Abstract
IN his great work, “Insecta Maderensia,” Mr. Wollaston remarks upon the great affinity in the coleopterous fauna of Madeira with that of Sicily, and in his “Coleoptera H speridum,” on the northern character of that of the Cape Verde Isles. Mr. Andrew Murray also found that out of 275 Cape Verde species 91 were common to the Canaries and 81 to the Madeiran group. The last author would seem to rely on the efficacy of now submerged continents as a means of transmission between the two areas.
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DISTANT, W. Means of Dispersal. Nature 17, 124 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017124a0
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