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CURCULIONID^E. 



837. Alophus magnificus. 



Alophus magnificus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 326 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in editioribus rarissimus. 



A noble Canarian Curculionid which appears to be of the greatest 

 rarity, and which has been observed hitherto only at a rather high 

 elevation in Teneriffe. Indeed the very few specimens of it which I 

 have seen were obtained by myself, at the foot of the Organo rocks, 

 in the damp subsylvan district above the Agua Mansa. 



838. Alophus alternans. 

 Alophus alternans, Woll., Append. Jiitj. op. 50. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom.), rarissimus; in montibus excelsis supra 

 Hermigua a DD. Crotch semel captus. 



Likewise Canarian, and equally scarce with the last species of 

 which indeed, although abundantly distinct, it may perhaps be 

 regarded as the Gomeran representative. A single example was 

 taken by the Messrs. Crotch at a high elevation, on the mountains 

 above Hermigua, in Gomera. 



Genus 260. HYPERA. 

 Germar, Mag. der Ent. iv. 335 (1821). 



839. Hypera lunata. 



Phytonomus Dauci, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 72 (1838). 

 Hypera lunata, Wott., Ins. Mad. 398 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 118 (1857). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 326 (1864). 



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

 sola haud observata), sub lapidibus in aridis prsesertim calcariis 

 inferioribus late diffusa. 



A Hypera of Mediterranean latitudes, which there can be little 

 doubt is universal in these Atlantic Groups where it occurs in dry 

 spots, whether sandy or calcareous, principally at rather low eleva- 

 tions. It has been taken in all the Madeiran islands except the 

 northern and southern Desertas, and in the whole of the Canarian 

 ones except Gomera. 



840. Hypera irrorata. 

 Hypera irrorata, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 327 (1864). 



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

 nosis vel calcariis, plerumque in inferioribus occurrens. 



