In the present account 79 species and varieties of coccids of the archipelago of Madeira are mentioned and described. Seven of these are new to Madeira proper and 15 to the neighbouring island of Porto Santo.

This paper is primarily a report on the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea collected in Madeira by the author and his wife in 1982. Some general aspects of the fauna are discussed and an account is given of visits to some classical ...

This paper publishes the scientific results of a second Aphidological Expedition to the Archipelago of Madeira. The author is very grateful to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, for the grant conceded ...

Line transect methods were used to record the butterfly species present in a variety of habitats on Madeira in March and April 1983. The main aim was to provide a basis for future comparative work. Correlations of species ...

In the frame work of the CANCAP-Project of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands, the Salvage Islands were visited twice: in 1978 (October 21-23) and 1980 (May 26-June 7), respectively. Bird ...

The land mollusc faunas of the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verdes are basically a relict assemblage, with pronounced affinities to the Early Tertiary fauna in Western Palaearctic. Composition, diversity, ...

An annotated list of 155 species of marine algae, collected from Selvagem Grande, is given: 9 (20) Cyanophyta, 22 Chlorophyta, 35 Phaeophyta and 89 Rhodophyta. Of these 48 are new to the Salvage Islands, of which 6 are new ...

The study of the skulls of the feral rabbits of three subantarctic localities in the Indian Ocean - East and Hog Islands in the Crozet Archipelago and Kerguelen Islands - and of three subtropical localities in the Northern ...

Tephri traps baited with two different food attractants to capture C. capitata and L. aristella flies were tested in a fig-tree orchard growing two fig cultivars ('Lampa preta' and 'Bebera branca'). The objective was to ...

An annotated list of 193 species of marine algae, collected from Porto Santo and Deserta Grande, is given: 5 Cyanophyta, 34 Chlorophyta, 34 Phaeophyta and 120 Rhodophyta. Of these 41 are new records to the Madeira Archipelago, ...