280 CAXARIAX COLEOVTERX. 



nary, Palma, and Hierro I have captured it, more or less abundantly. 

 In Lanzarote and Hierro it was found likewise by Mr. Gray ; and 

 fi'om Tencrifi'e it has been comiminicated by the Barao do Castello de 

 Paiva. It occurs principally beneath the refuse around the base of 

 corn-stacks ; though it may also be taken in, and about, houses and 

 granaries. 



•fSO. Sitophilus oryzae. 



Curculio orvzfe, Linn., Cent. Lis. 12 ( 17():V). 



Sitophilus orvzre, BrnlU, in Webh ct Berth. {C'oL) 73 (1838). 



, WulL, Ins. 3LuI. 322 ( 18o4). 



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



, IlartuHcj, (icoloy. Yolddtn. Lanz. nnd Faert. 141. 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, vulgaris. 



Like the last species, a mere importation into these islands, where, 

 however, it has established itself even more completely than it has at 

 MadeLra. It is universal throughout the archipelago ; for although 

 I did not myself meet with it during our short sojourn in Gomera, 

 four Gomeran examples have lately been communicated by Dr. Crotch. 

 But in the other six islands of the Group I have taken it, more or 

 less abundantly. In Lanzarote, Palma, and Hierro it was found also 

 by Mr. Gray ; and from Tenciiffe it has been sent by the Barao do 

 Castello de Paiva. It occurs in similar spots as the /S'. (jranarlus, and 

 usually indeed in company with it. It is recorded by M. Morelet at 

 the Azores. 



(Subfam. CllYPTOEHYXCHIDLS.) 



Genus 189. CEUTHORHYNCHUS. 



Sclionherr, Cnrc. iJisp. Jlrfli. 208 ( 182()). 



451. Ceuthorhynchus pollinarius. 



Curculio pollinarius, Forst., Nov. Ins. Spec. 33 (1772). 



deutatus, 3Ishm, Ent. Brit. 280 ( 1802). 



Ceuthorhynchus pollinarius, Schiin., Gen. et Spec. Cnrc. iv. 543 (1837). 



Hahitat in Teneriifa ct Hierro, hinc inde super folia Urticarum, 

 The common European C. pollinarius occurs sparingly at the Ca- 

 naries, where it has perhaps been naturalized from more northern 

 latitudes. I have taken it, from off nettles, in semicultivated spots, 

 above the Puerto Orotava, as also at the Agua Garcia, in Teneriffe, 

 and near Valverde in Hierro, — in the first of which islands it was 

 found likewise by Mr. Gray and Dr. Crotch. 



452. Ceuthorhynchus quadridens. 



f 'urcnlio qnadridenp, A/r., Fini derm, xxxvi. 13 (1706). 

 r'rijthorhyncliiip qiiadridrns, Schdn., Crcn. rt Spec. Cnrc. iv. 5.34 (1837). 



