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PEDINID^E. 



have as yet come beneath my notice. They were taken by mysel 

 in Grand Canary, one of them in the region of El Monte, and the 

 other at a high altitude on the mountains to the south of the Eoca 

 del Soucilho. 



Genus 337. .ELLIPSODES. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 485 (1854). 



1129. EUipsodes glabratus. 



Sphseridium glabratum, Fab., Ent. Syst. i. 79 (1792). 



, Id., Syst. Eku. i. 93 (1801). 



Ellipsodes glabratus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 486, tab. xi. f. 2 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 150 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub lapidibus in intermediis editioribus- 

 que vulgaris. 



An abundant insect at intermediate and (more particularly) lofty 

 elevations in Madeira proper, ranging from about 1500 feet above 

 the sea to the summits of the peaks. It occurs principally beneath 

 stones. 



1130. Ellipsodes oblongior. 



Ellipsodes glabratus, var. /3., WolL, Ins. Mad. 486 (1854). 

 oblongior, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 150 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to , Des., Bugio), sub lapidibus in editioribus 

 rarior. 





Likewise peculiar to the Madeiran Group, and so closely allied to 

 the preceding species that I am extremely doubtful whether it ought 

 to be regarded as more than a modification of it. I have taken it 

 sparingly, under stones, at a rather high elevation, in Porto Santo, 

 the Deserta Grande, and on the Bugio. 



Fam. 75. PEDINIRE. 



Genus 338. MELASMA. 

 WoUaston, Cat. Can. Col. 484 (1864). 



1131. Melasma lineatum. 



Phylax? lineatus, Brultt, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 69 (1838). 



, Hart., Geoloa. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 140. 



Melasma lineatum, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 485 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), sub lapidibus vulgare. 



Common throughout Larizarote and Fuerteventura, the two eastern 



