556 CANARIAN COLEOPXERA. 



example, taken b;y himself in Gomcra, has been communicated by 

 Dr. Crotch. It is found likewise in Madeira. 



(Bubfam. II. TACHYPORIDES.) 



Genus 309. CONOSOMA. 

 Kraatz, Nat. der 7«.s. Dctdsch. ii. 431 (1856). 



842. Conosoma pubescens. 



Stapliylinus pubescens, Payh., Mon. Carab. App. 138 (1790). 

 Couurus pubescens, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 221 (1839). 



, Woll., Im. Mad. 565 (1854). 



Conosoma pubescens, Kraatz, Nat. der Lis. Deutsch. ii. 435 (1856). 

 Conurus pubescens, Woll, Cat. Had. Col 184 (1857). 



Hahitat Palmam; Junio ineunte a.d. 1858 specimina sex sub cor- 

 tice arboris cujusdara laxo in montibus supra Sanctam Crucem cepi. 



The only Cananan specimens which I have seen of this common 

 European insect (which occurs sparingly at jNIadeira) arc six which 

 were captured by myself, at the beginning of June 1858, in the island 

 of Palma — from beneath the loosened bark of an old tree high up in 

 the Barranco above 8^" Cruz. 



843. Conosoma lividum. 



Conurus lividus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 229 (1839). 

 Conosoma lividum, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Dentsch. ii. 4.36 (1856). 



Hahitat insulas Canarienses, in Hierro sola adhuc baud observatum. 



In a long array of specimens of this variable insect, now before me, 

 I can detect no character to warrant the suspicion that they are dis- 

 tinct from the European C lividum, — though, if anything, their an- 

 .tenna^ are perhaps a trifle longer. One or two darker examples 

 might almost pass for the fusndum of Erichson ; but I cannot per- 

 ceive in them any difference except that of colour (which is essen- 

 tially variable in the C. lividum), and I therefore think it would be 

 imsafe to admit an additional species into the fauna on such evi- 

 dence. Indeed the paler and darker individuals were taken in com- 

 pany, and I am quite satisfied that they are all of them conspecific. 

 It occurs principallj', beneath vegetable refuse, in sylvan and sub- 

 sylvan spots of intermediate elevations ; and there can be little doubt 

 that it is universal throughout the archipelago — Hierro being the only 

 island of the seven in which hitherto it does not happen to have been 

 observed. I have myself captured it in Lanzarote, in the Rio Palmas 

 of Fuerteventura, in the region of El Monte in Grand Canaiy, at the 

 Agua Mansa and on the mountains above 8'''' Cruz in Teneriffc, as 



