5G8 CANARIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



■ et pube sjepiiis minus fulvesccnte vestitus ; capite (submajore) pro- 

 thoraceque parcius ac profundius punctatis ; abdomine minus di- 

 stincte lineato-pubescente ; antennis vix robustioribus. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. 7-81. 



Staphylinus fuscatus ?, Bridle [nee Gniv.], in Webb et Berth. (Col.) GO 

 (1838). 



Habitat in Canaria, Teneriffa et Hicrro, ab ora maritima versus 

 6000' s. m. ascendens. 



Whilst the following species is found in Lanzarote and Fuerteven- 

 tura, the present one would seem to represent it in the other islands 

 of the archipelago — where it will doubtless be found to be universal. 

 Hitherto, however, I have detected it only in Grand Canary, Tene- 

 riffe, and Hierro ; in the first of which it was found Kkewise by Mr. 

 Gray. It is very closely allied to the 0. punctatissimus, but (I believe) 

 no local phasis of it ; and, indeed, the fact of its occui-ring in at any 

 rate three distinct islands without any appreciable change would tend 

 to imply this. It was examined by Dr. Kraatz, and returned by him 

 as " Ocypus, n. sp." It seems to differ from the Lanzarotan and 

 Fuerteventuran species, principally, in being on the average a trifle 

 larger and less brassy, and in having the punctation of its head and 

 prothorax both coarser and less dense. Its entire pubescence, Hke- 

 wise, is a little less fulvous, and less condensed on the abdomen into 

 broken-up lines ; and its head and antenna; are just perceptibly more 

 robust. It seems to be almost independent of elevation ; for in Tene- 

 riffe I have captured it from nearly the sea-level, at S"" Cruz and 

 around the Puerto Orotava, to an altitude of about 6000 feet above 

 the sea (on the ascent to the Cumbre above the Agua Mansa). 



I have little doubt that it is the species referred in M. Brulle's list 

 to i)xQ fuscatus, Grav., which in size and general contour it much re- 

 sembles ; nevertheless, in its ecnesccnt and much more densely punc- 

 tured head, prothorax, and elytra, as well as in its differently sculp- 

 tured abdomen and paler limbs, it is altogether distinct from that 



insect. 



866. Ocjrpus punctatissimus, n. sp. 



0. fulvo-pubescens ; capite prothoraccque nitidulis, densissime et 

 minute punctulatis punctisque pcrpaucis magnis irroratis, aeneis ; 

 elytris fusco-piceis, obscurius ajneo-tinctis ; abdomine nigro, lineis 

 fulvis fractis (plus minus ubsoletis) ornato punctisque permagnis 

 paucis irrorato ; antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis, hinc inde nigres- 

 centioribus, tarsis anticis rufo-testaceis.- — Long. corp. hn. 6-8. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, sub lapidibus, passim. 



In its aeneous head and prothorax, a?neo-fuscous elytra, and general 



