer  inspec- 
tion, the  last  joint  of  its  maxillary  palpi  will  show  it  to  be  a  true 
Bolitohins ;  and  its  antenna?  are  very  much  longer,  more  filiform, 
and  less  compact.  When  accurately  examined  it  will  be  further  seen 
to  be  altogether  a  trifle  narrower  and  less  elliptic,  with  its  abdomen 
more  piceous  (or  less  black),  its  limbs  a  Httle  paler,  and  its  four  an- 
terior prothoracic  punctules  placed  considerably  nearer  to  the  front 
margin. 

Like  the  B.  luridus,  the  present  species  seems  to  be  very  rare,  and 
to  be  confined  to  intermediate  elevations — occurring,  however,  in  sub- 
sylvan  as  well  as  sylvan  spots.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  region  of  El 
Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  as  well  as  in  Hierro ;  and  a  single  example 
is  now  before  me  which  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriffe. 

(Subfam.  III.  QUEDIIDES.) 

Genus  315.  EURYPORUS. 
Erichson,  Kdf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  496  (1839). 

853.  Euryporus  princeps,  n.  sp. 

E.  elongato-ellipticus,  nitidus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  nitidissimis,  le- 
viter  (sed  baud  minute)  punctatis,  illo  ovali  nigro,  hoc  (utrinque  in 
disco  biseriatim  tripunctato)  una  cum  elytris  (brevibus,  grosse 
rugoso-punctatis)  fusco-piceis ;  abdomine  piceo-fusco,  metallico- 
tincto,  postice  dilutiore,  utrinque  valde  profunde  oblongo-punctato  ; 
antennis  nigrescentibus,  ad  basin  pedibusque  piceo-ferrugineis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  7. 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Canariae  Grandis :  sub  lapide  ad  marginem 
rivuli  cujusdam  prope  oppidum  Teror,  Aprili  exeunte  a.d.  1858,  ex- 
emplar unicum  collegi. 

Although  the  large  size  and  excessively  abbreviated,  roughly  sculp- 
tured elytra  of  this  fine  StaphyUnid  might  be  supposed  at  first  sight 
to  assign  it  to  a  genus  distinct  from  (however  nearly  aUied  to)  Eury- 
porus, nevertheless  the  various  details  of  its  structure  do  not  appear 
to  me  (when  carefully  inspected)  to  present  sufficient  peculiarities  to 
warrant  its  isolation.  Indeed  in  most  of  its  essential  features — such 
as  the  approximation  of  its  intermediate  coxae,  its  deeply  incised 
upper  lip,  its  filiform  maxillary  palpi  and  the  securiform  last  joint  of 
its  labial  ones,  the  shape  and  proportions  of  its  mcntuni,  ligula,  and 

9  f. 


562  CATfARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

paraglossae,  and  its  simple  anterior  feet* — it  is  quite  normal  for  Eu- 
ryporus.  Its  head  is  the  only  part  of  its  body  which  seems  to  be 
quite  black, — the  prothorax  and  elytra  being  of  a  dark  rufo-piceous 
brown,  and  the  abdomen  (which  is  most  deeply  punctured  on  either 
side  and  has  a  rather  conspicuous  metallic  lustre)  being  still  more 
diluted  or  ferruginous.  The  example  described  from  was  taken  by 
myself,  during  April  1858,  from  beneath  a  wet  stone  at  the  edge  of 
the  little  stream  at  Teror  in  Grand  Canary. 

Genus  316.  HETEROTHOPS. 
(Kirby)  Staph.,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  256  (1832). 

854.  Heterothops  minutus. 

H.  niger  elytris  abdominisque  apice  plus  minus  dilutioribus  ;  capite 
prothoraceque  angustulis,  nitidissimis  ;  elytris  abdomineque  pubes- 
centibus,  illis  vel  nigro-jiiceis  apice  et  ad  humeros  dilutioribus,  vel 
testaceo-piceis,  vel  etiam  fere  fusco-testaceis  ;  antennis  gracihbus, 
ad  basin  pedibusque  picco-testaceis. 

Variat  etiam  prothorace  dilutiore,  antennis  pedibusque  omnino  pal- 
lidis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|— 21. 

Heterothops  minutus,  WoU.,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vi.  53  (1860). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  sub  quisquiliis  hand  infrequcns. 

This  insect,  which  occui's  beneath  vegetable  refuse  around  Funchal 
in  Madeira,  is  universal  at  the  Canaries — in  all  the  islands  of  which 
except  Gomera  and  Palma,  where  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  I  have 
myself  captured  it.  My  Lanzarotan  specimens  are  principally  from 
under  the  refuse  around  the  base  of  corn-stacks  at  Haria,  the  Fuerte- 
venturan  ones  from  the  Rio  Palmas,  the  Grand-Canarian  ones  from 
the  region  of  El  Monte,  the  Teneriffan  ones  from  the  mountains 
above  S"*  Cruz,  as  well  as  from  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  Souzal, 
and  the  Agua  Garcia,  and  the  Hierro  ones  from  near  Valverde.  It 
is  somewhat  allied,  at  first  sight,  to  the  European  H.  dissimiUs ;  but, 
apart  from  colour  (which  in  both  species  is  essentially  variable),  its 
head  and  prothorax  are  relatively  a  httle  narrower  than  is  the  case 
in  that  insect  (the  former  being  more  oblong,  and  the  latter  more 
laterally  compressed  in  front,  and  with  the  discal  punctures  more 
evident)  ;  its  elytra  are  a  trifle  longer ;  and  its  antennae  are  some- 
what longer,  slenderer,  more  filiform,  and  more  fragile— the  joints 
being  more  loosely  attached,  and  the  apical  one  less  abbreviated. 

*  The  specimen  before  me  is  a  female  one  ;  nevertheless,  since  the  dilatation  of 
the  front  tarsi  in  the  immediately  allied  groups  is  not  usually  a  sexual  character 
(though  frequently  a  little  more  expressed  in  the  males),  it  is  probable  that  the 
anterior  feet  of  both  sexes  will  be  found  to  be  simple. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  503 

Genus  317.  aUEDIUS. 

(Leach)  Steph.,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  215  (1832). 

§  I.   Oculi  niinoi-es.     Antennce,  pedesque  rohusti,  tarsis  anticis 
latissime  dilatatis. 

855.  Guedius  angustifrons,  n.  sp. 
Q.  cajjite  (angusto)  prothorace(|ue  nigris,  subnitidis ;  elytris  abdomi- 
neque  piibescentibus,  illis  brevibus  subruguloso-puuctatis  rufo- 
piceis,  hoc  iiigro-piceo  postice  paulo  dilutiore,  profuude  sed  parce 
punctato  ;  antennis  (articulo  ultimo  oblique  subtruncato)  fuscis,  ad 
basin  pedibusque  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  5. 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Canarise  et  Gomerse,  rarissimus. 

The  less  highly  polished  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of  which 
is  narrow  and  oval,  with  the  eyes  not  at  aU  prominent),  in  conjunc- 
tion with  its  relatively  shorter  and  more  rufescent  elytra,  will  at  once 
distinguish  this  Quedius  fr.  m  the  two  following  ones.  It  is  appa- 
rently extremely  rare,  and  confined  to  damp  spots  (particularly  sylvan 
and  subsylvan  ones)  of  intermediate  elevations.  I  have  captured  it, 
beneath  wet  moss,  near  Teror  in  Grand  Canary  ;  and  a  single  example 
was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch  (I  believe,  above  Hermigua)  in  Gomera. 

856.  Quedius  fulgidus. 
Q.  ater,  interdum  elytris  abdominisque  apice  picescentioribus ;  capite 
(crasso)  prothoraceque  pernitidis ;  elytris  subconvexis,  sat  parce 
subruguloso-punctatis  ;  abdomine  dense  subasperato-punctulato  ; 
antennis  (articulo  ultimo  acuminato-ovato)  pedibusque  valde  in- 
crassatis,  nigro-piceis,  illis  basi  nigro-variegatis. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
4-5i 

Staphylinus  fulgidus,  Fab.,  Mant.  Ins.  i.  220  (1787). 

variabilis,  Gt/IL,  Ins.  Snoc.  ii.  303  (1810). 

Quedius  fulgidus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  52.5  (1839). 
,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  492  (185G). 

Habitat  in  intermediis  Teneriffae  et  Gomerae,  rarissimus. 

I  can  see  nothing  in  the  Canarian  examples  of  this  insect  to  war- 
rant the  suspicion  that  they  are  distinct  from  the  common  European 
Q.  fulgidus.  The  species  may  immediately  be  known  from  the  other 
Quedii  here  enumerated  by  its  larger  size,  more  robust  form,  and 
blacker  hue,  by  its  more  sparingly  punctured  elytra  (which  vary  from 
intense  black  to  rufo-piceous),  and  by  its  very  much  thicker  limbs. 
Like  the  Q.  angustifrons,  it  is  decidedly  rare  in  these  islands.  I 
have  taken  it  at  Las  Mercedes  in  Teneriffe,  and  it  was  captured  in 
both  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch. 


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564  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

§  II.  Oculi  maximi,  promineyites.     Antennce  pedesque  graciliores, 
tarsis  anticis  multo  minus  dUaiatis.      (Raphii'us,  Steph.) 

857.  Cluedius  megalops,  n.  sp. 
Q.  capite  (siibrotundato)  prothoraceqiie  nigris,  perniticlis  ;  elytris  ab- 
domineque  pubescentibus,  illis  dense  subreticulato-punctulatis 
fusco-  vel  etiam  subtestaceo-piceis,  hoc  piceo-nigro  postice  paulo 
dilutiore,  dense  subasperato-punctato  ;  antennis  (articulo  ultimo  ad 
apicem  oblique  truncate)  nigro-fuscis,  ad  basin  pedibusque  piceo- 
testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  TenerifFa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  parum  rarus. 

The  smaller  bulk  of  this  species,  combined  with  its  enormous  and 
rather  prominent  eyes  (which  cause  the  head  to  appear  considerably 
rounded),  its  slenderer  limbs,  browner  and  more  minutely  sculptured 
elytra,  and  its  very  much  less  expanded  anterior  feet,  wiU  readily 
characterize  it.  It  is  widely,  but  sjiaringly,  distributed  over  the 
archipelago,  occurring  beneath  vegetable  refuse  in  sylvan  and  sub- 
sylvan  spots  at  intermediate  altitudes.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  region 
of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  in  Palma,  and  in  the  wooded  district 
of  El  Golfo  on  the  western  flanks  of  Hierro ;  and  a  Teneriffan  and 
Palman  specimen  are  now  before  me  which  were  captured  by  Dr. 
Crotch. 

(Subfam.  IV.  STAPH YLINIDES.) 

Genus  318.  CREOPHILUS. 
(Kirby)  Staph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  202  (1832). 

858.  Creophilus  maxillosus. 
Staphvlinus  maxillosus,  Lin)).,  Si/st.  Kat.  421  (1758). 
Creophilus  maxillosus,  Stqjh.,  IJl.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  202  (1832). 
Staphvlinus  maxillosus,  Brulle,  in  Wchh  et  Berth.  {Col.)  GO  (1838). 

~ ,  W  11,  Ins.  Mad.  579  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad  Col.  188  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  passim. 
This  common  European  insect,  which  occurs  also  in  Madeira  and 
Porto  Santo,  is  found  occasionally  in  these  islands  (principally  at  low 
elevations  and  near  the  towns),  where  it  has  very  likely  been  natura- 
lized from  more  northern  latitudes.  I  have  taken  it  in  Fuerteven- 
tura, Teneriffe, and  Gomera;  and  in  Teneriife  it  was  likewise  found 
by  Dr.  Crotch. 

Genus  319.  OCYPUS. 
(Kirby)  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  211  (1832). 

859.  Ocypus  olens. 

Staphvlinus  olens,  Midi,  Farni.  Fridr.  23  (1767). 
,  Brum,  in  Wehh  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  5G5 

Ocypus  olens,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  405  (1839). 
,  Kmatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  553  (1856). 

Habitat  in  insulis  omnibus  Canariensibus,  sat  vulgaris. 

Although  absent  from  the  Madeiran  Group,  it  is  somewhat  remark- 
able that  the  common  European  0.  olens  should  be  universal  at  the 
Canaries — in  all  the  islands  of  which  except  Gomera,  where  it  was 
found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  I  have  myself  taken  it.  From  Fuerteventura  it 
has  been  communicated,  likewise,  by  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva ; 
and  in  TenerifFe  it  was  captured  by  M.  Hartung.  I  have  a  single 
Teneriffan  example  which  I  met  with  in  the  wood  at  Las  Mercedes, 
wliich  has  its  entire  pubescence  of  a  yellowish  (or  golden)  tint ;  but 
I  can  detect  no  other  difference  to  warrant  the  supposition  that  it  is 
more  than  an  accidental  variety. 

860.  Ocypus  brachypterus. 

0.  piceo-  vel  fusco-niger  (interdum  in  elytris  et  versus  abdominis 
apicem  paulo  dilutior) ,  subopacus,  dense  pubescens,  ubique  creber- 
rime  punctatis ;  eapite  (pnesertim  in  maribus)  magno,  rotundato, 
linea  media  laevi  ;  prothorace  subquadrato  (nee  transverso),  di- 
stinctius  lineato-subcarinato ;  elytris  brevissimis,  ad  angulos  ex- 
ternos  posticos  late  obli(iue  truncatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo- 
piceis  et  (proesertim  his)  fulvo-pubescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin. 
10-14. 

Staph ylinus  brachypterus,  Brulle,  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  59  (1838). 
Habitat  in  sylvaticis  editioribus  Teneriffae,  rarior. 
The  less  black  (or  more  piceous)  hue  and  usually  rather  larger  and 
less  convex  head  of  this  Ocypus,  combined  with  its  less  decidedly 
opake  and  not  quite  so  closely  punctured  siu-face,  its  longer  and  more 
keeled  prothorax,  its  very  much  shorter  elytra  (which  have  their 
outer  posterior  angle  more  broadly  truncated  obliquely),  and  its  paler 
or  more  rufescent  limbs,  which  are  densely  clothed  with  a  bright 
fulvous  pubescence,  will  readily  separate  it  from  the  0.  olens.  It  is 
totally  distinct  from  the  European  species  which  has  been  referred  to 
the  brachypterus  of  Brulle ;  but  the  mistake  probably  arose  from  M. 
BruUd  having  himself  (erroneously)  stated  that  the  Teneriffan  insect 
was  also  found  in  Europe — "Cet  insecte,  qui  ne  nous  parait  pas  encore 
avoir  ete  distingue  de  V olens,  se  trouve  aussi  dans  quelques  parties  de 
I'Europe." 

The  0.  hracliypterus  is  extremely  rare,  or  at  any  rate  local,  and 
confined  to  the  damp  sylvan  districts  of  TenerifFe,  at  intermediate  and 
lofty  elevations.  I  have  taken  it  at  the  Agna  Garcia,  as  well  as  in 
the  laurel-woods  above  Taganana,  and  elsewhere  ;  and  it  was  also 
met  with  by  M.  Hartimg. 


566  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEIU. 

861.  Ocypus  affinis,  n.  sj). 

0.  praecedenti  affinis  sed  (nisi  fallor)  vere  distinctus ;  paulo  minor, 
angustior,  pnnctura  omnino  fortiore  ac  (prajscrtim  in  abdomine) 
parciore ;  capite  subminore,  sensim  convexiore ;  prothoracis  linea 
media  obscuriore  ;  elytris  paulo  minus  abbreviatis  ;  antennis  pedi- 
busque  clarioribus,  illarura  articulis  apicalibus  subbrevioribus. — 
Long.  eorp.  lin.  9-12. 

Habitat  Teneriffam  (Dom.  Hartung)  et  Palmara,  in  loeis  similibus 
ac  prsecedens. 

Although  closely  allied  to  the  hrachripterus,  I  do  not  think  it  possi- 
ble that  this  Oci/jms  can  be  any  modification  of  that  species.  So  far 
as  I  have  myself  observed,  it  is  confined  to  the  sylvan  districts  of 
Palma,  as  the  hrachyptenis  is  to  those  of  TenerilFe ;  nevertheless,  of 
two  examples  which  were  communicated  by  Dr.  Heer  as  Tener\ffan, 
and  which  were  taken  by  M.  Hartung,  one  pertains  to  the  hracliy- 
pteriis  and  the  other  to  the  affinis.  As  it  is  certain,  however,  that 
many  of  M.  Hartung's  specimens  from  the  various  islands  became 
afterwards  accidentally  mixed  up,  its  Teneriffan  habitat  requires  fur- 
ther corroboration.  It  is  altogether  a  little  smaller  and  narrower 
than  the  hrachyptenis,  and  its  punctation  is  both  stronger  and  (par- 
ticularly on  the  abdomen)  less  dense  ;  its  head  is  a  trifle  less  developed 
and  more  convex,  its  central  prothoracic  line  is  less  conspicuous,  its 
elytra  are  not  quite  so  abbreviated,  and  its  limbs  are  of  a  clearer  hue, 
with  the  apical  and  subapical  joints  of  the  antennae  perhaps  a  little 
shorter.  My  specimens  (from  the  intermediate  districts  of  Pahna) 
were  captured  high  up  in  the  Barranco  de  Galga  and  in  the  Barranco 
above  S''*  Cruz. 

862.  Ocypus  umbricola,  n.  sp. 

0.  colore  et  sculptura  0.  brachypfero  fere  similis,  sed  multo  minor 
angustior ;  capite  prothoraccque  obsoletissime  submetallico-tinctis, 
illo  minore  subovali  (nee  rotundato);  elytris  paulo  minus  abbre- 
viatis necnon  ad  angulos  cxternos  posticos  minus  oblique  truncatis  ; 
antennis  pedibusque  parcius  fulvo -pilosis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  6-8. 

Habitat  in  humidis  sylvaticis  Teneriffae,  rarissimus. 

In  its  dense  and  fine  pimctation  and  general  hue,  this  Ocypus  is 
nearly  similar  to  the  hrachypterus ;  but  it  is  very  much  smaller  and 
narrower,  and  its  head  and  prothorax  have  often  a  slight  metallic 
tinge ;  its  head  is  also  relatively  smaller  and  less  rounded,  its  elj-tra 
are  not  quite  so  shortened,  nor  so  much  truncated  obliquely  at  their 
hinder  external  angles,  and  its  limbs  are  more  sparingly  jnlose.  I 
have  detected  it  hitherto  only  in  the  damp  sylvan  regions  of  Teneriffe, 
where,  moreover,  it  is  extremely  scarce.     I  have  taken  it  sparingly 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  567 

on  the  densely- clad  mountains  towards  Taganana,  as  well  as  at  the 
Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  above  Ycod  el  Alto  ;  and  an  ex- 
ample (also  Teneriffan)  has  been  communicated  by  the  Barao  do 
Castello  de  Paiva. 

863.  Ocypus  curtipennis,  n.  sp. 

0.  niger  vel  piceo-niger  (s^epius  in  elytris  et  versus  abdominis  apicem 
paulo  dilutior),  nitidus ;  capite  prothoraceque  plus  minus  aeneo- 
tinctis,  sat  profunde  punctatis,  parce  pubescentibus,  illo  parum 
magno  subrotimdato  convexo,  hoc  obsolete  lincato-subcarinato ; 
elytris  brevibus,  densius  pubescentibus  ac  densissime  levius  punc- 
tulatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  piceo-ferrugineis  et  (praesertim  his) 
fulvo-pubescentibus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  6^-9. 

Habitat  in  sylvaticis  subsylvaticisque  Canariae  Grandis,  passim. 

The  short  and  usually  picescent  elytra  of  this  Ocypus,  added  to  its 
shining,  somewhat  coarsely  punctured,  subaenescent,  and  very  sparingly 
pilose  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of  which  is  rather  large,  round, 
and  convex),  will  distinguish  it  from  the  other  species  here  enume- 
rated. Hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Grand  Canary,  where  it 
is  widely  spread  bver  the  sylvan  and  subsylvan  districts  of  interme- 
diate altitudes.  My  specimens  are  principally  from  the  region  of  El 
Monte,  and  from  the  remains  of  the  old  laurel-forest  of  El  Dorames 
on  the  mountains  between  Osorio  and  Guia. 

864.  Ocypus  atratus,  ii.  sp. 

0.  ater,  nitidus  ;  capite  prothoraceque  parce  sed  dense  punctatis  punc- 
tuHsque  minutis  interjectis  parce  irroratis,  subcalvis,  illo  curtulo, 
mox  pone  oculos  recte  truncato,  hoc  (postice  jJaulo  angustato)  ob- 
soletissime  lineato-subcarinato ;  elytris  minutius  densissime  punc- 
tatis ;  antennis  versus  apicem  tarsisque  dilutioribus ;  mandibulis 
intus  simplicibus.^-Lo]ig.  corp.  lin.  6|-8, 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  hinc  inde  sub  lapidibus. 

In  its  rather  large  size,  somewhat  deeply  but  sparingly  punctured 
shining  head  and  prothorax,  and  intensely  black  hue,  this  Oci/jnis  has 
much  the  prima  facie  appearance  of  the  European  0.  ater ;  neverthe- 
less its  mandibles  are  simple  internally,  and  its  head  is  shorter  (or 
more  straightly,  and  suddenly,  truncated  behind  the  eyes).  Its  pro- 
thorax, also,  is  a  trifle  longer,  with  the  posterior  angles  less  com- 
pletely rounded  oif.  It  has  been  observed  hitherto  only  in  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventura — in  the  former  of  which  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray, 
and  in  the  latter  by  M.  Hartung  and  (near  Oliva)  by  myself. 

865.  Ocjrpus  subasnescens,  n.  sp. 
0.  sequenti  simiMs,  sed  plerumque  vix  major,  obscurior  (minus  aeneus) 


5G8  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

■  et  pube  sjepiiis  minus  fulvesccnte  vestitus  ;  capite  (submajore)  pro- 
thoraceque  parcius  ac  profundius  punctatis ;  abdomine  minus  di- 
stincte  lineato-pubescente ;  antennis  vix  robustioribus. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  7-81. 

Staphylinus  fuscatus  ?,  Bridle  [nee  Gniv.],  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  GO 
(1838). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa  et  Hicrro,  ab  ora  maritima  versus 
6000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

Whilst  the  following  species  is  found  in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteven- 
tura,  the  present  one  would  seem  to  represent  it  in  the  other  islands 
of  the  archipelago — where  it  will  doubtless  be  found  to  be  universal. 
Hitherto,  however,  I  have  detected  it  only  in  Grand  Canary,  Tene- 
riffe,  and  Hierro  ;  in  the  first  of  which  it  was  found  Kkewise  by  Mr. 
Gray.  It  is  very  closely  allied  to  the  0.  punctatissimus,  but  (I  believe) 
no  local  phasis  of  it ;  and,  indeed,  the  fact  of  its  occui-ring  in  at  any 
rate  three  distinct  islands  without  any  appreciable  change  would  tend 
to  imply  this.  It  was  examined  by  Dr.  Kraatz,  and  returned  by  him 
as  "  Ocypus,  n.  sp."  It  seems  to  differ  from  the  Lanzarotan  and 
Fuerteventuran  species,  principally,  in  being  on  the  average  a  trifle 
larger  and  less  brassy,  and  in  having  the  punctation  of  its  head  and 
prothorax  both  coarser  and  less  dense.  Its  entire  pubescence,  Hke- 
wise,  is  a  little  less  fulvous,  and  less  condensed  on  the  abdomen  into 
broken-up  lines  ;  and  its  head  and  antenna;  are  just  perceptibly  more 
robust.  It  seems  to  be  almost  independent  of  elevation  ;  for  in  Tene- 
riffe  I  have  captured  it  from  nearly  the  sea-level,  at  S""  Cruz  and 
around  the  Puerto  Orotava,  to  an  altitude  of  about  6000  feet  above 
the  sea  (on  the  ascent  to  the  Cumbre  above  the  Agua  Mansa). 

I  have  little  doubt  that  it  is  the  species  referred  in  M.  Brulle's  list 
to  i)xQ  fuscatus,  Grav.,  which  in  size  and  general  contour  it  much  re- 
sembles ;  nevertheless,  in  its  ecnesccnt  and  much  more  densely  punc- 
tured head,  prothorax,  and  elytra,  as  well  as  in  its  differently  sculp- 
tured abdomen  and  paler  limbs,  it  is  altogether  distinct  from  that 

insect. 

866.  Ocjrpus  punctatissimus,  n.  sp. 

0.  fulvo-pubescens  ;  capite  prothoraccque  nitidulis,  densissime  et 
minute  punctulatis  punctisque  pcrpaucis  magnis  irroratis,  aeneis ; 
elytris  fusco-piceis,  obscurius  ajneo-tinctis ;  abdomine  nigro,  lineis 
fulvis  fractis  (plus  minus  ubsoletis)  ornato  punctisque  permagnis 
paucis  irrorato  ;  antennis  pedibusque  rufo-piceis,  hinc  inde  nigres- 
centioribus,  tarsis  anticis  rufo-testaceis.- — Long.  corp.  hn.  6-8. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  sub  lapidibus,  passim. 

In  its  aeneous  head  and  prothorax,  a?neo-fuscous  elytra,  and  general 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  569 

contour  this  Ocifpus  very  closely  resembles  the  common  European  0. 
nipreus ;  and  it  is  not  impossible  that  it  may  be  but  a  geographical 
phasis  of  that  species*.  Indeed  I  cannot  detect  any  appreciable  dif- 
ference between  the  two,  except  that  the  head  and  prothorax  of  the 
Canarian  insect  are  more  densely  and  minutely  punctulated  and  its 
elytra  a  trifle  more  developed.  It  is  imiversal  (though  not  very  abun- 
dant) throughout  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura,  in  the  former  of  which 
islands  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray. 

Genus  320.  PHILONTHUS. 
(Leach)  Staph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  226  (1832). 

§  I.  ProtJioracis  seriebus  dorsalibus  e  punctis  4  composiiis. 
867.  Philonthus  umbratilis. 

P.  niger,  elytris  seneo-tinctis,  crebre  subtiliter  punctatis,  dense  fulvo- 
cinereo-pubescentibus  ;  capite  lato,  subrotundato  ;  antennis  elon- 
gatis,  fusco-nigris,  ad  basin  piceis ;  pedibus  picescenti-testaceis. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  3|. 

Staphylinus  umbratilis,  Grav.,  Col.  Ilicropt.  170  (1802). 
Philonthus  umbratilis,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  445  (1839). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  581  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  189  (1857). 

Habitat  TeneriiFam,  rarissime  :  in  "  Barranco  Santo"  juxta  Sanctam 

Crucem  exemplar  unum  sub  lapide  aquoso  coUegi. 

A  single  Canarian  specimen  of  this  European  Philontliixs  (which 
occurs  sparingly  at  Madeira)  has  hitherto  come  beneath  my  notice — 
taken  by  myself  in  the  Barranco  Santo,  near  S''*  Cruz,  of  Tencriffe. 
Its  rather  large,  rounded  head  and  elongate  antennaj,  combined  with 
the /oitr  punctures  of  its  pro  thoracic  dorsal  series,  its  slightly  ajneous, 
closely  punctured,  densely  pubescent  elytra,  and  piceo-testaceous  legs, 
will  sufficiently  distinguish  the  species. 

868.  Philonthus  sordidus. 
P.  niger,  obsolete  subfeneo-tinctus,  elytris  la^tius  senescentibus,  par- 
cissime  profunde  punctatis,  jjarce  sed  grosse  fulvo-pubescentibus ; 
capite  rotundato-ovali,  punctis  4  frontalibus  inter  se  subaequaliter 
distantibus  ;  antennis  piceo-nigris  ;  pedibus  piceis. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  2|-3. 

Staphylinus  sordidus,  Grav.,  Col.  Mtcropt.  176  (1802). 
Philonthus  sordidus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  456  (1839). 

— ,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  582  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  189  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  sub 

quisquihis,  passim. 

*  Dr.  Ki'aatz,  who  exammed  it  for  me,  retui'ued  it  as  "  Ocypus,  ciiprco  afEnis." 


570  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

This  Philonthus  is  certainly  identical  with  the  P.  sordidus  of  the 
*  Ins.  Mad.,'  and  also  with  the  European  species  of  that  name.  In 
addition  to  the  four  punctures  of  its  prothoracic  series  (in  which  it 
agrees  with  the  umhratilis),  it  may  he  known  by  its  rather  distinctly 
senescent  and  very  deeply  and  remotely  punctui'ed  elytra  (on  which 
the  fulvous  pile  is  coarse  and  distant),  by  its  (suboval)  head  having 
the  four  frontal  punctures  almost  equidistant  from  each  other,  and  by 
its  dark  antennae  and  piceous  legs.  It  is  widely,  but  sparingly,  dis- 
tributed over  the  archipelago,  where  it  will  probably  be  found  to  be 
universal.  I  have  taken  it  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  TenerifFe, 
and  Palma  ;  in  the  last  of  which  islands  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray, 
and  in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

869.  Philonthus  xantholoma. 

Staphylinus  xantholoma,  Grav.,  Mon.  41  (1806). 
Cafius  xantholoma,  Steph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  246  (1832). 
Philonthus  xantholoma,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  452  (1839). 
,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  594  (1856). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram  et  Canariam,  per  oras  are- 
nosas  maritimas  sub  fucis  et  rejectamentis  degens. 

The  common  European  P.  xantholoma,  which  I  have  captiu-ed  spa- 
ringly (from  beneath  sea-weed)  on  the  sandy  shores  of  Lanzarote, 
Fuerteventura,  and  Grand  Canary,  may  be  known  by  its  rather  large, 
subquadrate  head  (which  is  very  deeply  punctured  on  either  side  be- 
hind, and  has  the  eyes  somewhat  prominent)  ;  by  its  opake,  flattened, 
most  densely  and  minutely  punctulated,  thickly  pubescent  elytra 
(which  are  often  of  a  more  or  less  brownish-piceous  hue,  and  have 
their  inflected  margin  testaceous  yellow);  by  its  piceo-testaceous  legs ; 
aud  by  its  prothorax  (which  is  slightly  narrowed  posteriorly,  and 
obliquely  straightened  at  the  sides)  having  three  of  its  four  dorsal 
punctures  extremely  large  and  subapproximated,  whilst  the  fourth 
one  is  remote  and  placed  close  to  the  anterior  margin. 

§  II.  Prothoracis  seriebus  dorsalibus  e  punctis  5  connpositis. 

870.  Philonthus  bipustulatus. 
Staphylinus  bipustulatus,  Pnz.,  Fna  Ins.  Germ.  27.  10  (1795). 
Philonthus  bipustulatus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  408  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  583  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  189  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  stercore  vulgaris. 

The  rather  larger  size  of  this  common  European  Philoiifhus  (which 
abounds  in  the  Madeiran  Group),  combined  with  its  slightly  more  de- 
veloped, less  convex,  more  finely  and  closely  punctured,  and  blacker 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  571 

elytra  (wliich  have  a  reddish  patch,  seldom  altogether  obsolete,  towards 
the  inner  hinder  angle  of  each),  will  at  once  distingnish  it  from  the 
P.  marcidus.  It  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago,  occurring 
in  the  dung  of  cattle  at  most  elevations.  I  have  taken  it  in  all  the 
islands  except  Fuerteventura  and  Gomera — in  the  former  of  which, 
however,  it  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray  (who  likewise  met  with  it  in 
Palma),  and  in  the  latter  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

87 J.  Philonthus  scybalarius. 

Philonthus  scybalarius,  Nordm.,  Sijmhol.  94  (1838). 

varians,  var.  h,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  470  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  583  (1854). 

scybalarius,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Detitsch.  ii.  601  (1856). 

,  Woll,  Cat.  Mud.  Col.  189  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Fuerteventura  et  Canaria  solis  hac- 

tenus  baud  observatus. 

It  is  extremely  difficult  to  regard  this  PhilontJius  as  more  than  a 
state  of  the  hipustulatus  in  which  the  elytral  spot  is  altogether  absent ; 
nevertheless,  as  Dr.  Kraatz  has  upheld  it  as  a  distinct  species,  I  will 
not  do  otherwise  than  treat  it  as  such.  Apart  from  its  elytra  being 
entirely  black  (which  is  sometimes  the  case,  also,  in  undoubted  ex- 
amples of  the  hipustulatus),  it  may  be  defined  as  being,  on  the  average, 
a  trifle  smaller,  with  its  head  just  perceptibly  less  developed,  and  with 
its  anterior  coxae  and  the  inner  surfaces  of  all  its  femora  more  or  less 
obsciu'ely  diluted  in  hue,  or  sub  testaceous*.  But  whether  truly  dis- 
tinct or  not  from  the  hipustulatus,  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  it 
is  equally  universal  throughout  the  Canarian  archipelago — though  as 
yet  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  either  Fuerteventura 
or  Grand  Canary.  In  Lanzarote,  Palma,  and  Hierro,  however,  I  have 
myself  captured  it ;  whilst  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  it  was  found  by 
Dr.  Crotch.  Like  the  hipustulatus,  it  is  tolerably  common  in  the 
Madeiran  Group. 

872.  Philonthus  marcidus,  n.  sp. 

P.  niger,  elytris  obscure  seneo-  vel  viridiajneo-tinctis,  parce  et  sat 
profundo  punctatis,  parce  sed  grosse  griseo-pubescentibus,  brevibus, 
subconvexis  ;  capite  rotundato-ovali  ;  antennis  pedibusque  nigro- 
piceis,  interdum  paulo  dilutioribus. 

Variat  (rarius)  elytris,  prtesertim  postice,  suifuse  rufescentioribus. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  2|-3g, 

Ohs. — P.  scyhalario  affinis,  sed  paulo  nitidior,  elytris  subconvexi- 

*  I  consider  it  is  a  mere  tendency  of  the  anterior  coxae  and  femora  to  become  a 
little  diluted  in  hue ;  for  such,  as  a  character,  does  not  obtain  universally.  And 
I  may  further  add  that  even  the  less  development  of  the  head  seems  to  me  to 
be  by  no  means  constant. 


572  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA, 

oribiis,  sensim  seneo-  vel  viridiajneo-tinctis  ac  profuiidius  parciusque 
pimctatis,  paulo  minus  dense  sed  subgrossiiis  pubescentihus  ;  capita 
vix  majoi'e,  rotundatiore ;  anteunis  paiilo  brevioribus  subrobusti- 
oribus  (articulis  intermediis  sensim  brevioribus,  magis  transversis, 
ajiicali  \'ix  crassiore,  subquadrato  apice  oblique  acuminate);  pedibus 
piceis  (coxis  concoloribus). 

Staphylinus  politus?,  Bridle  fnec  Grav.X  in  Webb  et  Berth.  (Col.)  60 
(1838). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  sub  quisquiliis  (pra)sertim  sub 
foliis  Opuiitke  Tinue  putridis)  vulgaris, — ab  era  maritima  usque  ad 
9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

This  PhUonthus  is  universal  throughout  the  archipelago,  in  the 
whole  seven  islands  of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it.  It  occurs 
beneath  vegetable  detritus  generally,  and  is  very  partial  to  the  rotten, 
putrid  leaves  of  the  fleshy  Opuntia  Tuna  (or  "  Prickly  Pear  ")— in 
places  where  they  have  been  thrown  away  as  refuse,  and  allowed  to 
rot ;  under  which  circumstances  I  have  taken  it  around  Haria  in  the 
north  of  Lanzaroto,  near  S*''  Cruz  of  Teneriffe,  in  the  Banda  of  Palma, 
and  elsewhere.  It  seems  to  be  independent  of  elevation  ;  for  in  Tene- 
riffe I  have  met  with  it  from  almost  the  sea-level  (near  S'^  Cruz  and 
the  Puerto  Orotava),  through  the  sylvan  and  subsylvan  districts  (above 
Taganana,  at  La  Esperanza,  Souzal,  and  the  Agvia  Mansa),  to  an  alti- 
tude of  at  least  9000  feet  (on  the  Cumbre  overlooking  the  Caiiadas). 
In  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Teneriff'e,  and  Hierro  it  was  found  like- 
wise by  Mr.  Gray,  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  in 
Teneriffe  by  M.  Hartung*.  As  so  abundant  an  insect  could  scarcely 
have  escaped  the  observations  of  even  MM.  Webb  and  Berthelot,  and 
since  so  large  a  proportion  of  the  very  few  species  which  they  collected 
were  afterwards  wrongly  identified  by  M.  BruUe,  I  have  little  doubt 
that  the  "  StaphijVinus  politus,  Grav."  of  his  list  was  inserted  from  a 
large  example  (or  examples)  of  this  PJiilontlms.  Nevertheless  from 
the  true  P.  politiis  it  is  altogether  distinct — not  merely  in  the  five 
punctures  of  its  prothoracic  series,  but  likewise  in  colour,  bulk,  sculj)- 
ture,  and  entire  contour. 

