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



Genus Lithochabjs. 



(Dejean) Boisd. et Lacord., Faun. Ent. des Env. de Paris, 

 i. 431 (1835). 



Lithocharis brevipes, n. sp. 



L. fusco-picea, subopaca, densissime et subtilissime punctulata ; 

 capite subtriangulari piceo-nigro, oculis parvulis ; prothorace 

 subquadrato ; elytris paulo magis fuscescentioribus ; antennis pe- 

 dibusque infuscato-ferrugineis, illis graciusculis, tarsis brevibus. 



Long. corp. lin. vix 1 j. 



Habitat Maderam australem ; in horto Bewickiano prope Funchal 

 exemplar unicum deprehensi. 



L. like the L. ochracea, but rather smaller and narrower, more 

 opake, still more closely and minutely punctulated all over, and 

 more densely pubescent. Head not quite so black as in that 

 species (or a trifle more piceous) ; also rather smaller, less con- 

 vex, and more triangular, and with the eyes not nearly so large. 

 Elytra somewhat browner, or more diluted, than the rest of 

 the surface, and very densely pubescent. Limbs darker than 

 in the L. ochracea : the antenna, also, more slender ; and with 

 the apical joint shorter, and less acuminated at its tip : and the 

 legs more abbreviated, particularly the tarsi, which are (compa- 

 ratively) very short. 



The present insect is a good deal allied to the European L. 

 obsoleta ; nevertheless its rather shorter and more slender antennse 

 (with their smaller terminal joint), together with its more tri- 

 angular head and more piceous hue, and the less broadly dilated 

 front tarsi of its male sex, will, apart from minor differences, at 

 once separate it therefrom. Judging from the diagnosis, it 

 seems quite distinct, in many points, from the L. obscurella, 

 Erichs., from Sardinia, though in its general size and aspect it 

 may possibly approach that species. The only specimen which 

 1 have as yet seen of it was captured by myself, during the spring 

 of 1859, from beneath vegetable refuse, in Mr. Bewicke's garden 

 at the Palmeira, above Funchal. 



Genus Sunius, 



(Leach) Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. v. 274 (183.2). 



Sunius cequivocus, n. sp. 



S. piceo-ferrugineus ; capite rotundato-oblongo ; prothorace rufo- 

 ferrugineo ; elytris antennisque dilute testaceis ; pedibus pallido- 

 testaceis ; scutello mnjusculo. 



Long. corp. lin. 1 J. 



Habitat Maderam australem, a Dom. M. Park captus. 



S. piceo-ferruginous. Head, prothorace, and elytra almost free 



