526 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



of the suture) slightly darkened. Its head, however, would appear 

 to be sometimes a little infuscated. I have seen hitherto but three 

 examples of it, which were taken by myself at a high elevation in 

 the island of Palma — in the same locality as (and indeed in com- 

 pany with) the Ochthenomus senilis, described above. 



§ II. Corpus ovatum. Antennce {in utroque sexu) hreviores, haud ser- 

 ratce, articulis intertnediis hrevihus, inter se subcequalibus. Ocidi mi- 

 nores, in utroque se.vu distantes. Pedes hreviores. (Phytobtenus, 

 Sahlh.) 



789. Xylophilus pallescens. 



X. testaceus, dense sed minutissime punctulatus (capite fere impunc- 

 tato), pube subtilissima brevissima valde demissa cinereo-fulves- 

 cente densissime vestitus (quasi sericatus) ; capite subtriangulari ; 

 prothorace transverso-quadrato, antiee vix latiore, ad latera versus 

 angulos posticos argute obtusiusculos oblique subtruncato, basi in- 

 tra angulos minute foveolato ; elytris ovalibus, subconvexis, conco- 

 loribus, basi conjunctim trisinuatis. — Long. cori>. lin. vix 1. 



Xylophilus pallescens, Wall, Ins. 3Ind. 538. tab. xiii. f. 3 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 167 (1857). 



Habitat TenerifFam, in collibus mox suj^ra Sanctam Crucem lectus. 



A single example of this insect, which occurs, not uncommonly, 

 beneath vegetable refiise around Funehal in Madeira, was taken by 

 myself on the ascent of the mountains immediately behind S'" Cruz 

 of Teneriffe — in the direction of El Campo and the Las Mercedes 

 range. 



Fam. 80. SCYDM.ffiNID^. 



Genus 296. SCYDM^NUS. 

 Latreille, Gen. Crust, ct Ins. i. 232 (1806). 



790. Scydmsenus tarsatus. 



S. piceo-niger, nitidissimus, fere impunctatus, parce sed grosse ful- 

 vescenti-cinereo-pubescens ; prothorace ad basin foveolis quatuor 

 punetiformibus notato ; elytris ovalibus, apice pygidio brevioribus, 

 basi hneolis duabus impressis ; antennis pedibusque crassis, paUide 

 rufo-ferrugineis, tarsis anticis dilatatis.— Long. corp. lin. 1^. 



Scydmjfinus tarsatus, Kimze, 3Ion. Snjd. 11. f. 3 (1823). 



— , Benny, Mon. Pselaph. et Sa/d. 57 (1825). 



, Steph., Ill Brit. Ent. v. 80 (1832). 



Habitat TenerifFam, a W. D. Crotch nuper repertus. 



Six examples of the European S. tarsatus were taken by Dr. Crotch 

 in Teneriffe, during the spring of 1862. They seem to accord pre- 

 cisely with the ordinary type — the species being well distinguished 



