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tured by myself, from beneath camels' dung, in the lUo Talmas of 

 Fuertevontura, at the beginning of April 1859. 



Genus 109. SYMBIOTES. 



Eedteubaclier, Fna Anstr. 198 (1819). 



258, Symbiotes pygmseus. 



Symbiotes pygma3us, Hampe, in Ent. Zeit. Stett. 353 (1850). 

 Microchondrus dornuum, WolL, Ins. Mad. tab. iv. f. 2 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 71 (1857). 



Symbiotes pygmeeus, J. Duval, Gen. des Col. d'Eio: ii. 221. pi. 54. f. 270 

 (1859). 



Habitat Palmam, a Dom. Gray mense Februario a.d. 1858 repcrtus. 



The small beetle which I described in 1854 under the name of 

 Microchondrus dornuum appears (as indeed I have elsewhere stated) 

 to be identical with the European Symbiotes pygmams. At least I 

 can detect no sufficient difference to warrant its separation from that 

 species ; though, at the same time, the only two authentic specimens 

 which I have yet seen of the latter (and which have been commu- 

 nicated by Dr. Hampe of Vienna) are certainly somewhat larger than 

 those from the Atlantic islands. It seems to be very rare at the 

 Canaries (even more so than it is in Madeii-a), where indeed I have 

 n^ot myself hitherto met with it. Two examples, however (one of 

 which he has presented to the National Collection), were captured by 

 Mr. Gray, during February 1858, in Palma. 



Genus 110. TYPH^A. 

 (Khby) Staph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 70 (1830). 



259. Typhaea fumata. 



Dermestes fumatus, Linn., Syst. Nat. ii. 564 (1767). 

 Mycetopliagus fumatus, Gi/IL, Ins. Suec. iii. 399 (1813). 

 Typhfea fumata, WolL, Ins. Mud. 199 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 71 (1857). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura, Teneriffa et Gomera, sub 

 quisquiliis, rarior. 



Of the common European T. fumata (which occurs also, though 

 not very abundantly, in Madeira) I have seen hitherto but sixteen 

 Canarian examples. Eleven of them were taken by myself, from 

 beneath vegetable refuse, in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Tene- 

 riffe ; and the remaining five by Dr. Crotch in Teneriffe and Gomera. 

 My Lanzarotan specimens were captured near Haria; those from 

 Fuerteventura, in the liio Palmas ; and those from Teneriffe, at Ta- 

 ganana, the Agua Mansa, and close to the Puerto of Orotava. 



