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CURCULIONID^E. 



A Canarian Plilceophagus which has been detected hitherto in 

 Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Grand Canary, where it seems to be 

 attached principally to the dry, rotten wood of old fig-trees at inter- 

 mediate altitudes. 



714. Phloeophagus calvus. 



Rhyncolus calvus, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 448 (1860). 

 Phloeophagus calvus, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 370 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub ligno antique in inferioribus una 

 cum Mesoxeno et Hexarihro captus. 



Detected by the late Mr. Bewicke, at a low elevation, in Madeira 

 proper, having been captured by him beneath logs of old wood 

 lying in a shed, or outhouse, at the Praia Formosa near Funchal (in 

 company with the Hexarthrum capitulum, Mesoxenus Bewickianus, 

 and Xyloperiha barbata). 



Genus 228. LIPOMMATA. 

 Wollaston, Cat. Mad. Col 100 [script. L&pommata] (1857). 



715. Lipommata calcaratum. 



Leipommata calcaratum, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 101 (1857). 



, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 395, pi. 19. f. 3 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), in eolliculis arenosis ad radices plan- 

 tarum, prascipue Arundinis doiiacis, mox pone oram maritimam 

 crescentium parce fodiens. 



This curious little blind Cossonid has been observed only in Porto 

 Santo, of the Madeiran Group, where it burrows into the loose drifting 

 sand which has gradually accumulated into ridges and hillocks im- 

 mediately behind the sea-beach. I have taken it sparingly around 

 the roots of various sand-plants, particularly the Arundo donax, 

 it ssubfossorial tibia3, pilose body, undilated feet, and total freedom 

 from eyes being alike indicative of its subterranean mode of life. 



Genus 229. PENTATEMNTJS, 

 Wollaston, Tram. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 385 (1861). 



716. Pentatemmis arenarius. 



Pentatemnus arenarius, Woll., loc. cit. 388, pi. 19. f. 1 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 273 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), in locis similibus ac prace- 

 dens, sub terrain aridis arenosis juxta radices plantarum fodiens. 



