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STAPHYLINID, 



than elsewhere. Its detection in Hierro is due to the researches 

 of the Messrs. Crotch. 



1270. Homalota luridipennis. 



Bolitochara luridipennis, Mann., Brachel. 77 (1831). 



Homalota elongatula, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 90. var. C. a (1839). 



luticola, Woll, Ins. Mad. 549 (1854). 



luridipennis, Kraatz, Nat. cler Ins. Deutsch. ii. 221 (1856). 



, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 174 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarior; in lutosis necnon ad rupes 

 aqnosas. 



A European Homalota which is found sparingly in Madeira proper, 

 where it occurs in the muddy deposits about wet rocks and in the 

 damp soil at the edges of waterfalls for the most part at rather 

 low elevations, and principally in the north of the island. 



1271. Homalota gregaria. 



Homalota gregaria, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 87 (1839). 

 Tachyusa immunita, Id., ibid. 916 (1839). 

 Homalota gregaria, Woll., Ins. Mad. 550 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 174 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 537 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ) et Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can., 

 Ten., Gom.), inter lapillos ad margines rivulorum, praecipue in 

 inferioribus abundans. 



This widely spread European insect will most likely be found to 

 be almost universal throughout these Atlantic islands, where it is 

 locally very abundant amongst stones and shingle along the edges of 

 the streams (particularly when at all brackish), and for the most 

 part at rather low elevations. It abounds in Porto Santo, of the 

 Madeiran Group ; and it has already been captured in Lanzarote, 

 Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Gomera, of the Cana- 

 ries. 



1272. Homalota philonthoides. 



Homalota Philonthoides, Woll, Ins. Mad. 551 (1854). 

 1 Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 175 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, in editioribus praesertim sylvaticis oc 

 currens. 



Pound at a lofty elevation in Madeira proper, towards the upper 

 limits of the sylvan districts, where it occurs in damp spots and 

 under vegetable refuse ; and I have taken it even in the dung of 



cattle. 



