Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 107 



joint less abbreviated; and the Madeiran example (a female) 

 seems to coincide in this respect with the corresponding sex of 

 more northern latitudes. 



Genus Anthobium. 

 (Leach) Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. v. 335 (1832). 



Anthobium torquatum, Marsh. 



A. rufo-testaceum ; scutello, pectore, abdomine antennarumque 

 apice nigricantibus ; elytris testaceis, amplis, ad apicem inte- 

 riorem in fceminis singulatim acuminatis, in maribus postice 

 truncatis. 



Long. corp. lin. vix 1. 



Habitat Maderam australem, a Dom. Bewicke prope Funchal semel 

 lectum. 



Silpha torquata, Marsham, Ent. Brit. i. 12/ (1802). 



Anthobium torquatum et mucronatum, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. v. 339 (1832). 



scutellare, Eriehs., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 895 (1840). 



A. rufo-testaceous, slightly shining, and sparingly clothed 

 with a short, decumbent cinereous pile. Head very finely and 

 minutely punctulated, and with a large, round, and deep punc- 

 ture on either side of the forehead behind ; its extreme posterior 

 portion, or neck, slightly darker. Prothorax still more finely 

 and lightly punctulated, the punctules being scarcely perceptible, 

 even beneath a high magnifying power ; transverse, and rather 

 straightened at the sides, the hinder angles being nearly right 

 angles, and the anterior ones rounded off; with a dorsal line 

 down the centre. Elytra much more coarsely punctured; 

 ample, and rather dilated posteriorly, covering nearly all the 

 upper surface of the abdomen ; a shade paler than the head and 

 and prothorax, being testaceous; their apex truncated in the 

 males ; but in the females each elytron is separately produced, 

 or acuminated, at its inner apex. Scutellum piceous, free from 

 pile, and coarsely alutaceous. Abdomen black. Antennce and 

 legs testaceous ; with the apex of the former darker. 



The single specimen described above is, like the last species, 

 due to the researches of Mr. Bewicke, who captured it in his 

 garden at the Palmeira, above Funchal. I have no hesitation 

 in referring it to the common European A. torquatum, with 

 which in most respects it agrees precisely; its antennae, how- 

 ever, are perhaps just perceptibly shorter than is the case in 

 more northern latitudes, and the punctules of its prothorax 

 (which is a little less rounded at the sides) are, if possible, even 

 still more obscure. Such trifling differences, however, are 

 scarcely worth noticing, since the insect bears all the essential 

 features of the species with which I have identified it. 



