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by Mr. Gray in Fuerteventura, of the Canarian Group ; but it is the 

 only one which I have yet seen from these Atlantic islands. 



1231. Anthicus Lubbockii. 



Anthicus tristis, Woll [nee Schmidt, 1842], Ins. Mad. 536 (1854). 

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



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub lapidibus in montibus abundans. 



Observed hitherto only on the mountains of Madeira proper, where 

 however it is extremely abundant at a very high elevation occur- 

 ring beneath stones on the open grassy slopes, from about 3000 feet 

 above the sea to the summits of the peaks. 



1232. Anthicus guttifer. 



Anthicus guttifer, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 522 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (ins. omnes), plerumque in inferioribus degens. 



A universal insect throughout the Canarian archipelago, in all the 

 islands of which, except Gomera (where, however, it was found by 

 Dr. Crotch), I have myself captured it. It occurs principally at 

 rather low elevations, and is so closely allied to the A. tristis of 

 southern Europe that I am far from satisfied that the few small dis- 

 tinctions which characterize it are indicative in reality of more than 

 a geographical state of that species. 



1233. Anthicus canariensis. 

 Anthicus canariensis, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 523 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Hierro sola haiid detectus), hinc inde in in- 

 ferioribus intermediisque vulgaris. 



Doubtless universal in the Canarian Group (to which it seems to 

 be peculiar) ; for although it does not happen to have been captured 

 in Hierro, there can be little question that it must exist there as it 

 does elsewhere throughout the archipelago : and I met with it even 

 on the little islet of Graciosa, off the north of Lanzarote. It is more 

 abundant in dry spots of a rather low elevation than in the higher 

 districts, and is often very common beneath the refuse around the 

 base of corn-stacks. Under the latter circumstances I have often 

 observed it, throughout Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, in company 

 with the Attalus anthicoides an insect to which in size, colour, and 

 general contour it bears such a curious primd facie resemblance 

 that, until closely examined, it might almost be mistaken for it. 



