31 <j CANARIA>' COLEOPiERA. 



features of the A. vorax, only exuygemted ; and mainly differs from 

 it in being a little larg-er and more pubescent, and in having its legs 

 still longer. This last peculiarity is very evident as regards the 

 tarsi, the basal joint of which is very perceptibly more lengthened. 

 It appears to be an abundant species in the intermediate districts of 

 Teneriffc, occurring in sylvan and sabsylvan spots : thus, I have 

 taken it commonly at Taganana, Souzal, and the Agua Garcia. A 

 single example was also captm-ed by Dr. Crotch ; and several more, 

 during February 1858, by Mr. Gray, in the island of Palma. 



(Subfam. ERIKHIXIDES.) 



Genus 198. SMICRONYX. 

 Schonherr, Geti. et Sjwc. Cure. iii. 423 [script. Micronyx'] (1836). 

 The genus Smicronyx possesses most of the characters of Tycliius ; 

 nevertheless its more sunken eyes and its basally approximated claws 

 (those of the latter being distant, and furnished with a small appen- 

 dage between them) will, apart from minor features, usually suffice 

 to separate it therefrom. The species are, on the average, still smaller 

 than the Tychii ; their surfaces are more or less sparingly variegated 

 with scales ; their rostrum is long, filiform, arcuated, and slender ; 

 the punctation of their prothorax, instead of being deej) and dense, 

 is shallow and remote (the punctiu'es moreover being of a rather pe- 

 culiar kind, and often merging anteriorly into very minute granules) ; 

 their clytral striiie are (at any rate, I believe, in most instances) al- 

 most simple, or unerenulated ; the joints of their funiculus are more 

 closely compacted together ; and the extreme apices of their tibia) 

 have the outer angle more prominent and spinulose, and the inner 

 one also generally somewhat more powerfully armed with a small 

 horizontally-directed spine. 



501. Smicronyx albosquamosus. 



S. niger, squamis maximis latis albidis et dilute albidis dense tectus ; 



prothorace angustulo, le\-iter punctulato ; elytris subparallehs, 



striatis ; antennis pedibusque concoloribus, squamosis. 

 Var. fi. vicinus. Multo parcius squamosus (squamis albidioribus prae- 



sertim perpaucis) ; prothorace alutaeeo sed paulo remotius levius- 



que punctato. — Long. corp. lin. 1-1^. 



Tychius albosquamosus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 345 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. Ill (1857). 



Habitat Teneriffam, in sylva " Agua Garcia " semel tan turn lectus : 

 varietatis /3 specimina duo (sc. prope Orotavam Tcneriffie necnon in 

 ins. Hierro, inter mare ct oppidum Yalverde) cepi. 



