Culeoptera of the Canary Islands, 1 7 1 



at Betancuria in Fuerteventura, as well as (out of the E.piscatorid) 

 at El Monte in Grand Canary. It is a good deal allied, in general 

 facies, to the Madeiran A. Ewphorbice ; nevertheless it is slightly 

 smaller than that insect, its pubescence is longer, its prothorax 

 less acuminated in front, and its elytral punctures are much larger, 

 fewer, and more evidently disposed in rows. 



25. Aphanarlhrum piscatorium,* Woll. 

 A. fusco-nigrura, pilis suberectis dense vestitum ; prothorace 

 alutaceo dense punctato, antice producto leviter acuminato 

 sublurido ; elytris dense subseriatim punctatis et transversim 

 rugulosis, dilute testaceis, fasciis duabus profunde dentatis 

 nigris (und sc. magna et altera angustiore sufFusa postica) 

 ornatis. 

 Long. corp. lin. | — f . 

 Aphanarthrum piscatorium, Woll,, Ann. of Nat. Hist. (Ser. 3), 



v. 166 et 361 (I860). 

 Habitat in ins. TenerifFa, Palma et Hierro, in ramis E, pisca- 

 toriae emortuis, vulgare. 



A rather insignificant little species, closely allied to the last one. 

 It may be known from it, however, by its smaller size and some- 

 what more pubescent surface, by its elytra being just perceptibly 

 less parallel, more densely sculptured, and with their punctures 

 much less evidently disposed in rows, and by its elytral fascias 

 (the front one of which is simple, or at any rate less clearly dis- 

 jointed in the centre) being (especially the hinder one, which is 

 usually continued to the very apex) less distinct. I found it 

 tolerably common, in the decayed stems of the Euph. piscatoria, in 

 Teneriffe, Palma and Hierro, — in the last of which islands it was 

 also captured by Mr. Gray. It likewise occurs attached to the 

 same plant, in the lower elevations of Madeira. 



26. Aphanarthrum glabrum* Woll. 



A. fusco-nigrum, fere pilis carens ; prothorace dense alutaceo 

 punctato, antice producto leviter acuminato subincressato 

 (fere bituberculato) sublurido ; elytris leviter subseriatim 

 punctatis, testaceis, fasciis duabus profunde dentatis nigris 

 (una sc. magna in medio duplici et altera angustiore sub- 

 postica) ornatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. | — vix 1. 



Aphanarthrum glabrum, Woll., Ann. of Nat. Hist. (Ser. 3), v. 

 167 (1860). 