Prom  its  dark  hue  and  general  size,  the  P.  marcklus  might  at  first 
sight  be  mistaken  for  the  scyhalarius ;  bnt  when  closely  inspected  it 
Avill  be  seen  to  be  a  little  more  shining,  particularly  on  the  elytra — 
which  have  a  slightly  brassy  or  greenish-brassy  tinge,  and  are  some- 
what more  convex  and  less  densely  (though  very  coarsely)  pubescent, 

*  I  have  received  some  Teneriffan  specimens  of  M.  Hartung's,  from  Dr.  Heer, 
■under  the  name  of  "P.  varians,  Payk." — from  wliich  species,  however,  it  is  totally 
distinct. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA.  bto 

as  well  as  more  deeply  and  remotely  punctured ;  its  head  is  a  trifle 
larger  and  rounder,  with  the  antennae  just  perceptibly  shorter  and 
more  robust  (the  intermediate  joints  being  ai:)preciably  more  abbre- 
viated, and  the  terminal  one,  which  is  squarish  but  obliquely  acumi- 
nated at  the  tip,  perhaps  a  little  thicker)  ;  and  its  coxa?  do  not  appear 
to  be  diluted  in  hue. 

873.  Philontlius  proximus. 

P.  niger,  prothorace  elytrisque  (pra^sertim  his)  paulo  picescentioribus, 
his  subconvexis,  sat  profunde  parceque  punctatis  et  grosse  griseo- 
pubescentibus  ;  capite  subrotundato-ovali ;  antcnnis  fuscis,  ad  ba- 
sin pedibusque  piceo-testaeeis. 
Variat  (rarius)  antennis  pedibusque  paulo  obscurioribus. — Long.corp. 
lin.  2^-3. 

Philonthus  proximus,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  189  (1857). 
Hahitat  in  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  rarior. 

Readily  known  from  the  marcidus  by  its  rather  smaller  size  and 
more  piceous  hue — even  the  prothorax  being  obscurely  pitchy,  whilst 
the  elytra  (which  are  deeply  punctured  and  convex,  and  almost,  or 
entirely,  free  from  any  metallic  tinge)  are  often  very  appreciably 
so — and  by  its  paler  hmbs  (the  apical  joint  of  the  antennae  being 
moreover  less  incrassated).  It  occurs  sparingly  at  Madeira,  and 
appears  to  be  about  equally  rare  at  the  Canaries.  Indeed  I  have 
myself  taken  it  only  in  Teneriife ;  but  it  was  found  by  Dr.  Crotch 
both  in  that  island  and  Gomera*. 

874.  PMlonthus  discoideus. 

Staphyliniis  discoideus,  Grav.,  Col.  3Iicropt.  38  (1802). 
Philonthus  discoideus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  474  (1839). 

,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Detdsch.  ii.  605  (1856). 

,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  190  (1857). 

Hahitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura  et  Teneriffa,  passim. 

The  common  European  P.  discoideus,  which  occurs  sparingly  in 
Madeira,  is  probably  universal  in  these  islands.  It  was  taken  by 
Mr.  Gray  in  Lanzarote,  by  myself  (from  beneath  camels'  dung)  in 
the  Eio  Palmas  of  Fuerteventura,  and  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Teneriflfe. 
It  may  be  easily  recognized  by  its  rather  small  size,  but  somewhat 
large,  roundish-quadrate  head  and  thick  neck,  by  its  picescent,  dis- 
tinctly punctured  elytra  (which  are  clothed  with  a  fulvous  pile,  and 
have  their  margins,  particularly  down  the  suture,  more  or  less  con- 
spicuously rufo-ferruginous),  and  by  its  piceo-testaceous  limbs  f. 

*  I  may  add  that  I  transmitted  the  P.  proximus  to  Berlin,  in  1857,  for  the 
inspection  of  Dr.  Kraatz  (who  had  then  just  completed  his  Monograph  of  the 
German  titaphylinidie) ;  and  it  was  regarded  by  him  as  new. 

t  The  antenn;c  (wliich  are  rather  short  and  moniliform)  are  a  little  clearer,  or 


574  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

§  III.  Protlioracis  seriehus  dorsaUbus  e  punctis  6  compositis. 

875.  Philonthus  nigritulus. 

Staphylinus  nigritulus  et  aterrimus,  Grav.,  Col.  Micropt.  41  (180:2). 
Philoutlius  aterrinuis,  Erich..  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  492  (1839). 

,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  584  (18,54). 

nigritulus,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Detdsch.  ii.  616  (1856). 

— ,  WolL,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  191  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Fuerteventura  et  Hierro  solis  adhuc 
baud  detectus. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  this  common  European  Philonthus 
(which  abounds  in  the  Madeiran  Group)  is  universal  at  the  Canaries, 
though  hitherto  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed  in  either 
Fuerteventura  or  Hierro.  In  all  the  other  islands  I  have  myself 
captured  it ;  whilst  in  Lanzarote  and  Gomera  it  was  found  likewise 
by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and  Palma  by  Dr.  Crotch. 
It  occurs  in  damp  jilaces  generally,  both  at  the  edges  of  the  streams 
and  beneath  decaying  vegetable  refuse,  ascending  from  nearly  the 
sea-level  to  an  altitude  of  at  least  8000  feet ;  nevertheless  it  is  more 
abimdant  in  the  lower  and  drier  districts  than  in  the  wooded  ones 
(unless  indeed  the  P.  simulans  is  but  a  phasis  assumed  by  it  in  the 
latter). 

876.  Philonthus  simulans. 

P.  proecedenti  valde  affinis  (fortasse  ejus  varietas  in  regionibus  syl- 
vaticis  prsdominans)  ;  plcrumque  vix  major  et  obsoletissime  sub- 
seneo-tinctus,  capite  prothoraceque  (oculo  fortiter  armato)  evi- 
dentius  transversim  undulate- substrigulosis,  illo  sensim  majore, 
hujus  punctis  saepius  subma,joribus,  antennis  vix  robustioribus  et 
saepius  (prsesertim  ad  apicem)  subnigrescentioribus. — Long.  corp. 
lin.  2-21. 

Philonthus  sunulans,  Wall.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  190  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  TenerifFa,  Palma  et  Hierro,  praesertim  in  inter- 
mediis  humidis  sylvaticis,  late  diffusus. 

Although  I  felt  tolerably  satisfied,  when  compiling  my  Madeiran 
Catalogue,  that  the  P.  simulans  of  that  Group  is  distinct  from  (how- 
ever closely  allied  to)  the  nigritulus,  1  must  nevertheless  acknowledge 
that  an  immense  array  of  Canarian  examples  which  I  have  since 
inspected  leaves  me  in  some  doubt  on  the  subject.  Indeed  it  appears 
to  me  to  be  far  from  impossible  that  the  simulans  may  in  reality  be 
but  a  state  which  the  nigritulus  is  apt  to  assume  (more  or  less  de- 
more  rufo-te&ta.ceoi\s,  than  the  legs,  and  their  third  and  terminal  joints  have  a 
slight  tendency  to  be  faintly  obscured — a  character  which  I  do  not  see  alluded  to 
either  in  Erichson's  Monograph  or  elsewhere. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  575 

cidedly)  when  occurring  within  the  sylvan  districts ;  for  at  times  it 
certainly  is  not  easy  (unless  perchance  any  of  the  differential  features 
have  escaped  me)  to  di'aw  a  line  of  positive  demarcation  between  the 
two.  Still,  in  a  general  way,  they  are  easily  separated  ;  and  since 
also  their  habits  are  not  quite  the  same,  I  prefer  thinking  it  probable 
that  I  have  overlooked  some  few  of  their  characters  to  treating  them 
as  absolutely  conspecific. 

The  P.  simidans  (as  above  defined)  differs  from  the  nigritulus, 
merely,  in  being  on  the  average  just  perceptibly  larger,  with  its  head 
a  little  more  developed  ;  in  its  having  a  more  or  less  traceable  (though 
always  obscure)  subaenescent  tinge  ;  in  its  head  and  prothox'ax  (when 
viewed  beneath  a  high  magnifying  power)  being  more  distinctly, 
though  very  minutely,  transversely-?';«f ec?  or  -substrigulose ;  and  in 
its  antennae  being  usuaUi/  a  triHe  thicker  and  darker  (especially  towards 
their  apex).  The  Canarian  examples  have  their  elytra  somewhat 
less  deeply  punctured  than  the  Madeiran  ones.  It  occurs  pretty 
generally  throughout  the  sylvan  and  subsylvan  districts  of  inter- 
mediate elevations — predominating  in  those  regions,  just  as  the  nigri- 
tulus does  in  the  lower  and  more  exposed  ones.  I  have  taken  it  in 
Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe  (where  it  was  found  also  by  Dr.  Crotch), 
Palma,  and  Hierro.  My  Grand-Canarian  specimens  are  principally 
from  the  region  of  El  Monte,  and  the  Teneriffan  ones  from  the  laurel- 
woods  above  Taganana,  Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  the  Agua  Garcia, 
and  the  Agua  Mansa. 

§  IV.  Prothoracis  seriebus  dorsaJibus  e  punctis  7  vel  8  compositis. 
877.  PMlonthus  punctipennis. 

P.  piceo-niger,  nitidus ;  elytris  profunde,  densissime  et  argute  punc- 
tatis,  parce  pubescentibus,  sutura  paulo  dilutiore ;  abdomine  sub- 
tilius  sed  distincte  punctate,  plus  minus  metalHco-tincto  ;  antennis 
brunneis,  ad  basin  piceo-testaceis ;  pedibus  rufo-testaceis,  hiuc 
inde  picescentioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  4-5. 

Philonthus  punctipennis,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  192  (1857). 

Habitat  in  montibus  Canariae  Grandis,  rarissimus. 

This  noble  PMlonthus,  which  occurs  sparingly  at  Madeira,  may  at 
once  be  recognized  by  its  large  size  and  piccous-black  hue  (the  ab- 
domen, however,  having  a  slight  metallic  lustre),  by  its  prothoracic 
series  being  composed  of  seven  or  eight  punctures  on  either  side  of 
the  disc,  by  its  elytra  being  deeply,  closely,  regularly,  and  sharply 
punctured,  by  its  piceous-brown  antennae,  and  by  its  rufo -testaceous 
(though  a  little  infuscated)  legs.  The  only  two  examples  which  I  have 
as  yet  seen  from  these  islands  were  captured  by  myself,  during  the 


576  CANARTAN  COLKOPTKRA. 

spring  of  1858,  in  Grand  Canary — on  the  mountains  above  San  Mateo, 
in  the  direction  of  the  Roca  del  Soucilho. 

§  V.  Proiliorax  {et  caput)  plus  minus  crehre  punctatus,  lined  media 
lonf)itudinali  la'vi. 

878.  Philonthus  sericeus. 
P.  plumbeo-niger,  alutaceus,  subopacus  ;  capite  (subtriangnlari-qua- 
drato)  prothoraceque  utrinqne  dense  punctatis ;  elj^tris  depressis, 
densissime  et  breviter  fiilvo-cinereo-scriceis ;  antennis  pedibusque 
ferrugineis,  illis  ad  basin  tibiisque  saepius  paulo  picescentioribus. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  1|-2|. 

Remus  sericeus,  Holme,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Loud.  ii.  64  (1837). 

,  Stepli.,  Man.  Brit.  Col.  401  (1839). 

Philonthus  sericeus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  509  (1839). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventnram,  per  oras  arenosas  mari- 
timas  sub  confervis  et  rejectamentis  degens. 

The  P.  sericeus  may  be  distinguished  by  its  alutaceous,  subopake, 
leaden-hlack  surface  (the  head  and  prothorax  of  which  are  coarsely 
and  regularly  punctured  on  either  side,  whilst  the  elytra  and  abdomen 
are  very  densely  and  minutely  so,  as  well  as  closely  beset  with  a  short 
fulvo-cinereous  pnbcscence)  and  by  its  ferruginous  or  piceo-ferru- 
ginous  limbs.  Its  head  is  somewhat  triangular-quadrate  (being  very 
straightly  truncated  behind)  and  its  elytra  are  much  flattened.  It 
is  strictly  a  littoral  species,  occurring  (as  in  more  northern  latitudes) 
under  sea-weed  on  the  sandy  shores.  In  such  situations  it  was  taken 
by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  during  January  1858,  both  to  the  south  of 
Arrecife  in  Lanzarote  and  of  Puerto  de  Cabras  in  Fuerteventura — 
where  I  again  met  with  it  in  the  spring  of  the  following  year. 

879.  Philonthus  tenellus,  n.  sp. 

P.  angustus,  niger  elytris  paulo  picescentioribus,  nitidus  ;  capite 
(convexo,  subquadrato,  apice  siibtriangulariter  impresso)  protho- 
raceque utrinque  parce  punctatis ;  elytris  densius  subtihusque 
punctatis,  parce  cinereo-pubescentibus  ;  abdominis  segmentis  sin- 
gulis (praesertim  basalibus)  convexis  et  postice  grosse  denseque 
j)unctatis ;  antennis  pedibusque  piceo-ferrugineis,  illis  ad  basin 
tarsisque  clarioribus  ;  palporum  articulo  ultimo  acutissime  eonico. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Ohs. — Species  P.filifonni  (insularum  Maderensium)  valde  affinis, 
sed  difFert  capite  paulo  convexiore  oculis  majoribus,  elytris  sensim 
profundius  punctatis  abdominisque  segmentis  singulis  convexi- 
oribus  et  (praesertim  basalibus)  postice  grosse  ac  dense  punctatis. 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  inter  lapillos  ad  marginem  paludis  cTijusdam 
prope  Sanctam  Crucem  copiose  deprehensus. 

In  its  small  size,  extremely  narrow  outline,  subquadrate  head. 


CANARTAN  COLEOPTKRA. 


slightly  picescent  elytra,  and  the  very  acutely  conical  last  joint  of  its 
palpi,  this  minute  PhiJonthus  is  at  first  sight  almost  identical  with 
the  Madeiran  P.  Jiliformis.  When  closely  inspected,  however,  it  will 
be  seen  to  differ  in  many  respects  from  that  species.  Thus,  its  eyes 
(although  not  more  prominent)  are  considerably  larger ;  its  head  is, 
if  anything,  somewhat  convexer,  and  more  free  from  punctures  in  the 
centre ;  its  elytra  are  a  little  more  coarsely  punctured ;  and  its  ab- 
dominal segments  are,  each  of  them,  more  imj^ressed  behind  (and 
therefore  convexer  in  front),  and  also  (particularly  the  basal  ones) 
very  rugosely  and  densely  punctured  posteiiorly .  Hitherto  I  have 
observed  it  only  in  Teneriffe,  where,  however,  I  captured  it  in  con- 
siderable abundance — from  amongst  wet  shingle  at  the  edges  of  a 
little  stagnant  pool  at  the  extreme  head  of  the  Barranco  Santo,  close 
to  S*'''  Cruz.  And  a  single  specimen  (likewise  TcnerifFan)  is  now 
before  me  which  was  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

880.  Philonthus  xantholinoides,  n.  sp. 
P.  tenello  similis,  sed  (si  ex  unico  specimine  immature  adjudicare  licet) 
ahter  coloratus  (sc.  minus  niger,  prothorace'  fortassc  etiam  rufo- 
ferrugineo) ;  capite  majore,  quadratiore,  basi  rectius  truncato,  antice 
distinctius  canahculato  (nee  subtriangulai-iter  impresso)  et  una  cum 
prothorace  profundius  utrinque  punctato,  oculis  minoribus  ;  elytris 
sensim  majoribus ;  abdominis  segmentis  singulis  ad  basin  minus 
grosse  punctatis;  an  tennis  paulo  longioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  vix  2. 

Habitat  Teneriffam,  juxta  Sanctam  Crucem  cum  prsecedente  captus. 

Although  I  have  but  a  single  specimen,  and  that  an  immature  one, 
to  judge  from,  nevertheless  the  present  PhilontJius  is  so  unmistakeably 
distinct  (even  in  some  few  of  its  structural  details)  from  the  P.  tenellus 
that  I  cannot  omit  it  from  this  Catalogue.  In  its  small  size,  narrow 
outline,  and  the  acute  terminal  joint  of  its  palpi  it  is  very  similar  to 
that  species  ;  but  its  head  is  larger  and  squarer  (being  more  straightly 
truncated  behind),  and,  together  with  the  prothorax,  more  deeply 
punctured,  its  eyes  are  smaller,  its  elytra  are  a  trifle  more  developed, 
its  abdominal  segments  are  both  less  convex  and  less  coarsely  punc- 
tured at  theii-  respective  bases,  and  its  antennae  are  longer.  Its  fore- 
head, also,  is  more  decidedly  marked  with  a  central  channel  in  front, 
but  less  triangularly  impressed.  The  example  described  from  (which 
was  taken  by  myself,  in  company  with  the  last  species,  near  S'"*  Cruz 
of  Tenerifte)  being  immature,  I  cannot  say  much  as  to  the  differences 
of  colour  ;  bat  I  believe  that  the  P.  xantholinoides  will  be  found  to  be 
of  a  much  paler  hue,  and  perhaps  to  have  its  prothorax  rufo-ferru- 
ginous. 

2p 


578  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

(Subfam.V.  XANTHOLINIDES.) 

Genus  321.  XANTHOLINUS. 

Dahl,  Emydop.  Method,  x.  475  (1825). 

881.  Xantholinus  marginalis. 

X.  niger,  elytris  (vix  subseriatim  punctatis)  Isete  riifo-testaceis ;  ca- 
pite  magno,  basi  subrecte  truncato,  sat  dense  et  profunde  punctato 
punctulisque  minutissimis  intermediisirrorato;  pro  thoracis  margin  e 
postico  late  et  laterali  angustissime  rufescentiore,  scriebns  doi-sali- 
bus  8-11-pimctatis;  abdomine,  prsesertim  postice,  rufescentiore  ; 
antennis  rufo-fuscis ;  pedibus  testaceo-rufis. — Long.  corp.  lin.3-3|.- 

Xantholinus  marginalis,  Wall.,  Trans.  E)it.  Soc.  Loncl.  i.  187  (1862). 
Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura  (aut  saltern  in  ins.  parva 

adjaeente  "  Lobos  "  dicta),  caules  Eupliorhiarum  putridos  destruens. 

In  its  brightly  rufo-testaceous  elytra,  this  beautiful  Xantholinus 
"  has  [as  I  stated  in  my  Paper,  above  alluded  to,  "  on  the  Eupliorhia- 
infesting  Coleoptera  of  the  Canary  Islands  "]  much  the  colouring  and 
general  aspect  of  the  common  European  X.  glahratxis  ;  but  it  is 
smaller  than  that  insect,  with  its  head  and  prothoracie  series  much 
more  densely  punctured,  with  the  margin  (particularly  the  hinder 
one)  of  its  pronotum  diluted  in  hue,  and  with  its  elytra,  abdomen, 
and  legs  respectively  paler.  It  is  very  rare,  and  (so  far  as  observed 
hitherto)  quite  peculiar  to  the  damp,  rotting  EttpJiorbi  a -stems — 
among  which  it  was  taken  by  Mr.  Gray  and  myself,  on  the  Risco,  in 
the  north  of  Lanzarote,  during  January  1858  ;  as  well  as  by  myself, 
on  the  28th  of  March  of  the  following  year,  in  the  little  island 
of  Lobos,  off  the  extreme  north  of  Fuerteventura." 

882.  Xantholinus  hesperius. 

Xantholinus  Hesperius,  Erich.,  Ocn.  et  Spec.  Staph.  329  (1839). 
,  Woll,  Ann.  Nat.  Hist.  vi.  100  (1860). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriifam  et  Palmam,  baud  infrequens. 

The  X.  hesi'ierius  of  south-western  Europe  (and  which  occurs 
sparingly  at  Madeira)  is  probably  universal  in  these  islands— though 
hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Grand  Canary,  TenerifFe,  and 
Palma  (in  the  second  of  which  it  was  found  likewise  by  Dr.  Crotch 
and  the  Barao  do  Castello  de  Paiva,  and  in  the  third  by  Mr.  Gray). 
My  Grand-Canarian  specimens  are  from  the  region  of  El  Monte,  and 
the  Teneriffan  ones  from  the  Agua  Garcia  and  the  vicinity  of  Orotava. 
Prima  facie  it  is  a  good  deal  allied  to  the  European  X.  linearis 
(which,  although  common  in  the  Madeiran  Group,  has  not  yet  been 
detected  at  the  Canaries)  ;  but  its  head  is  a  little  larger  and  less  ob- 


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long  (or  more  straightly  truncated  behind),  more  sparingly  punctured, 
and  with  the  frontal  sulci  longer,  wider,  and  deeper  ;  its  prothorax 
has  the  punctures  of  its  doi'sal  series  rather  diminished  in  number 
(there  being  usually  from  about  nine  to  eleven  of  them),  and  those 
of  the  lateral  ones  fewer  and  less  confused  (or  with  an  evident  ten- 
dency to  arrange  themselves  in  a  curve) ;  and  its  elytra  are  some- 
what more  remotely  and  coarsely  punctured,  and  have  their  apical 
edge  (and  frequently  the  suture  also)  more  or  less  translucid,  or  tes- 
taceous. 

883.  Xantholinus  punctulatus. 

Staphylinus  pimctulatus,  Pai/k,  Mon.  Staph.  Suec.  30  (1789). 
Xantholinus  punctulatus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec  Staph.  .328  (1839). 

,  WolL,  Ins.  Mad.  577  (18.54). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  188  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  TenerifFa  et  Gomera,  passim. 

The  common  European  X.  punctulatus  (which  is  tolerably  abun- 
dant at  Madeira)  may  be  known  by  its  black  hue  (the  elytra,  how- 
ever, having  usually  a  just  perceptible  aenescent  tinge)  ;  by  its  head 
being  very  coarsely  and  rugosely  punctured  on  either  side,  and  very 
straightly  truncated  along  its  basal  edge  ;  by  its  prothorax  having 
the  dorsal  series  composed  of  comparatively  few  punctures,  and  the 
lateral  ones  very  evidently  curved  ;  by  the  punctures  of  its  elytra 
having  a  decided  tendency  to  arrange  themselves  in  longitudinal  rows ; 
and  by  its  antennae  being  rather  short.  It  appears  to  be  somewhat 
scarce  at  the  Canaries.  I  have  taken  it  at  La  Esperanza  in  Tene- 
riffe  ;  and  it  was  found  by  Mr.  Gray  in  Lanzarote,  and  by  Dr.  Crotch 
in  both  Teneriffe  and  Gomera. 

The  Canarian  examples  of  the  X.  punctidatus  seem  to  belong  to 
the  slightly  larger  state  referred  to  by  Erichson — in  which  the 
colour  is  deep  black  with  (at  any  rate  on  the  elytra)  an  appreciable 
aenescent  tinge,  the  limbs  a  little  darkened,  and  the  punctures  of  the 
prothoracic  dorsal  series  rather  reduced  in  number.  The  eyes,  also, 
appear  to  be  less  minute  than  in  the  ordinary  type,  and  the  forehead 
somewhat  freer  from  punctures.  But  I  imagine  they  can  scarcely 
be  indicative  of  an  additional  (closely  allied)  species. 

Genus  322.  LEPTACINUS. 
Erichson,  Kiif.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  429  (1837). 

884.  Leptacinus  parumpunctatus. 

L.  nitidissimus,  niger,  elytris  (extus  seriatim  punctatis)  paulo  dilu- 
tioribus  necnon  ad  angulos  singulos  externos  pellucido-testaceis ; 

2p2 


580  CANABIAN  COLEOPTEEA. 

caj^ite  triangulari,  utrinque  valde  profunde  sed  parce  punctato ; 
prothoracis  seriebiis  dorsalibiis  circa  5-6-pimctatis  (punctis  mag- 
nis) ;  antennis  testaceo-piceis ;  pedibus  piceo-testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  2|-3|. 

Staphylinus  parumpimctatus,  Gyll.,  Ins.  Suec.  iv.  481  (1827). 
Gyrohypnus  parumpimctatus,  Mann.,  Brachel.  33  (1831). 
Leptacinus  parumpunctatus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  853  (1839). 
,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  048  (1857). 

Hahitat  insulas  Canarienses,  in  Hierro  sola  adhuc  baud  observatus. 

The  European  L.  pay^mininctatus  (whicb  occurs  sparingly  at  Ma- 
deira) is  widely  diffused  over  the  Canarian  Group,  where  there  can 
be  no  doubt  that  it  is  universal :  indeed  Hierro  is  the  only  island  of 
the  seven  in  which  it  does  not  happen  to  have  been  observed.  In 
Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  and  Palma  I 
have  myself  captured  it ;  whilst  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  it  was 
found  by  Dr.  Crotch,  and  in  Lanzarote  and  Palma  by  Mr.  Gray. 

885.  Leptacinus  linearis. 

L.  angustus,  nitidus,  niger,  elytris  (extns  le^dter  subseriatim  pune- 
tatis)  vel  concoloribus  vel  paulo  dilutioribus  ;  capite  protlioraeeque 
(oculo  fortissime  arniato)  subtilissime  transversim  undiilato-sub- 
strigulosis,  illo  subtriangulari  utrinque  profunde  sed  jDarce  punc- 
tato, hujus  seriebus  dorsalibus  cii'ca  8-9-punctatis  ;  antennis  tes- 
taceo-piceis;  pedibus  piceo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1|. 

Staphylinus  linearis,  Grav.,  Col.  3Iicropt.  43  (1802). 
Gyrohypnus  sulcifrons  {Kby),  Steph.,  HI.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  260  (1832). 
Leptacinus  linearis,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Eentsch.  ii.  649  (1857). 

Hahitat  Lanzarotam  et  Teneriffam,  minus  frequens. 

Like  the  last  species,  this  European  Leptacinus  (which  also  occurs 
sparingly  in  Madeira)  is  widely  spi-ead  at  the  Canaries — though 
hitherto  it  has  been  detected  only  in  Lanzarote  and  Teneriffe  (in  the 
former  by  myself,  and  in  the  latter  by  Dr.  Crotch).  In  all  proba- 
bility, however,  it  will  be  found  to  be  equally  universal ;  though  its 
smaller  size  renders  it  more  likely  to  escape  observation. 

Genus  323.  OTHIUS. 

(Leach)  Stephens,  III  Brit.  Ent.  v.  253  (1832). 

886.  Othius  brachypterus,  n.  sp. 
0.  niger,  elytris  (brevibus,  parce  leviter  punctatis)  piceis  ;  capite 
crasso,  suboblongo,  utrinque  parce  sed  parum  profunde  punctato, 
oculis  minutissimis ;  prothorace  utrinque  punctis  3  vel  4  notato 
aliisque  pcrpaucis  versus  latera  irrorato  ;  abdomine  dense  sed  le- 
viter subasperato-punctulato,  obsolete  submetallico-tincto,  ad  api- 


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cem  dilutiore ;  anteunis  rufo-,  ad  basin  pedibusque  piceo-testaceis. 
— Long,  corp.  lin.  3. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  captus. 

The  only  specimen  which  I  have  seen  of  this  Oihius  was  captured 
by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Gomera.  It  is  well 
distinguished  by  its  black  hue,  extremely  short,  piceous,  finely  and 
sparingly  punctulated  elytra,  rather  thick  oblong  head,  faintly  sub- 
metallic  abdomen,  and  piceo-testaceous  limbs.  In  its  minute  eyes 
and  general  fades  it  has  a  good  deal  in  common  with  the  Madeiran 
0.  Jansoni ;  but  it  is  a  smaller  insect,  with  the  limbs  shorter,  and 
the  elytra  much  more  finely  sculptured  and  less  developed. 

887.  Othius  pMlonthoides,  n.  sp. 
0.  prsecedente  minor,  angustior,  subnitidior  ;  elytris  pallidioribus  (sc. 
infuscato-testaceis),  minus  abbreviatis  et  profuudius  punctatis ; 
capite  subminore,  utrinque  \'ix  parcius  punctato,  oculis  paulo  ma- 
joribus ;  abdomine  etiam  levins  subasperato-punctulato,  hand  me- 
tallico-tincto ;  antennis  pedibusque  sensim  brevioribus,  pallidiori- 
bus.— Long.  Corp.  lin.  2^. 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  in  regione  El  Monte  semel  repertus. 

This  little  Othius  is  of  about  the  size  and  general  outline  of  the 
larger  examples  of  the  Philonthus  nigritulus ;  and  it  may  be  known 
from  the  preceding  species  by  being  smaller  and  narrower,  with  its 
limbs  rather  shorter  and  paler,  and  with  its  elytra  liliewise  paler, 
somewhat  less  abbreviated,  and  much  more  coarsely  punctured.  Its 
head,  also,  is  relativehj  a  trifle  smaller,  its  eyes  are  not  quite  so  di- 
minutive, and  its  abdomen  is  even  more  finely  punctured  still  and 
apparently  free  from  the  slightest  metallic  lustre.  The  unique  ex- 
ample described  from  I  captured,  during  the  spring  of  1858,  in  the 
region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary. 

(Subfam.  VI.  P^DEEIDES.) 

Genus  324.  ACHENIUM. 
(Leach)  Curtis,  Brit.Ent.  iii.  115  (1826). 

888.  Achenium  subcaecum,  n.  sp. 

A.  pallidum,  valde  depressum,  apterum ;  capite  prothoraceque  niti- 
cUssimis,  rufo-testaceis,  illo  late  obcordato  profunde  sed  parce 
punctato  oculis  minutissimis  (superne  hand  observandis) ,  hoc  tra- 
peziformi  (antice  lato)  et  utrinque  parcissime  punctato ;  elytris 
brevissimis,  parcissime  ac  leviter  punctatis  et  (una  cum  abdomine) 
testaceo;  antennis  (gracilibus)  tibiisque  infuscato-,femoribus  (latis) 
tarsisque  pallido-testaceis.— Long.  corp.  lin.  2|. 


582  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  ;  in  montibus  supra  Hariam  exemplar  unum 
sub  lapide  collegi. 

In  its  extremely  depressed  surface,  broadly  obcordatehead,  trapezi- 
form  prothorax,  wide  femora,  very  deeply  sinuated  anterior  tibiae,  and 
slender  posterior  feet,  this  singular  Staphylinid  is  a  normal  Achenium  ; 
nevertheless  its  totally  apterous  body,  greatly  abbreviated  elytra,  and 
almost  obsolete  eyes  (which  are  so  diminutive  and  punctiform  as  to 
be  quite  imperceptible  from  above)  give  it  a  character  pecidiarly  its 
own.  The  excessive  paleness  of  its  entire  coloiir  (the  head,  pro- 
thorax,  and  tibiae  being  rufo-testaceous,  whilst  the  elytra,  abdomen, 
femora,  and  tarsi  are  more  pallid  still)  will  further  distinguish  it 
from  anything  else  with  which  we  have  here  to  do.  The  only  spe- 
cimen which  I  have  seen  was  captured  by  myself,  from  beneath  a 
stone,  on  the  hills  above  Haria,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote. 

889.  Achenium  salinum,  n.  sp. 

A.  angustum,  convexiusculum,  alatum  ;  capite  prothoi-aceque  nitidis, 
rufo-ferrugincis,regulariter  sat  profunde  punctatis,  illo  triangulari- 
ovali  oculis  parum  maguis  prominulis,  hoc  angusto  (antice  paulo 
latiore)  in  linea  media  tevi ;  elyti'is  minus  nitidis,  pallido-testaceis, 
ad  basin  infuscatis,  levissime  parce  punctulatis ;  abdomine  sub- 
opaco,  rufo-brunneo ;  antennis  (gracilibus)  pedibusque  rufo-ferru- 
gineis,  tarsis  posterioribus  pallidioribus. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2^, 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  ad  marginem  lacus  ejus  salini  "  Januvio " 
dicti  Martio  exeunte  a.d.  1859  specimen  unicum  deprehendi. 

Like  the  last  one,  this  species  also  is  unique  and  was  captured  in 
Lanzarote.  Nevertheless  in  its  habits  it  is  totally  dissimilar ;  for 
whilst  the  A.  suhccecum  was  found  at  a  comparatively  high  elevation 
on  the  mountains  in  the  north  of  the  island,  the  salinmn,  on  the 
contrary,  I  cajitured  at  the  edge  of  the  curious  salt  lake  of  Januvio 
(which  adjoins  the  south-westeni  coast) — running  rapidly  over  the 
mud  in  a  most  briny  spot. 

In  its  extremely  narrow  and  comparatively  convex  body,  as  well 
as  in  its  more  oblong  (or  less  obcordate)  head  and  the  fact  of  its  pro- 
thorax  being  but  very  slightly  widened  in  front,  the  A.  salinum  has 
much  the  prima  facie  aspect  of  a  Lathrobium ;  but  its  greatly  de- 
veloped femora,  its  very  deeply  sinuated  anterior  tibiie,  and  its 
slender  posterior  feet  (with  their  rather  elongate  terminal  joint) 
refer  it  unmistakeably  to  Achenium  ;  whilst  even  in  the  shape  of  its 
head  and  prothorax  it  is  intennediate  between  the  two  genera.  In 
mere  specific  details,  it  may  be  wcU  distinguished  by  its  rufo-fcrru- 
ginous  head  and  prothorax- — which  are  regularly  and  (for  an  AcJie- 


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583 


niimi)  somewhat  closely  punctured,  the  latter  alone  having  a  central 
glabrous  space  ;  by  its  very  slightly  shining,  most  lightly  punctm-ed, 
testaceous  elyti'a  (which,  however,  are  a  httle  infuscated  at  their  base)  ; 
by  its  subopake,  reddish-brown  abdomen ;  and  by  its  rufo-ferrugi- 
nous  limbs. 

Genus  325.  LATHROBIUM. 
Gravenhorst,  Col.  Micropt.  179  (1802). 

890.  Lathrobium  labile. 

L.  angustissimum,  nigrum  ;  capite  quadrato-ovali,  profunde  punc- 
tato ;  prothorace  angasto,  oblongo,  utrinque  (necnon  in  dorso  bi- 
seriatim)  profunde  punctato ;  elytris  profunde  et  dense  striato- 
punctatis,  postice  Isevioribus  et  plus  minus  testaceis ;  abdomine 
dense  leviter  subasperato-punctulato ;  antennis  (gracilibus)  pedi- 
busque  rufo-testaceis,  his  plus  minus  picescentioribus. — Long, 
corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Lathrobium  labile,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  594  (1839). 

Habitat  Tenoriffam,  inter  lapillos  ad  marginem  paludis  cujusdam 
parvjB  in  "  Barranco  Santo  "  juxta  Sanctam  Crucem  lectum. 

A  Grecian  example,  communicated  by  Dr.  Kraatz,  of  Erichsou's 
A.  labile  (which  occurs  also  in  Sardinia)  agrees  precisely  with  the 
Canarian  specimens  now  before  me.  The  species  may  be  known  by 
its  minute  size  and  extremely  narrow  outline  ;  by  its  (rather  elon- 
gate) head  being  regularly  and  deeply  punctured,  and  its  prothorax 
also  (which  has  a  double  row  of  punctures  down  its  disc)  on  either 
side ;  by  its  elytra  (which  are  more  or  less  rufo-testaceous  along 
their  hinder  edge,  and  occasionally  even  along  the  suture)  being 
closely  and  coarsely  striate-punctate  ;  and  by  its  rufo-testaceous 
limbs — the  legs,  however,  being  usually  a  little  clouded  or  picescent. 
The  only  specimens  which  I  have  seen  (sixteen  in  number)  were 
taken  by  myself  (in  company  with  the  Philonthus  tenellus  and  An- 
thicus  lapidosm)  from  amongst  wet  shingle  at  the  edges  of  a  little 
stagnant  pool  at  the  extreme  head  of  the  Barranco  Santo,  close  to 
S*''  Cruz,  in  Teneriffe. 

891.  Lathrobium  multipunctatum. 

Lathrobium  multipunctatum,  Grew.,  Col.  Micropt.  52  (1802). 

,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  591  (18:39). 

,  Woll.,  Ins.  Mad.  588  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  193  (1857). 

Habitat  in  humidis  Teneriffae  et  Palmae,  sat  rarum. 

Although  rather  abundant  at  Madeira,  the  European  L.  malti- 

punctatum  is  decidedly  scarce  in  these  islands — the  very  few  Canarian 


584  CANAKIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

examples  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself  in  Tene- 
rifFe  and  Palma.  My  Teneiiffan  specimens  are  from  moist  places  in 
the  vicinity  of  S"*  Cruz,  Taganana,  Las  Mercedes,  and  Ycod  el  Alto, 

Genus  326.  DOLICAON. 
Laporte,  EUul  Ent.  i.  119  (1834). 

892.  Dolicaon  nigricoUis. 
D.  apterus,  subcylindi-icus,  nitidus,  niger,  elytris  (parce  et  leviter 

punctulatis)  abdominisque  segmentis  ultimis  testaceo-rufis  ;  capite 

prothoraceque  parce  sed  parum  profundo  punctatis ;  antennis  pedi- 

busque  rufo-testaceis. 
Mas  abdominis  segmento  sexto  infra  profunde  inciso,  quinto  integro. 

— Long.  corp.  lin.  2|-3i. 

Dolicaon  ruficollis,  WolL,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Land.  i.  188  (1862). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Canariam,  vel  sub  lapidibus  vel  in  truncis 
Eupliorbiarum  emortuis  putridis  degens. 

