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important now, through the discovery that the Lamia gibba of Brulle, 

 peculiar to the Canaries, is in reality a Deucalion ; of which I have 

 been able to satisfy myself, from the comparison of many specimens 

 which I took during the spring of last year in Fuerteventura and 

 Teneriffe, — from out of the decaying Euphorbias, on the stems of 

 which the larvae would appear exclusively to subsist. And it is 

 worth remarking that M. Brulle, whilst describing the L. gibba in 

 Webb and Berthelot's ' Histoire Naturelle des lies Canaries,' in 

 1839, implies his conviction that it would constitute eventually the 

 type of a new genus : " Espece fort remarquable, et qui formerait 

 peut-etre une division nouvelle dans le systeme propose recemment 

 par quelques auteurs." 



Fam. Opatridse. 



Genus Opatrtjm. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 76 (1775). 



7. Ojpatrum dilatatum, Woll. 



Opatrum dilatatum, Woll, Ins. Mad. 501 (1854). 



A single specimen of this insect was captured by Mr. Leacock on 

 the 'Great Piton' in 1851. 



Fam. Tentyriadse. 



Genus Hegetek. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. iii. 172 (1802). 



8. Hegeter latebricola, Woll. 

 Hegeter latebricola, Woll., Ins. Mad. 510 (1854). 



Taken in tolerable abundance by Mr. Leacock on the ' Great 

 Piton,' in 1851 ; and I have also lately received specimens from the 

 Barao do Castello de Paiva, which I believe to have been captured 

 on the 'Great Salvage.' I have not yet compared it accurately 

 with the many Hegeters which I have found during the last two 

 years in the Canaries ; but it evidently approaches very closely to a 

 species which is common in most of the islands (particularly, how- 

 ever, the eastern ones) of that group. Whether it will prove to be 

 identical with it, or only nearly allied, I will not undertake to say 

 at present ; but I must decide for certain when my Canarian material 

 is sufficiently assorted for examination. 



