408 CONIONTID^E. 



seems to be peculiar to Grand Canary. It is widely spread over thai 

 island occurring at quite low, intermediate, and even rather lofty 

 elevations. 



Fam. 74. CONIONTID.E. 



Genus 336. CRYPTICUS. 

 Latreille, Kegn. An. (Sdit. i.) iii. 298 (1817). 



1122. Crypticus navicularis. 



Crypticus? navicularis, Brulti, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 69 (1838). 

 y Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 481 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in sylvaticis editioribus sat rarus. 



A Canarian Crypticus which has been observed hitherto only in 

 Teneriffe, where it occurs sparingly in the damp sylvan districts of 

 a rather high elevation. 



1123. Crypticus punctatissinms. 



Crypticus punctatissimus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 480 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Palma), in locis similibus ac prsecedens. 



Found in much the same kind of places as the last species, but 

 in Palma (instead of Teneriffe) where it appears to be universal 

 throughout the wooded districts of intermediate and lofty altitudes. 



1124. Crypticus calvus. 



Crypticus canariensis (p.), Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 482 (1864). 

 calvus, Woll.j Append, huj. op. 59. 



Habitat Canarienses (Hierro), in sylvaticis intermediis degens. 



Taken abundantly by the Messrs. Crotch in Hierro, during their 

 late Canarian campaign, in which island, however, a single example 

 had been captured previously by myself in the wooded district of 

 El Golfo. It would seem therefore to have much the same habits as 

 the last two species, to which it is evidently allied. Indeed, as 

 stated in the Appendix, I think it is not unlikely that these three 

 Cryptid may be, in reality, but permanent phases of a single, some- 

 what plastic species each of them peculiar to its respective island. 

 But since it is impossible to affirm this for certain, I have no option 

 but to treat them as specifically distinct ; and future observers must 

 decide for themselves whether they consider it safe to amalgamate 

 them. 



