176 



502. Thorictus vestitus. 

 Thorietus vestitus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 186 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.\ sub lapidibus in saxosis submaritimis 

 parce repertus. 



Likewise a Canarian species, but apparently rare the few ex- 

 amples which I have seen having been captured by myself, at a low 

 elevation, in the north-east of Lanzarote. 



Fam. 30. APHODIADJE. 



Genus 157. APHODIUS. 



Illiger, Kdf. Preuss. i. 28 (1798). 



503. Aphodius hydrochaeris. 



Scarabseus hydrochaeris, Fab., Ent. Syst. Suppl 23 (1798). 

 Aphodius hydrocheeris, Won., Ins. Mad. 222 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 78 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 187 (1864). 



, Hart., Geoloff. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140, 141. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.> P to S to ) et Canarienses (in Palmd sola 

 baud observatus), in stercore bo vino vulgaris. 



The A. hydrochceris of Mediterranean latitudes is doubtless uni- 

 versal throughout the whole of these Atlantic islands which are 

 inhabited, occurring in the dung of cattle at low and intermediate 

 elevations. It has been taken in Madeira proper and Porto Santo, 

 of the Madeiran Group, and in all the Canarian islands except Palma 

 (where, however, there can be no question that it must exist). 



504. Aphodius Wollastonii. 



Aphodius Wollastonii, Harold, Berl Ent. Zeit. 397 (1862). 

 , Woll, Cat. Can. Col 188 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), in stercore vulgaris. 



An Aphodius which appears to occur in the north of Africa, and 

 which is common throughout Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, in the 

 east of the Canarian Group ; but it has not yet been detected in 

 any of the other islands. 



505. Aphodius nitidulus. 



Scarabseus nitidulus, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 30 (1792). 

 Aphodius sordidus, BrulU, in Webb et Berth. (Col) 60 (1838). 

 nitidulus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 223 (1854). 



