230 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



ill front, and the trisinuated edge which terminates it being at its 

 anterior extremity instead of at the posterior one. The little tubercle 

 in the centre of the scooped-ont portion is very minute, and (from 

 the depth of the depression) only just traceable. 



The C. capita appears to be of the utmost rarity, the very few 

 specimens which I have seen having been captured by myself, on 

 the 18th of April 1858, from o& the flowers of PJocama pendula in 

 the Barranco at Aldea de San Nicholas, on the western side of Grand 

 Canary. 



Fam. 37. MELYRID^. 



Genus 149. DASYTES. 



Paykull, Fita Stiec. ii. 15G (1708). 



303. Dasytes subsenescens. 



Dasytes uigricoruis ?, BruUe [uec Fah.\ in Webb et Berth. {Col.) 60 



(1838). 

 subfenescens, WoU., loc. cit. 444 (1862). 



Habitat iusulas Canarienses, in Hierro sola adhuc baud detectus. 



The present Dastftes is closely allied to the common European B. 

 jkivipes ; nevertheless it is a little larger and more pilose, its pro- 

 thorax is less abbreviated (or somewhat more produced anteriorly) 

 and more transversely constricted behind the apex, its antenuEe and 

 tarsi are relatively a little longer, and its entire sculpture is more 

 coarse. We may be almost certain that it is universal throughout 

 the archipelago, though I did not happen to meet with it in Hierro ; 

 but in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma 

 I have taken it (more or less abundantly), and in Gomera it was found 

 by Dr. Crotch. Lanzarotan examples, which were collected by M. 

 Hartung, have been communicated by Professor Heer ; and from 

 Tenerifie it has been sent by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. In 

 Teneriffe I have captured it from the level of the shore, at the Puerto 

 Orotava, to the lofty Cumbre overlooking the Cariadas — more than 

 8000 feet above the sea. 



364. Dasytes dispar. 



Dasytes dispar, Woll, loc. cit. 445 (1862). 

 Habitat Canariam Grandem, in regione El Monte ad flores captus. 

 Were it not for the structural dissimilarity between the male an- 

 tennae of the present Dasi/tes and the last one, I might perhaps have 

 regarded them as but states of the same insect ; biit since those organs 



