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that M. Brulle gives us no kind of information about them, and does 

 not mention even the island in which they were captured ; but it is 

 far from unlikely that they may have been taken at one of the ports 

 the insect being eminently liable, from its peculiar mode of life, to 

 become diffused accidentally by means of trading vessels. 



Genus 362. STENAXIS. 

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



1201. Stenaxis Lowei. 



Stenaxis Lowei, Woll, Ins. Mad. 524, tab. xiii. f. 2 (1854). 

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



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), floribus variis in intermediis delectans. 



Occurs on flowers in the intermediate districts of Madeira proper, 

 especially towards the north of the island. Although extremely 

 local, it is occasionally abundant ; and I once met with it in pro- 

 fusion in a garden at S ta Anna. 



Fam. 84. 



Genus 363. SALPINGUS. 

 Illiger, Mag. fur Ins. i. 301 (1802). 



1202. Salpingus impressus. 



Salpingus impressus, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 161 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in intermediis rarissimus. 



Found in the intermediate districts of Madeira proper, where it 

 would seem to be of great rarity. I took a single specimen of it in 

 the wooded region of the Lombarda das Vacas, in the north of the 

 island ; and two or three more were captured subsequently by the 

 late Mr. Bewicke on the hills above Funchal namely, at " the 

 Mount " and near Camacha. 



Fam. 85. MELOIDJE, 



Genus 364. MELOE. 

 Linnaeus, Sysi. Nat. edit. 1 (1735). 



1203. Meloe tuccia. 



Meloe tuccia, Rossi, Fna Etrusc. i. 238 (1792). 

 , Urulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 70 (1838). 



