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STAPHYLINID^. 



Widely distributed over the Canarian archipelago, in all the islands 

 of which it has been captured except Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. 

 It occurs at most elevations, though particularly at intermediate and 

 lofty ones, and is locally abundant beneath vegetable refuse. 



1397. Lithocharis ochracea. 



Psederus ochraceus, Grav., Col. Micropt. 59 (1802). 

 , Woll, Ins. Mad. 590 (1854). 



-, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 193 (1857). 

 -, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 587 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Ten., 

 Gom.), sub quisquiliis hinc inde abundans. 



This common European Lithocharis we may expect will be found 

 universally (or nearly so) throughout these Atlantic Groups, where 

 it is occasionally very abundant beneath vegetable refuse. Hitherto 

 however it has been observed only in Madeira proper, and in the Ca- 

 narian islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Teneriffe, and Gomera. 



1398. Lithocharis obsoleta. 



Lathrobiuni obsoletum, Nor dm., Symbol. 146 (1838). 

 Lithocharis obsoleta, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 623 (1839). 



, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 719 (1857). 



brevipes, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 104 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarior ; in subinferioribus inter quis- 

 quilias. 



Likewise a European species, and one which has been captured 

 sparingly by myself and the late Mr. Bewicke in the south of Madeira 

 proper beneath vegetable refuse, around Funchal ; but it has not 

 been observed in any of the other islands. In a paper " on Additions 

 to the Madeiran Coleoptera " (published in the ' Ann. of Nat. Hist.,' 

 in 1860) I described it inadverently as new, under the name of L. 

 brevipes, a mistake which arose partly from my few examples being 

 scarcely mature, as well as from the fact (which I had not seen 

 noticed elsewhere) of the elytra of the males being a little more 

 developed than those of the opposite sex. 



1399. Lithocharis nigritula. 



Lithocharis nigritula ?, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 625 (1839). 

 } Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 588 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), inter lapillos ad margines aquarum in 

 inferioribus capta. 



