562 CATfARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



paraglossae, and its simple anterior feet* — it is quite normal for Eu- 

 ryporus. Its head is the only part of its body which seems to be 

 quite black, — the prothorax and elytra being of a dark rufo-piceous 

 brown, and the abdomen (which is most deeply punctured on either 

 side and has a rather conspicuous metallic lustre) being still more 

 diluted or ferruginous. The example described from was taken by 

 myself, during April 1858, from beneath a wet stone at the edge of 

 the little stream at Teror in Grand Canary. 



Genus 316. HETEROTHOPS. 

 (Kirby) Staph., ///. Brit. Ent. v. 256 (1832). 



854. Heterothops minutus. 



H. niger elytris abdominisque apice plus minus dilutioribus ; capite 

 prothoraceque angustulis, nitidissimis ; elytris abdomineque pubes- 

 centibus, illis vel nigro-jiiceis apice et ad humeros dilutioribus, vel 

 testaceo-piceis, vel etiam fere fusco-testaceis ; antennis gracihbus, 

 ad basin pedibusque picco-testaceis. 



Variat etiam prothorace dilutiore, antennis pedibusque omnino pal- 

 lidis. — Long. corp. lin. 1|— 21. 



Heterothops minutus, WoU., Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 53 (1860). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, sub quisquiliis hand infrequcns. 



This insect, which occui's beneath vegetable refuse around Funchal 

 in Madeira, is universal at the Canaries — in all the islands of which 

 except Gomera and Palma, where it was found by Dr. Crotch, I have 

 myself captured it. My Lanzarotan specimens are principally from 

 under the refuse around the base of corn-stacks at Haria, the Fuerte- 

 venturan ones from the Rio Palmas, the Grand-Canarian ones from 

 the region of El Monte, the Teneriffan ones from the mountains 

 above S"* Cruz, as well as from Las Mercedes, La Esperanza, Souzal, 

 and the Agua Garcia, and the Hierro ones from near Valverde. It 

 is somewhat allied, at first sight, to the European H. dissimiUs ; but, 

 apart from colour (which in both species is essentially variable), its 

 head and prothorax are relatively a httle narrower than is the case 

 in that insect (the former being more oblong, and the latter more 

 laterally compressed in front, and with the discal punctures more 

 evident) ; its elytra are a trifle longer ; and its antennae are some- 

 what longer, slenderer, more filiform, and more fragile— the joints 

 being more loosely attached, and the apical one less abbreviated. 



* The specimen before me is a female one ; nevertheless, since the dilatation of 

 the front tarsi in the immediately allied groups is not usually a sexual character 

 (though frequently a little more expressed in the males), it is probable that the 

 anterior feet of both sexes will be found to be simple. 



