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Found likewise in Madeira proper, and as certainly an importation 

 into the island as the last species. Nevertheless whilst the bifo- 

 veolata has been met with hitherto only on one occasion, the pusilla 

 has fairly established itself in the houses and stores of Funchal. 

 As is usually the case in other countries, it seems attached princi- 

 pally to dried vegetable substances and preparations such as pow- 

 dered arrowroot and various kinds of seeds and roots. 



Fam. 48. LYCTIRE. 



Genus 208. LYCTUS. 

 Fabricius, Ent. Syst. i. ii. 502 (1792). 



i 

 657. Lyctus brunneus. 



Xylotrogus brunneus, Stcph., Itt. Brit. Ent. iii. 116 (1830). 

 Lyctus colydioides ?, Dej., Cat. (edit. 3) 338 (1837). 



- Glycyrrhizae, Chev., in Dej. Cat. 338 (1837). 



- bnmneus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 152, tab. iv. f . 3 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col 50 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses ((row.), rarissimus. 



An insect which is found sparingly in Europe and northern Africa, 

 and which is decidedly rare in these islands. It has been taken in 

 Madeira proper, principally about houses ; where we might well 

 suppose it to have been accidentally introduced, did it not sometimes 

 occur in spots altogether removed from the cultivated districts. And 

 a single example is now before me which was captured by the 

 Messrs. Crotch (in a house at Hermigua) in Gomera, during their 

 late Canarian campaign. 



658. Lyctus Leacocianus. 

 Lyctus Leacocianus, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 256 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissimus ; a Dom. E. Leacock semel 

 captus. 



The only specimen which I have seen of this very distinct Lyctus 

 was taken by Mr. E. Leacock near Funchal, in Madeira proper. 

 Apart from minor characteristics, it may be known from the brun- 

 neus by its black hue and rather shorter and much squarer pro- 

 thorax (the anterior angles of which are completely rounded off, 

 instead of being produced), by its somewhat coarser elytral sculpture 

 (the punctules being oblong and with a tendency, tolerably con- 



