CANARTAN COLEOPTEEA. Ill 



this rather insignificant Bracliyptcriis, in conjunction with its slightly 

 brassy and less pubescent surface, and the more rounded hinder angles 

 of its prothorax, will serve to distinguish it from the last species. 

 Hitherto I have observed it only in Lanzarote and Fuerteventtira, — 

 in both of which islands it occurs sparingly on flowers. 



Genus 75. CARPOPHILUS. 

 (Leach) Staph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 50 (1830). 



183. CarpopMlus hemipterus. 



Dermestes hemipterus, Linn., Syst. Nut. ii. 567 (1707). 

 Carpophilus hemipterus, Steph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 50 (1830). 



, Wall, Ins. Mad. 117 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 38 (1857). 



Habitat Teneriffam, in ipsa urbe Sanctae Crucis frequens, certe in- 

 troductus. 



I have taken this almost cosmopolitan insect abundantly, at times, 

 in the houses at S^^ Cruz in Teneriflfe ; in which position it was found 

 also by M. Hartung. As in Madeira, it is doubtless an imported 

 species through the medium of commerce. 



184. Carpophilus auropilosus. 



Carpophilus auropilosus, Woll., Ins. Mud. 117 (1854). 

 , Id., Cut. Mad. Col. 38 (1857). 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, Canariam et Teneriffam ; ad Rio Palmas 

 Fuerteventurse pluiima specimina sub stercore camelino Aprili ineunte 

 A.B. 1859 coUegi. 



This insect would seem to be more strictly indigenous in these 

 islands than it is in Madeira. In the latter it occurs principally 

 about houses and amongst stores (such as dried fruits, sugar, arrow- 

 root, tfec), and has aU the appearance of being an imported species; 

 but at the Canaries I have found it in a;perto, and quite removed from 

 localities of that kind. I have taken it in Grand Canary, and on one 

 occasion (in considerable abundance) from beneath camels' dung in 

 the Rio Palmas of Fuerteventura ; and it was captured by Dr. Crotch, 

 during the spring of 1862, at Ycod el Alto, in Teneriffe. 



Genus 76. NITIDULA. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 77 (1775). 



185. Nitidula flexuosa. 



Nitidiila floxuosa, Oliv., Ent. ii. 12. 7 (1790). 

 , Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 150 (1848). 



