236 CANAEIAN COLEOrTERA. 



Like the last species, the present oi]e(whicli abounds ai'oimclFnn- 

 chal in Madeira) is nearly cosmopolitan — having become naturalized, 

 through the medium of commerce, in most countries of the civilized 

 world ; nevertheless hitherto I happen to have taken but two speci- 

 mens of it in these islands, namely in the Barranco Santo, near S'"* 

 Cruz, of TenerifFe. It is clearly, therefore, scarcer than the C.rujipes. 



§11. Corjms profitnde sculpturatum ; oculis paulo minorihus ; an- 

 tennarum davd minore {sed ad basin tnagis ahrnpta) ohlongd, arti- 

 cidis inter se subcequalibus (ultimo via- Jongiore); palporum 'inaxiUa- 

 rium articulo idtimo fusifonni, apice sidjacuminato . [Opetiopalpus, 

 Spinola.~\ 



374. Corynetes fimetarius. 



C. nitidus, pilis erectis mollibus et (prajsertim in capite prothoraceque) 

 eiongatis ubique vestitus ; capite prothoraceque lajte eupreis, dense 

 et profunde punctatis ; scutello cupreo-viridi ; elj'tris cyaneis, valde 

 profunde seriatim rugoso-punctatis ; antennis nigris\ basin versus 

 vix dilutioribus; pedibus nigrescentibus, tarsis dilutioribus ad basin 

 testaccis. 



Variat (rarissirae) capite prothoraceque (ut scuteUo) eupreo-viridibus. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. I3-2. 



Corynetes fimetarius, WoU.,Ann. Nat. Mist. (3rd series) ix. 440 (1862). 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, in stercore arido bovino, 

 cquino, camelino (nee humano), tempore vernali hand infrequens. 



I believe that this beaiitiful Corynetes should be regarded as a mem- 

 ber of the subgenus Opetiopalpus, Spinola ; though certainly in the 

 last joint of its maxiUary palpi (which is but venj slightly acuminated 

 at the apex), and in the shape of its protliorax, it departs hss from the 

 ordinary Necrohice than the 0. collaris (from the Cape of Good Hope) 

 does, of which I have several examples now before me. However, 

 eveii in these two particulars it undoubtedly approaches the South- 

 African Opetiopalpi ; whilst in its general /«c«Vs, deeply sculptured 

 and greatly pubescent siu-face, as also in the structure of its antennae 

 — which have their anteclaval articulations minute, and the club 

 itself (which is consequently abrupt at the base) much smaller and 

 more oblong (the first and second joints being -equal, whilst the third 

 is not at all wider, and but very slightly longer) — it is so precisely 

 similar to the representatives of that group that I suspect it should 

 be included in it. Nevertheless, being osculant in some respects, it 

 Avoidd tend still further to prove that the group itself, like Necrobia, 

 is, at the utmost, but a Section of Corynetes. 



In its purely specific details, the C. Jlmetariiis maybe immediately 

 known by its coarsely sculptured and very hairy surface, by the bright 



