CANAEIAN COLEOrTERA. 363 



This very distinct little species I have observed hitherto only in 

 Hierro — where, on the 16th of February 1858, I brushed five ex- 

 amples of it from off vegetation at the edges of the I'oad about mid- 

 way between Valverde and the district of El Golfo (at an elevation, 

 I should imagine, of not more than perhaps 1000 feet above the sea). 

 It may at once be known by its deeply, closely, and regularly punc- 

 tured head and prothorax (the latter of which is proportionaJJij a 

 little larger, and more oval, than is the case in the generality of the 

 Laparoceri), by its extremely prominent eyes, and by its (oblong) 

 elytra being studded all over with soft, elongate, suberect hairs. Its 

 surface is either black or piceous-black (the head and jirothorax being 

 rather more picescent than the elytra), and more or less sparingly 

 tessellated with robust cinereous or fulvo-cinereous (and but slightly 

 metallic) scales. The front tibia3 of its male sex have their inner 

 apical half somewhat conspicuously scooped out. 



Genus 214. TKACHYPHL(EUS. 



Germar, Ins. Spec. i. 403 (1824). 



560. Trachjrphlceus scaber. 



CurCLilio scaber, Linn., Fna Suec. 176 (17G1). 



Trachvpliloeus scaber, Schan., Gen. et Spec. Cure. ii. 490 (1834). 



, WvU., Ins. Mad. 394 (1854). 



— , Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 118 (1857). 



Habitat in intermediis Teneriffae, sub lapidibus, rarissimus. 



The common European T. scaber, which is universal in Madeira, 

 appears to be extremely rare at the Canaries. Hitherto indeed I 

 have observed it only in the intermediate elevations of TenerifFe — 

 where, at the end of April 1859, I captured a single specimen from 

 beneath a stone on the open Sierra above the Agua Garcia, and, a 

 week later, four more, on a lofty, grassy headland, at the edge of the 

 deep Barranco immediately below Ycod el Alto. 



Genus 215. LICHENOPHAGUS. 

 WoUaston, Ins. Mad. 389. tab. viii. f. 1 (1854). 



561. Lichenophagus auctus, n. sp. 



L. squamulii minutissimis fuseo-nigris et submetaUico-fusco-cinereis 

 densissime et obscure tessellatus sed setulis fere carens (sc. brevis- 

 simis, segre observandis) ; rostro late concave, argute angusteque 

 canaliculate, antiee obscure pallidiore ; oculis minutis, domissis ; 

 prothorace breviusculo, ad latera fortiter rotundato, argute sed vix 

 grosse punctate, obscure et irregulariter paUido-trilineato, postice 



