54 Dr. E. P. Wright on Dunlopea. 



highly polished : the former narrow and oblong, with a small 

 punctule on either side of the disk behind, and with about four 

 more on each side, placed in a longitudinal row from the inner 

 margin of the eye : the latter a good deal narrowed or laterally 

 compressed in front, with the anterior angles somewhat deflexed, 

 and the hinder ones rounded off ; with a large and rather deep 

 puncture towards either side on the hinder disk, and with an- 

 other (rather smaller and more central) on each side of the fore- 

 disk, besides a few obscure ones on the extreme margins. Elytra 

 and abdomen much less shining, and more pubescent, than the 

 head and prothorax, being somewhat densely clothed with a 

 long, decumbent, and slightly paler pile, with a few darker and 

 erect hairs intermixed : the former less black than the rest of the 

 surface, being more or less obscurely piceous, and with their 

 apical margin rather brightly diluted in colouring, or rufo-testa- 

 ceous : the latter with its apex and the extreme posterior edge 

 of each segment obscurely rufescent. Antenna rather slender 

 and fragile ; their two basal joints and the legs diluted rufo- 

 testaceous. 



Two specimens only of the present Heterothops have as yet 

 come under my observation, the first of which was captured by 

 myself, from beneath dead leaves and vegetable refuse, in Mr. 

 Bewicke's garden at the Palmeira, above Funchal, in the spring 

 of 1859 ; and the second, I believe in the same locality, by Mr. 

 Bewicke himself. It will probably be found identical with a 

 species which I have taken abundantly in the Canary Islands, 

 and is most allied, at first sight, to the common European H. 

 dissimilis; nevertheless its head and prothorax are distinctly 

 narrower than in that insect (the former being more oblong, and 

 the latter more laterally compressed in front, and with the discal 

 punctures more evident), its elytra are a trine longer, and its 

 antennae are rather more slender and fragile, with their basal 

 joints more brightly testaceous. In their general fades, the 

 species of Heterothops very much resemble diminutive Philonthi 

 or Quedii; nevertheless, apart from less important differences, 

 the minute, subulated terminal joint of their palpi will imme- 

 diately separate them from both of those groups. 

 [To be continued.] 



XIII. — Notes on Dunlopea. By Dr.E.PERCEVAL Wright, F.L.S., 

 Lecturer on Zoology, Dublin University. 



Dr. E. Perceval Wright exhibited to the Meeting* an annu- 

 lose animal, which had been taken in India by Mr. Dunlop, one 



* Communicated by the author; having been read at the Meeting of the 

 Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association on March 16, 18(!0. 



