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Messrs. Crotch in Teneriffe, during their late Canarian campaign ; 

 but it is the only one that I have yet seen from these Atlantic 

 islands. 



1354. Philonthus sordidus. 



Staphylinus sordidus, Grav., Col. Micropt. 176 (1802). 

 Philonthus sordidus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 582 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 189 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 569 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., Des.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Ten., 

 Palma, Hierro), hinc inde sub quisquiliis. 



Also a European species, and one which is sparingly (though very 

 widely) distributed over these islands. I have taken it in Madeira 

 proper and the Deserta Grande, of the Madeiran Group ; as well as 

 in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Teneriffe, and Palma, of the Canarian ; 

 and it was found in Hierro by the Messrs. Crotch. 



1355. Philonthus xantholoma. 



Staphylinus xantholoma, Grav., Mon. 41 (1806). 

 Cafius xantholoma. Steph., Ill Brit. Ent. v. 246 (1832). 

 Philonthus xantholoma, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 452 (1839). 

 , Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 570 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), per oras arenosas mariti- 

 mas sub fucis et rejectamentis parum vulgaris. 



Rather abundant along the sandy sea- shores in the eastern parts 

 of the Canarian archipelago, where (as in more northern latitudes) 

 it occurs beneath fuci and other marine rejectamenta ; but it has not 

 yet been observed in the Madeiran Group, though I met with it 

 commonly at Mogadore on the opposite coast of Morocco. It has 

 been taken in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Grand Canary. 



1356. Philonthus thermarum. 



Philonthus thermarum, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 316 (1850). 



exilis, Kraats, in Stett. Ent. Zeit. xii. 292 (1851). 



thermarum, Id., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 608 (1856). 



, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 102 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub quisquiliis in inferioribus parce 

 lectus. 



I have taken this little European Philonthus, though very spa- 

 ringly, around Funchal in Madeira proper ; and two or three examples 

 of it were met with likewise by the late Mr. Bewicke. 



