MELYRID&. 205 



Fam. 43. MELYBIME. 



Genus 183. DASYTES. 

 Paykull, Fna Suec. ii. 156 (1798). 



581. Dasytes subsenescens. 



Dasytes nigricornis? Erulte[necFab.~\, inWebb et Berth. (Col.)(X)(1838). 

 subeenescens, WolL, Journ. of Ent. i. 444 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 230 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Hierro sola baud delectus), ad flores, passim ; 

 ab ora maritima usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendens. 



Doubtless universal tbrougbout the Canarian archipelago, Hierro 

 (in which however we may be pretty sure that it exists) being the 

 only island of the seven in which it does not happen to have been 

 observed. It is independent of elevation, occurring from the sea- 

 level to an altitude of at least 8000 feet. We may regard it as the 

 representative at the Canaries of the European D. flavipes, to which 

 in many respects it is closely allied ; and indeed it is not impossible 

 that it may be, in reality, but a geographical phasis of that species. 



582. Dasytes dispar. 



Dasytes dispar, WolL, Journ. of Ent. i. 445 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 230 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in intermediis ad flores deprehensus. 



The only specimens which I have seen of this Dasytes were taken 

 by myself in Grand Canary, where it is not uncommon during the 

 spring months throughout the region of El Monte. 



583. Dasytes illustris. 



Dasytes illustris (Mots.}, WolL, Ins. Mad. 252 (1854). 

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



Habitat Maderenses (in Ilheo Chao sola baud detectus), ad flores 

 vulgatissimus. 



Abounds on flowers in the Madeiran archipelago where it is 

 doubtless universal, though I do not happen to have observed it on 

 the northern Deserta (or Ilheo Chao) ; but in Madeira proper, Porto 

 Santo, the Deserta Grande, and the Bugio it has been captured in 

 profusion. It occurs likewise in the south of Europe; but it is 

 somewhat remarkable that, although thus common at the Madeiras, 

 it has not yet been detected in the Canarian Group. 



