Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 457 



closely punctured in the centre of its disk than elsewhere. 

 Elytra regularly, closely, and rather deeply punctate- striate. 

 Antennae testaceous, with their club (which is acute at its apex) 

 black. 



Although not according precisely with the diagnosis of the 

 R. aneus as given in Schonherr's l Genera et Species Curculio- 

 nidum ' [which, moreover, is there stated to be smaller than 

 the common R. pulicarius, whereas the Madeiran insect is, on 

 the average, considerably larger], the little Ramphus described 

 above is nevertheless, I think, sufficiently near to it to warrant 

 the conclusion that it is specifically identical ; and more parti- 

 cularly so, since the recorded habitat of the R. aneus is the south 

 of France, and Portugal. Although exceedingly variable in sta- 

 ture, the long array of specimens from which I have drawn my 

 description differ from the R. pulicarius in being, on the average, 

 decidedly larger and of a more or less evidently brassy tinge, in 

 their alutaceous sculpture being coarser, their punctuation, 

 especially of the head and prothorax, much more dense, and 

 their antennae (in proportion to the size of the insect) perceptibly 

 shorter and entirely testaceous except the club, which last is 

 rather more abbreviated and abrupt, and less acuminated at its 

 apex, than is the case with that species. It was detected, abun- 

 dantly, by Mr. Bewicke, on the leaves of apple- and pear-trees, 

 in the cultivated grounds above Funchal (from his Quinta at 

 the Palmeira up to almost the elevation of the Mount Church), 

 where, under his guidance, it was subsequently captured by 

 myself also. 



Fam. Bruchid.33. 



Genus BRUCHUS. 



Geoffroy, Hist. Abr. des Ins. de Paris, i. 163 (1762). 

 Bruchus Pisi, L. 



B. ovato-oblongus, niger, pube fulvescente et albida variegatus ; pro- 

 thorace transverse, ad latera in medio distincte spinoso ; elytris 

 subparallelis crenato-striatis, fascia postmedia inter r up ta albida 

 ornatis ; antennarum basi, tibiis tarsisque anterioribus plus minus 

 dilute rufo-testaceis, femoribus posticis longe et acute dentatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 2-i-. 



Habitat Maderam, a Dom. M. Park prope Funchal captus. 



Bruchus Pisi, Linn., Syst. Nat. 1. ii. 604 (1767). 



, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. i. 57 (1833). 



, Lucas, Col. de 1'Alge'rie, 401 (1849). 



B. like the B. rufimanus, but rather larger and more oblong. 

 Prothorax altogether broader and less narrowed behind, with 

 the lateral angle developed into a distinct central spine, and with 

 the paler patch towards the middle of the hinder margin usually 



