CANAKIAN COLEOPTERA. 551 



above Taganana and on the summit of the Las Mercedes range in 

 Teneriffe ; and a single example is now before me which was captured 

 by Dr. Crotch in Gomera — I believe, above Hermigua. 



832. Oxypoda sethiops, n. sp. 



0. atra, nitida, parce pubescens, minus dense ac profundius subas- 

 perato-punctata ; capite subrotundato, convexo ; elytris convexis ; 

 antennis pedibusque concoloribus.— Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Palmam, in " Barranco da Agua " semel reperta. 



The intensely black hue of this small Ox>jpoda, combined with its 

 shining, less pubescent, rather deeply and less densely punctured 

 surface, will readily separate it from the two preceding species. 

 Hitherto I have seen but a single example of it, which was taken by 

 myself in the Barranco da Agua of Palma. 



Genus 307. ALEOCHARA. 



Gravenhorst, Col. Micropt. 67 (1802). 



833. Aleochara puberula. 



Aleocliara puberula, Klufi, Col. Madagasc. 51 (1838). 



, Erich.^ Gen. et Spec. Staph. 165 (1839). 



Armitagei, Woll, Ins. 3fad. 559 (1854). 



puberula, Id., Cat. 3Iad. Col. 180 (1857). 



Habitat Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram, Canariam, Teneriffam et 

 Gomeram, sub quisquiliis necnon in stercore bovine, equine, camelino 

 degens. 



The fusiform outline and closely punctured, densely fulvo-pubescent 

 surface of this beautiful Aleochara, combined with the suffused, red, 

 oblique dash on each of its elytra, and the paleness of its legs, as well 

 as of the base and apex of its antennae, will at once distinguish it. 

 It is probably universal throughout the archipelago, though I have 

 myself observed it only in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, 

 and Teneriffe ; but it was captured in Gomera both by Mr. Gray and 

 Dr. Crotch (the former of whom found it likewise in Fuerteventura, 

 and the latter in Teneriffe). My Fuerteventuran specimens were 

 taken from beneath camels' dung in the Eio Palmas, and the Tene- 

 riffan ones from the mountains above S''' Cruz. It occurs in the south 

 of Europe, and is not uncommon in the Madeiran Group. 



834. Aleochara crassinscula. 



Aleochara crassiiiscida, Sahib., Ins. Fenn. i. 396 (1834). 



fiiscipes ?, ^n///f' [nee Grav.^inWebb et Berth. {Col.) 60 (1838). 



■ tristis, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 162 (1839). 



, Woll, Ins. Mad 560 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 181 (1857). 



