238 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
punctatus; prothorace latiusculo; antennis pedibusque 
ferrugineis ; tibiis anticis latis, extus minute sed sub- 
inzequaliter serratis. 
Var. 8. [ansexualis distinctio ? |—prothoracis lateribus, 
antennis pedibusque testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14. 
Meligethes varicollis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 126 (1854); Id., 
Cat. Mad. Col. 41 (1857); (pars) ; Id., Col. Atl. 112 
(1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad); ad flores im sylvaticis 
intermediis, rarissimus. 
An exceedingly rare Meligethes, being confined so far 
as I have hitherto observed to the intermediate sylvan 
districts of Madeira proper—where I have taken it, 
during the summer months, at the Ribeiro Frio and else- 
where. 
Meligethes Ryei, n. sp. 
M. ovato-oblongus, convexus, eneo-viridis, fulvo- 
cinereo pubescens, dense et profunde punctatus ; antennis 
pedibusque ferrugineis; tibiis anticis latis, extus sat 
grosse sed ineequaliter serratis. 
Long. corp. lin. 1. 
Meligethes varicollis, (pars), Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 112 
(1864); (pars) ; Id., Col. Atl. 112 (1865). Meligethes 
erythropa, Hart. [nee Mshm.], Geolog. v. Lanz. und Fuert. 
140. 
Hab.—Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Ten.) ; hinc inde 
ad flores, haud infrequens. 
Obs.—Speciei preecedenti affinis, sed differt praecipue 
corpore profundius ac paulo minus dense punctato et pube 
sub-breviore sericato, prothorace (nisi fallor) semper 
concolori, ad latera sensim minus rotundato, quare angulis 
posticis paulo minus obtusis, antennis sublongioribus, 
necnon tibiis anticis extus (conspicue) grossius ac magis 
ineequaliter serratis. 
Species in honorem EH. C. Rye, inter Hntomologicos Bri- 
tannicos longe lateque celebris, ob gratis amicissime oblatas 
dicata. 
