STAPHYLINID^E. 453 



1246. Echidnoglossa constricta. 



Echidnoglossa constricta, Wall., Cat. Can. Col. 531 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.\ inhumidis per margines rivulorum 

 necnon inter lapillos ad rupes aquosas in intermediis editiori- 

 busque degens. 



A Canarian Staphylinid which was detected originally in Teneriffe, 

 during the spring of 1862, by Dr. Crotch who found a single ex- 

 ample of it (from which my generic and specific diagnoses were com- 

 piled) near to the little town of Guia, on the western slopes of that 

 island. But an extensive series is now before me which has been 

 obtained subsequently, by himself and his brother, in Gomera where 

 the insect would appear to be common, in wet places of intermediate 

 and lofty altitudes. I am informed by Mr. G. R. Crotch that it was 

 principally along the edges of the small streams, and about dripping 

 rocks, that their specimens were captured. 



Genus 379. PHYTOSTTS. 

 (Rudd) Curtis, Brit. Ent. xv. 718 (1838). 



1247. Phytosus dimidiatus. 



Phytosus spinifer, Kraatz [nee Curt., 18381. Nat. der Ins. Dcutsch. ii. 



44 (1858). 

 ,Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 532 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), sub fucis per oras arenosas 

 maritimas hinc inde vulgaris. 



Rather common, beneath fuel and other marine rejectamenta, along 

 the sandy sea-shores in the eastern part of the Canarian archipelago ; 

 and we may expect it to be found more generally, when searched 

 for in the proper situations. I have taken it in Lanzarote and Fuer- 

 teventura ; and it was captured by the Messrs. Crotch near Las Palmas 

 in Grand Canary. It seems to be widely spread over Mediterranean 

 latitudes ; and I met with it abundantly at Mogadore, on the opposite 

 coast of Morocco. 



In my Canarian Catalogue I referred this Phytosus to the spinifer 

 of Curtis, found in northern and subnorthern Europe ; but, having 

 since obtained a type of the latter for comparison (which I did not 

 then possess), I now believe that it is truly distinct from that species. 

 I think it most probable however that it is the spinifer of Kraatz 

 (which Schaum informed me that he had met with on the sea-shore 

 at Venice) ; but, be that as it may, I feel satisfied that it cannot be 



