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



towards the lateral margins. Antenna brownish-piceous, being 

 a little brighter at their base. Legs piceo-testaceous, with their 

 tarsi pale. 



Except in its comparatively diminutive size, the present insect 

 bears a considerable primd facie resemblance, in its general con- 

 tour and posteriorly-truncated head, to the Xantholinus punctu- 

 latus. Nevertheless, apart from the great differences of its 

 punctation (which may be gathered from the above diagnosis), 

 the generic characters of the Lept acini will of course at once 

 separate it; and amongst these, the subulated apical joint of 

 the palpi is perhaps the most apparent. Its discovery in Ma- 

 deira is due to Mr. Bewicke, who has recently forwarded me five 

 specimens which he captured, during the past summer, beneath 

 hay-stack rubbish, at S. Antonio da Serra. I should, add that 

 one of the Madeiran examples has likewise been carefully exa- 

 mined by Mr. Janson, who agrees with me in referring it to the 

 Staphylinus linearis, Grav. 



(Subfam. Staphylinides.) 



Genus Philonthus. 



(Leach) Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. v. 226 (1832). 



§ I. Prothorax seriebus dorsalibus e punctis quatuor compositis. 



Philonthus thermarum, Aube. 



P. angustus, niger ; capite subquadrato ; prothorace picescentiore ; 

 elytris testaceo-piceis, apicem versus paulatim dilutioribus, parce 

 et distincte punctulatis ; antennis fuscis, basi pedibusque pallidis. 



Long. corp. lin. 1^. 



Habitat Maderam australem ; duo specimina prope urbem Funcha- 

 lensem tempore vernali a.d. 1859, a meipso detecta. 



Philonthus thermarum, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France (2 ifeme serie), 

 viii. 316 (1850). 



P. small, narrow, and black. Head and prothorax highly 

 polished ; the former rather long and subquadrate, being straightly 

 truncated behind ; the latter more piceous than the head, and 

 with a longitudinal series of four (or sometimes, apparently, 

 five) punctures down either side of its disk, and with a few scat- 

 tered ones between them and the edges. Elytra paler than the 

 head and prothorax, being more or less testaceo-piceous, and 

 paler behind than in front ; sparingly, but distinctly, punctu- 

 lated. Antenna brown ; their base and the legs testaceous. 



Two examples of the P. thermarum, Aube, which agree pre- 

 cisely with British ones in my possession, were captured by my- 

 self, beneath vegetable refuse, near Funchal, during the spring 

 of 1859. Their minute size, narrow outline, subquadrate head, 

 and diluted elytra, in conjunction with the four (or sometimes 



