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CURCULIONID^l. 



(on the average) to have a somewhat higher range than the anguli- 

 pennis, but a lower one than the crenata, occurring for the most 

 part towards the upper limits of the sylvan districts, and occasionally 

 ascending even beyond them. In TenerifFe indeed I have taken it 

 as much as 7000 feet above the sea, though it is from about 4000 

 to 5000 that it is principally to be found. It was captured by the 

 Messrs. Crotch in the laurel-regions of Gomera ; but the Gomeran 

 examples differ a little from the Teneriffan ones ; their setae espe- 

 cially not being quite so short. 



785. Echinodera compacta. 



Echinodera compacta, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 297 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in intermediis semel deprehensa. 



The only example of this Echinodera which I have yet seen was 

 taken by myself, in the region of El Monte, in Grand Canary ; and 

 although its characters are tolerably well defined, the species never- 

 theless can hardly be said to have been satisfactorily established 

 until further material has been obtained. 



786. Echinodera picta. 

 Echinodera picta, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 298 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), semel tantum in intermediis reperta. 



Like the last species, this one also is unique, a single example 

 having been taken by myself in Fuerteventura of the Canarian 

 Group, from beneath a stone in the Eio Palmas. In its freedom 

 from erect setae, as well as in its many other characters fully alluded 

 to in my diagnosis, it is so distinct from all the preceding members 

 of the genus that I have no hesitation (even in the absence of further 

 material) in regarding the E. picta as satisfactorily established. 



Genus 244. TORNEUMA. 

 Wollaston, Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 453 (1860). 



787. Torneuma caecum. 

 Torneuma caBCum, Woll., loc. cit. 455 (1860), 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissimum ; sub trunco quodam arboris 

 prolapse in montibus semel captum. 



The only specimen of this singular little blind Curculionid which 



