466 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



This Gfnopliota I have observed hitherto only in the central and 

 southern districts of Grand Canary — from the region of Tarajana to 

 Maspalomas and Arguinigiiin ; and although it possesses the generic 

 peculiarity of sculpture, of its head and prothorax, which is perhaps 

 even still more strongly expressed in the two following species, it may 

 nevertheless be known from them by being, on the average, larger 

 and less shining ; by its prothorax being a little less transverse, not 

 quite so rounded at the sides and hinder angles, and more bisinuated 

 along its basal edge ; by its elytra, which are either simple or very 

 obsoletely substriate, being much more minutely punctulated ; and 

 by its limbs being longer — its antennal joints, particularly the third 

 one, being conspicuously more elongated. Its eyes are a little larger 

 and more transverse (or reniform) than those of the 0.])unetipennis, 

 being less evidently terminated behind by a slightly elevated rim, or 

 keel. 



704. Gnophota insequalis, n. sp. 



G. inter cribricoJleni et 2}i'''i('^>2^('nnein aliquo modo sita, sed in oculis 

 hand conspicue carinato-terminatis cum ilia melius congruens ; 

 capite j)rothoraceque (ut in punctipcnni) densissime et valde pro- 

 fimde strigoso-punctatis, sed hoc ad latera paulo magis rotundato, 

 angulis posticis rotundatioribus ; elytris subovatis (versus humeros 

 sensim angustatis), subdeprcssis, grosse impresso-insequalibus, ar- 

 gute sed parce punctulatis necnon obsoletissime (valde inconspicue) 

 submetaUico-tinctis ; antennarum articulo 3"° quarto parum lon- 

 giore. — Long. corp. hn. 2-1-. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, tempore vernali a.d. 1858 detecta. 



Three examples only of this Onopliota, which were captured by 

 myself in Grand Canary (I have no note as to the precise spot), are, 

 unfortunately, all that I possess to judge from ; nevertheless, though 

 to a certain extent intermediate between the crihicollis and puncti- 

 pemiis, I do not think that they can be regarded as a phasis of either 

 of them. In the structure of their eyes, which are but very obscui'ely 

 bounded behind by an oblique rim, as well as in their comparatively 

 distinct scuteUum, they have more in common with the former of 

 those insects ; whilst in their very densely and roughly sculptured 

 head and prothorax, rather bright siu'face, and apparently smallish 

 size they agree better with the latter— though the sides and hinder 

 angles of their prothorax are still more rounded than is the case in 

 that species. In their sharply punctured elytra, as well as in the 

 length of their limbs, they are intermediate between the two ; but 

 in the outline of their elytra, which are perceptibly narrowed, or 

 di'awn in, at the shoulders, and which have a barely traceable sub- 



