522 CANAfilAN COLEOPTERA. 



antennis pedibusque infiiscato-testaceis, illarum artieiilo ultimo 

 horumque femoribus plus minus picescentibus. — Long. corp. lin. 



Habitat Teneriffam, inter lapillos per marginem paludis cujusdam 

 parvse in " Barranco Santo " props Sanctam Criicem lectus. 



Readily known by its small size, dark hue, thickly and (especially 

 on the elytra) deeply punctured surface (which is rather densely 

 clothed with a robust, decumbent, silvery pile), by its square head, 

 and by its elytra (which are rectangular at the shoulders) being 

 each of them ornamented immediately behind the base with an ex- 

 ceedingly oblique and very obscure (occasionally but just traceable) 

 paler fascia. Its hmbs are brownish-testaceous, with the apical 

 joint of the antennae, and the femora, more or less picescent. The 

 only spot in Avhich I have observed it is at the extreme head of the 

 Barranco Santo (close to S*'' Cruz) in Teneriife — where, in June 

 1858, I captured it in profusion amongst wet shingle at the edges 

 of a small stagnant pool, in company with the Perilejjtus 7iigritulus 

 and several minute members of the StaphyUnidce. 



783. Anthicus angustatus. 



A. praecedenti prima facie similis, scd opacior, punctura multo le- 

 \T.ore ; capite prothoracoque (sensim longiore) rufescentioribus (sc. 

 rufo-piceis) ; elytris multo magis ovalibus (ad humeros rotun- 

 datis, nee rectis), nigris, immaculatis ; antennis pedibusque om- 

 nino piceo-testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. 1^. 



Anthicus angustatus, Curt., Brit. Ent. fo. 714. 

 ^ Stej^h., Man. 342 (1839). 



Habitat Fuerteventiu'am, a Dom. Gray semel tantum repertus. 



Of this little Anthicus I have seen but a single Canarian individual, 

 which was taken by Mr. Gray in Fuerteventura, and which does not 

 appear to differ appreciably (so far as I can detect) from the British 

 A. angustatus. In its small size, general colouring, robust, silvery 

 pubescence, and squarish head it has somewhat the prima facie 

 aspect of the lapidosus ; nevertheless, when viewed more closelj'', it 

 will be seen to be totally distinct. Thus, it is more opake and with 

 its pmictation much lighter ; its head and prothorax (the latter of 

 which is a little longer) are rufo-piceous instead of black ; its elytra 

 are much more oval (or considerably rounder at the shoulders), 

 black, and immaculate ; and its limbs are uniformly piceo-testa- 

 ceous. 



784. Anthicus guttifer, n. sp. 



A. subnitidus, nigcr, pube fiJvo-cinerea demissa parce vestitus, 



