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Fain. 47. BOSTRICHID^S. 



Genus 205. XYLOPERTHA. 

 Duerin, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, Bull. 17 (1845). 



651. Xylopertha ficicola. 



Xylopertha ficicola, Woll., Append, huj. op. 36. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom.\ in ligno Fid antique a DD. Crotch 

 capta. 



A large Canarian Xylopertha which was found by the Messrs. 

 Crotch in Gomera, where they bred a considerable number of it 

 from the rotten wood of an old fig-tree. In colour, clothing, and 

 sculpture it is very closely allied to the X. humeralis, Lucas ( = 

 Chevrierii, Villa), of Mediterranean latitudes, though I think it is 

 scarcely possible to regard it as a geographical modification of that 

 insect*. 



652. Xylopertha barbifrons. 



Xylopertha barbifrons, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 252 (1864). 

 , Id., Append, huj. op. 37. 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), in intermediis semel tantum reperta. 



The only example which I have seen of this distinct Canarian 

 Xylopertha was captured by myself in Palma on the mountains 

 between Galga and the sea, in the east of that island. 



653. Xylopertha barbata. 



Enneadesmus barbatus, WoU., Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 359 (1860). 

 Xylopertha barbata, Id., Append, huj. op. 38. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.\ in inferioribus baud procul ab urbe 

 Funchalensi a DD. E. Leacock et Bewicke deprehensa. 



Observed hitherto only in Madeira proper, where it was first 

 detected by Mr. E. Leacock in his garden at the Quinta de Sao Joao, 

 near Eunchal ; and where it has subsequently, on several occasions, 

 been captured (at a low altitude) by the late Mr. Bewicke prin- 

 cipally amongst rotten wood in an old out-house at the Praia For- 

 mosa, but in one instance in his grounds at the Palmeira. 



* The X. ficicola differs from the humeralis, chiefly, in being considerably 

 larger, and in having the various characters which distinguish the retuse portion 

 of its elytra very much more expressed (or exaggerated). 



