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Their Gomeran examples were obtained from the rotten stems of the 

 E. piscatoria, and the Hierro ones from those of the regis-Jubce. 



762. Acalles ornatus. 



Acalles ornatus, Wott., Ins. Mad. 336 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 110 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, in sylvaticis humidis editioribus captus. 



Found at a high elevation in the sylvan districts of Madeira pro- 

 per ; and it so closely resembles the A. fortunatus that I think it far 

 from impossible that it may be a geographical modification of the 

 same species. Still, when carefully examined, it will be seen to have 

 distinctions of its own ; and I think therefore that it would scarcely 

 be safe to unite it absolutely with that insect. Whether its habits 

 are similar, I have no evidence to enable me to decide. 



763. Acalles senilis. 



Acalles senilis, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 288 (1864). 

 , Id., Append, hvj. op. 4.7. 



Habitat Canarienses (Gom., Hierro), in ligno Fid antiquo a DD. 

 Crotch lectus. 



A Canarian Acalles of which I took a single (small and unusually 

 cinereous) example close to Valverde, in Hierro, but which has 

 lately been captured in tolerable abundance, by the Messrs. Crotch, 

 in that island and (more particularly) Gomera. During their sojourn 

 at the latter, indeed, they bred a considerable series of it from the 

 rotten wood of an old fig-free ; and since their Hierro specimens 

 were also obtained from fig-trees (near Valverde) the species would 

 appear to be of different habits from its ally the fortunatus which 

 is attached exclusively to the Euphorbias. The additional material 

 both of the present insect and of the fortunatus has enabled me to 

 catch the characters of the two so much more satisfactorily than I 

 had hitherto done, that I have thought it desirable to give fresh 

 diagnoses of them in the Appendix to this volume. 



764. Acalles terminalis. 



Acalles terminalis, Wott., Ins. Mad. 335 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 110 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in sylvaticis editioribus haud infrequens. 

 Occurs in the higher elevations of Madeira proper, within the 



