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and on one occasion even so far north as Lincolnshire. Dr. Aub6 states that he 

 has found it beneath dried animal remains near Paris ; but I have not, myself, 

 ever observed it in such situations, — though I think it far from improbable that 

 it may be an attendant, at certain times, within the nests of Ants. 



§ II. Corpus subquadrato-oblongum : tibiis lafiusculis, extus profunde eroso-subdentatis : tarsis articido 



prima leviter elongato. 



168. Paromalus pumiHo. 



P. ater nitidissimus, prothorace versus latera parce punctulato (punctis magnis sed baud profundis) 

 necnon per marginem ipsum posticum seriato-punctato, elytris ad apicem punctulatis, singulo 

 striis septem profundis (suturali antice abbreviata) punctatis impresso, abdomine subremote 

 punctulato, antennis pedibusque pieescentibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1-1 1-. 



Pa/romalus pvmilio, Erich, in King Jahrh. i. 169 (1834). 



Habitat in marcidis Maderse australis, mihi non obvius : per oram Funchalensem maritimam primus 

 collegit Dom. Rousset, qui plui'ima specimina nuper communicavit. 



P. larger than the P. minimus, squarish-oblong, of an intenser black, and much more brilliantly 

 polished. Pruthorax much broader in front than in that insect, almost unsculptured on the 

 disk, but with large (though shallow) and distant punctures towards the sides; and with a 

 row of distinct punctures along the extreme hinder margin, — of which the central one is slightly 

 advanced and the most apparent. Elytra with their extreme apex picescent and besprinkled 

 with large shallow punctures ; and with seven deeply-impressed and distinctly punctate strise 

 down each, extending almost to the extreme apex, — though with the inner, or sutural one con- 

 siderably abbreviated in fi-ont. Abdomen more sparingly pimctured than in the last species, — 

 the punctures however being large, though exceedingly shallow. Antenna and legs somewhat 

 darker, or less rufescent, than those of the P. minimus. 



Readily distinguished from the P. minimns by its larger size, less rounded, or 

 somewhat squarish-oblong outHne, by its more brilliant, intensely black, and less 

 punctulated surface, and by the seven very deep and distinctly punctui-ed striae 

 with which its elytra are impressed. It is an insect which I have not, myself, 

 detected in the Madeira Islands, — the discovery of it being due to M. Rousset, 

 who informs me that it occurs abundantly (in company vrvih. Dactijlosternnm 

 Boussetii, Apliodlus obccenus, and Oxyomus sabulosus) beneath stones, amongst 

 animal and vegetable rejectamenta, on the sea-beach of Funchal, especially at the 

 outlets of the filthy drains which carry off the refuse of the town below the chui-ch 

 of Nossa Sen^ do Calhao, towards the St. Jago Eort. It does not appear to be a 

 species of very general European distribution : I possess however specimens from 

 Berlin, given to me by Dr. H. Schavun, which differ in no respect from the 



