352. Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Calathi of the Canary Islands. 
15. Calathus barbatus, n. sp. 
C. fusco-piceus, subdepressus ; capite prothoraceque nitidis, hoe sub- 
quadrato postice vix latiore, ad latera pallidiore et leviter recurvo; 
elytris vix subconvexis et vix obscurioribus, linea basali in utroque 
subrecta, leviter striatis, interstitio tertio punctis 3-4 distinctis 
notato; antennis pedibusque testaceis. 
Mas interstitiis subconvexis ; tibiis posterioribus intus apicem versus 
dense fimbriatis ; posticis subcurvatis. 
Fem. interstitiis depressis ; tibiis simplicibus. 
Long. corp. lin. 32-43. 
Habitat Canariam Grandem, in regionibus El Monte et Tarajana 
tempore vernali a.p. 1558 deprehensus. 
Like the last species, the C. barbatus would appear to be pe- 
culiar to Grand Canary,—descending, however, into sub-sylvan 
spots of a rather lower elevation than those tenanted by that 
insect. It may be known from it by its very much smaller size 
and by its sexes being almost equally shining, its prothorax 
being in them Joth (as is the case with all the Canarian Calathi 
except the appendiculatus) equally polished. In minor charac- 
ters, its elytra are a trifle more convex than those of the appendi- 
culatus, and have their basal line rather more curved; and the 
four hinder tibize of its males are fimbriated along a rather shorter 
portion of their inner edge. I took it, not uncommonly, in the 
region of El Monte, as also on the mountains of Tarajana, 
during the spring of 1858. 
16. Calathus spretus, n. sp. 
C. fusco-piceus, subconvexus ; capite prothoraceque nitidis, hoe sub- 
quadrato, postice vix latiore, ad latera paulo pallidiore et leviter 
recurvo; elytris subconvexis, ovatis, paulo (preesertim in sexu 
fcemineo) obscurioribus, linea basali in utroque recta, leviter striatis, 
interstitiis (in utroque sexu) subdepressis, tertio punctis 3-4 di- 
stinctis notato; antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 
Mas tibiis posterioribus (sed preesertim intermediis) intus versus 
apicem paulo densius ciliatis. 
Fem. tibiis simplicibus. 
Long. corp. lin. 4—43. 
Habitat in ins. Hierro, mense Februario a. p. 1858 deprehensus. 
In general aspect the present Calathus comes so near to the 
C. barbatus, that, were it not for the essential differences displayed 
by the tibize of the males of the two species, I should not have he- 
sitated to consider them as identical ; but since the former has the 
four hinder tibiz of its malesa/most simple internally, andthe poste- 
rior pair straight, whilst the latter has them powerfully fimbriated, 
with the posterior ones slightly curved, I cannot but regard 
them as dissimilar, and so lay greater stress on the other minute 
differences which they display inter se than I should ordinarily 
