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Genus 323. LYCOPERDINA. 

 Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. iii. 73 (1807). 



1059. Lycoperdina humeralis. 



Lycoperdina humeralis, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 432 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), rarissima; in sylvaticis editioribus bis 



tantum capta. 



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A Canarian Lycoperdina of the greatest rarity, which has been 

 found hitherto only in Teneriffe. Indeed but two specimens of it 

 have come beneath my notice one of which I captured in the 

 damp laurel-woods on the mountains above Taganana, whilst the 

 other was found by the Messrs. Crotch " under leaves in the Final 

 above Ycod el Alto." 



Fam. 68. EROTYLIDJE. 



Genus 324. XESTUS. 

 Wollaston, Cat. Can. Col. 420 (1864). 



1060. Xestus throscoides. 

 Xestus throscoides, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 421 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), ad fungos necnon etiam sub cortice arbo- 

 rum laxo putrido in lauretis humidis excelsis rarissimus. 



A fungus -eater of great rarity which appears to be peculiar to 

 the Canaries. Indeed hitherto I have observed it only in the damp 

 laurel-districts of a high elevation in Teneriffe, where I captured 

 eleven specimens of it (partly within fungi, and partly under the 

 putrid bark of trees where minute Cryptogams were more or less 

 evident) on the densely clad mountains above Taganana and Point 

 Anaga. 



1061. Xestus fungicola. 

 Xestus fungicola, Wott., Append, huj. op. 57. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom.), ad fungos putridos a DD. Crotch in 

 lauretis humidis parce repertus. 



Likewise Canarian, but found hitherto only in Gomera where it 

 would seem to take the place of X. throscoides of Teneriffe. It 

 appears to have the same mode of life as that species, and to be 

 equally scarce, four examples of it having been captured by the 



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