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235. Cryptophagus fasiformis. 



C. oblongo-fusiformis, angustulus, fusco-ferrugineus, pube minus 

 elongata subdepressa vestitus ; prothorace profunde et dense punc- 

 tato, ad latera subrecto, denticulo medio acuto ; elytris subfusi- 

 formibus (/. e. antice et postice subattenuatis, vel ibidem utrinque 

 oblique sub tnincatis), sat dense punctatis; alis obsoletis. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. vix ^. 



Cryptophagus fusiformis, WolL, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3rd series) i. 

 166 (1862). 



Habitat Teneriifam, praecipue sub cortice Eupliorhiarum in mon- 

 tibus supra Sanctam Crucem crescentium deprebensus. 



As already stated, the present Cryptophagus has something in 

 common, at first sight, with the last one; nevertheless its rather 

 smaller size and relatively narrower and more fusiform outline (the 

 elytra particularly being less parallel, or subattenuated both before 

 and behind), in conjunction with its somewhat shorter and more de- 

 pressed pubescence, its rather less deeply punctured surface, and the 

 straighter sides of its prothorax, will serve to distinguish it from 

 that species. It is often, also, of a browner hue, — the elytra being 

 but seldom of a clearer colour than the head and prothorax ; and 

 (which is very unusual for a Cryptophagus) its wings are obsolete. 

 In its habits, too, it recedes from the C. obesuliis, and is more strictly 

 indigenous. I have taken it hitherto only in Tenerifie, in spots far 

 removed from habitations, — such as at Las Mercedes, and from be- 

 neath the dead bark of Euphorbias on the mountains above S*'' Cruz, 

 overlooking the plain of Laguna. 



236. Cryptophagus hesperius. 



C. fusiformi-oblongus, rufo-ferrugineus, pube brevi albida parce 

 vestitus ; prothorace profunde et dense punctate, postice angustato, 

 angulis anticis ampliatis, ad latera denticulis acutis circa 4-5 ar- 

 mato ; elytris subfusiformibus, sat dense punctatis ; antennis pe- 

 dibusque longiusculis, graciliusculis, vix pallidioribus. 



Variat colore obscuriore, in elytris interdum etiam nigro-brunneo. 



Var. /3. occidentalis [an species distincta ?] prothoracis denticulis ob- 

 soletis ; elytris magis fusiformibus convexis, ad humeros paulo 

 magis rotundatis. — Long. corp. lin. |— ^. 



Cryptophagus hesperius, TVoll, Ami. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) xi. 217 

 (1863). 



Habitat in sylvaticis et subsylvaticis Canarise, Teneriffse, Gomerae 

 et Palmae, vulgaris : varietatis /3 exemplar unicum, in ins. Hierro 

 captum, solum vidi. 



In its small size, rather elongate and slender limbs, and general 



