156 CANARIAN COLEOriEEA. 



Attageuus pellio, Step],., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 120 ( 1830). 

 Megatoma pellio, limllc, in Webb et Berth. {Vol.) 59 (1838). 



Habitat ? [testibus DD. Webb et Berth., in ins. Canariensibus] mihi 

 non obvius. 



I have not myself detected this almost cosmopolitan insect at the 

 Canaries ; nevertheless, since it is recorded by Messrs. Webb and Ber- 

 thelot, and since the species is so well marked that it could scarcely 

 be mistaken for anything else, I have ventured to admit it into the 

 present Catalogue. I am totally unable, however, to state in which 

 island it was found, — the miserably poor and loosely- strung list of 

 Canarian Coleoptera included in that work not having so much as a 

 single locality entered for any one of them ! It is fortunate therefore 

 that the A. j^ellio is quite unimportant, since, wherever taken, it was 

 clearly a mere accidental introduction from more northern latitudes. 



1^64. Attagenus Schsefferi. 



Megatoma Schajfferi, Hbst, Kaf. iv. 93 (1791). 



macellariumP, Bridle, in IVebb et Berth. {Col.) 59 (1838). 



Attagenus Schasfteri, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Bent sch. iii. 440 (1848). 



Habitat TenerifFam, in domibus Sanctse Crueis captus ; nisi fallor, 

 introductus. 



I believe that the few Canarian examples which I have yet seen 

 of the present Attayenus are rightly referred to the A. Schafferl, 

 rather than to the A. mcf/atonia ; nevertheless they do not precisely 

 accord with Erichson's diagnosis of that species. I have taken the 

 insect sparingly in houses at S'" Cruz, of Teneriife, — where, however, 

 it has evidently been naturalized through the mediimi of commerce. 

 When immature the specimens are more or less piceous, or even fer- 

 ruginous. It occurs, in similar situations, at Madeira. 



Genus 114. TELOPES. 



Redtenbacher, //* Husset/. Reise, i. 984 (1843). 

 Although agreeing with Attagenus proper in the exceedingly elon- 

 gate, ensiform last joint of the male antennal club of at any rate one 

 of its species, I have nevertheless retained the present genus as dis- 

 tinct (even though it has been re-merged into the former by Erich- 

 son), because it seems to me to possess sufficient peculiarities to ren- 

 der its separation therefrom desirable. Without entering into minor 

 details, TeJopes may be known from Attagenus by the relatively 

 shorter, obtuser, and convexer bodies of the insects which compose 

 it, — the surfaces of which are densely pubescent (and are likewise 

 studded, in addition to the decumbent under-pilc, though sometimes 

 very sparingly so, with long and suberect hairs towards either side), 



