CURCULIONID^E. 285 



has yet been brought to light I captured beneath the trunk of a 

 felled cherry-tree, at the bottom of the Curral das Romeiras, in the 

 mountains of Madeira proper. 



788. Torneuma orbatum. 

 Torneuma orbatum, WolL, Append, huj. op. 48. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom.), inter lignum putridum in lauretis 

 humidis excelsis a DD. Crotch parcissime deprehensum. 



Very closely allied to the Madeiran T. caecum, of which it may be 

 regarded as the Canarian representative ; for I think perhaps that 

 it can scarcely be looked upon as any local modification of that 

 insect. Two examples of it were taken by the Messrs. Crotch at a 

 high altitude in Gomera, from under rotten wood in the laurel- 

 district above Hermigua. 



(Subfam. V. BARIDIIDES.) 



Genus 245. BARIS. 

 Germar, Ins. Spec. i. 197 (1824). 



789. Baris sellata. 



Baridius sellatus, Schb'n., Gen. et Spec. Cure. viii. 124 (1844). 



Lucas, Col. de VAlgerie, 452 (1849). 

 , Wott. t Cat. Can. Col. 298 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), rarissima ; in aridis arenosis lecta. 



The large and beautiful B. sellata of northern Africa occurs very 

 rarely in the east of the Canarian Group, two examples taken by 

 myself in Fuerteventura being all that I have yet seen. They were 

 found on the hillocks of loose drifting sand at Corralejo, in the 

 extreme north of that island. 



(Subfam. VI. TYCHIIDES.) 



Genus 246. SIBYNIA. 

 Germar, Ins. Spec. i. 289 [script. Sibinia'] (1824). 



790. Sibynia sericea. 



Sibynes sericeus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 301 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can., Ten.), parce occurrens. 



Widely, though very sparingly, diffused over the eastern and 



