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ULOMIDjE. 



Fuerteventura, and Grand Canary, where it is locally abundant 

 (and near) the sandy sea-shores, burrowing beneath algae and other 

 rejectamenta. It has much in common with an equally beautiful 

 species, the P. ClarJcii, which was found by Mr. Gray and the Rev. 

 Hamlet Clark at the Cape de Verdes ; but the many characters which 

 distinguish it permanently from that insect have been fully alluded 

 to in my Canarian Catalogue. 



1151. Phaleria ciliata. 



Phaleria ciliata, WolL, Ins. Mad. 488 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 151 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to \ in locis similibus ac pra3cedens. 



A comparatively small and oval species which I have observed 

 only in Porto Santo, of the Madeiran Group, where it is occasionally 

 abundant, beneath marine and other rejectamenta, along the sandy 

 sea-shores. 



Fam. 78. ULOMID^l. 



Genus 348. ADELINA. 

 (Chevr.) Wollaston, Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 413 (1858). 



1152. Adelina farinaria. 



Adelina farinaria, Woll, loc. cit. 414 (1858). 

 , Id., Append, huj. op. 61. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), certe introducta. Inter farinam Ame- 

 ricanam (?) in urbe ipsa Funchalensi collegit Dom. M. Park. 



As has been already stated under the Wiizopertha bifoveolata, this 

 insect was found by Mr. M. Park in Madeira proper where it had 

 without doubt been imported accidentally into the island in a cask of 

 flour. Indeed it was taken absolutely in the Custom-House, at 

 Funchal ; and / believe that the flour was American. Under these 

 circumstances I certainly should not have admitted the species into 

 the present Catalogue at all, had it not been so extremely abundant 

 that there is at least a possibility that it may have established itself 

 in some of the warehouses and stores, and that it may consequently 

 be again met with at a future time. And moreover, when we con- 

 sider what a number of insects have already been naturalized in a 

 similar manner, such a contingency cannot be regarded as by any 

 means an improbable one. 



