112 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



Nitidula flexuosa, Woll, Ins. Mad. 119 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad Col. 39 (1857). 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, ad Agua Bueyes d. 28. Jan. a.d. 1859 

 deprehensa. 



This European Nitidula (which occurs also in Porto Santo) was 

 taken by Mr. Gray and myself, from out of bones, at Agua Bueyes 

 in Fuerteventura, on the 28th of January 18.58 ; which is the only 

 instance that I am aware of, of its having been found at the Canaries. 



Genus 77. PRIA. 

 (Kirby) Staph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 49 (18.30). 



186. Pria didcamarse. 



Laria dulcamar?e, Scop., Ent. Cam. 22 (1763). 



Pria trmicatella et Meligethes dulcamaroe, Steph,, III. Brit. Ent. iii. 

 45 et 50 (18.30). 



dulcamarfB, JFolL, Im. Mad 122 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 40 (1857). 



Hahitat Teneriffam et Palmam, in herbidis, rarissime. 



The only island of the Group in which I have myself observed this 

 European insect is Palma ; where, during May of 1858, I captured 

 several specimens of it by briishing various plants on the damp per- 

 pendicular rocks high up in the Barranco da Agua. It was however 

 taken sparingly, during the spring of 1862, by Dr. Crotch, in Tene- 

 riffe. It occurs likewise at Madeira. 



Genus 78. MELIGETHES. 

 (Kirby) Staph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 45 (1830). 



187. Meligethes varicollis. 



Meligethes varicollis, Woll, Ins. 3Iad. 120 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 41 (1857). 



erythropa, Ilartuny [uec Mshni], Geoloy. Verlmltn. Lanz. mid 



Fueri. 140. 



Hahitat Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram et Teneriffam, hinc inde in 

 floribus hand infrequens. 



This large and distinct Meligethes (which occurs rarely in the sylvan 

 districts of Madeira) is localhj far from uncommon at the Canaries ; 

 nevertheless it is chiefly in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura that I have 

 hitherto observed it. In the former of those islands it was taken by 

 Mr. Gray and myself, near Haria, dming January 1858 ; and during 

 the following spring I captured it again in the same region, as also 

 in the Eio Palmas of Fuerteventura. And I subsequently obtained 

 four examples of it at Taganana, in the north of Teneriff'e. In Lan- 



