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affinis, it has probably been naturalized from more northern lati- 

 tudes. 



391. Cryptophagus cellaris. 



Dermestes cellaris, Scopott, Ent. Cam. 16 (1763). 

 Cryptophagus crenatus, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xvi. 70 (1845). 

 - cellaris, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 361 (1846). 

 , Woll, Cat. Mad. Col 55 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Ten.), in domibus et 

 granariis parce occurrens. 



Occurs sparingly in houses and granaries around Funchal in 

 Madeira proper, where (like the last species) it has doubtless been 

 introduced from Europe ; and two examples of it were captured by 

 the Messrs. Crotch in Teneriffe. 



392. Cryptophagus dentatus. 



Kateretea dentatus, Hbst, Kdf. v. 15, tab. 45. f. 6 (1793). 

 Cryptophagus dentatus et psi&idus, Sturm,Dcut. .Fwa, xvi. 67, 69 (1845). 



, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 364 (1846). 



, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 56 (1857). ' 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 135 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Ten., Gom., 

 Palma), vel in cultis vel sub cortice laxo in lauretis editioribus 

 vulgaris. 



The European C. dentatus is widely spread over these Atlantic 

 islands, where it would seem to have completely established itself 

 occurring not merely in houses and under the refuse at the base 

 of corn-stacks, but (far more frequently) in the open country at a 

 comparatively high elevation, where it is common beneath the bark 

 of trees within the sylvan districts. In both of these situations it is 

 found in Madeira proper and at the Canaries, in the latter of which 

 we may be pretty sure that it is universal ; for although it does not 

 happen to have been observed yet in either Grand Canary or Hierro 

 (where it must doubtless exist nevertheless), it has been captured 

 more or less abundantly in the other five islands of the archipelago. 

 Its presence in Gomera is on the authority of the Messrs. Crotch, 

 who met with it plentifully in the laurel-woods above Hermigua. 



393. Cryptophagus affinis. 



Cryptophagus affinis, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xvi. 79 (1845). 

 , Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch, iii. 360 (1846). 

 -, Woll., Ins. Mad. 170 (1854). 



