288 CURCULIONID^E. 



therefore that it may have become naturalized accidentally from 

 Portugal, where the insect is stated to occur. 



(Subfam. VIII. MAGDALINIDES.) 



Genus 249. MAGDALIS. 

 Germar, in Annal, Wetterauer, i. 130 (1819). 



797. Magdalis barbicornis. 



Rhina barbicornis, Latr., Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. xi. 103 (1803). 

 Magdalis barbicornis, Germ., Ins. Spec. i. 192 (1824). 

 Magdalinus barbicornis, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. vii. ii. 143 (1843). 

 Magdalis barbicornis, Wott., Append, huj. op. 49. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), a Dom. C.Wolff, M.D., in foliis pomorum 

 parce capta. 



Two examples of this European Magdalis have, as stated in the 

 Appendix, been captured lately in Madeira proper by Dr. C. Wolff, 

 of Bonn. They were brushed off the foliage of pear-trees at the 

 base of the Pico do Cardo, about two miles from Funchal ; and it is 

 not improbable that the species may have been introduced into the 

 island from more northern latitudes. Dr. Wolff has presented one 

 of these specimens to the collection at the British Museum. 



(Subfam. IX. RHINOMACEBIDES.) 



Genus 250. AULETES. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Lisp. Meth. 46 (1826). 



798. Auletes cylindricollis. 

 Auletes cylindricollis, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 304 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten,, Gom., Palma), in herbidis intermediis 

 late sed parce diffusus. 



Sparingly, though widely, diffused over the central and western 

 islands of the Canarian archipelago where it occurs amongst dense 

 herbage at intermediate altitudes. Its less abbreviated and com- 

 paratively cylindrical prothorax, in conjunction with its coarse punc- 

 tation, which on the (more shining) elytra is also remote, and its 

 rather longer pubescence and feet, will distinguish it from the other 

 species here enumerated. I have taken it in Teneriffe and Palma ; 

 in the former of which, as well as in Gomera, it was captured by 

 the Messrs. Crotch. 





