80 THE entomologist's record. 



to find it in spite of careful search ; there is the allied P. madeiremls, 

 Borelli, discovered by Padre Schmitz, in similar localities with 

 P. edenuda, under stones, on the lower levels ; finally there is P. 

 schvutzii, Borelli, discovered by Padre Barreto near Poizo, at a 

 considerable elevation. All these earwigs have been taken by hazard 

 only, and though I spent very many hours industriously turning over 

 stones in various localities, I failed to come across any of them. 

 Indeed, of the two latter species, the three or four original specimens 

 are the only ones known to exist in collections. Forficula aurindaria, 

 L., is fairly common, but far less abundant than in Europe. I found 

 a single male lying dead on the path near the Grand Corral. There 

 are several specimens including var. forcipata, Steph., in the Museum. 

 Lobidiira riparia occurs on the coast, there are a few specimens in 

 the Museum, and I possess some taken at Funchal in 1884. The 

 common earwig of the island is Anisolabis annulipes, Luc, which 

 Father Barreto and I found in numbers under stones in a dry river 

 bed just outside Funchal ; this was on September 30th, and they 

 generally occurred in pairs, the female, in three instances, sitting in 

 an apparently dug-out depression in the earth, taking care of a pile of 

 about a dozen minute oval cream-coloured eggs, a little less than 1mm. 

 in length. 



In the Kdnigsberg Museum, there are specimens of F. auricnlaria, 

 L. riparia and Labia minor : the last species I did not come across. 

 Padre Barreto has found that Labia carvicauda, Motsch, occurs in numbers 

 in the Seminario in Funchal. This little species is probably of Oriental 

 origin, but now occurs in all tropical countries. 



On one occasion I came across a little procession of Tennes 

 litcifi(t/us, Rossi, under the same stone. 



Various foreign cockroaches find the climate congenial, and 

 Rliyparobia inaderae, Fabr., is apparently long since established, but it 

 is highly improbable that it is indigenous in spite of its name, for the 

 fauna is essentially pabearctic, and the Vancldoridae are a neotropical 

 group ; B. maderae is now cosmopolitan. 



There are two indigenous Blattids known : Lubnptera decipiciis, 

 Germar, is common, but I only saw a single adult specimen, though 

 nymphs, larvfe and oothecae were abundant under stones in all 

 localities. The other species is Hololampra infiDuata, Br., which is 

 rarer. Padre Barreto lent me the three or four specimens to submit 

 to Mr. Shelford for determination. He has taken it at Poizo, on the 

 mountain. It remotely resembles Ectobius panzeri, and was recorded 

 as that species by Wollaston, under the name of FJ. cricctorum (Woll. 

 Ann. Mar/. N.H., 1858, p. 21). He found it in pine woods from 

 4,600 to 5000 ft. above the sea. It is allied to the South European 

 A. iiian/inata, Schreb. 



I\Iantis reliiiiona, L., occurs ; I did not see a living one, but there 

 are two or three in the Museum. Padre Barreto looks upon it as a 

 rarity. 



In the Acridiodea I found three females of ChorthipjiKs pidrinatus, 

 Fisch. de W., on the steep mountain slopes, above the pines, in the 

 Grand Corral ; all three specimens had the elytra and wings strongly 

 abbreviated ; the length of these organs is extremely unstable in this 

 species, but as a general rule, they are longer in the more southern 

 area of its distribution. Epaeromia strepenR, Fabr., is common in the 



