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funde et sat crebre punctatis, hoc ad latera (prsesertim postice) 

 crenulato, fovea postmedia profunda rotundata impresso ; elytris 

 leviter sed rugulose striato- punctatis ; antennis pedibusque paulo 

 pallidioribus. 



Long. corp. lin. | f . 



Habitat Maderam, in horto Leacociano prope Funchal a meipso 

 detecta ; necnon ad S. Antonio da Serra deprehensit Dom. 

 Bewicke. 



C. similar to the C. rotulicollis [Ins. Mad. 184], but smaller, 

 just perceptily less convex, and of a more uniformly rufo-ferru- 

 ginous hue, the elytra being usually not at all darker than the 

 head and prothorax. Prothorax a little less closely punctured 

 than in that insect, with its hinder fovese perhaps somewhat 

 larger, and with its lateral crenulations not quite so powerful, 

 and less numerous; or, at any rate, with the anterior ones 

 smaller and less evident. Elytra not quite so deeply striate- 

 punctate, and the apex of the antenna a trifle paler, or less 

 obscured. 



An insignificant little Corticaria, appearing at first sight like 

 a depauperated state of the C. rotulicollis. It was detected by 

 myself, beneath bones and chippings of wood, in a small out- 

 house in Mr. Leacock's garden at the Quinta de Sao Joao, near 

 Funchal ; in which locality it was subsequently taken both by 

 Mr. E. Leacock and Mr. Bewicke, the latter of whom likewise 

 captured it, during August 1859, in a hovel at S. Antonio 

 da Serra. 



Genus METOPHTHALMUS. 



Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 192 (1854). 



Metophthalmus exiguus, n. sp. 



M. forma et sculptura M. asperato simillimus, sed minutissimus, 

 omnino rufo-ferrugineus, fronte minus costato, ocello distinctiore 

 et antennarum articulis inter se diversis [sc. tertio ad octavum 

 minutis subglobosis subsequalibus moniliformibus, nono subgloboso 

 (haud poculiformi), et ultimo oblongo (nee oblique truncate)]. 



Long. corp. lin. -|. 



Habitat Maderam australem : specimen unicum prope urbem Fun- 

 chalensem sestate 1859 cepit Dom. Bewicke. 



M. very like in form and sculpture to the M. asperatus, ex- 

 cept that it is much smaller and of a uniformly ferruginous, 

 or rufo-ferruginous, hue, with its frontal costse much less evi- 

 dent, or almost obsolete, but with the ocellus better defined; 

 with its prothorax also somewhat less uneven; and with its 

 antennal joints [vide the above diagnosis] differently propor- 

 tioned. 



A single specimen of it has been lately detected in Madeira 



