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Meligethes seniculus. 
Meligethes seniculus, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 
192 (1845). Meligethes tristis, Woll. [nec Sturm.], Ins. 
Mad. 124 (1854); Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 41 (1857); Id., 
Cat. Can. Col. 113 (1864); Id., Col. Atl. 111 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad., Pto. Sto., Des.), et Canar- 
iensis (Can., Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro); ad flores vul- 
garis. 
(Sp. 313) Meligethes picipes. 
This Meligethes appears to be correctly identified with 
the European M. picipes, according to Mr. Rye—who 
however observes that the Madeiran examples are, on the 
average, a trifle larger than the ordinary British ones. 
(Sp. 314) Meligethes virescens. 
Mr. Rye informs me that this Canarian Meligethes (like 
the Madeiran M. echii) 1s quite unknown to him; and in 
all probability, therefore, it is not a Huropean species. 
(Sp. 315) Meligethes varicollis. 
Concerning the Canarian form which I cited as a 
‘var. 8” of this Madeiran Meligethes I have always had 
considerable doubt, though my desire not to multiply 
species unnecessarily induced me to register it as im all 
probability a geographical phasis of the latter. Yeta 
re-examination of the two, added to the decidedly-ex- 
pressed opinion of Mr. Rye that they must be truly dis- 
tinct, inclines me to correct what I feel now would 
almost certainly be regarded as a mistake by any Coleop- 
terist who may have made this group his particular 
study; and in order therefore to point out the discrepan- 
cies between them, I think it will be desirable, whilst 
enunciating the Canarian species as a new one, to give 
also an emended diagnosis of the M. varicollis—its already 
described Madeiran ally. 
Meligethes varicollis. 
M. ovato-oblongus, convexus, aut sneo- aut cya- 
neo-viridis, grosse fulvo-cinereo pubescens, densissime 
