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As already stated, the M. puhlpennis is apparently peculiar to 

 Palraa, where it was first captured by Mr. Gray during February 

 1858 ; and where, at the end of May of the same year, I took a few 

 more specimens, from out of the decayed Eujyhorbia-stems in the 

 Barranco above S'"* Cniz. " That it is no modification of the if. fusi- 

 formis, which is so abundant and universal throughout the other 

 islands of the Canarian archipelago, seems evident from the fact that 

 that insect remains constant under the various circumstances and 

 conditions, and in the innumerable localities, in which it is elsewhere 

 found — being, to all appearance, quite independent both of external 

 agencies and altitude. I conclude, therefore, that the very decided 

 characters of sculpture and clothing which distinguish the M. puhi- 

 pennis are truly specific ones, and such as cannot be referred to local 

 influences of any kind." 



" The pubescent elytra of the M. puhlpennis (which have their in- 

 terstices more convex and evidently punctulated, and their striae 

 broader and deeper), in conjunction with its more closely and roughly 

 punctured prothorax (especially, however, of the female sex)," will 

 immediately distinguish it from the last species, [loc. cit. p. 407.] 



(Subfam. RHYNCHOPHORIBES.) 



Genus 188. SITOPHILUS. 

 Schonhen-, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 9G7 (1838). 



449. Sitophilus granarius. 



Curculio gi-auarius, Linn., Fna Suec. 587 (1701). 



Sitophilus granarius, ScMn., Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 977 (1838). 



* linearis?, Brulle, in IFebb et Berth. (Col.) 73 (1838). 



granarius, WolL, Ins. Mad. 321 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 104 (1857). 



Habitat insulas Canarienses, in Gomera sola adhuc hand observatus. 



This cosmopolitan insect has become naturalized at the Canaries (as 

 completely as in Madeira), where it is doubtless universal. Hitherto, 

 however, like the following one, I do not happen to have observed it 

 in Gomera — where, however, there can be no question that it is as 

 common as elsewhere. But in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Ca- 



* M. Brulle omits all notice of the common S. granarius, which aboimds at 

 the Canaries, but records in his list (in addition to the 8. oryzcB) the S. linearis, 

 Hbst. Amongst the numerous Sifophili which I have examined from the various 

 islands, I cannot detect a vestige of any species except the granarius and oryza ; 

 and, from the inaccuracy, therefore, of M. Brulle's Catalogue, which moreover 

 does not give so much as a single habitat, I have little doubt that he has mistaken 

 an immature example of the former for that insect. 



