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- 



