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27. Anohium panice^im^ . 



Dermestes paniceus, Linn., Faun. Suec. 431 (1761), 

 Anobium paniceum, WolL, Col. Atl. 227 (1865). 

 , Id., Col. Hesp. 109 (1867). 



I need scarcely add that the almost cosmopolitan A. pani- 

 ceum (a few examples of which are amongst Mr. Melliss's in- 

 sects from St. Helena) is a mere accidental importation into 

 the island, and has no kind of connexion whatsoever with the 

 true fauna, the presence of such species in any local list being 

 merely dependent upon the amount of diligence with which 

 the warehouses and stores may happen to have been searched. 

 The A. paniceum has, in like manner, become established in 

 the Azorean, Madeiran, Canarian, and Cape -Verde archipe- 

 lagos. 



28. Anobium striatum'*. 



Anobkmi striatum, Oliv., Ent. ii. 16. 9 (1790). 

 , WoU., Col. Atl. 227 (1865). 



Like the last species, the present common European Ano- 

 bium has (judging from a few examples which were captured 

 by Mr. Melliss) become established at St. Helena ; but it has, 

 of course, no more to do than that equally cosmopolitan insect 

 with the original fauna of the island. It has been naturalized 

 in like manner in the Azorean, Madeiran, and Canarian 

 groups. 



29. Anobium confertum^, n. sp.? 



A. cylindricum, fiisco-nigrum, ubique minutissime et densissime 

 subgranulato-punctatum pubeque brevi demissa cinerea vestitum ; 

 prothorace simplici, transverso, postice elytrorum latitudine, 

 angulis anticis subrectis, posticis paulo magis rotundatis, ad latera 

 subrecto subrecurvo ferrugineo ; elytris obsolete longitudinaliter 

 substriatis (sed punctis majoribus carentibus) ; antennis pedibus- 

 que insequaliter piceo-ferrugineis, tarsis clarioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1|. 



Having no information concerning the precise places of 

 capture of Mr. Melliss's various Coleoptera, I cannot but look 

 with suspicion upon a single example of an Anobium now be- 

 before me, as having in all probability become introduced into 

 the island and been found by him in some house or cultivated 

 spot ; yet, as it is well characterized by its very peculiar sculp- 

 ture, and I cannot identify it with any member of the genus 

 to which I have had access, I have thought it desirable to 

 enunciate the species on the chance that it will be ascertained 

 to have been undescribed. Apart from its cylindric but not 

 very elongated outline, and (for an Anobium) rather dark hue, 

 it may be known by its transverse prothorax, which has the 



