BYRRHID.E. 163 



The European A. varius is probably universal throughout the 

 whole of these Atlantic islands, though hitherto it does not happen 

 to have been observed in all of them. It is rather common, however, 

 on flowers in Madeira proper and Porto Santo, principally at low 

 elevations ; whilst at the Canaries it has been captured in Lanzarote, 

 Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, and Teneriffe. It has moreover been 

 communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, who received it in 

 abundance even from the Great Salvage. 



II. Antennce I0-articulatce (clavd 2-articulatd). 



465. Anthrenus minor. 



Anthrenus claviger, Woll [nee Erich., 1848], Cat. Can. Col. 161 (1864). 

 minor, Id., Append, huj. op. 28. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom., Palma, Hierro), hinc inde ad flores pra3- 

 sertim Euphorbiarvm vulgaris. 



As stated in the Appendix to this volume, the present Anthrenus 

 was wrongly identified in my Canarian Catalogue with the European 

 A. claviger ; and I think it far from improbable that it is in reality 

 conspecific with the A. minutus of Mediterranean latitudes. Be this, 

 however, as it may (for I have no means of deciding the question 

 positively), the A. minor occurs in profusion throughout the inter- 

 mediate altitudes of Gomera, Palma, and Hierro, of the Canarian 

 Group in the second of which it was captured by myself, whilst in 

 the first and third it has been met with more recently by the Messrs. 

 Crotch. 



Fam. 27. BYRRHIDJE. 



Genus 146. SYNCALYPTA, 

 (Dillwyn) Steph., Ill Brit. Ent. iii. 133 (1830). 



466. Syncalypta Integra. 



Syucalypta Integra, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 162 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Go m., Hierro), in sylvaticis editioribus rarissima. 



A Canarian Syncalypta of which I have seen as yet but two ex- 

 amples one of which was taken by myself in the sylvan region 

 of El Golfo on the western slopes of Hierro, and the other (more 

 recently) by the Messrs. Crotch above Hermigua in Gomera. The 

 Gomeran specimen has its prothorax and elytral striae a little more 



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