HELOPID/E. 427 



A Canarian Helops which appears to be peculiar to the elevated 

 regions of Teneriffe, ascending to at least 9000 feet above the sea 

 (perhaps indeed higher still). I have taken it sparingly on the 

 Cumbre overlooking the Canadas, as well as on the opposite ridge 

 above the Agua Mansa. 



1173. Helops elliptipennis. 



Helops elliptipennis, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 503 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in locis panlo minus elevatis parce oc- 



currens. 



Likewise Teneriffan, and closely resembling the last species. 

 Indeed it is far from unlikely that it may prove to be but a phasis 

 of that insect peculiar to the sylvan regions of (although sufficiently 

 elevated) a rather lower altitude ; but as I possessed only a single 

 example from which to compile my diagnosis, it is impossible until 

 further material has been obtained to pronounce definitely concerning 

 the permanence (or otherwise) of its distinctive features. 



1174. Helops Marseulii. 



Helops Marseulii, Woll., Append, huj. op. 63. 

 Habitat Canarienses (Ten.?), a cl. De'Marseul communicatus. 



As stated in the Appendix, a single example of this Helops, from 

 which my diagnosis is compiled, has been communicated by De Mar- 

 seul. It has the label " Teneriffe " attached to it, and I think it far 

 from unlikely that that habitat may be correct ; nevertheless, as the 

 localities of a considerable number of the insects which have been 

 sent from the same quarter I have found to be positively inaccurate, 

 I cannot regard its island as satisfactorily ascertained. 



1175. Helops arboricola, 



Helops arboricola, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. x. 338 (1862). 

 , Id., Append, huj. op. 64. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub cortice laxo in intennediis a Dom. 

 Bewicke lectus. 



A large Helops which was detected in Madeira proper by the late 

 Mr. Bewicke, under the loosened bark of an old tree in the Ribeira de 

 S ta Luzia, and which he captured subsequently (in a similar situa- 

 tion) in the Vasco Gil ravine about three miles from Eunchal. It 

 is much allied to the H. Vulcanus, but differs in being relatively 



