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1347. Ocypus sylvaticus. 

 Ocypus sylvaticus, WolL, Append. Jiuj. op. 72. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom.}, in montibus sylvaticis supra oppidulum 

 Hermigua a DD. Crotch repertus. 



Peculiar apparently to the sylvan districts of Gomera where it 

 was taken by the Messrs. Crotch, during their late Canarian cam- 

 paign, on the mountains above Hermigua. 

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1348. Ocypus atratus. 



Ocypus atratus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 567 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), hinc inde sub lapidibus. 



Detected hitherto only in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two 

 eastern islands of the Canarian Group, where it occurs sparingly 

 beneath stones and refuse. In the former it was taken by Mr. Gray, 

 and in the latter by myself and M. Hartung. It has much the 

 primd facie appearance of the European 0. ater ; but apart from 

 the minor distinctions which have been pointed out in my Canarian 

 Catalogue, its mandibles are simple internally. 



1349. Ocypus subaenescens. 



Staphylinus fuscatua ?, Br. [nee Grav.~\, in Webb etBer. ( Col} 60 (1838). 

 Ocypus subsenescens, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 567 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Hierro), ab ora maritima usque ad 

 6000' s. m. ascendens. 



A Canarian Ocypus which most likely will be found to be universal 

 throughout the central and western islands of the Group, where it 

 would appear to take the place of the Lanzarotan and Fuerteventuran 

 0. punctatissimus. Nevertheless it has been observed as yet only in 

 Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Hierro. It is independent of elevation ; 

 for in Teneriffe I have met with it from the sea-level to an altitude 

 of about 6000 feet. 



1350. Ocypus punctatissimus. 



Ocypus punctatissimus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 568 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.*), sub lapidibus, passim. 



Universal, but not very abundant, throughout Lanzarote and 



Fuerteventura, the two eastern islands of the Canarian archipelago 



where it occurs, beneath stones and refuse, at most altitudes. It 



