CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 587 



eentibus, vel fusco-ferrugineis) ; antennis pedibusque ssepius paulo 

 obscurioribus, illarum articulis intermediis plus minus evidenter 

 nigro-variegatis. — Long. corp. lin. 2-2^. 



Habitat in Canaria, Teneriffa, Gomera, Palma et Hierro, passim. 

 This LithocJiaris differs from the preceding one in being a little 

 narrower and more opake, and more densely clothed with a finer and 

 shorter cinereous pubescence ; in its head (which is much straightened 

 on either side) being especially narrower and less quadrate, and also, 

 together with the prothorax, much more lightly punctulated (indeed 

 the latter has more the appearance of being coriaceous than " punc- 

 tulated ") ; in its elytra being of an obscurer hue (either duU rufo- 

 piceous and still darker towards the sides, or else uniformly brownish 

 ferruginous) ; and in the intermediate joints of its antennas being 

 more or less variegated with black. I have captured it in the region 

 of El Monte in Grand Canary, as well as in Palma and Hierro ; and 

 it was found in Teneriffe and Gomera by Dr. Crotch. It would seem 

 to ascend to a high elevation, for Dr. Crotch's Teneritfan examples 

 are marked as having been taken on the Cumbre adjoining the 

 Caiiadas. 



899. Lithocharis ochracea. 



L. subopaca, densissime cinereo-sericea, minutissime punctulata ; ca- 

 pite nigro, subtriangulari, oculis magnis (sed baud prominentibus); 

 prothorace elj'trisque subquadratis, plus minus infuscate rufo-fer- 

 rugineis (illo saepius paulo rufescentiore) ; abdomine fusco-ferru- 

 gineo ; antennis pedibusque testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. l|-2. 



Pfederus ocliraceus, Grai\, Col. Microjjt. 59 (1802). 

 Lithocharis ochracea, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 623 (1839). 



, Woll, Ins. Mad. 590 (1854). 



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



Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura, Teneriffa et Gomera, hand 

 infrequens. 



There can be no doubt that this common European Lithocharis 

 (which abounds in Madeira, and which is widely spread over the 

 world) is universal at the Canaries, though hitherto it has been ob- 

 served in only four out of the seven islands of the Group. I have 

 taken it in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Gomera ; and it was found 

 in Teneriffe by Dr. Crotch. It occurs beneath vegetable rejectamenta 

 generally, independent of elevation ; and in the Rio Palmas of Fuerte- 

 ventura I once met with it, in profusion, amongst the refuse of a 

 camels' stable. 



900. Lithocharis nigritula. 



L. angusto-lincaris, nigra, subnitida, cinereo-pubescens, dense sed 



