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STAPHYLINID^E. 



and (by the Messrs. Crotch) in Gomera, of the Canarian Group. It 

 is intimately allied to the T. corticinus, but is on the average a trifle 

 smaller, more densely sericeous (or clothed with a minute cinereous 

 pubescence), with its elytra somewhat longer, and with its entire 

 punctation (when viewed beneath the microscope) very much closer 

 and finer being so close indeed on the prothorax (which is relatively 

 a little more narrowed behind) as to give the surface almost the ap 

 pearance at first sight of being roughly alutaceous, rather than punc- 

 tured. Its eyes also are appreciably larger, and project more deci- 

 dedly beyond the hinder portion of the head, a fact however which 

 is more the result of the latter being less thickened, than of the eyes 

 themselves being more prominent. 



1435. Trogophlceus ruficollis. 



Trogophheus ruficollis, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 601 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert., Ten.\ in inferioribus et locis paulul 

 elevatis rarissimus. 



Taken sparingly (by myself) in Fuerteventura and Teneriffe, of 

 the Canarian Group namely at La Antigua of the former, and 

 near the Puerto Orotava of the latter. It is not, however, purely 

 Canarian ; for I have inspected some examples which were captured 

 by the Messrs. Crotch at Mogadore, on the opposite coast of Morocco, 

 and which appear to me (although their elytra are somewhat less 

 rufescent) not to differ specifically from the Fuerteventuran and 

 Teneriifan ones. 



1436. Trogophlceus bledioides. 



Trogophlceus bledioides, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 601 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.}, plerumque in humidis inferioribus, 

 rarior. 



Observed hitherto only in Teneriffe and Gomera, of the Canarian 

 archipelago, and principally in damp spots of a low elevation. In 

 my late Catalogue I remarked that it is a good deal allied to the T. 

 simplicicollis of the Madeiran Group ; but as I happened to have no 

 type of the latter for examination, I wrote from recollection only. 

 Having subsequently however compared the two species with each 

 other, I perceive that they have really almost nothing in common 

 except the fact of their prothorax being free from foveaB, and being, 

 together with the head, most densely, minutely and evenly punctu- 

 lated. The T. bledioides is a most remarkable form for a Trogo- 



