276 IXSECTA MADERENSIA. 



exceedingly elongated and forming a loosely-connected club) are very remarkable, 

 and woiild suffice even alone to characterize the group. "Whilst apparently 

 attaining theu- maximvun in temperate and northern latitudes, they are insects of 

 a ^Tide geographical range, — the result partially perhaps of their liability to trans- 

 mission amonecst ci^"ilized countries with timljer and various articles of merchandise 

 and commerce, on which they principally su.bsist. The peculiar noise which some 

 of the species are accustomed to make duriug their season of pairing, by striking 

 then' robust jaws against the wood within which they are situated, — supposed to 

 be a signal for the opposite sex, and wliich, from its measured repetition, some- 

 what resembles the ticking of a Avatch, — has rendered them famous in the annals 

 of oiu" popular suijerstitions, and gained for them the name of " Death-watches." 



210. Anobimn velatum, JFuU. (Tab. Y. fig. 3.) 



A. subcvlindrico-oblongum rufescenti-bruuneum et valde hirsutuui, pi'othorace eequo (in disco con- 

 vexo) et granulis inagnis crebris obsito, autice truncato nccnon ad latera minus rotundatOj elj-tris 

 profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis subrugulosis, antennis pedibusque obscuro-ferrugineis. 



Long. Corp. liu. lf-2j. 



Habitat in locis inferioribus Madera?, astate non infrequeus : iu horto Lowcauo propc Funchal niense 

 Augusto deprehensi ; necnon ad Sao Vincente in Madera boreali collegit Rev'*'" Dom. Lowe. 



A. subcylindrical-oblong, brown with more or less (especially on the elytra) of a rufescent tinge, and 

 densely and uniformly clothed with exceedingly long, almost erect, very soft and flexible pile. 

 Prothorax closely beset with rather large and coarse granules ; short and wide, truncated in 

 front, and with the sides straightcr than in any of the other species, — both the anterior and 

 posterior angles (particularly the former, which are almost right angles) being distinct ; convex 

 on the disk, but without any Jippearance of elevations or nodules, — though with a glabrous lon- 

 gitudinal line down the centre, which is more especially evident behind. Elytra deeply punctate- 

 striated (the punctures being very large and well-defined) ; and with the interstices rather convex 

 and roughened, though scarcely perceptibly punctulated. Antenna and k(/s dull ferruginous. 



Intimately related, in general contour and size, to the A. villosum of Mediterra- 

 nean latitudes, though differing from it very materially, on examination, in the 

 structm-e of its prothorax, — which (instead of bemg largely rounded oil' behind, 

 and so extremely convex as to l)e almost nodose in the centre of the disk) is nearly 

 straight at the sides (the anterior and posterior angles being almost equally pro- 

 minent), and without any appearance of elevations in any portion of its surface ; 

 whilst, at the same time, it is uniformly studded with much coarser and more 

 closely-set granules. The pubescence, likcAvise, is even more dense and erect than 

 that of the A. rillosnm (and without the slightest tendency to be disposed, as is 

 there the case, in fascia?), and the interstices of its elytra are altogether more 

 flattened. Although I have not been able to procm-e specimens for comparison, I 

 am inclined to suspect that the Anohiiim which is quoted by Brulle in AVebb and 



