CANARIAN COLEOPTEKA. bto 



as well as more deeply and remotely punctured ; its head is a trifle 

 larger and rounder, with the antennae just perceptibly shorter and 

 more robust (the intermediate joints being ai:)preciably more abbre- 

 viated, and the terminal one, which is squarish but obliquely acumi- 

 nated at the tip, perhaps a little thicker) ; and its coxa? do not appear 

 to be diluted in hue. 



873. Philontlius proximus. 



P. niger, prothorace elytrisque (pra^sertim his) paulo picescentioribus, 

 his subconvexis, sat profunde parceque punctatis et grosse griseo- 

 pubescentibus ; capite subrotundato-ovali ; antcnnis fuscis, ad ba- 

 sin pedibusque piceo-testaeeis. 

 Variat (rarius) antennis pedibusque paulo obscurioribus. — Long.corp. 

 lin. 2^-3. 



Philonthus proximus, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 189 (1857). 

 Hahitat in Teneriffa et Gomera, rarior. 



Readily known from the marcidus by its rather smaller size and 

 more piceous hue — even the prothorax being obscurely pitchy, whilst 

 the elytra (which are deeply punctured and convex, and almost, or 

 entirely, free from any metallic tinge) are often very appreciably 

 so — and by its paler hmbs (the apical joint of the antennae being 

 moreover less incrassated). It occurs sparingly at Madeira, and 

 appears to be about equally rare at the Canaries. Indeed I have 

 myself taken it only in Teneriife ; but it was found by Dr. Crotch 

 both in that island and Gomera*. 



874. PMlonthus discoideus. 



Staphyliniis discoideus, Grav., Col. 3Iicropt. 38 (1802). 

 Philonthus discoideus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 474 (1839). 



, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Detdsch. ii. 605 (1856). 



, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 190 (1857). 



Hahitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura et Teneriffa, passim. 



The common European P. discoideus, which occurs sparingly in 

 Madeira, is probably universal in these islands. It was taken by 

 Mr. Gray in Lanzarote, by myself (from beneath camels' dung) in 

 the Eio Palmas of Fuerteventura, and by Dr. Crotch in Teneriflfe. 

 It may be easily recognized by its rather small size, but somewhat 

 large, roundish-quadrate head and thick neck, by its picescent, dis- 

 tinctly punctured elytra (which are clothed with a fulvous pile, and 

 have their margins, particularly down the suture, more or less con- 

 spicuously rufo-ferruginous), and by its piceo-testaceous limbs f. 



* I may add that I transmitted the P. proximus to Berlin, in 1857, for the 

 inspection of Dr. Kraatz (who had then just completed his Monograph of the 

 German titaphylinidie) ; and it was regarded by him as new. 



t The antenn;c (wliich are rather short and moniliform) are a little clearer, or 



