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CURCULlONIDvE. 



Genus 234. MESITES. 

 Schonherr, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 1043 (1838). 



I. Corpus sat magnum, parallelum ; femoribus omnibus muticis. 



729. Mesites complanatus. 



Mesites complanatus, Wott., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. \. 401 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 276 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), sub cortice laurorum laxo emortuo in 

 sylvaticis editioribus occurrens. 



A large Canarian Mesites which I have observed hitherto only in 

 the island of Palma, where however it is locally abundant (beneath 

 the loosened bark of the native laurels) in the damp sylvan districts 

 of intermediate elevations. 



730. Mesites maderensis. 



Mesites maderensis, Wott., Ins. Mad. 319 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 104 (1857). 



, , Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 403 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub cortice laxo emortuo in lauretis 

 humidis editioribus congregans. 



Occurs beneath the loosened bark of the native laurels in the 

 sylvan districts of Madeira proper, particularly at a high altitude. 

 It is extremely gregarious, and (like most of the Mesitce) very vari- 

 able in stature. 



731. Mesites persimilis. 



Mesites persirnilis, Wott., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 402 (1861). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 276 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), plerumque in locis similibus ac 

 prsecedens; sed interdum, sec. G. R. Crotch, etiam in ficis et 

 salicibus occurrit. 



Found in the sylvan districts of Teneriife and Goinera, under 

 much the same circumstances as the last species is at Madeira of 

 which it may be regarded strictly as the Canarian representative. 

 There can be no doubt that, like the M. maderensis, it is normally 

 attached to the native laurels ; nevertheless it does sometimes occur 

 in other trees likewise, for Mr. G. R. Crotch informs me that during 

 their late sojourn in Gomera they occasionally met with it both "in 

 fig and willow." 



The M. persimilis differs from the maderensis, chiefly, in its elytra 