In  aPaper  "on  \h.Q  Eupliorhia-iuieaimg  Coleoptcra"  of  these  islands, 
I  stated  that  "  the  present  Dolicaon  appears  to  be  very  closely  allied 
to  the  D.  ilhjvicus — with  which  indeed  (judging  from  the  diagnosis) 
I  should  have  united  it,  had  I  not  been  informed  by  Dr.  Kraatz  that 
its  head  and  prothorax  are  somewhat  more  lightly  punctured,  and  its 
antennfe  a  little  shorter,  than  is  the  case  in  that  species.  It  is  not 
impossible,  therefore,  that  it  may  be  but  a  geographical  phasis  of  the 
D.  illyricus ;  but,  as  I  have  no  type  of  the  latter  for  comparison, 
I  ^vill  not  venture  to  record  it  absolutely  as  such."  It  is  not  uncom- 
mon in  Lanzarote,  where  it  occurs  both  under  stones  and  beneath  the 
moist  rotting  bark  of  old  Euphorbias  ;  and  I  took  a  single  specimen, 
during  the  spring  of  1858,  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand 
Canary.     In  Lanzarote  it  was  found  also  by  Mr.  Gray. 

893.  Dolicaon  ruficollis. 
D.  prtecedenti  valdc  afSnis  et  for.san  ejus  varietas  insularis ;  differt 
solum  (ut  mihi  videtur)  corpore  sa-pius  paulo  majore,  prothorace 
(ut  elytris)  testacco-rufo  (hand  nigro). — Long.  corp.  lin.  3|-3|. 

Dolicaon  ruficollis,  Woll,  Trans.  Ent.  Soc.  Lond.  i.  189  (1862). 

Habitat  in  locis  similibus  ac  prascedens,  sed  in  Fuerteventura  nec- 
non  in  insula  parva  adjacente  "  Lobos  "  dicta,  rarissimus. 

Possibly  this  may  be  but  an  insular  state  of  the  last  species — from 
Avhich  it  merely  differs  (so  far  as  I  can  detect)  in  being  a  trifle  larger, 
and  in  having  its  prothorax  (like  the  elytra)  pale  rufous  instead  of 
black.  I  have  taken  it,  sparingly,  both  in  Fuerteventura  itself  and 
on  the  little  island  of  Lobos  (off  the  extreme  north  of  it) — in  the  latter 
locality  from  within  a  rotten  EujjJiorb  I  a -stem. 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  5:50 

Genus  327.  STILICUS. 
Latreille,  Regn.  Anini.  iv.  436. 

894.  Stilicus  affinis. 

Stilicus  affinis,  Erich.,  Kaf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  522  (1837). 

,  Redt,  Fna  Austr.  720  (1849). 

Rugilus  affinis,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  592  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  195  (1857). 

Habitat  TenerifFam,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  repertus. 

Although  common  at  Madeira,  I  have  not  myself  observed  this 

European  Stilicus  at  the  Canaries  ;  but  six  examples  of  it  are  now 

before  me  which  were  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of 

1862,  in  Teneriife. 

Genus  328.  SCOP.ffiUS. 

Erichson,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Stajih.  604  (1839). 

895.  Scopaeus  trossulus,  n.  sp. 
S.  angustus,  subtilissime  punctulatus,  nitidus,  minute  cinereo-seri- 
ceus,  piceo-ferrugineus  ;  capitc  subquadi'ato  ;  prothorace  subovato, 
rufescentiore,  basi  in  medio  tenuiter  carinato  et  obsolete  biimpresso; 
elyiris  postice  plus  minus  dilutioribus ;  abdomine  subopaco,  den- 
sissime  subpunctato-ruguloso,  apice  dilutiore ;  antennis  pedibusque 
testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Ohs. — S.  hevigato  Gyll.  valde  affinis,  sed  subangustior,  capite 
vix  minore  et  etiam  paulo  subtilius  punctulato,  elytris  brevioribus, 
colore  omnino  subpallidiore,  capite  prothoraceque  sensim  nitidi- 
oribiis. 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram,  Canariam  et  Teneiiffam,  inter  lapillos  ad 
margines  aquarum  (vel  fluentium  vel  stagnantium)  parce  degens. 

Apparently  extremely  rare,  occurring  amongst  wet  shingle  at  the 
edges  of  pools  and  streams.  In  such  situations  I  have  taken  it  at  La 
Antigua  in  Fuerteventura,  at  Ai-guiniguin  in  Grand  Canary,  and  in 
the  Barranco  Santo  (near  S'*  Cruz)  of  Teneriffe.  It  is  possible  that 
it  may  be  but  a  geographical  modification  of  the  European  S.  Icevi- 
gatus,  which  at  first  sight  it  almost  entirely  resembles.  It  is,  how- 
ever, just  perceptibly  narrower,  with  its  head  not  quite  so  much 
developed  and  a  little  more  finely  punctulated,  its  elytra  are  appre- 
ciably shorter,  its  entire  colour  is  perhaps  a  shade  paler,  and  its  head 
and  prothorax  are  rather  more  shining. 

896.  Scopseus  nigellus,  n.  sp. 

S.  angustissimus,  subtilissime  dense  punctulatus,  subopacus,  minute 
cinereo-sericeus,  niger  ;  capite  triangulari-subquadrato  ;  protho- 
race subovato,  basi  in  medio  obsolctissime  biimpresso  ;  elytris  ab- 


586  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

domineque  (densissime  subpunctato-ruguloso)  postice  vix  diluti- 
oribus  ;  antennis  (brevibus)  pedibusque  piceo-testaceis,  tarsis  cla- 
rioribus. — -Long.  corp.  lin.  1^. 

Habitat  Gomeram,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  semel  captiis. 

A  single  specimen  only  of  this  little  Seopams,  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch 
(during  the  spring  of  1862)  in  Gomera,  has  hitherto  come  beneath 
my  notice.  It  may  be  known  by  its  minute  size  and  very  narrow 
outline,  by  its  subopake  and  nearly  black  surface  (the  elytra  being 
only  a  trifle  more  picescent  posteriorly — though  the  limbs  are  of  a 
piceo-testaceous  hue),  by  its  sub  triangular- quadrate  head,  and  by  its 
much  abbreviated  antennae.  It  is  a  little  narrower  and  darker  than 
the  Eurojiean  S.  mimdus,  with  its  head  rather  less  developed,  its 
punctation  finer  and  closer,  and  its  antennae  somewhat  shorter  and 
less  robust. 

Genus  329.  LITHOCHARIS. 
(Dejean)  Boisd.  et  Lacord.,  Faun.  Etit.  des  Env.  de  Paris,  i.  431  (1835). 

897.  Lithocharis  quadriceps,  n.  sp. 
L.  subnitida,  griseo-pubescens,  nigra  elytris  rufo-ferrugineis  ;  capite 
(lato,  quadrate)  prothoraceque  (vix  picescentiore)  densissime  punc- 
tatis  ;  abdomine  picescentiore,  apice  ferrugineo ;  antennis  pedibus- 
que rufo-ferrugineis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2J— 2|. 

Ohs. — L.  castanea'  Grav.  affinis,  sed  capite  prothoraceque  nigres- 
centioribiLs  et  minus  rugose  punctatis,  iUo  longiore  (magis  quadrate) 
oculis  scnsim  majoribus,  tarsis  paulo  lougioribus  ae  multo  gracili- 
oribus. 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota  et  Fuerteventura,  aHquanto  rara. 

This  large  and  beautiful  Litliocliaris  I  have  observed  hitherto  only 
in  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura — namely,  near  Haria  of  the  former 
(where  it  was  taken  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray)  and  (from  under  camels' 
dung)  near  Betan curia  of  the  latter.  In  its  densely  punctured  head 
and  prothorax  and  rufo-ferruginous  elytra,  it  has  much  the  pritnct 
facie  aspect  of  the  European  L.  castanea  ;  but  its  head  and  prothorax 
are  blacker  (or  less  piceous)  and  rather  less  rugosely  punctured  (the 
former  also  being  larger  and  more  quadrate,  with  the  eyes  not  quite 
so  minute),  and  its  feet  are  a  little  longer  and  very  much  slenderer. 
It  was  examined  by  Dr.  Kraatz,  and  regarded  by  him  as  new. 

898.  Lithocharis  subcoriacea,  n.  sp. 

L.  praecedente  paulo  angustior,  magis  opaca  ac  densius  subtiliusque 

cinereo-pubescens  ;  caj)ite  (angustiore,  oblongiore)  prothoraceque 

multo  levius  punctulatis  (hoc  minutissime  obsolete  pun ctulato, quasi 

subcoriaceo) ;  elytris  obscurioribus  (vel  piceis  in  limbo  fere  nigres- 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  587 

eentibus,  vel  fusco-ferrugineis) ;  antennis  pedibusque  ssepius  paulo 
obscurioribus,  illarum  articulis  intermediis  plus  minus  evidenter 
nigro-variegatis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2-2^. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  passim. 
This  LithocJiaris  differs  from  the  preceding  one  in  being  a  little 
narrower  and  more  opake,  and  more  densely  clothed  with  a  finer  and 
shorter  cinereous  pubescence ;  in  its  head  (which  is  much  straightened 
on  either  side)  being  especially  narrower  and  less  quadrate,  and  also, 
together  with  the  prothorax,  much  more  lightly  punctulated  (indeed 
the  latter  has  more  the  appearance  of  being  coriaceous  than  "  punc- 
tulated ")  ;  in  its  elytra  being  of  an  obscurer  hue  (either  duU  rufo- 
piceous  and  still  darker  towards  the  sides,  or  else  uniformly  brownish 
ferruginous) ;  and  in  the  intermediate  joints  of  its  antennas  being 
more  or  less  variegated  with  black.  I  have  captured  it  in  the  region 
of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  as  well  as  in  Palma  and  Hierro ;  and 
it  was  found  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  would  seem 
to  ascend  to  a  high  elevation,  for  Dr.  Crotch's  Teneritfan  examples 
are  marked  as  having  been  taken  on  the  Cumbre  adjoining  the 
Caiiadas. 

899.  Lithocharis  ochracea. 

L.  subopaca,  densissime  cinereo-sericea,  minutissime  punctulata ;  ca- 
pite  nigro,  subtriangulari,  oculis  magnis  (sed  baud  prominentibus); 
prothorace  elj'trisque  subquadratis,  plus  minus  infuscate  rufo-fer- 
rugineis  (illo  saepius  paulo  rufescentiore) ;  abdomine  fusco-ferru- 
gineo  ;  antennis  pedibusque  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l|-2. 

Pfederus  ocliraceus,  Grai\,  Col.  Microjjt.  59  (1802). 
Lithocharis  ochracea,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  623  (1839). 

,  Woll,  Ins.  Mad.  590  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  193  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Fuerteventura,  Teneriffa  et  Gomera,  hand 
infrequens. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  this  common  European  Lithocharis 
(which  abounds  in  Madeira,  and  which  is  widely  spread  over  the 
world)  is  universal  at  the  Canaries,  though  hitherto  it  has  been  ob- 
served in  only  four  out  of  the  seven  islands  of  the  Group.  I  have 
taken  it  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  and  Gomera  ;  and  it  was  found 
in  Teneriffe  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occurs  beneath  vegetable  rejectamenta 
generally,  independent  of  elevation  ;  and  in  the  Rio  Palmas  of  Fuerte- 
ventura I  once  met  with  it,  in  profusion,  amongst  the  refuse  of  a 
camels'  stable. 

900.  Lithocharis  nigritula. 

L.  angusto-lincaris,  nigra,  subnitida,  cinereo-pubescens,  dense  sed 


588  CAXARIAN  COLEOPTEKA. 

parum  profunde  punctata;  capite  (elongato-subquadi'ato)  protho- 
raceque  liuea  media  laevi  (in  hoc  postice  obsolete  subelevata)  in- 
structis  ;  abdomine  subopaco  densiusqiie  cinereo-sericeo  ;  antennis 
(breviusculis)  pedibusque  piceo-testaceis,tarsis  clarioribus. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  1|. 

Lithocharis  nigi'itula  ?,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  625  (1839). 
Habitat  Teneriffam,  inter  lapillos  ad  marginem  paludis  cujusdam 
parvje  in  "  Barranco  Santo  "  juxta  urbem  Sanctse  Crucis  capta. 

Judging  from  the  diagnosis,  I  have  little  doubt  that  this  small 
Lithocharis  is  conspecific  with  Erichson's  L.  nigritula  from  Sicily ; 
and  it  may  easily  be  known  by  its  narrow,  linear  outline,  and  by  its 
black,  slightly  shining,  and  densely  but  rather  coarsely  punctured  sur- 
face, by  its  (elongate-squarish)  head  and  prothorax  having  each  of 
them  (though  particularly  the  latter)  a  central  unpunctured  line,  and 
by  its  antennse  and  legs  (the  former  of  which  are  rather  short)  being 
of  a  piceo-testaceous  hue.  If,  however,  it  should  prove  hereafter  to 
be  distinct,  I  would  then  propose  for  it  the  trivial  name  of  maura. 
The  only  two  examples  which  I  have  seen  were  taken  by  myself, 
from  amongst  wet  shingle  at  the  edges  of  a  small  stagnant  pool,  at 
the  head  of  the  Barranco  Santo  (close  to  S*"  Cruz)  in  Teneriffe — in 
company  with  the  Scopceus  trossulus,  Fliilonthns  teneUus,  Anthicus 
lapidosm,  the  Perileptus  nigritulus,  and  other  Coleoptera  of  similar 
(subaquatic)  habits. 

901.  Litliocharis  melanocephala. 

L.  angusta,  nitida,  parce  griseo-pubeseens,  profundius  ac  minus  dense 
punctata ;  capite  elongato-subquadrato,  vel  piceo-nigro,  vel  rufo- 
piceo,  vel  etiam  rufo-ferrugineo  ;  prothorace  testaceo-rufo,  linea 
media  paulo  laeviore  ;  elytris  piceo-testaceis ;  antennis  rufo-tes- 
taceis  (interdum  articulis  intermediis  infuscatis)  ;  pedibus  testaceis. 
— Long.  Corp.  lin.  1^2. 

Pa^derus  melanocephalus,  Fah.,  Ent.  Si/st.  i.  ii.  538  (1792). 
Lithocliaris  melanocephala,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  614  (1839). 

,  WoU.,  Ins.  Mad.  591  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  194  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  aliquanto  vulgaris. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  is  universal  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  is  universal  likewise  at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven 
islands  of  which  I  have  myself  captured  it.  In  Teneriife  and  Go- 
mera  it  was  found  also  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  rather  variable  in  stature, 
and  exceedingly  so  in  the  colour  of  its  head — which  is  normally  black, 
but  very  often  piceous,  and  occasionally  bright  rufo-ferruginous  (or 
scarcely  darker  than  the  prothorax).     It  occurs  principally  beneath 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA.  589 

stones,  and  is  nearly  independent  of  elevation — piy  Teneriffan  speci- 
mens being  from  S*''  Cruz  and  the  mountains  above  it,  from  Taganana, 
Las  Mercedes,  La  Esperanza,  Souzal,  and  the  Agua  Mansa. 

902.  Lithocharis  brevipennis,  n.  sp. 
L.  prsecedenti  fere  similis,  fortasse  ejus  varietas  regionibiis  valde  ele- 
vatis  TenerifFipe  propria ;  sed  paulo  minor,  angustior,  ocuKs  sensim 
minoribus  elytrisque  brevioribus  (sc.  prothorace  hand  longioribus) ; 
capite  rufo-ferrugineo,  ad  basin  vix  minus  recte  truncate. — Long. 
Corp.  lin.  1^. 

Hahitat  sub  lapidibus  in  montibiis  valde  excelsis  Teneriffae,  usque 
ad  10,000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

Although  in  colour  and  outline  almost  similar  to  the  L.  melanoce- 
phala,  I  am  uncertain  whether  the  present  LitJwcharis  can  be  regarded 
as  any  modification  of  that  insect  peculiar  to  the  loftiest  altitudes  of 
Teneriffe.  The  only  examples  of  it  (four  in  number)  which  I  have 
myself  taken  were  captured  on  the  elevated  Cumbre  overlooking  the 
CaFiadas,  at  nearly  10,000  feet  above  the  sea  ;  and  two  more  have  been 
communicated  by  Dr.  Crotch,  which  I  have  little  doubt  were  met  with 
in  the  same  region.  It  differs  from  the  melanocejihala  in  being  a  little 
smaller,  with  its  eyes  still  more  minute,  and  its  elytra  very  appre- 
ciably shorter  (being,  in  fact,  no  longer  than  the  prothorax).  Its 
head  appears  to  be  rufo -ferruginous  (as  in  the  jpaler  specimens  of  the 
melanocephalcC) ,  and,  if  anything,  somewhat  less  straight!}'  truncated 
at  the  base. 

903.  Lithocharis  debilicornis. 
L.  subopaca,  pallida,  subgrosse  pubescens  ;  capite  (lato,  subobcordato, 
oculis  prominentibus)  prothoraceque  (breviusculo)  rufo-testaceis, 
alutaceis,  sat  grosse  sed  baud  profunde  punctatis  ;  elytris  testaceis  ; 
abdomine  fusco-testaceo ;  antennis  (brevissimis,  articulis  inter- 
mediis  brevibus)  pedibusque  testaceis.— Long.  corp.  lin.  1^-1-^. 

Lithocharis  debilicornis,  Woll,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  194  (1857). 
Hahitat  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  rarissima. 

I  have  not  taken  the  trouble  to  dissect  this  curious  insect ;  but  I 
think  it  far  from  unlikely  that  a  cai'eful  examination  of  its  oral  organs 
would  disclose  suificient  structural  peculiarities  to  render  its  isolation 
from  Lithocharis  desirable, — its  greatly  abbreviated  antennae  (all  the 
joints  of  which,  except  the  basal  and  apical  ones,  are  much  shortened), 
combined  with  its  prominent  eyes  and  the  more  fusiform  apex  of  its 
maxiUary  palpi,  giving  it  a  character  essentially  its  own.  In  mere 
specific  details  it  may  easily  be  recognized  by  its  entirely  pallid  hue 
and  subopake  surface,  and  by  its  head  and  prothorax  (the  former  of 


590  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

which  is  wide  and  obcordate,  whikt  the  latter  is  somewhat  short)  being 
alutaceous  and  distinctly,  but  not  deeply,  punctured.  It  appears  to  be 
very  rare,  and  indeed  it  entirely  escaped  m j  own  observation  in  these 
islands.  A  single  individual,  however,  was  captured  by  Mr.  Gray, 
during  February  1858,  in  Palma ;  and  five  more  are  now  before  me 
which  were  taken  by  Dr.  Crotch,  during  the  spring  of  1862,  in  Tene- 
riiFe.  It  is  not  uncommon  around  Funchal  in  Madeira,  and  occurs 
sparingly  in  the  south  of  Europe — it  having  been  described  by  M. 
AUard,  subsequently  to  the  publication  of  my  Madeiran  Catalogue, 
under  the  specific  name  of  hrevicornis. 

Genus  330.  SUNIUS. 
(Leach)  Stephens,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  274  (1832). 

904.  Sunius  myrmecophilus,  n.  sp. 

8.  crassiuseulus,compactus,  rufo-ferrugineus,  subopacus,  dense  griseo- 
pubescens  ;  capite  prothoraceque  creberrime  et  minutissime  subre- 
ticulato-punctulatis,  illo  crasso  lato  subobcordato  in  fronte  convexo 
oculis  minutis  prominulis,  hoc  subtrapeziformi  antice  lato  ;  elytris 
rugosius  subpunctulato-asperatis ;  abdomine  fuscescentiore  ;  an- 
tennis  breviusculis ;  pedibus  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  2. 

Habitat  Canariam  et  TenerifFam,  in  Myrmicarum  nidis  degens. 

This  remai'kable  Sunius  (which  was  examined  by  Dr.  Kraatz,  and 
regarded  by  him  as  new)  is  at  once  distinguished  by  its  rather  thick 
and  compact  body,  rufo-ferruginous  hue,  and  wide,  convex,  somewhat 
obcordate  head — which  (together  with  its  subtrapeziform,  anteriorly 
broad  prothorax)  is  most  minutely  but  densely  punctulated.  Its  eyes 
are  small  and  prominent,  and  its  limbs  are  rather  short.  It  seems  to 
be  very  rare,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed  hitherto)  to  the 
nests  of  a  species  of  Myrmica — occiu'ring,  in  company  with  the  ants, 
beneath  stones.  In  such  situations  I  have  taken  it  sparingly  in  Grand 
Canary  and  Teneriffe.  My  Tenerifi'an  examples  are  principally  from 
the  Agua  Mansa ;  but  I  captured  a  single  individual  at  no  great  dis- 
tance above  the  Puerto  Orotava. 

905.  Sunius  megacephalus,  n.  sp. 

S.  gracilis,  rufo-ferrugineus,  opacus,  breviter  griseo-pubescens  ;  ca- 
l^ite  prothoraceque  valde  profunde  et  rugose  subreticulato-i^unc- 
tatis,  illo  magno  suboblongo  oculis  parvis,  hoc  angusto  subovato ; 
elytris  rugose  sedpaulo  minus  dense  asperato-punetatis,  rarius  an- 
tice vix  fuscescentioribus ;  abdomine  rugose  punctato,  obscuriore 
(apice  rufo-ferrugineo  excepto),  segmento  quinto  antice  nigro ; 
antennis  pedibusque  elongatis,  gracilibus,  pallide  testaceis. — Long. 
corp.  lin.  2-2^. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  591 

Hahitat  in  intermediis  editioribusque  Teneriffae  et  Palmoe,  usque 
ad  9000'  s.  m.  ascendens. 

In  their  narrower  and  more  fragile  bodies, more  oblong  and  peduncu- 
lated heads,  smaller  prothoraces,  and  longer  limbs  the  present  and  two 
following  Simii  are  quite  on  a  different  type  from  the  preceding  one 
— having  more  in  common  with  the  Madeiran  Mecognatlius  chinurnf, 
which  perhaps  may  be  but  an  extreme  modification  of  Sunius.  The 
S.  megacephalus  is,  on  the  average,  rather  the  largest  of  the  three, 
and  is  generally  of  an  obscure  rufo-ferruginous  hue — the  elytra  being 
immaculate  (or  sometimes  very  faintly  clouded  anteriorly);  and  its 
head  is  always  greatly  developed.  I  have  observed  it  hitherto  only 
in  Teneriffe  and  Palma  (in  the  former  of  which  it  was  found  also  by 
Dr.  Crotch),  where  it  occurs  at  intermediate  and  lofty  elevations — 
ascending  to  at  least  9000  feet  above  the  sea.  My  Teneriifan  speci- 
mens are  from  the  laurel-woods  above  Taganana,  Souzal,  the  Agua 
Mansa,  and  the  Cumbre  above  it,  and  from  the  opposite  Cumbre  ad- 
joining the  Canadas. 

906.  Sunius  dimidiatus,  n.  sp. 

S.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  plerumque  vix  minor  angustior,  elytris  in 
parte  basali  Isete  et  abrupte  nigris. —  Long.  corp.  lin.  2-vix  2|. 

Hahitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera  et  Hierro,  sub  lapidibus  in 
inferioribus  intermediisque  praecipue  degens. 

It  is  barely  possible  that  this  Sunius  may  be  but  a  well-marked 
variety,  or  state,  of  the  megacej)lialus ;  but  I  think  that  it  is  truly  dis- 
tinct, though  immature  examples  of  both  (in  which  the  colour  is  not 
fully  developed)  are  not  always  readily  separable.  On  the  average, 
the  S.  dimidiatus  is  just  perceptibly  smaller  and  narrower  than  its 
aUy ;  and  its  elytra  have  their  basal  half  conspicuously  and  abruptly 
black.  It  appears  to  have  a  rather  lower  range  than  the  mega- 
cephalus ;  for,  although  it  occurs  equally  at  intermediate  altitudes,  it 
descends  to  almost  the  sea-level.  I  have  taken  it  in  the  region  of 
El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary,  as  well  as  in  Teneriffe,  Gomera,  and 
Hierro.  My  Teneriffan  examples  are  from  S*"  Cruz  and  the  moun- 
tains above  it,  the  vicinity  of  the  Puerto  Orotava,  the  Agua  Mansa, 
and  from  the  hills  between  Laguna  and  Tacaronte. 

907.  Sunius  pallidulus,  n.  sp. 

S.  prsecedentibus  duobus  affinis,  sed  paulo  minor,  omnino  pallidior 
(elytris  pallidis  immaculatis,  abdominis  segmento  quinto  solum 
nigro),  sensim  minus  opacus  ac  minus  rugose  sculp turatus  ;  capite 


592  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

miiiore,  pone  oculos  (submajore)  paulo  magis  rotundato  ;  anten- 
nis  pedibusque  minus  elong-atis. — Long,  corp.  lin.  vix  2, 

Habitat  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  a  W.  D.  Crotch  repertus. 

The  only  three  examples  which  I  have  seen  of  this  species  were 
taken  by  Dr.  Crotch — two  of  them  in  Teneriife,  and  the  remaining  one 
in  Gomera.  It  seems  to  be  quite  distinct  both  from  the  megacejthalus 
and  dimidiatus,  being  a  little  smaller  than  even  the  latter,  and  alto- 
gether paler  than  both  of  them — the  fifth  abdominal  segment  being 
the  only  portion  of  its  sm^face  which  is  black.  It  is  also  a  trifle  less 
opake,  and  not  quite  so  roughly  sculptured ;  its  head  is  less  developed, 
and  more  suddenly  rounded  behind  the  eyes  (which  are  themselves  a 
trifle  larger),  and  its  limbs  are  appreciably  shorter. 

(Subfam.  VII.  STEMDES.) 

Genus  331.  STENUS. 

Latreille,  Precis  cles  Caract.  Gen.  des  Lis.  77  (1796). 

§  I.    Corpus  alatum :  abdomen  marginatum  :   tarsi  articulo 
quarto  simplici. 

90S.  Stenus  guttula. 

Steuus  guttula,  Midi.,  in  Germ.  Maq.  iv.  225  (1821). 

,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  691  (1839). 

,  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  597  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  3Iad.  Col.  196  (1857). 

Habitat  in  aquosis  Canariae,  Teneriflae  et  Palmoe,  rarissimus. 

The  European  S.  guttula,  which  abounds  in  the  Madeiran  Group, 
is  apparently  rare  in  these  islands — the  very  few  examples  which  I 
have  seen  having  been  taken  by  myself  in  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe, 
and  Palma.  My  Grand-Canarian  specimen  was  captured  on  the 
ascent  to  the  Pinal  above  San  Bartolome  (in  the  central  district  of 
Tarajana),  and  the  Palman  ones  are  from  the  Barranco  de  Galga. 

§11.   Corpus  apterum  :  abdomen  marginatum  :  tarsi  articulo 
quarto  biJobo  (sed  tamen  angusto). 

909.  Stenus  aeneotinctus,  n.  sp. 
/S'.  niger  vel  piceo-niger,  conspicue  ceneo-tinctus,  subnitidus,  parce 
griseo-pubescens  ;  capite,  prothorace  elytrisque  (bre\'issimis)  paulo 
infequalibus,  valde  profunde,  dense  et  rugose  punctatis  ;  abdomine 
minus  profunde  (sed  tamen  grosse)  punctato ;  an  tennis  longiusculis, 
graciliusculis,  apice  nigrescentibus,  versus  basin,  palpis  pedibusque 
saturate  palHdo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  If-l!. 

Habitat  in  Canaria,  Teneriffa,  Gomera,  Palma  et  Hierro,  in  inter- 
raediis  humidis  sylvaticis,  rarissimus. 


CAXARIAN  COr.EOPTERA.  593 

Although  extremely  rare,  this  Sieims  is  widely  spread  over  the 
archipelago — occurring  in  moist,  sylvan  (and  subsylvan)  spots  of 
intermediate  and  rather  lofty  elevations,  and  having  been  detected 
in  all  the  islands  except  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura  (where  it  pro- 
bably does  not  exist).  I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  TcneriiFe, 
Palma,  and  Hierro  ;  and  four  specimens  were  captured  in  Gomera 
("  in  the  laurel-woods  above  Hermigua")  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Tene- 
riffim  examples  are  from  the  sylvan  mountains  above  Taganana,  Las 
Mercedes,  the  Agua  Garcia,  the  Agua  Mansa,  and  Ycod  el  Alto.  It 
may  at  once  be  known  by  its  slightly  shining,  (vneons  and  most 
coarsely  sculjitured  surface — the  head,  prothorax,  and  elytra  (the  last 
of  which  are  much  abbreviated)  being  very  deeply  and  roughly  punc- 
tured. Its  antennae  are  rather  long  and  slender ;  and  their  basal 
portion,  together  with  the  palpi  and  legs,  are  pale  diluted- testaceous. 

(Subfam.  VIII.  OXYTELIDES.) 

Genus  332.  BLEDIUS. 
(Leach)  Steplions,  III.  Brit.  Eat.  v.  307  (1832). 

910.  Bledius  januvianus,  n.  sp. 
B.  capite  prothoraceque  grosse  alutaceis,  subopacis,  illo  nigro  utrin- 
que  cornu  sublauielliformi  (pnxj.sertim  in  maribus)  instructo,  hoc 
piceo  lato  transverso-subquadrato  canaliculato  parce  profundeque 
punctate ;  elytris  densius  sed  minus  profunde  punctatis,  testaceis 
sed  versus  suturam  latissime  ac  suffuse  nebulosis  ;  abdomine  nigro, 
apice  paulo  dilutiore  ;  antennis  rufo-ferrugineis,  basi  clarioribus ; 
pedibus  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  3-3^. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  rarissime :  ad  marginem  lacus  ejus  salini 
"  Januvio  "  dicti,  Martio  a.d.  1859,  exemplaria  quinque  coUegi. 

I  am  exceedingly  doubtful  whether  this  Bledius  should  be  regarded 
as  more  than  a  greatly  developed  state  of  the  Euroj)ean  B.  hicornis 
— with  which  in  colour,  sculpture,  and  general  fades  it  is  almost 
coincident.  It  seems  indeed  to  differ  merely  (so  far  as  I  can  detect) 
in  being  considerably  larger,  with  its  eyes  stiU  more  prominent,  and 
its  prothorax  a  little  wider  and  more  coarsely  punctured.  Its  com- 
paratively large  size  and  testaceous  elytra,  combined  with  its  simple 
(or  M/icornuted)  prothorax  in  both  sexes,  and  the  erect,  compressed, 
somewhat  lameUiform  horn  with  which  either  side  of  its  forehead  is 
furnished,  will  at  once  distinguish  it  from  the  two  following  species. 
It  appears  to  be  exceedingly  rare,  and  peculiar  to  saline  spots — the 
few  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself 
at  the  edges  of  the  salt  lake  of  Januvio,  adjoining  the  south-western 
coast  of  Lanzarote,  on  the  2Gth  of  March  1859. 

2q 


594  CANARIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

911.  Bledius  cornutissimus,  n.  sp. 

B.  capite  prothoraceqiie  leviter  alutaceis,  subnitidis,  illo  nigro  iitrin- 
que  tuberculo  elongato  (proesertim  in  maiibus)  instructo,  hoc  nigro- 
piceo  subquadrato  canaliciilato  parce  et  sat  profimde  pimctato  ;  ely- 
tris  densius  sed  minus  profunde  punctatis,  rufis  sed  Yersns  scutel- 
lum  obsolete  nebulosis  ;  abdomine  nigro,  apice  dihitiore  ;  antennis 
pedibusque  rufo-testaceis,  illis  paulo  obscurionbus. 

Mas  prothorace  antice  in  medio  cornu  longissimo,  porrecto,  angns- 
tissimo,  aciciilari,  tereti,  la)vi,  etiam  ultra  caput  ducto,  armato. — 
Long.  Corp.  lin.  2.  ..    -   . 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  et  Fuerteventuram,  per  oras  arenosas  mariti- 
mas  nccnon  in  Salinis  fodiens. 

Apart  from  its  brightly  rufescent  elytra  and  rufo-testaceous  limbs, 
this  singular  Bledius  may  readily  be  known  by  the  immensely  elon- 
gated, narrow,  acicular,  glabrous,  and  porrect  horn  with  which  the 
prothorax  of  its  males  is  armed  in  the  centre  of  the  anterior  margin. 
In  the  opposite  sex  the  prothorax  is  quite  simple  ;  but  in  both  (though 
more  particularly  the  male)  the  head  is  furnished  on  either  side  (at 
the  insertion  of  the  antenna3)  Avith  an  oblong  tubercle.  Like  the  last 
species,  it  is  extremely  rare,  and  confined  (so  far  as  I  have  observed 
hitherto)  to  the  sandy  shores  (and  salt  places  generally)  in  Lanzarote 
and  Fuerteventura.  In  the  foraier  I  took  it  sparingly  both  at  the 
Salinas  (or  salt-works)  in  the  north  of  the  island  and  on  the  beach 
to  the  south  of  Arrecife  ;  whilst  in  the  latter  I  met  "nith  it,  beneath 
marine  rejectamenta,  about  a  mile  to  the  south  of  Puerto  do  Cabras. 

912.  Bledius  galeatus,  n.  sp. 

B.  angusto-subcylindricus ;  capite  prothoracequc  grosse  alutaceis,  sub- 
opacis,  illo  nigro  utrinque  tuberculo  elongato  (praesertim  in  mari- 
bus)  instructo  oculis  parvis  (sed  prominentibus),  hoc  piceo-nigro 
subquadrato  canaliculato  parce  et  sat  profunde  punctato ;  elytris 
brevibus, densius  sed  minus  profunde  punctatis,  piceisvel  rufo-piceis 
sed  versus  scutellum  paulo  obscurioribus ;  abdomine  nigro,  apice 
vix  dilutiore  ;  antennis  pedibusque  brevibus,  piceis,  tarsis  testaceis. 

Mas  prothorace  antice  in  medio  cornu  elongato  subdecurvo,  versus 
apicem  gradatim  augustissimo,  baud  ultra  caput  ducto  et  ad  ilium 
adpresso,  armato. — Long.  corp.  Un.  2. 

Habitat  Lanzarotam  borealem,  in  Salinis  degens. 

In  the  greatly-produced,  narrow,  and  acute  process  with  which  the 
anterior  margin  of  its  male  pronotum  is  armed  this  Bledius  belongs 
to  the  same  type  as  the  jjreceding  one ;  nevertheless  the  prothoracic 
horn  of  the  B.  galeatus  is  not  quite  so  elongated  (seeing  that  it  does 
not  extend  beyond  the  extreme  outline  of  the  head),  and  it  is  also 
differently  shaped — being  graduaUy  narrowed  from  the  base  to  the 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  595 

apex,  and  also  slightly  bent  downwards,  following  the  curvatiu'e  of 
the  i)ronotum  (instead  of  being  raised  or  porrect),  and  therefore  more 
closely  applied  against  the  head.  This  curious  arrangement  causes 
the  horn-like  appendage  of  the  pronotum  to  press  against,  and  ^9ro- 
tect,  the  head  (as  it  were  with  a  helmet) — a  circumstance  which  has 
suggested  the  trivial  name  of  the  species.  In  less  important  details, 
the  B.  gcdeatus  is  narrower  and  more  cylindric,  and  of  an  altogether 
darker  hue,  than  the  conmtissimus,  its  eyes,  although  equally  pro- 
minent, are  smaller,  and  its  elytra  and  limbs  are  shorter.  It  is  quite 
as  scarce  as  either  of  the  preceding  species — the  only  three  examples 
which  I  have  seen  having  been  captured  by  myself,  during  March 
1859,  at  the  Salinas,  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote. 

Genus  333.  PLATYSTETHUS. 

Mannerheim,  Brachel.  4G  [script.  PlaUjsthetus]  (1831). 

913.  Platystetlius  cornutus. 

Oxytelus  cornutus,  Gnu:,  Col.  Micropf.  109  (1802). 
Platysthetus  cornutus,  Stcph.,  III.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  311  (1832). 

,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  782  (1839). 

■ •,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deittsch.  ii.  841  (1857). 

Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventuram,  Teneriffam  et  Gomeram,  in 
lutosis,  passim. 

This  common  European  insect,  which  occurs  rarely  at  Madeira,  we 
may  be  pretty  sure  is  universal  at  the  Canaries.  Hitherto,  however, 
I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote,  Fuerteventura,  TenerifFe,  and 
Gomera  ;  and  it  was  taken  in  Fuerteventura  and  Gomera  by  Mr.  Gray, 
and  in  TenerifFe  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  is  found  principally 
in  muddy  spots  at  low  and  intermediate  elevations.  My  Teneriffan 
specimens  are  chiefly  from  the  vicinity  of  S'"  Cruz,  the  Puerto  Oro- 
tava,  and  Souzal. 

914.  Platystethus  fossor. 

P.  cornuto  minor  ac  nitidior  (sc.  nitidissimus,  nee  alutaceus),  parcius 
(tamcn  argute)  punctulatus,  elytris  minus  testaceis  (sc.  vel  nigris, 
vel  plus  minus  picescentioribus),  antennai'um  articulo  ultimo  lon- 
gioro,  magis  oblongo  pedibusque  subpallidioribus  (sensim  minus 
piceis). 

Mas  capite  utrinque  supra  oculos  sulculis  duobus  impresso  necnon 
apice  spinula  acutissimii  aciculiformi  porrecta  armato  ;  abdominis 
segmento  septimo  subtus  in  mcfho  late  impresso  (impressione  scuti- 
formi,  postice  ad  utrumque  latus  carina  obliqua  brevi,  vel  potius 
dente  elongate,  terminata)  necnon  postice  utrinque  inter  carinam 
et  latus  quasi  biinciso  (denticulum  alterum  oliHquum  efformante). 

Foem.  capite  baud  (vel  obsoletissime)  sulcato,  necnon  ai)ice  inarmato: 

2q  2 


596  CAXAEIAN  COLEOPTERA. 

abdominis  segmento  sexto  subtus  in  medio  obsolete  subtriangulari- 
ter  elevato,  septirao  prodncto  rotundato. — Long.  corp.  lin.  Ij-l^. 

