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



Such are the additions to the fauna — 49 in all (exclusive, of 

 course, of the Apotomus Chaudoirii and the Chrysomela onychina, 

 which are merely old species under new names) — which our 

 combined researches have brought to light during the past year 

 and a half in Madeira. As may be gathered from the above 

 statements, of these 49, 21 * were detected by myself, 16 by 

 Mr. Bewicke, 4 by Senhor Moniz, 4 by Mr. M. Park, 3 by 

 Mr. E. Leacock, and one by the Rev. R. T. Lowe ; and it may 

 be interesting to remark that the families into which these 

 accessions distribute themselves are as follows : — StaphylinidcelS; 

 Curculionidce 8 ; Lathridiadce 7 ; Colydiadce and Tomicidce 4 each ; 

 Carabida 2 ; and Silphidce, Trichopterygida, Mycetophagidce, 

 Dermestidce, Bostrychida, Cissidce, Attelabidce, Bruchida, Haiti- 

 cidce, Tenebrionidce, and Opatridce, 1 each. In my last paper on 

 the additions to our Catalogue, written in October 1858, and pub- 

 lished in the ' Annals ' for the following December, I brought 

 up the list of then detected forms to 593 ; so that, when further 

 augmented by the 49 of this present paper, the Madeiran 

 Coleoptera, as hitherto observed, amount to no less than 642 

 well-defined species. 



Before closing these remarks, I may just state that the names 

 of the following 13 species, as cited in my last Catalogue, will 

 have, in accordance with the law of priority, to be changed, — 

 subsequent inquiries having proved them to be identical with 

 species previously described. Thus, for Dromius arenicola Woll., 

 read D. patruelis, Chaud. ; for Pristonychus alatus, Woll., read 

 P. complanatus, Dej. ; for Anchomenus pallipes, Fab., read A. al- 

 bipes, Fab. (the Carabus pallipes of the ' Mantissa Insectorum 3 

 being, as I am informed by Dr. Schaum, an American insect of 

 the genus Tarus) ; for Harpalus litigiosus, Dej., read H. tene- 

 brosus, Dej. ; for Dactylosternum Rousseti, Woll., read D. abdo- 

 minale, Fab. ; for Monotonia spinifera, Woll., read M. spini- 

 collis, Aube ; for Microchondrus domuum, Woll., read Symbiotes 

 domuum, Woll. (the genus Microchondrus being identical with 

 Redtenbacher's Symbiotes) ; for Haltica subtilis, Woll., read H. 

 procera, Redt. ; for Haltica Salicarice, Payk., read H. ventralis, 

 Illig.; for Longitarsus lutescens 3 Gyll., readZ/. atricapillus, Dufts.; 

 for Longitarsus excurvus, Woll., read L. Echii, Meg. ; for Gloeo- 

 soma veloXj Woll., read Moronillus ruficollis, Jacq.-Duv. ; for 

 Autocera laticeps, Woll., read Cnemeplatia laticeps, Woll., — the 

 genus Autocera being, according to Dr. Kraatz, identical with 

 Cnemeplatia of Costa. 



* Of these 21, however, there are two which cannot strictly be called 

 recent discoveries, although necessarily treated as additions to our fauna, 

 — namely, the Longitarsus abdominalis (which I had inadvertently mixed 

 up amongst my specimens of the L. nubigena, collected in 1855), and the 

 Mycetoporus Johnsoni (which I had hitherto regarded as a mere state of 

 the M. pronus). 



