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trum under that title in his published works. Accordingly 
the Baron Harold, in his recent Catalogue (p. 1939), makes 
the Platynotus carbonarius of Quensel (defined, in 1806, in 
Schénherr’s ‘ Synonymia Insectorum,’i. 142, note «) iden- 
tical with the common Madeiran Hadrus cinerascens ; and 
if his conjecture be correct, of course the former name will 
have the priority over Dejean’s one of cinerascens ; but 
since the habitat given for the P. carbonarius is “ in in- 
sula Java, ad Augeri,” and it is likewise difficult, even 
assuming that a mistake had arisen as regards the 
country from which it was obtained, to decide as to 
which of the four nearly-allied Hadri the title of carbona- 
rius should belong, I prefer—until both of these points 
have been satisfactorily cleared up—to quote it still as 
the H. cinerascens. 
Fam. ULOMIDA. 
p. 418 (genus ADELINA). 
According to the recent Catalogue of Gemminger and 
Harold (p. 1987), this genus is identical with Sitophagus 
of Mulsant (Col. Fr., Latig., 264; 1854); but I have not 
had any opportunity, myself, of comparing a type of the 
latter with my Adelina farinaria. 
Fam. HELOPIDA. 
p. 426 (genus Henors). 
(Sp. 1175) Helops arboricola. 
Of this large and apparently scarce Madeiran Helops I 
took a single example, beneath the loosened bark of an 
old Spanish-chestnut tree (during our sojourn at ‘the 
Mount”), about 1800 feet above Funchal. I think this 
locality worth placing upon record, because the only spots 
in which the species had hitherto been observed are the 
Vasco Gil ravine and the Rib. de Santa Luzia,—in both 
of which it was captured, under precisely similar circum- 
stances as by myselfatthe Mount, by the late Mr. Bewicke. 
(Sp. 1177) Helops asper. 
Although I still believe that what I regarded in the 
‘Ins. Mad!’ as the “state 8” of this insect is truly con- 
specific with the “state a” (for the two forms seem to 
merge gradually into each other), nevertheless as there 
is such a decided primd facie difference between the two 
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