320 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



A single example only of this insect has hitherto come beneath my 

 observation in these islands. It was captnrcd by myself, on the 31st 

 of March 1859, at Oliva in Fuerteventnra, and seems to differ in no 

 respect from the Madeiran specimens. 



507. Lixus guttiventris. 

 Lixus guttiventris {Germ. ), Schm., Gen. ef Spec. Cure. vii. 4G9 (1843). 



Habitat in Lanzarota et Fuerteventnra, pra?sertini ad folia ^rmicZ*'- 

 nis tJonacis, rarior. 



I am informed by M. Jekel, who examined carefully one of my 

 Fuerteventuran specimens of this Lixus, that he believes it to be 

 correctly referred to the guttiventris of Schonherr — a species which 

 occurs in Sicily and the north of Africa ; and it seems to accord 

 sufficiently well with the diagnosis to leave little doubt in my own 

 mind on the subject. Its comparatively thick and cyhndric body 

 (the elytra being conjointly rounded, or obtuse, at their apex), com- 

 bined with its rufo-ferrugiuous antennaj and feet, its very evenh/ 

 punctured striae, and the fact of its upper surface being vniformh/ 

 clothed with a minute cinereous pubescence and frequently with a 

 yellowish poUinosity, there being no lateral band of whiter scales, 

 wiU sei"ve to distinguish it. It appears to be exceedingly rare, and 

 confined (so far as I have observed hitherto) to Lanzarote and Fuerte- 

 ventnra, — in the former of which I captured a specimen between 

 Haria and Magui, during January 1858 ; whilst, in the latter, I 

 brushed four more from off some plants of the Anmdo dona.v, in the 

 Rio Palmas, early in April of the following year*. 



Genus 201. BOTHYNODERES. 

 Schonherr, Cure. iJisp. Meth. 147 (182G). 



508. Bothynoderes Jekelii. 

 B. cylindricus, niger, minutissime cinereo-squamulosus ; rostro tri- 



* I should add that M. Brulle includes the Lixus anyusfatus in his list, com- 

 piled for MM. Webb and Berthelot's volimie. It is far from impossible that 

 it may occur at the Canaries ; nevertheless I cannot admit it into the present 

 Catalogue, seeing that it is common in Madeira, and that I have (as already 

 stated) the most conclusive evidence of Mr. Webb's having mixed ii]i his Ma- 

 deiran and Canarian material in the most inaccurate manner. I feel, therefore, 

 that it is exceedingly probable tliat the example (or examples) on wliich its ad- 

 mission into the faima rests was in reality brought by Mr. Webb from Madeira 

 — a supposition wiiich is rendered the more reasonable when we consider that 

 his excessively meagre collection (nominally Canarian) contained so many species 

 (such as the Scarifcs ahhrrviafus and the Harjxili/s consentancu.><). all of them 

 abundant in Madeira, but which do not exist either amongst my own enormous 

 amount of specimens amassed in the whole seven islands of the archipelago, or in 

 the various sma'ler collections formed by others, which have been communicated 

 to me. 



