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posticis subrotundatis, obtusis (nuUo modo prodiictis), et intra aii- 

 gulos subintegro (I'arius irapresso) ; elytris paulo argutius striato- 

 punctatis ; pedibus sensim brevioribus, tibiis aiiticis vix robusti- 

 oribus ac magis cnrvatis. 

 Tar. /3. Elytris levius striato-punctatis. [Im. Hierro.] — Long. corp. 

 lin. 2|-2i. 



Habitat in Teneriffa et Hierro, in locis similibus ac prajcedens. 



This species has much the same range as the C. canariensis — 

 occurring, like it, in the intermediate and lofty altitudes of TenerifFe 

 and Hierro. In the former (where it was found also by M. Hartung, 

 and whence it has been communicated by the Barao do Castello de 

 Paiva) I have taken it abundantly at the Agua Mansa and above 

 Ycod el Alto, and more sparingly on the elevated Cumbre overlooking 

 the Caiiadas ; whilst in the latter it was captured by Mr. Gray and 

 myself near Valverde, and by myself on the grassy summit of the 

 island above the sylvan region of El Golfo. It may at once be known 

 from the C. canariensis by its smaller size and strictly oblong outline ; 

 by its surface being nearly free from any traces of pubescence, even 

 when viewed under the highest magnifying power ; by its punctation 

 being finer, and (especially on the elytra) more remote ; by its pro- 

 thorax (which is visually unimpressed within the basal angles) being 

 rounder at the sides, with the hinder angles more obtuse and totally 

 unproduced ; by its elytra being rather more sharply stiiate-punctate ; 

 and by its legs being a little shorter, with their anterior tibiae just 

 perceptibly robuster and more curved. The examples from Hierro 

 differ from the Teneriffan ones, merely, in having their elytra less 

 coarsely striate-punctate. 



726. Crypticus minutus. 



C affinis C. oblongo, sed minor, angustior, sensim (prajsertim in pro- 

 thorace) nitidior ; prothoraee convexiore, ad latera magis rotundato, 

 angulis posticis rotundatioribus, profundius densiusque punetato 

 (punctis versus latera plus minus longitudinaliter subconfluen- 

 tibus) ; elytris vix densius distinctiusque punctulatis, sed multo 

 levius (sc. obsolete) subpunctato-striatis ; pedibus vix brevioribus 

 et subgracilioribus. — Long. corp. lin. If. 



Crypticus minutus, Bntlle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 69 (1838). 

 Habitat in intermediis et elevatis Canarise Grandis, rarissimus. 

 Two specimens only of this minute Crypticus (with the exception of 

 M. Brulle's type, which I examined when in Paris) have as yet come 

 beneath my notice. They were captured by myself, during the spring 

 of 1858, in Grand Canary — one of them in the district of El Monte ; 

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