VIU INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



friend the Rev. W. J. Armitage, one^ by M. Hartung, seven* have 

 been communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, one' by Mr. 

 A. Fry of London, four*' were captured by Mr. Gray and Dr. Crotch, 

 one'' by the Rev. R. T. Lowe and Dr. Crotch, one^ by M. de la Per- 

 raudiere and Dr. Crotch, two" have been inserted on the evidence of 

 specimens received from Paris (from MM. Chevrolat and DeyroUe, 

 respectively), and eleven" have been added from the meagre list 

 of M, Brulle given in the ' Histoire Naturelle des lies Canaries ' of 

 MM. Webb and Berthelot. 



As regards this work, I may be permitted to advert to the poverty 

 of the catalogue of the Canarian Coleoptera (numbering in all but 

 179 species !) ; to the inaccuracies, which I have been compelled to 

 advert to seriatim ; to the discrepancy of the names of many of the in- 

 sects as given in the letter-press and on the Plates (the latter of which 

 are not alluded to in the former) ; to the wrong identification of the 

 majority of the already-known species; to the complete silence through- 

 out respecting the various habitats ; to the absence of any remark of 

 local interest, and to the almost conclusive evidence which I possess 

 of some few of even those 179 species not being Canarian at all* 

 (but having been brought from Madeira by Mr. Webb). When we 

 consider that the insect-population, in the Canarian islands, at least 

 trebles in extent the rej^resentatives of aU the other departments of 



3 Arthrodcs Hartungii. 



* Lixus anguicuhis, Schon. ; Laparocerus mor/o, Schon. ; Hesperophanes senex, 

 W.; Zophosin ■i-curinafa, Dejr. ; Carabus faustus, Br. ; Biq^resfis BcrtheJoti, Br., 

 and Cossypliui^ //t.si/ln>-/s, Lap., — the last tliree of which are also included in MM. 

 Webb and Berthelot's work. 



^ Silpha figurata, Br. (likewise recorded by MM. Webb and Berthelot). 

 i ; ^ Oxyomus hrevicolHs, W. ; Notiomimus holosericens, W. ; Arthrodes parcepunc- 

 tatus, W., and Lithocharis debilicornis, W. 



^ Liparthrum Lowei, W. 



* Hololepfa Perraudieri, de Mars. 



^ Acallcs Monti (Chev.), W., and Pimelia amhigua, W. 



1° The evidence for the admission of these eleven species will be found under 

 each of them. But as M. Brulle does not indicate the localifies of the insects in- 

 cluded in his list, they are all, except one (the habitat of wliich I ascertained in 

 Paris, from a note appended to MM. Webb and Berthelot's type), unmarked (as 

 regards their respective islands) in my ' Topographical Catalogue,' though ad- 

 mitted into the general list. The "one" referred to is the Pimelia canariensis, Br. : 

 and the remaining ten (concerning wliich further evidence is required) are as 

 follows : — Bt/fiscui circionJicaKs, F.; Berosus spinosus, Ahr. ; Aftagemus pellio, L. ; 

 Oofoina obscHra,^v. ; Hcspierophancs roridus, Br.; Clytus Wcbbii,Ijefp.; Tentyria 

 interrupta, Lat.; Pimelia fornicata, Hbst; Pimelia spar sa, Br., and Ischnomera 

 melanura, L. 



'* With respect to this last assertion, I must refer f o my foot-not« on p. 7 ; 

 though, did space permit, I miglit add much more on the same subject. 



