308 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



at the sides, and their antennae are for the most part a little slenderer. In the 

 tjqiical species moreover the second articulation of the funiciilus is some^^•hat 

 longer than is the case with the Blnjncoli : nevertheless in the only Madeii-an 

 representative which has been hitherto obsen-ed, this distinction does not appear 

 to hold good, since there the basal joint only is enlarged, as in R/ii/ncolus. 



233. Phlceophagus sulcipennis, Woll. 



P. subcylindrico-ovatus postice convexus, niger, prothorace profundius et subremote punctate 

 utrinque minus ampliato, elytris cinereo-setulosis profunda sulcato-punctatis, antennis pedi- 

 busque piceis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1^-1|^. 



Habitat Maderam rarissime : duo specimina, a Dora. Heinecken olim capta et mihi a Rev''" Dom. Lowe 

 benigne communicata, sola vidi. 



P. subcylindrical-ovatc and convex, especially behind, blacic. Rostrum longer, narrower, and some- 

 what more curved than in the Rhyncolus tenax, and not keeled in the centre. Prothorax very 

 deeply punctured, the punctures being large and less numerous than in the last insect, broadest 

 about the middle (where however it is distinctly narrower than the elytra), the sides being 

 almost equally and uniformly rounded. Elytra subovate, deeply sulcate-punctate, and clothed 

 with a rigid and almost erect cinereous pubescence. Antennee and legs piceous. 



The present FhlccojjhagKs is somewhat allied to the spadix of Herljst, though 

 with its sculpture deeper and closer, and its rostrum shorter than in that species. 

 It is apparently rare, being one of the few Coleopterous insects, hitherto observed, 

 which I failed in detecting during my repeated reseai-ches in the ^Madeira Islands. 

 The only two specimens that have come beneath my notice were presented to me 

 l)y the Rev. 11. T. Lowe from the collection of the late Dr. Heinecken, by whom 

 they were captured, many years ago, near Eimchal. 



Genus 109. CAULOTRUPIS, iVoU. (Tab. VI. fig. 6, 7, 8 et 9.) 



Corpus par^imi, plus minusve subcyliudrico- vel fusiformi-ovatum, minus sculjituratiun, srlabrum : 

 rostro (VI. 9fl), in maribus saltem, longiusculo (rarius bi-evi crasso) subarcuato detlexo; oculis 

 parvis subrotundatis : prothorace ad latera rotundato (rare conico) : scutello minutissimo, vLx 

 observando : elytris subovatis vel subfusiformibus basi truncatis, subconnatis : alls obsoletis. 

 Antenna; (VL 9 b) breviusculfc crassiusculfc, in medio rostri insertw ; funicido 7-articulato, 

 articulo priuio majore, secundo primi lougitudiue sed graeiUore, reliquis brcvioribus traus\ersis 

 latitudine paulatim vix crescentibus, ultimo clavse haud arete adpresso ; capitido solido subovato, 

 obscurissime quadri-annulato (annulis vix distiuguendis) . Pedes (VL 9 c) fere ut in Rhyncolo 

 et I'hloeophago, sod unffuiculis minoribus. 



A Kav\6<; caulis, et Tpmrdo) foro. (Typus — Caulotnipis lucifugus.) 



The small assemblage of insects for the reception of which the present genus is 



