370 HALTICID.E. 



Longitarsus nubigena, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 8 (1860). 

 Teinodactyla nubigena, All, Ann. de la Sac. Ent. de Fr., 329 (1861). 

 Longitarsus nubigena, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 413 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), rarissimus. 



Found, though very rarely, at intermediate and lofty elevations in 

 Madeira proper; and it has likewise been taken in Teneriffe and 

 Gomera, of the Canarian Group. 



1015. Longitarsus lycopi. 



Teinodactyla Lycopi, Foudras, AUis. 193 (1859). 

 , All, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 832 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in intermediis parce degens. 



A common European Longitarsus which occurs very rarely, at in- 

 termediate altitudes in Madeira proper; but it has not yet been 

 detected in any of the other islands. It was formerly referred by 

 M. Allard to the abdominalis of Duftschmidt ; but he appears (from 

 a note subsequently published) to have confounded at that time two 

 closely allied forms namely, the one just alluded to and the lycopi 

 of Foudras ; and although its rather stronger punctation would tend 

 to identif) 7 " the Madeiran insect with the abdominalis (at all events 

 as defined in M. Allard's diagnostic note), yet its more elongated and 

 less convex elytra assign it rather to the lycopi ; whilst types of both 

 species which M. Allard has communicated would still further neces- 

 sitate its identification with the latter*. 



1016. Longitarsus pusillus. 



Haltica pusilla, Gyll., Ins. Suec. iii. 549 (1813). 

 Thyamis pusilla, Steph., HI. Brit. Ent. iv. 313 (1831). 

 Teinodactyla pusilla, AIL, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 125 (1860). 

 Longitarsus pusillus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 414 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), a W. D. Crotch semel deprehensus. 



Of this minute species, so abundant throughout Europe, I have seen 

 hitherto but a single Atlantic example. It was taken by Dr. Crotch 

 in Teneriffe, during his first sojourn (in 1862) at the Canaries. 



* Judging from the examples (communicated by M. Allard) which are now 

 before me, the L. lycopi is a trifle more elongated (or less bent inwards at its apex) 

 than the abdominalis, which causes the elytra to be somewhat less convex pos- 

 teriorly, and its punctation is a little coarser. But the Madeiran examples ap- 

 pear to have their shoulders rather more rounded off (or falling away) than is 

 the case in the (single) European type from which my comparison is drawn. 



