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APPENDIX. 



Anthrenus minor, n. sp. 



A. oblongo-ovalis (nee rotundatus), angustulus, niger, supra parce 

 lurido-irroratus ; prothorace basi utrinque albido-maculato ; elytris 

 fasciis tribus dentatis albidis (plus minus conspicuis) ornatis; 

 infra albidus ; antennis (11-articulatis) pedibusque ferrugineis, 

 illarum clava (2-articulata) picescentiore. Long. corp. lin. f-1^. 



Anthrenus claviger ; Woll. [nee Erich.~\, Cat. Can. Col 161 (1864). 



Habitat in Gomera, Palma et Hierro, ad flores varios (praesertim. 

 Euphorbiarum} hinc inde parum vulgaris. 



In my Canarian Catalogue I recorded this insect as the A. dciviger 

 of Erichson, a mistake which arose from my having omitted to 

 examine its antennae with sufficient care. But although so closely 

 resembling that species in its external aspect that I did not hesitate 

 to refer it to it even without a microscopic observation, I nevertheless 

 now perceive that its 10-jointed antennce with their Uarticulate dub 

 remove it in reality into a different Section of which the common 

 A. museorum is a member ; and it would seem consequently to com- 

 bine the small size, oblong outline, and general colouring of the 

 A. claviger with the structural features of the museorum-growp. I 

 think it extremely likely that it may be identical with the Medi- 

 terranean A. minutus, which is cited in the last edition of the ' Cat. 

 Col. Eur.' as probably conspecifie with the A. molitor of Aube ; but 

 as I have not been able to procure a type either of Aube's insect or 

 of Krister's, I cannot decide whether the details of its antennae will 

 admit of its being identified with either (or both) of them. 



I have taken the A. minor rather abundantly in the intermediate 

 elevations of Palma ; and it was found by the Messrs. Crotch, during 

 the summer of 1864, both in Gomera and Hierro principally on 

 the blossoms of the Euphorbias. 



Fam. 



Genus SYNCALYPTA. 



(Dillwyn) Steph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 133 (1830). 



Syncalypta granulosa, n. sp. 



S. obovata, convexa, nigra, setis rigidis parce obsita; prothorace 

 punctato ; elytris (praBsertim antice et postice) granulatis, leviter 

 punctato-striatis (punctis levibus, inter se remotis) ; antennis 

 pedibusque rufo-ferrugineis. Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Habitat Gomeram, a DD. Crotch in editioribus parcissime lecta. 



