464 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



sculpture just referred to is very much less expressed, whilst at the 

 same time their more mucronated epistome and the fact of their 

 prosternal lobe being Jiorizontal (or not curved downwards between 

 the anterior coxce) wUl certainly remove them from OnopJiota. 



The T. fuscipes is common in Lanzarote and Fucrteventura, where 

 it occurs beneath stones at intermediate elevations. Around Haria, 

 in the north of the former, it was taken abundantly by Mr. Gray and 

 myself diiring January 1858 ; and it was likewise captured in the 

 same island by M. Hartung. It may be known by its small size, 

 oblong outline, and but very slightly shining (often nearly opake) 

 surface, which is densely punctulated all over and of a less intense 

 black than in the allied forms — having sometimes a just perceptibly 

 brownish, or subpicescent, tinge : its prothorax has the hinder angles 

 slightly obtuse ; and its limbs are piceous. The Fuerteventuran 

 examples have their head and prothorax a trifle more coarsely and 

 densely punctured than the Lanzarotan ones ; and, judging from M. 

 BruUe's type, which I examined accurately when in Paris, the species 

 was founded on a very small individual from Fucrteventura. 



702. ThalpopMla submetallica, n. sp. 



T. pra3cedenti similis, sed minor, brevier, sensim nitidior, punctura 

 fortiore, elytris obsolete submetallicis ; capite prothoraceque parum 

 densius rvigosiusque punctatis, punctis versus latera longitudina- 

 liter magis confluentibus, hoe ad latera et ad angulos posticos paulo 

 magis rotundato ; elytris vix parcius punctulatis, per basin sub- 

 rectius truncatis ; antennis pedibusque paulo clarius rufo-piceis. 



Variat in Fucrteventura sensim minus nitida. — Long. corp. lin. I2-2. 



Habitat LanzarotametFuerteventuram.unacum praecedente degens. 



This is the smallest of the Thalpophllce, and one which occurs in 

 company with the T. fuscipes, both in Lanzarote and Fucrteventura 

 (where it was likewise taken by Mr. Gray, and in the latter by M. 

 Hartung). At first sight it might almost be confounded with its ally ; 

 but, apart from its smaller size, it will be seen, when carefully inspected, 

 to be more shining, and to have its elytra obscurely submetallic. Its 

 head and prothorax are more densely and roughly sculptured, the 

 punctures towards either side having a more evident tendency to be- 

 come oblong and longitiidinally confluent ; the sides and hinder angles 

 of the latter are more decidedly rounded ; its elytra are somewhat 

 more straighthj truncate (or less bisinuated) at their base, and, if any - 

 thinri, more sparingly and sharply pimctured ; and its limbs are gene- 

 rally of a clearer hue. The Fuerteventuran examples are usually a 

 trifle less shining than the Lanzarotan ones. 



