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Genus 302. PHLCEOPORA. 

 Erichson, Kiif. der Mark Brand, i. 311 (1837). 



799. Phlceopora corticina, n. sp. 

 P. nigro-picea, subopaca ; prothorace quadi-ato, fuscesceiitiore ; ely- 

 tris rufo-testaceis, versus basin et latera plus minus infuscatis ; an- 

 tennis brevibus, incrassatis, ad basin pedibusque testaceis. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. 1:^1 1. 



Habitat in sylvaticis Teneriffae et Palmse, sub cortice arborura la tens. 



Somewhat intermediate between the European P. reptans and cor- 

 ticalis — agreeing more with the former in its size and colour, but 

 with the latter in its less transverse, subquadrate prothorax. When 

 viewed, however, beneath the microscope, it will be seen to be rather 

 more strongly and sparingly punctured than either of them, and to 

 have its antennae (if anything) even thicker still. As in the reptans, 

 its elytra are almost entii'ely rufo-testaceous (though perhaps a little 

 more infuscated towards the base and sides) ; but its prothorax is 

 generally of a paler tint, being for the most part only a shade darker 

 than the elytra. The P. corticina I have observed hitherto merely in 

 Teneriffe and Palma — where it is extremely local, occurring imder 

 the bark of trees within the sylvan districts of intermediate elevations. 

 In the former I have taken it in the laurel- woods above Taganana 

 and at the Agua Garcia, as well as from beneath the bark of a felled 

 Pinus canariensis at the Agua Mansa ; and in the latter in the Bar- 



ranco de Galga. 



Genus 303. TACHYUSA. 



Erichson, Kdf. der Mark Brand i. 307 (1837). 



800. Tachyusa raptoria. 



T. atra, nitida, minutissime et densissime punctulata, subtilissime pu- 

 bescens ; capite ovali, oculis magnis ; prothorace subquadrato, in- 

 tegro ; elytris apicem versiis paulo fuscescentioribus ; abdominc pos- 

 tice attenuate ; pedibus elongatis, femoribus tibiisque piccseentibus, 

 tarsis paUide testaceis, posticis longissimis. — Long. corp. lin. 11. 



Tachyusa raptoria, Wall., Lis. Mad. 542 (1854). 

 , Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 170 (1857). 



Habitat Palmam, Maio exeunte a.d, 1858 exemplar unum in Bar- 

 ranco de Galga coUegi. 



A single example of this insect, captured by myself in Palma (by 

 the edge of a small stream in the Barranco de Galga), is the only one 

 which I have as yet seen from the Canaries ; and it may therefore, 

 as in Madeira, be regarded as exceedingly rare. Its intensely black 

 hiie, elongated legs, and palKd feet (the hinder pair of which arc ex- 



