INSECTA MADERENSIA. 277 



Bertlielot's Sistoire Natiirelle des lies Canaries as the A. villostmi may be iden- 

 tical with the present one, — which bears so strong a prima facie resemblance to 

 that species, that, without a careful inspection, it might be almost mistaken for it ; 

 and especially so, since the very short and loose descriptions given in that work are 

 more than sufficient to warrant the conclusion that no great pains can have been 

 bestowed on the determination of any of the Coleoptera enumerated in it. At all 

 events, whether such be the case or not, the Madeiraii insect is unquestionably 

 distinct from its European ally. It is tolerably common, both in the north and 

 south of the island, at rather low elevations, dm*ing the sumnaer months, — making 

 its appearance about July. It occurs principally in vineyards and near neglected 

 buildings. I have taken it around Funchal in August ; and it has been captured 

 by the Rev. R. T. Lowe at Sao Vincente, later in the season. 



211. Anobium pauiceum. 



A. subcylindrico-ovale rufescenti-brunneum vel ferrugineum et pubescens, prothorace fequo et granulis 

 minutissimis subremotis obsito, aiitice producto necnon postice sinuato, elytris leviter subcrenato- 

 striatis, interstitiis minutissime seriatim punctulatis et subtilissime subrugulosis, antennis pedi- 

 busque vix pallidioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1-1|. 



Dermestes paniceum, Lirm. Fna Suec. 431 (1761). 

 Anohiiim paniceim, Oliv. Ent. ii. 16. 10 (1790). 



, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 237 (1792). 



, GyH. Ins. Suec. i. 293 (1808). 



, Stepli. III. Brit. Ent. iii. 340 (1830). 



Habitat circa domos Maderse, prsesertim in pane diutius asservato, ex Europ^ certe introductum : in 

 domo amici cl. A. Ross, M.D., in ipsa urbe Funchalensi sita, Januario ineunte a.d. 1848 

 copiosissime observavi. 



A. subcylindrical-oval (being smaller and proportionably shorter than the A, velatum), varying from 

 reddish-brown into pale ferruginous, and densely clothed with short and nearly decumbent pile. 

 Prothorax beset with rather distant and exceedingly minute granules ; short and rather wide, a 

 little produced and rounded in front, and slightly sinuated along its hinder margin, — the central 

 portion being somewhat produced backwards in front of the scutellum ; without any appearance 

 of nodules, — though with an abbreviated, glabrous, and very obscurely raised central keel behind. 

 Elytra finely crenate- (scarcely punctate-) striated ; and with the interstices perfectly flat, most 

 delicately rugulose, and with a longitudinal series of exceedingly minute punctures down each. 

 Antenna and legs a little paler than the rest of the surface. 



Known from the other Anobia here described by its shorter and more oval 

 form, by its usually paler (or more ferruginous) hue, and by the sculpture of the 

 interstices of its (finely cre««^e-striated) elytra, — which are most delicately rugu- 

 lose, and have a longitudinal series of most minutely impressed points down each. 

 In the length and decumbency of its pubescence it is intermediate between the 



