384 



ENDOMYCHID^E. 



1056. Rhizobius oculatissimus. 



Rhyzobius oculatissimus, WolL, Cat. Mad. Col 139 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, a Dom. Bewicke semel tantum repei 



Hitherto unique, a single specimen having been captured 

 Madeira proper by the late Mr. Bewicke. The characters which 

 separate it from all the known varieties of the preceding species 

 are so pronounced that I do not think it is possible to regard it as 

 any state, or even monstrosity, of that insect ; nevertheless it i 

 certainly remarkable that the combined researches in Madeira of so 

 many Coleopterists should not have succeeded hitherto in detecting a 

 second example. 



Genus 321. LITHOPHILUS. 



Frb'hlich, Naturforsch. xxviii. 11 (1799). 



1057. Lithophilus deserticola. 



Lithophilus deserticola, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 431 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), sub lapide quodam in inferioribus 

 aridis arenosis semel deprehensus. 



The only specimen which I have seen of this Canarian insect w; 

 taken by myself, at a low elevation, in the extreme north of Fuerte- 

 ventura from beneath a stone in the dry, sandy district at Cor- 

 ralejo. 



Fam. 67. ENDOMYCHID^l. 



Genus 322. DAPSA. 

 (Ziegler) Latr., Regne Anim. (edit. 2) v. 159 (1829). 



1058. Dapsa edentata. 



Dapsa edentata, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 432 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Palmd), hinc inde sat vulgaris. 



Rather a common insect in the Canarian Group, where we may 

 be pretty sure that it will be found universally throughout at any 

 rate the central and western islands. Hitherto however it has been 

 taken only in Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma. In all proba- 

 bility it is closely allied to the D. barbara of northern Africa ; but 

 as I have not been able to procure a type of the latter for compa- 

 rison, I cannot say whether or not it would be possible to regard it 

 as any geographical modification of that species. 



