170 



HISTERIDjE. 



eastern part of the Canarian Group the few specimens which I 

 have seen having heen captured by Mr. Gray near Arrecife, in 

 Lanzarote. 



486. Saprinus fortunatus. 



Hister virescens, Brulle [nee Payk.~], in Webb et Berth. ( Col.} 59 (1838). 

 Saprinus fortunatus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 172 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), in stercore bovino, equino, 

 camelino praecipue in intermediis occurrens. 



A common Saprinus in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two 

 eastern islands of the Canarian Group ; and it also occurs, though 

 less abundantly, in Grand Canary. It is found in the dung of cattle, 

 principally at intermediate elevations. 



487. Saprinus chalcites. 



Hister chalcites, Ulig., Mag. fur Ins. vi. 40 (1807). 



ameus ?, Bridle [nee Fab.'], in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 



Saprinus chalcites, Woll., Ins. Mad. 216 (1854). 



, De Mars., Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 445 (1855). 



, Wall., Cat. Mad. Col. 75 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 171 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to , Des.), et Canarienses (in Hierro 

 sola haud observatus), vel in cadaveribus vel in stercore parum 

 vulgaris. 



The European S. chalcites is the most widely diffused of all the 

 Saprini which have been detected in these Atlantic islands. Indeed 

 we may be nearly certain that it is actually universal throughout 

 the whole of them ; for the northern and southern Desertas are the 

 only islands of the five Madeiras in which it has not been observed ; 

 whilst at the Canaries it has been captured in every island except 

 Hierro (where doubtless, however, it must exist). I likewise met 

 with it at Mogadore, on the opposite coast of Africa. 



II. Elytrorum stria suturali antice plus minus abbreviatd. 



488. Saprinus subnitidus. 



Saprinus subnitidus ?, DeMars., Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 404 (1855). 

 , Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 169 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (ins. omnes), in stercore late sed parce diffusus. 

 Specimina (ut opinor typica) ex insulis orientalibus, sc. Lanz., 

 Fuert. et Can., plerumque paulo majora ac paulo levins parci- 

 usque punctulata sunt ; sed ad ins. reliquas var. /3 (simillimus), 



