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482. Saprinus mundus. 

 Saprinus mundus, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 176 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), in arenosis maritimis sub rejec- 

 tamentis cadaveribusque fodiens. 



Not uncommon in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two eastern 

 islands of the Canarian Group occurring under dead animals and 

 marine rejectamenta, in low sandy places about the sea-beach. It is 

 very closely allied to the apricarius, of which I am by no means 

 satisfied that it should be regarded as more than a variety *. 



483. Saprinus angulosus. 

 Saprinus angulosus, Woll., Cat. Can. CoL 175 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.}, sub cadaveribus et rejectamentis in 

 arenosis maritimis degens, 



Taken in company with the 8. minyops in Lanzarote, of the 

 Canarian Group, where I obtained four examples of it from beneath 

 a dead hen immediately outside the town of Arrecife, 



484. Saprinus minyops. 

 Saprinus minyops, Woll., Cat. Can. CoL 174 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz*, Fuert., Can.), in locis similibus ae pra3- 

 cedens. 



Also a Canarian Saprinus occurring sparingly beneath dead 

 animals, and other rejectamenta, in low arid places near the sea- 

 beach. In such situations I have taken it in Lanzarote, Fuerteven- 

 tura, and in the sandy region between Las Palmas and the Isleta, of 

 Grand Canary. 



b. Fronte a ctypeo hand distincte divisd. 



485. Saprinus ignobilis. 



Saprinus ignobilis, Woll., Cat, Can. Col 173 (1864), 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.), a Dom. Gray parce repertus. 



Like most of the preceding species, observed hitherto only in the 



* The S. mundus seems to differ from the apricarius, mainly, in being darker 

 (or less jeneous), in the third and fourth " dorsal" striae of its elytra being more 

 abbreviated (extending in fact only to the commencement of the punctured portion 

 of the surface), in the transverse strife of its forehead being rather less confused 

 (or more evidently condensed into two angulated plaits), and in the teeth of its 

 anterior tibia; being somewhat less acute. 



