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and Fuerteventura the two eastern islands of the Canarian Group ; 

 and I likewise met with it on the little islet of Lobos, off the extreme 

 north of the latter. It is just possible that it may prove ultimately 

 to be but a phasis of the preceding species ; but until more extensive 

 material (of both) has been obtained for comparison, I can scarcely 

 decide this question positively. 



1193. Helops picescens. 



Helops caraboides ?, Br. [nee Linn.], inWebb et erA.(Co/.)69(1838). 

 picescens, WolL, Cat. Can. Col 509 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.}, in intermediis hinc inde vulgaris. 



Peculiar apparently to the two eastern islands of the Canarian 

 archipelago, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, where it is locally abun- 

 dant (particularly in the former) at intermediate altitudes. It is a 

 variable species in stature, occasional large and dark examples of it 

 approaching a good deal at first sight to the smaller and less 

 blackened ones of the //. wthiops. 



1194. Helops fusculus. 

 Helops fusculus, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 511 (1864). 



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



A single example is all that I have yet seen of this Canarian 

 Helops. It was captured by Dr. Crotch, during the spring of 1862, 

 in Teneriffe. 



1195. Helops futilis. 



Helops futilis, WolL, Ins. Mad. 520, tab. xii. f. 7 (1851). 

 1 1^ Cat. Mad. Col. 159 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., Des., Burjio), in inferioribus intermediis- 

 que minus frequens. 



A species which occurs at low and intermediate altitudes in the 

 Madeiran Group, particularly in the eastern parts of it. It has been 

 found in Madeira proper and on the two southern -Desertas, and we 

 may expect to meet with it on the Ilheo Chao likewise. In Ma- 

 deira proper I have taken it chiefly about Machico and on the Ilheo 

 de Fora the detached extremity of the Ponta de Sao Lourengo ; and 

 it was captured by Dr. Bauer on the fossil-bed near Canigal. The 

 examples from the Desertas, and the east of Madeira, are usually 

 altogether rufo-ferruginous ; but I have seen others, taken elsewhere, 

 in which the elytra are distinctly darker than the head and prothorax. 



