CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. l(Jl 



even of these the hinder one is usually more or less obsolete. Its 

 antennal club, however, constitutes its chief distinctive feature — the 

 three joints being subequal in the females, whilst the terminal one 

 is slightly elongated in the males ; whereas in its ally the last one 

 is comparatively minute in both sexes, and the penultimate and ante- 

 penultimate ones (instead of the terminal) are a little enlai'ged in 

 the males. 



Genus 115. ANTHRENUS. 

 Geoffi'oy, Hist, des Ins. i. 118 (1764). 



269. Anthrenus varius. 



Antbreuus verbasci, Oliv. [nee Linn. 17(^7],Ent. ii. 14. pi. 1. f. 2 (1790). 



varius, Fab., Ent. Si/st. i. 262 (1792). 



Megatoma verbasci, Bndle, in Webb ct Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 

 Anthrenus varius, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 455 (1848). 



, Woll, Ins. Mad. 205 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 73 (1857). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura, Canaria et Teneriffa, ad 

 flores, passim. 



The common European A. variiis (which occurs in Madeira and 

 Porto Santo) is probably universal at the Canaries, though (owing to 

 our visit to those two islands having been too early in the season for 

 the flower-infesting Coleoptera) I did not captui-e it in either Gomera 

 or Hierro ; nor indeed do I happen to have detected it even in Palma : 

 but in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, and Teneriffe it is 

 here and there abundant — both on flowers and about the inner walls 

 of houses. From Teneriffe it has also been communicated by the 

 Barao do Castello de Paiva, It may be readily known, inter alia, by 

 its 11 -jointed antennae and triarticulate club. 



270. Anthrenus claviger. 

 Anthrenus claviger, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 458 (1848). 

 Habitat in Palma, tempore vernali a.d. 1858 sat copiose leetus. 

 It is rather singular that, whilst failing to detect the last species 

 in Palma, I shoidd have met with the common European A. claviger 

 there instead. It is the only island of the seven in which I have 

 hitherto observed this small and very distinct Anthrenus. 



Fam. 22. BYRRHIDiE. 



Genus 116. SYNCALYPTA. 



(DillwvTi) Stepli., ///, Brit. Ent. iii. 133(1830). 



