480 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



of the hajida for inspection ; nevertheless I am informed by Schaum, 

 who compared accurately the Canarian insect with King's type in 

 the Royal Museum at Berlin, that it is certainly distinct from the 

 latter*. "Whether the same peculiarity of the scutellum exists in its 

 Egyptian ally I cannot say, as I omitted to draw the attention of 

 Schaixm to that particular feature. 



The P. auriculata is more oblong and shining than the gmnuUcollis, 

 its surface being comparativeli/ unsciilptured ; its prothorax is a little 

 wider and more convex, and, although with tubercles on either side, 

 perfectly free from the minute granules which so densely crowd the 

 pronotum of that insect ; and its elytra are less malleated (or mi- 

 nutely roughened), though there are indications of a few large, but 

 faint, transverse impressions towards the suture, most sparingly 

 studded with a few very diminutive asperated granides (which become 

 rather coarser towards the sides), and have their sublateral costa well 

 developed, and composed of large but usiially very remote tubercles, 

 whilst the discal one is either very indistinct and subserrated, or else, 

 lihe the subsutm'al one, obsolete. It appears, like the P. granuHcollis, 

 to be peculiar to Grand Canary, though very much more common 

 and widely distributed over the island. Indeed it would seem to be 

 nearly universal, since I have taken it around Las Palmas (in the 

 extreme north), in the central disti'ict of Tarajana, and near Mas- 

 palomas (in the south). It varies a little, according to the region in 

 which it is found. 



Fam. 67. CONIONTID^. 



Genus 268. CRYPTICUS. 

 Latreille, Begn. An. (t^dit. i.) iii. 298 (1817). 



722. Crypticus punctatissimus, n. sp. 



C. obovato-ellipticus, subnitidus, densissime et distincte punctidatus, 

 minute fulvo-pubescens ; prothorace subconvexo, postice utrinque 

 necnon intra angulos posticos obsolete impresso, angulis posticis 

 acutiusculis, productis ; elytris postice acutiusculis, parum di- 

 stincte striato-punctatis ; antennis, palpis pedibusque rafo-ferru- 

 gineis. — Long. corp. lin. 3-3|. 



Habitat Palmam, in lauretis parum elevatis sub foUis prolapsis 



degens. 



This large Criipticus I have observed hitherto only in Palma, where 



* "Your P/mel/a" says Schaum, "is quite distinct from (though allied to) 

 the bajida, Oliv., Klug. The external part of the elytra is much more scabrous 

 in the true hajulo, though without that conspicuous row of tubercles so remark- 

 able in your insect." 



