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Likewise Canarian, and of Euphorbia-infesting habits. Indeed it 

 occurs in exactly the same kind of places as the last species (to which 

 it is closely allied), and often in company with it. It will doubtless 

 be found universally throughout the Group, though hitherto it does 

 not happen to have been observed in either Grand Canary or Palma ; 

 but we may be pretty sure that it exists there, as it does in the 

 remaining five islands. I have captured it in Lanzarote, Fuerte- 

 ventura, and Teneriffe ; and it was taken by the Messrs. Crotch in 

 Gomera and Hierro *. 



966. Stenidea pilosa, 



Blabinotus pilosus, Wall., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. 181 (1862). 

 Stenidea pilosa, Id., Journ. of Enl. ii. 109 (1863). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 392 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.\ in Euphorbiis emortuis rarissima. 



The few examples which I have seen of this Canarian Stenidea, 

 which I believe to be likewise attached to the Euphorbias, were 

 taken by Mr. Gray and myself in Lanzarote. In a paper on Euphor- 

 bian Coleoptera, I cited this and the two preceding species as Bla- 

 binoti ; but their deflexed heads and more deeply emarginate eyes, 

 added to their apically acute (instead of securiform) palpi, and their 

 much longer antennae, assign them (equally with the following one) 

 to a different section of the Longicorns. 



967. Stenidea Hesperus, 



Stenidea Hesperus, Woll, Journ. of Ent. ii. 110 (1863). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 392 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Hierro), super folia Rumicis lunarice semel lecta. 



Hitherto unique, a single example having been captured by my- 

 self in Hierro, the most western island of the Canarian Group. It 

 was beaten from a bush of the Rumex lunaria, at a low elevation 

 (scarcely indeed above the sea-level), on the ascent from Port Hierro 

 to Valverde ; but whether it was in any way dependent on that 

 plant, or whether its presence there was merely accidental, I am of 

 course unable to decide. But, judging from analogy, I should sus- 

 pect, rather, that the species is of Euphorbia-infesting habits. 



* I have queried the existence of the S. albida in Hierro, because a series of 

 specimens now before me which were taken by the Messrs. Crotch in that island 

 have their distinctive characters (which consist chiefly in the colour and arrange- 

 ment of their clothing) so completely obliterated, through their having been pre- 

 served in alcohol and glycerine, that it is next to impossible to decide absolutely 



. to which of these two closely-allied Stenidece some of them pertain. I feel almost 



. certain, however, that both species are represented. 



