Dr. Heineken on Cermatia. 4] 
Note on the Hegeter Webbianus. By the Rev. W. Kirsy. 
I have great doubts whether this insect is distinct from Heg. striatus. 
Latreille gives Teneriffe as its habitat, and describes the elytra as 
subsulcata, which indicates that they are slightly furrowed. I have a 
specimen from Madeira only six lines long, which brings it near Mr. 
Webb’s specimens, and the thorax is subsinuated behind ; so that there 
remains scarcely any distinction except that of size, now reduced, and 
that the elytra instead of subsulcata are obsoletissimé subsulcata, which 
may be casual. 
Art. 1X. On Cermalia. By C. Heineken, 44.D., &c. 
LATREILLE cautions the entomological aspirant against making even a 
species (“‘méme une espéce’’), “‘ sans y avoir mirement refléchi ;”? but 
as I am not aware that equal forbearance is either expected or requisite in 
the unmaking process, I may perhaps be allowed the attempt, even though 
itshould appear that I have not “ maturely”’ considered the subject : a 
condition much more easily fulfilled to our own content, than tothe satis- 
faction of others. 
In the third volume of the Zoological Miscellany, page 38, is a de- 
scription of the Cermatia livida, and No. 136 is the plate of the same. 
Madeira is given for its habitat, and as in the course of several years, and 
amongst some dozens of specimens either seen or preserved by me, (they 
are common in our houses,) not even a variety has occurred, I think I 
need not hesitate in saying that we have only one species of Cermatia, 
and consequently that the Cermatia livida of Dr. Leach is that one. 
Fig. a of the accompanying Plate [Tas. II. fig. 6.] is our Cermatia when 
alive, and it will readily be conceived that I was nota little puzzled to recon- 
cile it with either the description or figure in the Miscellany. However, 
upon examining some which had been for a length of time preserved in 
spirits, and then exposed to the air for a few hours, as suppose Dr. Leach’s 
tohave been before the drawing was made, I found them as represented by 
Fig. b ; and as they then agreed with the description, and corresponded 
