274 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



(on the sand-hills to the south of the Puerto de Cabras) at the end 

 of January 1858, — in which locahty I again met with it during April 

 of the following year. But it is in the arid tracts in the north of 

 that island, at Corralejo, that I have taken it more abundantly. My 

 few Lanzarotan specimens are from the neighbourhood of Arrecife ; 

 and the Grand Canarian ones from the sandy district in the extreme 

 south, around Maspalomas. I likewise met with it (on the 11th of 

 March 1859) in the Little island of Graciosa, off the north of Lanza- 

 rote. 



Genus 185. ONYCHOLIPS. 

 Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 389 (1861). 



442. Onycholips bifurcatus. 



On vch clips bifurcatus, Woll., Tram. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 394. pi. 10. f. 2 

 (1861). 



Habitat Lanzarotam, Fuei'teventuram et Canariam, in loeis simili- 

 bus ac Pentatemntis arenarins et una cum illo degens, sed rarior. 



It will be needless for me here to enter into any details concerning 

 the 0. bifurcatus, since I have done so, at very great length, in my 

 Paper " on the Atlantic Cossonides.''' I may, however, just repeat, 

 what I there stated, that '' in its marvellously reduced antennal scape 

 (which is so excessively short as to be entirely buried within the 

 deep fovea, or abbreviated scrobs, in which it is implanted), as well 

 as in the very unusual proportions of its s«.v-joiated funiculus*, its 

 total freedom from even the rudiments of eyes, and its most won- 

 derful tibiae and feet, this extraordinary insect presents a combina- 

 tion of features perfectly anomalous, and which I believe are quite 

 unparalleled in any Coleopterous genus on record. Indeed the struc- 

 ture of its tibiae and tarsi are so outrageously abnormal, that, did not 

 the general outward contour of the creature, and the formation of its 

 rostrum, oral organs, and antennae (not to mention its saj^erficial 

 points of resemblance with the exponent of the preceding genus) 

 bespeak it as Rhynchophorous, it would have been quite impossible 

 to decide to what primary division of the Coleoptera it should be re- 

 ferred." 



In its subglobose, hairy, and testaceous body, as well as in its fos- 

 sorial habits, no form could appear further removed, prima facie, from 

 the normal members of the present Section of the RliynchopJiora than 

 Onycholijjs. Nevertheless, after considering this question very care- 



* The first and second (!) joints of the funicuUis are very hvrge and thick, whilst 

 the remaining four are short and small. 