Platysthetus  spinosus?,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  784  (1839). 

fossor,  Wall,  Ins.  Mad.  003  (1854). 

,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  199  (1857. 

Habitat  in  humidis  lutosis  Lanzarotae  et  Teneriffse,  minus  frequens. 

Although  (from  description  and  I'ecollection)  I  believe  this  Platy- 
stethus  to  be  certainly  identical  with  the  Madeiran  P.  fossor*,  I  think 
it  far  from  imjirobable  that  it  may  also  coincide  with  Erichson's 
spinosus — in  which  case  the  latter  name  will  have  the  priority. 
Nevertheless,  as  I  have  no  type  of  the  sjJinosus  to  judge  from,  and 
Erichson's  diagnosis  of  it  makes  no  allusion  to  several  important 
features  (as,  for  instance,  the  tivo  teeth  on  either  side  of  the  impres- 
sion on  the  seventh  abdominal  segment  of  the  males,  and  the  dis- 
appearance of  the  sulci  on  the  head  of  the  opposite  sex)  which  are 
conspicuous  in  the  fossor,  I  do  not  think  it  would  be  safe,  without 
further  evidence,  to  treat  it  as  conspecific  with  the  sjnnosiis.  From 
the  cornutm  it  may  be  known  by  its  smaller  size,  more  shining  and 
rather  more  sparingly  punctured  surface  (which  is  free  from  the 
minutely  alutaceous  sculpture  which  is  always  present  in  that  insect) , 
by  its  darker  elytra  (which  are  either  entii-ely  black  or  else  pieescent 
— but  never  with  the  disc  actually  testaceous),  by  its  somewhat  paler 
legs,  and  by  the  last  joint  of  its  antennae  beiiig  more  elongated  or 
oblong.  Its  male  sex,  also,  recedes  from  the  cormdus  in  having  either 
side  of  its  head  (above  the  eyes)  branded  with  two  irregular  sulci ; 
though,  as  in  that  species,  it  is  armed  at  each  anterior  angle  with  an 
exceedingly  acute  porrect  spine  (which,  however,  is  smaller  and  less 
conspicuous  than  is  the  case  in  the  cormctus).  The  few  examples 
which  I  have  seen  from  these  islands  were  taken  by  mj-self — around 
Haria  in  the  north  of  Lanzarote,  and  close  to  the  Puerto  Orotava  in 
Teneriffe. 

Genus  334.  OXYTELUS. 
Gravenhorst,  Col  Micropt.  101  (1802). 

915.  Ox3rtelus  piceus. 

Staphylinus  picens,  Linn.f,  Si/st.  Nat.  i.  ii.  G80  (1767). 
Ox^lelus  piceus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  788  (1839). 

*  I  should  state,  however,  that  tlie  few  Canarian  examples  now  before  me  are 
on  the  average  rather  larger  than  the  Madeiran  ones,  and  have  their  mandibles 
less  conspicuously  cleft  at  tlie  apex  ;  but  as  the  Plafysfethi  generally  are  emi- 
nently variable  in  stature,  and  the  mandibles  ai-e  the  least  stable  of  their  oral 
organs,  I  do  not  lay  much  stress  upon  this  twofold  fact. 

f  Although  this  common  Oxi/telits  has  always  been  identified  with  the  Staphy- 
linus piceus  of  the  'Systema  Naturi¥,'  I  believe  that  Mr.  M'aterhouse  has  lately 


CANARIAN  COLEOFIEEA.  597 

Oxytelus  piceiis,  JFull.,  Lis.  Mad.  606  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  199  (1857). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriffam,  Gomeram  et  Palmam,  in  stercore 
bovino  et  equino  vulgaris. 

The  European  0.  piceus,  which  abounds  at  Madeira,  is  probably 
universal  in  these  islands — occurring  in  the  dung  of  cattle,  at  most 
elevations.  Hitherto,  however,  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Grand 
Canary,  TenerifFe,  and  Palma ;  but  specimens  are  now  before  me 
which  were  taken  in  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch. 

916.  Oxytelus  sculptus. 

Oxytelus  sculptus,  Grav.,  Mon.  191  (1806). 

longicomis,  Mann,,  Brachel.  48  (1831). 

sculptus,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  788  (1839). 

,  Woll.,  Lis.  Mad.  607  (1854). 

,  LI,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  199  (1857). 

Habitat  in  humidis  Canarise,  Teneriffae,  Gomeram  et  Palmse,  passim. 

As  at  Madeira,  this  European  Oxytelus  is  more  attached  to  decaying 
vegetable  refuse,  and  damp  places  generally,  than  to  the  dung  of  cattle ; 
and  it  seems  to  be  more  local  than  thepicetis.  It  is,  however,  widely 
spread  over  the  archipelago,  where  in  all  probability  it  is  universal. 
I  have  taken  it  in  Grand  Canary,  Teneriife,  and  Palma ;  and  it  was 
captured  in  Teneriffe  and  Gomera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Grand-Canarian 
specimens  are  principally  from  TeYor  ;  and  the  TenerifFan  ones  from 
the  vicinity  of  the  Puerto  Orotava,  the  Agua  Garcia,  and  Ycod  el  Alto. 

917.  Oxytelus  complanatus. 

Oxytelus  depressus,  Gi/ll.  [nee  Grav.  1802],  Lis.  Stiec.  ii.  457  (1810). 

complanatus,  Erich.,  Kdf.  der  Mark  Brand,  i.  595  (1837). 

,  Woll,  Lis.  Mad.  608  (1854). 

,  LI,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  200  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  late  sed  parce  diffusus. 

The  0.  complanatus  (likewise  European,  and  which  abounds  in 
Madeira)  is  not  very  common  at  the  Canaries,  where,  however,  it  is 
universal.  1  have  taken  it  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe, 
Palma,  and  Hierro ;  and  it  was  found  in  Fuerteventui'a,  TenerifFe, 
Gomera,  Palma,  and  Hierro  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  TenerifFe  and  Gomera 
by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occurs  both  in  the  dung  of  cattle  and  beneath 
vegetable  refuse  generally. 

stated  that  the  type  in  the  Linnean  cabinet  pertains  to  the  insect  which  is  univer- 
sally recognized  under  the  name  of  scidptus.  But  as  there  is  at  least  a  possibility 
of  the  (so-called)  "  type"  having  been  subsequently  tampered  with,  and  it  is  most 
undesirable  to  create  confusion  concerning  two  species  the  nomenclature  of  which 
has  been  regarded  hitherto  as  completely  settled,  I  would  rather  avoid  all  con- 
sideration of  a  question  which  can  lead  to  no  advantageous  result,  practically — 
but  quite  the  reverse. 


59b 


CANARIAN  OOLEOPTERA. 


918.  Oxytelus  nitidulus. 
Oxytelus  nitidulus,  Grav.,  Col  3Iic>-opt.  107  (1802). 

— ,  Urich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  795  (1839). 

,  JFolL,  Ins.  Mad.  009  (1854). 

,  Id,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  201  (1857). 

Habitat  insulas  omnes  Canarienses,  in  stercore  bovino,  equino,  ca- 
melino,  humano,  iibique  vulgaris. 

This  abundant  European  Oxytel us,  M^hich  is  common  in  the  Madeiran 
Group,  is  universal  at  the  Canaries — in  the  whole  seven  islands  of 
which  I  have  myself  captured  it.  In  Lanzarote,  Fucrteventura,  and 
Gomera  it  was  found  likewise  by  Mr.  Gray,  and  in  Tcneriffe  and  Go- 
mera  by  Dr.  Crotch.  It  occurs  principally  in  the  dung  of  cattle,  and 
is  independent  of  elevation. 

919.  Oxytelus  glareosus. 

0.  minutus,  angustulus,  opacus,  densissinie  et  grosse  rugulosus ;  capite 
subquadrato,  piceo-nigro,  ocuHs  parvis  ;  prothorace  rufo-ferrugineo, 
brevi,  subsemicirculari  (apice  truncato,  bisinuato),  sulcis  dorsaUbus 
obsoletis  ;  elj'tris  (depressis)  abdomineque  nigro-fuseis  ;  antennis 
ferrugineis,  articulo  ultimo  acuminate ;  pedibus  pallide  testaceis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Oxytelus  glareosus,  WoU.,  Ins.  Mad.  610  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  201  (1857). 

Habitat  TenerifFam  ;  exemplar  tmicum  (per  aerem  volitans)  mox 
supra  Portum  Orotavae  dcprehendi. 

The  small  bulk,  opake  and  densely  rugulose  sui'face  of  this  Oa-yteliis, 
combined  ynih.  its  subquadrate,  piceous-black  head  and  minute  eyes, 
its  short,  somewhat  semicircular,  rufo-ferruginous  prothorax  (on 
which  the  longitudinal  sulci  are  almost  obsolete),  its  dark-brown 
elytra  and  abdomen,  its  ferruginous  antennae  (with  their  aj)ically-acute 
terminal  joint),  and  its  pale-testaceous  legs,  will  at  once  separate  it 
from  all  the  preceding  species.  Although  decidedly  common  around 
Funchal  in  Madeira,  it  appears  to  be  rare  in  these  islands — though 
perhaps,  from  its  small  dimensions,  it  may  merely  have  escaped  ob- 
servation. The  only  Canarian  example  which  I  have  seen  I  captui'ed 
(on  the  wing)  immediately  above  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe. 

Genus  335.  TROGOPHLGEUS. 

Mannerheim,  Brachel  49  (18ol). 

920.  Trogophlceus  transversalis. 

T.  nitidus,  nigcr  (fere  ater),  elytris  (amplis,  depressis)  postice  Itete 
rufo-ferrugineis  ;  prothorace  bre\'iter  subcordato,  angulis  posticis 
sat  argute  determinatis,  basi  profuude  transversim  impresso,  in 


CANARIAN  COLEOPXERA.  599 

disco  antico  plus  minus  obscure  trinotato ;  antennis  fusco-piceis  ; 
pedibus  saturate  testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin,  vix  1|. 

Trog-ophloeus  transversalis,  JVoll,  Cat.  3Ia(l.  Col.  202  (1857). 
.    Habitat  Lanzarotam,  Fuerteventui-am  et  Teneriffam,  in  humidis, 
rarissimus. 

In  its  rather  large  size,  considerably  developed,  somewhat  depressed 
elytra,  and  the  deep  transverse  impression  at  the  base  of  its  pro  thorax, 
this  Tro(joplilQius  has  a  good  deal  in  common  with  the  European  scro- 
hlcidatus  (=arcuatiis,  Steph.) ;  but  it  is  more  finely  punctured,  its 
eyes  are  a  little  smaller,  its  antennae  are  somewhat  longer  and  less 
black,  and  the  hinder  portion  of  its  elytra  is  gradually  of  a  clear 
rufo-ferruginous  hue.  The  species  was  enunciated  in  my  Madeiran 
Catalogue  from  a  unique  example  which  I  captured,  in  1855,  on  the 
Southern  Deserta  (or  Bugio) ;  and  it  appears  to  be  nearly  as  rare  at 
the  Canaries  as  in  the  neighbouring  Group.  The  very  few  specimens 
which  I  have  seen  were  taken  by  myself — near  Haria  in  the  north  of 
Lanzarote,  at  La  Antigaia  in  Fuerteventura,  and  at  the  Agua  Garcia 
in  Teneriffe. 

921.  TrogopMoeus  riparius. 

2\  subnitidus,  niger,  elytris  sa^pius  concoloribus  (rarius  picescentibus); 
prothorace  subcordato  (antice  lato),  in  disco  postico  longitudinaliter 
biimprcsso  ;  antennis  fusco-piceis,  articulis  duobus  basalibus  pedi- 
busque  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  li-l|. 

Trogophlceus  riparius,  Boisd.  etLacord.,  Faun.  Ent.  Paris,  i.  467  (1835). 

,  Erich.,  Gm.  et  8pec.  Staph.  807  (1839). 

,  Kraatz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  871  (1856). 

Habitat  Canariam,  Teneriffam  et  Palmam,  hinc  inde  in  humidis, 
late  diffusus. 

I  believe  that  this  TrogopMoeus  is  better  referred  to  the  European 
T.  riparius  than  to  the  biUneatus — its  slightly  larger  size  and  stronger 
punctation,  combined  with  the  two  basal  joints  of  its  antennae  (and  its 
entire  legs)  being  rufo-testaceous,  seeming  to  identify  it  with  the 
former,  rather  than  the  latter,  of  those  species.  It  appears  to  be 
scarce,  or  at  any  rate  local,  in  these  islands — occurring  in  moist  places 
at  low  and  intermediate  altitudes.  I  have  taken  it  (chiefly  on  the 
wing)  in  damp  cultivated  spots  near  Teror  in  Grand  Canary,  around 
S'"  Cruz  and  at  the  Agua  Garcia  in  Teneriffe,  as  wcU  as  in  Palma. 

922.  Trogophlceus  bilineatus. 

T.  praecedenti  similis,  sed  paulo  minor,  vix  subtilius  punctulatus  ;  pro- 
thorace antice  scnsim  minus  dilatato,  foveis  duabus  dorsalibus  magis 
interruptis  ;  antennis  paulo  brevioribus,  nigrescentioribus,  fere  con- 


600  CANARIAN  CULEOPTERA. 

coloribus  (articulo  primo  obscure  picescentiorc);  pcdibiis  paiilo  mi- 
nus rufescentibus. — Long-,  corp.  lin.  l^. 

Trogopliloaus  biliueatus,  Erich.,  Kiif.  dcr  Mark  Brand,  i.  COO  (1839). 

,  Id.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  80(3  (1839). 

,  Kraatz,  Nat.  dcr  Ins.  Beutsch.  ii.  872  (1856). 

,  WuJl.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col  201  (18.57). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  semel  tantum  lectus. 

If  the  preceding  species  be  rightly  identified  (as  I  believe  to  be  the 
case)  with  the  European  T.  riparius,  I  think  that  the  present  one 
should  decidedly  be  referred  to  the  (equally  common)  hiJineatus — even 
though,  unfortunately,  I  have  but  a  single  example  of  it  (taken  by 
myself  in  the  region  of  El  Monte  in  Grand  Canary)  to  judge  from. 
The  specimen  now  before  me  differs  from  the  riparius  in  being  a  little 
smaller  and  less  coarsely  punctured,  in  its  prothorax  (which  is  some- 
what less  dilated  anteriorly)  having  the  two  longitudinal  foveas  down 
its  disc  a  trifle  more  interrupted  (or  divided  into  four  impressions),  in 
its  antennae  being  appreciably  shorter  and  dai'ker  (their  extreme  base 
only  being  very  slightly  diluted  in  hue),  and  in  its  legs  being  a  shade 
less  rufescent — all  of  which  points,  it  will  be  perceived,  are  the  very 
ones  which  are  supposed  to  separate  the  hilineatus  from  the  riparias. 
It  occurs  also,  though  sparingly,  in  Madeira. 

923.  TrogophloBus  exiguus. 
T.  hilineato  minor  et  angustior ;  oculis  minoribus  ;  prothorace  paulo 
minus  cordate  (ad  latera  sensim  magis  asqualiter  rotundato),  foveis 
dorsalibus  subobsoletis  ;  an  tennis  vix  brevioribus.— Long.  corp.  lin. 
vix  1. 

Trogophlceus  exiguus?,  Erich.,  Kiif.  der  Mark  Brand.  G04  (1839). 
?,  Id.,  Gen.  et  Sjycc.  Staph.  809  (1839). 

Habitat  Canariam  Grandem,  semel  repertus. 

It  is  with  doubt  that  I  refer  this  TrogopJilceus  to  the  European  T. 
exiguus ;  but  as  I  have  only  a  single  example  to  judge  from,  which 
certainly  is  not  identical  with  any  of  the  other  species  here  enume- 
rated, I  think  it  better  to  assign  it  provisionally  to  some  acknowledged 
member  of  the  genus  to  treating  it  as  new  on  insufficient  evidence. 
It  differs  from  all  the  preceding  Trogophlcei  in  being  considerably 
smaller  and  narrower  (though  it  is  not  quite  so  minute  as  either  of 
the  following  ones),  in  its  eyes  being  less  developed,  and  in  its  pro- 
thorax  (which  has  the  dorsal  foveas  obscui-ely  expressed)  being  a  trifle 
less  cordate  (or  less  narrowed  behind) — and,  therefore,  somewhat 
more  regularly  rounded  at  the  sides.  The  only  example  which  I  have 
seen  was  captured  by  myself  at  Teror,  in  Grand  Canary,  during  the 
spring  of  1858. 


CANARIAN  COLKOPTER.i.  601 

924.  Trogophloeus  ruficoUis,  n.  sp. 

T.  subnitidus,  capite  abdomineque  nigris,  prothorace  elytrisque  tes- 
tacco-rufis,  his  (argute  punctatis)  antice  obscurioribus  ;  capite  pi'o- 
thoraceqne  deu.sissime  rugoso-alutaceis  (vix  punctidatis),  hoc  ad 
basin  obsolete  transversim  impresso  (fovcis  dorsalibus  nullis) ;  an- 
tennis  bre\'iusculis,  nigrescentibus,  ad  basin  ipsam  pedibusqne  sa- 
turate rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  |-1, 

Habitat  Fuerteventuram  et  TenerifFam,  sub  lapidibus,  rarissimus. 

The  rufous  head  and  elytra  (the  latter  of  which,  however,  are  rather 
obscured  anteriorly)  of  this  minute  Trogopliloeus,  whilst  its  head  and 
abdomen  are  black  and  its  legs  testaceous,  will  sufficiently  distinguish 
it.  Its  prothorax  has  the  dorsal  impressions  obsolete,  but  is  lightly 
marked  behind  with  a  transverse  (sometimes  evanescent)  fovea,  and 
(together  "with  the  head)  is  very  densely  and  coarsely  alutaceous  ;  and 
its  elytra  are  somewhat  sharply  punctured.  It  is  extremely  rare,  the 
few  specimens  which  I  have  seen  having  been  taken  by  myself  at  La 
Antigua  in  Fuerteventura  and  near  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  Teneriffe. 

925.  Trogophloeus  bledioides,  n.  sp, 

T.  subopacus,  niger  vel  fusco-niger,  subtilissime  densissimeque  cine- 
reo-sericeus,  minutissime  et  deusissime  (in  elytris  vix  profundius) 
punctulatus  ;  capite  parum  magno  ;  prothorae<^  angusto,  subcyhn- 
drico-cordato,  integro  (i.  e.  foveis  nullis  impresso);  antennis  brevi- 
bus,  nigris,  articulo  prime  (longiusculo)  vix  picescentiore  (articulo 
secundo  sat  aucto,  sequentibus  brevibus);  pedibus  pallide  testaceis. 
— Long.  corp.  lin.  -j- vix  1. 

Habitat  TenerifFam  et  Gomeram,  hinc  inde  baud  infrequens. 
In  its  minute  size,  and  very  densely,  delicately,  and  evenly  punc- 
tulatcd  head  and  prothorax,  the  latter  of  which  is  perfectly  free  from 
all  traces  of  impressions  or  foveae,  this  little  Trogo])Jiloeus  has  evidently 
much  in  common  with  the  T.  simplicicoUis  of  the  Madeiran  Group ; 
nevertheless  (although  I  have  at  present  no  type  of  the  latter  for 
comparison)  I  am  satisfied  (both  from  recollection  and  the  diagnosis) 
that  it  is  truly  distinct  from  it.  It  is  remarkable,  inter  alia,  for  its 
head  being  rather  large  and  wide  (/or  a  TrogojMceus),  for  its  pro- 
thorax being  narrow  and  elongate  (instead  of  transverse),  and  for  its 
entire  colour  (except  the  legs,  which  are  pale  testaceous)  being  of  a 
dark  brownish-black.  Its  wings  are  immensely  developed  ;  and  its 
antennae  are  abbroviated— with  their  basal  joint  a  little  longer,  the 
second  a  trifle  more  enlarged,  and  the  following  ones  shorter,  than  is 
the  case  in  the  TroyopJdcei  generally.  It  is  extremely  local,  but  per- 
haps not  uncommon  if  searched  for  in  the  proper  situations ;  though 
its  very  diminutive  size  renders  it  liable  to  escajje  detection.    On  one 


602  CANARIAN  COLEOPTEIIA. 

occasion  I  observed  it  in  tolerable  abundance  (on  the  wing)  imme- 
diately outside  the  Puerto  Orotava  in  TencrifFe ;  and  several  speci- 
mens are  now  before  me  which  were  captured  by  Dr.  Crotch  in  Gomera. 

(Subfam.  IX.  HOMALIADES.) 

Genus  336.  PHILORINUM. 

Kraatz,  Kat.  der  Ins.  Ucuttscli.  ii.  905  (185G). 

926.  Philorinum  floricola,  n.  sp. 

P.  lineari-oblongum,  subopacum,  subtilissime  et  brevissime  pubescens, 
dense,  sat  profunde,  argute  et  subcEqualiter  punctatum,  nigrum ; 
capite  subconvexo,  aequali,  simplici  (nee,  ut  mihi  videtur,  ocellato, 
iiec  lineato);  prothorace  (interdum  fuscescentiore)  convexo,  aequali, 
ad  latera  8uba;(]ualiter  rotundato  ;  elytris  plus  minus  dilutioribus 
(vel  testaceo-fuscis,  vel  fusco-testaceis,  rarius  fusco-nigris) ;  ab- 
domine  multo  levins  parciusque  punctulato ;  antennis  rufo-tcstaceis 
(apicem  versus  interdum  paulo  obscimoribus)  ;  jjcdibus  testaceis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1^. 

Habitat  ad  flores  (prsesertim  Cijtisi  et  Bpartil)  in  Canaria,  Teneriifa, 
Palma  et  Hierro,  a  2000'  usque  ad  9000'  s.m.  ascendens. 

This  Philorinum  will  probably  be  found  in  all  the  islands  of  the 
Group  except  Lanzarote  and  Fuerteventura ;  and,  indeed,  I  have  taken 
it  in  Grand  Canary,  Teneriffe,  Palma,  and  Hierro.  It  occurs  chiefly 
on  floAvers  (particularly  those  of  Cytisus  and  Sjjartium)  at  intermediate 
and  lofty  elevations,  ascendmg  to  about  9000  feet  above  the  sea.  It 
is  more  often,  however,  to  be  met  with  in  the  higher  altitudes;  for 
on  the  two  upland  Cumbres  of  Teneriffe,  above  the  Agua  Mansa  and 
Ycod  el  Alto  respectively,  I  have  (during  May  of  1859)  brushed  it  in 
absolute  profusion  off  the  blossoms  of  the  "  Retama  "  (or  Spartium 
nuhigena).  Nevertheless  it  does  occasionally  descend  to  an  elevation 
of  scarcely  more  than  2000  feet,  inasmuch  as  I  have  also  captured 
it  (in  Teneriffe)  sparingly  both  at  the  Agua  Garcia  and  in  the  laurel- 
woods  above  Taganana*. 

Genus  337.  HOMALIUM. 

Gravenliorst,  Col.  3Iicropt.  116  [script.  Omaliiim']  (1802). 

927.  Homalium  sculpticolle,  n.  sp. 
//.  oblongo-ovatum,  depressum,  nitidum,  profunde  punctatum,  piceo- 
nigrum  ;  capite  subrotundato,  postice  longitudinaliter  bifoveolato  ; 

*  The  P.  floricola  was  examined  by  Dr.  Kraatz,  who  returned  it  with  the  ob- 
servation, "  Genus  Philorinum  mihi ;  sp.  nov.  videtur,  antennis  concoloribus 
excellens." 


CANARIAN  COLEOPTEEA.  603 

prothorace  transverso-quadrato  antice  paiilo  angustiore,  angulis 
posticis  argute  subrectis,  in  disco  postico  longitudinaliter  bifoveato 
iiecnon  utrinque  versus  latera  (subreeurvo-explanata)  profunda 
impresso  ;  abdomine  nitidissimo,  subtilissime  et  paree  punctulato  ; 
antennis  longiusculis,  versus  basin  rufo-ferrugiueis ;  pedibus  sa- 
turate rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  l^l^. 

Habitat  in  locis  aliquanto  elevatis  TenerifFae  et  Palmar,  rarissimum. 

This  Homalium  has  much  the  general  aspect,  colour,  and  sculpture 
of  the  common  European  H.  rivulare ;  but  it  is  considerably  smaller, 
and  rather  more  closely,  finely,  and  sharply  punctured ;  its  head  is 
narrower  and  less  transverse ;  its  prothoracic  foveas  are  more  deeply 
impressed ;  its  abdomen  is  very  much  more  shining,  being  free  from 
the  alutaceous  sculpture  which  is  so  conspicuous  in  that  insect ;  and 
its  antenna)  are  a  little  slenderer.  It  seems  to  be  very  scarce,  and 
confined  to  intermediate  and  rather  lofty  elevations.  I  have  taken 
it,  from  beneath  small  stones,  in  an  open  basaltic  cavern  at  the  base 
of  the  Organo  Rocks  (in  the  sylvan  region  above  the  Agua  Mansa) 
in  TeneriiFe,  and  (more  sparingly)  in  the  district  of  the  Banda  in 
Palma. 

928.  Homalium  pusillum. 

II.  angusto-lineare,  valde  dejiressum,  opacum,  alutaceum  punctulisque 
levissimis  minutis  in  jirothorace  elytrisque  parce  irroratum,  nigro- 
piceum  ;  capite  brevi,  triangulaii,  basi  (ad  ocellos)  breviter  bifoveo- 
lato ;  prothorace  transverso-quadrato  postice  paulo  angustiore,  an- 
gulis  posticis  argute  subobtusis,  anticis  rotundatis,  in  disco  postico 
longitudinaliter  bifoveato  necnon  utrinque  versus  latera  late  im- 
presso; antennis  (brevibus,  compactis)  pedibusque  rufo-testaceis. — 
Long.  corp.  lin.  1. 

Omaliuni  pusillum,  Grav.,  Hon.  205  (180G). 

.  Steph.,  m.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  353  (1832). 

,  Erich.,  Gen.  et  Spec.  Staph.  879  (1839). 

-,  Kraaiz,  Nat.  der  Ins.  Deutsch.  ii.  988  (1856). 

Habitat  Teneriffam  sylvaticam ;  sub  cortice  Pini  canariensis  cujus- 
dam  laxo  ad  Agua  Mansa  exemplar  unicum  collegi. 

I  can  see  nothing  to  separate  the  single  specimen  now  before  me 
from  the  European  H.  pusillum,  except  that  the  prothorax  has  its 
fovese  rather  deeper,  and,  together  with  the  elytra,  is  a  trifle  more 
distinctly  punctured ;  and  consequently,  as  such  differences  (which 
are  merely  in  degree,  and  not  in  kind)  are  scarcely  "\\'orth  noticing, 
I  have  referred  it  without  hesitation  to  that  species.  The  example 
from  which  the  above  diagnosis  has  been  compiled  I  captured  at  the 
Agua  Mansa  in  Teneriffe,  from  beneath  the  loosened  bark  of  a  felled 
Finns  canariensis. 


604 


CANAIUAX  COLEOI'TEltA. 


(Subfam.  X.  PllOTINIDES.) 

Genus  338.  MEGARTHRUS. 

(Kirby)  Stephens,  ///.  Brit.  Ent.  v.  330  (1832). 

929.  Megarthrus  longicornis. 

M.  nigro-fuscus  prothorace  paulo  rufesccntiore,  subopacus,  profunde 
asperato-punctatus ;  capita  (intcrdum  fere  nigro)  antice  inter 
oculos  plus  minus  producto  et  saspe  recurvo,  utrinque  latissime 
subconcavo  ;  prothorace  profunde  canaliculate,  basi  in  medio  si- 
nuate et  mox  intra  basin  leviter  transversim  impresso,  ad  angulos 
posticos  excise  necnon  ad  latera  in  medio  obsoletissime  subangu- 
lato  ;  antennis  subgracilibus,  longiusculis  (articulis  intermediis  sat 
elongatis,  conspicue  obconicis),  nigrescentibus,  ad  basin  piceis  ;  pe- 
dibus  rufo-testaceis. — Long.  corp.  lin.  1-1 3. 

Megarthrus  longicornis,  Wull,  Im.  Mad.  G15.  tab.  xiii.  f  9  (1854). 
,  Id.,  Cat.  Mad.  Col.  236  (1857). 

Habitat  in  Lanzarota,  Canaria,  TenerifFa  et  Hierro,  sub  quisqui- 
liis  in  inferioribus  intermediisque  dcgens. 

This  Megarthrus  is  nearly  allied  to  the  European  M.  sinuaticoUis, 
but  has  its  antcnna3  rather  longer  and  slenderer,  the  intermediate 
joints  being  very  conspicuously  more  elongated  and  obconical;  its 
head  is  a  little  more  produced  in  front,  where  it  is  frequently  some- 
what recurved  ;  its  prothorax  is  less  rounded  at  the  sides,  and  only 
very  ohsoletely  subangulated  in  the  middle,  as  also  more  decidedly 
sinuated  (and  transversely  impressed)  in  the  centre  of  its  base  ;  and 
its  entire  sculpture  is  coarser.  I  do  not  see  that  it  differs  specifi- 
cally from  the  Madeiran  M.  longicornis ;  for  although  in  Madeira 
two  of  its  main  features  (namely,  the  rather  elongated  antennal 
joints  and  the  slightly  produced  head)  are  usually  a  trifle  more  ex- 
pressed, the  examination  of  a  very  extensive  series  of  Canarian  spe- 
cimens has  convinced  me  that  the  clypeus,  at  all  events,  is  subject 
to  great  variation — being  sometimes  considerably  recurved,  some- 
times comparatively  deflected,  and  at  others  more  or  less  transitional. 
It  occurs  beneath  vegetable  refuse  at  low  and  intermediate  eleva- 
tions, and  is  doubtless  universal  throughout  the  archipelago — though 
hitherto  I  have  observed  it  only  in  Lanzarote,  Grand  Canary,  Tene- 
riffe,  and  Hierro.  In  Teneriffe  and  Hierro  it  was  found  likewise  by 
Mr.  Gray,  and  in  the  former  by  Dr.  Crotch.  My  Teneriffan  speci- 
mens are  principally  from  the  vicinity  of  S'"  Cruz  and  the  mountains 
above  it,  Las  Mercedes,  and  the  Agoia  Garcia.  Although  both  common 
and  widely  distributed  in  these  islands,  it  is  an  extremely  rare  insect 
at  Madeira. 


CANAEIAN  COLEOPTERA.  605 

Genus  339.  METOPSIA. 
Wollaston,  Ins.  Mad.  G16  (1854). 

930.  Metopsia  cimicoides,  n.  sp. 

M.  oblonga,  depressa,  utrinque  explanato-coneava  sed  per  medium 
subcarinata,  pallide  ferruginea,  subopaca,  grosse  aspei-ato-punc- 
tulata  et  antice  granulis  superadditis  obsita ;  capite  transverse, 
apice  recta  truncate  et  utrinque  incise,  pestice  in  medio  ocelle  in- 
structo ;  protberace  canalicubi  polita  notate,  basi  intra  angides 
utrinque  late  excise ;  antennis  nigre-fuscis,  afticido  ultimo  ferru- 
gineo,  articulis  prime  et  secunde  pedibusque  rufe-testaceis. — Long. 
Corp.  lin,  1|. 

Habitat  in  lauretis  excelsis  Teneriffie,  in  mentibus  supra  Taga- 
nanam  Maio  a.d.  1859  semel  reperta. 

One  of  the  rarest  of  the  Canarian  Coleeptera — the  only  specimen 
which  I  have  seen  having  been  obtained  in  the  damp  laurel-vroods 
of  a  high  elevation  in  Teneriffe,  en  the  mountains  above  Taganana, 
during  May  of  1859,  It  has  consequently  the  same  habits  as  the 
Madeiran  M.  ampliata,  to  which  indeed  it  is  closely  allied.  It  is, 
however,  unquestionably  distinct  from  that  species — being  net  only 
smaller  and  more  oblong,  but  likewise  paler  and  more  coarsely  punc- 
tured, with  its  prothorax  more  deeply  bilebed  in  front  (causing  the 
anterior  angles  to  be  more  perrect),  and  with  its  legs  rather  shorter, 
besides  numerous  miner  differences  which  are  better  seen  than  de- 
scribed. Its  prima  facie  aspect  and  colour  are  so  curiously  sugges- 
tive of  the  common  Cimex  Uetularius,  that  I  have  chosen  the  above 
trivial  name  as  peculiarly  appropriate. 


COERIGENDITM. 

P.  229.  Cephaloncus. — Not  having  seen  Prof.  Westwood's  dia- 
gnosis, when  I  prepared  the  MS.  of  this  portion  of  the  Catalogue,  I 
was  not  aware  that  he  had  SiQiwally  puhlished  the  genus  under  the 
name  (originally  proposed  by  him)  of  "  Ogcocephalus,^'' — he  ha\dng 
merely  informed  me  that  the  latter  title  (which  I  erroneously  con- 
cluded ivas  still  in  litteris)  being  apparently  preoccupied,  the  name 
might  be  altered  to  Cephaloncus.  And  I  consequently  assumed  that 
he  had  himself  made  the  change  previous  to  pjublication. 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


Fam.  1.  Carabidse. 

1.  Notiophilus,  Dum. 

1.  geminatus,  Dej 

2.  Leistus,  Frohl. 

2.  nubi vagus,  W 

3.  Nebria,  Lat. 

3.  dilatata,  Dej 

4.  currax,  W 

4.  Calosoma,  Weber 

5.  indagator,  F 

6.  azoricum,  Ileer 

5.  Carabits,  L. 

7.  coarctatus,  Br 

8.  faiistus,  Br 

9.  interruptuS;  Dt;j 

6.  Scaritcs,  F. 

10.  gigas,  F 

7.  Dyschirius,  Bon. 

11.  armatus,  W 

12.  subfieiieus,  W 

13.  pauxillus,  W 

8.  Pheropsophus,  Sol. 

14.  hispanicus,  Dej 

9.  Poli/stichus,  Bon. 

15.  brunneus,  Dej 

10.  Dromius,  Bon. 

16.  agilis,  F 

17.  amoenus,  W 

18.  elliptipennis,  W 

19.  sigma,  Rossi   

20.  incertiis,  W 

21.  pervenustus,  W 

11.  lilechrus,  Mots. 

22.  glabratus,  Diifts 

23.  maurus,  St 

24.  plagiatus,  Dufts 

12.  3Ietabletus,  Gcibel. 

25.  patruelis,  Chaud 

26.  inaequalis,  W 

27.  lancerotensis,  W 

28.  brevipennis,  W i  .  . 

13.  Tarns,  Clairv, 

29.  discoideus,  Dej |  * 


o 


ii 


W 


608 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS, 


13.  Tarns,  Clairv.  (continued). 

30.  suturalis,  Dej 

31.  niarginellus,  Br 

32.  ciuftus,  Br 

33.  amictus,  W 

34.  zargoides,  W 

14.  Masoreus,  Dej. 

35.  nobilis,  W 

36.  arenicola,  W 

37.  alticola,  W 

15.  Clilceiiiiis,  Bon. 

38.  spoliatus,  Rossi 

39.  canariensis,  Dtg 

16.  Licinus,  Lat. 

40.  Manriqiiianus,  W 

17.  BroscKs,  Pnz. 

41.  glaber,  Br 

42.  rutilans,  W 

18.  Pof/oiuis,  Dej. 

43.  salsipotens,  W 

44.  Grayii,  W 

19.  Sphodrus,  Clairv. 

45.  leucoplithalmus,  L.    .  , 

20.  Pristonj/chus,  Dej. 

46.  alternans,  Dej , 

47.  complanatus,  Dej 

48.  picescens,  W 

21.  Calathus,  Bon. 

49.  sphodroides,  W.    

50.  acuminatus,  W 

51.  rufocastaneiis,  W 

52.  carinatus,  Br 

53.  advena,  W 

54.  abacoides,  Br 

55.  ascendens,  W 

56.  cognatus,  W 

57.  rectus,  W 

58.  siniplicicoUis,  W 

59.  ciliatus,  W 

60.  auctus,  W 

61.  angustulus,  W 

62.  depressus,  Br 

63.  appendiculatus,  W.     .  . 

64.  barbatus,  W 

65.  spretus,  W 

22.  Atichomemis,  Bon. 

66.  Nichollsii,  W 

67.  debilis,W 

68.  albipes,  F 

69.  marginatus,  L 

23.  Olisthopus,  Dej. 

70.  palmensia,  W 

71.  glabratus,  Br 

72.  elongatus,  W 


te 


INDEX  TOPOGRArniCUS. 


Guy 


24.  Phtydenis,  Steph. 

73.  alticola,  W 

74.  temiistriatus,  W.    .  . . 

25.  Pterostichiis,  Bon. 

75.  crenatus,  Dej 

76.  iiguratus,  W 

77.  longulus,  Reiche    .  . . 

78.  angularis,  Br 

79.  harpaloides,  W 

26.  Ainara,  Bon. 

80.  versuta,  W 

27.  Zahrits,  Clairv. 

81.  crassus,  Dej 

82.  laevigatas,  Zimm.  .  . . 

