CUBCULIONiDyE. 303 



835. Cleonns tabidus. 



Lixus tabidus, Olw., Ent. v. 83. 262 (1807).^ 



Cleonus tabidus, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. ii. 192 (1834). 



Cleonis obliqua, Hart, [nee III.'], Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. \k\. 



Cleonus tabidus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 324 (1864). 



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

 aridis liinc inde vulgaris. 



An insect of Mediterranean latitudes which is widely spread over 

 the Canarian Group, but it has not yet been observed in the 

 Madeiras. It occurs for the most part in hot and dry spots of low 

 and intermediate elevations ; and it has been captured in Lanzarote, 

 Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, and Teneriffe. 



Genus 258. RHYTIDODERES. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 149 [script. Rhijtideres] (1826). 



836. Rhytidoderes siculus. 



Cleonis ^\\coi&, Brulle [nee Oliv.~], in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 72 (1838). 



Cleonus siculus (Dupont), Schon.. Gen. et Spec. Cure. vi. 61 (1842). 



- plicatus, Wott., Ins. Mad. 401 (1854). 



-- , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 119 (1857). 



Cleonis plicata, Hart., Geoloy. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 141. 



Rhytidoderes siculus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 325 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to , Des.) et Canarienses (Lanz., 

 Fuert., Can., Gom., Hierro), sub lapidibus necnon in rupium 

 fissuris late sed parce diffusus. 



Likewise a species of Mediterranean latitudes, and one which is 

 very widely (though sparingly) diffused over these Atlantic islands 

 in which I have little doubt it will be found ultimately to be 

 universal. It occurs beneath stones, and in crevices of the exposed 

 rocks, in dry spots of low and intermediate elevations ; and it has 

 been captured in Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and the Deserta 

 Grande, of the Madeiran Group, as well as in all the Canarian 

 islands except Teneriffe and Palma. In Gomera it was met with by 

 the Messrs. Crotch. 



(Subfam. XVI. HYPERIDES.) 



Genus 259. ALOPHUS. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 166 (1826). 



