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CURCULIONID^E. 



II. Corpus minus, fusiforme (elt/trts postice sensim acuminatis); 

 femoribus masculis sabtus obtuse subdentatis. 



734. Mesites fusiformis. 



Mesites fusifonmF, Wott.jTrans.Ent. oc.Zowdv.405,pl. 19.f. 7,9(1801). 

 ,Id. t Cat. Can. Col 278 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Palma sola baud observatus), vulgatissimus ; 

 truncos ramulosque Ewphorbiarum emortuos praecipue in subin- 

 ferioribus destruens. 



Peculiar apparently to tbe Canarian archipelago, where it swarms 

 in the rotten stems of the various Euphorbias at low and intermediate 

 elevations. It is doubtless universal throughout the Group ; for 

 although it has not been observed in Palma, there can be little doubt 

 that it must exist there though it is certainly remarkable that tbe 

 few Euphorbian Mesitce which have hitherto been captured in that 

 island belong to a distinct (though closely allied) species, the M. 

 pubipennis. Throughout the remainder of the Group, however, it 

 abounds ; and I met with it even on the little islets of Graciosa and 

 Lobos off the extreme north of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura re- 

 spectively. 



735. Mesites pubipennis. 



Mesites pubipennis, Wott., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. v. 406 (1864). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 278 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), in locis similibus ac praecedens. 



As just stated, this Mesites has been observed hitherto only in 

 Palma where it seems to take the place of the last species, which 

 abounds throughout the remainder of the Canarian archipelago. 

 Although allied to the fusiformis, I scarcely think that it can be 

 regarded as any insular modification of it ; for the latter does not 

 appear to present any local peculiarities in the various islands and 

 altitudes in which it elsewhere occurs, and moreover we have yet 

 to ascertain for certain that it does not exist, simultaneously with 

 the pubipennis, in the rotten Euphorbia-stems of Palrna. 



(Subfam. II. RHYNCHOPHOKIDES.) 



Genus 235. SITOPHILUS. 



Schonherr, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 967 (1838). 



736. Sitophilus granarius. 



Curculio granarius, Linn., Fna Suec. 587 (1761). 



Calandra linearis, Bndtt, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 73 (1838). 



