286 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Aleochara reptans, Grav., Mon. 154 (1806). Phlaopora 
reptans, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. 11. 337 (1858). 
Phleopora corticina, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 533 (1864); 
Id., Col. Atl. 455 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses ( Mad.) , et Canarienses (J’en., Gom., 
Palma, Hierro); sub cortice in intermediis, rarior. 
p. 458 (genus Homatota). 
Out of the 44 species of Homalota which have hitherto 
been detected in the Madeiran and Canarian archipelagos, 
32 have been examined by Dr. Sharp—who it is well 
known has paid great attention to the members of that 
genus; and since many of his remarks possess consider- 
able interest, as bearing on the affinities of certain forms, 
I purpose calling attention to them in my observations 
as given below. Out of this large number it is at least 
satisfactory to find that only one (namely my Madeiran 
H, obliquepunctata—which appears to be identical with 
the pavens of Hrichson) requires positively to be cited 
under a fresh title; though at the same time itis extremely 
likely that one more name at any rate will have eventually 
to be changed,—my Canarian H. subsericea being in all 
probability conspecific (as indeed I originally suspected) 
with Mulsant’s H. sericea; and also that the Teneriffan 
H. aleocharoides will have to be suppressed, as probably 
a mere phasis of the common H. clientula. It is true that 
the Madeiran H. montivagans has been identified by Dr. 
Sharp with Kraatz’s pulchra; but in this case no dis- 
turbance will be necessary, of the Atlantic nomenclature, 
the former title having the priority. One endemic form, 
however, which I had regarded as a mere variety (namely 
the “ H. sanguinolenta, var. B”’ of my hitherto published 
volumes) has been raised, and I now believe quite cor- 
rectly so, to the rank of a species; and I have great 
pleasure in dedicating it to Dr. Sharp, at whose sugges- 
tion the alteration has been made. 
Amongst these forty-four Madeiran and Canarian Homa- 
lotas there are (in addition to the montivagans, pavens, 
and perhaps sericea) at any rate thirteen ordinary European 
species, all of which appear to have been rightly deter- 
mined in my ‘Coleoptera Atlantidum.’ They are as 
follows: clientula, Erich. ; plumbea, Waterh. ; luridipennis, 
Mann.; gregaria, Erich. ; longula, Heer; fragilis, Kr. ; 
