142 CANAEIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



241. Atomaria pilosula, n. sp. 



A. oblongo-ovata, rufo-ferruginea, punctata, piibe longiuscula minus 

 depressa (partim etiam suberecta) albida vestita ; prothorace con- 

 vexo, ad basin ipsissimam transversim constricto, ad latera sub- 

 aequaliter rotundato ; elytris convexis, fere concoloribus, pygidium 

 vix tegentibus. — Long. corp. lin. vix i. 



Habitat editiores Teneriffee, in excelsis illis " Cumbre v. Canadas " 

 dictis, semel capta. 



Althougb I have, unfortunately, but a single specimen of this Ato- 

 maria to form an opinion from, I believe nevertheless that it is the 

 exponent of a species truly distinct from the following one, — a sujd- 

 position which is rendered the more probable from the fact of its 

 having been captured on the lofty Cumbre of Teneriife, adjoining the 

 Canadas, upwards of 8000 feet above the sea ; whereas the A. cana- 

 riensis is peculiar (so far as observed hitherto) to rather low and 

 intermediate districts. Judging from the unique example now before 

 me, the A. pilosula differs from the canariensis in being a Httle larger 

 and more ovate (or less straightened at the sides), in having its pu- 

 bescence longer and less depressed, in its punctation being a trifle 

 less dense, in its scutellum being relatively somewhat wider and more 

 transverse, and in its prothorax and elji.ra being each of them more 

 convex. In the individual from which my diagnosis is drawn out 

 there is, also, scarcely any indication of the suffused transverse elytral 

 fascia, or cloud, which (more or less) characterizes its ally; but very 

 likely this may be merely accidental. 



242, Atomaria canariensis, n. sp. 



A. suboblonga, rufo-ferruginea, punctata, pube brevi depressa albida 

 vestita ; prothorace ad basin ipsissimam transversim paulo con- 

 stricto, ad latera subaequalitcr rotimdato ; elytris fascia media 

 magna plerumque valde indistincta suffusa nigrescente nebulosis. 



Variat fascia obsoleta (elytris fere omnino rufo-ferrugineis). — Long. 

 Corp. lin. f-vix |. 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, in locis inferioribus et inter- 

 mediis, passim. 



The present Atomaria has somewhat the general aspect of the 

 common European A. atricapiVa ; nevertheless it is on the average 

 a trifle larger and more pubescent than that insect, its punctation 

 is denser, its prothorax is both more and less regularly rounded at 

 the sides, its head is never dark (being always concolorous with the 

 rest of the surface), and its elytra are obscurely adorned with a large, 

 ill-defined, suffused transverse fascia or cloud, — which, although often 



