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niimi) somewhat closely punctured, the latter alone having a central 

 glabrous space ; by its very slightly shining, most lightly punctm-ed, 

 testaceous elyti'a (which, however, are a httle infuscated at their base) ; 

 by its subopake, reddish-brown abdomen ; and by its rufo-ferrugi- 

 nous limbs. 



Genus 325. LATHROBIUM. 

 Gravenhorst, Col. Micropt. 179 (1802). 



890. Lathrobium labile. 



L. angustissimum, nigrum ; capite quadrato-ovali, profunde punc- 

 tato ; prothorace angasto, oblongo, utrinque (necnon in dorso bi- 

 seriatim) profunde punctato ; elytris profunde et dense striato- 

 punctatis, postice Isevioribus et plus minus testaceis ; abdomine 

 dense leviter subasperato-punctulato ; antennis (gracilibus) pedi- 

 busque rufo-testaceis, his plus minus picescentioribus. — Long, 

 corp. lin. 2-2^. 



Lathrobium labile, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 594 (1839). 



Habitat Tenoriffam, inter lapillos ad marginem paludis cujusdam 

 parvjB in " Barranco Santo " juxta Sanctam Crucem lectum. 



A Grecian example, communicated by Dr. Kraatz, of Erichsou's 

 A. labile (which occurs also in Sardinia) agrees precisely with the 

 Canarian specimens now before me. The species may be known by 

 its minute size and extremely narrow outline ; by its (rather elon- 

 gate) head being regularly and deeply punctured, and its prothorax 

 also (which has a double row of punctures down its disc) on either 

 side ; by its elytra (which are more or less rufo-testaceous along 

 their hinder edge, and occasionally even along the suture) being 

 closely and coarsely striate-punctate ; and by its rufo-testaceous 

 limbs — the legs, however, being usually a little clouded or picescent. 

 The only specimens which I have seen (sixteen in number) were 

 taken by myself (in company with the Philonthus tenellus and An- 

 thicus lapidosm) from amongst wet shingle at the edges of a little 

 stagnant pool at the extreme head of the Barranco Santo, close to 

 S*'' Cruz, in Teneriffe. 



891. Lathrobium multipunctatum. 



Lathrobium multipunctatum, Grew., Col. Micropt. 52 (1802). 



, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 591 (18:39). 



, Woll., Ins. Mad. 588 (1854). 



, Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 193 (1857). 



Habitat in humidis Teneriffae et Palmae, sat rarum. 



Although rather abundant at Madeira, the European L. malti- 



punctatum is decidedly scarce in these islands — the very few Canarian 



