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



larger and more conspicuous. Elytra rather more parallel at 

 the sides than in that insect, with the interstices more evidently 

 punctured, and with the white spots larger and more confluent 

 forming a more or less conspicuous (though broken) fascia 

 on each behind the micTdle. Pygidium more variegated than in 

 the B. rufimanus, the two black patches at the apex being larger. 

 Antennae rather short and very robust ; their base, as well as the 

 front tibia and tarsi, the apical portion (sometimes the whole) of 

 the intermediate tibiae, and the intermediate tarsi dull rufo-testa- 

 ceous. Hinder femora with a very large and acute tooth beneath. 

 The distinctions between the B. Pisi and the common B. ru- 

 fimanus will be at once gathered from the above comparative 

 diagnosis. I find a single example among some old insects col- 

 lected by Mr. M. Park near Funchal ; and four more were com- 

 municated to me a year ago by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, 

 amongst a quantity of common and ordinary species stated to 

 have been taken at Cani9al. It is abundant in the Canaries (as 

 it is throughout central and southern Europe and the north of 

 Africa), where I have brushed it from out of the pea-fields in at 

 least three of the islands ; and it will probably be found equally 

 common in such localities in Madeira also. 



Fam. Halticidae. 

 Genus LONGITARSUS. 



Latreille, Fam. Nat. du Regne Anim. 405 (1825). 

 Longitarsus abdominalis, Dufts. 



L. ovatus, convexus, subnitidus, rufo-ferrugineus ; capite, antennis 

 (breviusculis) apicem versus necnon apice femorum posticorum 

 picescentibus ; elytris minus rufescentibus, levissime subseriatim 

 punctatis. 



Long. corp. lin. vix |. 



Habitat in graminosis Maderse, eestate 1855 a meipso detectus. 



Haltica abdominalis, Dufts., Fna. Austr. iii. 262 (1825). 



L. ovate, convex, slightly shining, and reddish-ferruginous. 

 Head of a darker, or more piceous hue than the prothorax, 

 which is very lightly and obscurely subpunctulated. Elytra a 

 little paler than the prothorax, and regularly ovate, being rounded 

 inwards towards the shoulders ; very finely, but more perceptibly 

 punctured than the prothorax, the punctures having the slight- 

 est possible tendency to be disposed in longitudinal rows ; and 

 with the suture a trifle darker than the rest of the surface. An- 

 tenna rather short; dusky towards their apex; their base, the 

 four anterior legs, and the two hinder tibia and tarsi, testaceous. 



Three specimens of this insect I had inadvertently mixed up, 



