90 COLEOPTERA. 



Allibert, /. c, describes his species from grain from Can- 

 ton. Wollaston (Ins. Mad.) thinks it is evidently of more 

 northern regions than either Silvanus surinamensis or 

 Nausibius dentatus^ and that perhaps the Southern Medi- 

 terranean limits may be regarded in all probability as one 

 of its original areas of diffusion : it appears, from the same 

 author's experience, to be not uncommon under garden- 

 refuse and about houses in Madeira proper (especially at 

 Funchal), though only one specimen is known to him from 

 Teneriffe, out of thatch. The name ^^ muscBorum^' attributed 

 to this insect by Ziegler suggests a widely different habit ; 

 and I may observe that I have recently had an individual 

 of it brought to me to be named that w^as found in the 

 interior of a blown egg of an Australian bird. Mr. E. W. 

 Janson tells me that he has found it in great numbers, among 

 rotten Orchids received from South America. 



As regards its claims to a place in our list, it was first 

 introduced by Mr. G. R. Waterhouse in his " Catalogue," on 

 the authority of a specimen labelled as received from Mr. 

 Samuel Stevens (who, however, writes to me that he does 

 not recollect anything about it, and has no other specimen 

 in his cabinet under that name). I have never met with it; 

 but have occasionally heard of its being found, dead, in 

 coffee, or under equally dubious circumstances. But, during 

 the preceding year, three living specimens of it have been 

 taken at large, at different times, under cut grass, with other 

 and undoubtedly indigenous beetles, by Messrs. F. H. and 

 E. A. Waterhouse, near West Hill, Wandsworth, close to 

 Wimbledon Park, — a locality sufficiently open and rural to 

 produce more than one Homalota elegantula (I have, in 

 like manner, found the introduced LcemophlcEus ferrugineus 

 under bark, on Wimbledon Common ; and Mr. E. W. Janson 

 informs me that he also has found it under bark in Daren th 



