426 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



coarsely margined. The unique example from which the above dia- 

 gnosis has been compiled I captured in the sandy region at Maspa- 

 lomas, in the extreme south of Grand Canary, during April 1858. 



653. Epilaclma 10-plagiata. 



Scymnus 10-plagiatus, TFolL, Cat. Mad. Col. 137 (1857). 



Habitat in Teneriffa et Palma, rarissima. 



The present little Epilaclma may at once be known from both of 

 the preceding species by the comparatively long and coarse silvery 

 pile with which it is clothed, by the more porrect anterior angles 

 of its prothorax, and by its surface being more deeply punctiired, 

 and black, — the elytra alone having five rufo-testaceous spots on each 

 of them. It appears to be rare, occurring sparingly at low and inter- 

 mediate elevations. I have taken it near S*" Cruz and at Las Mer- 

 cedes in Teneriffe, as also in the Barranco above S*'* Cruz in the 

 island of Palma. It occurs likewise in Madeira, where, however, it 

 is extremely scarce. 



Genus 252. SCYMNUS. 



Kugelann, in Schneid. 3Iuy. 515 (1794). 



654. Sc3rmnus canariensis, n. sp. 



/S'. rotundato-ovalis, nitidus, minutissime punctulatus, cinereo-pubes- 

 cens, niger ; elytris vel rufis vel rufo-testaceis, sod in parte magna 

 triangulari basali, sutuni, macula centrali in disco postico singu- 

 lorum posita necnon in niargine laterali ab humeris etiam ultra 

 medium ducta et dein in curva obscurji (interdum obsoleta) nebulosa 

 usque ad suturam, sed mox ante apicem ejus, oblique continuatii, 

 nigris ; pedibus testaceis, plus minus infuscatis. 



Jirts capite et prothoracis lateribus i)lus minus testaceis. 



Var. /3. Elytris singidis in disco immacidatis. 



Var. y. rujipennis [an species ?]. Sensim distinctius punctulata, ely- 

 tris in parte basali triangulari, sutura et in medio marginis late- 

 ralis solum nigris. — Long. corp. hn. 1-1^. 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, vulgaris. 



This most inconstant Scymnus is abundant throughout the Canarian 

 archipelago, in the whole seven islands of which I have myself cap- 

 txu-ed it. In Lanzarote, Gomera, Palma, and Hierro it was found 

 also by Mr. Gray ; and in Teneriffe, Gomera, and Palma by Dr. Crotch, 

 It varies a great deal in bulk, and is usually smaller in exposed arid 

 districts than elsewhere. In its normal state it may be described as 

 black with rufous elytra — the latter, however, being ornamented 

 with a lai-ge triangular region at the base, their suture (to almost its 

 extreme apex), a central spot on the hinder disc of each, and about 



