438 



MELOID.E. 



Group, and is less common in Madeira proper and on the Deserta 

 Grande. In the Canaries it would appear, on the whole, to be rare ; 

 but it has been taken in Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Gomera. 



1207. Meloe nuda. 



Meloe nudus, Woll, Cat. Can, Col. 514 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), minus frequens. 



The only three examples which I have yet seen of this species 

 were taken in Fuerteventnra, of the Canarian Group, two of them 

 by myself, and the third by M. Hartung. It is somewhat allied to 

 the M. majalis of southern Europe ; but the points which distinguish 

 it from that insect have been recorded in my Canarian Catalogue. 



1208. Meloe subcyanea. 



Meloe subcyaneus, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 514 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.), adhuc semel deprehensa. 



A Canarian Meloe of which only a single example has yet come 

 beneath my notice. It was taken by myself in the intermediate 

 districts of Lanzarote. 



Genus 365. ZONITIS. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 126 (1775). 



1209. Zonitis imperialis. 



Zonitis 4-punctata, Woll. [nee Fab.~], Ins. Mad. 530 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 163 (1857). 



imperialis, Id., Ann. Nat. Hist. viii. 106 (1861). 



, Id., Append, huj. op. 65. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to ), floribus in apricis inferioribus 

 gaudens. 



This large Zonitis occurs, on flowers, in hot sunny spots of a low 

 elevation, in the Madeiran Group, being rather scarce in Madeira 

 proper, and common in Porto Santo. I formerly regarded it as iden- 

 tical with the Z. punctata of Mediterranean latitudes ; but after a 

 more critical comparison of it, in 1861, with examples from Lom- 

 bardy, I published it as specifically distinct, under the trivial name 

 of imperialis. And in the observations accompanying my diagnosis, 

 given in the ' Ann. of Nat. Hist.,' I stated that " It differs from the 

 Z. 4-jpuntiata in being a little larger, and in having its head proper- 



