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CURCULIONID^E. 



773. Acalles festivns. 



Acalles festivus, WoU., Cat. Mad. Col. 109 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad), sub cortice lauromm vetustarum laxo a 

 Dom. Bewicke in editioribus deprehensus. 



Several specimens of this brightly maculated and beautiful little 

 Acalles were taken by the late Mr. Bewicke, at a rather high eleva- 

 tion, in Madeira proper from under the loosened bark of old laurels 

 in a small ravine immediately over the ridge to the west of the 

 Ribeira das Calles bridge (beyond the Pico do Arrebentao), on the 

 mountains above Funchal. 



774. Acalles lunulatus. 



Acalles lunulatus, Wott., Ins. Mad. 340 (1854). 

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



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



Rather widely spread over the laurel-regions of Madeira proper 

 at intermediate and lofty altitudes, being taken in much the same 

 kind of places as the allied species. 



775. Acalles albolineatus. 



Acalles albolineatus, Wott., Ins. Mad. 338 (1854). 

 y 2d., Cat. Mad. Col. 110 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarior ; in locis similibus ac prsecedens. 



Likewise peculiar to Madeira proper, where it occurs sparingly (in 

 company with several of the other species) in the wooded districts at 

 intermediate and lofty elevations. 



776. Acalles Wollastoni. 



Acalles Wollastoni, Chevr. in Guer. Rev. iv. 279 (1852). 



et cylindricollis, WoU., Ins. Mad. 341, 342 (1854). 



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



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque late diffu- 

 sus, etiam in regiones vix elevatas nonnunquam descendens. 



Widely diffused over the sylvan and subsylvan districts of Madeira 

 proper where it occurs amongst herbage generally, descending 

 sometimes into comparatively low altitudes. It and the A. seticollis 

 are the most minute of all the Acalles of these Atlantic islands, and 

 indeed amongst the smallest of the Curculionidw. here enumerated. 





