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CURCULIONID/E. 



(Subfam. XV. CLEOMDES.) 



Genus 256. BOTHYNODERES. 



Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Metli. 147 (1826). 



832. Bothynoderes Jekelii. 



Cleonus Jekelii, WbU., Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 441 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 320 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), sub lapidibus in aridis in- 

 ferioribus praesertim submaritimis latens. 



Abounds in Lanzarote and Euerteventura, the two eastern islands 

 of the Canarian Group ; and I have taken it, at San Juan, in the 

 south-east of Grand Canary. It occurs beneath stones in dry and 

 sandy, or calcareous, spots (and often in subsaline ones) particu- 

 larly near the coast. 



Genus 257. CLEONUS. 

 Sclionherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 145 (1826). 



833. Cleonus Armitagii. 



Cleonus Armitagii, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 321 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.}, rarissimus. Exemplar unicum, A.D. 1848, 



cepit Rev du " "W. J. Armitage ; necnon alterum a DD. Crotch, 

 lectum, nuperrime vidi. 



A Canarian Cleonus which until quite recently was unique, a 

 single example of it having been captured by my late friend the 

 Rev. W. J. Armitage (during the spring of 1848) in Teneriffe ; but 

 a second has just been communicated by the Messrs. Crotch, which 

 they met with (at Souzal) in the same island. 



834. Cleonus variolosus. 

 Cleonus variolosus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 323 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Fuert. \ sub lapidibus in inferioribus rarissimus. 



Apparently very rare, Fuerteventura being the only island (with 

 the exception of the little adjacent rock of Lobos) in which I have 

 hitherto observed it. Probably, however, it is not purely Canarian ; 

 for M. Jekel informs me that it is so nearly allied to an unpublished 

 species from Barbary that he is doubtful whether it is more than a 

 variety of it. 





