186 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Vincentium cepit Rev''"' Dom. Lowe, necnon prope urbem Funchalensem tempore hibemo egomet 

 parce deprehensi. 



C. large, elongate-ovate, pale fulvo-ferruginous (sometimes almost testaceous), elothed with exceedingly 

 long, and rather robust pubescence, and but slightly shining. Head and prothorax beset wnth 

 very large, deep, but comparatively distant punctures : the latter with the edges rounded and 

 distinctly crenulated (though not quite so powerfully so as in the C. rotulicollis), especially 

 behind; the postmcdial fovea shallower and obscurer than in either of the preceding species. 

 Elytra rather coarsely substriate-punctate. Antenna and legs a little paler than the rest of the 

 surface. 



A rather common Eiu'opean insect, and in all probability naturalized in !Madeii"a 

 from more northern latitudes. It may be immediately recognised by its large 

 size and pallid hue, by its exceedingly pubescent and deeply pimctm'ed sm-face, 

 and by the tolerably distinct crenulations (especially behind) of its prothorax. 

 The Madeiran specimens differ in no respect fi-om the ordinary type, except that 

 perhaps their postmcdial prothoracic depression is a little fainter. It appears to 

 be somewhat scarce, occm-ring sparingly about dwellings and out-houses, in the 

 immediate vicinity of the callages and towns. I have captiu'ed it, dm-ing January, 

 in the garden of the Quinta d^imbrosio, near Funchal ; and it has been taken in 

 the north of the island, at Sao Vincente, by the llev. R. T. Lowe. 



149. Corticaria rotiindicollis, iVolh 



C. ovata rufo-picea, capite prothoraceque granulatis et leviter punctatis, hoc circa medium dilatato ad 

 latera integro, foveS, postmedia rotundata profundi impresso, elytris obscurioribus substriato- 

 punctatis, antennaram basi pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 



Long, coi-p. lin. |. 



Habitat in montibus Madcr<e, rarissima: ad Lombo das Vacas solstitio sestivo a.d. 1850 duo speci- 

 mina inveni. 



C. ovate, rufo-piceoiis, pubescent, and rather shining. Head sai prothorax distinctly granulated, and 

 intermixed with rather obscure, shallow, and distant punctures : the latter with the edges 

 rounded, but apparently not at all crenulated j widest about the middle ; the postmcdial fovea 

 well-defined and deep. Elytra darker than the head and prothorax, rather convex posteriorly j 

 and substriate-punctate. Antennce and legs rufo-testaceous ; the former with their club in- 

 fuscated. 



The ovate outlines of the present species and the following one -will readily 

 distinguish them from the remainder of the genus with which we have here to do. 

 The C. rotundicolUs however recedes fi'om the C. curta in its darker hue (especially 

 of the elytra), in its slightly larger size, and in its different prothorax, — which has 

 its edges entu-e (and with no appearance of an excavation and tooth at the hinder 

 angles), and its sm-face (like that of the head) very evidently granidated, the punc- 



