40 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
garden at Funchal; and two more, taken near Funchal in bones, 
have been lately communicated by Mr. M. Park. 
114. Nitidula obsoleta*. 
Nitidula obsoleta, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 256 (1792). 
, Heer, Fna Col. Helv. 398 (1841). 
Epureea obsoleta, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 148 (1848). 
Nitidula obsoleta, Woll., Ins. Mad. 121 (1854). 


Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring (sparingly) beneath the bark 
and chippings of trees at intermediate altitudes. 
Genus 46. PRIA. 
(Kirby) Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. iii. 49 (1880). 
115. Pria Dulcamare. 
Laria Duleamaree, Scop., Ent. Carn. 22 (1763). 
Silpha truncatella, Mshm, Ent. Brit. i. 123 (1802). 
Pria truncatella et Meligethes Dulcamare, Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. iii. 
45 et 50 (1830). 
—— Dulcamare, Woll., Ins. Mad, 122 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, being found (sparingly) in flowers at 
nearly all elevations. 
Genus 47. MELIGETHES. 
(Kirby) Steph., Zi. Brit. Ent. iii, 45 (1880). 
116. Meligethes Echii +. 
Meligethes Isoplexidis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 123 (1854). 
Inhabits the sylvan districts of Madeira proper, being confined (so 
far as I have hitherto observed) to the flowers and foliage of the 
Echium candicans. 
+ Although unwilling at all times to change a name which has been once 
imposed, I have done so in the present instance, through the conviction that 
such is absolutely necessary. It is to N. Mason, Esq., that I am indebted for 
pointing out the mistake into which I had unintentionally fallen, in regarding 
the plants on which (in 1850) I detected the above Meligethes as the Isoplexis 
sceptrum. Possessing but little knowledge of botany, and indeed not having 
examined the plant at all, I recorded it as the Zsoplewis, believing that I had 
been informed that it was such. As this however, clearly, could not have been 
the case, I have altered the title of the insect accordingly. 
