190 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



cente ornato ; scutello fusco-piceo ; elytris pallide testaceis, sin- 

 gulis maculis parvis irregularibus uigrescentibus (circa 5) ornatis, 

 interstitiis alutaceis convexis minutissime punctulatis ; antennis, 

 palpis pedibusque subpicescenti-testaceis, tarsis elongatis, articulo 

 primo in posterioribiis longissimo. 

 Mas tuberculo frontali paulo distinctiore, prothorace vix latiore sub- 

 tUiusque punctato. — Long. corp. lin. 2,\-2^. 



Apbodius conspurcatus, Bridle [nee Linn.\ in Webb et Berth. ( Col.) 60 

 (1838). _ 



sticticus, Hart, [nee Pnz.^ Geolog. Verhdltn. Lonz. umlFnert. 140. 



niaeulosus, Harold, in litt. 



Habitat in Lanzarota et Fuerteventura sat vulgaris, necnon in 

 Canaria Grandi rarior ; in stercore humano prsesertim gaudet. 



The present ApJiodms may be regarded as the representative in 

 these islands of the European A. inquinatus, which at first sight it 

 much resembles. It is, however, a little larger and more elongate than 

 that insect, its surface is more alutaceous (and therefore somewhat 

 less shining), its elytra are of a paler yeUow and with their small 

 broken patches less developed (the elongate dash within the lateral 

 margin of that species being entirely absent), its head and prothorax 

 are less black (the former having the clypeus rufescent, and the 

 latter being much more broadly pale at the edges and with the ex- 

 treme basal margin more or less testaceous, whilst even the darker 

 portions are merely of a brownish-piceous hue), its elytral inter- 

 stices are more convex, and its antennae, palpi, and legs are paler. 



From the A. conspurcatus, Linn., judging from specimens which I 

 have received from Bordeaux (and which I beheve to be correctly 

 identified), the A. maculosus is abundantly distinct, — differing from 

 it, apart from minor characters, in its larger size and more palHd 

 hue, in its more developed clypeus and head, in its more convex 

 elytral interstices, and in its paler and longer limbs — the basal joint 

 of its four hinder feet being more particularly elongate, and the 

 tibial spurs proportionally enlarged. 



The A. maculosus is common in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura 

 during the spring (in the former of which it was also taken by Mr. 

 Gray, and in both by M. Hartung) ; and I have likewise captured it, 

 though very sparingly, in the south of Grand Canary. Having re- 

 ceived it from Dr. Heer under the name of " sticticus, Pnz.," I am 

 enabled to state for certain that it is the Aphodius referred by him 

 (though erroneously) to that species in the list compiled for M. Har- 

 timg's volume ; and there can be no doubt whatsoever that it is also 

 the A. conspurcatus of M. Brulle's inaccurate Catalogue, in the work 

 of Messrs. Webb and Berthelot. 



