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CRYPTOPHAGID^:. 



399. Mnionomus ellipticus. 



Mmonomus ellipticus, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 138 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), inter museos et sub foliis raarcidis in 

 lauretis editioribus parce occurrens. 



A Canarian insect which I have observed hitherto only in the 

 sylvan districts of Teneriffe, where it occurs beneath fallen leaves 

 and amongst damp moss in the laurel-woods of intermediate alti- 

 tudes. It is clearly, however, both local and rare ; for it escaped the 

 researches of the Messrs. Crotch, and the only regions in which I 

 have myself taken it are Las Mercedes and the Agua Garcia*. 



Genus 123. PARAMECOSOMA. 



Curtis, in Ent. Mag. i. 186 (1833). 



400. Paramecosoma simplex. 



Paramecosoma simplex, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 59 (1857). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 141 (1864). 



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

 Hierro), sub quisquiliis degens. 



Rather common in Madeira proper, principally under garden- 

 refuse about Funchal ; but at the Canaries, where it has been taken 

 in Fuerteventura, Teneriffe, Gomera, and Hierro, it appears to be 

 less abundant though probably, when searched for in the right 

 localities, it will be found to be pretty general throughout that 

 Group. Indeed the Messrs. Crotch report it as somewhat plentiful 

 in Gomera ; but in Fuerteventura, where I obtained it beneath the 

 refuse of a camels' stable, it is decidedly scarce. I have seen but 

 one specimen from Teneriffe, and one from Hierro both of which 

 were captured by the Messrs. Crotch. 



Genus 124. LEUCOHIMATIUM. 



Rosenhauer, Die Thiere Andalus. 179 (1856). 



401. Leucohimatium elongatum. 



Paramecosoma elongata, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xviii. 72, pi. 342. f. a. A. 



(1846). 



* In my diagnosis of this insect I omitted to call attention to the fact that 

 each elytron has a slight tendency to have a longitudinal subglabrous line down 

 its entire length, at some distance from the suture. In a specimen now before 

 me, which was collected in Teneriffe by the Messrs. Crotch, this line is quite 

 evident (and has almost the appearance of being somewhat raised) ; but in the 

 examples from which my description was compiled it is so extremely faint as to 

 be scarcely appreciable, and consequently I altogether failed to observe it. 





