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Genus 130. HOLOPABAMECUS. 

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



I. Antennae 9- et 10- (an secundum sexum ?) articulate. 



418. Holoparamecus Kunzii. 



Calyptobium Kunzei, Aide, Ami. de la Soc. Ent. de France, i. (1843). 

 Holoparamecus Kunzei, Wbll., Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 259 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), circa urbem Funchalensem rarissinms. 



The H. Kunzii, which seems to occur sparingly in many distant 

 parts of the civilized world, and which (like most of the Holopara- 

 meci) is eminently liable to accidental dispersion through human 

 agencies, is found occasionally about houses and amongst garden- 

 refuse around Funchal in Madeira proper ; but it has not yet been 

 detected in any of the other islands. Like the H. singularis, its 

 antennae are sometimes 9- and at others 10-articulate, a variation 

 which is probably a sexual one, though this has not yet been posi- 

 tively ascertained. That the variation, however, exists in the Kunzii, 

 no less than in the singularis , I have lately satisfied myself by a 

 most careful observation ; though when I compiled my Canarian 

 Catalogue I was under the impression (vide p. 146) that the antennse 

 of the Kunzei were in all instances 10 -jointed. 



419. Holoparamecus singularis. 



Silvanus singularis, Beck, Beitr. zur Baierisch. Insectenf. (1817). 

 Amphibolonarzron difficile, Villa, Cat. Col. Etir. 26 (1833). 

 Holoparamecus depressus, Curt., Ent. Mag. i. 186 (1833). 



, Id., Brit. Ent. xiii. 614 (1836). 



Calyptobium Villae, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, i. 243(1843). 

 Holoparamecus singularis, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. ]^45 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.}, rarissime ; sub quisquiliis semel captus. 



The only Atlantic specimen which I have seen of this minute 

 insect (which is widely, though sparingly, diffused over Europe and 

 the north of Africa) was captured by myself from under vegetable 

 refuse in the north of Lanzarote, in the Canarian Group. 



II. Antennae semper YL-articulatce. 



420. Holoparamecus caularum. 



Calyptobium caularum, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de F., i. 244 (1843). 



, Eedt., Fna Austr. 204 (1849). 

 Holoparamecus caularum, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 144 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.}, sub quisquiliis semel tantum lectus. 



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