28.  Aristiis,  Lat. 

88.  subopacus,  W 

29.  Cratognathus,  Dej. 

84.  solitarius,  W 

85.  fortunatus,  W 

86.  niicans,  W 

87.  asmulus,  W 

30.  Harpalus,  Lat. 

88.  teuebrosns,  Dej 

89.  Schaumii,  W 

31.  Dichirotrichus,  Duv. 

90.  levistriatus,  W 

32.  Stenoloplms  (Meg.),  Steph. 

91.  vaporariorum,  F 

92.  marginatus,  Dej 

93.  dorsalis,  F 

33.  Bradycellus,  Erich. 

94.  ventricosus,  W 

34.  Trechus,  Clairv. 

95.  detersus,  W 

96.  flavolimbatus,  W 

97.  felix,  W 

35.  Thalassophilus,  W. 

98.  Whitfei,  W 

36.  Perileptus,  Schaum 

99.  nigritulus,  W 

37.  Tachys  (Ziegl.),  Steph. 

100.  bistriatus,  Diifts 

101.  scutellaris,  Gei*m.     .  . 

102.  centromaculatus,  W. 

103.  curvimanus,  W 

104.  hsemorrhoidalis,  Dej. 

38.  Bembidium,  Lat. 

105.  biguttatura,  F 

106.  viciniim,  Luc 

107.  atlanticum,  W 

108.  coneolor,  Br 

109.  subcallosLim,  W 

110.  inconspicuum,  W.    .. 

111.  lastum,  Br 


610 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


38.  Bemhidiuyn,  Lat.  (continued). 

112.  Crotchii,  W 

113.  margiuicoUe,  W 

Fam.  2.  DytiscidaB. 

39.  Haliplus,  Lat. 

111.  suffiisus,  W 

40.  Hydro2iorus,  Clairv. 

115.  musicus,  King 

116.  confluens,  F 

117.  geminus,  F 

118.  minutissimus,  Germ.   .  . 

119.  delectus,  W 

120.  xantbopus,  Stepli 

121.  planus,  F 

122.  Clarkii,  W 

123.  Ceresyi,  Aube 

124.  tessellatus,  Aube 

41.  Lacco^jhilm,  Leach 

125.  iufiatus,W 

42.  Colymhetes,  Clairv. 

126.  coriaceus,  Lap 

43.  Agabus,  Leach 

127.  nebulosus,  Forst 

128.  biguttatus,  Oliv 

129.  consanguineus,  W 

44.  Cyhkter,  Cart. 

130.  afi-'cauus,  Lap 

45.  Dytise:!  ■■,  L. 

131.  circumflexus,  F 

46.  Ennectes,  Erich 

132.  subdiaphanus,  W 

Fam.  3.  Gyrinidae. 

47.  Gyriims,  Geoifr. 

133.  striatus,  F 

134.  urinator,  lUig 

135.  Dejeanii,  Br 

Fam.  4.  PamidaB. 

48.  Parmis,  F. 

136.  prolifericornis,  F 

Fam.  5,  Helophoridae. 

49.  Helophorus,  F. 

137.  longitarsis,  W 

50.  Ochthebius,  Leach 

138.  4-foveolatus,  W 

139.  pyginjBus,  F 

140.  lapidicola,  W 

,51.  Hydrcena,  Kugel. 

141.  sinuaticollis,  W 

142.  serricoUis,  W 

143.  quadricollis,  W 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


611 


Fam.  6.  Hydrophilidae. 

52.  Limnehius,  Ijeach 

144.  gracilipes,  W 

145.  punctatus,  W 

63.  Laccobius,  Erich. 

146.  minutus,  L 

54.  Philhi/dnis,  Sol. 

147.  melanocephalus,  Oliv. .  . , 

55.  Berosus,  Leach 

148.  spinosus  (Stev.),  Ahr. .  . . 

56.  Hydrobms,  Leach 

149.  hfemorrhous,  W 

57.  Chcptarthria  (Waterh.),  Steph. 

150.  similis,  W 

Fam.  7.  Sphaeridiadae. 

58.  Cyclonottim,  Erich. 

151.  orbiciilare,  F 

59.  Dactylosternum,  W. 

152.  abdominale,  F 

60.  Cercyon,  Leach 

15.3.  inquinitum,  W 

154.  lepidum,  W 

155.  nigricep-s,  M.shm      

156.  quisquilium,  L 

Fam.  8.  Silphidse. 

61.  Catops,  Payk. 

157.  putridus,  W 

62.  Silpha,  L. 

158.  simplicicornis,  Br 

159.  figurata,  Br 


Fam.  9.  Anisotomidae. 

63.  Anisotoma,  lUig. 

160.  canariensis,  W.     .  . 

161.  oceanica,  W 

64.  Agathidmm,  lUig. 

162.  globidum,  W 

163.  integricoUe,  W.    .  . 

Fam.  10.  Clamljidae. 

65.  Clambus,  Fisch. 

164.  complicans,  W 

66.  Calyptomerus,  Redt. 

165.  dubiiis,  Mshni  .  .  .  . 

Fam.  11.  PtiliadaB. 

67.  Acrotrichis,  Mots. 

166.  fucicola,  Fairm.    .  . 

167.  Matthewsii,  W.    .  . 

168.  fascicularis,  Hbst 

169.  sericans,  Erich.     .  . 

68.  Nepkanes,  Thorns. 

170.  abbreviatella,  Heer 


*     * 
r2 


612 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


69.  Ptenidium,  Ericb. 

171.  Isevigatum,  Ericli.    , 

172.  apicale  (St.),  Gillm. 

173.  pimctatum,  Gyll.  .  . 

70.  Ptinella,  Mots. 

174.  angustiila,  Gillm. 


Fam.  12.  PhalacridsB. 

71.  Phalacrus,  Payk- 

175.  coruscus,  Payk.    . 

72.  Olibrm,  Erich. 

176.  fiorum,  W 

177.  congener,  W.    .  .  . 

178.  subfereus,  W.    .  .  . 

179.  consimilis,  Mslim 

Fam.  13.  Nitidulidae. 


73. 
74. 

75. 

76. 

77. 


79. 
80. 

81. 


Heterohrachiitm,  W. 

180.  louginianum,  W 

Brachypterus,  Kugel. 

181.  velatus,  W 

182.  curtiilus,  W 

Carpophilus  (Leach),  Steph. 

183.  hemipterus,  L 

184.  anropilosus,  W 

NitUhda,  F. 

185.  flexuosa,  Oliv 

Pria  (Kby),  Steph. 

186.  dulcamarfe,  Scop. 
Meliyetheii  (Kby),  Steph. 

187.  varicollis,  W 

188.  Adrescens,  W 

189.  tristis  (Schiipp.),  St.    . 
X.i')iostron(/i/Jus,  W. 

190.  histri'o,  W 

Cybocephalus,  Erich. 

191.  sphaerula,  W 

192.  liBvis,  W 

Rhizophafins,  Hbst 

193.  pinetorum,  W 

194.  subopacus,  W 


Fam.  14.  Trogositidae. 

82.  TetmiocMln,  Westw. 

195.  pini,  13r 

83.  Lipasjjis^'W. 

196.  lauricola,  W.     . 

197.  pinicola,  W.  .  . . 

198.  caulicola,  W.     , 

84.  Trogosita,  Oliv. 

199.  mauritanica,  L. 

200.  recta,  W 

201.  latens,  W 


cb 


INDEX  T0P06RAPHICU8. 


613 


Fam.  15.  Colydiadae. 

85.  3£motoma,  ITbst 

202.  spinicollis,  Aub^  .  , . 

203.  picipes,  Hbst    

204.  quadricoUis,  Avibe    . 

205.  4-foveolata,  Aube    . 

86.  Tarphvm  (Germ.),  Erich. 

206.  simplex,  W 

207.  camelus,  W 

208.  canariensis,  W.     .  . . 

209.  erosus,  W 

210.  quadi-atus,  W 

211.  congestus,  W 

212.  gigas,  W 

213.  caudatus,  W 

214.  deformis,  W 

87.  Cossyph'xh's,  Westw. 

215.  WoUastonii,  Westw. 

88.  Aulonium,  Erich. 

216.  sulcicolle,W 

89.  Affh-nus,  Erich. 

217.  bmnneus,  Gyll.     .  . . 

90.  IJurops,  W. 

218.  impressicollis,  W.    . 

219.  duplicatus,  W 

Fam.  16.  Cucujidae. 

91.  Caulonomus,  W. 

220.  riiizophagoides,  W.  . 

92.  LcemophloiU't,  Erich. 

221.  granulatus,  W 

222.  clavicollis,  W 

223.  pusillus,  Schon.    ... 

93.  Pediacus,  Shuck. 

224.  tabellatus,  W 

94.  Xenoscelis,  W. 

225.  deplanata,  W 

95.  Silvamis,  Lat. 

226.  dentatus,  Mshm  ,  . . , 

227.  surinamensis,  L 

228.  nubigena,  W 


Fam.  17.  Telmatophilidge. 

96.  Diphi/llus,  Steph. 

229."liinatus,  F 

97.  Thal/esfus,  W. 

230.  subellipticus,  W.  , 

231.  tj-phfeoides,  W. 

Fam.  18.  Cryptophagidse. 

98.  Cryptophaqiis,  Hbst 

2.32.  dentatus,  Hbst      . 

233.  affinis,  St 

234.  obesulua,  W.     .  . . 


614 


INDEX  XOPOGKAPHICrS. 


98.  Cryptophagus,  Hbst  (continued). 

235.  fusiformis,  W 

236.  hesperius,  W 

99.  Mnionomus,  W. 

237.  empticus,W 

100.  LnicoMmatium,  Rosenh. 

238.  elougatum,  Erich 

101.  Paramecosoma,  Curt. 

239.  simplex,  W 

102.  Jfi/pocoprus,  Mots. 

240.  llocluitliii,  Chaud 

108.' Atomaria,  Steph. 

241.  pilosula,  W 

242.  canariensis,  W 

243.  ruficollis,  W 

104.  JEpistemus  (Westw.),  Steph. 

244.  gyrinoides,  Mshm 

Fam.  19.  Latridiadae. 

105.  Holaparamcciis,  Curt. 

245.  caularum,  Aube 

246.  niger,  Aube     

247.  singularis,  Beck     

106.  Corticaria,  Mshm 

248.  fulva  (Chevr.),  Mann 

249.  macidosa,  W 

250.  serrata,  Payk 

251.  angulata,  W 

252.  curta,W 

253.  tenella,  W 

107.  Latridiiis,  Uerbst 

254.  minutus,  L 

255.  opacipenuis,  W 

256.  ruficollis,  Mshm     

Fam.  20.  Mycetophagidae. 

108.  Myrmccoxerms,  Cliev. 

257.  sordidus,  W 

109.  Symbiotes,  Redt. 

258.  pvgmseus,  Hampe 

110.  Typhcea  (Kby),  Steph. 

259.  fumata,  L 

111.  Litargiis,  Eiich. 

260.  trifasciatus,  W 

Fam.  21.  Dsrmestidse. 

112.  Dermestes,  L. 

261.  vulpinus,  F 

262.  Frischii,  Kugel 

113.  Attaqenus,  Lat. 

26.3.  pellio,  L 

264.  Schfefferi,  Hbst 

114.  Telopes,  Redt, 

265.  obtusus,  Gyll 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


615 


114.  Telopes,  Redt.  (continued). 

266.  anthrenoides,  W.    .  .  . 

267.  multifasciatus,  W.  .  . . 

268.  fasciatiis,  W 

115.  Anthreniis,  GeofFr. 

269.  varius,  F 

270.  claviger,  Erich 


Fam.  22.  Byrrhidae. 

116.  Syncalypta  (Dillw.),  Steph. 

271.  integra,  W 

272.  ovuliformis,  W 


Fam.  23.  Histeridse. 

117.  Hololepta,  Payk. 

273.  Perraudieri,  de  Mars. 

118.  Teretrius,  Erich. 

274.  cylindricus,  W 

119.  Hutriptifs,  W. 

275.  putricola,  W 

120.  Hister,  L. 

276.  major,  L 

277.  canariensis,  W 

121.  Carcinops,  de  Mars. 

278.  14-striatus,  Steph 

122.  Saprinus,  Erich. 

279.  nobilis,  W 

280.  osculans,  W 

281.  nitidulus,  F 

282.  subnitidus  ?,  de  Mars. 

283.  chalcites,  Illig. 

284.  fortimatus,  W 

285.  ignobilis,  W 

286.  minyops,  W 

287.  angulosus,  W 

288.  mundus,  W 

289.  erosus,  W 

290.  lobatus,  W 

123.  Xe)i07ii/chus,  W. 

291.  fossor,  W 

124.  Eubrachium,  W. 

292.  punctatum,  W 

293.  ovale,  W 

294.  politum,  W 

125.  Acritus,  Le  Conte. 

295.  punctum,  Aub6 

296.  minutus,  Hbst    


Fam.  24.  Thorictidse. 
126.  TJiorictus,  Germ. 

297.  gigas,  W.    ... 

298.  canariensis,  W. 

299.  vestitus,  W.    . 


a  Le 


616 


INDEX  XOPOGRAPHICU8. 


Fam.  25.  AphodiadaB. 

127.  ApJiodius,  Illig. 

300.  liydroclueris,  F 

301.  WoUastonii,  Harold  . , 

302.  nitidulus,  F 

303.  tteniatus,  W 

304.  maculosLis,  Harold.  . . , 

305.  lividus,  01 

30G.  gi-anarius,  L 

128.  Oxyonms  (Esch.),  Castelu. 

307.  brevicollis,  W 

129.  Pmnimodius,  Gyll. 

308.  caesus,  Pnz 

309.  sabulosus  (Dej.),  Muls 

310.  porcicollis,  Illig.     .  . . 

Fam.  26.  Trogidae. 

130.  Trox,  F. 

311.  confluens,  W 


Fam.  27.  MelolonthidaB. 
131.  Ootoiiut,  Blanch. 

312.  bipartita,  Br.  .  . 

313.  fuscipeuuis,  Br. 

314.  Integra,  W 

815.  castanea,  Br.  .  . 

316.  obscurella,  W. 

317.  obscura,  Br.    .  . 


Fam.  28.  Dynastidae. 

132.  PhyUof/mitluis,  Escli. 

318.  Silenus,  F 

133.  On/cfe.s,  Illig. 

319.  prolixus,  W.   . 


Fam.  29,  Cetoniadae. 

134.  Epicometis,  Biirni. 

320.  squalida,  L.     .  . 

321.  feinorata,  Illig. 

Fam.  30.  BuprestidaB. 

135.  Acmceodera,  Esch. 

322.  cisti,  W 

323.  fracta,  W 

324.  plagiata,  W.    . 

325.  oruata,  W.  .  . . 

136.  Bupre<tis,  L. 

326.  Bertheloti,  Br. 

137.  Anthraxia,  Esch. 

327.  senilis,  W.  .  .  . 

Fam.  31.  Throscidae. 

138.  Throscm,  Lat. 

328.  integer,  W. .  .  . 


O 


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INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


6i: 


Fam.  32.  Elateridae. 

139.  Copfostef/ms,  W. 

329.  brunncipennis,  W. 
380.  gracilis,  W 

331.  canariensis,  W.  .  . 

332.  globulicollis,  W. 

333.  obtusus,  W 

334.  crassiusculus,  W. 


Fam.  33.  CyphonidaB. 

140.  Ci/phon,  Payk. 

335.  gracilicoruis,  W. 

141.  Eucinetus,  Schiipp. 

336.  ovum,  W 


Fam.  34.  Drilidse. 

142.  Malacof/astcr,  Rassi 
337.  tilloides,  W.    . 


Fam.  35.  Telephoridae. 

143.  Malthinus,  Lat. 

338.  mutabilis,  W.      .  . 

339.  croceicoUis,  W.  .  . 

Fam.  36.  Malachiidse. 

144.  PectcropKs,  W. 

340.  angustifrons,  W. 

341.  scitulus,  W 

145.  Attains,  Erich. 

342.  ruficollis,  W 

343.  pellucidus,  W.    .  . 

344.  pallipes,  W 

345.  ovatipemais,  W. .  . 

346.  bisculptm-atus,  W. 

347.  rugifrons,  W 

348.  ornatissimus,  W. 

349.  chrysanthemi,  W. 

350.  commixtus,  W.  .  . 

351.  IffivicoUis,  W.     .  .  , 

352.  posticus,  W 

353.  authicoides,  W 

354.  tuberculatus,  W. 

355.  obscurus,  W 

356.  svibopacus,  W.    .  . 

357.  metallicus,  W.    .  . 

358.  .lenescens,  W 

146.  Micromimetes,  W. 

359.  alutaceus,  W 

360.  j  ucundus,  W 

147.  Cephalogoiiia,  W. 

361.  cerasiua,  W 

148.  Cephaloncus,  Westw. 

362.  capito,  Westw.  .  . . 


618 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


Fam.  37.  MelyridsB. 

149.  Dasytes,  Payk. 

363.  subaenescens,  W.    .  . 

364.  dispar,  W 

150.  Dolichosoma,  Steph. 

365.  Hai'tungii,  W 

151.  Haplocnemus,  Steph. 

366.  sciilpturatus,  W.    .  . 

367.  vestitus,  W 

152.  Melyrosoma,  W. 

368.  costipenne,  W 

369.  hirtum,  W 

370.  flavescens,  W 

Fam,  38.  Cleridae. 

153.  Clerus,  Geoffr. 

371.  Paivfe,  W 

154.  Conjnetes,  Hbst 

372.  rufipes,  Thunb 

373.  ruticollis,  Thunb.  . . 

374.  fimetarius,  W 

Fam.  39.  Ptinidse. 

]  55.  Casopus,  W. 

375.  Bonvouloirii,  W.    . . 

376.  dilaticoUis,  W 

377.  alticola,  W 

378.  radiosus,  W 

379.  subcalvus,  W 

156.  Difpionms,  W. 

380.  gracilipes,  W 

157.  Pfinus,  L. 

381.  testaceus,  Oliv 

158.  Mezium,  Curt. 

382.  sulcatum,  F 

159.  Nitpus,  Duv. 

383.  gonospermi,  Duv.  . 

160.  Splumcus,  W. 

384.  simplex,  W 

385.  gibbicollis,  W.    ... 

386.  impunctipennis,  W. 

387.  Crotchianus,  W.     . 

161.  Piarus,  W. 

388.  basalis,  W 

162.  Piotes,  W. 

389.  inconstans,  W.    .  . . 

390.  vestita,  W 


Fam.  40.  Anobiadae. 

163.  Star/etus,  W. 

391.  crenatus,  W 

392.  hirtulus,  W 

164.  Xiiletinus,  Lat. 

393.  latitans,  W * 

394.  desectus,  W |  .  . 


W 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICrS. 


619 


164.  Xyletinus,  Lat.  (continued). 

395.  brevis,  W 

396.  excavatus,  W 

165.  Notiomimus,  W. 

397.  fimicola,  W 

398.  holosericeus,  W.     .  . . 

399.  punctulatissimus,  W. 

166.  Anobium,  F. 

400.  velatum,  W 

401.  A'illosum,  Br 

402.  paniceiim,  L 

403.  niolle,  L 

404.  striatum,  Oliv 

405.  cryptophagoides,  W.  . 

167.  Ptilimis,  Geotfi'. 

406.  lepidus,  W 


Fam.  41.  Bostrichidse. 

168.  Xiflopertha,  Gu^r. 

407.  barbifrons,  W 

169.  Dinoderns,  Steph. 

408.  brunneus,  W , 

Fam.  42.  CioidsB. 

170.  Cis,  Lat. 

409.  lauri,  W 

171.  Octotemniis,  Mellie 

410.  opacus,  Melli(5    .  .  , 

Fam.  43.  Tomicidae. 

172.  Tomicus,  Lat. 

411.  nobilis,  W 

412.  Saxesenii,  Ratz. .  .  . 

173.  Xylotet-us,  Erich. 

413.  longicollis,  W.    .  . . 

174.  Cri/phalus,  Ericli. 

414.  aspericollis,  "W".  .  .  . 

175.  Aphanarthrum,  W. 

415.  Jubae,  W 

416.  armatum,  W 

417.  glabrum,  W 

418.  bicolor,  W 

419.  affine,  W 

420.  piscatorium,  "W. .  . . 

421.  bicinctum,  W.     .  .  . 

422.  canariense,  W.     .  . . 

423.  luridimi,  W 

424.  pusillum,  W 

425.  concolor,  W 

176.  Triotemnus,  W. 

426.  subretusus,  W.    .  .  . 

177.  Liparthrum,W. 

427.  bituberculatum,  W. 

428.  curtum,  W 


W 


620 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


177.  Liparthrum,  W.  (continued). 

429.  inarniatum,  W 

430.  Lowei,  W 


Fam.  44.  Hylesinidae. 

178.  Hyksinus,  F. 

431.  indigenus,  W 

179.  llylurgiis,  Lat. 

432.  ligniperda,  F 

180.  Hylasfes,  Erich. 

433.  Lowei,  Paiva 

Fam.  45.  Curculionidae. 

181.  Eremotes,  W. 

434.  crassicornis,  Br 

182.  Rhyncolm  (Creutz.),  Germ. 

435.  crassirostris,  W 

183.  Phlceophayus,  SchiJu. 

436.  caulium,  W 

4^37.  laurineus,  W 

438.  affinis,  W 

439.  simplicipes,  W 

440.  piceus,  W 

184.  Pentatemmis,  W. 

441.  arenarius,  W 

185.  OnychoUps,  W. 

442.  bifiircatus,  W 

186.  Mesoxemis,^  W. 

443.  Monizianus,  W , 

187.  3Iesites,  Schiin. 

444.  coniplauatus,  W 

445.  persimilis,  W , 

446.  proximus,  W 

447.  fusiformis,  W 

448.  pubipennis,  W 

188.  Sitophihis,  Sclion. 

449.  granarius,  L , . 

450.  oryzne,  L 

189.  Ceiitltorhynchus,  Schon. 

451.  poUiuarius,  Forst 

452.  quadridens,  Pnz 

453.  uigvoterminatus,  W.  .  . . 

454.  pyrrhorhynchus,  Mshm. 

455.  pbytobioides,  W 

456.  besperus,  W 

190.  Acalles,  Scbiin. 

457.  argiilosus,  Scbon 

458.  seouii  (Cbev.),  W 

459.  fortunatiis,  W 

460.  xerampelinus,  W 

461.  nubilosus,  W 

462.  sigma,  W 

463.  senilis,  W. 

464.  brevitarsis,  W 


C6 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPniCUS. 


621 


190.  Acalles,  Schon.  (continued). 

465.  acutus,  W 

466.  instabilis,  W 

467.  setieollis,  W 

468.  pilula,  AV 

469.  verrucosus,  W 

191.  Echinodera,  W. 

470.  hystrix,  W 

471.  crenata,  VV 

472.  angulipennis,  W 

473.  orbiculata,  W 

474.  conipacta,  W 

475.  picta,  W 

192.  Baridius,  Schon. 

476.  sellatus  (Chev.),  Sclicin. 

193.  Nnnophyes,  Schcin. 

477.  longulus,  W 

478.  lunulatus,  W 

194.  Sibynes,  Schon. 

479.  sericeus,  W 

195.  Tychius  (Germ. ),  Schon. 

480.  aridicola,  W 

481.  decoratus,  Rosenh.     .  .  . 

482.  depauperatus,  W 

196.  Auletes,  Schon. 

483.  cylindricoUis,  W 

484.  ancep.s,  W 

485.  convexifrons,  W 

197.  Apio7i,  irijst 

486.  senex,  W 

487.  vemale,  F 

488.  delicatulum,  W 

489.  sagittiferum,  W 

490.  Germari,  Walt , 

491.  chalybeipenne,  W , 

492.  calcaratum,  W , 

493.  Westwoodii,  W 

494.  tubiferum,  Schcin . 

495.  austrinum,  W 

496.  fallax,  W 

497.  rotundipenne,  W 

498.  ceuthorhynchoides,  W.  . 

499.  umbrinuui,  W 

500.  longipes,  W 

198.  Smicronyx,  Schcin. 

501.  albosquamosus,  AV. 

502.  pauperculus,  W 

199.  Procas,  Stepli. 

503.  Steveni,  Schon 

200.  Liius,  F. 

504.  anguinus,  L 

505.  anguiculus,  Schon. 

506.  Chawneri,  W 

507.  guttiventris,  Schon.   .  .  . 


W 


622 


INDEX  TOPOGEAPHICUS. 


201.  Bothynoderes,  Schon. 

508.  Jekelii,  W 

202.  Cleonus,  Schon. 

509.  Ai-niitagii,  W 

510.  variolosus,  W 

511.  tabidiis,  Oliv 

203.  Rhytidoderes,  Schon. 

512.  siculus  (Dup.),  Sclion. 

204.  Aloplms,  Schcin. 

513.  luagniticus,  W , 

205.  Hypera,  Germ. 

514.  luuata,  VV , 

515.  irrorata,  W 

516.  variabilis,  Hbst 

206.  Caniatus,  Germ. 

517.  tamarisci,  F 

207.  Plinthus,  Germ. 

518.  musicus,  W 

519.  velutimus,  W 

520.  cucuUus,  W 

208.  Xenomicnis,  W. 

521.  apionides,  W 

209.  Grojiops,  Schon. 

522.  lunatns,  F 

210.  Rhytidorhi)ms,  Schon. 

523.  brevitarsis,  W 

211.  Brachycii-us,  F. 

524.  opacus,  W 

212.  Atlantis,  W. 

525.  canariensis,  Schon.     .  . 
626.  subnebulosa,  W 

527.  tibialis,  W 

528.  tetrica,  Schcin 

529.  angustula,  W 

213.  Laparocenis,  Schon. 

530.  morio,  Schcin 

531.  sculptus,  Br 

532.  midatus,  W 

5.33.  excavatus,  W 

534.  grossepimctatus,  W.  .  . 

535.  sqiiamosus,  Br 

536.  crassirostris,  W 

637.  crassifrons,  W 

638.  scapiilaris,  W 

539.  ajthiops,  W 

540.  hirtus,  W 

541.  inieqnalis,  W 

642.  globulipennis,  W 

543.  occidentalis,  W 

544.  obtriangularis,  W 

545.  ellipticus,  W 

546.  lepidopterns,  W 

647.  senicidus,  W. 


548.  rasus,  W I  ^ 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICTJS. 


623 


213.  Laparocerus,  Schon.  (continued). 

549.  mendicus,  W 

550.  obscurus,  W 

551.  gracilis,  W 

552.  dispar,  W 

55.3.  vestitus,  W 

554.  sulcirostris,  W 

555.  compactus,  W 

556.  tessellatus,  Br , 

557.  obsitiis,  W 

658.  tenellus,  W 

559.  puncticollis,  W 

214.  Trachyphloeus,  Germ. 

560.  scaber,  L 

215.  Lichenophagus,  W. 

561.  auctus,  W , 

562.  tesserula,  W , 

563.  persimilis,  W , 

564.  subuodosus,  W 

565.  sculptipennis,  W 

566.  impressicoUis,  W 

216.  Herpysticus,  Germ. 

567.  eremita,  Oliv 

568.  calvus,  W 

569.  ocidatus,  W 

217.  Thi/lacites,  Germ. 

570.  obesulus,  W 

218.  Sitones,  Germ. 

571.  gTessorius,  F 

572.  latipennis,  ScbiJn , 

573.  punctiger,  W , 

574.  cambriciis,  Stepli 

575.  lineatus,  L , 

576.  bimieralis  (Kby),  Steph.  . 

577.  setiger,  W 

219.  Brachyderes,  Schon. 

678.  rugatus,  W 

679.  sculptm'atus,  W - 

Fam.  46.  BrucMdae. 

220.  Bruchus,  GeofFr. 

580.  pisi,  L 

581.  rufimanus,  Schon 

582.  terminatus,  W 

683.  Teneriftfe,  Schon 

684.  floricola,  W 

585.  antennatus,  W 

Fam.  47.  Aglycyderidae. 

221.  Aglycyderes,  Westw. 

586.  setifer,  Westw 

Fam.  48.  Cerambicidse, 

222.  Hylotrypes,  Serv. 

587.  bajulus,  L 


cb 


G24 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPH ICUS. 


223.  BlabinotHS,  W. 

588.  spiuicollis,  W. 

224.  Oxypleunis,  jNIuls. 

589.  piuicola,  W.     .  . 

225.  Criocephalus,  Muls. 

590.  rusticus,  L 

591.  pinetorum,  W. 

226.  Ilesjierophanes,  Muls. 

592.  seuex,  W 

593.  roridus,  Br 

227.  Ch/tus,  F. 

594.  Webbii,  Lap.  . . 

228.  Gracilia,  Serv. 

595.  pygnifea,  F.     .  . 

Fam.  49.  Lamiadae. 

229.  Leprosoma  (Dej.),  Thorns. 

596.  gibbiim,  Br 

230.  Stenuha,  Muls. 

597.  aiiinilicornis,  Br.     .  . 

598.  albida,  Br 

599.  pilosa,  W 

600.  llesperus,  W 

231.  Af/apaiifhia,  Serv. 

601.  cardui,  L 

Fam.  50.  Crioceridse. 

232.  Letmi,  F. 

602.  melauopa,  L 

233.  Crioceris,  Geoffr. 

603.  nigropicta,  W 

Fam.  51.  Ellin olpidae. 

234.  Pseuducohispis,  Lap. 

604.  divisa,  W 

605.  dubia,  W 

606.  splendidula,  W 

607.  obscuripes,  W 

Fam.  52.  Crjrptocephalidse. 

235.  Cn/ptocepJudits,  GeofFr. 

608.  nitidicollis,  W 

609.  puncticollis,  W 

236.  Sti/hsomits,  Suffi-. 

610.  biplag'iatus,  W 

Fam.  53.  Chrysomelidae. 

237.  airymmeJa,  L. 

6li.  sauguinolenta,  L 

612.  bicolor,  F.    . 

613.  obsoleta,  Br. 

614.  fortuuata,  W 

615.  rutilaus,  W. 

616.  gemina,  Br. 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


238.  Phmlon,  Meg. 

617.  mentlue,  W 

239.  Phratora  (Chev.),  Redt. 

618.  vulgatissima,  L. .  . 


Fam.  54.  Gallerucidae. 

240.  Ccilomicrus,  Steph. 

619.  WoUastoni,  Paiva  .  . . 

Fam.  55.  Halticidae. 

241.  Haltica,  Geoffr. 

620.  Allardii,  W 

621.  lubrica,  W 

622.  variipenuis,  Boield.    . 

623.  Paivana,  W 

624.  plenifrons,  W 

625.  crassipes,  W 

242.  Longitarsus,  Lat. 

626.  kleiniiperda,  W.     .  . . 

627.  persimilis,  W 

628.  messerschmidtioe,  W. 

629.  ochroleucus,  Mnhm    . 

630.  brevipennis,  W 

631.  strigicoUis,  W.    

632.  nubigena,  W 

633.  dorsalis,  F 

634.  pusillus,  Gyll 

635.  mconspicuus,  W.    .  .  . 

636.  Tills,  W 

637.  fuscoseneus,  Redt.  .  . . 

638.  echii,  Illig 

243.  Psylliodes,  Lat. 

639.  hospes,  W 

640.  vehemens,  W 

641.  stolida,  W 

244.  Dibolia,  Lat. 

642.  obtiisa,  W 

245.  CJicetocncma,  Stepb. 

643.  tarsalis,  W 


Fam.  50.  Hispidae. 
246.  Hispa,  L. 

644.  occator,  Br. 


Fam.  57.  Cassididse. 

247.  Cassida,  L. 

645.  hemisphferica,  IDost 

Fam.  58.  Erotylidae. 

248.  XestHs,  W. 

646.  throscoides,  W 


PR 


626 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


Fam.  59.  Coccinellidae. 

249.  Coccinella,  L. 

647.  7-pimctata,  L 

648.  Miranda,  W 

649.  Doublieri,  MiUs.     . . . 

250.  Chilocorus,  Leach 

650.  reiiipustulatus,  Scriba 

251.  Epilachna,  Cliev. 

651.  4-plagiata,  W 

652.  bella,  W 

65.3.  10-plagiata,  W 

252.  Sci/mnus,  Kugel. 

654.  canariensis,  W 

655.  oblongior,  W 

656.  cercyonides,  W. 

657.  niaculosus,  W 

658.  arcuatiis,  Rossi 

659.  minimus,  Rossi 

Ithizobiiis,  Stepli. 

660.  litiira,  F. 

Lithophihis,  Frohl. 

661.  deserticola,  W 


253. 
254. 

Fam. 
255. 

Fam. 
256. 

257. 

Fam. 

258. 


60.  Corylophidae. 

Sericodents,  Steph. 

662.  lateralis  (Meg. ),  Gyll. 

61.  EndomychidsB. 

Lycoperdina,  Lat. 

663.  hunieralis,  W 

Dapsa  (Ziegl.),  Lat. 

664.  edentata,  W 

62.  Zophosidae. 
Zophosis,  Lat. 

665.  4-carinata,  Deyr.    .  . . 

666.  plicata,  Br 

667.  vagans,  Br 

668.  Clarkii,  De>T 

669.  bicarinata,  Sol 


Fam.  63.  ErodiadaB. 
259, 


Arthr 
670. 
671. 
672. 
673. 
674. 
675. 
676. 
677. 
078. 
679. 
680. 
681. 


•odes,  Sol. 

inflatus,  W 

curtus,  Br , 

obesus,  Br 

byri'hoides,  W 

laticoUis,  Br 

Hartungii,  W 

punctatulus,  W 

parcepunctatus,  W 

subciliatus,  W 

subcostatus,  Br 

costifrons,  W j  ^ 

malleatus,  W «, 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


627 


259.  AHhrodes,  Sol.  (continued). 

682.  emarginatus,  W.    .  .  . 

683.  geotrupoides,  W.   .  . . 


Fam.  04.  Tentyriadae. 

260.  Tenttjria,  Lat. 

684.  inteiTupta,  ?Lat.    , 

685.  elongata,  Br 

261.  Paivmi,  W. 

QSQ.  hispida,  Br 

262.  Hegeter,  Lat. 

687.  tristis,  F 

688.  Webbianus,  Hein. . 

689.  glaber,  Br 

690.  amaroides,  Sol.  .  . . 

691.  transversus,  Br. .  .  . 

692.  brevicoliis,  Br.    .  .  . 

693.  abbreviatus,  Br. .  . . 

694.  costipennis,  W.  .  .  . 

695.  impressus,  Br.     .  .  . 

696.  subrotundatus,  W. 

697.  tenuipunctatus,  Br. 
608.  lateralis,  Br 

263.  T/ui!poj)Ia/a,  Sol. 

6i>9.  plicifrons,  W 

700.  Deyi-oUii,  W 

701.  fuscipes,  Br 

702.  submetallica,  W.   . 

264.  Gnophota,  Erich. 

703.  cribricollis,  Br.   .  .  . 

704.  inaequalis,  W.     .  .  . 

705.  punctipennis,  W.  . 

265.  Melanochrus,  W. 

706.  Lacordairii,  W.  .  . . 


Fam.  65.  Blapidae. 

266.  Blaps,  F. 

707.  gages,  L 

708.  alternans,  Br 

709.  similis,  Lat 

Fam.  66.  Pimeliadae. 

267.  Pimelia,  F. 

710.  lutaria,  Br 

711.  canariensis,  Br.  .  . 

712.  fomicata,  Hbst  .  . 

713.  ascendens,  W.    .  . 

714.  radiila  (Dej.),  Sol. 

715.  sparsa,  Br 

716.  ambigua,  W 

717.  costipennis,  W.  .  . 

718.  laevigata,  Br 

719.  serrimargo,  W.  .  . 


^ 


2  s  2 


628 


INDEX  TOrOGRAPHICUS. 


2(57.  Pimelia,  F.  (continued). 

720.  gmnulicollis,  W.    . 

721.  auriculata,  W.    .  .  . 

Fam.  67.  Coniontidse. 
268.  Cryptictis,  Lat. 

722.  punctatissiraus,  W. 
72.3.  naviciilai'is,  Br.  .  .  . 

724.  canariensis,  W.  .  .  . 

725.  oblongus,  W 

726.  minutus,  Br 


Fam.  68.  PedinidaB. 

269.  Melcmna,  \\. 

727.  lineatum,  Br.  .  . . 

Fam.  69.  Opatridaj. 

270.  Cnemcphdia,  Costa 

728.  laticeps,  W.    .  . . 

271.  Sclerxm,  Hope 

729.  asperiilum,  W.    . 

272.  Opatrum,  F. 

730.  liitosum,  ^\".    .  .  . 

731.  foscum,  Ilbst  .  . . 
782.  hispidum.  Br 

733.  oblituni,  W.    .  . . 

273.  HalotwDius,  W. 

734.  salinicola,  W. . . . 

274.  Melansis,  W. 

735.  costata,  Br 

736.  angidata,  W.  .  . . 

Fam.  70.  Trachyscelidae. 

275.  Pseudanemiu,  W. 

737.  brevicoUis,  W.   . 

276.  Trachyscelis,  Lat. 

738.  aphodioides,  Lat. 

Fam.  71.  Phaleriadse. 

277.  Phaleria,  Lat. 

739.  cadaverina,  F.     .  . 

740.  ornata,  W 


Fam.  72.  Ulomidse. 

