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both of those islands, from under stones and within the fissures of 

 the rocks; and on the southern one of them (or Bugio) a single 

 specimen was found by the Rev. R. T. Lowe, whilst a second was 

 obtained from it by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. Although the 

 few examples as yet brought to light have been captured either 

 beneath slabs of stone or in the crevices of the exposed rocks, there 

 can be no doubt that the insect is attached in reality to the stalks of 

 some of the shrubby plants (perhaps Euphorbias) which grow on 

 those remote islands. 



961. Deucalion oceanicus. 



Deucalion oceanicus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 433 (note) (1854). 

 , Id., Journ. of Ent. i. 90 (1860). 



Habitat Salvages (ins. minorem, australem), a Dom. Leacock repertus. 



Several specimens of this noble insect were captured by Mr. T. S. 

 Leacock, of Madeira, during 1851, on the southern island of the 

 Salvages known as the " Great Piton." Although taken under 

 stones, we may be pretty sure that their proper habitat must have 

 been (as in the case of the Leprosoma gibbum in the Canaries) 

 within the rotten stems of some plant possibly of a Euphorbia or 

 Kleinia. 



Genus 294. &EPROMORIS. 

 Pascoe, in Journ. of Ent. ii. 278 (1864). 



962. Lepromoris gibba. 



Leprosoma asperatum, Def., Cat. 372 (1837). 



Lamia gibba, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Co/.) 62, pi. i. f. 5 (1838). 



Leprosoma asperatum, Thorns., loc. cit. 23 (1860). 



gibbum, Woll, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. i. 178 (1862). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 391 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Faert., Ten., Gom., Hierro), truncos Euphor- 

 biarum emortuos destruens. 



Peculiar apparently to the Canarian archipelago, in all the islands 

 of which it will most likely be found to exist. I have taken it in 

 Fuerteventura and Teneriffe ; in the latter of which, as well as in 

 Gomera and Hierro, it was captured by the Messrs. Crotch. It is 

 attached exclusively to the Euphorbias, and occurs for the most part 

 at intermediate altitudes. The generic title of Leprosoma (under 

 which it was described by M. Thomson in 1860) having been pre- 

 occupied by Baerensprung, I have been compelled to adopt the one 

 which was proposed for it subsequently by Mr. Pascoe. 



