PIMELIADJE. 405 



Aii abundant Pimelia on the elevated Cumbres of Teneriffe, from 

 about 7000 to 9000 feet above the sea, and ascending, I believe, even 

 still higher though scarcely, I imagine, to the very highest point 

 of all (which seems to be tenanted by the P. canariensis). On the 

 upland tracts adjoining, and overlooking, the Cafiadas, I took it in 

 profusion beneath stones and scoriae, as well as crawling sluggishly 

 on the ground, amongst the bushes of the Eetama. 



1114. Pimelia radula, 



Pimelia radula (De/.), Sol, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr., v. 136 (1836). 

 _ (_), Woll, Cat. Can. Col 474 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), plerumque in inferioribus degens. 



Likewise Teneriffan, but found at a low elevation (almost at the 

 sea-level), and seldom ascending into even the intermediate districts. 

 Around the Puerto Orotava, on the northern side of the island, its 

 elytral tubercles are less strongly denned than is the case around S ta 

 Cruz ; and the former state corresponds to the " a " of my diagnosis, 

 whilst the latter is defined as the " /3. granulata" 



1115. Pimelia sparsa. 



Piinelia sparsa, Bndle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 67 (1838). 

 , Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 475 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (sec. DD. Webb et Berthelot), mihi non obvia. 



Recorded by M. Brulle as having been found by MM. Webb and 

 Berthelot at the Canaries, but without any information as to the 

 island. I examined the type, when in Paris, and do not feel quite 

 certain that it is more than a variety of the radula in which the 

 elytral tubercles (between the costae) are very much less numerous. 

 Still, as I could not compare it with sufficient accuracy, and the 

 species has already been established, I think it would hardly be safe, 

 without further evidence, to treat it as otherwise than specifically 

 distinct. 



1116. Pimelia ambigua. 

 Pimelia ambigua, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 475 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Hierro), a Dom. Deyrolle olim communicata, 

 sed a DD. Crotch nuperrime deprehensa. 



A Canarian Pimelia which I described from a single example com- 

 municated from Paris by M. Deyrolle. It had been received by him 

 as coming from Teneriffe ; but, as implied in the remarks accom- 



