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The smaller size and rather more oval outline of this Notiomhmis, 

 combined with its perceptibly shorter limbs, yellower pubescence, 

 most densely (though minutely) punctulated surface, and unstriated 

 elytra (which entirely cover the pygidium), will sufficiently distin- 

 guish it from both of the foregoing species. Indeed its entire aspect 

 is altogether somewhat different ; and it is not impossible that it, at 

 least, may be congeneric with Fsettdochitia. Like the N. holosericeus 

 it is hitherto unique, the single example from which I drew out my 

 diagnosis having been captured by myself in the south of Grand 

 Canary during April 1858. 



Genus 166. ANOBIUM. 



Fabricius, S>/st. Ent 62 (1775). 



400. Anobium velatum. 



Anobium velatum, Woll., Ins. Mad. 276. tab. 5. f. 3 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 92 (1857). 



, Id., Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) vii. 18 (1861). 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Gomeram, rarissimum. 



The distinctions between the present insect and the following one 

 have been fully pointed out in my Paper on the Anobiadce of these 

 islands. The only example of the A. velatum (which is not uncom- 

 mon in Madeira) which I have myself detected at the Canaries was 

 found, dead, in a house at Haria, in the north of Lanzarote, during 

 the spring of 1859. A second, however, has lately been communi- 

 cated by Dr. Crotch — who captured it in Gomera, during the spring 

 of 1862. 



401. Anobium villosum. 



Anobium villosum, Bonelli, incd. 



, Dej., Cat. 130 (1837). 



, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 60 (1838). 



, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) \di. 18 (1861). 



Habitat Teneriffam, hinc inde in domibus, rarissime. 



The A. villosum (of southern Eui'ope), which differs jirincipally 

 from the last species in the form of its rather smaller and more pos- 

 teriorly-rounded prothorax, may perhaps have been naturalized in 

 these islands from higher latitudes. At any rate I have as yet ob- 

 served it only in houses in Teneriffe, — particularly (though very 

 sparingly) at S** Cruz. Nevertheless I took the remains of a single 

 example in the house at the Agua Mansa likewise — which is certainly 

 far removed from, at aU events, the towns. The minor characters 



