544 CANARTAN COLEOPTERA. 



820. Homalota canariensis. 



H. angusto-linearis, alutacoa, subopaca, minute et parce punctulata, 

 pubescens ; eapite nigro, fronte depressa, oculis magnis promi- 

 nentibus ; prothorace subquadrato, rufo-fusco, canalicidato ; ely- 

 tris fusco-testaceis, ad latera (prajsertim versus angulos posticos) 

 suffuse nigrescentibus ; abdominc fusco-testaceo, pone medium 

 nigrcscente, antice subconstricto ; antennis brevibus, crassis, arti- 

 culo prime magno, idtimo breviusculo, nigro-fuscis, ad basin pedi- 

 busque testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. l:j— 1 j. 



Homalota canariensis, Wall., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 184. pi. 7. f. 8 (1862). 



Habitat Teneriffam et Gomeram, in caulibus putridis Etiphorbice 

 canariensis bine inde parum vulgaris. 



The narrow outline, subopake alutaceous surface, basally-narrowed 

 abdomen, depressed forehead, and prominent eyes of this curious Ho- 

 malota, combined with its thick and abbreviated antennee (the first 

 joint of which is much enlarged, whilst the terminal one is compara- 

 tively short and oval), will at once distinguish it. Its colour, too, 

 is somewhat peculiar — the head and subapical abdominal segments 

 being black, whilst the prothorax is reddish brown, the elytra (which 

 are more or less darkened towards the outer posterior angles) and the 

 base of the abdomen are brownish testaceous, and the legs are ex- 

 tremely pale. I have observed it hitherto only in the putrid stalks 

 of the Eupliorhia canariensis — under which circumstances I took it 

 plentifully in Gomera, dui-ing February 1858, on a hiU-top to the 

 north-west of San Sebastian ; and subsequently, in similar situa- 

 tions, on the mountains above S'-' Cruz of Teneriffe, in the direction 

 of El Campo and Laguna. In Teneriffe it was captured likewise by 



Dr. Crotch. 



821. Homalota vagepunctata. 



//. nitidissima, parce sed grosse pubescens, parcissime punctata (nuUo 

 mode alutacea) , nigra prothorace ely trisque castaneo-fuscescentibus 

 (his interdum etiam subtestaceo-tinctis) ; eapite parvo, rotundato ; 

 prothorace transverse, convexo, postice rotundato, obsoletissime 

 canaliculate ; antennis gracihbus, ad basin pedibusque saturate 

 testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. 1-1^. 



Homalota vagepimctata, Woll., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loncl. 187 (1862). 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, praesertim iUam, inter 

 Euphorbias praecipue degens. 



The exceedingly shining and very sparingly punctured surface of 

 this Homalota, in conjunction with its small, rounded head and slender 

 antennae, its coarse but distant pubescence, its convex, dark-brown, 

 basally-rounded prothorax, and its more or less castaneous elytra, will 



