414 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



hinder femora, whilst the prothorax and the remainder of the elytra 

 and limbs are pale testaceous, will, apart from minor features, suffi- 

 ciently distinguish it. It is recorded also from the north of Africa. 



634. Longitarsus pusillus. 



L. oblongo-ovalis, nitidiis, capite prothoraceque rufo-piccis (hoc pal- 

 lidiore), elytris pallide infuscato-tcstaceis ; prothorace brevi, trans- 

 verso, ad latera marginato, angulis posticis subi-otundato-obtusis, 

 obsoletissime et parce punctulato, tenuiter canaliculato nccnon jios- 

 tice subiuDequali ; elytris distinctius et parum dense punctulatis ; 

 antennis pedibusque testaceis, illis versus apicem femoribusque pos- 

 ticis paulo obscurioribus. — Long, coi'p. hn. vix 1. 



Haltica pusilla, Oyll., Im. Stiec. iii. 549 (1813). 



Thyamis pusilla, Steph., El. Brit. JEnt. iv. 313 (1831). 



Teinodactyla pusilla, Allard,Ann. dela Soc.Ent. (feJF'/'a«c<', 125(1860). 



Habitat Teneriffam, a W. D. Crotch semel deprehensus. 



I cannot detect any differences of sufficient importance in the sin- 

 gle (and rather immature) example from which the above diagnosis 

 has been compiled (and which was captured by Dr. Crotch in Tene- 

 riffiB) to warrant the supposition that it is specifically distinct from 

 the common European L. pusillus ; for although the punctation of 

 its elytra is just perceptibly stronger, and that of its prothorax 

 perhaps even somewhat still finer, than is the case in the ordinary 

 northern type, yet such characters ai'c so trifling in a group so essen- 

 tially variable as Longitarsus that I cannot attach any weight to 

 them at all. Moreover its prothorax is a little less convex (or more 

 uneven), and has its central canal better expressed; but this like- 

 wise is very unimportant, and may possibly (as the specimen is ill- 

 developed) be merely accidental ; so that I have but little hesitation 

 in identifying it as above. 



635. Longitarsus inconspicuiis. 



Variat vel omnino vel fere infuscato-testaceus, vel dilute piceus ely- 

 tris vix magis testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. |-vix 1. 



Longitarsus inconspiciuis, Woll., he. cit. 9 (1860). 

 Teiuodactyla incouspicua, Allarcl, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 317 

 (1802). 



Habitat Teneriifam, in elevatis parce degens. 



Four specimens only, caj)tured by myself in Teneriife, of this in- 

 significant little Longitarsus have as yet come beneath my notice. 

 Two of them were taken at the Agua Mansa, a third on the ascent 

 to the Cumbre above it, and the remaining one on the mountains 

 above Taganana. It would seem therefore to be an insect of inter- 



