498 CANAKIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



naceous substances, in the villages and towns. Not having thought 

 it worth while to search in such localities, I do not happen to have 

 observed it except in Grand Canary and TeneriiFe ; but in all proba- 

 bility it will be found generally distributed. Teneriffan specimens 

 have been communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva and Dr. 

 Crotch. I have little doubt that it is the insect referred to in M. 

 Hartung's volume under the title of " Cryptims opatrokles " [inserted 

 without any cmtlwr-ity to the specific name !] ; but how, in a work 

 so recently published, it could possibly be assigned to Crypt'ums, with 

 which it has really nothing whatever in common, it is difficult to con- 

 jecture. Nevertheless I am the more satisfied that such is the case, 

 inasmuch as no Crypticus has ever been described under the name 

 of "ojjatroides"; nor, so far as I am aware, Juts any viember of that 

 genus been as yet detected in either Lanzarote or Fuerteventura. 



Genus 282. HYPOPHL(EUS. 

 Fabricius, Skrivt. af Natur. Schk. (1790). 



§ I. Oculi magm, superne valde eonspieui : clypeus a f route distincte 

 et rede separatus: elytra pygidio multo hi'eviora. 



745. Hypophlceus pini. 



H. cyhndrico-linearis, rufo-ferrugineus, subnitidus ; capite protho- 

 raceque sat dense punctulatis, ilHus clypeo ad latera vix elevate, 

 hoc convexo, clongato-subquadrato ; scutello parum magno ; ely- 

 tris punctulatis (nee striatis) ; antennis brevibixs, valde (prtesertim 

 in medio) incrassatis, fusiformibus, subperfoliatis ; pedibus robustis, 

 rufo-testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Hypophlceus pini, Panz., Fnn Ins. Germ. 67. 19. 



, Dufts., Fna Austr. ii. 310 (1812). 



, Re'dt, Fna Austr. 592 (1849). 



nocivus, WoIL, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 442 (1862). 



Habitat in pinetis Teneriffae et Palmae, arbores antiquas perforans. 



This large species, so well defined by its cylindi'ic outline, its 

 greatly developed eyes, its scarcely at all expanded, almost un- 

 recurved gense, its posteriorly-shortened, uniformly punctured, un- 

 striated elytra, and its immensely thickened, fusiform antennae, the 

 joiiits of which {for an HypopTdoeus) are rather loosely connected 

 together, or subpcrfoliated, docs not appear to be distinct from the 

 European H. pini ; though I inadvertently treated it as such in the 

 Paper above referred to. It seems, in these islands, to be confined 

 to the pine-trees of intermediate elevations, beneath the loose rotten 

 bark of which I have taken it at the Agua Mansa in Teneriffe, and 

 in the Barranco above 8'" Cruz of Palma. 



