266 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Nevertheless since the present one, which abounds 
throughout the region of “the Mount” (from about 1700 
to 2000 feet above Funchal), has very decided characters 
to separate it from at any rate the typical C. conicollis, I 
think it better, in spite of a few rather doubtful examples 
which have elsewhere occurred (and which would seem 
in some respects to be intermediate between the two), to 
treat it as distinct. In that particular district it often 
swarms beneath chippings of wood, and under logs and 
planks, and never appears to be mixed-up with the true 
conicollis—which occurs more especially towards the 
eastern parts of the island, being tolerably common at 8. 
Antonio da Serra and along the high sea-cliffs towards 
the Brazen Head ; yet this very fact, I am aware, might 
tend to imply that it is but a modification, or race, pecu- 
liar to the mountain slopes above Funchal. Be this how- 
ever as it may (for it seems next to impossible to decide 
for certain), the C. pyricollis may be said to differ from 
the conicollis in being a little narrower and more oblong 
(the elytra being less expanded in the middle, and there- 
fore the whole outline less pear-shaped or broadly-elliptic) , 
in its prothorax being a trifle wider and more developed 
(being perhaps somewhat less strictly conical), in its 
elytra being more even behind (where there is less appear- 
ance of the inequalities occasioned by the anteriorly- 
evanescent sulcate striz), and in its entire surface being, 
on the average, a little darker, less shining, and less 
brassy. Still, considering the variations which the mem- 
bers of this genus are apt to undergo in the different 
districts in which they are found, I would desire to record 
at any rate my doubt as to whether the C. pyriformis is 
ae in reality than an extreme modification of the coni- 
collis. 
p-. 265 (genus NANopuHyss). 
(Sp. 738) Nanophyes longulus. 
It would appear, according to Brisout de Barneville 
(LP? Abeille, vi.), that this Canarian Nanophyes is con- 
specific with the N. Chevriert, Boh., from southern and 
south-western Hurope, and perhaps also with the 
(previously-described) N. nitidulus of Gyllenhal. Pos- 
sessing no type of these species, I cannot test the 
conclusion for myself; but assuming the identification 
to be correct, the emended synonymy will stand thus :— 
