266 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Cokoptera. 



than those on the elytra. Prothorax transverse-quadrate (being 

 very slightly narrowed behind), and free from all inequalities 

 and depressions. Elytra a little shorter than the abdomen 

 (which is black, and has the pygidium partially exposed), and a 

 shade darker in colour than the head and prothorax j the punc- 

 tures without the slightest tendency to be disposed in longitu- 

 dinal rows. Limbs testaceous. 



I have but little hesitation in referring the present insect to 

 the M. picinus of Aube (from Corsica and Algeria), with the 

 description of which it agrees exactly. It is of about the size, 

 and nearly the outline, of the European M. vaporariorum ; 

 nevertheless, it is darker than that species (being rufo-piceous 

 instead of testaceous, and with its elytra almost piceous), more 

 shining, rather less pubescent, and with its punctation very 

 much larger and deeper. A single specimen of it has been 

 captured by Mr. Bewicke, in his garden at the Palmeira, above 

 Funchal. 



Fam. Dermestidae. 

 Genus ATTAGENUS. 



Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. ii. 32 (1802). 

 Attagenus S chaff eri, Herbst. 



A. ovalis, nigro-piceus, supra nigro- et (saltern intra angulos protho- 

 racis posticos) subflavescenti-pubescens, infra subcinereo-flaves- 

 centi-pubescens ; elytris plus minus distincte picescentioribus ; 

 antennarum basi pedibusque ferrugineis. 



Long. corp. lin. If -2. 



Mas, antennarum articulo ultimo longissimo, subarcuato, ensiformi. 



Habitat urbem Funchalensem, in domibus mercatorumque reposi- 

 toriis a Dom. Moniz sestate 1858 detectus. 



Megatoma Schcefferi, Hbst., Kiif. iv. 93. 



Dermestes Scha/eri, Gyll., Ins. Suec. i. 152 (1808). 



Attagenus Schqfferi, Erichs., Nat. der Ins. Deutschl. iii. 440 (1848). 



A. similar to the A. megaioma, but a little larger and more 

 piceous (especially the elytra, which are sometimes subrufescent), 

 and with a slight admixture of yellowish-cinereous (along with 

 the black) pile on the anterior part of its upper surface, parti- 

 cularly along the hinder margin of the prothorax, and occa- 

 sionally also towards the extreme base of the elytra. The males 

 with the ultimate joint of their antennse even longer still than 

 in the A. megatoma, and slightly bent, or ensiform. 



Several specimens of this insect, which approaches very closely, 

 at first sight, to the A. megatoma, but which (even though not 

 according precisely with Erichson's description) I believe to be 

 correctly referred to the European A. Schcefferi (and which, I 



