280 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
that some naturalists might perhaps be induced to treat 
them as distinct, I will propose for the former (which 
occurs in the higher elevations, and is the more hghtly 
sculptured of the two, with the hinder edge of its pro- 
thorax more arched-out, or sinuate) the varietal name of 
obliteratus, retaining (as formerly) the ‘state a” for the 
type. 
(Sp. 1179) Helops congener. 
It appears that the title of congener for this Canarian 
insect cannot be retained, a Helops congener haying been 
described by Reiche (vide Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 
372) in 1861. Hence, the name of conformis having been 
proposed for it, in 1870, by Gemminger, the synonymy 
of the species will stand thus :— 
Helops conformis. 
Helops congener, Woll. [nec Reiche, 1861], Cat. Can. 
Col. 504 (1864); Id., Col. Atl. 429 (1865). Helops con- 
formis, Gemm., Col. Heft. vi. (1870). 
Hab.—Canariensis (Can., Ten., Palma, Hierro); hine 
inde, preecipue in intermediis, congregans. 
(Sp. 1187) Helops subdepressus. 
Until our late visit to Madeira I had not myself ever 
captured this very distinct Helops,—three examples, which 
were found by Mr. Mason, and three more by Mr. Be- 
wicke, being all that had come beneath my notice ; but 
during our sojourn at S. Antonio da Serra, in March, 
April, and May of 1870, we met with it not only amongst 
hchen on the trunks of various trees, but more particu- 
larly under the loose outer fibre of the gigantic Heaths 
(Hrica arborea, L.) for which the little wood known in 
that upland region as the ‘ Circa” is so justly cele- 
brated. 
Fam. SCYDM ANID. 
p. 448 (genus Scypmznuvs). 
(Sp. 1236) Scydmcnus castaneus. 
The late Dr. Schaum having apparently (vide Mon. 21) 
published a Seydmenus under the above title in 1841, 
