310 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



captured by myself, during the autumn of IS^T, on the exposed grassy eminence 

 to the eastward of Funchal (along the Caniso road), immediately before arriving at 

 the Cabo Gerajao or Brazen Head. 



Genus 111. STENOTIS, WoU. (Tab. YI. fig. 5.) 



Corpus parvum, angusto-lineare, depressum : fronte amplo integro : rosiro longissimo tereti (ad anten- 

 nanim insertionem haud ampliato) subporrecto : oculis mediocribus rotundatis : prothorace 

 anterius acumiiiato, apice coarctato, basi recte truncato : scutello distincto lajvi subrotundato : 

 eli/tris elongatis parallclis pubcscentibus, basi recte truncatis : alts parvis. Antenna (VI. 5 a) 

 niediocres subgraciles, pone medium rostri (in utroque sexu nisi fallor) insertse ; funiculo 7-arti- 

 culato, articulis primo et secundo turbinatis, illo paulo crassiore, reliquis brevioribus transversis 

 paulatim latitudiue leviter cresccntibus, ultimo clavte haud arete adpresso ; capitulo solido sub- 

 ovato, apicem versus obscurissime annulate. Pedes validiusculi, antici paulo longiores basi parum 

 distantes ; femoribus clavatis subcompressis muticis : HMis subrectis, ad apicem externum in 

 uncum magnum acutum deflerum productis : tarsis articulo antepenultimo valde bilobo, ultimo 

 clavato unr/uiculis parvis munito. 



A aTevoTi)^ angustia. 



The genus Stenotic may be readily distinguished from Mesites by the minute 

 and extremely narrow body of the singular little insect for the reception of which 

 it has been erected, by its more pubescent surface, longer and unchannelled 

 forehead, by the straightly truncated basal margins of its elytra and of its (ante- 

 riorly acuminated) prothorax, and by its antennae being, in both sexes (unless 

 indeed the only two specimens which have come beneath my observation are, as I 

 do not l)elievc to be the case, females), inserted behind the middle of its (more por- 

 reetod and slenderer) rostrum : wliilst, amongst its obscurer characteristics, its less 

 hardened outer envelope, its slightly more approximated front legs, and the largely 

 developed lobes of the antepenultimate joiut of all its tarsi should be especially 

 noticed. In its external aspect it is somewhat more exotic than the generality of 

 the Madeiran Coleoptera, calling to mind such groups as Catolethnts and Por- 

 thetes, — from America and Southern Africa. With the former indeed it possesses 

 a good deal in common ; and it cannot but be regarded as altogether one of the 

 most interesting forms which these islands have produced. 



242. Stenotis acicula, WoU. (Tab. VI. fig. 5.) 

 S. angustissimo-linearis testacea depressa, prothorace obsolete punctate, elytris leviter punctato- 



striatis pubesccntibus, pedibus vLx pallidioribus. 

 Long. corp. lin. 2. 



Habitat Maderam borcalcm sylvaticam rarissimc, a mcipso ad Lombo dos Pecegueiros, haud procul a 

 llibeira de Jouo Delgada, 23 Jul. a.d. 1850 deprehensa. 



S. extremely narrow and linear, depressed, pale testaceous, and almost opake. Head and prothorax 



