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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 



