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CURCULIONID^E. 



A common Atlantis in the higher regions of Madeira proper, oc- 

 curring beneath stones on the grassy mountain-slopes (for the most 

 part above the upper limits of the sylvan districts) and ascending to 

 the summits of the peaks. 



I think it very likely that this Atlantis is coincident with the La- 

 parocerus piceus of Schonherr ; for both that species and the L. morio 

 appear to have been described from examples supplied by Falder- 

 mann, who seems either to have collected in Madeira or else to have 

 obtained insects from there ; whilst the fact of their loth being 

 recorded for " Portugal," a habitat which is now acknowledged to be 

 erroneous as regards the latter, is only in keeping with that excessive 

 confusion on the subject of localities which is unfortunately so pre- 

 valent amongst the majority of continental entomologists. I need 

 scarcely add that if it should prove hereafter to be identical with the 

 piceus, that name will of course have the priority. 



860. Atlantis lanata. 



Atlantis lanatus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 372, tab. vii. f. 6 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col 114 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub lapidibus in regionibus minus ele- 

 vatis parce occurrens. 



Found likewise in Madeira proper, but at a considerably lower 

 elevation than the preceding species occurring for the most pa_rt in 

 barren spots below the sylvan districts. 



861. Atlantis navicularis. 



Atlantis navicularis, Woll, Ins. Mad. 374 (1854). 

 1 Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 114 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), in inferioribus arenosis submaritimis 

 rarior. 



Observed hitherto only in Porto Santo of the Madeiran Group, 

 where I have taken it sparingly about the slopes and low hillocks of 

 drifted sand immediately behind the southern beach. 



862. Atlantis inconstans. 



Atlantis inconstans, Woll., Ins. Mad. 375 (1854). 

 } id., Cat. Mad. Col. 115 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), in locis similibus ac prsecedens. 

 Also a Porto -Santan Atlantis, and one which is found in exact 



