Until quite recently, only a few notes were available on the composition of the lichen flora of the southernmost Macaronesian archipelago, the Cape Verde Islands (Repüblica de Cabo Verde), based mostly on more accidental collections and lacking many significant chorological, ecological, and sociological details (Bouly de Lesdain 1935, Cardoso 1915, Crombie 1878, Follmann 1976, Follmann & Kestler-Merlin 1974, Krog & Osthagen 1978, Montagne 1860, Stirton 1875, Tavares 1964). Nevertheless, latest systematic studies on the Cape Verdes - including also the smaller, not much visited islands of the group - showed, that the lichen flora of these volcanic and xeric islands in the Atlantic Ocean some 600 km to the west of the African coast (Senegal) is not as poor as could be assumed formerly (Follmann & Mies 1986, 1888a, 1988b, 1988c, Follmann & Sanchez-Pinto 1987). Working-up new collections and older her barium specimens, additional lichen taxa have been found to occur on the Cape Verdes and some critical ones could be confirmed, which are of special chorological interest because all but one are already known from other Macaronesian islands. These are briefly documented and discussed here