162 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
pressed, behind this uneven region. Antenne at base, palpi, and 
legs, more or less brightly piceo-testaceous. Antenne at apex 
darker, or more piceous. 
Male, with the head and prothorax rather more closely and coarsely 
punctured, and with the antennz just perceptibly more robust. 
A single example of the present Salpingus was detected by myself 
on the Lombo de Vaca (in the north of Madeira proper), at the be- 
ginning of August 1855; and two more have been subsequently 
captured by Mr. Bewicke on the hills above Funchal,—one outside a 
newly cut chestnut-log at Camacha, and the other (beneath bark) at 
the Mount. It is apparently exceedingly rare. 
Fam. 55. MELOIDZ. 
Genus 196. MELOE. 
Linneeus, Syst. Nat. edit. 1 (1735). 
466. Meloé austrinus. 
Meloé austrinus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 527 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring on the grassy slopes (princi- 
pally) of a rather low elevation. 
467. Meloé rugosus. 
Meloé rugosus, Mshm, Ent. Brit. i. 483 (1802). 
punctatus, Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. v. 68 (1832). 
rugulosa, Brullé, in Webb et Berth. Hist. Nat. des Iles Canar. 70 
(1839). 
rugosus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 527 (1854). 



Inhabits Madeira and Porto Santo, occurring in similar spots as the 
last species, and being rarer in the latter than in the former. It is 
found also in the Canary Islands. 
468. Meloé flavicomus. 
Meloé flavicomus, Woll., Ins. Mad, 528. tab. xiii. f, 1 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Dezerta Grande,—being 
rare in the first and last of those islands, but abounding in the 
second. 
Genus 197. ZONITIS. 
Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 126 (1775). 
