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934. Sitona seriesetosus. 



Sitones seriesetosus, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. vi. 277 (1840). 



setiger, Wott., Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 221 (1863). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 378 (1864). 



seriesetosus, Allard, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. iv. 358 (1865). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Palma sola haud observatus), aridos inferiores 

 ubique colens. 



Abundant (chiefly in dry spots, and at low elevations) throughout 

 the Canarian Group, where we may be quite sure that it is universal ; 

 for although it does not happen to have been observed in Palma, it 

 is impossible to doubt that it must exist there no less than it does 

 in the other six islands of the archipelago, in all of which I have 

 myself captured it. 



I have not been able to procure a type of the Mediterranean S. 

 seriesetosus, for inspection, but in my late Catalogue I called attention 

 to several particulars in which the Canarian species differs entirely 

 from at any rate Schonherr's diagnosis of the former. As, however, 

 I sent examples to M. Allard, and he has identified them with the 

 Mediterranean insect, I have suppressed the name of setiger in favour 

 of the one which has the priority. Nevertheless I must remark that 

 if this Canarian Sitona be positively conspecific with the seriesetosus, 

 the published description of the latter is so inaccurate as to be ab- 

 solutely worthless. 



M. Allard records the S. seriesetosus (nominally, on my authority) 

 as Madeiran ; but this is a mistake, for I expressly mentioned that 

 the examples which I gave him were from the Canaries. The insect 

 (so far as observed hitherto) does not occur in the Madeiran Group*. 



(Subfam. XXVII. BEACHYDERIDES.) 



Genus 279. BRACHYDERES. 

 Schunherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 102 (1826). 



935. Brachyderes rugatus. 

 Brachyderes rugatus, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 379 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Palma), ad folia floresque Pini canariensis in 

 pinetis editioribus vulgaris. 



* The Sitona sctuliferus of southern Europe and northern Africa was described 

 in Schonherr's work from an example in the possession of M. Chevrolat, said to 

 have come from " Teneriffe," a habitat which has consequently been again cited, 

 by M. Allard, in a late revision of the Sitonce. M. Chevrolat having kindly 



