L66 



CANARIAN COLEOPXERA. 



thoracis striis duabus lateralibus subparallelis fere integris (exte- 

 riore postice vix abbreviata) ; elytronim stria humerali obliqua, 

 siibhumerali nulla, l-S''^'™ dorsalibus integris, 4t'iobsoleta (e punctis 

 perpaiicis elongatis versus apicem composita), 5'^ nulla, sutiu-ali sat 

 elongata (postice vix, sed antice valde abbreviata), striis omnibus 

 fere impunctatis ; i^ygidio subopaco, fortiter punctato ; antennis 

 pedibusque nigro-pieeis ; tibiis anticis 3-dentatis, posterioribiis bi- 

 seriatim multispinosis. — Long. corp. lin. 2^3^; 



Habitat in montibus Teneriffge, rarior. 



Although unwilling to erect an additional species in a group so 

 extensive as Ulster, yet, after a careful survey of de Marseul's mono- 

 graph, I am satisfied that the present one cannot be referred to any 

 of those which he has recorded. Its jwsition, however, in his arrange- 

 ment is easily determined, since it belongs to that comparatively 

 small Section of the genus in which the lateral, or " subhumeral," 

 stria is obsolete and in which (at the same time) the pronotum is 

 furnished with fzvo striae at either side. Judging from his figures 

 and diagnoses, its nearest allies would appear to be the H.fossor from 

 Senegal, and the obesus from Guinea and southern Africa : but the 

 following combination of characters will serve to distinguish it from 

 the forms which it most closely resembles. Thus, its two prothoracic 

 lines are nearly entire (the outer one only being very slightly ab- 

 breviated behind) ; its elytral strite are deep and simple (though the 

 sutural one is sometimes just perceptibly crenated), the three dorsal 

 ones being complete (for the inner two are merely a trifle shorter at 

 the base) ; the fourth is obsolete (being represented by a few elongate 

 punctures, or a broken-up line, behind) ; the fifth is quite absent ; 

 and the sixth (or sutural one) commences at about a third of the 

 distance between the scutellum and the apex, and is continued almost 

 to the latter. Its front tibiae are externally tridentate (the apical 

 tooth being large, obtuse, and surmounted by three spinides, whilst 

 the second and third are gradually smaller and capped, each of them, 

 by a single spinule) ; and its four posterior ones are densely spinose. 



Hitherto the H. canariensis has been observed only in Teneriffe, 

 where it would seem to be somewhat scarce. I have taken it at 

 Taganana, and it has been communicated by the Barao do Castello 

 de Paiva from Las Mercedes. 



Genus 12L CARCINOPS. 



De Marseul, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, (8ieme senc) iii. 83 (1855), 



278. Carcinops 14-striatus. 

 Dendropliilus 14-striatus, Stcph., Ill Brit. Eni. v. 412 (1832). 

 Paromnlu? piiinilio, Erich., in Khtrj Jahrh. i. 169 (1834). 



