LATRIDIAD^E. 149 



Corticaria fulva, Mann., in Germ. Zeit.fiir die Ent. v. 42 (1844). 



, Wott.< Ins. Mad. 185 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col 65 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 146 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Ten.), forsan in- 

 trodticta ; in domibus et granariis parce occurrens. 



The European C. fulva occurs sparingly (in and about houses) 

 both at the Madeiran and Canarian Groups, where it has probably 

 become established from more northern latitudes. It has been taken 

 in Madeira proper, of the former, and in Laiizarote and Teneriffe, of 

 the latter ; but we may expect to meet with it pretty generally 

 throughout the islands, except those which are uninhabited. 



424. Corticaria crenicollis. | 



Corticaria crenicollis ?, Mann., in Germ. Zeit.fur die Ent. v. 37 (1844), 



-, Wall., Ins. Mad. 185 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 64 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), semel rcperta ; vix, nisi fallor, praBce- 

 dentis varietas. 



A single example, taken many years ago in Madeira proper, em- 

 bodies the whole evidence that I possess for the admission of this Euro- 

 pean Corticaria amongst the Atlantic Coleoptera. And considering 

 also that I am far from satisfied that even that specimen has been 

 correctly determined, I cannot but feel a suspicion that perhaps after 

 all the C. crenicollis should not properly be included in the Madeiran 

 Catalogue. Yet the individual on which its insertion rests (and 

 which was originally identified with the crenicollis by Motschulsky) 

 does not, I think, accord sufficiently with the fulva to be regarded 

 as even an accidental variety of that insect. But it is quite possible 

 that such may be the case ; and I would therefore merely wish to 

 state that further material is greatly required before the species can 

 be looked upon as an undoubted member of our fauna. 



425. Corticaria maculosa. 



Corticaria maculosa, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 408 (1858). 

 , Id. t Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. 186 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 147 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (in Can. sola hand obser- 

 vata), passim ; ab ora maritime, usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendens. 



Widely spread over the low and intermediate districts of Madeira 

 proper ; whilst at the Canaries there caunot be a question that it is 



