CARABID,E. 7 



16. Dyschirius subaeneus. 

 Dyschirius subaeneus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 9 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in lutosis (nee salmis) ad Arguiniguin 

 repertus. 



Very closely allied to the European D. ceneus, of which it may 

 possibly be but a geographical state. It is evidently rare, the few 

 specimens as yet detected having been captured by myself (in April 

 1858) at Arguiniguin in the south of Grand Canary. 



17. Dyschirius pauxillus. 



Dyschirius pauxillus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 9 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), ad Portum Orotavae captus. 



Like the last, this may possibly be a modification of a European 

 species the D. misettus, Schaum, from Mediterranean latitudes. It 

 would seem to be quite as scarce as the subcencus, two examples 

 only taken by myself at the Puerto Orotava in Teneriffe being 

 all that I have as yet seen. 



(Subfam. V. APOTOMIDES.) 



Genus 9. APOTOMUS. 



(Hoffmansegg) Illig., Mag. fur Ins. vi. 348 (1807). 



18. Apotomus Chaudoirii. 



Apotomus rufus, Woll. [nee Rossi, 1790], Ins. Mad. 14 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 6 (1857). 

 Chaudoirii, Id., Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 217 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P* S to ), sub lapidibus in locis inferioribus, 

 parum rams. 



This is perhaps a mere state of the A. rufus of Mediterranean 

 latitudes, with which indeed I had always identified it until 1860, 

 when the Baron de Chaudoir, who has paid great attention to the 

 Carabidce, informed me that he believed it to be specifically distinct. 

 Induced therefore by such high authority, I described it as new 

 (though not without some hesitation) in the 'Annals of Natural 

 History.' It unquestionably possesses a few features of its own, 

 but they appear to me to be of such trifling importance that I doubt 

 if they are indicative of more than a slight geographical variety. It 

 seems to differ from the ordinary type of the A. rufus, merely, in 

 having its limbs extremely pallid, whilst at the same time the fifth, 



