448 CANARIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



being comparatively elongated and acute, and the apical one of them 

 somewhat curved, is a structure which appears to be more particularly 

 indicative of the sand-burrowinrj species, which reside near the coast. 



Fam. 64. TENTYRIAD^. 



Genus 260. TENTYRIA. 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. dcs Crust, d L>s. x. 270 (1804), 



684. Tentyria interrupta. 

 Tentpia interrupta [Latr. ?], Bndle,in Webb ct Bcrth.{Col.) GG (1838). 



Habitat ? 



I know nothing of this insect, except that I examined it hastily 

 whilst in Paris, and that it is unquestionably distinct both from the 

 T. elongata and the Pa'ivcea hispida. As M. Brulle vouchsafes neither 

 a description of it nor its habitat, I am of course perfectly unable to 

 say even in what island it was found. Indeed his short notice of it 

 is about as vague and unsatisfactory as it is well possible to be in a 

 published Fauna ; for he did not seem to have made up his mind 

 whether it should be referred to the hiternipta of Latreille, or the 

 maroccana, or whether it is distinct from both of them ; and, more- 

 over, his tijpe is likewise labelled with the name of " marginicoUis " ! 

 Instead of inserting a diagnosis, by which at all events the species 

 might be recognized, the following is his elaborate account of it : — 

 " Tentyria inteerupta, Latr,, ou Maroccana. Du midi do la France 

 et du nord de I'Afi'ique. Les individus que nous avons sous les yeux 

 ne se rapportent exactement ni a I'une ni a I'autre de ces especes, et 

 ne scmblent cepcndant pas devoir constituer une cspece nouvelle. 

 Peut-etre sont-ils le lien qui doit rcimir les deux autres? " Consi- 

 dering the great liability of certain Coleoptera to become accidentally 

 imported in trading vessels from the African coast, I feel a slight hesi- 

 tation in admitting this Tentyria into the Catalogue at all. 



(Subgenus Eulipus, WoU.) 

 Corpus angustum, gracile, sat profunde punctatum ; ocidis magnis, 

 prominentibus, regulariter reniformibus (infra vix angustatis); an- 

 tennis pedibusc^Q longissimis, gracilibus, wn^mcwZis valde elongatis. 



685, Tentyria elongata. 

 T. gracilis, angusta, atra, nitida ; capite prothoraceque (illo sat den- 

 sius) punctatis, iUius epistomate obtuse rotundato producto, hoc 

 convexo postice gradatim angustiore, angulis posticis acutis sed 

 argute determinatis necnon ad latera et basin grosse marginato ; 

 elytris cllipticis postice acuminatis, profunde et sat parce pimctatis. 



