86 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
Madeira proper; whilst those from Porto Santo (var. y) are the 
smallest of all, more metallic still, and are, besides, almost free from 
pubescence. It is locally abundant in Madeira proper, where it is 
attached principally to the flowers of the Oineraria aurita (the Senecio 
Maderensis, DeCand.) of intermediate and lofty altitudes. In the 
Southern Dezerta it is scaree,—where I detected it, on the 7th of 
June 1855, amongst the blossoms of the White Poppy on the ex- 
treme summit of the rock. And in Porto Santo it is equally rare, 
the only spot in which I have hitherto observed it being the very 
top of the Pico Branco,—from whence I brushed several specimens 
into my net, from off the vegetation, early in May of the same year. 
229, Pecteropus rugosus. 
Pecteropus rugosus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 249 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring in flowers, during the spring, 
at low elevations. 
230. Pecteropus rostratus. 
Pecteropus rostratus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 250. tab. iv. f. 9 (1854). 
Inhabits Porto Santo, the Dezerta Grande and the Southern Dezerta 
(or Bugio),—the Porto-Santan specimens (var. a) being on the 
average somewhat paler, more metallic, and less rugose, than those 
(var. 3) from the Dezertas. 
Genus 97. DASYTES. 
Paykull, Fina Suee. ii. 156 (1798). 
231. Dasytes illustris. 
Dasytes illustris (Mots.), Woll., Ins. Mad. 252 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Dezerta Grande, abounding 
in flowers at nearly all altitudes. 
Genus 98. MELYROSOMA. 
Wollaston, Ins. Mad, 253. tab. v. f. 1, 2 (1854). 
232. Melyrosoma oceanicum. 
Melyrosoma oceanicum, TWoll., Ins. Mad. 253. tab. v. f. 1 (1854). 
TInhabits Madeira proper, occurring in flowers at lofty clevations. 
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