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



Kunsei of Aube (that species being the only one hitherto re- 

 corded in which the antennae are 10-articulate), I ain neverthe- 

 less enabled to state this for certain, Dr. Aube having kindly 

 transmitted to me from Paris, through M. Allard, one of his 

 three original types of that insect, for comparison ; with which 

 the Madeiran specimens agree in every respect. Its discovery 

 in Madeira is due to Mr. Bewicke, who captured several examples 

 of it, about a year ago, in his garden at the Palmeira, above 

 Funchal. 



Genus CORTICARIA. 



Marsham, Ent. Brit. i. 106 (1802). 



Corlicaria pubescens, Gyll. 



C. elongato-ovata, fusco-picea, cinereo-pubescens ; capite prothorace- 

 que profunde punctatis (punctis maximis), hoc ad latera (praesertim 

 postice) crenulato, fovea postmedia magna profunda rotundata 

 impresso ; elytris profunde rugose et dense subseriatim punctatis ; 

 antennis pedibusque rufo-ferrugineis, his elongatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 1-J. 



Habitat Maderam australem, a Dom. Bewicke detecta. 



Latridius pubescens, Illiger, in litt. 



, Gyll., Ins. Suec. iv. 125 (1827). 



Corticaria pubescens, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. iii. 106 (1830). 

 Redt., Fauna Austr. 208 (1849). 



C. elongate-ovate, brownish-piceous, with a more or less sub- 

 rufescent tinge, and clothed with long decumbent cinereous 

 pile. Head and prothoraoc very deeply punctured, the punctures 

 being extremely large, but (especially on the former) not very 

 dense : the latter with the edges a good deal rounded, and 

 crenulated (particularly posteriorly) ; and with a very large, 

 rounded and deeply impressed fovea on the centre of the hinder 

 disk. Elytra deeply, thickly, and rugosely subseriate-punctate 

 (the punctures having only a tendency to being disposed in 

 longitudinal rows). Limbs rufo-ferruginous ; the legs longer 

 than in the generality of the Corticaria. 



A single example of the common European C. pubescens was 

 detected by Mr. Bewicke, about a year ago, near Funchal. It 

 may be readily known from the rest of the Madeiran CorticaricB 

 by its comparatively large size, brownish-ferruginous hue, and 

 densely pubescent surface, by the immense and very deep punc- 

 tures of its head and prothorax, by the somewhat close sculp- 

 ture of its elytra, and the length of its legs. It has probably 

 been imported into the island from more northern latitudes. 



Corticaria inconspicua, n. sp. 

 C. elongata, rufo-ferruginea, subdepressa ; capite prothoraceque pro- 



