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have taken it abundantly at Mogadore, on the opposite coast of 

 Morocco ; and we may expect it therefore to be pretty general in 

 at any rate the eastern parts of the Canarian archipelago. It seems 

 indeed to be a cnrious fact, that the Coleoptera of maritime and saline 

 habits have usually a wider geographical range than is the case with 

 the generality of species. 



1224. Anthicus opaculus. 



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



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), praesertim in inferioribus 

 aridis arenosis hinc inde vulgaris. 



A locally abundant Anthicus in the eastern portion of the Canarian 

 Group, where it occurs for the most part (though by no means ex- 

 clusively) in dry sandy spots towards the coast. It is common in 

 Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and less so in Grand Canary. 



1225. Anthicus notoxoides. 



AntWcus notoxoides, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 520 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), adhuc parcissime deprehensus. 



Found in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two eastern islands of 

 the Canarian Group ; but as unfortunately I had only two examples 

 of it (both of which were captured by myself) from which to draw 

 up the diagnosis, I feel that further material is greatly wanted in 

 order to complete our knowledge of the species. The points in which 

 it would appear to differ both from the opaculus and instabilis have 

 been fully alluded to in my Canarian Catalogue. 



1226. Anthicus instabilis. 



Anthicus instabilis (Ho/m.}, Dej. Cat. 217 (1836). 



tibialis, Curt, [nee Wolff], Brit. Ent. 714 (1838). 



instabilis, Schmidt, in Stett. Ent. Zeit. iii. 184 (1842). 



- tibialis, La Ferte [sed vide p. 305], Mon. des Anth. 165 (1848). 



- instabilis, Woll, Ins. Mad. 534 (1854). 

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



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P* S to ), sub lapidibus in inferioribus et 

 rarius in intermediis occurrens. 



The European A. instabilis is tolerably common in the Madeiran 

 Group, where it occurs principally in hot grassy spots of a rather low 

 elevation. It has been taken in Madeira proper and Porto Santo. I 

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



