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itself beneath stones, and in the dry loosened bark of Euphorbias, 

 principally at low elevations. 



627. Piotes vestita. 



Piotes vestita, Woll., loc. tit. 213, pi. 8. f. 9 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 244 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), sub lapidibus in intermediis rarissiraa. 



A large Canarian species which seems to be peculiar to the island 

 of Palma, where it occurs (though very rarely) beneath stones at 

 intermediate altitudes. 



Fam. 46. ANOBIAD^E. 



Genus 200. STAGETUS. 

 Wollaston, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 11 (1861). 



628. Stagetus crenatus. 



Stagetus crenatus, Woll., loc. cit. 13 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 245 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), inter lichenes ad truncos arborum ve- 

 tustos crescentes necnon in ligno antique in intermediis occur- 

 rens. 



A Canarian insect which (if indeed it be positively distinct from 

 what I have regarded as the " var. ft " of the following species) has 

 been observed hitherto only in Teneriffe, where it is widely but spa- 

 ringly distributed at intermediate elevations harbouring amongst 

 the lichen which grows on the trunks of old trees, as well as amongst 

 dead wood and other dry vegetable refuse. 



629. Stagetus hirtulus. 



Stagetus hirtulus, Woll., loc. tit. 12 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 245 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom., Hierro), in locis similibus ac praicedens. 

 Specimina qua3dam niinora (=var. j3. intermedia) in Gomera 

 capta minus typica sunt et forsan ad speciem praBcedentem me- 

 lius pertinent. Differunt prascipue statura minore, elytrorum 

 striis profundioribus ac sensim subcrenatis ; sed in pube longiore 

 suberecta S. hirtulo congruunt. 



Found in Gomera and Hierro, where it represents the S. crenatus 

 of Teneriffe. Although in its normal state very different from that 

 species, nevertheless (as stated in my Canarian Catalogue) I cannot 



