PIMELIAD^S. 403 



I. Scutellum (ut in Pimeliadis typicis) conspicuum, postice dilatato- 



transversum. 



1110. Pimelia lutaria. 



Pimelia lusavia, BrulU, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 68, pi. i. f. 11 (1838). 



lutaria*, WolL, Cat. Can. Col 471 (1864). 



canariensis, Hart, [nee Br.~\, Geol. Verh. Lanz. u. FuerL 140, 141. 



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



This pubescent Pimelia, the short cinereous under-pile of which 

 gives it the appearance of being partially clothed with a muddy de- 

 posit, is the common species throughout Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, 

 the two eastern islands of the Canarian Group ; and I also met 

 with it on the little islet of Graciosa, off the extreme north of the 

 former: but so far as I am aware, it has not yet been observed 

 further westward in the archipelago. 



I should state, however, that a specimen has just been communi- 

 cated by De Marseul with the label " Teneriffe" attached to it ; but 

 as several of the insects in the same consignment which are unmis- 

 talceably either Lanzarotan or Fuerteventuran ones have a similar 

 ticket appended to them, I cannot place sufficient reliance on this 

 habitat to feel justified in citing the species for any other island than 

 the two to which my own observations would imply that it is essen- 

 tially peculiar. At the same time I must add that this single example 

 does really differ a little from the ordinary type ; though the differ- 

 ences are so very slight that I cannot attach much importance to 

 themf. 



1111. Pimelia canariensis. 



Pimelia canariensis, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 67 (1838). 

 , Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 472 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in summo ipso monte " Pico de Teyde " 

 (12,100' s. m.) a DD. Webb et Berthelot necnon de la Perrau- 

 diere deprehensa. 



* On the singular manner in which the orthography of this specific title has 

 been tampered with, through M. Brulle having spelt it wrongly in his letter- 

 press but rightly on his plate, compare ' Cat-. Can. Col.' p. 471 (note). 



t As it is of course barely possible (even though, I think, most unlikely) that 

 this individual may really be a Teneriffan one, I will just record it as follows ; 

 and I have given the race which it represents (or may be supposed to represent) 

 a subspecific name, in the event of further material proving it to be truly dis- 

 tinct : 



Var. /3. lutulenta. Vix angustior, oblongior, depressior ; prothorace sublongiore 

 ac paulo minus lato, ad latera prsesertim antice minus rotundato (quare postice 

 paulo reetius angustato, angulis posticis sensirn magis determinatis). 



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