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punctis apicalibus a margine anteriore valde remotis ; elytris con- 

 vexis brevibus, punctorum seriebus fere obsoletis ; antennis palli- 

 dioribus, apicem versus minus incrassatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 1- vix 1|. 



Habitat Maderam editiorem sylvaticam, sub truncis prolapsis et 

 cortice arborum laxo, passim. Species M. prono, Er., affinis, sed 

 ab eo, nisi fallor, certe distincta, et in honorem cl. J. Y. Johnsoni, 

 armigeri, scientise naturalis in Madera cultoris periti, citata. 



Mycetoporus pronus, var. 0, Woll., Ins. Mad. 573 (1854). 



M. like the M. pronus, but rather smaller, with the eyes more 

 minute, with the four transverse prothoracic punctures a little 

 further removed from the anterior margin ; and with the elytra 

 shorter and more convex, and with their three rows of longitu- 

 dinal punctures almost obsolete. The antenna, also, are rather 

 paler than in that insect, and not quite so incrassated towards 

 their apex. 



I am now for the first time induced to regard what I have 

 hitherto considered as but a small state of the M. pronus as 

 in reality specifically distinct. A recent and more thorough 

 examination of it, with the advantage of a larger number of 

 specimens than I had hitherto been able to command, has con- 

 vinced me that it cannot be properly referred to that insect, — 

 of which, indeed, I had always considered it a very abrupt 

 and extraordinary variety; I have consequently removed it 

 therefrom, and have much pleasure in dedicating it to my 

 friend James Yate Johnson, Esq. (the accomplished editor of 

 Mr. White's excellent 'Handbook for Madeira '), whose care- 

 ful researches in various departments of the natural history of 

 the island are well known. Its distinctive features, which will 

 at once separate it from the M. pronus, may be immediately 

 gathered from the above description. 



(Subfam. Quediides.) 



Genus Heterothops. 



(Kirby) Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. v. 256 (1832). 



Heterothops minutus, n. sp. 



H. niger ; capite prothoraceque angustulis, nitidissimis ; elytris pro- 

 thorace paulo longioribus, pubescentibus, picescentibus, apice 

 necnon abdominis apice distincte dilutioribus ; antennis gracilibus, 

 ad basin et pedibus dilute rufo-testaceis. 



Long. corp. lin. lf-2. 



Habitat Maderam australem, sub foliis marcidis in horto Bewickiano 

 prope Funchal captus. 



H. narrow, and acuminated both before and behind (though 

 especially, of course, the latter), and black. Head and prothorax 



