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PSELAPHIDJE. 



Euplectus Karstenii, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 146 (1844). 

 , Woll, Cat. Can. Col 527 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma), sub cortice laxo putrido in syl- 

 vaticis intermediis rarissimus. 



Exceedingly rare, at intermediate and rather lofty altitudes, i 

 the Canarian Group, where it occurs for the most part beneath th 

 damp rotting bark of trees within the sylvan districts. I have taken 

 it in the laurel-woods at Las Mercedes in Teneriffe, and also high 

 up in the Barranco da Agua in Palma. Although its head does not 

 seem to be quite so broad, or its elytra perhaps quite so developed, 

 as is the case in a European type of the E. Karstenii which is now 

 before me, I nevertheless cannot detect any character about the C 

 narian specimens of sufficient importance to warrant the supposition 

 that they are distinct from that species. 



1240. Euplectus monticola. 



Euplectus monticola, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 527 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), rarissimus. In montibus valde excelsis 

 exemplaria duo collegi. 



Likewise Teneriffan, and apparently extremely rare the only 

 two specimens which I have seen having been captured by myself at 

 a very high elevation, amongst the Retamas, on the Cumbre adjoin- 

 ing the Caiiadas. Although closely allied to the last species, I be- 

 lieve nevertheless that it is truly distinct ; though further material 

 can alone decide whether it will be possible to regard it as a large 

 and slightly modified state of that insect, peculiar to those lofty 

 altitudes. 



1241. Euplectus intermedius. 



Euplectus intermedius, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col 168 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Gom.), sub cortice laxo 

 emortuo in intermediis rarissimus. 



This Euplectus occupies much the same place in the intermediate 

 sylvan districts of Madeira proper as the E. Karstenii does at the 

 Canaries ; nevertheless it would appear to occur in the latter Group 

 likewise ; for a single example now before me, which was captured 

 by the Messrs. Crotch in Gomera, although not perfectly agreeing 

 with the Madeiran ones, seems sufficiently near them to render it 

 probable that it is but the exponent of a very slight and unimportant 

 insular phasis of the same species. I have taken it from under bark 



