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Its elytral striae are rather shorter, finer, and more oblique than those 

 of the last species, the recurved " dorsal " one is more or less short- 

 ened, or interrupted, and the sutural one is continued to the apex ; 

 its antennae are much abbreviated ; its four hinder tibiae (particularly, 

 however, the intermediate pair) are studded with very long spinules, 

 especially towards their extremities ; its two front spurs are almost 

 (if not, indeed, entirely) obsolete ; and its prosternal lines are nearly 

 parallel, or only very obscurely divergent, anteriorly (enclosing an 

 exceedingly narrow space), but slightly divaricate behind. 



I have taken the S. minyops, from out of dead animals, &c., in low 

 spots behind the sea-beach, immediately outside Arrecife of Lanza- 

 rote ; as also, though more sparingly, in Fuerteventui'a, and in the 

 sandy region between Las Palmas and the Isleta of Grand Canary. 



287. Saprimis angulosus, n. sp. 



S. piceo-a^neus, nitidus ; fronte semicirculari, immarginata, carina 

 transversa recta, angulis prominulis rectis (oculos fere oecultanti- 

 bus), ubique (sed proesertim antice) minute transversim strigulosa ; 

 prothorace in disco postico levissime sed versus latera et per basin 

 profundius punctato, pimctis utrinque longitudinaliter confluenti- 

 bus, intra angulos anticos (vix oblique subtruncatos) hand impresso ; 

 elytris postice minute et parce punctulatis, antice laevibus, striis 

 profundis crenulatis, humerah a subhumerali disjuncta, 1^^^^ 2^^qu.e 

 dorsalibus longe ultra sed 3*'^ 4tfique vix ultra medium postice con- 

 tinuatis, suturalis parte recurva transversa subrecta angulos duos 

 (sc. cum suturali et cum quarta dorsali) effieiente ; prosterno lineis 

 subapproximatis, parallelis sed ad basin paulo divergentibus; meso- 

 sterno leviter punctato; antennis pedibusque laete rufo-piceis ; tibiis 

 anticis extus minute multispinulosis, posterioribus praesertim versus 

 apicem longe ciliato-spinulosis ; calcaribus parvis, anticis obsoletis. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Lanzarotam, in cadaveribus proj)e oppidum Arrecife captus. 



In its prothorax being punetulated throughout (though very mi- 

 nutely so on the hinder disc), and in the rather prominent anterior 

 angles of its semicircular forehead, the present Saprinus nearly coin- 

 cides with the S. minyops ; nevertheless the resemblance there ceases, 

 for it has no other distinctive feature in common with that insect. 

 It may readily be known by the two characters just mentioned, in 

 conjunction with its aeneous (and somewhat pitchy) hue and its 

 brightly rufescent limbs, by almost its entire forehead (which is un- 

 margined at the sides) being minutely strigulose transversely, by its 

 prothoracic punctures being longitudinally subconfluent towards the 

 edges, by the recurved portion of its sutural stria (at the base of the 



