586 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



domineque (densissime subpunctato-ruguloso) postice vix diluti- 

 oribus ; antennis (brevibus) pedibusque piceo-testaceis, tarsis cla- 

 rioribus. — -Long. corp. lin. 1^. 



Habitat Gomeram, a W. D. Crotch semel captiis. 



A single specimen only of this little Seopams, taken by Dr. Crotch 

 (during the spring of 1862) in Gomera, has hitherto come beneath 

 my notice. It may be known by its minute size and very narrow 

 outline, by its subopake and nearly black surface (the elytra being 

 only a trifle more picescent posteriorly — though the limbs are of a 

 piceo-testaceous hue), by its sub triangular- quadrate head, and by its 

 much abbreviated antennae. It is a little narrower and darker than 

 the Eurojiean S. mimdus, with its head rather less developed, its 

 punctation finer and closer, and its antennae somewhat shorter and 

 less robust. 



Genus 329. LITHOCHARIS. 

 (Dejean) Boisd. et Lacord., Faun. Etit. des Env. de Paris, i. 431 (1835). 



897. Lithocharis quadriceps, n. sp. 

 L. subnitida, griseo-pubescens, nigra elytris rufo-ferrugineis ; capite 

 (lato, quadrate) prothoraceque (vix picescentiore) densissime punc- 

 tatis ; abdomine picescentiore, apice ferrugineo ; antennis pedibus- 

 que rufo-ferrugineis. — Long. corp. lin. 2J— 2|. 



Ohs. — L. castanea' Grav. affinis, sed capite prothoraceque nigres- 

 centioribiLs et minus rugose punctatis, iUo longiore (magis quadrate) 

 oculis scnsim majoribus, tarsis paulo lougioribus ae multo gracili- 

 oribus. 



Habitat in Lanzarota et Fuerteventura, aHquanto rara. 



This large and beautiful Litliocliaris I have observed hitherto only 

 in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura — namely, near Haria of the former 

 (where it was taken likewise by Mr. Gray) and (from under camels' 

 dung) near Betan curia of the latter. In its densely punctured head 

 and prothorax and rufo-ferruginous elytra, it has much the pritnct 

 facie aspect of the European L. castanea ; but its head and prothorax 

 are blacker (or less piceous) and rather less rugosely punctured (the 

 former also being larger and more quadrate, with the eyes not quite 

 so minute), and its feet are a little longer and very much slenderer. 

 It was examined by Dr. Kraatz, and regarded by him as new. 



898. Lithocharis subcoriacea, n. sp. 



L. praecedente paulo angustior, magis opaca ac densius subtiliusque 



cinereo-pubescens ; caj)ite (angustiore, oblongiore) prothoraceque 



multo levius punctulatis (hoc minutissime obsolete pun ctulato, quasi 



subcoriaceo) ; elytris obscurioribus (vel piceis in limbo fere nigres- 



