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STAPHYLINID.E. 



Its detection in Gomera is due to the late researches of the Messrs 

 Crotch. It varies from almost black to a testaceous brown, anc 

 occasionally the head and prothorax are slightly rufescent. 



1264. Homalota montivagans. 



Homalota montivagans, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 176 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in intermediis et pra3cipue editioribi 

 minus frequens. 



Detected in Madeira proper by the late Mr. Bewicke, on the 

 summit of the Pico do Areeiro, nearly 6000 feet above the sea ; and 

 he subsequently met with it at a lower altitude, on the mountains 

 to the east of Funchal. It has a good deal in common with the //. 

 dientula ; but, apart from colour (which is extremely variable 

 both species), it is larger, more shining, and much less densely 

 punctured ; its antennae are thicker and darker ; and its prothorax 

 and elytra (the former of which is generally a little channelled be- 

 behind) are more developed. 



1265. Homalota vagepunctata. 



Homalota vagepunctata, Woll., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 187 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 544 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Ten., Hierro), inter Euphorbias 

 in intermediis late diffusa. 



Hitherto I have captured this brightly polished and peculiarly 

 sculptured Homalota only in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two 

 eastern islands of the Canarian. Group where I met with it amongst 

 the various Euphorbias, on the flowers of which it was tolerably 

 abundant (in one or two spots of intermediate elevations) ; but it 

 has subsequently been taken, though sparingly, by the Messrs. 

 Crotch both in Teneriffe and Hierro. 



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1266. Homalota plumbea. 



Homalota plumbea, Waterh., Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 15 (1858). 

 trogophlceoides, Wbtt., Cat. Can. Col. 536 (1864). 





Habitat Canarienses (Fuert., Can.), sub fucis degens, in arenosis 

 maritimis. 



A European Homalota which occurs in the Canarian Group, under 

 exactly the same circumstances as it does in higher latitudes 

 namely, beneath marine rejectamenta along the sandy sea-shore 

 It was taken by Mr. Gray and myself in Fuerteventura ; and an 



