STAPHYLINIftffi. 479 



Conurus pedicularius, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col 184 (1857). 

 Conosoma lividum. Id. [an Kraatz ? an Erich. ?], Cat. Can. Col. 556 

 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to 8 to ) et Canarienses (in Hierro sola 

 hand detectum), in locis subsimilibus ac prsecedens sed etiam 

 latins diffusum. 



Likewise European, and still more widely spread over these At- 

 lantic Groups than even the C. pubescens occurring at most eleva- 

 tions and under various circumstances, though perhaps more abundant 

 in the pine-woods of intermediate altitudes than elsewhere. I have 

 taken it in Madeira proper and Porto Santo as well as in Lanza- 

 rote, Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma, of the 

 Canarian archipelago ; and therefore, since the Messrs. Crotch met 

 with it in Gomera, there can be little doubt that it is universal in 

 the Canaries, Hierro being the only island of the seven in which it 

 does not happen to have been observed. 



The (7. pedicidarium is very inconstant in hue being sometimes 

 of a dark brownish-black, and at others pale-ferruginous or almost 

 rufo-testaceous ; and it was examples which fell under the latter 

 category that I had chiefly inspected when compiling my late Cana- 

 rian Catalogue a circumstance which induced me to cite the species 

 as the C. lividum, of Erichson. Whether these pale individuals are 

 truly referable to the European lividum I will not undertake to de- 

 cide ; but since I am quite convinced that they do not differ spe- 

 cifically from the darker ones, it follows that in any case the Atlantic 

 insect must be cited as the pedicularium that name being prior in 

 publication*. 



1321. Conosoma monticola. 



Conurus monticola, Woll., Ins. Mad. 566 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 185 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissimum ; sub quisquiliis in sylvaticis 

 humidis editioribus. 



Found at a high elevation in Madeira proper, principally towards 

 the upper limits of the sylvan districts, where it would appear to be 

 extremely rare. It is very nearly allied to the C. jpedicularium, but 



* In my Canarian Catalogue I mentioned that a few of the darker examples 

 of the C. lividum (as there understood) " might almost pass for the fusculum of 

 Erichson." I should however, rather, have said " for the pedicularium" the 

 fusculum being a totally distinct species, and one which is larger, less shining, 

 and less black than the pedicularium, with its elytra and limbs longer, its inter- 

 mediate antennal joints more or less infuscated, and its feet very considerably 

 more elongate (the posterior ones exceeding the tibiae in length). 



