TENTYRIAD.E. 397 



1091. Hegeter brevicoUis. 



Hegeter brevicoUis, Brutte, in Webb et Berth. (Col} 65 (1838). 

 , Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 456 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), plerumque in locis inferioribus. 



In its typical state (or that on which the species was originally 

 founded) the present Hegeter seems to be peculiar to the lower 

 districts of Teneriife, where it is rather common in the vale of Oro- 

 tava towards the coast ; and large examples of it might often well be 

 confounded, at first sight, with small ones of the transversus. Never- 

 theless the characters which I pointed out in my Canarian Catalogue 

 appear to be sufficient for distinguishing even these quasi-interme- 

 diate individuals (aberrations in opposite directions) of the two 

 species. 



In Gomera it seems on the average to be a little larger and more 

 appreciably punctulated than is the case in Teneriffe, and its hinder 

 prothoracic angles are somewhat more sharply defined (or rectangu- 

 lar) ; but I cannot think that more than a slight insular phasis of 

 the species is indicated, though I recorded that particular state as 

 the " var. ft. gomerensis" 



1092. Hegeter abbreviatns. 



Hegeter abbreviate, Bndle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 66 (1838). 

 , Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 457 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in lauretis editioribus sub lapidibus 

 parce captus. 



One of the rarest, and best defined, of the Hegeters hitherto de- 

 tected, and one which I have observed only in Grand Canary where 

 I captured eight examples of it in the laurel- district, at a rather 

 high elevation, on the mountains between Osorio and Guia. 



1093. Hegeter costipennis, 



Hegeter costipennis, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 457 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.), sub lapidibus in montibus rarissimus. 



Likewise peculiar (so far as observed hitherto) to Grand Canary, 

 and probably the rarest of all the species yet detected. Indeed the 

 only five examples of it which I have yet seen were captured by 

 myself at a high altitude on the mountains above San Mateo, on the 

 ascent to the Roca del Soucilho. 



