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and the hinder one very narrowly so ; the anterior angles rather obtuse ; without any appearance 

 of a dorsal channel ; and with its surface more or less unequally rufescent, or diluted, in parts, 

 — the extreme fore-margin, a patch in front of the scutellum, and a larger (transverse) one 

 towards the anterior angles being the positions which it is the tendency of the paler por- 

 tions to occupy. Ehjtra punctulated like the prothorax, but a little more rugulose or uneven 

 (neither the punctures nor pubescence having any tendency to be disposed in rows) ; broadly, 

 though more or less obscurely, rufescent at their base (especially about the shoulders) and apex, 

 — the paler portions being generally interrupted along the suture, which in occasional (highly 

 coloured) specimens causes them to assume somewhat the appearance of four large patches. An- 

 tennce and legs pale ferruginous ; the former with their club a little dusky. 



A very interesting and most elegant Cls ; and one which may be known from 

 every other species with which I am acquainted by its large and elongated body, 

 which is less convex than is usually the case with the normal members of the 

 group, and by the more or less brightly rufescent patches with which its surface 

 is ornamented, — its entire general facies somewhat calling to mind, at first sight, 

 the Heteromerous genus Hypophlceus. It is widely distributed over the sylvan 

 districts of Madeira, between the limits of from 3000 to about 4500 feet above the 

 sea ; but does not appear to be very abundant, — although, from its gregarious 

 nature, here and there tolerably common. It is usually to be met with beneath 

 the loosely attached bark of felled timber or of decaying trees. I have captured 

 it, dm'ing the spring, in the region of the E-ibeu'o Frio ; and, in the su m mer, at 

 the Cruzinhas, the Lombo dos Pecegueiros, and the Fanal. 



215. Cis fascipes. 

 C. ovali-cylindricus fuscus subnitidus ruguloso-punctulatus et dense setuloso-pubescens, prothorace 

 transverso subconvexo, antice leviter producto necnon ad latera subrotundato marginato, elytris 

 vix pallidioribus, antennis pedibusque omnino testaceis. 

 Mas, capita leviter tuberculato. 

 Long. Corp. lin. l^-l^^- 



Cw/««c«>es,(Chevrolat)MelUe,^m8. JeZaSoc.^w<.&i?Va»ce(2'^™serie)vi.271.tab.2.fig.25(1848). 

 Habitat Maderam australem, inter lichenes in horto Loweano prope Funchal a meipso repertus. 



C. shorter and more oval (and likewise rather more convex and cylindrical) than the C. Wollastonii, 

 brown, a little shining, and clothed throughout with rather long, suberect and rigid setae of a 

 cinereous (or sometimes yellowish-cinereous) tinge. Head rounded and margined anteriorly, 

 with a transverse impression in front ; and slightly tubercled behind in the males. Prothorax 

 more transverse and convex than that of the last species (the sides being slightly rounded) ; 

 rather produced anteriorly (where it is a little paler than the rest of the surface) ; more rugosely 

 and deeply punctured than in the C. Wollastonii ; the lateral edges very broadly margined, but 

 the hinder one almost simple ; the anterior angles rather porrected and acute ; and with very 

 faint indications of a dorsal channel. Elytra punctured like the prothorax, but considerably 

 rugulose or uneven (both the punctures and pubescence having a tendency to be disposed in 

 rows) . Antenna and legs entu'ely pale testaceous. 



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