46 CARABIDJE. 



Harpalus-like Cratognathus were taken by myself in Teneriffe, in 

 the sylvan region above Taganana. 



135. Cratognathus vividus. 



Harpalus vividus, D<y., Spec. Gen. des Col. iv. 332 (1829). 



, Woll, Ins. Mad. 53 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 16 (1857). 



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

 montes vulgaris. 



Abounds in the whole five islands of the Madeiran Group (as well 

 as on the small adjacent rocks), from the sea-level to the summits 

 of the peaks, and presenting many slight variations according to the 

 exact locality in which it is found*. 



Dejean, who described this insect (as a Harpalus} at considerable 

 length, was mistaken in referring it to the Carabus vividus of Fa- 

 bricius the latter being in reality a Calaihus. However, I do not 

 think it necessary, on that account, to propose for it a fresh specific 

 title ; which of course I should have been compelled to do had Dejean 

 published it as a Carabus instead of a Harpalus, and therefore under 

 the same actual name (both in genus and species) as Fabricius did ; 

 for where two different insects are recorded under an absolutely 

 similar title, it is clear that one of them must be re-named, even 

 when in reality they belong (as afterwards ascertained) to distinct 

 genera. 



Genus 36. HARPALUS. 

 Latreffle, Gen. Crust, et Ins. i. 201 (1806). 



136. Harpalus distingnendus. 



Carabus distinguendus, Dufts., Fna Austr. ii. 76 (1812). 

 Harpalus distinguendus, JJeJ., Spec. Gen. des Col. iv. 274 (1829). 



rubripes ?, SrulU [nee Creutz.'], in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 57 (1838). 



distinguendus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 52 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 16 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to ), sub lapidibus ubique vulgaris. 



This European Harpalus is common, at nearly all elevations, in 

 Madeira proper and Porto Santo ; but it has not yet been detected 

 at the Canaries though I have reason for suspecting that the species 



* The Porto-Santan specimens of the C. vividus hare their prothorax almost 

 (or entirely) unpunctulated, and a little less narrowed behind ; but as both the 

 punctation (at the utmost very faint) and the exact outline of the pronotum are 

 characters eminently variable, I do not consider that the Porto-Santan form has 

 any claim to bo regarded as specific. 



