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, 



