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CANARIAN OOLEOPTERA. 



918. Oxytelus nitidulus. 

 Oxytelus nitidulus, Grav., Col 3Iic>-opt. 107 (1802). 



— , Urich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 795 (1839). 



, JFolL, Ins. Mad. 009 (1854). 



, Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 201 (1857). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, in stercore bovino, equino, ca- 

 melino, humano, iibique vulgaris. 



This abundant European Oxytel us, M^hich is common in the Madeiran 

 Group, is universal at the Canaries — in the whole seven islands of 

 which I have myself captured it. In Lanzarote, Fucrteventura, and 

 Gomera it was found likewise by Mr. Gray, and in Tcneriffe and Go- 

 mera by Dr. Crotch. It occurs principally in the dung of cattle, and 

 is independent of elevation. 



919. Oxytelus glareosus. 



0. minutus, angustulus, opacus, densissinie et grosse rugulosus ; capite 

 subquadrato, piceo-nigro, ocuHs parvis ; prothorace rufo-ferrugineo, 

 brevi, subsemicirculari (apice truncato, bisinuato), sulcis dorsaUbus 

 obsoletis ; elj'tris (depressis) abdomineque nigro-fuseis ; antennis 

 ferrugineis, articulo ultimo acuminate ; pedibus pallide testaceis. — 

 Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Oxytelus glareosus, WoU., Ins. Mad. 610 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 201 (1857). 



Habitat TenerifFam ; exemplar tmicum (per aerem volitans) mox 

 supra Portum Orotavae dcprehendi. 



The small bulk, opake and densely rugulose sui'face of this Oa-yteliis, 

 combined ynih. its subquadrate, piceous-black head and minute eyes, 

 its short, somewhat semicircular, rufo-ferruginous prothorax (on 

 which the longitudinal sulci are almost obsolete), its dark-brown 

 elytra and abdomen, its ferruginous antennae (with their aj)ically-acute 

 terminal joint), and its pale-testaceous legs, will at once separate it 

 from all the preceding species. Although decidedly common around 

 Funchal in Madeira, it appears to be rare in these islands — though 

 perhaps, from its small dimensions, it may merely have escaped ob- 

 servation. The only Canarian example which I have seen I captui'ed 

 (on the wing) immediately above the Puerto Orotava in Teneriffe. 



Genus 335. TROGOPHLGEUS. 



Mannerheim, Brachel 49 (18ol). 



920. Trogophlceus transversalis. 



T. nitidus, nigcr (fere ater), elytris (amplis, depressis) postice Itete 

 rufo-ferrugineis ; prothorace bre\'iter subcordato, angulis posticis 

 sat argute determinatis, basi profuude transversim impresso, in 



