412 CANzVKIAN COLEOPTERA. 



cific name of cognatns, I believe that it cannot be regarded as more 

 than a slightly infiiscated individual of the ocliroJeucus, in which the 

 elytral punctures are even less conspicuous than usual ; and I have 

 therefore treated it accordingly. 



630. Longitarsiis brevipennis. 



Longitarsus brevipennis, IVoU., Jvurn. of Ent. i. 8 (18G0). 

 Teiuodactyla brevipennis, Allard, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 320 

 (18G2). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, ad plantam Heliophyti erosl Lem., per litus 

 arenosum crescentem prope oppidum Arrecife, Aprili A.D.1859,captus. 

 Of the present Longitarsus I have seen but three or four examples 

 — which were taken by myself, near Arrecife, in the island of Lan- 

 zarote, during April 1859. They were found on a plant of Helio- 

 plujtum erosum, Lemann, growing on the loose sand behind the sea- 

 beach ; but I unfoi'tunately lost all of them except one. The spe- 

 cies (judging from the single ty^ie now before me) maybe known by 

 its n^fo-piceous head, convex, riifo-testaceous prothorax, and short, 

 testaceous elytra (the suture of which, particularly in the middle, is 

 blackened). Its prothorax and elytra are finely but sharply punc- 

 tulated ; and its antennas (which, like the two hinder femora, are 

 darker towards their apex) are rather abbreviated. M. Allard, of 

 Paris, to whom I formerly submitted it for inspection, returned it 

 with the observation, "■ affinis Teinodactgla' atricajnlke Dufts., sed 

 alitor colorata, capite et prothorace latioribus, antennis brevioribus, 

 et cset." 



G31. Longitarsus strigicollis, n. sp. 

 L. oblongo-ovalis, nitidus, alutaeeus, infuscato-testaceus, capite pro- 

 thoraceque paulo rufescentioribus, parvis ; hoc punctato, punctis 

 postice subconfluentibus, fere strigas obliquas eiRcientibus, ad latera 

 rotundato et grosse margin ato, angulis posticis rotuudatis ; elytris 

 subovalibus, sat distincte punctulatis, singulis stria suturali im- 

 j)ressis ; antennis brevibus, versus apicem infuscatis ; pedibus tes- 

 taceis, femoribus posticis nigro-piceis. — Long. corp. lin. 1^. 



Habitat Teneriffam, a cl. W. D. Crotch detectus. 



The single specimen from which the above diagnosis has been com- 

 piled was captured by Dr. Crotch in TeneriiFe, during the spring of 

 1862. It may be known by its oblong-oval oiitline, brownish-tes- 

 taceous hue (the apex of the antennae, and the two posterior femora, 

 being alone darker), by its small head and prothorax, somewhat 

 coarsely punctured surface, and short antenna?. Its j)unctures have 

 a tendency to be subconfluent on the hinder region of its prothorax — 

 an arrangement which causes them almost to form oblique (though 



