282 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



A species which recedes in no respect from the ordinary generic type of more 

 northern latitudes. It may be distinguished from its only allies ■ndth which we 

 are here concerned, by the brown hue and setose surface of its more parallel and 

 cylindrical body, by the somewhat porrected anterior angles of its prothorax, and 

 by its entu'ely pale limbs. I am not altogether satisfied that it is truly indi- 

 genous to the Madehan group, the only specimens which I have hitherto seen 

 having been captui-ed by myself close to Funchal, in the garden of the E,ev. 

 R. T. Lowe at the Levada (a spot in which I once however observed it in abun- 

 dance), — from amongst lichen and fungi on the decayed stump of an old peach- 

 tree. On several occasions I have detected it either in or near the same locality : 

 — but, as it has been recorded by M. !MeUi6, in Ms exceUent Monograph of these 

 immediate genera, as American, it is possible that it may have been accidentally 

 imported into the island, and thus become established in the vicinity of the toAvn. 



216. Cis Lauri, Woll (Tab. Y. fig. 7.) 



C. ovato-subcylindricus curtus fusco-piceus opacus leviter punctulatus ct dense pubescens, prothorace 

 amplo convexo, antice valde producto necnon ad latera rotundato et angustissime marginato, 

 elytris (prxsertim postice) valde convexis, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, illarum clava infuscata- 

 Mas, capite leviter tuberculato, prothorace antice sub-bidentato. 

 Long. Corp. lin. ^-1. 



Habitat per partem Maderae sylvaticam, sub cortice arbonmi vcl in fungis, ubique vulgatissimus. 



C. short and minute (being more ovate than either of the preceding species), a little truncated behind 

 and exceedingly convex, dull brown ish-piceous or reddish-brown, opake, and clothed with a rather 

 fine and suberect pile of a somewhat cinereous hue. Head rather small, rounded and margined 

 anteriorly, with a faint transverse impression in front ; and, apparently, slightly tubercled behind 

 in the males. Prothorax large and extremely convex (the sides being rounded) ; the anterior 

 portion very much produced over the head (where it is generally a little paler than the rest of the 

 surface), and divided in the males into two small rounded prominences or obscure teeth ; very 

 finely, uniformly, but not very closely punctured ; the lateral and hinder edges most narrowly 

 margined ; both the anterior and posterior angles much rounded off; and ijithout any appear- 

 ance of a dorsal channel, — though faint indications of a line may be sometimes traced by the 

 absence of punctures along a uan-ow central portion. Elytra rather more deeply punctured than 

 the prothorax (neither the punctures nor pubescence having any tendency to be arranged in 

 rows). Antenna and legs pale ferruginous; the former with their club a little dusky. 



A tndy indigenous Uttlc Cis*, — recedmg in its minute size, somewhat ovate, 

 thickened, exceedingly convex, and posteriorly-subtruncated form, in its opake 

 and finely punctulated siu-face, and in its largely developed prothorax (the angles 

 of which are very much rounded off, whilst the anterior portion is produced into a 



* I ought perhaps to state that I forwarded specimens of this CU for comparison to 'M. JleUie, of 

 Paris, immediately after the publication of his elaborate Monograph, -who pronounced them to be 

 unquestionably new. 



