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HISTERID.E. 



491. Saprinus osculans. 



Saprinus osculans, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 168 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), semel tantum captus. 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but found hitherto only in 

 Fuerteventura of the Canarian Group. 



Genus 151. CARCINOPS. 

 De Marseul, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, iii. 83 (1855), 



492. Carcinops minimus. 



Hister minimus, Dej. Cat. (edit. 1) (1821). 



Parornalus minimus, Aube, Ann. dela Soc. Ent. deFr. viii. 322 (1850). 



f Wdl, Ins. Mad. 212 (1854). 



Carcinops minimus, De Mars., loc. cit. 90 (1855). 

 Paromalus minimus, Wott., Cat. Mad. Col. 74 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub lapidibus in intermediis editiori- 

 busque vulgaris. 



A European species which occurs rather commonly, under stones, 

 in the intermediate and lofty elevations of Madeira proper ; but it 

 has not yet been detected in any of the other islands. Be Marseul, 

 in the last edition of his Catalogue, has changed its specific title into 

 that of " corpusculus" ; but his reason for doing so seems to me to 

 be insufficient. 



493. Carcinops 14-striatns. 



Dendrophilus 14-striatus, Steph., III. Brit. Ent. v. 412 (1832). 



Paromalus pumilio, Erich., in King's Jahrb. i. 169 (1834). 



Hister 12-striatus ?, Br. fnecPayfc. j, in Webb et Berth. ( Col.} 59 (1838). 



Paromalus pumilio, Wott., Ins. Mad. 213 (1854). 



Carcinops pumilio, De Mars., loc. cit. 91 (1855). 



Paromalus pumilio, Wott., Cat. Mad. Col. 74 (1857). 



Carcinops 14-striatus, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 166 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Ten., Gom., 

 Hierro), sub putridis praecipue in inferioribus degens. 



Likewise a European insect, and one which is widely spread over 

 these Atlantic islands where most probably it is nearly universal. 

 It occurs beneath damp and putrid refuse (both vegetable and animal) 

 principally at low, but sometimes at intermediate elevations. It has 

 been taken near Funchal in Madeira proper, and also in Lanzarote, 

 Fuerteventura, Teneriffe, Gomera, and Hierro, of the Canarian 

 Group. Its detection in Hierro is due to researches of the Messrs. 

 Crotch. 



