222 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
and “in its elytra having an obscure wnder-tint of testa- 
ceous, though at the same time so densely mottled with 
black as to appear at first sight almost completely 
dark. Its prothorax likewise is a little less transverse, 
and not quite so undulated (or sinuate) along its basal 
edge, causing the hinder angles to be more decidedly 
right-angles ; its scutellum is rounder, or less triangular ; 
and the triple series of its elytral impressions are more 
punctiform or less linear and elongate. * 
p- 71 (genus Eunzcrss) . 
After species 213, add :— 
Eunectes helvolus. 
H. ovatus, angustulus, luteo-griseus, clypeo antice vix 
marginato; capite postice nigro, et macula frontali 
magni plus minus suffusa antice bipartita ornato; pro- 
thorace vitti transversi abbreviata ornato, ad latera 
oblique rectissimo, angulis posticis acutiusculis; elytris 
punctis magnis sat profundis in triplici serie et ubique 
punctulis minoribus nigris notatis, smgulis maculis aua- 
bus minutis sublateralibus et fascia transvers’ tenui den- 
tata postica (plus minus obsoleta) nigris ornatis. 
Long corp. lin. 6. 
Hunectes helvolus, Klug, Symb. Phys. 33:3. Hunectes 
eonicollis, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. vn. 97 (1861). Hunectes 
helvolus, Id., Col. Hesp. 35 (1867). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.) ; in Salinis ad Paul do Mar 
a Dom. Moniz deprehensus. 
A few examples of this Hunectes were captured by 
Senhor Moniz at Paul do Mar, in the west of Madeira, 
from amongst plants of Ruppia rostellata, Koch, in the 
briny water of a Saltern. It would appear, therefore, to 
be a saline species—a circumstance to which I called 
attention, at p. 36 of my ‘ Coleoptera Hesperidum,’ 
whilst commenting on its probable habitat in the Cape 
* From the pustulatus of southern Europe, which appears to be re- 
garded as a Scutopterus, it seems (judging from the published diagnosis) 
to differ even structurally,—the claws of the four anterior male feet in 
that species being described as of unequal dimensions. Moreover the 
pustulatus is said to have an enescent tinge, with the sculpture of its 
elytra the same as that of its head and prothorax. 
