500 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



conspeeific with that insect. A more accurate comparison, however, 

 has satisfied me that, although nearly allied to the depressus, it is 

 truly distinct from it — being not only a little Hatter and more lightly 

 sculptured (the punctures of its prothorax and elytral stria3 being 

 likewise denser), but having its clypeus very perceptibly elevated not 

 merely in front of the eyes (as in that species) but also above and 

 behind them, on either side (so as more nearly to conceal them when 

 viewed from above). The line of separation between the clypeus and 

 opistome, which is pretty evident in its ally, is less traceable in the 

 suhdepressus ; and the latter has its antennae, perhaps, if anything, 

 even still shorter. 



Fam. 73. COSSYPHID^. 



Genus 283. COSSYPHUS. 

 Olivier, Md. iii. 44 bis (1795). 



748. Cossjrphus insularis. 



Cossyphus siculus, De/., Cot. 220 (1837). 



iusularis, Luporte, Hist, des Col. ii. 228 (1840?). 



, Brhne, Ess. sur les Cossyph. ii. 16. pi. 2. f. 2 (1846). 



Habitat Teneriffam, mihi non obvius. 



It is somewhat remarkable that I have not myself observed this 

 insect at the Canaries, and yet that I should have received Teneriffan 

 examples of it from no less than foiw different quarters, — namely, 

 the Barao do Castello de Paiva (out of an old, and accurate, collec- 

 tion which was formed in the island many years ago), Dr. Heer of 

 Ziu'ich (the specimens having been obtained by M. Hartmig), M, 

 DeyroUe of Paris, and Mr. A. Fry of London. They all agree per- 

 fectly, in every respect, and I have no doubt were captui'ed in the 

 same region (wheresoever it may have been), though, apparently, it 

 did not fall to my lot to visit it. The species does not seem to differ, 

 so far as I can detect, from the C. siculus of Dejean's Catalogue — a 

 type of which (captured by himself in Sicily) was given to me by the 

 late Mr. Melly of Liverpool. 



Fam. 74. TENEBRIONID^. 



Genus 284. TENEBRIO. 

 Linnaeus, Si/st. Nat. edit. 6 (1748). 



749. Tenebrio obscurus. 



Tenebrio obscurus, Fab., Ent. Si/st. i. Ill (1792). 

 _^ Steph., III. Brit. Erit. v. 8 (1832). 



