240 IXSECTA MADERENSIA. 



186. Coptostethus femoratus, JVoII. (Tab. IT. fig. 8.) 



C. elongato-subovatus subsenescenti-nigro-brunneus densissime cinereo-villosus, prothorace magno in 

 disco convexo, ante mediimi lato uecnon ad latera rotuudato, elytris Icviter striatis, antennis fer- 

 rugineis, pedibus testaceis, tibiarum parte media infuscata. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1|. 



Habitat in montibus Portus Sancti, rarissimus : duo specimina iu cavernfi quadam basaltica mox inii-a 

 cacumen mentis "Pico d'Anna Ferreira" dicti sit^ d. 7 Dec. a.d. 1848 sub lapidibus inveni. 



C. elongate-subovate, blackish-brown, with a very obscure feneous tinge, minutely and indistinctly 

 ])unctulated all over, and densely clothed with a long and soft cinereous pile. ProtJiorax very 

 large, widest before the middle, and narrowed behind (the sides being rounded) ; veiy convex 

 on the disk ; and with the hinder angles exceedingly produced and acuminated. Elytra obtuse 

 at the apex, and rounded at the sides, — being broadest just behind the middle ; and very lightly 

 striated. ^?i/enn« exceedingly long, and ferruginous, iej'* testaceous, with the /emora (which, 

 especially the hinder ones, are somewhat thickened) slightly infuscated, and with the tibia 

 infuscated in their centre, — their base and apex being testaceous. 



Ap])arently of the greatest rarity ; the only two spechnens which I have seen 

 lia\ing ])een captured by myself, December 7th, 1818, in the island of Porto 

 Santo, — from beneath loose stones in a large basaltic cavern immediately below 

 the extreme summit of the Pico d'x\.nna Perreii-a, facing the south. 



ram. 26. CYPHONID^. 



Genus 85. EUCINETUS. 

 Schuppel, in Germ. Mag. iii. 255 (1818). 



Corpus parvum, ovatum, supra \alde convexum, infra planum ; fegre saltatorium : cnj/ite inflexo, ad 

 prosternum inter otium applicando : prothorace parvo lato rotundato, elytris arete applicato ; 

 prosterno simplici : alis sat amplis. Antenna; breviuscuhe (eapite prothoi'acequc paulo longiores) 

 tiliformes, articulo primo vix robusto cylindrico, secundo, tertio et quarto paulo gracilioribus lon- 

 gioribus obconicis, reliquis (ultimo ovato exccpto) requalibus suboblongis apice truncatis. Labrum 

 transversum pilosum, anticc integrum. Mandibula compressfe subcornese arcuatiB, ad basin lata; 

 extus Icviter pilosse, apicem versus aeutissim;e bifid;e, intus late emarginata; et mcnibranii 

 tcnuissima instructae. Maxillie biloba; : lobo externa mcmbranaceo brevi lato, apice valde pubes- 

 centi : interno longiore validiore angusto recto, apice incurvo acutissime uncinato, intus pilis 

 longis ciliato. Palpi subfiliformes pilosi; maxillares articulo primo parvo, secundo crassiore 

 leviter clongato, tertio huic paulo broviore, ultimo elongate subfusiformi apice acuminato ; 

 labiates articulo primo parvo, secundo paulo longiore crassiore, ultimo clongato subfusiforuii- 

 ovato. Mentum amplum subcorneum pilosum transverso-subquadratum, antice angustatum 

 uecnon ad apicem integrum. Ligula transversa membranacea, basi valde constricta, ajiicem 

 versus dilatata vix sub-biloba. Pedes elongati pilosi subcontractiles : femnribus anticis gracilibus 

 cylindricis, posterioribus crassioribus subovatis : tibiis anticis gracilibus subcylindrieis, apice vix 

 calcaratis vel spinulosis; posterioribus robustioribus apicem versus dilatatis, apice valde spinu- 



