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CURCULIONID7E. 



Found at a high elevation in Palma, of the Canarian Group, where 

 it is attached to the foliage and flower-cones of the Pinus canariensis 

 in the ancient Finals. 



936. Brachyderes sculpturatus, 



Brachyderes sculpturatus, W6U., Cat. Can. Col. 379 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten.), in locis similibus ac prsecedens. 



Likewise Canarian, and found under precisely similar circum- 

 stances as the last species only in Grand Canary and Teneriife in- 

 stead of Palma. This being the case, it is impossible to feel quite 

 certain that the Palman insect is more than an insular modification 

 of the present one. Yet it undoubtedly possesses characters (though 

 perhaps of only, slight importance) which immediately separate it 

 from the sculpturatus ; and I do not believe, therefore, that we have 

 sufficient grounds for assuming it to be a local variety of the latter. 



Genus 280. STROPHOSOMUS. 

 (Billberg) Schon., Cure. Lisp. Meth. 97 (1826). 



937. Strophosomus coryli. 



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

 Strophosomus coryli, Steph., HI. Brit. Ent. iv. 126 (1831). 

 Cneorhinus coryli, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. i. 535 (1833). 

 Strophosomus coryli, Wott., Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 455 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), a Dom. Moniz primum detectus. 



The common European S. coryli was detected by Senhor Moniz, 

 near Funchal, in Madeira proper ; and it was captured subsequently 

 by the late Mr. Bewicke " on oaks in flower, at the Mount ; " but 

 it has not yet been observed in any of the other islands. It is far 

 from unlikely that it may have become established, perhaps recently, 

 from more northern latitudes. 



granted me the loan of his type, I was enabled to give a diagnosis of it in a foot- 

 note of my Canarian Catalogue ; but I there stated, and now repeat, that I am 

 far from satisfied that the species does truly occur in those islands. Geographi- 

 cally there is no reason why it should not ; nevertheless as there is not a trace of 

 it in the enormous amount of material which has been brought together by various 

 naturalists during the last few years, and since it is associated in Chevrolat's col- 

 lection with another weevil (the Catamonus? cribrarius) which I have been com- 

 pelled to reject as Canarian, I feel that I have not sufficient evidence for its ad- 

 mission into the fauna, though it seems at all events desirable to notice it as a 

 possible member of the Atlantic Coleoptera. 





