Atlantic Coleoptera. 299 
485 (1858).  Heterothops minutus, Woll., Ann. Nat. 
Hist. vi. 53 (1860); Id., Cat. Can. Col. 562 (1864) ; Id., 
Col. Atl. 485 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.), et Canarienses (ins. omnes) ; 
inter quisquilias, necnon precipue sub recremento farris 
ad basin acervorum tritici sparso, hinc inde vulgaris. 
p. 486 (genus QurptIvs). 
(Sp. 13839) Quedius fulgidus. 
The only Atlantic specimens of this insect which I 
possess are three Canarian ones—from ‘Teneriffe and 
Gomera ; and Dr. Sharp, having a short time ago requested 
the loan of them for examination, remarks that they seem 
to divide themselves into two rather different forms,— 
one being larger with robust feet, and the usual darkened 
antennz, and, as it seems to me, corresponding sufficiently 
(though by no means exactly) with the northern type, 
and the other being smaller, with lighter coloured limbs, 
slenderer posterior tarsi, and the intermediate antennal 
joints just appreciably more transverse. He then goes 
on to add—* Both differ a little from any of the Huropean 
forms, and if Thomson’s attempt at dividing Q. fulgidus 
into several species be sustained, these would have to be 
considered as two new species.” I cannot believe, how- 
ever, myself, that either one or the other is really distinct 
specifically from the European type,—though different 
habitats may perhaps have resulted in slightly altered 
races; nevertheless in the event of future naturalists 
thinking it desirable to detach them (which I do not in 
the least anticipate) from the more northern, ordinary 
state, I would cite the larger one under the varietal name 
of “robusta,” and the smaller one under that of ‘ depau- 
perata.” Of my three individuals, one (corresponding 
with the larger state) is from Gomera, and the other two 
(smaller, and with paler limbs) from that island and 
Teneriffe. 
p. 487 (genus Ocypus). 
(Sp. 13842) Ocypus olens. 
This common European Ocypus, which occurs in the 
whole seven islands of the Canarian archipelago (indeed 
