STAPHYLINID^E. 519 



Two specimens only of this Trogoplilceus which (as stated in the 

 Appendix) is at once remarkable, inter alia, for the largeness of its 

 eyes have as yet come beneath my notice. One of them was cap- 

 tured by myself in the region of El Monte in Grand Canary, and the 

 other by the Messrs. Crotch (more recently) in Teneriffe. 



1432. Trogophlceus nigrita. 



Trogophlceus nigrita, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 202 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), in inferioribus semel captus. 



A single example only of this deep-black Trogoplilceus has hitherto 

 come beneath my notice. It was taken by myself, during the spring 

 of 1855, in Porto Santo, of the Madeiran Group on a moist bank, 

 scarcely above the sea-level, at the edge of the little stream at the 

 Zinibral d'Areia. 



1433. Trogophlceus corticinus. 



Oxytelus corticinus, Grav., Mon. 192 (1806). 



Trogophkeus corticinus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 809 (1839). 



nanus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 611 (1854). 



corticinus, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 203 (1857). 



exiguus, Id. [nee Erich.'], Cat. Can. Col. 600 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Can.), hinc inde in hu- 

 midis. 



A small European Trogophlceus which is found sparingly both in 

 the Madeiran and Canarian Groups, where it occurs in damp places 

 and for the most part at intermediate altitudes. I have taken it 

 however in comparative abundance at S ta Anna, in the north of Ma- 

 deira proper, on the muddy deposit at the edge of a trickling stream ; 

 and I met with a single example of it in the region of El Monte in 

 Grand Canary, which in my late Canarian Catalogue I inadvertedly 

 referred (though in doubt) to the exiguus of Erichson. 



1434. Trogophkeus exilis. 



Trogophlceus exilis, Wall., Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 105 (1860). 

 , Id., Append, huj. op. 75. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Ten., Gfom.), in locis si- 

 milibus ac praacedens. 



Found in much the same kind of localities as the last species, 

 having been captured sparingly (by Mr. M. Park, the late Mr. Bewicke, 

 and myself) in Madeira proper, as well as (by myself) in Teneriffe 



