ANTHICID^E. 441 



tions around Funchal, in Madeira proper, where it occurs beneath 

 vegetable refuse in gardens and other cultivated grounds. In the 

 Canaries however it seems (so far as observed hitherto) to be ex- 

 ceedingly rare, the few specimens moreover which have yet been 

 brought to light having been captured at a rather higher altitude. 

 I have taken it in Teneriffe on the ascent of the hills behind S ta 

 Cruz ; and a single example was met with at Souzal, in the same 

 island, by the Messrs. Crotch who likewise found another in 

 Gomera. 



II. Corpus gracile, subcylindricum. Antennce in marib'us longis- 

 simce, intus serratce, art? 2 do (in utroque sexu) brevi. Oculi mar/ni, 

 in maribus tnaximi supra fere contigui. Pedes longiusculi (Eu- 

 glenes, Westw.). 



1214. Xylophilus oculatissimus. 



Xylophilus oculatissimus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 525 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), rarissimus; inter lapillos ad rupes 

 humidas excelsas in editioribus lectus. 



Three examples (which are all that I have yet seen) of this beau- 

 tiful Canarian Xylophilus were taken by myself, at a high elevation, 

 in the island of Palma from under small stones and sticks at the 

 base of some damp rocks above the Final of the Banda, and near to 

 the edge of the great Caldeira. 



Genus 369. MECYNOTARSUS. 



La Ferte, Mm. des Anth. 57 (1848). 



1215. Mecynotarsus semicinctus. 



Mecynotarsus semicinctus, Woll., Append, huj. op. 65. 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in aridis arenosis submaritimis a 

 W. D. Crotch parce deprehensus. 



Detected by Dr. Crotch in the low sandy region (adjoining the 

 sea-beach) in Grand Canary, immediately to the north of Las Palmas, 

 where he obtained three examples of it during the summer of 1864. 

 As stated in the Appendix, it is probably allied to the M. bison from 

 Arabia ; nevertheless (judging from La Ferte's diagnosis) it can 

 scarcely be identical with that species, which is described as entirely 

 testaceous. I should state, however, that I have not been able to 

 procure a type of the latter for comparison. 



