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 



