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281. Saprinus nitidulus. 



, aeneo-niger, nitidus ; fronte postice minus punctulata, stria sub- 

 obsoleta ; prothorace ad latera necnon per basin ipsam profunde 

 piinctato, intra angulos anticos (rotundatos) distincte impresso ; 

 elytris postice profunde puuctatis (punctis versus latera inter strias 

 minus ascendentibus), striis profundis, punctatis, suturali antice 

 valde abbreviate, humerali in subbumeralem mergente, l-4ta'" dor- 

 saUbus plerumque ultra medium postice continuatis ; prosterno ob- 

 tuse subcarinato, lineis antice divergentibus ; mesosterno profunde 

 punctate (per marginem posticum serie punctorum quasi bisec- 

 torum terminate), antice sat profunde emarginato angulis obtusis ; 

 antennis pedibusque nigro-piceis, capitulo soepius vix dilutiore. — 

 Long. Corp. lin. 2-3. 



Hister nitidulus, Fab., Syst. Eleu. i. 85 (1801). 



, Brtille, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 



Saprinus nitidulus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 215 (1854). 



, de Mars., A?m. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 402. pi, 17. f. 40 



(1855), 

 , Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 75 (1857). 



Habitat Lanzarotam et TenerifFam, in cadaveribus frequens, 

 I have given the above comparative diagnosis of this common Eu- 

 ropean insect for the sake of calling attention to the exact points in 

 which it differs from the following closely allied species. I have 

 taken it, in tolerable abundance, from out of dead animals, both 

 near Arrecife of Lanzarote and around S** Cruz of Teneriffe, — from 

 the latter of which islands it has also been communicated by the 

 Barao do Castello de Paiva. 



282. Saprinus subnitidus. 



-S^. niger, nitidus ; fronte densissime punctulata,.stria obsoleta ; pro- 

 thorace ad latera necnon per basin ipsam punctato, intra angulos 

 anticos (oblique subtruncatos) leviter impresso ; elytris convexis, 

 postice leviter punctulatis (punctulis versus latera inter strias plus 

 minus ascendentibus), striis tenuibus, vix punctulatis, suturali an- 

 tice paulo abbreviata, humerali in subbumeralem mergente, l-S*'^'" 

 dorsaHbus vix ultra et S'''"^ 4t^que vix ad medium postice conti- 

 nuatis ; prosterno minus carinato, lineis antice leviter divergenti- 

 bus ; mesosterno leviter et vage punctato, antice paulo emarginato 

 angulis sat argute determinatis ; antennis pedibusque nigro-piceis, 

 capitulo saepius ferrugineo. 



Yar. /3 [an species ?]. Elytris paulo distinctius punctulatis, punctulis 

 inter strias utrinque densius ascendentibus. \_Ins. Palma.] — Long, 

 corp. lin. 2-vix 3. 



Saprinus subnitidus ?, de Mars., Ami. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 404. 

 pi. 17. f. 41 (1855). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura et Canaria, una cum sp. praj- 



cedente deorens. 



