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OPATRID^. 



Genus 340. SCLERUM. 

 (Dej.) Hope, Col Man. iii. Ill [script. Sderon] (1840). 



1133. Sclerum aspemlum. 



Sclerum aspenilum, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 486 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, sub lapidibus in inferioribus arenosis 

 captum. 



Several examples of this fine Sclerum were taken by myself, at a 

 low elevation, in the south of Grand Canary beneath stones, at 

 Maspalomas, 



Genus 341. OPATRUM. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 76 (1775). 



1134. Opatrum lutosum. 



Opatrum lutosum, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 486 (1864). 

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



The universal Opatrum of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two 

 eastern islands of the Canarian Group, where it is common beneath 

 stones at low and intermediate altitudes. I have no evidence for 

 supposing that it occurs further westward in the archipelago, though 

 I think it far from unlikely that it will be found in the sandy parts 

 of (at all events) Grand Canary. 



1135. Opatrum fuscum. 



Opatrum fuscum, Hbst, Kdf. v. 225, tab. 52. f. 1 (1793). 



, BrulU, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 68 (1838). 



errans, Woll., Ins. Mad. 501, tab. xi. f. 3 (1854). 



Id., Cat. Mad. Col 156 (1857). 



fuscum, Hart., Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140. 



, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 487 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can., Ten.}, 

 late difrusum. 



An Opatrum of Mediterranean latitudes which is widely distri- 

 buted over these Atlantic islands, though seldom very abundant. In 

 Madeira proper (whence I described it as a new species, under the 

 name of errans) it has been observed hitherto only at rather lofty 

 elevations ; but in the Canarian islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, 

 Grand Canary, and Teneriffe (in each of which it has been taken) it 

 seems to be found equally in the low and intermediate districts. 



