432 CANAPJAN COLEOPTERA. 



from its minute size it may perhaps merely have escaped, hitherto, 

 more extensive observation. I have taken it in the Rio Palmas of 

 Fuerteventiira ; in Grand Canary ; and at Souzal, the Agua Garcia, 

 and near the Puerto Orotava in TenerifFe ; and six specimens are now 

 before me which were found by Dr. Crotch, during the spring of 1862, 

 in Gomera, In all probability it is universal thi'oughout the archi- 

 pelago. 



Fam. 61. ENDOMYCHID^. 



Genus 256. LYCOPERDINA. 



Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. iii. 73 (1807). 



663. Lycoperdina humeralis, n. sp. 



L. elliptica, latiuscula, depi'essa, fere impunctata, fere calva, subnitida 

 (minutissime alutacea), piceo-nigra ; prothorace versus latera in- 

 sequaliter nifescentiore, transverso-quadrato, angulis posticis rectis, 

 utrinque ad basin profunde longitudinaliter impresso ; elytris pone 

 basin rotundato-ampliatis, ad humeros laete rutis necnon ad apicem 

 ipsum paulo rufescentibus, singulis stria suturali tenui notatis ; 

 antennis tarsisque fusco-ferrugineis. — Long. corp. lin. 2. 



Habitat Teneriffam, rarissima ; in lauretis excelsis humidis supra 

 Tagananam, mense Maio a.d. 1859, specimen unicum cepi. 



This beautiful Lycoperdina is a little larger, broader, more ellip- 

 tical and more flattened than the European L. bovistce ; it is also less 

 shining (being minutely alutaeeous), and almost free from pubescence ; 

 its colour (at least of the pro thorax) is of a more rufescent black, with 

 the shoulders brightly rufous, and the extreme apex of its elytra di- 

 luted in hue ; and its sutural stria is very much finer and less im- 

 pressed. It would a^jpear to be one of the rarest of the Canarian 

 Coleoptera, the only specimen which I have seen having been cap- 

 tured by myself in TeneriflPe, during May 1859, in the damp laui*el- 

 woods which clothe the mountain-range above Taganana. 



Genus 257. DAPSA. 

 (Ziegler) Latreille, Hef/ne A7iim. (edit. 2) v. 159 (1829). 



664. Dapsa edentata, n. sp. 

 D. rufo-ferruginea, fulvo-pubescens ; capite prothoraceque sat pro- 

 funde punctatis, hoc ad latera edentato, antice rotundato-ampliato, 

 angulis anticis obtusis, posticis subrectis, in disco canaliculato, pos- 

 tice utrinque profunde longitudinaliter impresso ; elytris eUipticis 

 basi truncatis, postice acutiusculis, serrato-punctulatis, macula ob- 

 liqua postmedia in singulis posita (obscura, interdum obsoleta) ni- 



