18 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Anobiadae 



seriatim pubescentibus ; antennis pedibusque brevibus gracilibus, 

 illis brunneo-iiigris ad basin rufescentibus, his rufo-testaceis. 



Long. corp. bn. 1 . 



Habitat in Canaria Grandi austrab, ApriU 1858 captus. 



Well distinguished from the two preceding species by its 

 smaller size, shorter limbs, most densely (but minutely) punctu- 

 lated surface, and its unstriated elytra, which entirely cover the 

 pygidium at their apex. It was captured by myself in the south 

 of Grand Canary, during my expedition there, with the Rev. 

 R. T. Lowe, in April 1858. 



Genus Anobium. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 62 (1775). 



10. Anobium velatum, Woll. 



Anobium velatum, Woll., Ins. Mad. 276. tab. 5. f. 3 (1854). 

 , Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 92 (1857). • 



A single example of this insect, found (dead) in a house at 

 Haria, in the north of Lanzarote, is all that I have hitherto de- 

 tected of it in the Canarian group. It is, however, highly satis- 

 factory to find it represented — as tending still further to esta- 

 blish its distinctness from its near ally the A. villosum (of 

 southern Europe), which I have taken in the neighbouring island 

 of TenerifFe. It differs from the A. villosum {inter alia) in being 

 a trifle larger and with more erect pubescence, in the punctures 

 of its elytra being somewhat smaller and the interstices more 

 flattened, and in its larger and broader prothorax, which is 

 much straighter at the sides (being less rounded-off posteriorly), 

 more coarsely and closely granulated, less convex on its disk, 

 and with a more evidently glabi'ous central line behind. 



11. Anobium villosum, Brulle. 



Anobium villosum, Bonelli, in litt. 



, Dej. Cat. 130 (1837). 



, Brulle, Webb et Berth. Hist. Nat. des lies Can. 60 (1839). 



Having captured this insect several times in the houses of 

 S*"* Cruz, in Teneriffe, I am enabled to correct a false impression 

 into which I had fallen in the ' Insecta Maderensia ' {vide p. 277), 

 in supposing that the Anobium recorded by M. Brulle, in Webb 

 and Berthelot^s ' Histoire Naturelle des lies Canaries,^ was pro- 

 bably identical with the INIadeiran A. velatum. From the occur- 

 rence, however, of the true A. villosum (of southern Europe) at 

 S** Cruz, it is certainly more likely, a priori, that the Canarian 

 specimens examined by Brulle were correctly identified. Its 

 distinctions, which, although sufficiently numerous, consist pin- 

 cipally in the form of its rather smaller and more posteriorly- 



