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Fuerteventura, where it occurs (principally in dung) during the 

 spring months ; and I have likewise taken it, though sparingly, in 

 the region of El Monte, in Grand Canary. In Lanzarote it was found 

 also by Mr. Gray. 



285. Saprinus ignobilis, n. sp. 



S. niger, nitidus ; fronte vix marginata, minute punctulata ; protho- 

 race subaequaliter punctato, intra angulos anticos (valde obtusos) 

 hand impresso ; elytris sat pi'ofunde (pone scutellum vix levins) 

 punctatis, striis profundis sat distincte crenulatis, humerali indi- 

 stincta a subhumerali disjuncta, 1-4'"^'" dorsalibus versus medium 

 postice continuatis (1°^^ interdum longiore), suturali postice obso- 

 lete, parte basali recurva minute irregulariter undulata ; prosterno 

 horizontali, obelisciformi (?'. e. striis a basi usque versus apicem sub- 

 parallelis vel potius paulo subapproximatis, et dein subito oblique 

 approximatis, ad apicem ipsum confluentibus) ; meso- et meta- 

 sternis depressis, sat dense et profunde punctatis, illo antice minus 

 emarginato sed angulis parum argute determinatis ; antennis brevi- 

 bus pedibusque piceis ; tibiis anticis circa 6-angulato-dentatis, in- 

 termediis parec, posticis vix spinulosis ; calearibus parvis, anticis 

 paulo majoribus subeurvatis. — Long. corp. lin. 11. 



Habitat Lanzarotam, prope oppidum Arrecife a Dom, Gray repertus. 



In their small size and dark hue, as weU as in the fact of their upper 

 svirfaces being minutely punctulated throncjlioiit, the present Saprinus 

 and the following one have much in common. The S. ignobilis, how- 

 ever, is a Kttle larger and blacker than its ally ; its punctures are 

 deeper, and canied more evidently over the entire surface ; its fore- 

 head is less distinctly margined, more rounded-off at the anterior 

 angles, and without any appearance of being separated from the epi- 

 stome by a transverse line; its elytral strise are coarser, slightly 

 longer, and not quite so oblique (the sutural one, moreover, being 

 evanescent, except at its extreme base, and with the recurved portion 

 which connects it with the ordinary " dorsal " one minutely and irre- 

 gularly undulated) ; its prosternum is flatter, or more horizontal, and 

 very peculiarly formed, — the stria? being ^sw&parallel, or only very 

 slightly approximating, from the base to about two-thirds of the dis- 

 tance to the apex, at which point they suddenly converge obliquely 

 (causing the space between them to be, what I can only express in- 

 telligibly by calling, of an obelisk-^lia-^e) ; its meso- and meta-sterna 

 are more depressed, and very much more deeply and closely punc- 

 tured (the former being also less excavated at the apex, but with its 



Berthelot's ponderous work ; and therefore it is not surprising that we should 

 find this insect (through the mere fact of its possessing a slightly greenish tinge I) 

 referred to the H. v/rcsce7is. 



