188 CANAKIAN COLEOPTERA. 



it does not happen to have been observed in Palma. But in Lanzarote, 

 Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, TenerifFe, and Hierro I have myself 

 taken it, more or less abundantly ; and in Gomera it was found by 

 Dr. Crotch. In TenerifFe it was also captured by Dr. Crotch and 

 Mr. Gray. Apart from minor distinctions, it may be known from 

 the other Aplwdii here enumerated by its larger size and less shining 

 surface, by its duU, brownish-testaceous hue and densely punctured 

 scuteUum, and by its anteriorly margined prothorax. 



301, Aphodius Wollastonii. 



A. elongatus, ovato-oblongus (antice subangustatus), nitidus, testa- 

 ceus, clypeo (rugoso, utrinque ante oculos angulato-exstante), scu- 

 tello pedibusque picescentioribus, capite postice, prothorace in dorso 

 late necnon in nebulfi parvci sublaterali elytrisque anguste per 

 suturam nigrescentibus ; prothorace brcviusculo, leviter inaequaliter 

 punctate ; elytrorum striis subtenuibus, interstitiis minutissime et 

 parce punetulatis ; palpis antennisque pallide testaceis ; tibiis pos- 

 terioribus, sed prtesertim intermediis, longe spinulosis. 



Mas tuberculis frontalibus (prsesertim medio) distinctioribus, pro- 

 thorace vix latiore subtiliusque punctate. — Long. corp. lin. 21-3^. 



Aphodius Wollastonii, Harold, Berl. Ent Zeit. 397 (1862). 



Habitat Lanzaretam et Fuerteventuram, in stercore bovine, equino, 

 camelino, tempore vernali parum vulgaris. 



In size and general colouring the present Apliodms is somewhat 

 intermediate between the A. hydrocJia^ris and nitididns ; its surface, 

 however, is brighter and less deeply sculptured, and its colour is al- 

 together clearer, than that of the former, and moreover its pronotum 

 is ?Mimargined anteriorly, its scuteUum is mere sparingly punctured, 

 and its elytral striae are narrower ; whilst its prothorax (which has 

 only a broad cloudy band down the disc, and a small iU-defined spot 

 towards either side, piceous-black) is very much paler than that of 

 the latter. From both of them, however, its anteriorly subacumi- 

 nated outline and more roughened clypeus, combined with its very 

 pale antennae and the much longer spinules of its four hinder (though 

 more particularly of its intermediate) tibiae, will additionally dis- 

 tinguish it. It is rather a common insect in Lanzarote and Fuerte- 

 ventura diu'ing the spring months, in the former of which it was 

 also captured by Mr. Gray ; but I have not yet observed it in any of 

 the other islands of the Group. 



302. Aphodius nitidulus. 



Scarabaius nitiduhis. Fab., Ent. Si/st. i. 80 (1792). 



Aphodius sordidus, Brulle [necFab.], in Webbet Berth. (Col.) 60(1838). 



