ANTHICID.E. 



1221. Anthicus hispidus. 



Notoxus hispidus, Rossi, Mant. Ins. i. 46 (1792). 

 Anthicus hispidus, La Ferte, Mon. des Anth. 209 (1848). 



, Woll., Ins. Mad. 535 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 166 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 518 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to ) et Canarienses (Lanz.\ sub 

 lapidibus quisquiHisque in apricis inferioribus hinc inde vul- 

 garis. 



An Anthicus of Mediterranean latitudes which abounds, under 

 stones and refuse, in certain dry and sunny spots of a rather low 

 elevation in the Madeiran archipelago occurring both in Madeira 

 proper and Porto Santo. In the Canaries it is apparently scarce 

 (so far at least as has been observed hitherto), a single example 

 of it, taken by myself in the north of Lanzarote, being all that I 

 have yet seen from that Group. It is not uncommon at Mogadore, 

 on the opposite coast of Africa. 



1222. Anthicus crinitus. 



Anthicus crinitus, La Ferte, Mon. des Anth. 204 (1848). 



, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col 165 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col 518 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), et Canarienses (Can., Ten., Goiri), ple- 

 rumque in inferioribus late sed parce diffusus. 



A species, found in northern and western Africa, which is widely 

 but sparingly diffused over these Atlantic islands where it occurs, for 

 the most part (though not invariably), in low places near the coast. 

 It has been taken in Madeira proper, as well as in Grand Canary, 

 Teneriffe, and Gomera, of the Canarian Group. 



1223. Anthicus humilis. 





Anthicus humilis, Germ., Fna Ins. Eur. 10. 6 (1817). 



constrictus (Eudd), Steph., Mon. 342 (1839). 



humilis, La Ferte, Mon. des Anth. 125 (1848). 



, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 519 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.), prsecipue in salinis submaritimis 



rarior. 



The few Atlantic examples which I have yet seen of this Euro- 

 pean Anthicus were captured by Mr. Gray and myself in Lanzarote, 

 of the Canarian Group. I believe that it was at the Salinas, or salt- 

 works, in the extreme north of the island, that we found them. I 



