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CURCULIONID^. 



Eremotes crassicornis, Woll., loc. cit. 365, pi. 18. f. 1 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 269 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Palma), rarior; lignum Pini cana- 

 riensis antiquum perforans. 



Peculiar apparently to the Finals of the Canarian archipelago, 

 where it occurs beneath the bark and within the dead wood of the 

 Pinus canariensis. I have taken it sparingly in Grand Canary, Tene- 

 riffe, and Palma, in the last two of which islands it was found also 

 by the Messrs. Crotch. We may expect to meet with it likewise in 

 the Pinal towards the south of Hierro. 



In order to avoid confusion, I have thought it desirable to change 

 the name which I had imposed on this genus, Eremotes being too 

 near to Eretmotes, of De Marseul. 



Genus 224. HEXARTHRUM. 



Wollaston, Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 448 (1860). 



705. Hexarthrum capitulum. 



Ilhyncolus capitulum, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 410 (1858). 

 Hexarthrum compressum, Id., ibid. v. 449 (1860). 



- capitulum, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. v. 366, pi. 18. f. 2 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissimum ; sub ligno antique in infe- 

 rioribus parcissime captum. 



Observed only at low elevations in Madeira proper, where it is 

 both rare and extremely local. It was detected first by Mr. M. Park ; 

 and was found subsequently by the late Mr. Bewicke, amongst old 

 wood in an outhouse, at the Praia Formosa near Funchal. 



Genus 225. RHYNCOLUS. 

 (Creutzer) Germ., Ins. Spec. 307 (1824). 



706. Rhyncolus crassirostris. 



Rhyncolus crassirostris, Woll., Trans. E. S. L. v. 367, pi. 18. f. 3 (1861). 

 f Id., Cat. Can. Col. 270 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.) lignum antiquum Pini canariensis in 

 montibus parce destruens. 



The only specimens which I have seen of this Rhyncolus were 

 captured by myself in the rotten wood of an old pine tree on the 

 mountains of Grand Canary. It somewhat resembles the European 

 jR. truncorum ; neverthelesss, as stated in my paper on the Atlantic 



