COLEOPTERA ATLANTIDUM, 



Fam.l. CARABIME*. 



(Subfam. I. ELAPHRIDES.) 



Genus 1. NOTIOPHILUS. 



Dumdril, Consid. Gen. stir les Ins. 169 (1823). 



1. Notiophilus geminatus. 



NotiopMlus geminatus, De/., Spec. Gen. des Col. v. 589 (1831). 



, Brittle, in Webb et Berth. (Col} 58 (1838). 



, Woll, Ins. Mad. 17 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 9 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 1 (1864). 



Habitat ins. Maderenses (Mad., Des., Buc/io) et Canarienses (in 

 Palmd sola adhuc haud detectus), sub lapidibus quisquiliisque, 

 passim. 



The N. geminatus, which is widely spread over Mediterranean 

 countries (but which is somewhat scarcer in central Europe), is pro- 

 bably universal, though nowhere very common, in the Madeiran and 



* I do not think it would be prudent, without further evidence, to admit the 

 Cicindelidce into this volume ; for although the north-African Cicindela nilotica 

 is included by M. Brulle in the short and inaccurate list of Coleoptera which he 

 compiled for MM. Webb and Berthelot's gigantic ' Histoire Naturelle des lies 

 Canaries,' nevertheless, since he gives us no kind of information about it, and the 

 very meagre collection of those naturalists contained so large a proportion of 

 species the habitats of which I consider to be most questionable [Cf. pp. 7, 8, 55, 

 56, 320, 390, 437, 438, 469, 501, &c., of my late Catalogue], I cannot but look 

 with unbounded distrust on the reputed existence of the member of a Family of 

 whigh I have seen hitherto no trace whatsoever in arty of these Atlantic islands. 

 At the same time, however, I must candidly confess that some of the low and sandy 

 regions of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Grand Canary do certainly afford all 

 the apparent conditions for the presence of a Cicindela ; and therefore whilst 

 feeling it unsafe to admit the insect in question on evidence which is altogether 

 so slight and unsatisfactory, I am nevertheless far from wishing to record my 

 belief that it may not perhaps occur in some one of the districts to which I have 

 just alluded. 



