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STAPHYLINID^E. 



1449. Metopsia cimicoides. 



Metopsia cimicoides, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 605 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), in sylvaticis intermediis editiori- 

 busque rarissima. 



Pound in the sylvan districts of the Canarian Group, at inter- 

 mediate and lofty altitudes, where it would appear to be extremely 

 scarce. I obtained a single example of it, in the laurel-region 

 towards Taganana, in Tencriffe ; and it was captured sparingly by 

 the Messrs. Crotch in the same island (in the Pinal above Ycod el 

 Alto), as well as in Gomera. 



The M. cimicoides is much smaller, narrower, more oblong, and 

 paler than the Madeiran ampliata ; its two frontal incisions are 

 deeper and narrower ; its prothorax is much more lightly and less 

 conspicuously channelled, with the anterior angles less obtusely 

 rounded ; its elytra are more straightly truncated behind ; and the 

 third joint of its antennas is less elongate. 



