CURCULIONID^B. 307 



specimens which I have seen were captured by myself on the two 

 elevated Cumbres above the Agua Mansa, and adjoining the Ca- 

 riadas, respectively. 



846. Plinthus cucullus. 



Plinthus cucullus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 330 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in lauretis subeditioribus semel captus. 



A single example of this Plinthus, taken by myself in the laurel- 

 district of Grand Canary between Osorio and Guia, embodies all that 

 I yet know about the species. And since that one presents no very 

 important characteristics of its own (even though readily appreciable), 

 it is clear that further material is much required in order to enable 

 us to ascertain whether the P. cucullus should be treated as any 

 insular modification of either the velutinus or the musicus between 

 which it would appear, perhaps, in some respects, to be intermediate. 



(Subfam. XIX. MOLYTIDES.) 



Genus 264. XENOMICKUS. 

 Wollaston, Cat. Can. Col. 331 (1864). 



847. Xenomicrus apionides. 

 Xenomicms apionides, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 331 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma), in lauretis humidis editioribus 

 sat rarus. 



Peculiar apparently to the damp sylvan districts, of a rather high 

 altitude, in the Canarian Group. I have taken it sparingly, from 

 amongst dense vegetation, in Teneriffe and Palma, namely, on the 

 wooded mountains above Taganana in the former, and in the Bar- 

 ranco da Agua of the latter. 



(Subfam. XX. BHYTIDORHINTDES.) 



Genus 265. GKONOPS. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Metli. 157 (1826). 



848. Gronops lunatus. 



Curculio lunatus, Fab., Syst. Ent. 148 (1775). 

 Rhynchaenus costatus, Gyll.,Ins. Suec. Hi. 89 (1813). 



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