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



ever, so far as I can detect : hence, although we assume that the 

 two ultimate joints are fused into it, we must practically regard 

 the entire number [i.e. the recognizable number] as diminished, 

 from the normal standard, which is, likewise, perfectly in 

 accordance with the generality of the Lathridiada, in which the 

 recognizable antennal joints vary from 8 to 1 1. Of these joints, 

 the 1st and the 2nd are in Anommatus large and robust; the 

 3rd very much more slender and of almost the same length as the 

 2nd ; the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th extremely short, but 

 gradually becoming broader; and then follows the immense 

 subglobose club, which must be regarded as swallowing up the 

 remaining two articulations. I believe, all points considered, 

 that Anommatus is more nearly akin to the (likewise blind) 

 Langelandia anophthalma than to almost any other, perhaps, of 

 our European genera ; and, in the Madeiran Catalogue, I would 

 place it at the commencement of the Lathridiada> near to 

 Cholovocera. 



Anommatus 12-striatus, Mull. 



A. parallelo-oblongus, testaceus, nitidus, glaher ; prothorace valde 

 profunde sed remote punctato (punctis maximis, in dorso sub- 

 seriatim) ; elytris profunde punctato-striatis. 



Long. corp. lin. f . 



Habitat Maderam, sub truncis arborum prolapsis, rarissimus. 



Lyctus 12-striatus, Miill., in Germ. Mag. iv. 190 (1821). 

 Anommatus terricola, Wesm., Bull. Acad. Brux. ii. 339. t. 4 (1836). 



\2-striatus, Eriehs., Nat. der Ins. Deutschl. iii. 286 (1848). 



, Redt, Fauna Austr. 181 (1849). 



A. parallel-oblong, being smaller, more linear, and less convex 

 than the Aglenus bntnneus, pale-testaceous, very bright, and 

 glabrous. Head sparingly, but not very deeply punctured. 

 Prothorax, rather widened anteriorly, very deeply and remotely 

 punctured, the punctures being very large, and on either side 

 of the central line (which is just perceptibly keeled) with a 

 tendency to be disposed in rows. Elytra deeply striate-punctate 

 (the punctures being there also very large). Limbs a shade 

 paler than the rest of the surface. 



Detected by myself, in tolerable abundance, beneath the trunk 

 of a felled cherry-tree which was lying on the damp ground 

 at the bottom of the Curral das Freiras, whilst encamped 

 there, with the Rev. R. T. Lowe, on the 9th of Dec. 1858. 

 And a specimen has been lately communicated by S r . Moniz, 

 which he captured under the chippings of Spanish chestnut- 

 trees at Santa Anna, in the north of Madeira. 



