6 CARABID^E. 



13. Scarites humeralis. 



Scarites humeralis, Woll, Ins. Mad. 12 (1854). 

 9 Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 6 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P* S to ), rarissimus. 



Apparently peculiar to Porto Santo, where it occurs (though 

 rarely) in company with the S. abbreviates, more particularly on 

 the slopes of the Pico do Castello. I have taken it, sparingly, on 

 several occasions; and examples have been also communicated by 

 the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 



14. Scarites abbreviate. 



Scarites abbreviate (Koll.}, Dej., Spec. Gen. des Col i. 379 (1825). 



dimidiatus, Entile, in Webb et Berth. (Col.} 57, pi. ii. f. 6 (1838). 



abbreviates, Wott., Ins. Mad. 11 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col 6 (1857), 



Habitat Maderenses (ins. omnes) vulgaris, ab ora maritima usque ad 

 summos montes ascendens. 



This (rather variable) Scarites is universal in the Madeiran Group, 

 occurring in every island and at all elevations ; but it has not yet 

 been observed either at the Canaries or on the rocks of the Salvages. 

 It is true that a Scarites is described by M. Brulle (under the trivial 

 name of dimidiatus) as Canarian, which is clearly identical with this 

 species ; but I have recorded at some length [vide ' Cat. Can. Col.' 7 

 (note)] the reasons why I consider that an error undoubtedly arose 

 with regard to it feeling satisfied that the example which served 

 M. Brulle for a diagnosis was in reality brought by Mr. Webb from 

 Madeira, and was accidentally mixed up with the Canarian material 

 which he afterwards amassed. I considered the evidence on this 

 point so conclusive that I had (and still have) no hesitation what- 

 ever in rejecting the insect as a Canarian one. 



Genus 8. DYSCHIRIUS. 

 Bonelli, Observ. Ent. i. (1809). 



15. Dyschirius armatus. 



Dyschirius armatus, Wott., Cat, Can. Col. 8 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.\ in salinis parcissime degens. 



The only specimens which I have seen of this Dyschirius were 

 taken by myself (during March 1859) in Lanzarote, of the Canarian 

 Group along the sandy shores of the salt lake of Januvio, adjoining 

 the south-western coast of that island. 



