CANARIAN COLEOPTERA, 107 



Paromalus pumilio, WolL, Ins. Mad. 213 (1864). 



Carcinops pumilio, de Marseul, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, iii. 91. 



pi. 22. f. 4 (1855). 

 Paromalus pumilio, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 74 (1857). 



Habitat Lanzarotam, Euerteventuram, Teneriffam et Gomeram, 

 sub quisquiliis degeus. 



The little C. 14:-striat'us, which occurs tliroiigliout central and 

 southern Europe, the north of Africa, and Madeira, is pretty widely 

 distributed over these islands — where in all probability it will be 

 found to be universal, if searched for in the proper situations. Never- 

 theless, hitherto, I have observed it only in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, 

 and Teneriffe ; in the last of which, however, as well as in Gomera, 

 it has been captured by Dr. Crotch. It is chiefly to be met with 

 beneath decaying vegetable detritus, especially under the putrid 

 leaves of the Prickly Pear {Opuntia Tuna), in waste spots where 

 they have been thrown away as refuse. 



Genus 122. SAPRINUS. 

 Ericbson, in Klnc/ Jalirh. i. 172 (1834). 



§ I. Elytrorum stria suturali antice plus minas ahhreviatd. 



279. Saprinus nobilis, n. sp. 



S. cyaneo-niger, supra subopacus, densissime rugoso-punctatus ; pro- 

 thorace in disco postico elytrisque in spatio communi obcordato 

 pone scutellum necnon per marginem ipsis.simum posticum politis ; 

 stria frontali nulla ; elytris singulis stria suturali tenui antice valde 

 abbreviate (a medio usque ad apicem continuata) necnon duabus 

 parvis obliquis versus humeros impressis ; prosterno punctulato, 

 lineis antice late divaricatis ; mesosterno sat dense et profunde 

 punctato ; tibiis anticis extus leviter et obtuse denticulatis, poste- 

 rioribus biseriatim spinulosis ; tarsis (sed prsesertim anticis) piceis. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 2^-3^. 



Habitat Teneriffam, rarissimus ; propc Sanctam Crucem necnon 

 sub stercore humano in sylva " Las Mercedes " dicta captus. 



I believe that the present Saprinus is undoubtedly distinct from 

 every species described in de Marseul's Monograph, though perhaps 

 it approaches nearer to the S.Jir/uratus, from northern Africa, than 

 to any other of them. Apparently, however, it is much larger than 

 that insect, of a dark cyaneous-blue (instead of a brownish black), 

 with its polished prothoracic space single (instead of being shaped- 

 out into three compartments), and with its sutural Line (instead of 

 being complete) greatly abbreviated anteriorly. Apart from minor 

 characteristics, its almost evanescent striae, combined with its cya- 



