242 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



187. Eucinetus ovum, WoU. 

 E. ovatus convexus infra planus, infuscato-niger necnon cinereo-pubescens, prothorace parvo fere 



impunctato, clytris dense et minute punctulatis, postice obsoletissime substriatis, apicem versus 



dilutioribus, antennarum basi pedibusque diluto-testaceis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. l§-2. 



Habitat per regionem Maderae sylvaticam, ab autumno usque ad ver novunij rarior : sub cortice 

 arborum laxo ad Curral das Romciras primus detexit Rev'''"' Dom. Armitage ; necnon ad Lombo 

 dos Pecegueiros, in Madcnl boreali, egoiuet parce collegi. 



E. ovate (being exceedingly obtuse in front), very convex above (especially anteriorl)') and flattened 

 beneatli ; brownish-black, and densely clothed with a cinereous pubescence. Prothorax small ; 

 wide behind, and with the basal margin rounded and closely applied to the elytra, — which it 

 exactly equals in breadth ; highly polished, and almost impunctate ; and usually a little diluted 

 in colouring towards the sides. Elytra closely and minutely ])uiictulated all over (the punctures 

 appearing beneath the microscope to be rather obliquely impinged, but with scarcely any indica- 

 tion on the surface of the transversely-reticulated sculpture which is so conspicuous in the 

 European species) ; less shining than the prothorax ; very obscurely substriated behind (though 

 rather more evidently so towards the suture than towards the margins) ; and more or less gradu- 

 ally diluted, or of a paler brown hue, at their apex. Anlennte at base, and the legs diluted- 

 testaceous ; the latter with the circlet of spinules which fringes the extreme apices of their four 

 hinder tibia, and of all the joints except the last of their /owr hinder tarsi, black. 



A large and very distinct Eucinetus ; and one which may he readily known 

 from the European E. hcemorrhous by its much greater bulk, wider and less 

 apically acuminated form, by its less deeply black, or more fuscescent, hue, and 

 by its almost total freedom from any appearance of the transverse reticulations, 

 and by the entii'c absence of the briglitly rufescent terminal patch, which are so 

 conspicuous on the elytra of that sjiecies. It is exceedingly rare, being found 

 sparingly beneath the loose bark, or in the cracks and iudentations on the outer 

 surfaces, of trees, during the autumnal and winter months, throughout the sylvan 

 districts of intermediate altitudes. It has been captu.red by the Rev. W. J. Armitage 

 at the Curral das llomciras, near Funchal ; and I have, also, taken dead specimens 

 in the north of tlie island, at the Lombo dos Pccegueii'os, dvuing July. 



Fam. 27. TELEPHORID-E. 



Genus 86. MALTHODES. 

 Kiesenwetter, in Linn. Ent. vii. 265 (1852). 



Corpus parvum, angusto-lineare, molle : cnpite panim convcxo, postice constricto, oculis magnis : 

 prothorace parvo subquadrato-transverso : elytris saepius valde abbreviatis, alas amplissimas baud 

 tegentibus. Antenna (prsesertim in maribus) elongate filiformes basi subapproximata;, mox infra 

 oculorum nuirgiuem internum iusertre, articulo primo levitcr robusto longiusculo subclavato. 