278.  Gnathocerm,  Thunb. 

741.  cornutus,  F 

279.  Triholium,  INIacLeay 

742.  ferrugineum,  F.  .  . 

280.  Psetulostciie,  W. 

743.  fossoria,  W 

281.  Alphitohius,  Stepli. 

744.  diaperinus,  Kiigel. 

282.  IIypo2)Mam,  F. 

745.  pini,  Pnz 


* 

* 

* 

* 

* 

* 

* 

* 

INDEX  XOPOGRAPHICUS. 


629 


282.  HypojMceus,  F.  (continued). 

746.  euphorbiae,  W 

747.  siibdepressus,  W 


Fain.  73.  CossypMdaB. 

283.  Cossyjyhus,  Oliv. 

748.  insiilaris,  Lap. 

Fam.  74.  Tenebrionidae. 

284.  Tenebrio,  L. 

749.  obsciirus,  F.    . 

750.  olivensis,  W.  . 

285.  Boromorjyhus,  W. 

751.  parvus,  W. 


Fara.  75.  HelopidaB. 

286.  Helops,  F. 

752.  altivagans,  W.    . 
75.3.  elliptipennis,  W. 

754.  congener,  W. .  . . 

755.  carbuncidus,  W. 

756.  aterrimus,  W.     . 

757.  nitens,  W 

758.  quadratus,  Br.     . 
750.  rimosus,  W.    .  .  . 

760.  porrectus,  W. . .  . 

761.  sethiops,  W.    . . . 

762.  picescens,  W. .  .  . 

763.  fusculus,  W.   .  .  . 


Fam.  76.  (Edemeridae. 

287.  Dityhis,  Schmidt 

764.  concolor,  Br. 

288.  Isclmomera,  Stepli. 

765.  melanura,  L. 


Fam.  77.  Meloidae. 
289.  Meloe,  L. 

766.  tuccius,  Eossi     

767.  rugosus,  Mshm  

768.  murinus,  Brandt  et  Erich. 

769.  nudus,  W 

770.  subcyaneus,  W 


Fam.  7b.  Mordellidae. 

290.  Mordellistena,  Costa 

771.  puniila,  Gyll.  . 

772.  sericata,  W.     . 

291.  Anaspis,  Geoffi'. 

773.  Proteus,  W.     . 


^ 


630 


INDEX  TOPOGKAPHICTJS. 


Fam.  79.  Anthicidae. 

292.  Formicotmcs,  La  F. 

774.  cferuleipennis,  La  F.  .  . . 

293.  Anthicus,  Payk. 

775.  floralis,  F 

776.  hispidus,  Rossi 

777.  crinitus,  La  F 

778.  humilis,  Germ.  .    

779.  opac-ulus,  W 

780.  notoxoides,  W 

78L  dimidiatus,  W 

782.  lapidosus,  W 

783.  angustatus,  Curt 

784.  guttifer,  W 

785.  canariensis,  W 

786.  scydnifenoides,  W 

294.  Ochthenomns  (Dej.),  Schmidt 

787.  senilis,  W 

295.  Xyhphilus  (Bon.),  Lat. 

788.  oculatissimvis,  W 

789.  pallescens,  W 

Fam.  80.  Scydmaenidse. 

296.  Safdmcenus,  Lat. 

790.  tarsatus,  Kunze 

Fam.  81.  Pselaphidae. 

297.  Eiiplectus  (Kby),  Leach 

791.  Karstenii,  Reichenb. .  . . 

792.  monticola,  W 

793.  sanguineus,  Denny 

298.  Enoptostomus,  Schaum 

794.  Wollastoni,  Schaum  .  . . 

Fam.  82.  Stapliyliiiidje. 

299.  Falagria  (Leach),  Mann. 

795.  obscura,  Grav 

300.  Echidtioglossa,  W. 

796.  constricta,  W 

301.  Phyfosns  (Rudd),  Curt. 

797.  minyops,  W 

798.  spinifer,  Curt 

302.  Phla?opora,  Erich. 

799.  corticina,  W 

303.  Tachi/ma,  Erich. 

800."  raptoria,  W 

801.  simillima,  W 

304.  Xenomma,  W. 

802.  muscicola,  W 

305.  Homalota,  Mann. 

803.  rufofusca,  W 

804.  rufobadia,  W 

805.  trogophlceoides,  W.    .  .  . 

800.  amnicola,  W 

807.  gregaria,  Erich 


d3 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICtlS. 


631 


305.  Homalota,  Mann,  (continued). 

808.  amnigena,  W 

809.  persiniilis,  W 

810.  longula  (Chevrier),  Heer 

811.  fragilis  ?,  Kraatz-    

812.  cursitans,  W 

813.  subsericea,  W 

814.  ang-nstissima,  W 

815.  misella,  W 

816.  nigra,  Kraatz 

817.  aleocharoides,  W 

818.  atramentaria,  Gyll , 

819.  Igeta,  W. 

820.  canariensis,  W 

821.  vagepunctata,  W 

822.  clientula,  Erich 

823.  coriaria,  Kraatz 

824.  subcoriaria,  W 

825.  putrescens,  W 

826.  cacti,  W 

827.  terricola,  W 

828.  Waterhousii,  W 

829.  melanaria,  Sahib 

306.  Oxypoda,  Mann. 

830.  exoleta,  Erich 

831.  brevipennis,  W 

832.  pethiops,  W 

307.  Aleochara,  Grav. 

a33.  pubenila,  Klug 

834.  crassiiiscula.  Sahib 

8;35.  littoralis,  W 

836.  funebris,  W 

837.  nitida,  Grav 

838.  binotata,  Kraatz 

839.  morion,  Grav 

308.  Olifiota,  Mann. 

840.  castanea,  W 

841.  inflata,  Mann 

309.  ConosQ7na,  Kraatz 

842.  pubescens,  Payk 

843.  lividum,  Erich 

310.  Tachyporus,  Grav. 

844.  pusiUus,  Grav 

845.  brimneus,  F 

311.  Hahrocerus,  Erich. 

846.  capillaricomis,  Grav.     . . . 

312.  Trichopluja,  Mann. 

847.  pilicornis,  Gyll 

313.  Mifcetoporus,  Mann. 

848.  rufus,  W 

849.  nionilicornis,  W 

850.  solidicornis,  W . . 

314.  BoUtobiiis,  Steph. 

851.  luridus,  W. ,  . . 


Ph 


W 


632 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPHICUS. 


314.  Bolitohins,  Steph.  (continued). 

852.  filicorais,  W 

315.  Euryporus,  Erich. 

853.  princeps,  W 

316.  Heterothops  (Kby),  Steph. 

854.  minutus,  W 

317.  Quediiis  (Leach),  Steph. 

855.  angustifrons,  W 

856.  fulgidus,  F 

857.  megalops,  W 

318.  Creophilus  (Kby),  Steph. 

858.  niaxillosus,  L 

319.  Oci/iM^  (Kbv),  Steph. 

859.  olens,  MiUl 

860.  brachypteriis,  Br 

861.  affinis,  W 

862.  unibricola,  ^^' 

863.  ciu-tipennis,  W 

864.  atratus,  W 

865.  subasneacens,  W 

866.  punctatissimus,  W 

320.  Philonthus  (Leach),  Steph. 

867.  umbratilis,  Grav 

868.  sordidus,  Grav 

869.  xantholoma,  Grav 

870.  bipustulatus,  Pnz 

871.  scybalarius,  Nordm 

872.  marcidus,  W 

873.  proximus,  W 

874.  diseoideus,  Grav 

875.  nigrituhis,  Grav 

876.  simulans,  W 

877.  punctipennis,  W 

878.  sericeus,  Hohne 

879.  tenellus,  W 

880.  xantholinoides,  W 

321.  Xantlwlmus,  Dahl 

881.  marginalis,  W 

882.  hesperius,  Erich 

883.  punctulatus,  Payk 

322.  Leptacinus.  Erich. 

884.  parumpunctatus,  Gyll.  .  . 

885.  linearis,  Grav 

323.  Othms  (Leach),  Steph. 

886.  brachypterus,  W 

887.  pliilonthoides,  W 

324.  Aclienium  (Leach),  Curt. 

888.  subcaecum,  W 

889.  salinum,  W 

325.  Lathrohium,  Grav. 

890.  hxbile,  Erich 

891.  multipunctatum,  Grav. .  . 

326.  Dolicaon,  Lap. 

892.  uigricoilis,  W 


INDEX  TOPOGRAPnrCtrS. 


633 


326.  Dolicaon,  Lap.  (continued). 

89.3.  nificollis,  W 

327.  Stiliciis,  Lat. 

894.  affinis,  Erich 

328.  Scopatis,  Erich. 

895.  trossulus,  W 

896.  nigellus,  W 

329.  Litkochari.%  Erich. 

897.  quadriceps,  W 

898.  subcoriacea,  W 

899.  ochracea,  Grav 

900.  nigritula  ?,  Erich.  .  .  . 

901.  melauocephala,  F.  .  .  . 

902.  brevipennis,  W 

903.  debilicornis,  W 

330.  Simius  (Leach),  Steph. 

904.  myrmecophihis,  W.    , 

905.  megaceplialus,  W. .  .  . 

906.  dimidiatus,  W 

907.  palliduliLs,  W 

331.  Ste7im,  Lat. 

908.  guttula,  Miill 

909.  ieneotinctus,  W 

332.  Bledms  (Leacli),  Steph. 

910.  januvianus,  W 

911.  cornutissimus,  W. .  .  , 

912.  galeatus,  W 

333.  Platystethus,  Mann. 

913.  cornutus,  Gray 

914.  fossor,  W 

334.  Oxytelus,  Grav. 

915.  piceus,  Erich 

916.  sculptus,  Grav 

917.  coniplanatus,  Erich. 

918.  nitidulus,  Grav 

919.  glareosus,  W 

335.  Trof/ophfo'us,  Manu. 

920.  transversali.s,  W. 

921.  riparius,  I^ac 

922.  biliueatus,  Erich.   .  . 

923.  exiguus  ?,  Erich.     .  . , 

924.  ruficollis,  W 

925.  bledioides,  W 

336.  Philorinum,  Kraatz 

926.  floricola,  W 

337.  Homalmm,  Grav. 

927.  sculpticoUe,  VV 

928.  pusillum,  Grav 

338.  Mef/arthrm  (Kby),  Steph. 

929.  longicornis,  W 

339.  Metopsia,  W. 

930.  cimicoides,  W 


O       PM 


635 


INDEX. 


abacoides,  Calatlius,  33. 
ahaxoides,  Calathus,  33. 
abbreviatella,  Nephanes, 

104. 
ahbreviafus,  Carahtis,  6. 
abbreviatiis,  Hegeter,457. 

,  Scaritcs,  7. 

ahdominale,  C<xIosfmna,^A. 
abdominale,  Dactyloster- 

num,  94. 
Acalles  acutus,  289. 

aionii,  286. 

argillosus,  283. 

brevitarsis,  289. 

fortimatus,  286. 

instabilis,  290. 

nubilosus,  287. 

pilula,  292. 

senilis,  288. 

seticoUis,  291. 

sigma,  288. 

verrucosus,  292. 

xerampelinus,  287. 

Achenium  saliniim,  682. 

subcrecum,  581. 

AcmiBodera  cisti,  204. 

fracta,  206. 

ornata,  207. 

plagiata,  206. 

Acritus  minutus,  183. 

punctum,  1 82. 

Acrotrichis  fascicularis, 

103. 

fucicola,  102. 

Matthewsii,  103. 

sericans,  104. 

acuminatus,  Calathus,  31. 
Acupaljpus  dor  salts,  61. 
acutus,  Acalles,  289. 
ad  vena,  Calathus,  32. 
semulus,  Cratognathus,67. 
seneotinctus,  Stenus,  592. 
jenescens,  Attalus,  227. 
ffionii,  Acalles,  285. 
setliiops,  Helops,  .509. 

,  Laparocerus,  347. 

,  Oxypoda,  561. 

affine,Aphanarthrum,259. 
affinis,  CryiDtophagus,136. 

,  Ocvpus,  566. 

,  Phloeophagus,  271. 

,  Stilicus,  585. 

africanus,  Cybister,  83. 


Agabus  biguttatus,  81. 

consanguineus,  81. 

nebulosiis,  80. 

Agapanthia  cardui,  393. 
Agathidium  globulum, 

99. 

integricoUe,  100. 

agilis,  Droniius,  11. 
Aglenus  brunneus,  1 28. 
Aglycyderes  setifer,  385. 
Akis  acmninafa,  469. 
alatus,  Prisfonychus,  29. 
albida,  Stenidea,  392. 
albipes,  Anchomenus,  42. 
albosquamosus,  Smicro- 

nys,  316. 
Alcochara  Armitagei,  551. 
Aleochara  binotata,  554. 

crassiuscula,  551 . 

funebris,  553. 

ftisc/pes,  551. 

nttoralis,  562. 

■ morion,  564. 

nitida,  553. 

puberula,  651. 

fristis,  561. 

aleocharoides,  Homalota, 

642. 
Allardii,  Haltica,  406. 
Alophus  magnificus,  326. 
Alphitobius  diaperinus, 

497. 
alternans,  Blaps,  470. 

,  Pristonychus,  29. 

alternans,  Sphodrvs,  29. 
alticola,  Casopus,  238. 

,  Masoreus,  24. 

,  Platyderus,  45. 

altivagans,  Helops,  503. 
alutaceus,  Micromimetes, 

227. 
Amara  bifrons,  61. 
Amara  versuta,  51. 
amaroides,  Hegeter,  453. 
ambigua,  Pimelia,  475. 
amictus.  Tarns,  21. 
amnicola,  Homalota,  636. 
amnigena,  Homalota,537. 
amoenus,  Dromius,  12. 
Anaspis  Proteus,  516. 
anceps,  Auletes,  305. 
Anchomenus  albipes,  42. 
debilis,  41 . 


'  Anchotnenvs  marghiafus, 

NichoUsii,  40. 

j)all)pes,  42. 

anguiculus,  Lixus,  319. 
anguinus,  Lixus,  318. 
angularis,  CalafJms,  49. 
angularis,Pterostichus,49. 
angulata,  Corticaria,  148. 

,  Melansis,  492. 

anguli^Dennis,  Ecliinodera, 

296. 
angulosus,  Saprinus,  176. 
angustatus,  Anthicus,  622. 
angustifrons,  Pecteropus, 

218. 

,  Quedius,  563. 

angustissima,  Homalota, 

541. 
angustula,  Atlantis,  339. 

,  Ptinella,  106. 

angustulus,  Calathus,  37. 
Anisotojna  canarien8is,98. 

oceanica,  99. 

annulicornis,Stenidea,39 1 
Anobium  cryptophagoi- 

des,  250. 

molle,  250. 

paniceimi,  250. 

striatum,  250. 

velatum,  249. 

villosum,  249. 

antennatus,  Bruchus,  383. 
anthicoides,  Attalus,  224. 
Antliicus  angustatus,  622. 

canariensis,  523. 

crinitus,  518. 

dimidiatus,  621. 

floralis,  517. 

guttifer,  522. 

hispidus,  518. 

humilis,  519. 

lapidosus,  521. 

notoxoides,  520. 

opacuhis,  519. 

8cydnia;noides,  624. 

Anthoconms  analis,  222. 
Antlu-axia  senilis,  208. 
anthrenoides,Telopes,  1 59. 
Anthrenus  claviger,  161. 

varius,  161. 

Aphanarthrum  affine,259. 
armatum,  257. 


030 


INBEX. 


Aphanarthriim  bicinctum , 
2G0. 

bieolor,  250. 

canariense,  261. 

concolor,  2G3. 

glabrum,  258. 

Jiib.r,  257. 

luriduni,  2()2. 

piscatoi'ium,  260. 

pusillum,  263. 

aphoctioides,  Trauhyscelis, 

494. 
Aphodms  ca>-ho)ia}-i)is,l9l 

cojisji/ircaftis,  190. 

Aphodius  granarius,  191. 

liydroclia'ris,  187. 

lividus,  191. 

ruaculosus.  189. 

nitidulus,  188. 

sord/dus,  188. 

sficficu.s,  190. 

taniatus,  189. 

WoIIastonii,  188. 

apicale,  Ptenidium,  105. 
Apion  alhopilosum,  308. 
Apion  austrinum,  312. 

calcaratum,  310. 

ceuthorhynchoides, 

314. 

chalybeipenne,  310. 

— ■_ —  delicatulum,  307. 

fallax,  313. 

Germari,  308. 

longipes,  315. 

rotundipenne,  313. 

sagittiferum,  308. 

senex,  306. 

tubiferum,  311. 

umbrinum,  315. 

vernale,  307. 

Westwoodii.  311. 

ajDionides,  Xenomicrus, 

331, 
appendiculatus,  Calathus, 

38. 
arcuatus,  Scymnus,  429. 
arenarius,  Pentatemnus, 

273. 
arenicola,  Dromhis.  16. 
arenicola,  Masoreus,  22. 
argillo8ii8,  Acalles,  283. 
aridicola,  Tychius,  302. 
Aristus  subopacu8,  .53. 
arniatum,  Aphanarthriim, 

257. 
armatus,  Dyschirius,  8. 
Ai-mitagii,  Cleonus,  321. 
Arthrodes  byrrhoides,441 . 

costifrons,  445. 

curtus,  439. 

emarginatus,  447. 


Ai'throdes  geotrupoides, 

447. 

Hartungii,  442. 

inflatus,  439. 

laticollis,  441. 

malleatiis,  446. 

obesus,  440. 

parcepunctatus,  443. 

punctatulus,  443. 

siibciliatus,  444. 

subcostatus,  445. 

ascendens,  Calathus,  33. 

,  Pimelia,  473. 

aspericoUis,  Cryphalus, 

250. 
asperuliim,  Sclerum,  486. 
aterrimus,  Helops,  506. 
atlanticum,  Bembidium, 

70. 
Atlantis  angustula,  339. 

canariensis,  335. 

subnebulosa,  337. 

tetrica,  338. 

tibialis,  338. 

Atomaria  canariensis,  142. 

pilosula,  142. 

ruficollis,  143. 

atramentaria,  Homalota, 

543. 
atratus,  Ocypus,  567. 
Attaqen  u&  abbreviafus, 

1.58. 

obfusus,  158. 

Attagenus  pellio,  155. 

Scha'fferi,  15(5. 

Attains  a-nescens,  227. 

anthicoides,  224. 

bisculpturatiis,  221. 

chrysanthemi,  222. 

commixtus,  223. 

la3vicollis,  223. 

metallicus,  226. 

obscurus,  225. 

ornatissimus,  221. 

ovatipennis,  220. 

pallipes,  220. 

pellucidus,  219. 

posticus,  224. 

— —  ruficollis,  219. 

rugifrons,  221. 

subopacus,  226. 

tuberculatus,  225. 

auctus,  Calathus,  37. 

,  Lichenophagus,.363. 

Aidetes  anceps,  305. 

convexifrons,  305. 

cylindricollis,  304. 

Aulonium  sulcicolle,  127. 
auriculata,  Pimelia,  479. 
auropilosus,  Carpophilus, 

111. 


austrinum,  Apion,  312. 
Aufocera  laticeps,  485. 
azoricum,  Calosoma,  4. 

bajulus,  Hylotrypes,  386. 
barbara,  Fcronia,  47. 
barbatiis,  Calathus,  39. 
barbifrons,  Xylopertha, 

252. 
Baridius  sellatus,  298. 
basalis,  Piarus,  243. 
bella,  Epilachna,  425. 
Bembidium  atlanticum, 

70. 

biguttatum,  69. 

concolor,  70. 

Crotchii,  73. 

A-gutfahmi,  71. 

inconsjjicumn,  72. 

h«tuni,  72. 

margin  icolle,  74. 

subcallosiun,  71. 

viciuum,  69. 

Berosus  spinosus,  91. 
Bertheloti,  Buprestis,  207. 
beryte7ibis,  Feronia,  47. 
bicarinata,  Zophosis,  436. 
bicinctum,  Aphanar- 

tln-um,  260. 
bieolor,  Aphanarthrum, 

259. 

,  Chrysomela,  400. 

bifrons,  Amara,  51. 
bifurcatus,  Onycholips, 

274. 
biguttatum,  Bembidiiun, 

69. 
biguttatus,  Agabiis,  81. 
bigutfatus,  CoJymbetcs,  81. 
bilineatus,  Trogophlceus, 

599. 
binotata,  Aleochara,  554. 
bipartita,  Ootoma,  195. 
biplagiatus,  Stylosomus, 

399. 
bipnnctatuR,  Colymhdes, 

80. 
bi)iustulatus,  Philonthus, 

570. 
bisculpturatus,  Attalus, 

221. 
bistriatus,  Tachys,  66. 
bituberculatum,  Lipar- 

thrum,  265. 
Blabinotus  spinicollis,386 
Blaps  alternans,  470. 

fatidica,  470. 

gages,  469. 

similis,  470. 

Blechrus  glabratus,  15. 
niaurus,  15. 


037 


Blecliriis  plagiatus,  15. 
bledioides,  Trogophloeus, 

601. 
Blediuscornutis.simus,r>94 

galeatus,  504. 

januviaiius,  593. 

Bolitobius  filicornis,  560. 

luridus,  560. 

Bonvouloirii,  Casopus, 

237. 
Boromorplms  parvus,502. 
Bothynoderes  Jekelii,320. 
Brachimis  hispanicus,  10. 
Brachycerus  opacus,  334. 
Brachyderes  rugatus,  379. 

scidptiiratus,  379. 

Bracliypterus  curtiilus, 

110. 

velatus,  110. 

brachvpterus,Ocypus,565. 

,'Othius,  580. 

Bradycellus  Tentricosus, 

61. 
brevicollis,  Hegeter,  456. 

,  Oxyomus,  191. 

,  Pseudaneinia,  493. 

brevipennis,  Litliocharis, 

589. 

,  Longitarsus,  412. 

,  Metabletus,  18. 

,  Oxypoda,  550. 

brevis,  Xyletiuus,  247. 
brevitarsis,  Acalles,  289. 

,  Rhytidorhinus,  333. 

Broscus  glaber,  26. 

rutilans,  27. 

Bruchus  antennatus,  383. 

Fahce,  380. 

floricola,  383. 

pisi,  380. 

rufimanus,  381. 

Tenerim^,  382. 

terminatus,  381. 

brunneipennis,  Coptoste- 

thu3,  210. 
brunneus,  Aglenus,  128. 

■ ,  Dinoderus,  253. 

,  Polystichus,  10. 

,  Tacliyporus,  557. 

Buprestis  Bertheloti,  207. 
byrrhoides,  Artlirodes, 
441. 

Cacidvla  Utura,  430. 
cacti,  Homalota,  547. 
cadaverina,  Phaleria,  494. 
caeruleipennis,  Formico- 

mus,  517. 
csesus,  Psammodius,  192. 
Calathus  abacoides,  33. 
abaxoides,  33. 


Calathus  aciiminatus,  31. 

advena,  32. 

atigularis,  49. 

angustulus,  37. 

appendiculatus,  38. 

■ ascendens,  33. 

auctus,  37. 

barbatiis,  39. 

carinatus,  32. 

ciliatus,  36. 

cognatus,  34. 

depressus,  38. 

fidvipes,  34. 

■ rectus,  34. 

rufocastaneus,  31. 

simplicicollis,  35. 

sphodroides,  30. 

spretus,  30. 

calcaratum,  Apion,  310. 
CaUidium  Bajuhis,  386. 

rorid%im,  389. 

rusticum,  387. 

Calomierus  Wollastoni, 

405. 
Calosoma  azoricuili,  4. 

indagator,  3. 

Maderce,  3. 

calvus,  Herpysticus,  372. 
Calypfobium  cmdarum, 

144. 
nigrum,  145. 

Villa,  145. 

Calyptomerus  dubius, 

102. 
cambrieus,  Sitones,  376. 
camelus,  Tarphiiis,  125. 
canariense,  Aphanar- 

thrum,  261. 
canariensis,  Anisotoma, 

98. 

,  Anthicus,  623. 

,  Atlantis,  335. 

,  Atomaria,  142. 

,  Chlaenius,  25. 

,  Coptostethus,  211. 

,  Crypticus,  481. 

,  Feronia,  47,  49. 

,  Hister,  165. 

,  Homalota,  544. 

,  Pimelia,  472. 

,  Scymnus,  426. 

,  Tarphius,  125. 

,  Thorictus,  185. 

capillaricornis,  Habro- 

cerus,  557. 
capito,  Cephaloncus,  229. 
Carahits  abhreviatus,  6. 
Carabus  coarctatus,  5. 
faustus,  6. 

indagator,  3. 

interrupt  us,  6. 


Carabus  Maderce,  3. 
carbunculus,  Helops,  505. 
Carcinops  14-striatus,166. 
Carcinops  pumilio,  167. 
cardui,  Agapanthia,  393. 
carinatus,  Calathus,  32. 
Cai'pophilus  auropilosus, 
111. 

hemipterus,  111. 

Casopus  alticola,  238. 

Bonvouloirii,  237. 

dilaticollis,  237. 

radiosus,  238. 

subcalvus,  239. 

Cassida  hemisphivrica, 

419. 
castanea,  Oligota,  555. 

,  Ootoma,  198. 

Catamonus  cribrarius, 

360. 
Catops  putridus,  96. 
caudatus,  Tarphius,  126. 
caularum,  Holoparame- 

cus,  144. 
caulicola,  Lipaspis,  121. 
caulium,  Phlceophagus, 

270. 
Caulonomus  rhizophagoi- 

des,  129. 
centri7naculatum,Cercyon, 

95. 
centromaculatus,  Tachys, 

67. 
Cephalogonia  cerasina, 

228. 
Cephaloncus  capito,  229. 
Cerambyx  albidus,  392. 

annulicornis,  391 

Cerandria  cornuta,  496. 
cerasina,  Cephalogonia, 

228. 
Cercyon  cen  trimacuhdu  m, 

95. 
Cercyon  inquinituni,  94. 

lepidum,  94. 

nigi'iceps,  95. 

quisquiHum,  95. 

cercyonides,  Scymnus, 

428. 
Ceresyi,  Hydroporus,  78. 
Cefonia  hirta,  204. 
ceuthorhynchoides,  Apion, 

314. 
Ceuthorhynchus  hesperus, 

282. 

nigroterminatus,281 

phytobioides,  281. 

pollinarius,  280. 

pyrrhorhynchus, 

281. 
quadridens,  280. 


638 


INDEX. 


Cha^tarthria  similis,  93. 
ChiTstocuema  tarsalis,  418. 
chalcites,  Saprinus,  171. 
chalybeipenne,Apion,.310. 
Chawneri,  Lixus,  310. 
Chilocorus  renipustula- 

tus,  424. 
Chla^nius  canariensis,  25. 

spoliatus,  25. 

clirysanthemi,  Attains, 

222. 
Chrysomela  bicolor,  400. 

canariensis,  400. 

fortunata,  402. 

gemina,  403. 

nitcns,  403. 

obsoleta,  401 . 

regalis,  400. 

7'vjipes,  404. 

rutilans,  402. 

sanguinolenta,  399. 

ciliatus,  Calathus,  30. 
cimicoides,  Metopsia,  605. 
citicta,  Cymindis,  20. 
cinctus,  Tarus,  20. 
circumflexus,  Dytiscus,  83. 
Cis  lauri,  253. 
cisti,  Acmwodera,  204. 
Clambus  complicans,  101. 
Clarkii,  Hydroporus,  77. 

,  Zophosis,  435. 

clavicollis,  La;mophloeus, 

130. 
clavigei',  Anthrenus,  161. 
Cleonis  ohliqua,  324. 

• flicata,  325. 

Cleonus  Armitagii,  321. 

Jekelii,  320. 

tabidus,  324. 

variolosus,  323. 

Clems  Paiva;,  234. 
clientula,  Homalota,  .54.5. 
clypeafus,  Difomus,  53. 
Clyfiis  griseiis,  390. 
Cfytiis  "Webbii,  389. 
Cnemcplatia  laticeps,  485. 
coarctatus,  Carabus,  .5. 
Cocciuella  Doublieri,  423. 

hierogJyfhica,  422. 

Miranda,  422. 

semipustulata,  424. 

7-punctata,  422. 

Colostoma  abdoniinale,^\. 

orbiculare,  93. 

cognatus,  Calathus,  34. 
Coli/mbetes  higuttatus,  81. 

bi'puncfatus,  80. 

Colymbetes  eoriaceus,  80. 
Comazus  enshamensis, 

102. 
commixtus,  Attains,  223. 


coni23acta,  Echinodera, 

297. 
compactus,  Laparocerus, 

359. 
coniplanatus,  Mesites, 
276. 

,  Oxytelus,  597. 

,  Pristonychus,  29. 

,  Sphodrus,  29. 

complicans,  Clambus,  101. 
concolor,  Aphanartlm.im, 

263. 

,  Bembidium,  70. 

,  Ditylus,  512. 

confluens,  Hydroporus, 

75. 

,  Trox,  193. 

congener,  Helops,  504. 

,  Olibrus,  107. 

congestus,  Tarphius,  126. 
Coniatus  tamarisci,  328. 
Conosoma  iividum,  556. 

pubescens,  556. 

consan  guineas,  Agabus, 

81. 
consenta7ie2cs,  Harpalus, 

54. 
consimilis,  Olibrus,  108. 
constricta,  Ecliidnoglossa, 

531. 
Conurus  pubescens,  556. 
convexifrons,  Auletes,305. 
Coptostethus  brunneipen- 

nis,  210. 
— —  canariensis,  211. 

crassiusculus,  213. 

globulicoUis,  212. 

gracilis,  211. 

obtusus,  213. 

eoriaceus,  Colymbetes,  80. 
coriaria,  Homalota,  546. 
cornutissimus,  Bledius, 

594. 
cornutus,  Gnathocerus, 

496. 

,  Platystethus,  595. 

Corticaria  angidata,  148. 

curta,  149. 

fulva,  146. 

maculosa,  147. 

serrata,  148. 

tenella,  150. 

corticina,  Pliloeopora,533. 
coruscus,  Phalacrus,  106. 
Corynetes  fimetarius,  236. 

ruficollis,  235. 

rufipes,  235. 

Cossyphodes  WoUastonii, 

127. 
Cossyphus  insularis,  500. 
costata,  Melansis.  491. 


costifrons,  Ai'throdes,  445. 
costipenne,  Melyrosoma, 

233. 
costipennis,  Hegeter,  457. 

,  Pimelia,  476. 

crassicornis,  Eremotes, 

269. 
crassifrons,  Laparocerus, 

346. 
crassipes,  Haltica,  408. 
crassirostris,  LajDaroce- 

rus,  345. 

,  Ehyncolus,  270. 

crassiuscula,  Aleochara, 

551. 
crassiusculus,  Coptoste- 
thus, 213. 
crassus,  Zabrus,  52. 
Cratognathus  a^mulus,  57. 

fortunatus,  55. 

micans,  56. 

solitarius,  54. 

crenata,  Echinodera,  295. 
crenata,  Feronia,  46. 
erenatus,  Pterostichus,  46. 

,  Stagetus,  245. 

Creophilus  maxillosus, 

564. 
cribrarius,  Geonemus,.369. 
cribricoUis,  Gnophota, 

465. 
crinitus,  Antliicus,  518. 
Criocephalus  pinetorum, 

388. 

rusticus,  387. 

Crioceris  nigropicta,  394. 
croceicollis,  Malthinus, 

217. 
Crotchianus,  Spha.'ricus, 

242. 
Crotchii,  Bembidium,  73. 
Cryphalus  aspericollis, 

256. 
Cryptieus  canariensis,481. 
Crypticus  glaber,  485. 
Cryptieus  minutus,  483. 

navicularis,  481. 

oblongus,  482. 

punctatissimus,  480. 

Cryptocephalus  nitidicol- 

lis,397. 

puncticoUis,  398. 

cryptophagoides,  Ano- 

bium,  250. 
Cryptophagusaffinis,  136. 

dentatus,  135. 

fusiformis,  137. 

hesperius,  137. 

obesulus,  136. 

cucidlus,  Plinthus,  330. 
cun*ax,  Nebria,  3. 


639 


cursitans,  Homalota,  540. 
curta,  Cortiearia,  149. 
curtipennis,  Ocypus,  567. 
curtulus,  Bracliypterus, 

110. 
curtum,  Liparthrum,  266. 
curtus,  Artlirodes,  439. 
curvimanum,  Bembidium, 

67. 
curvimanus,  Tachys,  67. 
Cybister  africanus,  83. 
Cybocephalus  sphterula, 

116. 

Ifevis,  117. 

Cyclonotum  orbiculare, 

93. 
cylindricolli9,Auletes,304. 
cylindricus,  Teretrius,164. 
Cymindis  cincta,  20. 

discordea,  19. 

marginella,  20. 

sutiiralis,  19. 

Cyplion  gracilicornis,  214. 

Daetylosternum  abdomi- 

nale,  94. 

Boussetii,  94. 

Dapsa  edentafa,  432. 
Dasysterna  canadensis, 

199. 
Dasytes  dispar,  230. 

filiformis,  231. 

nigricornis,  2.30. 

suba?ne8cens,  230. 

debilieornis,  Lithocharis, 

.589. 
debilis,  Anchomenus,  41. 
decemplagiata,  Epilachiia, 

426. 
decoratus,  Tychius,  302. 
deformis,  Tarphius,  127. 
Dejeanii,  Gyrinus,  85. 
delectus,  Hydroporus,  76. 
delicatulum,  Apion,  307. 
dentatus,  Cryptophagus, 

135. 

,  SilTanu8,  132. 

depauperatus,  Tychius, 

303. 
deplanata,  Xenoscelis,  ]  32. 
depressus,  Calathus,  .38. 
Dermestes  Friscliii,  155. 

Tulpinus,  1.55. 

desectus,  Xyletinus,  246. 
deserticola,  litliophilus, 

431. 
detersus,  Trechus,  62. 
DeyroUii,  Thalpophila, 

462. 
diaperinus,  Alphitobius, 

497. 


Dibolia  obtusa,  417. 
Dicliirotrichus  levistri- 

atus,  60. 
Dignomus  gracilipes, 

239. 
dilatata,  Nebria,  2. 
dilaticollis,  Casopus,  237. 
dimidiatus,  Anthicus,  521. 

,  Scarites,  7. 

,  Sunius,  591. 

Dinoderus  brunneus,  253. 
Diphyllus  lunatus,  134. 
discoideus,  Philonthus, 

573. 

,  Tarus,  19. 

discordea,  Cymindis,  19. 
dispar,  Dasytes,  230. 

,  Laparocerus,  358. 

Difomus  clypeahis,  53. 
Ditylus  concolor,  512. 
Bifylns  fulvus,  512. 

rvfus,  513. 

divisa,  Pseudocolaspis, 

394. 
Dolicaon  nigricolUs,  584. 

ruficollis,  584. 

Dolichosoma  Hartungii, 

231. 
dorsalis,  Acvpalpus,  61. 
dorsalis,  Longitarsus,413. 

,  Stenolophus,  01. 

Doublieri,  Coccinella,  423. 
Dromius  agilis,  11. 

amoenus,  12. 

arcnicola,  16. 

elliptipennis,  12. 

exclanudionis,  16. 

glabratus,  15. 

incertus,  13. 

mmirus,  15. 

obscuroguttatus,  16. 

pervenustus,  14. 

plagiatus,  15. 

sigma,  13. 

dubia,  Pseudocolaspis, 

395. 
dubiu8,Calyptomerus,  102. 
dulcamariv,  Pria,  112. 
duplicatus,  Europs,  129. 
Dyscliirius  armatus,  8. 

pauxillus,  9. 

suba-neus,  9. 

Dytiscus  circumflexus,  83. 

echii,  Longitarsus,  41.5. 
Echiduoglossa  constricta, 

.331. 
Echinodera  angulij^ennis, 

296. 

compacta,  297. 

crenata,  295. 


Echinodera  hystrix,  294. 

orbiculata,  297. 

picta,  298. 

edentata,  Dapsa,  432. 
ellipticus,  Laparocerus, 

351. 

,  Mnionomus,  138. 

elUptipennis,  Dromius,  12. 

,  Helops,  503. 

elongata,  Feronia,  47. 
elongata,  Tentyria,  448. 
elongatum,  Leucohima- 

tium,  140. 
elongatus,  OUsthopus,44. 
emarginatus,  Arthrodes, 

447. 
Enoptostomus  WoUas- 

toni,  529. 
E'phistemus  dimidiatus, 

144. 
Epicometis  femorata,  204. 

squalida,  203. 

Epilachna  bella,  425. 

4-plagiata,  425. 

10-plagiata,  426. 

Epistemus  gyrinoides,144 
eremita,  Herpysticus,  370. 
Eremotes  crassicornis,269 
Erodius  ciirtus,  439. 

etiropeus,  438. 

laticollis,  441. 

obesus,  440. 

subcostatus,  445. 

erosus,  Saprinus,  177. 

,  Tarphius,  125. 

Eubrachium  ovale,  182. 

politum,  182. 

— • —  puuctatum,  181. 
Eucinetus  ovum,  215. 
Eunectes  subdiaphauus, 

84. 
euphorbije,  Hypophlceus, 

499. 
Euplectus  Karstenii,  527. 

■  monticola,  527. 

sanguineus,  528. 

Europs  duplicatus,  129. 

impressicollis,  128. 

Euryporus  princeps,  561. 
Eutrijjtus  putricola,  164. 
excavatus,  Laparocerus, 
343. 

