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TENTYRIAD.E, 



1101. ThalpopMla fuscipes. 



Hegeter fuscipes, Brulle, m Webb et Berth. (Col.) 66 (1838). 



, Hart., Geoloq. Verhdltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140. 



Thalpophila fuscipes, IVoll, Cat. Can. Col. 463 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.}, sub lapidibus in intermediis 

 vulgaris. 



Likewise peculiar (so far at least as has yet been observed) to the 

 two eastern islands of the Canarian Group, Lanzarote and Fuerte- 

 ventura, where it is abundant beneath stones at intermediate alti- 

 tudes. 



1102. ThalpopMla submetallica. 



Thalpophila submetallica, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 464 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.}, una cum specie praecedente oc-^ 

 currens. 



The smallest of the Thalpophilce hitherto detected, and one which 

 bears a close primd facie resemblance to the last species. Like it, 

 it seems to be peculiar to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura where it 

 occurs beneath stones, often in company with its ally, at interme- 

 diate elevations. 



Genus 332. GNOPHQTA. 



Erichson, in Wieg. Archiv, ix. 237 (1843). 



1103. Gnophota cribricollis. 



Hegeter cribricollis, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 66 (1838). 

 Gnophota cribricollis, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 465 (1864). 



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



Not uncommon in the central and southern districts of Grand 

 Canary, but I have not yet observed it in any of the other islands. 



1104. Gnophota inaequalis. 



Gnophota inaequalis, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 466 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.), adhuc parce deprehensa. 



insect has on several occasions been transmitted to me from Paris with the label 

 " Teneriffe " appended to it. Yet I am perfectly satisfied that the specimens 

 communicated were never taken in Teneriffe at all, but are either Lanzarotan or 

 Fuerteventuran. When naturalists at home receive material unaccompanied by 

 any positive statement of the exact district in which it was obtained, would it not 

 be far wiser not to attempt to define the localities thus rigidly ? Had these ex- 

 amples been called simply " Canarian," it would have been perfectly correct ; but 

 by affirming them to be from "Teneriffe" merely perhaps because the person 

 who collected them made his head quarters in that island, or else did not much 

 care to preserve a memorandum of his habitats a downright misstatement, in- 

 volving a serious topographical blunder, is at once placed on record. 



