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exist. Its discovery in Gomera is due to the late researches of the 

 Messrs. Crotch, who captured it abundantly by sweeping the flowers 

 of the Euphorbias near Hermigua. 



632. Xyletinus desectus. 



Xyletinus desectus, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 13 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 246 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Gom.), minus frequens. 



Likewise Canarian, but whether of Euphorbia-infesting habits I 

 am scarcely able to say, though I have little doubt that such will 

 be found to be the case. I have taken it in the region of El Monte 

 in Grand Canary, and also at Souzal in Teneriffe from which latter 

 island a single specimen is now before me which was captured (I 

 believe near the Puerto Orotava) by the Messrs. Crotch, who more- 

 over obtained another in Gomera. It is evidently very much scarcer 

 than the latitans, to which however it is closely allied*. 



633. Xyletinus brevis. 



Xyletinus brevis, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 15 (1861). 

 , Id, Cat. Can. Col. 247 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), rarissimus. 



The only two examples yet detected of this Xyletinus I captured 

 in the Barranco above S ta Cruz, in Palma, of the Canarian Group. 



634. Xyletinus excavatus. 



Xyletinus excavatus, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 15 (1861), 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 247 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), semel tantum deprehensus. 



Hitherto unique, a single specimen having been taken by myself 

 (during April 1858) in the south of Grand Canary. 





Genus 202. NOTIOMIMUS. 

 WoUaston, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 15 (1861). 



* The X. desectus differs from the latitans in being usually a little smaller and 

 darker, with its pubescence somewhat shorter and not quite so coarse ; in its elytra 

 being a trifle more convex (or drawn-in) posteriorly, more distinctly (though 

 very delicately) punctulated, and apparently free from the minute and distant 

 granules which are scattered over the anterior portion in that species ; in its 

 tibia; being appreciably slenderer; and in the basal joint of its antennae being 

 rather less swollen, and not exactly of the same shape. 