,  Xyletinus,  247. 

exclamcitionis,  Dromius, 

16. 
exiguus,  Trogophlceus, 

600. 
exoleta,  Oxypoda,  549. 

Falagria  obscura,  530. 
fallax,  Apion,  313. 


040 


IXDKX. 


fasciatus,  Telopes,  160. 
fascicularis,  Acrotricliis, 

103. 
fanstus,  Carabus,  G. 
felix,  Trechus,  ().'3. 
femorata,  EpicoQietis,  204. 
Feronia  harhara,  47. 

berj/tcnsis,  47. 

canariensis,  47,  49. 

crenata,  46. 

elongafa,  47. 

glabra,  26. 

longula,  47. 

pralonga,  47. 

feiTugineum,  Triboliuin, 

496. 
fignrata,  Silpha,  97. 
figuratus,  Pterostiehus,46. 
filicornis,  Bolitobius,  .560. 
fimetarius,  Corynetes,236. 
flmicola,Notiomimus,247. 
flaveseens,  Melyrosoina, 

234. 
flavolimbatus,  Trechus, 63. 
flexuosa,  Nitidula,  111. 
floralis,  Antliicus,  517. 
floricola,  Bruchus,  383. 

,  Philorinum,  602. 

florum,  Olibrus,  106. 
Formicomus  cajruleipen- 

nis,  517. 
foruicata,  Pimelia,  472. 
fortunata,Chrysomela,402 
fortunatus,  Acalles,  286. 

,  Cratognathus,  55. 

,  Saprinus,  172. 

fossor,  Platystethus,  595. 

,  Xenonychus,  181. 

fossoria,  P9eudosteiie,497. 
fracta,  Acm;^iodera,  205. 
fragilis,  Homalota,  539. 
Frischii,  Dermcstes,  155. 
fucicola,  Aeruti-icliis,  102. 
fulgidus,  Quedius,  563. 
fulva,  Corticaria,  146. 
fumata.  Typhiva,  153. 
funebris,  Aleochara,  5.53. 
fuscipennis,  Ootoma,  196. 
fuscipes,  Thalpophila,463. 
fuscoicneus,  Longitarsus, 

415. 
fusculus,  Helops,  511. 
fuscum,  Opatrum,  487. 
fusifoimiis,  Cryptophagus, 

137. 
,  Mesites,  278. 

gages,  Blaps,  469. 
galeatus,  Bledius,  .594. 
gemina,  Chrysomela,  403. 
geminatus,  Notiophilus,  1 . 


geminus,  Hydroporus,  76. 
geminus,  Olibrus,  108. 
Greonemus  cribrarius,  369. 
geotrupoides,  Arthrodes, 

447. 
Geniiari,  Apion,  308. 
gibbici  .His,  Sphserieus,  241 
(Jibbiion  suleicolle,  240. 
gibbuin,  Leprosoma,  391. 
gigas,  Scarites,  7. 

,  Tarpliius,  126. 

,  Thorictus,  184. 

glaber,  Broscus,  26. 

,  Hegeter,  45.3. 

glabra,  Fvronia,  26. 
glabratu8,  Bleclirus,  15. 

,  Drornrus,  15. 

,  Olisthopus,  43. 

glabriim,  Aphanarthrum, 

258. 
glareosus,  Oxyteliis,  598. 
globulicollis,  Coptoste- 

thus,  212. 
globiilipennis,  La2:>aroce- 

rus,  349. 
globiilum,Agathidium,99. 
Gnathocerus  cornutus, 

496. 
Gnophota  eribricollis,465. 

in:rqualis,  4(i6. 

punctipennis,  467. 

gonospermi,  Nitpus,  240. 
Gracilia  pygraaea,  390. 
gracilicornis,  Cyphon,214. 
gracilipes,  Digiiomus,  2.39. 

,  Limnebius,  89. 

gracilis,  Coptostethus,21 1 . 

,  Lajjarocerus,  356. 

granarius.  Aphodius,  191. 

,  Sitophilus,  279. 

granulatiis,  Ljcmophloeus, 

1.30. 
granuIicoUis,  Pimelia,478. 
Grayii,  Pogonus,  28. 
gregaria,  Homalota,  537. 
gressorius,  Sitones,  374. 
Gronops  lunatus,  332. 
grossepvmctatus,  Laparo- 

cerus,  344. 
giittifer,  Aiithicus,  522. 
giittiveutris,  Lixus,  320. 
giittula,  Stenus,  592. 
gyrinoides,Epistemus.  144. 
Gyrinus  Dejeanii,  85. 

striatus,  84. 

xirinator,  84. 

Habroceriis  capillaricor- 

nis,  557. 
hamorrhoidalis,  Tacliys, 

68. 


hffimorrhous,  Hydrobius, 

92. 
Haliplus  suffusus,  74. 
Halonouuis  salinicola, 

490. 
Haltica  Allardii,  406. 

crassipes,  408. 

lubrica,  406. 

Paivana,  407. 

plenifrons,  408. 

variipennis,  407. 

Haplocnemus  sciilptiira- 

tus,  2.32. 

vestitus,  232. 

harpaloides,  Pterostichus, 

50. 
Harpalus  consentaneus, 

54. 

lifigiosus,  58. 

•  ruhrrpes,  55. 

Harpalus  Schaumii,  58. 

tenebrosus,  58. 

viv/dus,  56. 

Hartungii,  Artlu'odes,442. 

,  Dolichosoma,  231. 

Hegeter  abbreviatus,  457. 
— — ■  amaroides,  453. 

brevicollis,  456. 

costipennis,  457. 

cribricoUis,  465. 

elongatus.  451. 

fuscipes,  463. 

glaber,  453. 

impressus,  458. 

lateralis,  460. 

jiolifus,  454. 

sfriufus,  451. 

subrotundatus,  459. 

teniiipunctatus,  459. 

transversus,  455. 

tristis,  451. 

Webbiaiius,  452. 

Helophorus  longitarsis, 

86. 
Helops  ffithiops,  509. 

altivagans,  503. 

aterrimus,  506. 

carbunculus,  505. 

congener,  504. 

elliptipennis,  503. 

fusculus,  511. 

nitens,  506. 

picescens,  509. 

porrectus,  508. 

quadratus,  507. 

rimosus,  508. 

transversus,  505. 

hemipterus,  Carpophilus, 

111. 
hemispli»rica,Cassida,419 
Herpysticus  calvus,  372. 


641 


Herpysticus  eremita,  370. 

lasicoUis,  371. 

oculatus,  373. 

hesperius,  CiTptophagus, 

137. 

,  Xantholinus,  578. 

Hesperophanes  roridus, 

389. 

senex,  388. 

hesperus.  Ceuthorhjn- 

chus,  282. 
Hesperus,  Stenidea,  392. 
Heterobracliium  longima- 

num,  109. 
Het<irothops  minutus, 

562. 
birtulus,  Stagetus,  245. 
hirtinn,  Melyrosoma, 

233. 
liirtus,  Laparocerus,  348. 
Hispa  occator,  418. 
Iiis-panicus,  Brachmus,  10. 
hispanieus,  Pheropsophus, 

10. 
hispida,  Paivaea,  450. 
hispidum,  Opatruni,  488. 
hispidus,  Anthiciis,  518. 
Hister  cencus,  171. 
Hister  canariensis,  165. 

major,  165. 

mefallims,  176. 

nitidulus,  169. 

mresccns,  172. 

histrio,  Xenostrongylus, 

114. 
Hochuthii,  Hypocoprus, 

141, 
Hololepta  Perraudieri, 

162. 
Holoparamecus  caula- 

rum,  144. 

niger,  145. 

singiilaris,  145. 

holosericeuSjNotioinimus, 

248. 
Homalium  pusillum,  603. 

sculpticoUe,  002. 

Homalota  aleocharoides, 

542. 

amnieola,  536. 

amnigena,  537. 

angustissima,  541. 

atramentaria,  543. 

■ cacti,  547. 

canariensis,  544. 

clientula,  545. 

coriaria,  546. 

cursitans,  540. 

fragilis,  539. 

gregaria,  537. 

Iseta,  543. 


Homalota  lividipenirh, 

549. 
Homalota  longula,  539. 

melanaria,  549. 

misella,  541. 

nigra,  541.. 

persimilis,  538. 

phheia,  545. 

putrescens,  547. 

rufobadia,  535. 

rufofusca,  535. 

sodah's,  546. 

subcoriaria,  546. 

— —  siibsericea,  540. 

terricola,  548. 

thinohioides,  539. 

ti-ogopliloeoides,  536. 

vagepunctata,  544. 

•  Waterhousii,  548. 

hospes,  P.sylliodes,  416. 
humeralis,  Lycoperdina, 

432. 

,  Sitones,  377. 

humilis,  Anthicus,  519. 
Hydrivna  quadricoUis,  89. 

serricollis,  88. 

sinuaticollis,  87. 

Hydrobius  ha;morrhoiis, 

92. 
hydrocliteris,  Apliodius, 

187. 
Hydrofhihis  melanoce- 

phaliis,  91. 
Hi/droporus  Andalusi(e, 

77. 
Hydroporus  Ceresyi,  78. 

Clarkii,  77. 

confluens,  75. 

delectus,  76. 

geminus,  76. 

minutissimus,  76. 

— —  musicus,  75. 

planus,  77. 

tessellatus,  79. 

xanthopus,  77. 

Hylastes  Lowei,  269. 
Hylesinus  indigenus,  267. 
Hylotrypes  bajulus,  386. 
Hylurgus  crassicornis.269 
Hylurgus  ligniperda,  268. 
Hypera  irrorata,  327. 
— —  lunata,  326. 
— — -  variabilis,  328. 
Hypocoprus  Hochuthii, 

141. 
Hypophloeus  euphorbia, 

499. 

nocivus,  498. 

pini,  498. 

subdepressus,  499. 

hystrix,  Echinodera,  294. 


ignobilis,  Saprinus,  173. 
impressicollis,Em'op8, 128 

,  Lichenophagus,368. 

impressus,  Hegeter,  458. 
impunctipennis,  Sphaeri- 

cus,  241. 
inirqualis,  Gnophota,  466. 

,  Laparocerus,  348. 

,  Metabletus,  16. 

inarmatum,  Liparthrum, 

206. 
incertus,  Dromius,  13. 
inconspieuum,  Bembi- 

dium,  72. 
inconspicuuSjLongitarsus, 

414. 
inconstans,  Piotes,  243. 
indagator,  Calosoma,  3. 
indagator,  Carabus,  3. 
indigenus,  Hylesinus, 267. 
inflata,  Oligota,  555. 
inflatus,  Arthrodea,  439. 

,  Laccophilus,  79. 

inquinitum,  Cercyon,  94. 
instabilis,  Acalles,  290. 
insularis,  Cossyphus,  500. 
integer,  Tlu'oscus,  209. 
Integra,  Ootoma,  197. 

,  Syncalypta,  162. 

integricolle,  Agathidium, 

100. 
interrupta,  Tentyria,  448. 
interruptus,  Carabus,  6. 
irrorata,  Hypera,  327. 
Ischnomera  melaniira, 

612. 

januvianus,  Bledius,  593. 
Jekelii,Bothynoderes,320. 
Juba',Aphanarthrum,257. 
jucundus,  Micromimetes, 
228. 

Karstenii,  Euplectus,  527. 
kleiniiperda,  Longitarsus, 
409. 

labile,  Lathrobium,  583. 
Laccobius  minutus,  90. 
Laccophilus  inflatus,  79. 
Lacordairii,  Melanochrus, 

468. 
Lsemophlceus  clavicoUis, 

130. 

granulatus,  130. 

pusillus,  131. 

vermiculatus,  130. 

Ireta,  Homalota,  543. 
Iffitum,  Bembidium,  72. 
laevicollis,  Attalus,  223. 
Itevigata,  Pimelia,  477. 


642 


Icevigatum,  Ptenidium, 

104. 
Iwvdgatus,  Zabrus,  52. 
Iwvis,  Cybocephalus,  117. 
Lamia  fiihho ,  891. 
laucerotensis,  Metabletus, 

17. 
Laparocerus  a?tlnopi?,  347. 

canariejtsh,  335. 

compactus,  359. 

crassifrons,  340. 

crassirostris,  345. 

dispar,  357. 

ellipticus,  351. 

excavatus,  343. 

globulipennis,  349. 

• gracilis,  356. 

grossepunctatus,344 

hirtus,  348. 

inicqualis,  348. 

lepidopterus,  352. 

meiidicus,  355. 

morio,  341. 

obsciirus,  355. 

obsitus,  301. 

obtriangularis,  351. 

occidentalis,  350. 

puncticollis,  302. 

rasiis.  354. 

scapularis,  347. 

sculptus,  341. 

seniculus,  353. 

squamosus,  344. 

suloirostris,  359. 

tenellus,  3(>2. 

tessellatus,  300. 

undatus,  342. 

vestitus,  358. 

lapidicola,  Ochtliebius.  87. 
lapidosus,  Anthicvis,  .521. 
latens,  Trogosita,  12-3. 
lateralis,  Ilegeter,  4(^>0. 

,  Sericoderus,  431. 

Lathridius  minutus,  151. 

opacipennis.  151. 

ruficollis,  152. 

Lathrobiuin  labile,  58-3. 
nmllipiinctatura, 

583. 
laticeps,  Cnei'neplatia,485. 
latioollis,  Arthrodes,  441. 
latipennis,  Sitones,  375. 
latitans,  Xyletinus,  246. 
lauri,  Cis,  253. 
lauricola,  Lipaspis,  120. 
laurineiis,  Phloeopliagus, 

271. 
Leistus  nubivagiis,  1. 
Lema  nielanoiia,  393. 
lepidopterus,  Laparocerus, 

352. 


lepidum,  Cercyon,  94. 
lepidus,  Ptiliiius,  251. 
Lejorosoma  gibbum,  391. 
Leptacinus  linearis,  580. 
— —  parumpunctatus,.579 
Lcptura  siiturnlis,  .393. 
Leucohimatium  elouga- 

tum,  140. 
leucophthalmus,  Spbo- 

drus,  29. 
levistriatus,  Dichirotri- 

chus,  00. 
Lichenophagus  auctus, 

303. 

impi'essicollis,  368. 

persimilis,  305. 

sculptipennis,  307. 

subnodosus.  300. 

tesserula,  364. 

Licinus  Manriquiaiius.25. 
ligniperda,  nylurgus,268. 
Limnebiiis  gracilipes,  89. 

punctatus,  90. 

linearis,  Leptacinus,  580. 
Hneatum,  Melasma,  485. 
lineatus,  Sitones,  376. 
Liparthrum  bitubercula- 

tum,  205. 

curtum,  206. 

inarmatum,  266. 

Lowei,  207. 

Lipaspis  caulicola,  121. 

lauricola,  120. 

pinicola,  120. 

Litargus  trifasciatus,  154. 
Litliocliaris  brevipennis, 

589. 

debilicornis,  .589. 

melanoeephala,  588. 

nigritula,  587. 

— —  ochracea,  587. 

quadriceps,  580. 

subcoriacea,  580. 

Litliophilus  deserticola, 

431. 
lifigiosus,  Harpalus,  58. 
littoralis,  Aleochara,  552. 
— — ,  Trechus,  04. 
litura,  Rhizobius,  4.30. 
lividiun,  Conosoma,  550. 
lividus,  Apliodius,  191. 
Lixus  anguiculus,  319. 

anguinus,  318. 

Chawneri,  319. 

guttiventris.  320. 

lobatus,  Saprinus,  178. 
longicollis,  Xyloterus,25G. 
longicornis,  Megarthrus, 

004. 
longimanum,  Heterobra- 

cliium,  109. 


longipes,  Apion,  315. 
longitarsis,  Helophorus, 

80. 
Longitarsus  brevipennis, 

412. 

cognatus,  411. 

dorsalis,  413. 

echii,  415. 

excu7-ims,  415. 

fuscoa'neus,  415. 

inconspicuus,  414. 

kleiniiperda,  409. 

• messerschmidtia', 

410. 

nubigena,  413. 

oclu-oleucus,  411. 

persimilis.  409. 

pusillus.  414. 

strigicollis.  412. 

vilis.  415. 

long2<Ja,  Fcron/a,  47. 
longula,  Horaalota,  .5.39. 
longulus,  Nanophyes.299. 

,  Pterosticbus,  47. 

Lowei,  Hylastes,  269. 

,  Lijiarthrum.  267. 

lubrica,  Haltica,  406. 
lunata,  Hypera,  326. 
lunatus,  Diphyllus,  134. 

,  Gronops,  332. 

lunulatus,Nanophyes,300. 
luridum,  Aphanartbrum, 

2(52. 
luridus,  Bolittbius,  500. 
lutaria,  Pimelia,  471. 
lutosum,  Opatrum,  486. 
Lycoperdina  humeralis, 
'432. 

maculosa,  Corticaria,  147. 
maculosus,  Aphodius,189. 

,  Scymnus,  428. 

Madcne,  Calosoma,  3. 

,  Carahus,  3. 

magnificus,  Alopbus,  320. 
major,  Hister,  105. 
Malacogaster  tilloides,2 1  b 
malleatus,  Artln'odcs,446. 
Maltbinus  croceicollis, 

217. 

mutabilis,  210. 

Manriquianus,  Licinus, 

25. 
marcidus,Philonthus,571 . 
marginalis,  Xantholinus, 

578. 
marginatus,  Anchomenus, 

42. 

,  Stenolophus,  61. 

nnarginella,  Ci/mindis,  20. 
marginellus.  Tai'us. -20. 


643 


marginicolle,  Bembidium, 

74. 
Masoreus  alticola,  24. 

arenic'ola,  22. 

nobilis,  22. 

Matthewsii,  Acrotrichis, 

103. 
mauritanica,  Trogosita, 

121. 
maurus,  Blechnis,  15. 
maurns,  Dromius,  15. 
maxillosus,  Creophilus, 

564. 
megacephalu8,Siinius,.390. 
megalops,  Quedius,  5G4. 
Megarthrus  longicornis, 

604. 
Mcgatoma  verbasci,  161. 
melanaria,  Homalota,  549. 
melanocephala,  Litlioclia- 

ris,  588. 
melanoccphahts,  Hydro- 

philus,  91. 
melanoeephalus,  Pliilhy- 

driis,  91. 
Melaiioclirus  Lacoi'dairii, 

468. 
melanopa,  Lema,  393. 
Melansis  angulata,  492. 

costata,  491. 

melan  ura,  Iscluiomera  ,512 
Melasma  lineatum,  485. 
Mc'ligethes  cri/fhmpa,  113. 
Meligethes  tristis.  113. 

■ varicollis,  112. 

virescens,  113. 

Meloc  Jlavicomns,  514. 
Meloe  mui'inus,  514. 

nudus,  514. 

rugosus,  513. 

ruguhsa,  513. 

subcyaneus,  514. 

• tiiccius,  513. 

Melolonfha  bvparfita,  195. 

cadanea,  198. 

fumi'})enni&,  197. 

obscura,  200. 

Melyros  jma  costipeune, 

233. 

flavescens,  234. 

hirtum,  233. 

meiidicus,  Laparoccrus, 

355. 
menthfe,  Phajdon,  404. 
Mesites  complauatus,  276.^ 

fusiformis,  278. 

persimilis,  276. 

proxinius,  277. 

pubipeunis,  278. 

Mesoxenus  Monizianus, 

275. 


messersclimidtiffi,  Longi- 

tarsiis,  410. 
Metabletus  brevipennis, 

18. 

injcqiialis,  16. 

lancerotensis,  17. 

patruelis,  16. 

metallicus,  Attains,  226. 
Metopsia  ciiuicoides,  605. 
Mezium  suloatuni,  240. 
micans,  Cratognathus,  56. 
Micruchondrus  domuum, 

153. 
Micromimete.s  alutaceus, 

227. 

jucundus,  228. 

minimus,  Scymnus,  429. 
minutissimus,  Ilydropo- 

rus,  76. 
raiuutus,  Acritua,  183. 

,  Cryplicus,  483. 

,  Ileterothops,  562. 

,  Laccobius,  90. 

,  Lathridius,  151. 

minyops,  Phytcsus,  531. 

,  Sapriiius,  174. 

misella,  Homalota,  541. 
Miranda,  Coccinella,  422. 
Mnionomus  ellipticus, 

138. 
molle,  Anobium,  250. 
monilicornis,  Mycetopo- 

rus,  559. 
Monizianus,  Mesoxenus, 

275.       • 
Monotonia  congener,  123. 
Monotoma  4-foveolata, 

124. 

picipes,  123. 

quadricoUis,  124. 

spinicolHs,  123. 

sjxinifera,  123. 

monticola,  Euplectus, 

527.   _ 
Mordellistena  p^miila, 

515. 

sericata,  515. 

m  'rio,  Laparocerus,  341. 
morion,  Aleochara,  554. 
multifasciatus,  Telopes, 

159. 
multipunotatum,  Lathro- 

bium,  .583. 
mundus,  Saprinus,  176, 
murinus,  Meloe,  514. 
muscicola,Xenomma,535. 
musicus,  Hydroporus,  75. 

-,  Plinthus,  329. 

mutabilis,  Malthinus,  216. 
Mycetoporus  monilicor- 
nis, 559. 


Mycetoporus  rufus,  558. 

solidicornis,  559. 

myrmecopliilus,  Suniiis, 

590. 
Myrmecoxenus  sordidus, 

152. 

Nanophyes  longulus,  299. 

lunulatiis,  300. 

naviculari8,Crypticus,481. 
Nebria  currax,  3. 

dilatata,  2. 

nebulosus,  Agabus,  80. 
Nevrobia  rufipes,  235. 
Nephanes  abbreviatella, 

104. 
Nichollsii,  Anchomenus, 

40. 
nigellus,  Scopieus,  585. 
niger,  Iloloparamecus, 

145. 
nigra,  Homalota,  541. 
nigriceps,  Cercyon,  95. 
nigricoilis,  Dolicaon,  584. 
nigritula,  Lithocharis,  587. 
nigritulus,  Perileptus,  65. 

,  Pliilonthus,  574. 

nigropicta,  Crioceris,  394. 
nigroterminatvis,  Ceutho- 

rhynchus,  281. 
nitens,  Helops,  .506. 
nitida,  Aleochara,  553. 
nitidicollis,  Cryptocepha- 

lus,  397. 
Nitidula  flexuosa.  111. 
nitiduius,  Apbodius,  188. 

,  Oxytelus,  598. 

,  Saprinus,  169. 

Nitpus  gonospermi,  240. 
nobilis,  Masoreus,  22. 

,  Saprinus,  167. 

,  Tomicus,  254. 

Notiomimus  fimicola,247. 

holosericeus,  248. 

punctulatissimus, 

248. 
Notiophilus  geminatus,  1. 
notoxoides,  Anthicus,  520. 
nubigena,  Longitaisus, 

413. 

,  Silvanus,  133. 

nubilosus,  Acalles,  287. 
nubi vagus,  Leistus,  1. 
nudus,  Meloe,  .514. 

obesulus,  Cryptophagus, 
136. 

,  Thylacites,  374. 

obesus,  Arthrodes,  440. 
oblitum,  Opatrum,  489. 
oblongior,  Scymnus,  427. 

2t2 


644 


oblongus,  Cryptieus,  482. 

obsciira,  Falagria,  530. 

,  Ootoma,  200. 

obscurella,  Ootoma,  200. 

obscuripes,  Pseudocolas- 
pis,  396. 

obscuroquffafics,  Bromius, 
IG.  ' 

obscurus,  Attains,  225. 

,  Laparocerus,  355. 

,  Tenebrio,  500. 

obsitus,  Laparocerus,  361. 

obsoleta,  Clirysomela,  401. 

obtriangularis,  Laparoce- 
rus, 35 1 . 

obtusa,  Dibolia,  417. 

obtusus.C'optostethiis,213. 

,  Telopes,  157. 

occator,  Hispa,  418. 

occidentalis,  Laparocerua, 
350. 

ocean  ica,  Anisotoina,  99. 

ochracea,  Lithocharis,5S7. 

ochroleueus,  Longitarsus, 
411. 

Oclithebius  4-foveolatu8, 
86. 

lapidicola,  87. 

pygmanis,  87. 

Ochthenomus  senilis, 525. 
Octoteninus  opacus,  254. 
oculatissimus,  Xyloj)liilu8, 

525. 
ofulatus,  Herpysticus,373. 
Oeypus  affinis.  566. 

atratus,  567. 

brachypterus,  565. 

curtipennis,  567. 

olens,  5(54. 

punctatissimus,  568. 

subffnescens,  567. 

umbricola,  566. 

Oqcocephalns  capita,  229. 
olens,  Ocypus,  564. 
Olibrus  congener.  107. 

eonsimilis,  108. 

florum,  106. 

geminus,  108. 

subtereus,  107. 

Oligota  castanea,  555. 
— —  inflata,  555. 
Olisthopuselongatus,  44. 

glabratus,  43. 

palmensis,  42. 

olivensis,  Tenebrio,  501. 
0»ia/ii(.m  fnsiUum,  603. 
Omias  tesscUatus,  3()0. 
Onycholips  bifurcatus, 

274. 
Ootoma  bipartite ,  195. 
— —  castanea,  198. 


Ootoma  fuscipennis,  196. 

Integra,  197. 

obscura,  200. 

obscurella,  200. 

opacipennis,  Latbridius, 

151. 
opaculus,  Anthicus,  519. 
opacus,  Brachycerus,  334. 

,  Octoteninus,  254. 

Opafmm  err  cms,  487. 
Opatrum  fuscum,  487. 

hispidum,  488. 

lutosum,  486. 

oblitum,  489. 

tomentoswn,  488. 

orhiculare,  Coelostoma,  93. 
orbicidare,Cyclonotum,93 
orbiculata,  Echinodera, 

297. 
ornata,  Acmaeodera,  207. 

,  Phaleria,  494. 

ornatissimus.  Attalus,221. 
Oryctes  prolixus,  202. 

Silcmts,  201. 

oryza\  Sitophilus,  280. 
osculans,  Saprinus,  168. 
Otbius  brachypterus,  580. 

philontlioides,  581. 

Otiorhynchus  sculptus, 

341. 

simplex,  338. 

Otiorhynchus  squamosus, 

345. 
ovale,  Eubrachium,  182. 
ovatipennis,  Attalus,  220. 
ovuliformis,  Syncalypta, 

162. 
ovum,  Eueinetus,  215. 
Oxyomus  brevicoUis,  191. 
Oxypleurus  pinicola,  386. 
Oxypoda  rethiops,  551. 

brevipennis,  550. 

exoleta,  549. 

lurida,  549. 

Oxytelus  complanatus, 

597. 

glareosus,  598. 

nitidulus,  598. 

piceus,  596. 

sculptus,  597. 

Paiv.T,  Clerus,  234. 
Paivii?a  hispida,  450. 
Paivana,  Haltica,  407. 
pallescens,  Xylophilus, 

526. 
pallidulus,  Sunius,  591. 
paUip>es,  Anchome'>ms,42. 
pallipes,  Attalus,  220. 
palmensis,  Olisthopus,  42. 
paniceum,  Anobiiun.  250. 


Paramecosoma  simplex', 

141. 
parcejjunctatus,  Arthro- 

des,  443. 
Parnus  prolifericornis,  85. 
Paroma/iis  p>i//i//io,  167. 
parumpunctatus,  Lepta- 

einus,  579. 
parvus,  Boromorphus,502 
patruelis,  Metabletus,  16. 
pauperculus,  Smicronyx, 

317. 
pauxillus,  Dyschirius,  9. 
Pecteropus  angustifrous, 
218. 

pelhtcidus,  219. 

scitulus,  218. 

Pediacus  tabellatus,  131. 
pellio,  Attagenus,  155. 
pellucidus.  Attains,  219. 
Pen tarthru ni  Monizi- 

anum,  275. 
Pentatemnus  arenarius, 

273. 
Perileptus  nigritulus,  65. 
Perraudieri,  Hololepta, 

162. 
persimilis,  Homalota,538. 

,  Lichenopbagus,365. 

,  Longitarsus,  409. 

,  Mesites,  276. 

pervenustus,  Dromius,  14. 

Phwdou  menth;p,  404. 

Phalacrus  coruscus,  106. 

Phaleria  cadaverina,  494. 

ornata,  494. 

picfa,  495. 

Pherojisophus  hispanicus, 
10. 

Philhydrus  melanocepha- 
lus,  91. 

23hilontlioides,Othius,581 . 

Philo7ithusaterrimus,Ui4. 

Philonthus  bipustulatiis, 
570. 

discoideus,  573. 

marcidus,  571. 

nigritulus,  574. 

proximus,  573. 

punctipennis,  575. 

scybalarius,  571. 

sericeus,  576. 

simulans,  574. 

sordidus,  569. 

tenellus,  576. 

umbratilis,  569. 

varians,  571. 

xanfholinoides,  bll. 

xantholoma,  570. 

Pliilorinum  floricola,  602. 

Phlceopliagus  atllnis,  271. 


645 


Phlceophagus  caulium, 

270. 

laurineiis,  271. 

piceus,  273. 

simplicipes,  272. 

PhlcEopora  corticina,  533. 
Phratora  vulgatissima,405 
Phylax  cost  (it  us,  491. 

lineatus,  486. 

Pliyllognathus  Sileuus, 

201. 
phytobioides,   Ceutho- 

I'hynchus,  281. 
Phytonomus  Dinici,  326. 
Phytosus  rainyop.s,  531. 

nigriventris,  531. 

spinifer,  532. 

Piarus  basal  is,  243. 
picescens,  Helops,  509. 

,  Pristonychus,  30. 

piceus.  Oxytelus,  590. 

,  Phlceophagus,  273. 

picipes,  Monotonia,  123. 
picta,  Echinodera,  298. 
pilicornis,  Trichopbya, 

558. 
pilosa,  Stenidea,  392. 
piloBula,  Atomaria,  142. 
pilula,  Acalles,  292. 
Pimelia  ambigua,  475. 

ascendens,  473. 

auriculata,  479. 

hajtda,  479. 

barhara,  473. 

canariensis,  472. 

costipennis,  470. 

fornicata,  472. 

granulicollis,  478. 

keTigata,  477. 

lutaria,  471. 

ohesa,  472. 

radula,  474. 

serrimargo,  477. 

sparsa,  475. 

verrucosa,  477. 

pinetormn.  Crioceplialus, 

388. 

,  Rhizophagus,  118. 

pini,  Hypophloeus,  498. 

,  Temnocbila,  119. 

pinieola,  Lipaspis,  120. 

,  Oxypleurus,  380. 

Piotes  inconstajis,  243. 

vestita,  244. 

piscatorium,  Aphanar- 

thrum,  260. 
pi  si,  Bruchus,  380. 
plagiata,  Acm:rodera,206. 
plagiatus,  Blechrus,  15. 

,  Droirims,  15. 

planus,  Hydi'opoi'us,  77. 


Platyderus  alticola,  45. 

teiiuistriatus,  45. 

Platystethus  cornutus, 
595. 

fossor,  595. 

spinosus,  596. 

plenifrons,  Haltica,  408. 
plicata,  Zopliosis,  434. 
plicifrons,  Thalpophila, 

401. 
Plinthus  cucullus,  330. 

musicus,  329. 

velutinus,  329. 

Pogonus  Grayii,  28. 

salsipotens,  27. 

politum,Eubrachium,182. 
pollinarius,  Ceutliorhyn- 

chus,  280. 
Polystichus  brunneus,  10. 

unicolor,  11. 

porcicoUis,  Psammodius, 

192. 
porrectus,  Helops,  508. 
posticus,  Attains,  224. 
prtelonga,  Feronia,  47. 
Pria  dulcamarae,  112. 
princeps,  Euryporus,  561. 
Pristonychus  alatus,  29. 
Pristonychus  alternans, 
29. 

complanatus,  29. 

picescens,  30. 

Procas  picipes,  318. 
Procas  Steveni,  318. 
prolifericornis,  Parnus,85. 
prolixus,  Oryctes,  202. 

Proteus,  Anaspis,  510. 

proximus,  Mesites,  277. 

,  Pliilonthus,  573. 

Psammodius  ccesus,  192. 

porcicollis,  192. 

sabulosus,  192. 

Pseudanemia  brevicoUis, 
493. 

Pseudoeolaspis  divisa,394. 

dubia,  395. 

obscuripes,  396. 

splendidula,  395. 

Pseudostene  fossoria,  497. 

Psylliodes  ho.spes,  416. 

stolida,  417. 

vehemens,  410. 

Ptenidium  apicale,  105. 

IjEvigatum,  104. 

punctatum,  105. 

Pterostichus  angnlaris,49. 

crenatus,  40. 

figuratns,  40. 

harpaloides,  50. 

longulus,  47. 

Ptilinus  lepidus,  251. 


Ptinella  angustula,  106. 
Ptinus  testaceus,  239. 
puberula,  Aleochara,  551. 
pubescens,  Conosoma, 

550. 
pubipennis,  Mesites,  278. 
pumila,  MordelUstena, 

51.5. 
punctatissimus,Crypticus, 

480. 

,  Ocypus,  568. 

punctatulus,  Artlirodes, 

443. 
punctatum,  Eubrachium, 

181. 

,  Ptenidium,  105. 

punctatus,  Limnebius.  90. 
puncticollis,  Cry2:)tocepha- 

lus,  398. 

,  Laparocerus,  362. 

punctiger,  Sitones,  375. 
punctipennis,  Gnophota, 

4»)7. 

,  Philonthus,  575. 

punctulatissimus,  Notio- 

mimus,  248. 
punctulatus,  Xantholinus, 

679. 
punctum,  Acritus,  182. 
pusillum,  Aphanarthrum, 

263. 

,  Homalium,  603. 

pusillus,  Lffimophloeus, 

131. 

,  Longitarsus,  414. 

,  Tachyporus,  667. 

putrescens,  Honialota, 

547. 
putricola,  Eutriptus,  164. 
putridus,  C'atops,  96. 
pygmtea,  Gracilia,  390. 
pygmasus.Ochthebius,  87. 

,  Symbiotes,  163. 

Pyracmon,  Scar  it  es,  7. 
pyrrhorhynchus,  Ceutho- 

rhynchus,  281. 

quadratus,  Helops,  507- 

,  Tarpliius,  126. 

quadricarinata,  Zophosis, 
433. 

quadriceps,  Lithocharis, 
586. 

quadricollis,  Hydrrena,89. 

,  Monotoma,  124. 

quadridens,  Ceuthorhyn- 
chus,  280. 

quadrifoveolata,  Mono- 
toma, 124. 

quadrifoveolatus,  Oclithe- 
bius,  86. 


646 


quadriguttutum,  Benibi- 

clium,  71. 
quaclriplagiata,Epilacliua, 

425. 
quatuordecim-striatus, 

Carcinops,  1G6. 
Quedius  angustifrons, 

563. 

fulgidus,  563. 

megalops,  564. 

qiiisquilium,  Cercyon,  95. 

radiosiis,  Casopus,  238. 
radula,  Pimelia,  474. 
raptoria,  Tacliyusa,  533. 
rasus,  Laparocerus,  354. 
recta,  Trogosita,  122. 
rectus,  Calathus,  34. 
reiiipustiilatus,  Chiloco- 

riis,  424. 
Rliizobius  litm*a,  430. 
rhizophagoides,  Caiilono- 

iiius.  129. 
Ehizophagiis  piuetorum, 

118. 

subopaeus,  119. 

Eliyncolus  crassirostris, 

270. 
Rhytidoderes  sicidus,  325. 
Ehytidurlimus  brevitarsis, 

333. 
rimosus,  Helops,  508. 
riparius,  Trogopliloeus, 

599. 
roridus,  Hesperophanes, 

389. 
rotundipenne,  Apion,  313. 
rubripes,  Harjjalus,  55. 
ruficoUis,  Atumaria,  143. 

,  Attains,  219.  ^ 

,  Corynetes,  235. 

,  Dolicaon,  .584. 

,  Latlii-idius,  152. 

,  Trogophloeus,  601. 

rufimanus,  Bruchus,  381. 
rufipes,  Corynetes,  235. 
riifobadia,  Ilomalota,  535. 
riifocastaneus.Cala!  hu8,31 
rufofusca,  Homalota,  535. 
riifus,  Mycetoporus,  558. 
rugatus,  Bracliyderes.  379 
rugifrons,  Attalus,  221. 
Engilus  affinis,  585. 
rugosus,  Meloe,  513. 
rusticus,  Crioeephalus, 

387. 
rutilans,  Broscus,  27. 
,  Clxi'ysomela,  402. 

sabulosus,  Psamuiodius, 
192. 


sagittiferum,  Apion,  308. 
saliiiicula,  Halonomus, 

490. 
salinum,  Achenium,  582. 
salsipoteus,  Pogonus,  27. 
sanguineus. Euplectiis,.528 
sanguinolenta,  Cliryso- 

mcla,  399. 
Saprinus  angulosus,  175. 

chalcites,  171. 

erosus,  177. 

fortunatus,  172. 

ignobilis,  173. 

lobatus,  178. 

minyops,  174. 

mundus,  176. 

nitidulus,  169. 

nobilis,  167. 

osculans,  168. 

subnitidus,  169. 

