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the Agua Mansa and on the Cumbre above it (upwards of 8000 feet 

 above the sea) ; and a single Teneriffan specimen is now before me 

 which was captui'ed by Dr. Crotch. It appears to be, on the average, 

 slightly larger and narrower than the H. terricola, rather more 

 coarsely pubescent, and more concolorous (its general surface being 

 of a somewhat browner black, whilst its elytra, on the contrary, are 

 darker or less diluted in hue); its head and prothorax are relatively 

 a little smaller ; its punctation, particularly on the elytra, is a trifle 

 denser ; and its antennae are appreciably slenderer and darker. 



829. Homalota melanaria. 



Aleochara melanaria, Sahib., Ins. Fcnn. i. 398 (1834). 

 Jlonialota lividipeunis, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 129 (1839). 



, Woll, Ins. 3Iad. 557 (1854). 



, Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 179 (1857). 



Habitat insulas omncs Canarienses, in stercorc bovino et equine 

 vulgaris. 



This common European insect, which abounds in the Madeiran 

 Group, and which is so well distinguished by its posteriorly acute 

 outline, its large and wide prothorax, its testaceous elytra (which are 

 more or less infuscated in the region of the scutellum and at the sides), 

 and its long, robust, brownish antennae, is universal throughout the 

 archipelago, in all the islands of which except Gomera (where it was 

 found by Dr. Crotch) I have myself captured it. In Fuerteventiira, 

 Teneriife, and Palma it was met with likewise by Mr. Gray. It 

 occurs principally in the dung of cattle, and is independent of eleva- 

 tion ; for in Teneriffe I have taken it from the level of the shore, at 

 S'" Cruz and the Puerto Orotava, to the Cumbre adjoining the Caiiadaa 

 (upwards of 8000 feet above the sea). 



Genus 306. OXYPODA. 

 Mannerheira, Brachel. 69 (1831). 



830. Oxypoda exoleta. 



O.rufo-forruginea,subopaca, dense sericeo-pubescens, dense et minute 

 punctulata ; capite abdominisque segmentis intermediis, necnon 

 elytris'(sed obscurius ac magis suffuse) versus angulos externos et 

 in regione scuteliari, plus minus nigrescentioribus ; an tennis fuscis 

 (articulo ultimo crassiusculo), ad basin pedibusque testaceis. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. l-lj. 



Oxypoda exoleta, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 149 (1839). 



, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deidsch. ii. 179 (1856). 



luiida, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 179 (1857). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, Canaria, Teneriffa, Palma et Hierro, rarior. 



