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Canarian Groups. Nevertheless at the former it has been obse: 

 hitherto only in Madeira proper and on the two southern Desertas ; 

 at the latter it has been met with in all the islands except Palma. 



(Subfam. II. LORICERIDES.) 



Genus 2. ELLIPTOSOMA. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad, 18, tab.l. f. 2 (1854). 



2. Elliptosoma Wollastonii. 



Loricera Wollastonii, Javct, Bull, de la Soc. Ent. de France, 23 (1852). 



, WolL, Ins. Mad. 19, tab. i. f. 2 (1854). 



Elliptosoma Wollastonii, Wott., Cat. Mad. Col 10 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in humidis sylvaticis excelsis, rarissimum. 



This remarkable insect appears to be essentially Madeiran, occur- 

 ring at a high elevation within the moist sylvan districts of Madeira 

 proper where it is both rare and local. 



(Subfam. III. CARABIDES.) 



Genus 3. LEISTUS. 

 Frolich, Naturf. xxviii. 9 (1794). 



3. Leistus nubivagus. 

 Leistus nubivagus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 1 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.'), in humidis sylvaticis excelsis, rarissimus. 



This interesting little Leistus has been observed hitherto only in 

 the lofty sylvan districts of Teneriffe where it was taken by my- 

 self (during May of 1858 and 1859) in the region of the Agua Mansa, 

 and more sparingly by Dr. Crotch (during the summer of 1864) in 

 the Final above Ycod el Alto. It is one of the rarest of the Canarian 

 Coleoptera. 



4. Leistus ellipticus. 



Leistus ellipticus, Wott., Cat. Mad. Col. 8 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in humidis sylvaticis excelsis, rarissimus. 



A most anomalous Leistus, occurring in precisely the same sort of 

 places at Madeira as the L. nubivagus does at Teneriffe within the 

 damp silvan districts, at a high elevation. Like the Teneriffan 

 species, it is extremely rare. 



