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Genus 347. PHALERIA. 

 Latreille, Hist, des Ci-wt. et Ins. in. 162 (1802). 



1148. Phaleria bimaculata. 



Tenebrio bimaculatus, Hbst, Natursyst. viii. 16 (1799). 



Habitat Salvages (ins. majorem, borealem), a Barone " Castello de 

 Paiva " missa. 



A single example of this rather large Phaleria has been communi- 

 cated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, by whom it was obtained 

 from the Great Salvage. 



In the European Catalogues the P. bimaculata is given as a variety 

 of the cadaverina, but I believe nevertheless that it is specifically 

 distinct. Unquestionably there is a maculated phasis of the cada- 

 verina; but the examples now before me, from the Salvages and 

 Portugal, can scarcely be referred to it ; for not only are they paler 

 with a much more rigidly defined patch on the disk of each elytron, 

 but the latter are likewise more convex and oval (or less straight- 

 ened at the sides) and have their edges (instead of being nearly bald) 

 conspicuously ciliated. Their prothorax also is less bisinuate along 

 its basal edge (which causes the hinder angles to be more decidedly 

 right angles), and their interstices are more transversely wrinkled. 



1149. Phaleria cadaverina. 



Tenebrio cadaverinus, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 113 (1792). 



1 Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, ii, 230 (1807). 



Phaleria cadaverina, Steph., Ill Brit. Ent. v. 15 (1832). 

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



Habitat Canarienses (Gom.), juxta oram maritimam a "W. D. Crotch 

 reperta. 



This common European insect was captured in Gomera, of the 

 Canarian Group, by Dr. Crotch who obtained a few examples of it, 

 during the spring of 1862, on the sea-shore at San Sebastian. I 

 met with it at Mogadore, on the opposite coast of Morocco. 



1150. Phaleria ornata. 



Phaleria cadaverina, Br. [nee Fab.], in Webb et Berth. ( Col.) 70 (1838). 



picta, Woll. [nee Mann.'}, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 246 (1861). 



ornata, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 494 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), in arenosis maritimis hinc 

 inde vulgaris. 



An elegant Phaleria which has been observed only in Lanzarote, 



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