DERMESTIDJE. 161 



459. Attagemis pellio. 



Dermestes pellio, Linn., Fna Suec. 141 (1761). 

 Attagenus pellio, Steph., III. Brit. Ent. lii. 126 (1830). 

 Megatoma pellio, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 59 (1838). 

 Attagenus pellio, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 155 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (sec. DD. "Webb et Berth.), in faunam Canari- 

 ensem a Dom. Brulle admissus. 



This almost cosmopolitatan Attagenus is admitted by M. Brulle 

 into his loosely compiled list of Canarian Coleoptera, on the authority 

 of specimens (or a specimen) supposed to have been found by MM. 

 Webb and Berthelot. Of course no information is given concerning 

 its habitat, or indeed as to anything about it ; but since it is not 

 improbable that an insect so liable to accidental transmission through- 

 out the civilized world may perhaps have been picked up by MM. 

 Webb and Berthelot in some of the houses at S ta Cruz (which appear 

 to have been one of their chief collecting-grounds), I think that per- 

 haps I can scarcely refuse it a place in this Catalogue. At the same 

 time I must express my belief that the species has not become even 

 naturalized at the Canaries, and also that I am far from satisfied 

 that M. Brulle may not have mistaken an example of one of the 

 preceding Attayeni for the A. pellio. 



Genus 144. TELOPES. 

 Redtenbacher, in Russeg. Reisen, i. 984 (1843). 



460. Telopes obtusus. 



Dermestes obtusus, Gyll, in Schon. Syn. Ins. ii. 88 (1808). 

 Attagenus obtusus, Lucas, Col. de FAlyerie, 239 (1849). 



abbreviatus, Hart., Gcolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140, 141. 



Telopes obtusus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 157 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), ad flores hinc inde vulgaris. 



An insect of south-western Europe and the north of Africa, and 

 which occurs rather commonly in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (the 

 two eastern islands of the Canarian Group), as also more sparingly 

 in the low and sandy district between Las Palmas and the Isleta 

 in Grand Canary. It is found, during the spring months, on flowers ; 

 and will occasionally, like other Dermestideous forms, attack the 

 dried skins even of animals. I met with it also on the little island 

 of Graciosa, off the extreme north of Lanzarote. It is extremely 

 partial to the blossoms of a dwarf prickly Sonchus (the S. spinosus, 

 Forsk.), which is known locally as the " Almlaga." 



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