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522. Ootoma castanea. 



Melolontha castanea, BrulU, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 60 (1838). 

 Dasysterna canariensis ?, JRambur, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 331 (1843) . 

 Ootoma castanea, Blanch., loc. cit. 120 (1850). 

 Woll, Cat. Can. Col 198 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), rarissima; in cuniculis fodiens. 



Observed .hitherto only in Teneriffe where it was taken by Mr. 

 Gray and myself, and whence it has been obtained by the Barao do 

 Castello de Paiva. It is closely allied to the 0. fuscipennis ; but the 

 particular points (some of them structural ones) which appear to 

 separate it from .that species have been fully alluded to in my 

 Canarian Catalogue. 



523. Ootoma obscurella. 



Ootoma obscurella, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 200 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Hierro), rarissima. 



Hitherto I have seen but two examples of this" Ootoma, both of 

 which were captured by myself (during February 1858) in Hierro. 



524. Ootoma obscura. 



Melolontha obscura, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 61, pl.i. f.2 (1838). 

 Ootoina obscura, Blanch., loc. cit. 120 (1850). 

 , Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 200 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses, a Dom. Brulle inter Coleoptera Canariensia 

 admissa. 



As M. Brulle did not think it necessary to indicate a single habitat 

 in the small and inaccurate list which he prepared for the gigantic 

 work of MM. Webb and Berthelot, I am quite at a loss to conjecture 

 in what island the present Ootoma was taken. And although most 

 of the characters which his diagnosis is built upon are merely those 

 which are common to all the species here enumerated, there is 

 nevertheless one referred to (namely, the enlarged spatuliform clava 

 of its antennae) which would seem to prevent me from identifying 

 the 0. obscura with any of the preceding species. 



Fam. 33. GLAPHYEID^l. 



Genus 162. CHASMATOPTERUS. 



(Dejean) Latr., Rcgn. An. iv. 567 (1829). 



