208 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Head aud prothorax as in that insect, though with the punctures appearing, beneath the micro- 

 scope, to be just perceptibly less deep. Elytra deeply striate-punctate, the punctm-es being more 

 evident than in that species, — as also (on account of the strise being less deep) than those of the 

 following one (even though they are not so large). Anteiincs and leys as in the S. capitata, 

 except that the club of the former is smaller, more ovate and less abrupt. 



Apparently the most common of the Madekan Sy needy ptcB, though at the same 

 time far from abundant. It may be distinguished from the ^S*. capitata by its 

 smaller size, more deeply punctm-ed elytral stria?, and by the less abrupt and more 

 ovate club of its antcnntc ; — whilst from the following species its less rounded 

 outline and different sculptm-c will equally remove it. I have taken it sparingly, 

 dm-ing the autumnal and winter mouths, beneath stones, on the grassy mountain- 

 slopes between the Fonte das Mogas and the Pico dos Arieros (upwards of 5000 

 feet above the sea) ; and in July of 1850 I even captm'cd it, at the Feijaa de C6rte, 

 beneath the loosely attached bark of trees, — a position however into which it had 

 e^ddently retreated by mere accident. 



165. Syncalypta horrida, Woll. 



S. brevi-ovata nigra setis valde rigidis adspersa, prothorace remote punctate (punctis magnis), elytris 



profunde punctato-striatis, pedibus rufo-piceis, antennarum ferr-uginearum clava testacea. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1^. 



Habitat sub lapidibus Portus Sancti, in locis inferioribus arenosis ; — prope oppidum tempore hiberno 

 A.D. 1848 detecta. 



S. shorter than either of the preceding species, being less perceptibly acuminated behind, — but with 

 the erect setse rather more closely set and distinctly robuster, being exceedingly rigid. Head and 

 prothorax as in those insects ; except that the latter is much less densely punctured, aud with the 

 punctures themselves very much larger. Elytra deeply punctate-striated, the striae being deeper 

 than those of the last species, — and with the punctures rather larger, though perhaps (from being 

 more deeply immersed) scarcely so apparent. Legs rufo-piceous. AntemuB ferruginous, with 

 their club a little paler. 



The present species may be easily recognized from the previous two by its 

 smaller size and shorter outline, by the deeper, more distant, and very much larger 

 pimctures of its prothorax, and by its more coarsely striated elytra, — the punc- 

 tures of which are, likewise, exceedingly large, though, on accoimt of the depth of 

 the strite in which they are immersed, not proportionobly evident. It is hitherto 

 unique, the specunen from which the above description has been di-awn out havmg 

 been captm-ed by myself in Porto Santo, from beneath a stone in the immediate 

 ■\dcinity of the town, during the ^\-inter of 1818; — thus receding in its habits 

 altogether from the other Syiicalyptce here described, the range of which is the 

 grassy slopes of the loftiest altitudes. 



