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Fam. 66. PIMELIAD^. 



Genus 267. PIMELIA. 

 Fabricius, Si/st. Ent. 251 (1775). 



§ I. Scutellum (lit in Pimeliadis typicis) conspicuum, postice 

 dilatafo-transversuni. 



710. Pimelia lutaria. 



P. subopaca (subtilissime alutacea), pilis plus minus elongatis erectis 

 praesertim versus latera parce obsita et pube parva cinerea demissa 

 hinc inde (sed praecipue in limbo et postice) vestita ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque parce punctatis (punctis in illo parvis, in hoc minutis- 

 simis), hoc lato, postice truncato, ad latera subsequaliter rotundato, 

 utrinque tubercuHs magnis asperato ; elytris ovalibus vel oblongo- 

 ovalibus basi subemarginatis (vix bisinuatis), leviter transversim 

 rugulosis, parce sed argute asijerato-tuberculatis, in limbo grosse 

 serratis, costis tribus (praeter lateralem) indistinctis, antice eva- 

 nescentibus, sing-ulis instructis ; tibiis in facie superiore breviter 

 cinereo-pubescentibus. — Long. corp. lin. 6-11. 



Pimelia lusaria*, Brnlle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 68. pi. i. f. 11 (18.38). 



eaiiariensis, Hart, [nee -B/-.], Geoloq. VerMltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 



140, 141. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventiu'am, necnon in insula parva 

 adjacente " Graciosa" dicta, sub lapidibus vulgaris. 



This Pimelia is universal (and, I think I may add, the onlt/ one) 

 in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, where it abounds, independently of 

 elevation — occurring likewise in the little island of Graciosa, off the 

 north of the former. It was captured also both, by Mr. Gray and M. 

 Hartung ; and was wrongly referred by Dr. Heer (who prepared the 

 list for M. Hartung's volume) to Brulle's P. canariensis — which is a 

 totally different insect, found by Messrs. "Webb and Berthelot on the 

 extreme summit of the Peak of Teneriffe. 



Apart from its numerous secondary characters, the P. lutaria may 



* The inaccuracy of M. BrulM's catalogue seems to extend even to the very 

 correcting of the prgss. In the text tliis Pimelia is called " lusaria" ; but it is 

 evident that lutaria is the title which was intended, not merely because if is so 

 spelt upon the plate, but likewise from the fact that that term is peculiarly appli- 

 cable to the present species — the short wliitish, deciunbent pubescence with which 

 it is partially clothed having the prima facie appearance of mud, or a kind of 

 earthy deposit (such as the insect might have accumulated from the dry volcanic 

 soil into which it often half-buries itself, beneath the stones, so as to remain con- 

 cealed). But it is curious to observe how a blunder of this sort is apt to beget 

 others ; for Lacordaire, having aj)parently omitted to glance at the plate, and 

 perceiving the absurdity of such a name as '■'■ lusaria," corrects it into lusoria; 

 and thus the original title, which was a tolerably distinctive one. is entirely lost 

 sight of ! 



