86 CANARIAN COIiEOPTEKA. 



I have myself observed it only in Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma; 

 but it was captured by Dr. Crotch near Hermigua, in Gomera. 



Fam. 5. HELOPHORID^. 



Genus 49. HELOPHOEUS. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ekn. i. 277 (1801). 



137. Helophorus longitarsis, n. sp. 



//. elongato-ovatus, antice attenuatns ; capite prothoraceque eupreis, 

 minutissime et parce punctulatis, hoc 5-sulcato, sulcis lateralibus 

 internis flexuosis ; ocuHs magnis, prominentibus ; elytris testaceis, 

 insequalitcr griseo-nebulosis, punctato-striatis, striis angustis, in- 

 tcrstitiis latiusculis subdepressis distincte uniscriatim punctulatis ; 

 antonnis, palpis pedibusque pallide testaceis, his (praesertim tarsis) 

 elongatis. — Long. corp. lin. vix 1|. 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, in cisterna quadam ad Rio Pahnas semel 

 captus. 



This very distinct Helopliorus may be at once known from all the 

 European species with which I am acquainted by its anteriorly at- 

 tenuated outHne, narrow strise, and the comparatively great length 

 of its very paUid limbs, — especially however of the feet. Its head 

 and prothorax are of a reddish-coppery hue ; its eyes are large and 

 prominent ; and its elytra are testaceous, obscurely clouded in parts, 

 and with their interstices (which have a very e\-ident row of small 

 punctures down each) rather wide and subdepressed. The only spe- 

 cimen of it which I have seen was captured by myself oixt of a tank 

 in the Rio Palmas of Fucrteventura, during April 1859. 



Genus 50. OCHTHEBIUS. 



Leach, Zool. 31iscell iii. 91 (1817). 



138. Ochthebius 4-foveolatus. 



Ochthebius 4-foveolatus, Wall, Ins. 3Iad. 91 (1854). 

 , Id, Cat. 3Iad. Col. 28 (1857). 



Habitat in Fuerteventura, Canaria, Teneriffa, Gomera et Palma, 

 baud infrequens. 



The present Ochthebius, which is common in Madeira and Porto 

 Santo, is widely spread over the Canarian archipelago. I have 

 taken it in (the Rio Palmas and at La Antigua of) Fuerteventura, 

 (in the region of El Monte of) Grand Canary, (at S*'' Cruz, the Agua 

 Garcia, &c., of) Teneriffe, and (in the Barranco de San Juan of) 



