MADETEA AND THE CANAET ISLANDg. 163 



Madeira (WoUaston) ; near the Eibiero de Sao Jorge, 26t]i 

 November {JEaton). 



Canaries {Webb et Bertlielot, TVoUaston). 



Prom Madeira I have seeu only the 2 ■ Brulle's type of J£. 

 hirtus is fortunately a S ; otliemvise its identification would have 

 remained impossible, owing to its condition. There is also a c? 

 in the British Museum amongst Wollaston's Canarian captures. 



More materials are desirable. S. nervosus belongs to a group 

 of species that can practically only be separated by the appendages 

 of the (S ': and in some respects those of the Canarian examples do 

 not appear to completely agree with those of weryosws of Northern 

 Europe (but the position in tliose I have seen is not favourable 

 for examination), and appear intermediate between nervosus and 

 siibnebulosus. Caution is necessary ; for in examples from the 

 Pyrenees and the Prench Alps in my collection a new species 

 intermediate between those just mentioned appears to be clearly 

 represented, but not identical with th.e Canarian specimens. 

 Purthermore there is a form apparently common in the Swiss 

 Alps (but of which I do not seem to have the c? ), in which the ? 

 has a short upturned ovipositor. 



Chbtsopid^. 



Chetsopa YULGARis, Schneider, Qt var. miceocephala, Brauer. 

 (Hemeroliiis albics and H. perla, BruUe, Hist. Canar. ii. pt. 2, 

 p. 83, nee L. — Ch. vulgaris, Hag. Ent. Month. Mag. ii. p. 60.) 



Madeira {WoUaston); near Sant' Anna, 26th November 

 {Eaton). 



Canaries {Webb et Bertlieht) : near Las Palm as. Grand Canary, 

 beaten from olive, 6th December (^az'ojO ; in the botanic garden, 

 Orotava, 15th December ; from pine trees near Aguamansa, 16th 

 December; on a carob-tree at Santa Cruz, 27th December, 

 Teneriffe {Eaton). 



Brauer is, I believe, now quite decided in his belief that onicro- 

 cepJiala is only a slight variety of vulgaris in which some of the 

 costal nervules at the base have a slight dark indication at tlieir 

 junction with the subcosta, and some of the other basal nervules 

 are faintly blackish ; the face less suffused with rosy than in the 

 typical form, and there is a blackish streak on the sides of the 

 cheeks and on the sides of the clypeus. Coexisting with these 

 peculiarities I generally find the dividing uervule of tlie third 

 cubital cellule interstitiate with the nervule above it, 



