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cultivated spots, and old houses (near Funchal), in Madeira proper ; 

 but it has not been observed elsewhere in these Atlantic islands. 

 Most probably it has become naturalized accidentally from more 

 northern latitudes. 



Genus 'l88. CLERUS. 

 Geoffroy, Hist. Abr. dcs Ins. 303 (1764). 



594. Clems Paivae. 



Clerus Paivse, Wott., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. I 163, pi. vii. f. 5 (1862). 

 . Id., Cat. Can. Col. 234 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Pdlma sola baud observatus), in ramulis 

 truncisque Euphorbiarum emortuis late sed parce diffusus. 



This most interesting little Clerus (which was dedicated to my 

 worthy friend the Barao do Castello de Paiva) is attached exclu- 

 sively to the dead Euphorbias in the Canarian archipelago, where it 

 is doubtless universal ; for although it does not happen to have been 

 observed in Palma we may be pretty certain that it must exist there, 

 and in the other six islands it has been taken more or less abun- 

 dantly. Its detection in Gomera is due to the recent investigations 

 of the Messrs. Crotch. 



Genus 189. CORYNETES. 

 Herbst, Kdf. iv. 148 [script. Korynetes] (1791). 



595. Corynetes ruficollis. 



Anobiurn ruficolle, Thunb., Nov. Ins. Spec. i. 8 (1781). 

 Dermestes ruficollis, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 230 (1792). 

 Necrobia ruficollis, Wott., Ins. Mad. 258 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 88 (1857). 

 .Corynetes ruficollis, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 235 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Ten.}, in cultis et circa 

 domos necnon in cadaveribus parce occurrens. 



This almost cosmopolitan insect has become established both at 

 the Madeiras and Canaries, where however it is extremely local, 

 and (at any rate at the latter) rather scarce. It occurs about 

 houses and cultivated grounds, as well as in dead animals, in 

 Madeira proper; and I have also met with it near S ta Cruz, in 

 Teneriffe. 



596. Corynetes rufipes. 



Anobium rufipes, Thunb., Nov. Ins. Spec. i. 10 (1781). 

 Corynetes rufipes, Fab., Syst. Elm. i. 286 (1801). 



