INSECTA MADERENSIA. l/o 



Dermestes lunatus, Pab. Ent. Syst. i. 232 (1792). 

 Siljilia Sphcti-ice, Mslim, Euf. Brit. i. 122 (1802). 

 BipliyUus lumtus, Stepli. ///. Brit. Ent. iii. 78 (1830). 

 Biphyllus lunatus, Eedt. Fna Austr. 188 (1849). 



Habitat Maderam, rarissimus : unicum exemplar solum adhuc vidi,— baud procul ab origine convallis 

 Ribeiro de Santa Luzia dictse, per aerem volitans, Maio exeunte a.d. 1849 a meipso de- 

 prehensum. 



D. oblong-ovate, convex, black, with a just perceptibly bluish or subcyaneous tinge, shining, and ex- 

 ceedingly pubescent. Head and pruthorax deeply and rather irregularly punctured : the latter 

 short, wide behind and rather narrowed in front (the lateral edges being rounded and very obscurely 

 crenulated) ; with two raised longitudinal lines on either side (the outer one of which is the more 

 evident) towards, and parallel to the edge. Elytra deeply punctate-striated ; with a sublunulate 

 patch on each (confluent at the suture, and forming, in conjuntdion, a transverse and exceedingly 

 abbreviated zigzag fascia, common to both, on the centre of the disk) composed of whitish, or 

 cinereous pubescence; and with a muiuter, and generally much obscurer, rounded one, of a 

 sunilar character, near the apex of each. Antenna; and legs piceo-ferruginous, or rufo-piceous : 

 t\ie, former short. 



The JD. lunatus, wliicli occm-s, tliougli not very abundantly, throughout the 

 greater portion of Eiu-ope, would appear to be exceedingly rare in Madeira, a 

 single example only having hitherto come beneath my observation. It was cap- 

 tui-ed by myself, on the wing, towards the upper extremity of the Ribeiro de Santa 

 Luzia, during my encampment there with the Eev. R. T. Lowe, at the end of May 

 1849. It is just perceptibly larger than the average of British specimens ; as also 

 of a somewhat deeper black, and with the discal fascia of a purer white. 



Genus 59. HYPOCOPRUS. 



Motschulsky, Bull, de la Soc. Imp. de Moscou, 72. tab. v. fig. d^W (1839). 



Corpus minutum, angusto-parallelum : prothorace simplici (ad latera baud crenulato) : abdomine ex 

 segmentis ventralibus (longitudine paulatim decrescentibus) quinque composito : alis amphssimis, 

 miuutissime punctulatis, ad basin angustis sed apicem versus dilatatis, per marginem inferiorem 

 totam longe ciliatis. Antenna capitis prothoracisque longitudine, articulis primo et secundo 

 (illo prsecipue) robustis, tertio (in specie typica minuto, quarti longitudine; sed in nostra) 

 secundo vix breviore sed graciliore, quarto minuto globoso, quinto (in typica maximo obconico 

 extus producto ; sed in nostrsi) magno crasso globoso ad apicem subtruucato, sexto, septmio et 

 octavo Eequalibus (in typica subconicis ; sed in nostra) globosis moniliformibus pai-vis (quarto vix 

 majoribus), reliquis clavam laxam elongatam triarticulatam efficientibus (nono et decimo in typica 

 transversis, sed in nostra globosis apice subtruncatis ; ultimo in typica pyriformi, sed in nostra 

 ovato). (Hujus generis, apud cl. Motschulsky primum indicati, instrumenta cibaria baud exa- 

 minavi, at, si ex unico specimine indiscisso adjudicare licet, genus antennarum stractura, habitu 

 geuerali absque valde anomalis amplissimis ciliatis sat distinctum videtur : transitum forsan 

 inter Cryptophagidas et Ptiliadas constituat, sed Cryptophagidis affinitate proximum est et cum 

 illis, nisi fallor, recte poneudum). Pedes cnviorn: femoribus sat incrassatis : izfins gracilibus, 

 apicem versus vix dilatatis: tursis iiliformibus, articulo primo parvo ad basin subrecondito. 



