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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- 



