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indigenous than any of the preceding species the few examples 

 which I have seen having been taken principally (if not indeed 

 entirely) beneath the bark of Euphorbias on the mountains to the 

 north of S ta Cruz. 



397. Cryptophagus nitiduloides. 



Cryptophagus Nitiduloides, Woll., Ins. Mad. (Append.) 618 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 58 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub cortice in lauretis humidis editioribus 

 rarissimus ; certe indigenus. 



Peculiar to the sylvan districts of Madeira proper, where it 

 appears to be truly indigenous and extremely rare the few speci- 

 mens hitherto detected having been taken from beneath the bark of 

 laurels in damp and remote spots. It was first captured in 1851 (by 

 the Kev. E. T. Lowe) at the Eibeiro Frio, and was found subsequently 

 (by myself) in the north of the island. 



398. Cryptophagus hesperius. 



Cryptophagus hesperius, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 217 (1863). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 137 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), valde indi- 

 genus ; in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque vulgaris. 



A strictly Canarian species which has been taken in all the islands 

 of the Group except the two eastern ones, Lanzarote and Puerto ven- 

 tura. It is a truly indigenous insect, occurring (often very abun- 

 dantly) in sylvan and subsylvan spots of intermediate altitudes. 



The examples from Hierro (where I captured a single specimen, 

 in February 1858, and whence several more are now before me 

 which were taken by the Messrs. Crotch) have their punctation just 

 perceptibly stronger and denser, their pubescence a little longer 

 and more erect, and their elytra a trifle convexer and more fusiform 

 (or rounded off at the shoulders) ; but I do not believe that they 

 represent more than a slight insular phasis of the hesperius. Never- 

 theless in my Canarian Catalogue I defined them as the " var. ft. 

 occidental-is " ; so that if they should prove hereafter to be specifi- 

 cally distinct, the species of which they are the exponents will have 

 to stand under that name. 



Genus 122. MNIONOMUS. 

 Wollaston, Cat. Can, Col. 138 (1864). 



