Atlantic Coleoptera. 269 
but I cannot help thinking (as indeed I have long ago 
expressed) that the form which obtains throughout the 
Mediterranean region and the Atlantic islands (extend- 
ing even to Egypt and Abyssinia), and which is a little 
larger and differently marked, cannot be absolutely 
identified with the one which occurs in sub-northern 
Europe; and if therefore the latter be the true fascicu- 
latus of Herbst, it follows that the other (which is 
undoubtedly Olivier’s dauwei, and which I subsequently 
described under the name lunatus) must be accepted as 
distinct. * Under these circumstances, therefore, I will 
not at present amalgamate them ; though the title under 
which the species has hitherto been acknowleged by me 
must be changed,—that of “‘ dauci” (which until lately 
I was not aware had been actually published by Olivier) 
having of course the priority. 
As mentioned in my ‘ Coleoptera Atlantidum,’ the P. 
lunatus (i. e. dauci) is universal throughout the Madeiran 
and Canarian archipelagos —Gomera being the only 
island in the two Groups on which it does not happen, as 
yet, to have been observed ; nevertheless Capiomont, in 
accordance with that strange want of precision as regards 
habitat which is so characteristic of the French entomo- 
logists, gives merely (for its Atlantic dissemination) 
“Pile de Madére,”—thus ignoring altogether its Canarian 
range ; and that too whilst citing the P. crroratus, which 
is only Canarian, as found equally in ‘ Madeira!” Assum- 
ing it therefore to be distinct from the typical fasciculatus 
of Herbst, the emended synonymy of this Phytonomus 
will be as follows :— 
Phytonomus dauct. 
Rhynchenus dauci, Oliv., Ent. v. 127, t. 35, f. 542 
(1793). Phytonomus dauci, Brullé, in W. et B. (Col.) 
72 (1838). Hypera lunata, Woll., Ins. Mad. 398 (1854) ; 
Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 118 (1857); Id., Cat. Can. Col. 326 
(1864); Id., Col. Atl. 304 (1865). Phytonomus fascicu- 
latus (pars), Cap., loc. cit. 129 (1868). 
* Even Capiomont himself remarks that ‘‘ En général, les fasciculatus 
du nord de l’Europe sont plus foneés en couleur et plus petits que ceux 
du midi, et surtout que ceux du nord de l'Afrique et de l’Asie occiden- 
tale’? (loc. cit. 131). ; 
