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it occurs beneath stones on the exposed mountain-slopes from about 

 3000 feet above the sea to the summits of the peaks. 



Dr. Schaum informs me that he has compared types of the H. ga- 

 gatinus of Ktister (in Germar's collection) with my H. Pluto, and 

 that the two are unquestionably con specific, though, by a mistake, 

 Kiister's species is recorded as having come from Portugal (instead 

 of Madeira). 



1185. Helops Leacocianus. 



Helops Leacocianus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 517 (note) (1854). 

 , Id., Journ of Ent. \. 92 (1860). 



Habitat Salvages (ins. majorem, borealem, et minorem ?, australem) a 

 Dom. Leacock et Barone " Castello de Paiva " communicatus. 



Common on the rocks of the Salvages, from the larger (or north- 

 ern) one of which it has often been received by the Barao do Castello 

 de Paiva. It was however originally detected (during the spring of 

 1851) by Mr. T. S. Leacock of Madeira, who captured a single speci- 

 men of it I believe, on the southern island of the two, known as the 

 " Great Piton"*. 



1186. Helops infernus. 



Helops infernus, Wott., Ins. Mad. 517, tab. xii. f. 4 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 158 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), in inferioribus intermediisque vulgaris. 



Universal at low and intermediate altitudes in Porto Santo, of the 

 Madeiran Group, occurring likewise on the small adjacent rocks ; 

 but, as is the case of the H. lucifugus, it has not been observed else- 

 where in the archipelago. 



1187. Helops subdepressus. 



Helops subdepressus, Wott., Cat. Mad. Col. 158 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, adhuc parcissime repertus. 



Three examples of this Helops were taken by Mr. Mason in the 

 north of Madeira proper, and three more are in the collection of the 



* The few Coleopterous insects which Mr. Leacock obtained at the Salvages 

 were communicated as coming from the " Great Piton ; " but as he landed first 

 on the northern island (which he left almost immediately for the southern one , 

 finding it unprofitable), I cannot but feel it possible that his single example of this 

 Helops may in reality have been picked up on the Great Salvage. At any rate 

 both it and the Hegeter latebricola (which were first brought to light by Mr. 

 Leacock) are certainly abundant on the Great Salvage, from which they have 

 frequently been received by the Baron do Castello de Paiva. Nevertheless it is 

 far from unlikely that they may exist on the Great Piton likewise. 



