144 CANAKIAN COLKOPTERA. 



Genus 104. EPISTEMUS. 



(Westwood) Steph., III. Brit. Ent. ii. 167 [script. Ephistemus] (1829). 



244. Epistemus gyrinoides. 



Dermestes gyiinoides, Mshm, Ent. Brit. i. 77 (1802). 



Phalacrus dimidiatus, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, ii. 85. t. 32. f. D (1807). 



Ephistemus gyrinoides, Steph., III. Brit. Ent. ii. 168 (1829). 



dimidiatus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 170 (1854). 



gyilnoides. Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 63 (1857). 



Habitat in Canaria, Teneriffa et Gomera, rarissimus. 



The few examples of the E. gyrinoides which I have seen hitherto 

 from these islands have the minute and distant punctules of their 

 upper surface still less evident, beneath the microscope, than is the 

 case in the ordinary European ones and in those from Madeira — 

 being, in fact, scarcely distinguishable ; nevertheless I cannot detect 

 any character to warrant their separation from that species. I have 

 taken it sparingly at Teror, in Grand Canary ; as also near S*" Cruz, 

 and at the Agiia Mansa, of Teneriife ; in which latter island, as well 

 as in Gomera, it was found by Dr. Crotch. 



Fam. 19. LATHRIDIADiE. 



Genus 105. HOLOPARAMECUS. 

 Curtis, in Ent. Mag. i. 186 (1833). 



§ I, Antennce 11-articulatce. 



245. Holoparamecus caularum. 



H. rufo-testaceus, nitidus, subtilissime et parce pubescens ; oculis sat 

 magnis ; prothorace antice lato, postice constricto, angulis posticis 

 rectis, basi in medio late et fortiter transverse signato ; elytris 

 minute punctulatis, stria suturali recta in utroque impressa. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. vix |. 



Calyptobium caularmn, Attbe, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, (2ife'ne 



86rie) i. 244. pi. x. f. 2 (1843). 

 , Redt., Fna Austr. 204 (1849). 



Habitat Lanzarotam, sub quisquiliis prope oppidum Haria repertus. 



The present European Holoparamecus belongs, like the H. niger, 

 to the Section of the genus in which the antennae are 11-articidate. 

 It may, however, be known from the latter by being a little larger, 

 paler, and relatively more elongate ; by its prothorax being wider in 

 front, and much more conspicuously embossed in the centre behind, 

 and by its sutural line being somewhat straighter. The example 



