CANARIAN COLEOPTEEA. 433 



grescente ; antennis pedibusque vix clarioribus ; femoribus ad basin 

 ipsam nigrescentibus. — Long. corp. lin. 1|— vix 2. 



Habitat in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque Canariao, TenerifFse et Palmaj, 

 hinc inde parum vulgaris. 



It is just possible that the present Dapsa may be identical with the 

 D. harhara of northern Africa ; nevertheless, judging from the dia- 

 gnoses of the latter given both by Lucas and Gerstacker, and from 

 the figure published by the former, I hardly think that such is the 

 case — for the D. harhara is described as having its prothoracic disc, 

 as well as a mere postmedial " punctum " of its elytra, black. The 

 D. eclentata is remarkable for its very elliptic elytra (which are sud- 

 denly rounded-outwards at a short distance behind theii' base, and 

 thence regularly narrowed, or acute, to their apex), and for the ob- 

 scure (occasionally obsolete) darker dash which is placed so obliquely 

 on the hinder disc of either elytron as to unite at the suture (in highly 

 coloured examples) in somewhat the form of the letter V. It is rather 

 a common insect in certain localities in these islands — occurring gene- 

 rally beneath dry fallen leaves in sylvan and subsylvan spots, under 

 moss and rubbish at the base of old walls, and amongst dense herbage 

 in semicultivated grounds. I have taken it in Grand Canary, Tene- 

 riffe, and Palma. My Tenerifi'an examples are principally from above 

 Taganana, from Las Mercedes, Souzal, La Esperanza, the Agua Mansa, 

 and the vicinity of the Puerto Orotava. 



Fam. 62. ZOPHOSID^. 



Genus 258. ZOPHOSIS. 

 Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Lis. ii. 146 (1807). 



6G5. Zophosis 4-cariiiata. 



Z. oblongo-ovalis, subopaca, alutacea ; capite prothoraceque distincte 

 (epistomate dense et profunde) punctatis ; elytris ante apicem trun- 

 cate -desilientibus, parcius minutissime asperato-punctulatis (aut 

 fere granulatis),leviter malleato-ina^quaUbus, singulis costis duabus 

 elevatis (antice et praesertim postice evanescentibus), necnon tertia 

 versus suturam minus distincta et multo magis abbreviata, longi- 

 tudinaliter iustructis. — Long. corp. Hn. 2g. 



Zophosis 4-carinata, Deyrolle (in hoc opusculo citato), 

 Haliitat Teneriffam, a Barone " Castello de Paiva " communicata. 

 The present Zopliosis, which has been observed hitherto only in 

 Teneriffe, may readily be known by each of its elytra being furnished 

 with two very elevated longitudinal costae, and a third one (nearer to 



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