Saxesenii,  Tomicus,  255. 
scaber,  Trachyphloeus, 

363. 
scapularis,  Laparocerus, 

347. 
Scarahrpus  f^ilntiis,  201. 
Scarifi's  (ihhr(r/<(/us,  7. 

di iniiJi<(fi(!i,  7. 

gigas,  7. 

Pyracmon,  7. 

SehiT^iferi,  Attagenus,  1 56. 
Schaumii,  Harpalus,  58. 
scitulus,  Pecteropus,  218. 
Sclerum  asperuliun,  486. 
Scop?cus  nigellus,  585. 

trossidus,  585. 

sculpticolle,  Ilomalium, 

602. 
sculptipennis,  Liclieno- 

phagus,  367. 
sculpturatus,  Brachyde- 

res,  379. 

,  Haplocnemus,  232. 

scidptus,  Laparocerus,  341 

,  Oxytelus,  .597. 

scutellaris,  Tachys,  66. 
scybalarius,  Philouthus, 

571. 
scydmajnoides,  Anthicus, 

524, 
Scydma;nus  tarsatus,  526. 
Scymnus  arcuatus.  429. 

canariensis,  426. 

cercyonides,  428. 

maculosus,  428. 

minimus,  429. 

oblongior,  427. 

lO-pku/iafufi,  426. 

sellatus,  Baridius,  298. 

senex,  Apion,  306. 

,  Hesperophanes,  .388 


seniculus,  Laparocerus, 

353. 
senilis,  Acalles,  288. 

,  Anthraxia,  208. 

,  Ocbtlienomus,  525. 

septempunctata,  Coccinel- 

la,  422. 
sericans,  Acrotrichis,  104. 
sericata,  Mordellistena, 

515. 
sericeus,  Philontluis,  576. 

,  Sibynes,  301. 

Sericoderus  lateralis,  431. 
serrata,  Corticaria,  148. 
serricollis,  Hydrsena,  88. 
serrimargo,  Pimelia,  477. 
seticolUs,  Acalles,  291. 
setifer,  Aglycyderes,  385. 
setiger,  Sitones,  378. 
setiiliferus,  Sitones,  377. 
Sibynes  sericeus.  301. 
siculus,  Rhytidoderes,325. 
sigma,  Acalles,  288. 

,  Dromius,  13. 

Silenus,  Phyllognathus, 

201. 
Silpha  figurata,  97. 

simplicicornis,  97. 

Silvanus  dentatus,  132. 

nubigena,  133. 

surinamensis,  133. 

similis,  Blaps,  470. 

,  Cha?tarthria,  93. 

simillima,  Tachyusa,  5.34. 
simplex,  Paramecosoma, 

141. 

,  Sphiericus,  241. 

,  Tarphius,  124. 

simplicicollis,Calatlius,35 
simplicicornis,  Silpha,  97. 
simplicipes,PhlcEophagus, 

272. 
simulans,  Philonthus,574. 
singularis,  Holoparame- 

cus,  145. 
sinuaticollis,IIydrjena,87. 
Sifona  verrucosa,  375. 
Sitones  cambricus,  376. 

gressoriu.s,  374. 

humeralis,  377. 

latipennis,  .375. 

lineatus,  376. 

25U"ctiger,  375. 

setiger,  378. 

setuliferus,  377. 

SitoiDhilus  granarius,  279. 

linearis,  279. 

oryzre,  280. 

Smicronyx  albosquamo- 

sus,  316. 

pauperculus,  317. 


647 


solidicornis,  Mycetoporus, 

solitarius,  Cratognatlius, 

54. 
sordidus,  Myrmecoxenus, 

152. 

,  Philonthus,  569. 

sparsa,  Pimelia,  475. 
Spha?ricus  Crotcliiauus, 

242. 

gibbicollis,  241. 

imjjunctipennis,  241 . 

simplex,  241. 

spl]a2rula,  Cybocephalus, 

116. 
sphodroides,  Calatlius,  30. 
Sj^kodriis  fiUcriuins.  29. 

com]if(niitfiii<,  2!K 

Sphodrus  leiicophthal- 

mus,  28. 
spinicoUis,  Blabinotus, 

386. 

.  Monotonia,  123. 

spinifer,  Phytosus,  532. 
spinosus,  Berosus,  91. 
splendidula,  Pseudoco- 

laspis,  395. 
spoliatus,  Chlwnius,  25. 
spretus,  Calatlius,  39. 
squalida,  Epicoinetis,  203. 
squamosvis,  Laparocerus, 

344. 
Stagetus  crenatus,  245. 

liirtulus,  245. 

StagonoJiwrpJia  sphcerula, 

116. 

unicolor,  116. 

Stafhylinusbrachypterus, 

565. 

fuscafus,  568. 

maxillosus,  564. 

0^728,  564. 

Stenidea  albida,  392. 

annidicornis,  391. 

Hesperus,  392. 

pilosa,  392. 

Stenolophus  dorsalis,  61. 

marginatus,  61. 

teuionus,  60. 

vaporarioi'um,  60. 

Stenus  a;neotinctus,  592. 

guttula,  592. 

Steveni,  Procas,  318. 
Stilicus  affinis,  58.5. 
stolida,  Psylliodes,  417. 
striatum,  Anobium,  250. 
striatiis,  Gryrinus,  84. 
strigicollis,  Longitarsus, 

412. 
Stylosomus  biplagiatus, 

399. 


subaanescens,  Dasytes,230. 

,  Oeypus,  567. 

subfBiieus,  Dyscliirius,  9. 
sub;rreus,  Olibrus,  107. 
subciBcura,  Aclienium,581 
subcallosum,  Bembidium, 

71. 
subcalvvis,  Casopus,  239. 
subciliatus,Arthrodes,444. 
subcoriacea,  Lithocliaris, 

586. 
subooriaria,Homalota,546 
subcostatus,  Ai-tlirodes, 

445. 
subcyancus,  Meloe,  514. 
subdepressus,  Hypo- 

plilcEus,  499. 
subdiaplianus,  Eunectes, 

84. 
subellipticus,  Thallestus, 

134. 
submetaUica,Thalpophila, 

464. 
subnebulosa,  Atlantis, 337. 
subnitidus,  Saprinus,  169. 
subnodosus,  Liclienopha- 

gus,  366. 
subopacus,  Aristus,  53. 

,  Attains,  226. 

,  Rhizopliagus,  119. 

subretusu^s,  Triotemnus, 

265. 
subrotundatus,  Hegeter, 

459. 
sub.sericea,  IIomalota,540. 
suffusus,  Haliplus,  74. 
sulcatum,  Meziuni,  240. 
sulcicoUe,  Anlonium,  127. 
sulcirostris,  Laparocerus, 

359. 
Sunius  dimidiatus,  .391. 

megacephalus,  590. 

- — —  myrmecophilus,.590. 

pallidulus,  591. 

surinamensis,  Silvanus, 

133. 
suturalis,  Ci/mindis,  19. 
suturalis,  Tarus,  19. 
Symbiotes  pygm^us,  153. 
Syncalypta  integra,  162. 
ovuliformis,  162. 

tabellatus,  Pediacus,  131. 
tabidus,  Cleonus,  324. 
Tachyporus  brunneus, 
557. 

ccler,  bbl. 

marginatus,  557. 

pusillns,  557. 

Tachys  bistriatus,  66. 
centromaculatus,  67. 


Tachys  carTimanus,  67. 
hajiiiorrlioidalis,  68. 

scutellaris,  (16. 

Tachyusa  raptoria,  533. 

simillima,  .534. 

ta'niatus,  Aphodius,  189. 
taniarisci,  Coniatus,  328. 
Tarphius  camelns,  125. 

canariensis,  12.5. 

caudatus,  126. 

congestus,  126. 

deforiiiis,  127. 

erosus,  125. 

gigas,  126. 

quadratus.  126. 

simplex,  124. 

tarsalis,  Clisetocnema,418. 
tar.satns,  Scydma3nus,526. 
Tarus  am  ictus,  21. 

cinctus,  20. 

discoideus,  19. 

marginellus,  20. 

suturalis,  19. 

zargoides,  21. 

Telopes  anthrenoides,  1.59. 

fasciatus,  160. 

multifaseiatus,  159. 

obtusus,  157. 

Temnocliila  pini,  119. 
Tcnehrio  tnoJitor,  501. 
Teiiebrio  obscurus,  500. 

olivensis,  501. 

tenebrosus,  Harpalus,  58. 
tenella,  Gorticaria,  150. 
tenellus,  Laparocerus, 

362. 

,  Philonthus,  576. 

Teneriffie,  Brnchus,  382. 
Tentyria  eiongata,  448. 

hi»pida,  450. 

interrupta,  448. 

tenuipunctatus,  Heget«r, 

459. 
tenuistriatus,  Platyderus, 

45.  ^ 

Teretrius  cylindricus,164. 
terminatus,  Bruchus,  381. 
terricola,  Homalota,  548. 
tessellatus,  Plydi'oporus, 

79. 

,  Laparocerus,  360. 

tesserula,  Liclienophagus, 

364. 
testaceus,  Ptinus,  239. 
tetrica,  Atlantis,  338. 
tcictonus,  Stenolophus,  60. 
Thalassophilus  Wliitici, 

64. 
Tliallestus  subellipticus, 

134. 
typha-oides,  135. 


648 


Thalpophila  Dejrollii, 

402. 

fuscipes,  403. 

plicifrons,  401. 

submetallica,  464. 

Thorictus  canariensis,  185 
-         giga.s,  184. 

vestitus,  186. 

throscoides,  Xestus,  421. 
Throscus  integer,  209. 
Thylacites  obesulus,  374. 
tibialis,  Atlantis,  338. 
tilloides,  Malacogaster, 

215. 
Tomicus  nobilis,  254. 

Saxesenii,  255. 

Trachyphloens  scaber,  363, 
Trachyscelis  aphodioides, 

494. 
transversalis,  Trogo- 

plilceus,  598. 
transversus,  Hegeter,  455. 
Trechiis  detersus,  62. 

felix,  63. 

flavolimbatus,  63. 

liffo7-aNs,  64. 

Tribolium  ferrugineum, 

496. 
TrichofevKs  seiic.r,  388. 
Trichopliya  pilicornis, 

558. 
Trichopteryx  ahbrevia- 

tellus,  104. 

fascicular  is,  103. 

fucicola,  102. 

sericans,  104. 

trifasciatus,  Litargus,  154. 
Triotemnus  subretusus, 

205. 
tristis,  Hegeter,  451. 

,  Meligethes,  1 13. 

Trixagus  integer,  209. 
trogophlceoides,  Homa- 

lota,  536. 
Trogophloeus  bilineatus, 

599. 

bledioides,  601. 

exiguus,  600. 

riparius,  599. 

ruficollis,  001. 

transversalis,  598. 

Trogosifa  caraboidcs,  121. 
Trogosita  latens,  123. 

mauritaniea,  121. 

pint,  119. 

recta,  122. 

trossulus,  Scoppeus,  585. 


Trox  confliiens,  193. 

kisjjidus,  193. 

tuberculatus,  Attains,  225. 
tubiferum,  Apion,  311. 
tuccius,  Meloe,  513. 
Tychius  albosquamosus, 

316. 
Tychius  aridicola,  302. 

decoratus,  302. 

depauperatus,  303. 

TyJodes  scaber,  283. 
Typhfea  fumata,  153. 
typlia3oides,  Thallestus, 

135. 

Uloma  corvufa,  496. 

opafruides,  497. 

umbratilis,  Philonthus, 

569. 
limbricola,  Ocypns,  506. 
unibrinum,  Apion,  315. 
undatns,  Laparocerus,342. 
unicolor,  Polysfichus,  11. 
lu'inator,  Gyrinus,  84, 

vagans,  Zophosis,  435. 
vagepunctata,  Homalota, 

544. 
vaporariorum,  Stenolo- 

plius,  00. 
variabilis,  Hypera,  328. 
varicollis,  Meligethes,  112. 
variipennis,  Haltiea,  407. 
variolosus,  Cleonus,  323. 
varius,  Anthrenus,  101. 
vehemens,  Psylliodes,  416. 
velatum,  Anobinm,  249. 
velatus.Erachvpterus,  110, 
veliitinus,  Plinthus,  329. 
ventricosns,  Bradycellus, 

61. 
vernale,  Apion,  307. 
verrucosus,  Acalles,  292. 
versuta,  Amara,  51. 
vestita,  Piotes,  244. 
vestitus,  Haplocnemus, 

232. 

,  Laparocerus,  358. 

,  Thorictus,  185. 

vicinum,  Bembidium,  09. 
vilis,  Longitarsus,  415. 
villosum,  Anobium,  249. 
virescens.  Meligethes,  113. 
vividus,  Harpalus,  50. 
vulgatissima,  Phratora, 

405. 
vulpinus,  Dermestes,  155. 


Waterhousii,  Homalota, 

548. 
Webbianus,  Hegeter,  452. 
Webbii,  Clytus,  389. 
Westvpoodii,  Apion,  311. 
Whitsei,  Thalassophilus, 

04. 
WoUastoni,  Ca'omicrus, 

405. 

,  Enoptostomus,  529. 

Wollastonii,  Aphodius, 

188. 
,  Cossyphodes,  127. 

xantholinoides,  Pliilon- 

thus,  577. 
Xantholinus  hes^jerius, 

578. 

marginalis,  578. 

punctulatus,  579. 

xantholoma,  Philonthus, 

570. 
xanthopus,  Hydroporus, 

77. 
Xenomicrus  apionides, 

331. 
Xenomma  muscicola,535. 
Xenonychus  fossor,  181. 
Xenoscelis  deplanata,  132. 
Xenostrongylus  arcuatus, 

114. 

canariensis,  114. 

Xenostrongylus  histrio, 

114. 
xerampeUnus,  Acalles, 

287. 
Xestus  throscoides,  421. 
Xyletinus  brevis,  247. 
— ■ — •  desectus,  246. 

excavatus,  247. 

latitans,  246. 

Xylopertha  barbifrons, 

252. 
Xylophilus  oculatissimus, 

525. 

■  pallescens,  526. 

Xyloterus  longicollis,250. 

Zabrus  crassus,  52. 

la'vigatus,  52. 

zargoides,  Tarus,  21. 
Zophosis  bicarinata,  436. 

Clarkii,  435. 

4-carinata,  433. 

oninuta,  430. 

plicata,  434. 

vagans,  435. 


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Catalogue  of  Shield  Reptiles.  Part  1.  Testudinata.  4to.  By  Dr.  J.  E. 
Gray,  F.R.S.  &c.  1855.  ^2  :  10s.  With  figures  of  all  the  new 
species,  and  of  the  skulls  of  the  different  genera. 

Catalogue  of  Reptiles.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.,  V.P.Z.S.  &c. 
Part  1 .  Tortoises,  Crocodiles,  and  Amphisbsenians.     1844.     Is. 
Part  2.  Lizards.     1845.     3s.  6d. 

Part  3.  Snakes  (Crotalidae,  Viperida;,  Hydridae,  and  Boidae).     12mo. 
1849.     -Js.  6d. 

Catalogue  of  Colubrine  Snakes,  and  Appendix  to  Part  1.  By  Dr.  Albert 
GuNTHER.     12mo.     1858.     4s. 

Catalogue  of  Amphibia.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.,  V.P.Z.S. 

Part  1.  Batrachia  Gradientia.     12mo.     1860.     2s.  6d.    With  Plates 
of  the  Skulls  and  Teeth. 

Catalogue  of  Amphibia.     By  Dr.  A.  Gunther. 

Part  2,  Batrachia  Sahentia.    8vo.     1858.     6s.     With  Plates. 
List  of  Fish.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.,  F.L.S.,  V.P.Z.S. 

Part  1 .  Cartilaginous  Fish.     12mo.     1851.     3s.     With  two  Plates. 

These  Catalogues  of  Reptiles,  Amphibia,  and  Fish  contain  the  characters 
of  all  the  genera  and  species  at  present  known ;  the  latter  are  illustrated 
with  figures  of  the  genera. 

Catalogue  of  Acanthopterygian  Fishes.  By  Dr.  Albert  Cvnther.  8vo. 
Vol.  L  1859.  10s.  Vol.  IL  18(i0.  8s.  6d.  Vol.  IlL  1861.  10s.  6d. 
Vol.  IV.  18C2.     8s.  6d. 

Catalogue  of  Fish,  collected  and  described  by  L,  T.  Gronow.  12mo. 
1854.     3s.  6d. 

Catalogue  of  Lophobranchiate  Fish.  By  Dr.  J.  J.  Kaup.  12mo.  1856. 
2s.     With  Plates. 

Catalogue  of  Apodal  Fish.  By  Dr.  J.  J.  Kaup.  8vo.  1856.  10s.  With 
many  Plates. 

List  of  British  Fish  ;  with  Synonyma.  By  A.  White,  F.L.S.  &c.  ]2mo. 
1851.     3s. 

List  of  Osteological  Specimens.  By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.,  &c.,  and 
G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.     12mo.     1847.     2s. 

Catalogue  of  Bones  of  Mammalia.  By  Edward  Gerrard,  A.L.S.  8vo. 
1862.     5s. 

II.  ANNULOSA. 

Catalogue  of  Lepidoptera.     By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.,  F.Z.S. 

Part  1.  Papilionidse,  with  coloured  figures  of  the  new  species.     4to. 
1852.     ^1  :  5s. 

List  of  Lepidopterous  Insects.     12mo. 

Part  1.  Papilionida^,  &c.    12mo.    2nd  edit.    1856.    By  G.  R.  Gray, 

F.L.S. 
Part  2.  Erycinida;,  &c.   12mo.  1847.  9d.   By  E.  Doubleday,  F.L.S. 
Part  3.  Appendix  to  Papilionidae,  Erycinidae,  &c.     1848.     9d. 


Catalogue  of  LycEcnidfe.     By  W.  Hewitson,  F.L.S.     4to.     1862.    With 
Coloured  Plates.     21s. 

List   of  Lepidopterous   Insects,  with   descriptions  of  new  species      By 
Francis  Walker,  F.L.S. 

Part  1.  Lepidoptera  Heterocera.  12mo.  1854.  4*.    Part  2.  1854.  4s.6d. 

Part  3.  1855.  3s.       Part  4.  1855.  3s.       Part  5.  1855.  4s. 

Part  6.  1855.  3s.  6d.     Part  7-  1856.  4s.  6d. 
Part  8.  Sphingids.  1856.  3s.  6d. 
Part  9.  Noctuidse.  1856.  4s.     Part  10.  1857.  3s.  6d.     Part  11.  1857. 

3s.  6£^.    Part  12. 1857. 3s.  6(/.    Part  13. 1858.3s.  6c?.    Part  14. 

1858.  4s.  6d.     Part  15.  1858.  4s.  6d. 
Part  16.  Deltoides.  1858.  3s.  6d. 
Part  17.  Pyralides.  1859.  3s.  6d.     Part  18.  1859.  4s.     Part  19.  1859. 

3s.  6d. 
Part  20.  Geometrites.  1860.  4s.     Part  21.  1860.  3s.     Part  22.  1861. 

3s.  6d.  Part  23.  1861.  3s.  6(^.  Part  24.  1862.  3s.6(Z.  Part  25. 

1862.  3s.     Part  26.  1863.  4s.  6d. 
Part  27.  Crambites.  1863.  4s.     Part  28.  1863.  4s. 

List  of  British   Lepidoptera;   with  Synonyma.      By  J.  F.  Stephens, 
F.L.S.,  and  H.  T.  Stainton,  M.E.S. 

Part  1.  12mo.  Ed.  2. 1856.  Is.  9d.    Part  2.  1852.  2s.    Part  3.  1853.  9d. 
Part  4.  1854.  3s. 

List  of  Hymenopterous  Insects.     By  F.  Walker,  F.L.S. 

Parti.  Chalcididffi.  12mo.  1846.  Is.  6c?.    Part  2.  Additions  to  Chalci- 
did«.  1848.  2s. 

Catalogue  of  Hymenopterous  Insects.     By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S. 
Part  1.  AndrenidjE,  &c.     12mo.     1853.     Ss.    With  Plates. 
Part  2.  Apidfc.     1854.     6s.     With  Plates. 
Part  3.  Mutillida;  and  Pompilidcc.     1855.     6s.     With  Plates. 
Part  4.  Crabronida;,  &c.     1856.     6s.     With  Plates. 
Part  5.  Vespidae.     1857.     6s.     With  Plates. 
Part  6.  Formicidse.     1858.     6s.     With  Plates. 
Part  7.  Dorylidai  and  Thynnidae.     1859.     2s. 

Catalogue  of  British  Hymenoptera.     By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S. 
Part  1.  Apidse.     12mo.     1855.     6s. 

Catalogue  of  British  Formicidae,  Sphegidae,  and  Vespidae.     By  F.  Smith, 
M.E.S.     12mo.     1858.     6s. 

Catalogue  of  British  Ichneumonidae.     By  Thomas  Desvignes,  M.E.S. 
12mo.     1856.     Is.  M. 

List  of  British  Aculeate  Hymenoptera  ;  with  Synonyma,  and  the  description 
of  some  new  species.     By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S.     1851.     2s. 

Catalogue  of  Dipterous  Insects.     By  F.Walker,  F.L.S.     12mo. 
Part  1.  1848.  3s.  6d.         Part  5,  Supplement  I.  1854.  4s.  6d. 
Part  2.  1849.  3s.  6d.         Part  6.  Supplement  II.  1854.  3s. 
Part  3.  1849.  3s.  Part  7-  Supjilement  III.  1S55.  3s.  6d. 

Part  4.  1849.  6s. 


Catalogue   of  Homopterous   Insects.     By  F.  Walker,  F.L.S.     12mo. 
With  Plates. 

Part  1.  1850.  3s.  Qd.  Part  4.  1852.  4s. 

Part  2.  1850.  5s.  Supplement.  1858.  4s. 

Parts.  1851.  3s.  &d. 

Catalogue  of  Neuropterous  Insects.     By  F.  Walker,  F.L.S.     12mo. 
Parti.  1852.  2s.  M.  Part  3.  1853.  \s.  &d. 

Part  2.  1853.  3s.6fi  Part  4.  1853.  Is. 

Catalogue  of  Neuropterous  Insects.     By  Dr.  Hagen.     12mo. 
Part  1.  Terraitina.     1858.     6rf. 

Catalogue  of  Ilispidae.     By  J.  S.  Baly,  M.E.S.     8vo.    1858.   6s.     With 

Plates. 

Catalogue  of  Hemipterous  Insects.     By  W.  S.  Dallas,  F.L.S.  &c.    With 
Plates.     12mo.     Part  1.  1851.  Is.     Part  2.  1852.  4s. 

The  Catalogues  of  Hymenopterous,  Dipterous,  Homopterous,  and  Hemi- 
pterous Insects  contain  the  description  of  the  species  in  the  Museum  which 
appeared  to  be  undescribed. 

Catalogue  of  Orthopterous  Insects.     By  J.  O.  Westwood,  M.A.,  F.L.S. 
4to.     Plates.     Part  I.  Phasmidai.  1859.  £3. 

Catalogue  of  British  Bruchidse,  Curculionidse,  &c.     By  John  Walton, 
F.L.S.     12mo.     1856.     Is. 

Catalogue  of  Cassididse.     By  Professor  Bo  hem  an.     12mo.     1856.     3s. 

Catalogue  of  Coleopterous  Insects  of  Madeira.     By  T.  V.  Wollaston, 
F.L.S.     8vo.     1857.     3s. 

Catalogue  of  Halticidjc.     By  the  Rev.  Hamlet  Clark.     8vo.     Part  1. 
1860.     7s.     With  Plates. 

Nomenclature  of  Coleopterous  Insects  (with  characters  of  new  species). 
Part  I.  Cetoniadfe.     12mo.     1847.     Is.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S. 
Part  2.  Hydrocanthari.      1847-      Is.  3d     By  A.  White,  F.L.S. 
Part  3.  Buprestidce.     1848.     Is.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S. 
Part  4.  Clerida;.     1849.     Is.  8d.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S. 
Part5.  Cucujidaj.     1851.     6d.     By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S. 
Part  6.  Passalidffi.     1852.     Sd.     By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S. 
Part  7-  Longicornia.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S.    With  Plates.     Parti. 

1853.  2s.  6d.     Part  2.  1855.  3s.  6d. 
Part  8.  Cassidida^.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S.     1856.     3s. 

List  of  Myriapoda.     By  G.  Newport,  F.R.S.  &c.     12mo.     1844.     4d, 

Catalogue  of  Myriapoda.     By  G.  Newport,  F.R.S.  &c. 
Part  1.  Chilopoda.     12mo.     1856.     Is.  9d. 

List    of  British  Anoplura,  or   Parasitic    Insects;    with    Synonyma.     By 
H.  Denny,  F.L.S.     12mo.     Is. 

List  of  Crustacea ;  with  Synonyma.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S.     1847.     2s. 

Listof  British  Crustacea;  with  Synonyma.    By  A.  White,  F.L.S.    12mo. 
1850.     2s.  6d. 


Catalogue  of  Crustacea.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S.     12mo.     Part  I.  Leuco- 
siadse.     1855.     6d. 

Catalogue  of  Amphipodous  Crustacea.    By  C.  Spence  Bate,  F.R.S.   8vo. 
1863.     25s.     With  Plates. 

Catalogue  of  Entozoa ;  with  Plates.    By  W.  Baird,  M.D.,  F.L.S.    12mo. 

1853.  2s. 

III.  MOLLUSCA. 

Guide  to  the  Collection  of  MoUusca,     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.  &c.    8vo. 
Part  1.     1856.     5s. 

Catalogue  of  the  MoUusca.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.  &c. 
Part  1.  Cephalopoda  Antepedia.     12mo.     1849.    4s. 
Part  2.  Pteropoda.     1850.     Is. 

Catalogue  of  Bivalve  MoUusca.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.  &c. 
Parti.  Placuniadae  and  Anomiadse.     12mo.     1850.     4d. 
Part  2.  Brachiopoda  Ancylopoda.     1853.     3s.     Figures  of  genera. 

Containing  the  characters  of  the  recent  and  fossil   genera,  and    the 
descriptions  of  all  the  recent  species  at  present  known. 

Catalogue  of  Phaueropneumona  or  Opei-culated  Terrestrial  MoUusca.     By 
Dr.  Louis  Pfeiffer  and  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.     1852.     5s. 

Catalogue  of  Conchifera.     By  M.  Deshayes. 
Part  1.  Veneridse,  &c.     12mo.     1853.    3s. 
Part  2.  Petricolidse.     6d. 

List  of  British  MoUusca  and   Shells;   with    Synonyma.      By  Dr.  J.  E. 
Gray,  F.R.S. 

Parti.  Acephala  and  Brachiopoda.     12mo.     1851.     3s.  6c?. 

Catalogue  of  Pulmonata.     By  Dr.  Louis  Pfeiffer  and  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray, 
F.R.S. 

Part  1.  12mo.     1855.     2s.  6d. 

Catalogue  of  AuricuUdfe,  &c.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.     12mo.     1857. 
Is.  9d. 

List  of  the  Shells  of  the  Canaries,  described  by  M.  D'Orbigny.     12mo. 

1854.  Is. 

List  of  the  Shells  of  Cuba,  described  by  M.  D'Orbigny.    12mo.  1854.  Is. 

List  of  the  Shells  of  South  America,  described  by  M.  D'Orbigny.    12mo. 
1854.     2s. 

List  of  the  MoUusca  and  Shells  collected  and  described  by  MM.  Eydoux 
and  Souleyet.     12mo.     1855.     8c?. 

Catalogue  of  the  Collection  of  Mazatlan  Shells.      By  P.  P.  Carpenter. 
12mo.     1857.     8s. 

List  of  MoUusca.     By  Dr.  J.  E,  Gray,  F.R.S. 

Part  1.  Volutidse.     12mo.     1858.     6d. 
Nomenclature  of  Mollusca.     By  Dr.  W.  Baird,  F.L.S.  &c. 

Part  1.  Cyclophorida;.     12mo.     1851.     Is.  6d. 


IV.  RADIATA. 

Catalogue  of  Marine  Polyzoa.     By  G.  Busk,  F.R.S.,  Sec.  L.S. 
Part  1.  Chilostoma.     12mo.     1852.     17*.     With  Plates. 
Pai-t  2.  Chilostoma.     12mo.     1854.     15s.     With  Plates. 

List  of  British  Radiata;   with  Synonyma.     By  Dr.  J,  E.  Gray,  F.R.S. 
12mo.     1848.     4s. 

List  of  British  Sponges;  with  Synonyma.     Bv  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S. 
12mo.     1848.     \0d. 

Catalogue  of  the  Recent  Echinida.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S. 
Parti.  Echinida  irregularia.     12mo.     3s.  6d.     With  Plates. 

V.  BRITISH  ZOOLOGY. 

List  of  the  British  Animals ;  with  Synonj  ma  and  references  to  figures. 
Part  1.  Radiata.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R  S.     1848.     4s. 
Part  2.  Sponges.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.     1848.     lOd. 
Part  3.  Bhds.     By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.     1850.     4s. 
Part  4.  Crustacea.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S.     1850.     2s.  6d. 
Parts.  Lepidoptera.   By  J.  F.  Stephens,  F.L.S.  1850.    Ed.  2.  1856. 

Is.  9d. 
Part  6.  Hymenoptera.     By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S.     1851.     2s. 
Part  7-  MoUusca  Acephala  and    Brachiopoda.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray, 

F.R.S.     1851.    3s.  6d. 
Part  8.  Fish.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S.     1851.     3s. 
Part  9.  Eggs  of  British  Birds.    By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.  1852.  2s.  6d. 
Part  10.  Lepidoptera  (continued).      By  J.  F.  Stephens,   F.L.S. 

1852.     2s. 
Part  11.  Anoplura  or  Parasitic  Insects.     By  H.  Denny.     Is. 
Part  12.  Lepidoptera   (continued).       By  J.   F.  Stephens,  F.L.S. 

1852.     9d. 
Part  13.  Nomenclature  of  Hymenoptera.  By  F.  Smith,  M.E.S.  1853. 

Is.  4c?. 
Part  14.  Nomenclature  of  Neiu-optera.    By  A.  White,  F.L.S.    1853. 

6d. 
Part  15.  Nomenclature  of  Diptera.    By  A.  White,  F.L.S.  1853.  Is. 
Part  16.  Lepidoptera   (completed).     By  H.  T.  Stainton,  M.E.S. 

1854.     3s. 
Part  17.  Nomenclature  of  Anoplura.   By  H.Denny.  1856.  12mo,  8d. 
Catalogue  of  British  Birds.     By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.Z.S.     8vo.     186.3. 
Catalogue  of  British  Hymenoptera.     By  F.Smith.    12mo.    With  Plates. 

Parti.  Bees.  1855.  6s.     Part  2.  Formicida3,  &c.  1858.  Ss. 
Catalogue  of  British  Ichneumonidaj.     By  Thomas  Desvignes,  M.E.S. 

12mo.     1856.     Is.  9d. 
List  of  British  Bruchidse,  Curcuhonidfc,  &c.     By  John  Walton,  F.L.S. 
12mo.     1856.     Is. 


N.B. — These  Catalogues  can  be  obtained  at  the  Secretary's  Office  in  the 
British  Museum;  or  through  any  Bookseller. 


VI.  Books   illustrating   or   describing  parts  of   the 
Zoological  Collections. 

The  Illustrated  Natural  History.  By  the  Rev.  J.G.Wood,  M.A.,  F.L.S.  &c. 
New  edition.     12mo.     1865. 

Illustrations  of  Indian  Zoology,  from  the  Collection  of  Major-General 
Thomas  Hardwicke.  By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.  Folio.  2  vols. 
1830-1835. 

Zoology  of  the  Voyage  of  H.M.S.  Beagle.  Edited  by  Charles  Darwin, 
F.R.S.     4to.     1840-1844. 

Zoology  of  the  Voyage  of  H.M.SS.  Erebus  and  Terror.  Edited  by  Sir 
John  Richardson,  M.D.,  F.R.S.  &c.,  and  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S. 
4to.     1844-1845. 

British  Museum — Historical  and  Descriptive.     12mo.     1855. 

Natural  History  of  the  Animal  Kingdom.  By  W.  S.  Dallas,  F.L.S.  &c. 
Post  8vo.     1855. 

Zoological  Miscellany.     By  W.  E.  Leach,  M.D,,  F.R.S.     8vo.     3  vols. 

Spicilegia  Zoologica.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.     4to.     1829-1830. 

Zoological  Miscellany.     By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S.     8vo.     1831. 

Knowsley  Menagerie.  Part  2.  Hoofed  Animals.  By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray, 
F.R.S.     Folio.     1850. 

A  Monograph  of  the  Macropodidae.  By  John  Gould,  F.R.S.  Folio. 
1841-1844. 

Mammals  of  Australia.     By  John  Gould,  F.R.S.     Folio.     1845. 

Popular  History  of  Mammalia.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S. 

Popular  History  of  Birds.     By  A.  White,  F.L.S. 

Genera  of  Birds.  By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.  Illustrated  by  Plates  by  D.  W. 
Mitchell,  Sec.  Z.S.     Folio.     3  vols.     1844-184.9. 

The  Birds  of  Jamaica.     By  P.  H.  Gosse,  F.R.S.     8vo.     184/. 

Illustrations  of  the  Birds  of  Jamaica.    By  P.  H.  Gosse,  F.R.S.   8vo.  1849. 

Monograph  of  Ramphastidse.     By  John  Gould,  F.R.S.     Folio. 

Birds  of  Australia.     By  John  Gould,  F.R.S.     Folio.     1848. 

Report  on  the  Ichthyology  of  the  Seas  of  China  and  Japan.  By  Sir  John 
Richardson,  M.D.,  F.R.S.     8vo.     1846. 

Fauna  Boreali- Americana.  The  Fish.  By  Sir  John  Richardson,  M.D., 
F.R.S.  &c.     4to.     1836.     With  Plates. 

Synopsis  Reptilium.  Part  1.  Cataphracta.  By  Dr.  J.  E.  Gray,  F.R.S. 
8vo.     1831. 

Illustrations  of  British  Entomology.  By  James  F.  Stephens,  F.L.S. 
10  vols.     Svo.     1827-1835. 

A  Systematic  Catalogue  of  British  Insects.     By  J.  F.  Stephens,  F.L.S. 

8vo.     1829. 


The  Nomenclature  of  British  Insects.  By  J.  F.  Stephens,  F.L.S.  8vo. 
1829  &  1833. 

A  Manual  of  British  Coleoptera.    By  J.  F.  Stephens,  F.L.S.   12mo.  1839. 

Insecta  Britannica.  Diptera.     By  F.  Walker,  F.L.S.     8vo.    1851-1856. 

Monographia  Chalciditum.    By  F.Walker,  F.L.S.     8vo.     1839. 

Entomology  of  Australia.    Part  1.  Phasmidae.    By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.  4to. 

Synopsis  of  Species  of  Phasmidae.     By  G.  R.  Gray,  F.L.S.     8vo.     1835. 

Genera  of  Diurnal  Lepidoptei-a.  By  Edward  Doubleday,  F.L.S., 
and  J.  O.  Westwood,  F.L.S.  Illustrated  by  W.  C.  Hewitson.  4to. 
2  vols.     1846-1850. 

Monographia  Anoplurorum  Britannire,  or  British  species  of  Parasitic 
Insects.     By  Henry  Denny,  A.L.S.     8vo.     With  Plates. 

Fauna  Boreali-Americana.  The  Insects.  By  W.  Kirby,  F.R.S.  4to.  183/. 
With  Coloured  Plates. 

Insecta  Maderensia.  By  T.  Vernon  Wollaston,  M.A.,  F.L.S.  4to' 
1854.     With  Plates. 

Malacostraca  Podophthalmia  Britannise.  By  W.  E.  Leach,  M.D.,  F.R.S. 
4to.     1817-1821. 

A  Monograph  of  the  Subclass  Cirripedia.  By  Charles  Darwin,  F.R.S. 
8vo.     2  vols.     1854. 

Natural  History  of  the  British  Entomostraea,  By  W,  Baird,  M.D.,  F.L.S. 
&c.     8vo.     1850. 

Figures  of  Molluscous  Animals,  for  the  use  of  Students.  By  Maria 
Emma  Gray.     5  vols.     8vo.     1850-1857. 

A  Synopsis  of  the  MoUusca  of  Great  Britain.  By  W.  E.  Leach,  M.D., 
F.R.S.     8vo.     1852. 

Catalogue  of  the  Land  Shells  of  Jamaica.     By  C.  B.  Adams.     8vo.    1851. 

Catalogue  of  Testaceous  Mollusca  of  the  North-east  Atlantic  and  neigh- 
bouring Seas.     By  R.  MacAndrew,  F.R.S.     Svo.     1850, 

Illustrations  of  the  Geology  of  Yorkshire.  By  John  Phillips,  F.R.S. 
4to.     1836. 

A  Monograph  of  the  Crag  Mollusca.  By  Searles  V.  Wood,  F.G.S. 
4to.     1850. 

A  History  of  British  Starfishes.     By  Edward  Forbes,  F.R.S.     8vo. 

A  History  of  the  British  Zoophytes.  By  George  Johnston,  M.D. 
Svo.     i838.— Ed.  2.     Svo.     1847- 

A  History  of  British  Sponges  and  Lithophytes.  By  George  Johnston, 
M.D.     Svo.     1842. 

Proceedings  of  the  Zoological  Society.     Series  1  and  2. 

Transactions  of  the  Entomological  Society. 


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