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rounded prothorax, have been pointed out under the last species. 

 From Brulle having, in his short mention of it (I cannot say his 

 description, for the few words in M'hich he alludes to it do not 

 amount to even a diagnosis), accidentally compared it with the 

 common A. paniceum, Professor Lacordaire, in his recent admi- 

 rable volume on the ' Genera of Coleoptera/ queries it as a pos- 

 sible variety of that insect. It may be sufficient, however, to 

 state that the two species have scarcely anything whatever in 

 common except their generic characters. 



12. Anobium striatum, Oliv. 



Anobium striatum, Oliv., Ent, ii. 16. 9 (1790). 



, Gyll., Ins. Suec. i. 291 (1808). 



, WoU., Ins. Mad. 278 (1854). 



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



This universal European insect has established itself pretty 

 generally at the Canaries, into which it has doubtless been im- 

 ported from more northern latitudes. I have not looked very 

 closely over my immense material, but 1 believe I have taken it 

 in most of the islands ; nevertheless the specimens which I have 

 before me at the present moment are merely from Teneriffe and 

 Palma. It undoubtedly is not very abundant anywhere; and 

 certainly not so common as it is in the Madeiran group. 



13. Anobium paniceum, Linn. 



Dermestes paniceus, Linn., Fauna Suec. 431 (1761). 

 Anobium paniceum, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. iii. 340 (1830). 



, Woll., Ins. Mad. 277 (1854). 



• , Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 93 (1857). 



Like the last species, clearly an importation from more northern 

 latitudes. I have taken it in houses in Grand Canary, and in 

 aperto in the immediate vicinity of Santa Cruz in Teneriffe. 



Genus Ptilinus. 



Geoffroy, Hist. Abr. des Ins. i. 65 (1764). 



14. Ptilinus cylindripennis ?, Woll. 



'Ptilinus cylindripennisl , Woll., Ins. Mad. 285 (1854). 

 , Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 94 (1857). 



I have queried my identification of the present Ptilinus simply 

 because I have no example of the Madeiran cylindripennis now 

 in my possession for comparison. I believe, however, it is spe- 

 cifically identical with that insect. I captured both sexes of it, 

 in tolerable abundance, in Palma, on the 1st of June, 1858,— 

 out of an old post, at Galga, in the east of the island. 



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