394 TENTYRIADvE. 



loose sand, in the vicinity of the sea-shore, which has drifted into 

 hillocks around the stems of shrubby plants. It has been taken 

 about a mile to the south of Puerto de Cabras in Fuerteventura, and 

 on the low sandy isthmus of Grand Canary between Las Palmas and 

 the Isleta. I have been compelled to change its specific title, the 

 name of elongata having been employed no less than twice in the 

 genus Tentyria previously to the publication of M. Brulle's insect. 



Genus 329. PAIV^EA. 



Wollaston, Cat. Can. Col 449 (1864). 



1085. Paivaea hispida. 



Tentyria hispida, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 66 (1838). 



, ITartung, Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140, 141. 



Paivcea hispida, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 450 (1864.) 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), sub lapidibus vulgaris. 



A common insect throughout Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the 

 two eastern islands of the Canarian Group, where it occurs under 

 stones at nearly all elevations. I likewise met with it on the small 

 adjacent rocks of Graciosa and Lobos, off the extreme north of the 

 former and latter respectively ; but I have no evidence as yet for 

 supposing that it extends further westward in the archipelago, 

 though it is far from impossible that it may make its appearance in, 

 at all events, Grand Canary*. 



Genus 330. HEGETER. 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. iii. 172 (1802). 



* It is a grievous fact for geographical distribution that more accuracy, as re- 

 gards precise habitat, is not observed in many even tolerably well arranged col- 

 lections. From no less than two different sources, in Paris, I have received this 

 insect as coming from " Teneriffe ; " yet out of more than 20,000 Coleopterous 

 specimens found by myself at the Canaries, and at least half that number obtained 

 by the Messrs. Crotch, besides the numerous smaller batches which have from 

 time to time been submitted to me, there is no trace of the Paiv&a hispida from 

 any of the islands except Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Yet it is sent to me un- 

 hesitatingly as Teneriffan probably for no better reason than that some lazy 

 collector who touched at several of the islands put his material into a single bottle, 

 or box, and either forgot or did not much care to preserve his habitats correctly ! 

 In like manner one of the Parisian consignments now before me has the Licinus 

 Manriquianus and the Arthrodes inflatus, which are also unmistakeably Lanza- 

 rotan and Fuerteventuran, marked with the universal label " Teneriffe ; " and a 

 similar ticket is appended even to the " Phylax validus " (so-called in collections), 

 which is peculiar exclusively to the Cape de Verdes. Surely it would be far 

 better to give no localities at all than thus to falsify the plainest fects, and so help 

 to disseminate error. On this subject, vide the foot-note at page vii of the 

 Introductory Remarks in my Canarian Catalogue. 



