NITIDULID^E. Ill 



Canaries (where the specimens, judging from the few now before 

 me, are not quite so typical) it was taken sparingly by the Messrs. 

 Crotch in Teneriffe, Gomera, and Hierro. 



Whether, however, the M. echii is anything more than a rather 

 large and somewhat elongated state of the tristis, in which the elytra 

 are relatively a trifle shorter (or perhaps, rather, the abdomen more 

 developed), the limbs not quite so black, the punctation (at any rate 

 posteriorly) just perceptibly less dense, and the pubescence more 

 robust and of a yellowish-fulvescent tinge (instead of being cine- 

 reous), I cannot but feel a little doubtful. 



312. Meligethes tristis. 



Meligethes tristis (Schiipp.), Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xvi. 40 (1845). 



, Wott., Ins. Mad. 124 (1854). 



, Id,, Cat. Mad. Col. 41 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 113 (1864). 



-, Hartung, Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 141. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to , Des.) et Canarienses (Can., Ten., 

 Gom., Palma, Hierro), ad flores sat vulgaris. 



The European M. tristis seems to be well nigh universal through- 

 out these Atlantic islands. At the Madeiran Group it has been 

 observed in Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and the Deserta Grande ; 

 whilst at the Canaries it has been detected in all the islands except 

 Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two eastern ones*. 



313. Meligethes picipes. 



Meligethes picipes, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xvi. 47 (1845). 



, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 199 (1848). 



, Wott., Ins. Mad. 125 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 41 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), ad flores saepe vulgatissimus. 



It is somewhat remarkable that although the present European 

 Meligethes is abundant in Madeira proper, frequently teeming at 

 intermediate elevations, it has not yet been observed in any other of 

 these Atlantic islands. 



314. Meligethes virescens. 

 Meligethes virescens, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 113 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), hinc inde vulgaris. Floribus 

 Messerschmidtice fruticosce pra3sertim gaudet. 



* Cf. ' Cat. Can. Col.' p. 114. 



