324 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



C. brown or reddish-brown, and more or less densely beset with a griseous pubescence. Prothorax 

 minute, and clouded, — having usually a triangular patch at its base (in front of the scutellum), 

 a small one on either side of its disk, and an ill-defined dash at its lateral edges, indistinctly 

 darker. Elytra punctate-striated; the alternate interstices with a line of slightly elevated 

 pubescence down each, composed of alternate fascicles of black and white scales ; and the suture 

 the same, only with the fascicles white and black, respectively (instead of black and white), — the 

 latter colour assuming three distinct dark patches, of which the intermediate one is much the 

 largest, and forms (in conjunction with the black tufts of the alternate ridges) somewhat of an 

 obscure post-medial fascia. AntenruE and legs pale-ferruginous; the former with their club 

 darker ; and the latter with their femora dusky in the middle. 



A tolerably common insect throughout central and southern Europe. In Ma- 

 deira it would appear to ])e scarce, or at any rate exceedingly local, and confined 

 to intermediate altitudes, — the only district in which I have hitherto observed it 

 being that of the Ribeiro Frio, where I have tAvice captured it, on a species of 

 Seroiihiilaria growing by the edges of the Levada, during the summer months. 



(Subf. 4. CRYPTORHYNCHIDES.) 

 Genus 115. CEUTORHYNCHUS. 



(Schuppel) Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth. 298 (1826). 



Corpus parvum, plus minusve ovato-quadratum sculpturatum et squamosum : rostra elougato arcuato 

 tereti intlexo, in canaliculam pcctoralem indeterminatam (inter coxas pedum anticorum dcsiiicn- 

 tem) arete applicando ; oculis rotundatis : proihorace brevi, anterius angustiore, longe infra apicem 

 coarctato, antice plerumque reflexo-elevato, supra plus minusve insequali et ssepissime utriuque 

 tuberculato : scutello minutissimo [vix observando) : eli/tris obtriangulari- (vel iuterdum sub- 

 rotundato-) quadratis, ad apicem abdomine brevioribus et siugulatim obtuse rotundatis: alis vel 

 amplis vel obsoletis. Antenna longiusculse graeiles, ante medium rostri insertse ; funiculo 7- 

 articulato, articulis tribus vel quatuor basalibus longiusculis (primo erassiore), reliquis brevioribus 

 subrotundatis ; . capitulo oblongo-ovali apice acuminato, quadri-annulato. Pedes sat robusti, 

 antici basi parum distantes : femoribus vel muticis, vel subtus deiiticulo acuto armatis : tibiis ad 

 apicem externum truncatis muticis ad internum nonnunquam (in maribus prjecipue) leviter 

 uncinatis. 



The immense genus Ceutorhynchus {=Nedyi(s, Schonherr in Utt., Stephens's 

 Illustrations of British Entomology, a.d. 1831) may be knoAvu by the short, sub- 

 qitackate bodies of the species which compose it, and which have theu" prothorax 

 more or less uneven or tuberculose, and narrow in front, theu- femora frccpieutly 

 fm-nishod with a minute spine beneath, theu" tilnit' always unarmed at the outer 

 apex, and their rostrum closely applied during repose against tlieir chest, — and 

 received into a groove (or channel) which is never abruptly terminated behind as 

 in Coeliodes, nor does it extend beyond the base of the coxte of the anterior pair 

 of legs. Although more or less distributed over the world, the Ceiitorhynchi, 



