400 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



306. Hypera variabilis. 

 H. nigra, squamis cinereis (vel fulvescenti-cinereis) et nigris variegata, prothorace trilineato, elytris 



plerumque distinctius longitudinaliter tessellatis, regione suturali basin versus obscuriore, antennis 



pedibusque femigineis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 24-2|. 



CurcuUo variabilis, Hcrbst, Kaf. vi. 26.3. tab. 80. fig. 1 (1795). 



himaciilatus, Msbin, Ent. Brit. i. 266 (1802). 



Rliynchenus variabilis, Gyll. Itts. Suec. iii. lOi (1813). 

 Phytonomus variabilis, Schon. Oen. et Spec. Cure. ii. 384 (1834). 



Habitat Maderam, passim (usque ad 3500' s. m. ascendens) : necnon etiam m Deserta Grandi Maio 

 exeunte a.d. 1850 specimen iinicum inveni. 



H. similar to the last species, but (on the average) a little smaller, and also more densely variegated 

 with scales, — there being generally an admixture of dark ones, and the jjaler ones having, also, 

 more of a fulvescent tinge. Rustrum perhaps a trifle slenderer and longer than in that insect. 

 Prothorax not quite so convex, and with the longitudinal lines usually better defiued. Elytra 

 more distinctly tessellated (the alternate interstices being more or less chequered with darker 

 pile-like scales), and with their sutural region towards its base more evidently obscured. An- 

 tetma and Icffs ferruginous. 



It is possible that the present insect and the last one may be but states of the 

 same species : nevertheless, since I believe them to be correctly identified with, the 

 coimnon European M. variabilis and miirina (which are usually retained as 

 distinct), I have not amalgamated them. The H. rariabilis is foimd sparingly 

 throughout Madeira, in much the same positions as the H. murlna, — ascending 

 however somewhat higher, since (in addition to the vicinity of Fimchal, in ^^■hich 

 I have frequently observed it at rather low elevations) I captm-ed a specimen 

 during the summer of 1850 at the Ribeu'o Frio ; and another, at the end of May 

 of the same vear, towards the summit of the Dezerta Grande. 



(Subf 9. CLEONIDES.) 

 Genus 131. CLEONUS. 



SchiJnherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 145 (1826). 



Corpus sat magnum, plerumque oblongum, plus minusve squamuloso-variegatum (vel submaculatum) 

 et pubescens, durum : rustro (in specie nostra) parum elongate sulcato-teretiusculo, basin versus 

 subgracili sed apice paulo latiore, ad apicem ipsum vel subtruncato vel (ut in nostrd) triangulariter 

 cmarginato, leviter arcuato ; scrobe subflexuoso-obliqua, versus marginem oculi inferiorcm retror- 

 sum profunde ducta sed eum vix attingente ; oculis ovatis demissis : prothorace subconico, mox 

 pone apicem sa?pius leviter constricto, necnon per marginem basalem subsinuato : scutello pai-vo 

 rotundato: ehjtris Uberis, basi sfcpius singulatim subrotundatis, sed interdum (ut in specie 

 nostra) conjunctim leviter emarginatis : alls plerumque (ut in specie Maderensi) parum amplis 



