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O. similar to the last species, but smaller and of more variable stature, a little narrower in proportion, 

 and rather more acuminated behind, also, for the most part, with a little more perceptibly brassy 

 tinge. Elytra as in the O. bicolor, but generally a little paler, or more brightly chestnut, 

 posteriorly. Antennm and legs testaceous, being a shade paler than those of that insect. 



The cUstinctions between the present insect and the last have been ah*eady fully 

 pointed out, not only under that species, but likewise in the above comparative 

 diagnosis. It is equally abundant, occui-ring on flowers and amongst grass, and 

 usually in company with it. I believe it to be correctly referred to the O. Uquidus 

 of Erichson, with the description of which it appears to agree sufficiently well. 



92. Olibrus consimilis. 

 O. rotundato-oblongus infuscato-rufopiceus nitidissimus, elytris apicem versus late testaceis, singulo 



stria suturali valde profunda impresso, antennis pedibusque testaceis, illis breviusculis. 

 Long. corp. lin. 1-1|. 



Dermestes consimilis, Mshm, Eiit. Brit. i. 75 (1802). 

 Phalcicrus geminus, Illig. in Panz. Krit. Mev. i. 27 (1805). 



testaceus, Gyll. Ins. Siiec. iii. 432 (1813). 



Olihrus gemmus, Erich. Nat. der Ins. Deutscli. iii. 120 (1848). 



Habitat in graminosis Maderse, rarissimus : tria specimina adhuc vidi, unum sc. ad summam originem 

 convallis Kibeiro de Santa Luzia dictse Maio exeunte a.d. 1849, et duo ad Lombo dos Pecegueiros 

 mense Julio a.d. 1850, a meipso reperta. 



O. roundish-oblong (being but very shghtly wider in front than behind, but neither quite so broad 

 nor so rounded as the O. Cinei-aria), not quite so convex as any of the other species, exceedingly 

 brilliantly polished, and of a pale, brownish-rufopiceous hue. Elytra almost unstriated, with the 

 exception of a single, very deeply impressed sutural stria on each : their apex broadly and 

 brightly testaceous. Antenrus and legs, also, testaceous : the former rather short. 



A most abundant European insect, but apparently extremely rare in Madeira, 

 which in all probability is one of its most southern stations. During my constant 

 researches in all parts of the island I have hitherto taken but three specimens ; — 

 one in 18i9 in the Ribeno de Santa Luzia, and two at the Lombo dos Pecegueiros 

 in July 1850. It may be readily known from the rest of the Olibri here described 

 by its pale fusco-piceous hue, by its short and comparatively oblong form, by its 

 rather abbreviated antennge, and by the single deep stria with which each of its 

 elytra are impressed close to the suture. 



Fam. 10. NITIDULIDiE. 



Genus 43. CARPOPHILUS. 



(Leach) Steph. III. Brit. Ent. iii. 50 (1830). 



Corpus minusculum, phis minusve subcylindi-ico-oblongum : prothorace subquadrato convexo : elytris 



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