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important now, through the discovery that the Lamia gibba of Brulle, 

 peculiar to the Canaries, is in reality a Deucalion ; of which I have 

 been able to satisfy myself, from the comparison of many specimens 

 which I took during the spring of last year in Fuertevcntura and 

 Teneriffe, — from out of the decaying Euphorbias, on the stems of 

 Avhich the larvae would appear exclusively to subsist. And it is 

 Avorth remarking that M. BruUe, whilst describing the L. gihha in 

 Webb and Berthelot's ' Histoire Naturelle des lies Canaries,' in 

 1839, imphes his conviction that it would constitute eventually the 

 type of a new genus : " Espece fort remarquable, et qui formerait 

 pcut-ctre unc division nouveUe dans Ic systeme propose recemment 

 par quelques auteurs." 



Fam. Opatridse. 



Genus Opatrttm. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 76 (1775). 



7. Opatrum dilatatum, Woll. 



Opatrum dilatatum, Woll., Ins. Mad. 501 (1854). 



A single specimen of this insect was captured by Mr. Leacock on 

 the ' Great Piton' in 1851. 



Fam. Tentyriadae. 



Genus Hegetee. 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. iii. 172 (1802). 



8. Hegeter latehricola, Woll. 

 Heyeter latehricola, Woll., Ins. Mad. 510 (1854). 

 Taken in tolerable abundance by Mr. Leacock on the ' Great 

 Piton,' in 1851 ; and I have also lately received specimens from the 

 Barao do Castello de Paiva, which I believe to have been captured 

 on the ' Great Salvage.' I have not yet compared it accurately 

 \vith the many Hegeters which I have found during the last two 

 years in the Canaries ; but it evidently approaches vciy closely to a 

 species which is common in most of the islands (particularly, how- 

 ever, the eastern ones) of that group. Whether it will prove to be 

 identical Avith it, or only nearly allied, I will not undei'take to say 

 at present ; but I must decide for certain when my Canarian material 

 is sufficiently assorted for examination. 



