CARABID^E. 43 



zarote and Fuerteventura the two eastern islands of the Group. It 

 appears to be rather scarce, and to occur at intermediate elevations. 



(Subgenus Trisena?, Le Conte.) 



125. Amara superans. 



Amara superans, Woll., Ins. Mad. 48 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 15 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, rarissima; in summos montes sub 

 lapidibus parcissime occurrens. 



A large Madeiran Amara which has been detected hitherto only 

 near the summits of two of the highest mountains in Madeira proper, 

 the " Ice House Peak " and the Pico do Areeiro, where, more- 

 over, it is of the greatest rarity. 



Genus 33. ZABRUS. 

 Clairville, Ent. Helv. ii. 80 (1806). 



126. Zabrus crassus. 



Zabrus crassus, Dej., Spec. Gen. des Col. iii. 451 (1828). 



, Zimm., Mon. der Carab. 42 (1831). 



, BndU, in Webb et Berth. (Col) 57 (1838). 



, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 52 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.}, praecipue in intermediis sed parum rams. 



Apparently peculiar to Teneriffe, where, however, it is both local 

 and rather scarce, occurring principally at intermediate and some- 

 what lofty altitudes. 



127. Zabrus laevigatus. 



Zabrus laevig-atus, Zimm., Mon. cter Carab. 43 (1831). 

 f Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 52 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.}, paulo magis vulgaris necnon ple- 

 rumque in locis paulo inferioribus occurrens. 



Likewise a Canarian species, but one which has been found both in 

 Teneriffe and Gomera. It has a rather lower range than the crassus 

 occurring more particularly in the dry and cindery regions of inter- 

 mediate, and even low, altitudes. Its existence in Gomera is stated 

 on the authority of the Messrs. Crotch, who obtained two dead speci- 

 mens from under stones upon the sea-shore below Hermigua. One 

 of these is now before me, and has its prothorax a little more broadly 

 margined, and the elytral striae a trifle deeper, than is the case in 



