546 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



Teneriffe it was also found by Dr. Crotch. It occurs principally 

 beneath fallen leaves, and other vegetable refuse, at intermediate 

 elevations. My Fuerteventuran examples are chiefly fi-om the Rio 

 Palmas, the Grand-Canarian ones from the region of El Monte, and 

 the TenerifFan ones from the Agua Garcia, the Agua Mansa, and 

 Taganana. 



823. Homalota coriaria. 



Homalota sodalis, m>ll. [nee IJru'Ii., 1837], I»s. Mad. 554 (1854). 



coriaria (Miller), Kraatz, Nat. der Lis. Denfsch. ii. 282 (1856). 



, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 177 (1857). 



Hahitat insulas Canarienses, in Fuerteventura et Hierro solis hac- 

 tenus baud detecta. 



The somewhat broad outline and finely punctulated surface of the 

 H. coriaria, combined with its rather large head, its short and trans- 

 verse prothorax (which is very widely, though lightly, impressed in 

 the centre behind), its brownish elytra (M'hich are more or less ob- 

 scured, or blackened, towards either side and in the region of the 

 scutellum), its dusky-testaceous legs, and its extremely thickened an- 

 tennae, will readily distinguish it. It is common throughout Europe, 

 and abounds in Madeira ; and I have Uttle doubt that it is uni- 

 versal at the Canaries — Fuerteventxira and Hierro being the only 

 islands in which, hitherto, it does not happen to have been observed. 

 I have, however, myself taken it in Lanzarote, Grand Canary, Tene- 

 riffe, Gomera, and Palma ; and it was found in Teneriffe by Dr. Crotch. 

 It occurs beneath vegetable refuse generally — often within the putrid 

 stems of the dead Eujjhorbias (in which situations I have captured it 

 on the mountains above S'" Cruz in Teneriffe, as well as above San 

 Sebastian in Gomera). My Teneriffan examples are principally from 

 the Agua Mansa and Tcod el Alto. 



824. Homalota subcoriaria, n. sp. 

 H. coriaria; valde affinis, sed vix ejus varietas ; sensim minor et sub- 

 densius punctulata ; antennis paulo brevioribus, magis comi:»actis 

 (articulis inter se magis arete adj^ressis); prothorace vix angiistiore, 

 postice paulo magis rotundato (angulis posticis minus determinatis), 

 in disco postico canaliculato sed baud late impresso ; elytris vix 

 minoribus. — Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Gomeram, in Euphorhid canariensi quadam jjutrida supra 

 Sanctum Sebastianum semel tantum lecta. 



A single specimen of a Ho7nalota taken by myself in Gomera 

 (in company with the H. coriaria, putrescens, and canariensis), out 

 of some rotten EiqyJiorbia-stcms on the hills above San Sebastian, 

 seems to differ so decidedly from the coriaria (which nevertheless it 



