CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



149 



punctulatis; antennis breviusculis i^edibusque testaceis. — Long. 



Corp. lin. f- vix -J. 



Habitat Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram et Cauariam, hinc inde baud 

 iufrequens. 



In its pale-fuscous (or testaceo-fuscous) hue, rather long and coarse 

 pubescence, paUid limbs, andverypeculiar prothorax (which, although 

 narrow on the whole, is mdened and angular on either side in the 

 middle, minutely crenulated at the edges, and strongly impressed with 

 a transverse fovea behind), the present Corticaria is abundantly 

 characterized. Whether it be identical with any of the numerous 

 ones in Mannerheim's Monograph I wiU not undertake to say ; bnt it 

 is certainly very nearly related to a Russian species in my collection 

 bearing the name of anguhsa, Motsehulsky, and which was given me 

 by the latter some years ago. Indeed, in its singularly shaped pro- 

 thorax and general hue it is almost coincident with it ; and possibly 

 it may be but a local state of the same insect. Nevertheless, since 

 I am not aware that M. Motsehulsky has ever jmblished his C. an- 

 guhsa, and since the only example of that species from which I am 

 compelled to form an opinion does not quite agree with the Canarian 

 one, I have thought it safer to treat the latter as new, and have there- 

 fore characterized it under the (almost similar) title of angulata. 

 Judging from the single specimen of Motschulsky's anguhsa now 

 before me, the C. angulata differs principally in its somewhat more 

 oblong (or less rounded) outline, in its rather more developed pro- 

 thorax (which is a little more prominent, or angular, in the middle, 

 and has its sides, when viewed beneath the microscope, more evidently 

 crenulated), in its longer and less decumbent pubescence, in its totally 

 unkeeled forehead, and in its paler antennae. 



Hitherto I have observed the C. angulata only in the three eastern 



islands of the archipelago — Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Grand 



Canary. In the first of these it is apparently scarce ; but in the 



second I took it commonly at Agua Bueyes and in the Eio Paknas ; 



whilst in the third I beat it, in considerable abundance, from out of 



an old bush of a yeUow Ononis at Mogan, towards the south-western 



portion of the island. 



252. Corticaria curta. 



Coi-ticaria cm-ta, WolL, Lis. Mad. 187 (1854). 

 , Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 65 (1857). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventiu-a, Canaria, Teneriffa, (jlomera 

 et Palma, late diffusa. 



The present Corticaria, which abounds in the Madciran Group, is 



