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PTINID^E. 



Necrobia rufipes, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 60 (1838). 

 Corynetes rufipes, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 235 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can., Ten., Oom.) in cadaveribus 

 et circa domos hinc inde vulgaris. 



The C. rufipes, which like the last species has become naturalize 

 throughout the greater portion of the civilized world, is doubtle 

 universal at the Canaries in all the islands of which it has been 

 observed except in Palma and Hierro, where however we may feel 

 quite sure that it exists. But although thus general at the Cana- 

 ries, it is somewhat singular that it has not yet been detected in the 

 Madeiran group. 



597. Corynetes fimetarius. 



Corynetes fimetarius, Woll. , Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 440 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 236 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.'), in stercore arido bovino, equino, 

 camelino hinc inde vulgaris. 



Locally abundant in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two eastern 

 islands of the Canarian Group, to which it seems to be peculiar. It 

 is a truly indigenous insect, occurring in the dung of cattle at 

 low and intermediate altitudes ; and in its purely structural details 

 it has more in common with the subgenus Opetiopalpus, of Spinola, 

 than with Corynetes proper. 



Fam. 45. PTINID^E. 



Genus 190. CASOPUS. 

 Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. 194 [script. Casapus~] (1862). 



598. Casopus Bonvouloirii. 



Casapus Bonvouloirii, Woll., loc. cit. 196, pi. viii. f. 1 (1862). 

 Casopus , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 237 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in sylvaticis editioribus rarissimus. 



This noble Canarian Casopus seems to be attached to the sylvan 

 districts of Teneriife at a high altitude, where it is both local and 

 scarce. In the humid region around the Agua Mansa, however, I 

 obtained it in tolerable abundance ; and it was found sparingly by 

 the Messrs. Crotch near Ycod el Alto, as well as in the Pinal 

 above it. 



