HISTERID,E. 171 



saepius minor et subdensius grossiusque punctata, prsesertim 

 pertinet. 



Found in all the islands of the Canarian Group having been 

 taken lately in Teneriffe, Gomera, and Hierro by the Messrs. Crotch. 

 In Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, and Palma I have my- 

 self met with it. Whether it be the true subnitidus of De Marseul 

 I cannot undertake to pronounce for certain ; but if not, and if at 

 the same time distinct from his various other species of this imme- 

 diate division, it will have to be recognized by the name ofproximus 

 proposed for it in my Canarian Catalogue (vide p. 170). 



The examples from the three eastern islands of the archipelago I 

 have regarded as typical. They are generally somewhat larger, and 

 appear always to be a little more finely and sparingly punctured. 

 The " var. /3," consequently, from the central and western parts of 

 the Group, which are usually smaller and with their punctation 

 coarser, may perhaps prove ultimately to be distinct, though I 

 scarcely think it probable that such will be the case. 



489. Saprinus nitidulus. 



Ilister nitidulus, Fab., Si/st. Eku. i. 85 (1801). 



, Entile, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 



Saprinus nitidulus, Wall., Ins. Mad. 215 (1854). 



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



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



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Can., Ten.), prao- 

 cipue in cadaveribus sat frequens. 



This common European insect occurs sparingly both at the Madeiras 

 and Canaries, where it will most likely be found to be pretty gene- 

 rally distributed in the vicinity of the sea-shores and towns. 

 Hitherto, however, it has been observed only in Madeira proper ; and 

 in Lanzarote, Grand Canary (where it was captured by the Messrs. 

 Crotch), and Teneriffe, of the Canarian Group. 



490. Saprinus nobilis. 



Saprinus nobilis, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 167 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.}, in inferioribus intermediisque rarissimus. 



A Canarian Saprinus, which I have captured on two occasions in 

 Teneriffe near S ta Cruz and in the wood of Las Mercedes. In all 

 probability it is allied to the S. fguratus of De Marseul's Mono- 

 graph. 



