CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



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it seems to be universal in the laurel-districts of intermediate and 

 lofty elevations. In such situations I have taken it, from beneath 

 stones and fallen leaves, on the ascent to the Cumbre above Buena- 

 vista, as well as high up in the Barrancos of Agua and Galga ; 

 and it was also met with in Palma by Dr. Crotch. Two specimens 

 have indeed been communicated by Prof. Heer as coming from Tene- 

 riffe; but as M. Hartung, who obtained them, visited Palma, and 

 since I have already had occasion to notice the excessive inaccuracy 

 of many of his habitats, I have no doubt whatsoever that these 

 examples are in reality Palman ones. The C. punctatissimus may 

 be known by its large size and distinctly punctulated surface, and by 

 its elytra being very evidently striate-punctate. Like the following 

 species, it is minutely pubescent and navicular in outline; never- 

 theless it is, relatively, not qtiite so much widened at the junction of 

 its prothorax and elytra as that insect. 



723, Crypticus navicularis. 



C. eUipticus (antice et postice magis aequaliter aeutus), subopacus, 

 dcnsissime sed minus distincte punctulatus, minute fulvo-pubes- 

 cens ; prothorace postice utrinque necnon intra angulos posticos 

 obsolete impresso, angulis posticis acutis, productis ; elytris postice 

 acutis, obsolete substriato-subpunctatis ; antennis, palpis pedibus- 

 que rufo-ferrugineis. — Long. Corp. lin. Sg. 



Crypticus? navicularis, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 69 (1838). 

 Habitat Teneriffam, in locis simiUbus ac praecedens, supra Taga- 

 nanam captus. 



This Crypticus is closely allied to the preceding one, of which it 

 may be regarded as the TenerifPan representative. It differs from it 

 in being a little more regularly elliptic (or a trifle more equally attenu- 

 ated before and behind) ; in its surface being rather more opake, and 

 its punctation finer ; in its prothorax (which is less convex) having 

 the basal angles (although as much produced) perceptibly acuter, or 

 at all events more sharply defined ; and in its elytral striae being 

 both fainter and less decidedly punctured. Its posterior tibiae are 

 perhaps, if anjrthing, somewhat more inwardly-curved. It inhabits 

 precisely similar districts as the last species, only in Teneriffe instead 

 of Palma. It would appear, however, to be scarce, the only specimens 

 which I have captured being from the laurel- woods above Taganana. 

 I compared them accurately, when in Paris, with M. Brulle's types, 

 with which they seemed to agree entirely. 



724. Crypticus canariensis, n. sp. 



C. praecedenti similis, sed minor, oblongior (i. e, sensim angustior ac 



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