CURCULIONID^;. 



726. Caulotrupis opacus. 



Caulotrupis opacus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 313 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 103 (1857). 



, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. v. 377 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in locis similibus ac pnecedens. 



Likewise peculiar to Madeira proper, occurring in much the same 

 places as the last species for the most part within the sylvan 

 districts. 



727. Caulotrupis conicollis. 



Catilotrupis conicollis, Wott., Ins. Mad. 314 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 103 (1857). 



, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. v. 378 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., Des.), in locis similibus ac C. lucifmjus 

 sub lapidibus sc. necnon inter ramulos plantarum emortuos 

 fractos aridos humi jacentes in subinferioribus intermediisque 

 latens. 



Found in Madeira proper and on the Deserta Grande principally 

 beneath stones, and amongst small broken sticks around the roots of 

 shrubby plants, in exposed spots of rather low and intermediate 

 altitudes. The specimens from the Deserta Grande differ a little 

 from the Madeiran ones, but not so much so as in the case of the 

 C. lucifuffus. 



Genus 233. STENOTIS. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 316 (1854). 



728. Stenotis acicula. 



Stenotis acicula, Wott., Ins. Mad. 316, tab. vi. f. 5 (1854). 



Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 104 (1857). 



, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. v. 400, pi. 19. f. 8 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), folia laurorum in humidis sylvaticis 

 parcissime destruens. 



Confined to the damp sylvan districts of Madeira proper, where it 

 is both local and exceedingly rare. I have captured it, however, on 

 three separate occasions (always in the north of the island, and on 

 the foliage of the native laurels) namely, twice at the Montado dos 

 Pecegueiros, and once in the Eibeira do Ponteclaro (a tributary of 

 the Sao Jorge ravine). Its extremely narrow outline and general 

 aspect are strongly suggestive of certain exotic forms- such as Cafo- 

 leihrus and Porthetes, from America and southern Africa. 



