98 CANAEIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



leviter emarginato, ad latera explanato-rotundato, postice in disco 

 leviter longitiidinaliter 4-costato (costis internis distinctioribus) ; 

 elytris profimde asperato-punctatis, utroque alte et argute 4-cos- 

 tato ; antennis elongatis, fiiscescentibus. 

 Fcem. solam adhue vidi. — Long. corp. lin. 6|. 



Silpha figm-ata, Bridle, in Webb et Beiih. (Col) 59. pi. ii. f. 11 [script. 

 costata] (1838). 



Habitat Teneriffam, mihi non obvia : specimen iinicum a Dom. Fry, 

 Londini, communicatum solum vidi. 



I have not, myself, ever taken this insect ; and indeed the only 

 sjDecimen (a female) which has come under my observation has been 

 communicated by Alexander Fry, Esq., who received it from a friend 

 by whom it was captured in Teneriffe. Whether therefore it be 

 peculiar to the higher elevations (as I am inclined to suspect) it is 

 not in my power to decide ; but, so far as it is possible to judge from 

 the loose and imperfect diagnosis of M. Brulle, I have no doubt what- 

 soever that it is the species which he intended to designate, under 

 the title of S.figurata. Judging therefore from this single example, 

 its rather smaller size, more opake and very much more deeply punc- 

 tured surface (the punctures of the elytra being also roughened, so as 

 to present a sciilpture having somewhat the appearance of a file), 

 combined with its less developed, not quite so uneven, more distinctly 

 costate and more anteriorly-emarginated prothorax, the much more 

 elevated ridges of its elytra, and its slightly less elongated limbs, wiU, 

 apart from minor differences, at once separate the species from the 

 S. simplidcornis. 



Fam. 9. ANISOTOMID^. 



Genus C.3. ANISOTOMA. 



(Knock) lUig., Kiif. Preuss. 09 (1798). 



160. Anisotoma canariensis. 



A. ovalis, convexa, nitida, nigro- vel fusco-picea ; capite protho- 

 raceque sat distincte punetatis ; elytris versus ba.sin paulo rufes- 

 centioribus, sat profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctulatis ; 

 antennis ad basin pedibusque piceo-ferrugineis, femoribus muticis. 



Var. /> [forsan mere immatm-a] corpore pallido. 



Mas, tibiis posterioribus distinctius arcuatis. — Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Anisotoma canariensis, WoU., Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) xi. 216 

 (1863). 



Habitat in ins. Hierro, rarissima ; varietatis /3, in Canaria Grandi 

 captum exemplar unicum adhuc vidi. 



