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TRACHYSCELID^:. 



A Canarian insect which was taken in great abundance by Mr. 

 Gray and myself at the Salinas (or salt-works) in the extreme north 

 of Lanzarote, and of which I subsequently captured a single example 

 at the southern point of Grand Canary. I am far from certain that 

 it is more than a geographical state of the H. ovatus (=Heterophaga 

 ovata, Dej. Ca,t., = 0patrum ovatum, Erich., =Halonomus Grayii, 

 Woll.), which is recorded from Senegal and Sicily, and which occurs 

 likewise at the Cape de Verdes. But whether this be the case or 

 not, it certainly exists on the opposite coast of Morocco it having 

 been captured by the Messrs. Crotch at Mogadore. 



Fam. 77, TKACHYSCELIMJ. 



Genus 345. PSEUDANEMIA. 



Wollaston, Cat. Can. Col. 492 (1864). 



1146. Pseudanemia brevicollis. 



Pseudanemia brevicollis, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 493 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.), in arenosis submaritimis capta. 



The only specimen which I have yet seen of this singular Canarian 

 insect was captured by myself in Lanzarote on a low sandy slope 

 immediately behind the sea-beach, about a mile to the south of 

 Arrecife. The fact of its antennas being only 10-articulate and the 

 edges of its body unciliated, will, apart from the less important 

 differences in the shape of its head, eyes, and prothorax, readily 

 separate it, even at first sight, from the members of the closely allied 

 genus Anemia. 



Genus 346. TRACHYSCELIS. 



Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 379 (1809). 



1147. Trachyscelis aphodioides. 



Tracliyscelis aphodioides, Lot., loc. cit. (1809). 



, Guerin-Men.j Icon. Ins. pi. 31. f. 3. 



, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 494 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), sub fucis necnon juxta 

 radices plantarum in arenosis maritimis crescentium fodiens. 



An insect of Mediterranean latitudes which occurs in the more 

 eastern portions of the Canarian Group where it burrows beneath 

 marine rejectamenta on the sea-beach, as well as around the roots of 

 plants (growing in the loose sand) immediately behind it. It h 

 been taken in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Grand Canary. 



