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insects which compose it, is represented in the Madeira Islands by, apparently, 

 but a single species, — wliich, perhaps, from the short and very membranous 

 strvicture of its clj^eus, may fall, more strictly, under the genus Attains of Erich- 

 son. The characters however on wliich this latter group is made to rest are so 

 small, that it is scarcely possible to regard them as of more than sectional import- 

 ance ; and I have preferred therefore quotrag the present insect as a Malachiiis, — 

 with which in every essential particular (as may be gathered from the above 

 diagnosis, drawn solely from the Madeiran tj^Q) it unquestionably agrees. 



189. Malachius militaris, WoU. 



M. lineari-oblongus nitidus subviridescenti-ater et subtiliter ciuereo-pubescens, prothorace elytro- 

 rumque apice ruSs, illius disco nigro, antennarum basi pedibusque anticis obscure infuscato- 

 picescentibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. lf-2. 



Habitat iu floribus Maderse australis, prsesertim in urbe ips^ Funchalensi, tempore vernali non 

 infrequens : in horto Ecclesiae Anglicanae mense Maio a.d. 1849 plurima specimina e rosis 

 coUegi. 



M. narrow, linear-oblong, shining, deep black with an obscure greenish tinge, and clothed with a very 

 delicate cinereous pubescence. Head convex behind. Prothorax bright rufous, with a dark patch 

 in the centre of the disk (very rarely absent) . Elytra with the apex bright rufous. Mesothorax 

 underneath rufous. Antenrus at base, and the two front legs usually very obscurely fuscescent. 



Not an uncommon insect in gardens near Funchal dtiring the spring. It 

 ajjproaches a little, in general external aspect, to the common 31. pulicarms of 

 more northern latitudes. Nevertheless it is abundantly distinct from that species, 

 not only in its smaller and narrower form, shorter legs and antennse, more 

 glabrous surface, and less dilated prothorax, but likewise in many points even of 

 its structm'C, — amongst which its shorter and slenderer feet, with their more 

 oblique joints, are at once apparent. I took it abundantly in May 1849 out of the 

 flowers of the common monthly rose, in the garden of the EngHsh Church, in the 

 Beco das Aranhas, at Funchal ; and it has been subsequently captured, in similar 

 positions, by Dr. Albers of Berlin. 



Genus 88. PECTEROPUS, Woll. (Tab. IV. fig. 7 et 9.) 



Corpus mediocre vel parvum, plus minusve elongato-subovatum, moUe, metallicum : capite modo (ut 

 in P. Maderensi, Tab. IV. fig. 7) subrotundato convexiusculo oculis prominuhs chjpeoqne brevi, 

 modo (ut in P. rostrato, Tab. IV. fig. 9 a) subelongato depresso oculis minus prominuhs clypeo- 

 que longiusculo, modo (ut in P. rugoso) intermedio (?'. e. subrotundato depressiusculo oculis pro- 

 minuhs clypeoqae leviter longiusculo) ; clypeo in omnibus membranaceo : pi'othorace rotundato- 

 subquadi-ato : alis amplissimis. Antenna (prsesertim in maribus) longiusculse subserrato- 

 filiformes (in utroque sexu simplices), basi minus approximatse, infra oculorum marginem anticum 



