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MALACHIAD^E. 



573. Attains rugosus. 



Pecteropus rugosus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 249 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 86 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), ad flores in inferioribus occurrens. 



Closely allied to the last species, though I believe truly distinct 

 from it. Hitherto, however, it has been observed only in Madeira 

 proper ; and whilst the A. maderensis is peculiar (both there and 

 elsewhere) to the higher elevations, the rugosus occurs nearly at the 

 sea-level. Indeed it has been captured hitherto merely in one 

 locality immediately above the Praia Formosa, to the westward of 

 Funchal; though we may of course expect to meet with it more 

 generally, throughout the lower districts. 



Genus 179. PECTEEOPUS*. 



Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 245 (1854). 



574. Pecteropus rostratus. 



Pecteropus rostratus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 250, tab. iv. f. 9 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 86 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ., Des., Bugio}, ad flores sat vulgaris. 



Peculiar apparently to the Madeiran Group, though it has not yet 

 been observed in Madeira proper ; but in Porto Santo and on the 

 two southern Desertas (namely, the Deserta Grande and the Bugio) 

 it is tolerably common during the spring and early summer months, 

 occurring on flowers and principally at rather low elevations. The 

 Porto Santan examples (var. a) are on the average somewhat paler, 

 more brassy, and less rugose than those (var. (3), which are more 

 coppery, from the Desertas. 



575. Pecteropus angustifrons. 



Pecteropus angustifrons, WolL, Journ. ofJBnt. i. 427, pi. xx. f. 1 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 218 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (6rom.), ad flores tempore hiemali deprehensus. 



* In a Paper " on the Canarian Malacoderms," published in the ' Journ. of 

 Ent.' in 1862, I expressed a doubt whether my genus Pecteropus can be truly 

 upheld as distinct from Attains. I am still however inclined to believe (as then) 

 that the few species which compose it are sufficiently separated from the normal 

 Attali to constitute a little group of themselves in which the head is narrower 

 and much more oval, with the forehead more depressed (often indeed concave), 

 the eyes less prominent, the epistome more produced in front, and the neck 

 relatively broader, whilst, at the same time, the maxillary palpi are somewhat 

 longer, the entire surface is usually more densely sculptured, and the outline is 

 more acuminated anteriorly. As thus defined, Pecteropus would bear much the 

 same sort of relation to Attains proper as Malthodes (in the Telephoridce) does 

 to Malthinus. 





