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The European C. riisticus is widely spread over these Atlantic 

 Groups, where most likely it will be met with wherever there are 

 pine trees. In Madeira proper it may perhaps have originally been 

 naturalized from more northern countries, being found in the fir- 

 woods of a comparatively recent introduction which clothe large tracts 

 of the mountain -slopes towards the east and south of the island ; and 

 it seems to have made its appearance even in the fir-plantation which 

 has been established within the last few years on the extreme summit 

 of the Deserta Grande, whence a specimen has been communicated 

 by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. But, on the other hand, it may 

 perhaps be truly indigenous to the Canaries, where it abounds in 

 the ancient Finals of intermediate and lofty elevations. I have 

 taken it in Palma ; and it has been captured by the Messrs. Crotch 

 in Teneriife and Hierro. 



A more critical comparison of the (immature) specimen, from 

 Palma, which I described under the trivial name of pinetorum has 

 convinced me that it cannot properly be regarded as distinct from 

 the extremely variable C. rusticus.. 



Genus 290. HESPEROPHANES. 

 Mulsant, Longic. de France y 66 (1840). 



954. Hesperophanes senex. 



Trichoferus senex, Wall, Ins. Mad. 428, tab. ix. f. 3 (1854). 

 Hesperophanes senex, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 127 (1857). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 388 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Ten.), lignum antiquum 

 pra3cipue in inferioribus destruens. 



Found about old wood in Madeira proper, principally at low ele- 

 vations and in cultivated spots ; and a single example of it was ob- 

 tained by the Barao do Castello de Paiva from a small, but accurate, 

 collection which was made many years ago in Teneriffe. Although 

 I have no reason to question the authenticity of that particular 

 specimen (but quite the reverse), I should add that it embodies all 

 the evidence that I yet possess for the occurrence of the H. senex in 

 the Canaries. 



955. Hesperophanes roridus. 



Callidium (Hesperophanes) roridum, Brulle. in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 



62, pi. 1. f. 6 (1838). 

 Hesperophanes roridus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 389 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (sec. DD. Webb et Berthelot), mihi non obvius. 



