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



prothorax and elytra being scarcely at all diluted in colouring), 

 shining, and somewhat depressed. Mouth prominent, and rufo- 

 piceous. Prothorax small, narrow, and subquadrate, with the 

 sides just perceptibly more straightened towards the posterior 

 angles than is the case in the Z. pellucidus, and therefore a trifle 

 more suddenly widened a little before the middle ; with very 

 slight indications of wrinkles, and with a deep dorsal channel. 

 Elytra ovate, regularly and rather deeply striated, the strise 

 having no tendency at all to being interrupted, and with the 

 interstices flattened; with two small depressions on the disk of 

 each, the hinder one of which is sometimes obsolete ; and with 

 the humeral angles a trifle more produced, or acute (the arc 

 from either shoulder to the scutellum being generally more 

 regularly curved), than in the Z. pellucidus. Antenna and legs 

 slender; the former rufo-testaceous at their base, and brownish - 

 piceous towards their apex; the latter with their femora pale, 

 and the tibia and tarsi rufo-testaceous. 



The discovery of this important addition to the Madeiran 

 fauna is due to the researches of Senor Moniz, who captured 

 several specimens of it, from beneath stones, on the slope behind 

 the sea-beach in the little bay immediately within the Brazen 

 Head (in Madeira proper), during December of 1858. It ap- 

 proaches closely to the Z. pellucidus ; nevertheless, its uniformly 

 larger size and darker hue will, apart from minor characters, at 

 once distinguish it from that species. 



Genus Aepys. 



(Leach), Samouelle, Usef. Comp. 149 [script. Aepus~\ (1819). 

 Aepys gracilicornis, n. sp. 



A. fusco-testaceus subopacus, depressus, densissime et rugose alu- 

 taceus punctisque remotis leviter impressus necnou pube demissa 

 pallidiore (prsesertim in elytris) vestitus ; prothorace angusto sub- 

 cordato ; coleopteris parallelo-subellipticis baud striatis, singulo 

 punctis duobus leviter signato necnon ad apicem rotundato ; an- 

 tennis pedibusque pallidioribus et (illis prsecipue) elongatis graci- 

 libus. 



Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Maderam borealem ; in litore quodam parvo abrupto lutoso 

 lapidoso maritime ad Sanctum Vincentium mense Decembri A.D. 

 1858 plurima specimina deprehendi. 



A. brownish-testaceous (sometimes almost testaceous-brown), 

 nearly opake, depressed, densely alutaceous all over (roughly so 

 on the head and prothorax), and with ill-defined, rather remote 

 and shallow punctures intermixed (which are deeper and larger 

 on the head and prothorax, especially the former, than on the 



