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these Atlantic Groups, where it occurs in the dung of cattle and at 

 most elevations. It abounds in Madeira proper and Porto Santo ; 

 and I have myself taken it in the whole seven islands of the Canarian 

 archipelago. I met with it also at Mogadore, on the opposite coast 

 of Africa. 



1308. Aleochara littoralis. 

 Aleochara littoralis, WoU., Cat. Can. Col, 552 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.}, in arenosis maritimis, sub putridis. 



Found along the sandy sea-shores in Lanzarote, of the Canarian 

 Group, where it occurs sparingly beneath putrid substances. It was 

 taken by Mr. Gray and myself near Arrecife, and subsequently by 

 myself at Berrugo (in the extreme south of that island). It is closely 

 allied to the European A. grisea, of which indeed it is just possible 

 that it may be but a geographical state. 



1309. Aleochara funebris. 

 Aleochara funebris, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 553 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), sub quisquiliis, 

 passim. 



Widely diffused over the Canarian Group, though nowhere com- 

 mon, occurring for the most part beneath decaying vegetable refuse. 

 I have taken it in Teneriffe and Palma ; and it was found by the 

 Messrs. Crotch in Gomera and Hierro. 



In the elongate suberect pubescence with which it is thickly 

 clothed, as well as in the slightly senescent tinge of its head, pro- 

 thorax, and (very densely sculptured) elytra, the present Aleochara 

 has much in common with the European A. lanuginosa ; but in its 

 sparingly punctured abdomen, and the more diluted hue of its legs 

 and the base of its antennae, it better accords with the mcesta-, so 

 that whilst agreeing with neither of those species, it would appear 

 in some respects to combine the characters of them both. Of the 

 two, however, I think perhaps that it is more allied to the latter 

 than to the former. 



1310. Aleochara mcesta. 



Aleochara mossta, Grav., Col. Micropt. 96 (1802). 



, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 170 (1839). 



; Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 99 (1856). 



, WoU., Cat. Mad. Col. 181 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.)) hactenus semel deprehensa. 



