.630 " CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



Fam. 82. STAPHYLINID^. 



(Subfam. I. ALE0CHARIDE8.) 



Genus 299. FALAGRIA. 

 (Leach) Mannerheim, Brachel 86 (1831). 



795. Falagria obscura. 



Aleocbara obscura, Gruv., Col. Micrcqjt. 74 (1802), 

 Falagria obscm-a, Mann., Brachel. 87 (1831). 



, Woll, Lis. Mad. 541 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 169 (1857). 



Habitat insulas Canarienses, in Lanzarota et Hierro hactenus baud 

 deteeta. 



This common European insect (which abounds in Madeira and 

 Porto Santo) is widely spread over the Canarian Group, where it is 

 doubtless universal — though hitherto it does not happen to have been 

 observed in either Lanzarote or Hierro. But in Fuerteventui'a, Grand 

 Canary, TenerifFe, and Palma I have myself taken it ; and in Gomera 

 it was found by Dr. Crotch. In Pahna it was likewise met with by 

 Mr. Gray. It occurs piincipaUy at rather low elevations, but does 

 not appear to be anywhere abundant. 



Genus 300. ECHIDNOGLOSSA (nov. gen.). 



Corpus angustum ; capite rotundato, per coUum angustum prothoraci 

 connexo ; eh/iris brevissimis ; abdomine basi valde constricto. Ayi- 

 tennce articulis l*"", 2^^" et 3''** reHquis longioribus. Lahrnm trans- 

 versum, aritice rotundatum subintegrum (obsolete trilobatum). 

 Mandibulce elongatae, basi subrectae, apice incurva^ acutissime, in- 

 tus pone apicem usque ad basin membrana angustissima tenuissima 

 (aegerrime observanda) minute ciliata auctae necnon in una denti- 

 culo minutissimo pone medium armatse. Maxillce lobo extenio basi 

 apiceque membranaceo, apice pubescente ; intenio vix breviore, in- 

 tus membranaceo spinulisque elongatis omnino ciliato. Palpi lon- 

 gissimi ; maxilla re.'i articulis 2^° et 3"" elongatis clavatis (hoc cras- 

 siore), 4'° tenui aciculari ; lahiales 3-articulati, articulis inter se 

 longitudine subaequaUbus, latitudine decrescentibus (3'"* tenui cy- 

 lindrico). Mentum transversum, apice late sed leviter emargina- 

 tum. Ligula antice in medio longissima, angustissima, parallela, 

 membranacea, summo apice minutissime bifida ; j)('^'(f9^ossis nuUis. 

 Tarsis omnibus certe 5-articulatis, posticis articulis quatuor basa- 

 libus gradatim paulo decrescentibus. 

 Ab e'xtSva, vipera, et yXuirTaa, ligula. 



In its round but excessively pedunculated head (which is joined to 

 the thorax by an extremely narrow neck), as well as in its peculiar 

 outline, greatly abbreviated, subconvex elytra, and basaUy-constricted 



