504 STAPHYLINI1XE. 



This European Stilicus is rather common in the intermediate ele- 

 vations of Madeira proper, where it occurs beneath stones and fallen 

 leaves ; but in the Canaries it would appear to be scarce, the only 

 specimens which I have seen being a few which were captured by 

 Dr. Crotch in Teneriffe, during the spring of 1862. 



Genus 410. SCOP-EUS. 

 Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 604 (1839). 



1390. Scopaeus trossnlus. 



Scopseus trossulus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 585 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert., Can., Ten.}, inter lapillos ad margines 

 aquarum in inferioribus ac paululum elevatis latitans. 



A Canarian Scopceus which may possibly be but a geographical 

 modification of the S. Icevigatus of more northern latitudes, though 

 with several minute distinctions of its own. It seems to be very 

 scarce, occurring amongst wet shingle at the edges of the streams at 

 low and intermediate altitudes. I have taken it in Fuerteventura, 

 Grand Canary, and Teneriffe. 



1391. Scopseus subopacus. 



Scopaeus subopacus, Woll,, Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 103 (1860). 

 , Id. } Append, huj. op. 74. 



Habitat Maderenses ( Mad.), sub recremento ad basin acervorum fceni 

 sparso a Dom. Bewicke in intermediis semel captus. 



The only specimen which I have yet seen of this Scopceus was 

 captured in the intermediate elevations of Madeira proper by the late 

 Mr. Bewicke namely, from under haystack-refuse at S. Antonio da 

 Serra. Judging from the description of the Egyptian S. infirmus, it 

 seems to be allied to that insect. 



The S. subopacus is of about the same size as the trossulus, but it 

 is much darker and more opake, and a little more pubescent; its 

 head is rather less straightly truncated at the base; its eyes are 

 smaller ; its prothorax is not bi-impressed behind ; and its antennae 

 are considerably more abbreviated. 



1392. ScopaBus nigellus. 



Scopseus nigellus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 585 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Gom.), a W. D. Crotch semel deprehensus. 



