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305. Aphodius lividus. 



Scarabaeus lividus, OUv., Bid. i. 3. 80 (1789). 



bilitm-atus, Mshm, E)d. Brit. i. 15 (1802). 



Aphodius lividus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 225 (1854). 

 , Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 78 (1857). 



Habitat Canariam, Teneriifam, Gomeram et Palmam, in stercore, 

 rarius. 



The European A. lividus; which occurs sparingly in Madeira and 

 Porto Santo, and which I have taken at Mogadore on the opposite 

 coast of Morocco, is decidedly rare in these islands. I have, how- 

 ever, captured it in the region of El Monte in Grand Canary, near 

 the Puerto Orotava of TenerifFe, and below Argual (in the district 

 of the Banda) on the western side of Palma ; and I have received 

 examples which were found by Dr. Crotch in Gomera. The Palman 

 specimens are unusually dark ; but it is a variable species as to 

 colour. Its more or less livid hue, however, in conjunction with its 

 short outline, its highly polished and comparatively unpunctured sur- 

 face, and the wwmargined hinder edge of its pronotum, will readily 

 distinguish it from the other Apliodii here enumerated. 



306. Aphodius granarius. 



Scarabfeus granarius, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. ii. 547 (1767). 

 Aphodius carbonarius, Bridle, in Wehh et Berth. ( Col.) 60 (1838). 



granarius, Woll, Ins. Mad. 226 (1854). 



^ Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 79 (1857). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, vulgaris. 



This common European Ai'>liodius, which abounds in the Madeiran 

 Group and which is recorded by M. Morelet at the Azores, is uni- 

 versal at the Canaries — in all the islands of which I have myself 

 met with it except Gomera, where however it has been found lately 

 by Dr. Crotch. In Lanzarote it was captured also by Mr. Gray, 

 and in Teneriffe by Dr. Crotch and the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 

 It may be known at once from all the foregoing species by, inter alia, 

 its totally black hue. 



Genus 128. OXYOMUS. 

 (Eschscholtz) De Castelnau, Hist. ii. 98 (1840). 



307. Oxyomus brevicollis. 



Oxyomus brevicoUis, Woll, Ins. Mad. 229 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col 79 (1857). 



Habitat Gomeram et Palmam ; in ilia a Dom. Crotch, in hac a 



Dom. Gray repertus. 



The only Canarian examples which I have seen of this insect 



