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1196. Helops portosanctanus. 



Helops Portosanctanus, WoU., Ins. Mad. 521, tab. xii. f. 9 (1854). 

 y Id., Cat. Mad. Col 159 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), sub lapidibus in aridis inferioribus 

 abundans. 



Abundant in Porto Santo, of the Madeiran Group, where it occurs 

 beneath stones in dry spots of a low elevation ; but it has not yet 

 been detected elsewhere. 



1197. Helops graniger. 



Helops graniger, Kiist., Keif. Eur. xxi. (1850) [sec. Schaum~\. 

 cinnamomeus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 520, tab. xii. f. 8 (1854). 



-, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 160 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in locis similibus ac praecedens. 



Found in much the same kind of places as the last species, only 

 in Madeira proper instead of Porto Santo. It is occasionally abun- 

 dant under stones at a low altitude, particularly in the vicinity of 

 the sea-shore. Examples of it were compared by Dr. Schaum with 

 types of Kiister's H. grander, in the collection of Dr. Germar ; and 

 he assures me that it is referable positively to that species. But, as 

 in the case of the H. asper, it was reported erroneously by Kiister to 

 have come from Portugal instead of Madeira. 



1198. Helops pallidus. 



Helops pallidus, Curtis, Brit. Ent. vii. 298 (1830). 

 , WolL, Cat. Mad. Col. 160 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (P to S to ), in aridis arenosis submaritimis parce 



fodiens. 

 / 



The European H. pallidus, which occurs likewise in northe 

 Africa, was detected by myself (during the spring of 1855) in Porto 

 Santo, of the Madeiran Group. I obtained it on the hillocks of loose 

 sand behind the sea-beach, in the neighbourhood of the Villa, by 

 scooping out cavities around the roots of the Arundo donax and the 

 few other plants which grow in that particular locality. 



Fam. 83. 



Genus 360. DITYLUS. 

 Schmidt, in Linn. Ent. i. 87 (1846). 



