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MELYRID.E. 



Genus 184. DOLICHOSOMA. 

 Stephens, Man. Brit. Col 193 (1839). 



584. Dolichosoma Hartungii. 

 Dasytes filiformis, Hart, [nee Creutz.~\. Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. iind 



Dolichosoma Hartungii, Wott., Journ. of Ent. i. 446 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 231 (1864). H 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can., Ten."), ad flores in inferi- 

 oribus intermediisque sat vulgare. 



Not uncommon at low and intermediate elevations in the Canarian 

 Group, at any rate in the eastern and central parts of it having 

 been taken in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, and Tene- 

 riffe. Although I have not been able to procure a type of that 

 insect for comparison, I believe that it will be found to be closely 

 allied to the D. protensum from Sardinia. 



Genus 185. HAPLOCNEMUS. 

 Stephens, ///. Brit. Ent. iii. 316 [script. Aplocnemus~\ (1830). 



585. Haplocnemus sculpturatus. 



Haplocnemus sculpturatus, Woll, Journ. of Ent. i. 447 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 232 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten,., Gfom., Palma), in intermediis et praesertii 

 elevatis rarior. 



Occurs sparingly at intermediate and (more particularly) lofty 

 altitudes in Teneriffe, Gomera, and Palma, of the Canarian Group ; 

 in the first of which I took it (not uncommonly) on the blossoms, as 

 well as from amongst dead sticks beneath the shrubs, of the Eetamas 

 on the lofty Cumbre adjoining the Canadas more than 8000 feet 

 above the sea. 



586. Haplocnemus vestitus. 



Haplocnemus vestitus, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 447 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 232 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Hierro), parce deprehensus. 



Likewise a Canarian Haplocnemus, though as yet observed only 

 in Hierro where it may be regarded as the representative of the 

 preceding species, which occurs in at any rate three of the other 

 islands. It is in fact closely allied to that insect, of which perhaps 

 it may be some extreme insular modification which is densely beset 

 with long and erect hairs. 



