492 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



to the mountains of Grand Canary, where it occurs, beneath stones 

 and under refuse, at a rather high elevation. In such spots I took it, 

 not uncommonly, during April 1858, on the ascent to the Pinal above 

 San Bartolome, in the central regiqn of Tarajana. I compared it 

 carefully, when in Paris, with M. Brulle's Phylax costatus, with which 

 it agreed precisely. 



§ II. Antennce paulo hrevlores, art" 3''° longiusculo. 



736. Melansis angulata, n. sp. 



M. praecedenti simihs, sed minor, angustior, subovatior, colore plus 

 minus evidenter piceseentiore ; capite jirothoraceque paulo minus 

 opacis et vix minus dense rugoseque sculp turatis, hoc sensim lon- 

 giore, angulis anticis acutioribus, ad latcra minus explanato necnon 

 ante angulos posticos (sensim exstantioribus) magis excavato ; ely- 

 tris vix convexioribus ; tarsis brevioribus. — Long. corp. lin. 2\-2^. 



Habitat Palmam, sub lapidibus in intermediis, rarissima. 



Distinguished from the preceding species by, inter alia, its smaller 

 size, narrower and rather less parallel outline, and less intensely black 

 hue (the limbs being considerably more rufescent) ; by its head and 

 prothorax being less opake, and rather less densely and coarsely sculp- 

 tured ; by the latter being relatively longer (or less transverse) , less 

 flattened-out at the sides, with the anterior angles more porrect and 

 acute, and the posterior ones more prominent (occasioned by the sides 

 being more excavated immediately in front of them) ; by its elytra 

 being somewhat less depressed ; and by its antennae and feet being a 

 little shorter. It seems to be excessively rare, and confined to Palma 

 — where, during June 1858, I captured about twenty examples of 

 it, from beneath stones, high up in the Barranco above S'" Cruz. 



Fam. 70. TRACHYSCELIDiE. 



Genus 275. PSEUDANEMIA (nov. gen.). 



Corpus et instrumenta cibaria fere ut in Anemia, sed illud minus, in 

 limbo calvum (nee ciliatum) ; capite minore ; prothorace brevissimo, 

 transverso, angulis posticis nullis, omnino rotundatis ; oculorum 

 parte siiperiore minore, valde demissa ; palpis etiam labialihis (ut 

 maxillaribus) longissimis ; necnon antennis certe 10- (nee 11-) ar- 

 ticulatis — art" 1'"° parum elongato, ad basin gracili subflexuoso, 

 apicem versus clavato, 2*^" breviore sed vix graciUore, 3"", 4'°, 5'" 

 et 6*° minutis brevibus suba3qualibus, reliquis clavam elongatam 

 abruptam 4-articulatam efiicientibus. 

 A iljev^os, mendacium, et Anemia. 

 Until examining recently, with great care, the unique beetle from 



