524 CAXARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



between the present insect and that one, despite their being so 

 widely removed from each other in affinity. Indeed, as there stated, 

 when found in company (as is frequently the case), it is not always 

 easy at first sight to define between them — as I have often expe- 

 rienced when collecting them (in Lanzarote) from beneath the refuse 

 lying upon the ground around the base of corn-stacks (a habitat 

 which is quite normal for an AntJiicus, though a very anomalous one 

 for a member of the Malaohiidce). Its more or less lurid-testaceous 

 hue (the head, the anterior portion of the prothorax, and the elytral 

 suture being alone, usually, more or less blackened) will at once 

 separate it from the other Anthici here enumerated ; nevertheless it 

 is extremely variable in colour, inasmuch as the entire prothorax and 

 elytra are sometimes pale, whilst at others, on the contrary, the whole 

 surface is a good deal infuscated. Its antennae are rather slenderer 

 at the base, and more incrassated towards the apex, than is the case 

 ■\\dth the Anthici generally (the terminal joint itself being often ap- 

 preciably enlarged) ; its elytra are of a softer, or less consistent, 

 texture ; and its punctation is so light and minute as to be almost 

 obsolete. 



The A. canariensis is doubtless universal throughout the Group : 

 indeed I have myself captured it in all the islands except Gomera 

 and Hierro, in the former of which it was taken by Dr. Crotch. In 

 Lanzarote, Fuerteventiu-a, and Teneriff'e it was found likewise by 

 Mr. Gray ; and it has been communicated from the last by the Barao 

 do Castello de Paiva. I even met with it on the Little island of Gra- 

 ciosa, ofi" the extreme north of Lanzarote. 



786. AntMcus scydmaBnoides, n. sp. 



A. fusco-piceus, subnitidus, pube subcinerea demissa tenui vestitus ; 

 capite magno, subrotundato, convexo ; prothorace brevi, postice 

 valde angustato et subconstricto-impresso ; elytris ellipticis postice 

 acutiusculis, conspicue punctatis, concoloribus ; antennis pedibus- 

 que gracihbus, illis fusco-, his pallido-testaecis. — Long. corp. lin. |. 



Habitat Teneriff'am, a W. D. Crotch semel re])ertus. 



The elliptical (or somewhat obovate, posteriorly acute) elytra and 

 brownish-piceous hue of this excessively minute Anthicus give it so 

 much the jyimu fucie appearance of a Scyclmcenus, that, before an 

 accurate examination, I had inadvertently referred it to that group. 

 Nevertheless the outline of its head and prothorax, as well as the 

 structure of its antennae, palpi, and feet, of course immediately re- 

 move it, on a closer inspection, from the Scifdmtenidce. Its head and 



