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Kr., DoHcaon hccmorrhous, Er., Oxytelus plagiattis,J{.oseYii\.,\i\\iXi\. PoiderusiiXawt'icaX 

 with a species from the Cape of Q-ood Hope, unnained in Dr. Sharp's collcctiou. Of 

 this insect I captured three specimens under stones in the dry bed of the " Wad- 

 Diarbet." Bledius taurus was abundant, burrowing under stones in the salt marsh ; 

 Stenus guttttla occurred in profusion near the aqueduct, while the widely distributed 

 Philonlhus xantholoma and sericeus were common under sea- weed. 



Of Clavicornes, the minute Ptenidium punctatum occurred commonly under 

 sea-weed and marine rejectamenta ; Mister major and \2-striatus were not unfrequent 

 near the public slaughtering-place, where also I occasionally met with the conspicuous 

 Saprinus semipunctalus. S. chalcites and co»ju)if/ens occuri-ed under dry camel's 

 dung on the sand-hills. 



The LameUicornia, as might be expected in a district destitute of pasture and 

 vegetation in general, were but scantily represented. I met, however, with Ateuchus 

 sacer in some numbers at a locality a few miles inland, where a few cattle are kept, 

 and where I also obtained Onthophagas circumscriptus, Fald., and varieties of O. 

 taunts. I took single examples of Aphodius ajffinis, Luc, and A. hydrochairis, as 

 well as one of a small, species which I noticed in the collection of Signor Olcese at 

 Tangier, labelled Aphodius jwlit as. The Mediterranean Psammodius sabulosus was 

 common on the sand-hills j and, on hot days during the latter part of my visit, 

 Pachydema anthracinum was not unfrequent, flying in the sunshine. I was also 

 fortunate in capturing a specimen of Oxylhyrea femorata. 



Of the Malacodermata, I met with but a single representative in the new species 

 of Melyrosoma, which is characterized by Mr. WoUaston under the name of M. 

 Blackmorei. 



The Tenebrionidce were far more extensively represented, and my most numerous, 

 and in some respects most interesting, captures appertained to this family. As is 

 the case with all Moorish towns, such rubbish and animal or vegetable refuse as is 

 not allowed to rot in the street, is carried out on donkeys' backs, and deposited 

 immediately outside the city walls, the result being the formation of a series of 

 extensive mounds far from pleasing to the sight, and exhaling odours anything but 

 pleasing to the smell. But, however disagreeable they may bo in those respects to 

 the orduiary traveller, these accumulations form excellent hunting-grounds for the 

 coleoptorist. It was in these rubbish heaps, or their vicinity, that I made the 

 acquaintance of what lias hitherto, I believe, been considered as an essentially 

 Canarian species — Eulipus Brnllcei, Wollast., — which occurred very freely under 

 pieces of old matting and decaying, disused, rush baskets and panniers, round wliich 

 sand hn<l drifted. In similar habitats I met with five species of Blaps, including 

 B. gages, sulcata, prodigiosa, and a species allied to, or a variety of, B. Haroldi, 

 Kraatz. In the neighbourhood of these mounds I also captured Morica Favieri, Luc, 

 Akis elegans, Clnirp., and Sraurus trislis. Pachychila was represented by a few 

 specimens of P. sabulosa, Luc, Salzmanni, Sol., and Kiinzei, Sol. (?), and by P. 

 impunctata, Fairm., in considerable numbers. It is possible that I may liave more 

 tlian one species under the latter name, as I collected some specimens differing 

 greatly in size from normal types, though apparently con-specific in other respects. 

 Of the true Phaleria bimacidata, Ilerbst (not the spotted variety of P. cadaverina, 

 sometimes so named), I captured two specimens under sea-weed, where also I met 

 with an example of the cosmopolitan Alphilobiiis diaperinus. In ihe town itself, I 



