ERODIAD^E. 387 



1065. Zophosis vagans. 



Zophosis vagans, Bridle, in Well et Berth. (Col) 64 (1838). 

 vagans, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 435 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in intermediis editioribusque occurrens. 



Found hitherto only in Grand Canary, where it would appear to 

 represent the Z. plicata of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. It is 

 indeed much allied to that species, though I hardly think that it 

 can possibly be looked upon as an insular modification of it. The 

 Z. vagans occurs for the most part at intermediate and rather lofty 

 altitudes. 



1066. Zophosis Clarkii. 



Zophosis Clarkii, Deyr., in Woll. Cat. Can. Col. 435 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in inferioribus intermediisque, passim. 



Likewise Grand-Canarian, and very closely allied to the Z. vagans 

 being in some respects intermediate between that insect and the 

 bicarinata. It is barely possible that it may be, in reality, an ex- 

 treme phasis of either of them ; though I scarcely think that this is 

 the case. It seems to be found at low and intermediate elevations. 



1067. Zophosis bicarinata. 



Erodius minutus ?, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 93 (1792). 



Zophosis bicarinata, Sol, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, iii. 617 (1834). 



et minuta?, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col) 64 (1838). 



, Woll., Cat. Can. Col 436 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Gom.), in inferioribus late diffusa. 



Taken at low altitudes in Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Gomera, 

 having a slightly different phasis for each island. Indeed in Grand 

 Canary there seem to be at least two forms of it, if not more ; but 

 the different aberrations are included within such narrow limits that 

 I cannot think there is any ground for the suspicion that more than 

 a single (rather plastic) species is indicated amongst them all. 



Fam. 70. ERODIADJE*. 



Genus 327. ARTHKODES. 

 Solier, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, iii. 513 [script. Arthrodeis] (1834). 



* Although I believe that all the Canarian members of this family belong to 

 the genus Arthrodes, which seems to be the representative of Erodius proper in 



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