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Widely spread over the intermediate and rather lofty elevations of 

 the Canarian archipelago, where it is locally common in moist spots 

 within the sylvan and subsylvan districts. It has been taken in all 

 the islands of the Group except Lanzarote and Fuerteventura *. 



II. Abdomen immarginatum : tarsi articulo quarto bilobo. 



1415. Stenus fulvescens. 



Stenus Heeri, var. ., WolL, Ins. Mad. 600 (1854). 

 fulvescens, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 198 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), hinc inde sub quisquiliis foliisque dejectis 

 in sylvaticis humidis editioribus. 



Occurs in the damp sylvan districts of Madeira proper, principally 

 at a high elevation, where however it is somewhat scarce. It is 

 found beneath stones, logs of wood, fallen leaves, and other decaying 

 vegetable refuse. 



1416. Stenus Heeri. 



Stenus Heeri, WoU., Ins. Mad. 600 (1854). 

 ? Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 198 (1857). 



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



Found in much the same places as the last species, and often in 

 company with it, being pretty general throughout the sylvan districts 

 of Madeira proper. 



1417. Stenus cicindeloides. 



Stenus cicindeloides, Grav., Col. Micropt. 155. 



, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 734 (1839). 



, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 795 (1857). 



hydropathicus, Wott., Cat. Mad. Col. 197 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in humidis necnon ad rupes aquosas in 

 inferioribus locisque paululum elevatis rarissimus. 



The common European S. cicindeloides occurs very rarely in 

 Madeira proper, though hitherto it has been observed only in the 

 north of the island. I have captured it at the edges of the water- 

 falls, and about wet rocks, near Sao Vicente and Porto Moniz ; and 

 it was found by the late Mr. Bewicke at S ta Anna. 



* The 8. oBneotinctus is extremely variable in stature, though its other cha- 

 racters seem tolerably constant. Some of the specimens which have been taken 

 by the Messrs. Crotch in Gomera are larger than any that I had previously in- 

 spected ; so that its length may be cited as from 1? to 2 lines (instead of "If 

 to 2," as indicated in my Canarian Catalogue). 



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