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Show 362 M R. G. R. CROTCH ON AZOREAN COLEOPTERA. [Mar. 28, are found, for the most part, about hotbeds, and, indeed, in Sericoderus lateralis. *Ptenidium apicale. Nitidula 4-pustulata. colon. * Monotonia 4-foveolata. * spinicollis. quadricollis. *Aglenus brunneus. Cryptophagus dentatus. affinis. * • cellaris. punctipennis. saginatus. schmidtii. *Atomaria munda. *Epistemus gyrinoides. Latridius minutus. in the debris of hay- or straw-ricks, all vegetable refuse not too rotten*. Latridius nodifer. Corticaria fulva. Typheea fumata. Myceteea hirta. Dermestes frischii. Acritus minutus. Carcinops pumilio. *Trox scaber. Blaps similis. Anthicus floralis. Falagria obscura. Philontbus eeneus. umbratilis. Leptacinus pusillus. Xantholinus punctulatus. Stilicus affinis. Lithocharis ochracea. (3) Species introduced in old wood, & c , in houses. Opilus mollis. Gracilia pygmeea. Anobium domesticum. Clytus 4-punctatus. Hylotrypes bajulus. Leptura, sp. (4) Species inhabiting clung. Here it may be remarked that if islands are dependent on colonization for their Mammalia, their co-prophagous insects must also be introduced ; special attention should therefore be paid to any new species having these habits. Of course many of the decaying-vegetable feeders will take to dung under certain circumstances. Spheeridium bipustulatum. Cercyon obsoletum. Onthophagus caeca. • taurus. Aph.odius granarius. • lividus. Aleochara nitida. puberula. Ilomalota atramentaria melanaria. nigra. Philonthus sordidus. Oxytelus sculptus. complanatus. • nitidulus. (5) Species introduced with pine trees, as in Madeira. In the Canaries, where pines are apparently indigenous, the insects are all cognate species. Pissodes notatus. Hylurgus ligniperda. Hylastes ater. Homalium pusillum. * As an exemplification of the above, it may be interesting to mention that the conditions under which these species thrive seem to have culminated in a small shed used for picking fowls near Horta in Fayal. Under the feathers, &c, were found ten of the species here enumerated, which, however, occurred nowhere else in the islands. |