CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 131 



bj' Mr. Gray. It occurs principally under the loose outer fibre of the 

 Euphorbias ; though it may be taken from beneath the bark of trees 

 likewise. My Fuerteventuran specimens are from the Rio Palmas 

 and the little island of Lobos in the Bocayna Strait ; the TenerifFan 

 ones from Orotava, the Agua Mansa, the Agua Garcia, Taganana, and 

 the mountains above S'* Cruz ; and the Palman ones from the Bar- 

 ranco de Galga. 



223. Laemophloeas pusillus. 



Cucujus pusilkis, Sclwn., Si/n. Ins. iii. 55 (1817). 



Lsemophloeus pusillus, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 321 (1848). 



, Wall., Ins. Mad. 162 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 52 (1857). 



Habitat in oppidis Canariae et TenerifFse, forsan cum frumentariis 

 in insulas introductus. 



This little La;mnphloeus — -at once distinguished from the last species 

 (apart from all other characters) by its subquadrate prothorax — is 

 doubtless an importation into these islands, in like manner as it is 

 at Madeira. I have taken it (in a house) at Las Palmas of Grand 

 Canary, and also at S'* Cruz of Teneriffe. 



Genus 93. PEDIACUS. 

 Shuckard, Mem. of Brit. Ent. i. 185 (1839). 



224. Pediacus tabellatus, n. sp. 



P. parallelus, planus, rufo-ferrugineus, subnitidus, minute pubescens ; 

 capite prothoraceque distincte sed vix dense punctulatis, illo trian- 

 gulari antice bisulcato oculis magnis prominentibus, hoc subqua- 

 drate ad latera 4-angulato-denticulato in disco longitudinaliter bi- 

 sulcato ; elytris vix clarioribus, leviter et dense punctulatis, mai'gino 

 sublaterali paulo elevate ; antennis brevibus, erassis, obscurioribus. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. vix 2. 



Habitat Teneriffam sylvaticam, sub cortice ad Agua Mansa semel 

 lectus. 



I am far from satisfied that this insect is more than a geographical 

 state of the European P. de^ressus. Nevertheless, judging from a 

 German example of that species now before me, which has been com- 

 municated from Berlin by Dr. Schaum, the Teneriffan one appears to 

 be a trifle larger and broader, with its head just perceptibly more 

 convex, and with its prothorax (which has the two wide but shallow 

 depressions down its disc continuous, instead of being obscurely broken 

 up into four impressions) a little more developed, with the lateral 

 edges less conspicuously thickened, with the anterior angles some- 

 what more obtusely rounded off. and with the four denticles smaller 



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