100 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 



Pfeiffer proposed his section Hainesia in the e Mai. Blatter ' for 

 September. 



The following are the remarks published by Gould on Cyclo- 

 stoma Pollex, with the characters of Pollicaria : — 



" This singular shell may possibly be Cyclostoma Chri/salis,¥fr., 

 but is larger and destitute of lines and indentations. That shell 

 is said to come from Arva [probably Ava]. Megalomastoma 

 Myersii, Haines, is another species of the same type, but less 

 distorted and more cylindrical. These shells, coming from the 

 same region, to which many others will doubtless hereafter be 

 added, I regard as constituting a natural group, probably generic, 

 for which I would propose the name Pollicaria. Shell sub- 

 perforate, chrysalidiform, ventrally flattened ; spire secund ; 

 aperture subcircular, truncate posteriorly within the peritreme." 



Cheltenham, June 29, 1860. 



XVII. — On Additions to the Madeiran Coleoptera. 

 By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 



[Concluded from p. 54.] 



(Subfam. Xantholinides.) 



Genus Xantholinus. 



Dahl, Encycl. Method, x. 475 (1825). 



Xantholinus Hesperius ? Erich. 



X. niger (vix subsenescens), nitidus ; capite utrinque parce punctato, 



ad basin truncato ; prothorace punctorum serie laterali subcurvata 



. impresso ; elytris latera versus obsolete subseriatim punctatis, 



margine apicali testaceo; antennis tarsisque fusco-ferrugineis, 



illarum articulo primo (et interdum tertio), femoribus tibiisque 



piceis. 



Long. corp. lin. 2|—3£. 



Habitat Maderam australem, a DD. Park et Moniz benigne com- 



municatus. 

 Xantholinus Hesperius'?, Erichs., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 329 (1839). 



X. like the X. linearis, but with the head a little more abruptly 

 truncated behind (though not quite so suddenly as in the X. 

 punctulatus) , and much more sparingly punctured, and with the 

 frontal sulci a little longer, wider, and deeper, — the inner ones, 

 moreover, being a trifle less curved, and the outer ones carried 

 further back on to the forehead, from the front margin of the 

 eye. Prothorace with a longitudinal row of about nine punctures 

 on either side of its disk, and with the lateral ones fewer than in 

 the X, linearis, and with an evident tendency to be arranged in a 



