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758. Acalles nodiferus. 



Acalles nodiferus, Woll, Ins. Mad 334 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 107 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub cortice laxo necnon inter lichenes 

 ad trancos arborum vetustos crescentes in lauretis editioribus 

 occurrens. 



Found in the damp sylvan districts of Madeira proper, principally 

 at a high elevation ; but whether it is actually attached to the native 

 laurels (amongst which it occurs), or to some plant growing in the 

 same region, I am unable to say. I have generally taken it, how- 

 ever, either beneath loosened bark or else amongst the grey lichen 

 which occasionally clothes the trunks of the older trees. 



759. Acalles van. 



AcaUes Vau, WolL, Ins. Mad. 335 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col 109 (1857). 



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



Occurs in much the same places (within the sylvan districts of 

 Madeira proper) as the A. nodiferus, to which indeed it is a good 

 deal allied. 



760. Acalles sigma. 

 AcaUes sigma, Wall, Cat. Can. Col 288 (1864). 



Habitat Canaiienses (Palmd), in lauretis humidis editioribus raris- 

 simus. 



Observed hitherto only in Palma, of the Canarian Group, where it 

 occurs in the laurel- districts of a rather high altitude apparently 

 under much the same circumstances as the two preceding species do 

 at Madeira, of either of which it might perhaps be regarded as the 

 Canarian representative. 



761. Acalles fortunatus. 



AcaUes fortunatus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col 286 (1864). 

 , Id., Append, hty. op. 46. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom., Hierro), in Euphorbiis emortuis a DD. 

 Crotch sat copiose deprehensus. 



Detected by the Messrs. Crotch in Gomera and Hierro, of the 

 Canarian Group. According to their report it would appear to be a 

 true Eiqrfiot'bia -infesting species, being never found in any other plant. 



