CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 171 



§ II. Elytrorum strid suturali antice integrd {cum quartd 

 dorsali coeunte). 



a. Fronte a clypeo hand distincte divisd. 



283. Saprinus chalcites. 



S. geneus, nitidus ; fronte dense piinctulata, stria nuUa ; prothorace 

 sat dense punctate, in disco postico Isevi, intra angulos anticos (ob- 

 lique subtnmcatos) distincte impresso ; elytris punctatis, spatio 

 communi pone scutellum (stria tertia, vel secunda dorsali, termi- 

 nato) laevi, necnon versus humeros minus dense punctatis, striis in- 

 distincte punctulatis, hunierali saepius indistincta, 1-4'^a'" dorsalibus 

 circa medium postice continuatis ; prosterno lineis antice et postice 

 divergentibus ; mesosterno sat profunde punctate, angulis obtusis ; 

 antennis pedibusque Isete rufo-piceis ; tibiis anticis extus multi- 

 denticulatis, intermediis parce, posticis (angustulis) vix spinulosis ; 

 calcaribus minutis ; tarsis longiusculis, subgracilibus. 



Mas metasterno postice in medio leviter bituberculato. — Long. corp. 

 lin. 1-vix 2. 



Hister clialcites, Itlif/., Maq. fur Ins. vi. 40 (1807). 



asneus ?, BrulU [nee Fah.'], in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 



Saprinus clialcites, WolL, Ins. Mad. 216 (1854). 



, de Mars., Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 445. pi. 18. f. 71 



(1855). 

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



Habitat Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram, Canariam, TenerifFam, Go- 

 meram et Palmam, vel in cadaveribus vel in stercore humane, hinc 

 inde sat vulgaris. 



The S. clialcites, which is common throughout Mediterranean lati- 

 tudes and which is rather abundant in the Madeiran Group, is in all 

 probability universal in these islands, — though I do not happen to 

 have met with it in either Gomera or Hierro, in the former of which, 

 however, it was captured by Dr. Crotch. But in Lanzarote, Fuerte- 

 ventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma I have taken it, more 

 or less plentifully ; and in the first of these it was found also by Mr. 

 Gray. It is exceedingly variable in stature ; but it may be readily 

 known from the other species here described by its bright aeneous 

 surface and pale rufo-piceous limbs, by its forehead being densely 

 punctulated and with its stria obsolete, by its prethorax having the 

 front angles very obtuse and the rounded depression within them 

 comparatively deep, by the sculptured portion of its elytra being not 

 very closely punctured, and the polished part (which is not always 

 very rigidly bounded) terminated laterally by the third oblique stria 

 (or second " dorsal " one), by the teeth of its anterior tibiae being 

 rather small and numerous, whilst its intermediate pair are but 

 sparingly spinulose, and the hinder ones (which are comparatively 



