182 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



to be of the greatest rarity, and confined (so far as I have observed 



hitherto) to the laurel-regions of Teneriffe and Palma. In the former, 



I have taken it at the Agua Garcia, at Las Mercedes, and in the forest 



above Taganana ; and in the latter, at a rather high elevation in the 



Barranco de Galga. It occurs principally beneath the loose, damp, 



rotten bark of trees. 



293. Eubrachium ovale. 



Eiibrachium ovale, Woll,, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3i-d series) i. 161. 

 pi. vii. f. 9 (1862). 



Habitat in Hierro, sub cortice Euphorhiarum laxo putrido in re- 

 gione El Golfo repertum. 



The only island in which I have as yet observed this interesting 

 little insect is Hierro — -where, during February 1858, I captured 

 several specimens of it, from beneath the rotten bark of old Euphor- 

 bias, in the lower part of the region of El Golfo. 



294. Eubrachium politum. 



Eubrachium politum, WoJl, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lotid. (3rd series) i. 163 

 (1862). 



Habitat in Lanzarota et Hierro, in iisdem locis ac praecedens, ra- 

 rissimum. 



Of the present Eubrachium four specimens only have hitherto come 

 beneath my notice. One of them I took on the Euj^horbia-clad cliffs 

 (known as the " Risco") overlooking the Salinas, in the extreme north 

 of Lanzarote ; and the other three, in company with the last species, 

 at El Golfo, on the western side of Hierro. 



Genus 125. ACRITUS. 

 Le Conte, Proc. of the Acad, of Philad. iii. 288 (1853). 



§ I. Prothorax lined punctorum ante basin hand impressus. 



295. Acritus punctum. 



A. oblongus, fusco-niger, nitidus ; fronte minutissime et parce punc- 

 tulata, oculis sat magnis prominulis, minute et parce setosis ; pro- 

 thorace elytrisque distinctius sed parce punctatis, illo antice et pos- 

 tice subgequaliter latiusculo, lateribus ipsis paulo sinuatis et stria 

 Integra impressis, his versus humeros obsolete oblique striatis ; pro- 

 sterno et mesosterno vix punctatis, iUo striis integris, a basi usque 

 ad apicem gradatim arcuato-divergentibus, hoc antice integro ob- 

 tuse lobato, ad latera marginato, sutura postica indistineta ; meta- 

 sterno magno, punctate ; pygidio et propygidio densissime subtilis- 

 simeque transversim rugatis sed baud punctatis ; antennis pedi- 

 busque piceo-ferrugineis ; tibiis anticis arcuatis, extus minutissime 



