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ENDOPIILCEID/E. 



Considering the secretive habits of the Monotomas, in varioi 

 kinds of refuse, they are insects easy of accidental transportation ; 

 and it is exceedingly probable therefore that the whole five species 

 here enumerated may have been introduced originally into these 

 islands from more northern latitudes, and may have thus become 

 naturalized. 



Fam. 19. ENDOPHLCEnXE. 



Genus 108. TARPHIUS. 

 (Germar) Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 256 (1845). 



335. Tarphius Lowei. 



Tarphius Lowei, WolL, Ins. Mad. 134, tab. iii. f. 5 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 43 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to ), inter lichenes in fissuris rupium 

 vel ad truncos arborum crescentes, hinc inde (saltern in Portu 

 Saneto) vulgaris. 



Peculiar to the Madeiran Group, occurring amongst lichens (whether 

 in the crevices of the rocks or on the trunks of trees) in Madeira 

 proper and Porto Santo, being rather scarce in the former, but 

 occasionally abundant in the latter. 



336. Tarphius excisus. 



Tarphius excisus, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 47 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), rarissimus, in summo monte " Pico 

 Branco " parcissime repertus. 



Observed hitherto only in Porto Santo, of the Madeiran Group, 

 where it appears to be extremely rare. Indeed I have seen but two 

 specimens of it, which were taken by myself (on the 9th of May, 

 1855) on the lofty and almost inaccessible promontory immediately 

 over the extreme summit of the Pico Branco, in the north of that 

 island. It probably has much the same habits as the T. Lowei. 



337. Tarphius parallelus. 



Tarphius parallelus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 134 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 42 (1857). 



HaUtat Maderenses (Mad.}, sub truncis arborum prolapsis in laurctis 

 humidis editioribus parce degens. 



Inhabits the mountains of Madeira proper occurring beneath 



