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species — both of insects and shells) to Teneriffe, and finally reported 

 it for both Groups — when in reality it pertained to neither of them ! 

 At least, taking all things into account, some such solution as this 

 seems to be highly probable. Nevertheless, since it is cited (even 

 though on Mr. "Webb's authority) for Tenerilfe by M. Gory, and ad- 

 mitted (on the same authority) by M. Brulle as Canarian (for it was 

 not the habit of the latter to record the particular island in which 

 aw?/ of Mr. Webb's species were taken), I have no choice but to in- 

 clude it in the present Catalogue*. 



Genus 228. GRACILIA. 

 Serville, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. ile France, iii. 81 (1834). 



595. Gracilia pygmaea. 



Callidiimi pygmseum, Fah., Ent. Syd. i. ii. 323 (1792). 

 Obrium miuutum, Steijh., III. Brit Ent iv. 250 (1831). 

 Gracilia pygmaea, Muls., Lungic. de France, 103 (1840). 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, Gomeram et Palmam, prsesertim in vi- 

 mineis circa domes, hinc inde parum vulgaris. 



This common European insect has doubtless been naturaliged at 

 the Canaries from more northern latitudes. It seems to be attached 

 principally to the different kinds of wicker- and basket-work, and 

 to occiir consequently in (or about) houses more frequently than else- 

 where. Thus, at the Souces, in the island of Palma, I took it 

 abundantly, in May 1858, emerging from its perforations on the sides 

 of the light open trays in which silkworms were fed ; and during 

 April 1859 1 met with it in the Eio Palmas of Fuerteventura. More 

 recently a single example has been communicated by Dr. Crotch, 

 captured by himself in Gomera. It is found, though sparingly, in 

 similar situations at Madeira f. 



* A (supposed) second Clyius (the C. griseus) is indeed quoted by M. Gory 

 as Tenerilfan, and by M. Brulle as Canarian, in both eases on the authority of a 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. Webb ; but I really cannot conscientiously in- 

 clude it also in the body of tliis work, — first, because the evidence for its admis- 

 sion is quite as unsatisfactory as in the case of the C. Webbii ; and, secondly, be- 

 cause the C. griseiis is allowed in the Eiu-opean Catalogues to be a mere variety 

 of the common 4:-2ninctatiis, Fab. — to which species it is probable that even the C. 

 Webbii equcdiy pertains\ Hence, apart from all consideration of the reasons 

 (alluded to above) for which I would esjjunge them both from the Canarian fauna, 

 I think that if one of the two is admitted (on the unsatisfactory evidence of Mr. 

 Webb) it is as much as should be ventured upon ; seeing that the utmost that 

 can be conjectiu-ed is that some slightly erratic state (or states) of the C. i-jmnc- 

 tatus may perhaps have been obtained by Mr. Webb in (either Madeira or) Te- 

 neriffe ! 



t In a Paper on "Additions to the Madeiran Coleoptera " published in the 

 'Ann. of Nat. Hist.' for December 1858, I inadvertently quoted the above insect 

 as the Obrium brunneum. Fab. — from which, however, it is totally distinct. 



