DERMESTID.E. 159 



The very few examples which I have seen of this species were 

 captured by myself within some putrid stalks of the Euphorbia cana- 

 riensis on the mountains above S ta Cruz, in Teneriffe. Perhaps, there- 

 fore, it may represent in that island the T. typhceoides of Gomera. 



Genus 141. DIPHYLLUS. 

 Stephens, HI Brit. Ent. iii. 87 [script. Biphylluz] (1830). 



454. Diphyllus lunatus. 



Dermestes kmatus, Fab., EnL Syst. i. 232 (1792). 

 Biphyllus lunatus, Steph., loc. eft. 87 (1830). 

 Diphyllus lunatus, WoU., Ins. Mad. 172 (1854). 

 Biphyllus lunatus, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 51 (1857). 

 Diphyllus lunatus, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 134 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Gom., Palma), in Sphce- 

 rid fraxined ad trancos arborum. antiques creseentes rarissimus. 



The European D. lunatus occurs very sparingly in the intermediate 

 elevations of Madeira proper amongst a black SpTiasria which grows 

 on the trunks of the old trees, and which does not seem to differ 

 from the S. fraxinea of more northern latitudes ; whilst at the 

 Canaries I have met with it (under the same circumstances as at 

 Madeira) high up in the Barranco de Galga, of Palma, and a single 

 example was taken by the Messrs. Crotch, during the summer of 

 1864, in Gomera. 



Fam. 26. DEEMESTID^B. 



Genus 142. DERMESTES. 

 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ii. 561 (1767). 



455. Dermestes vulpinus, 



Dermestes vulpinus, Fab., Spec. Ins. i. 64 (1781). 



, Brutte, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 



, WoU., Ins. Mad. 202 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 72 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 155 (1864). 



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

 in eadaveribus pellibusqne late sed parce diffusus. 



The almost cosmopolitan D. vulpinus occurs about the towns both 

 in the Madeiran and Canarian Groups, where it has doubtless become 

 established through human agencies. In Madeira proper it is found 

 occasionally around Funchal ; whilst at the Canaries it has been ob- 



