340 INSECTA MADEREXSIA. 



place of the ridges and nodules more or less evident in the whole of its allies, — 

 and forming behind the middle a narrow arcuated band which bounds the anterior 

 edge of the pale subapical patch. Although in its want of a scutellum it recedes 

 from tlio species ^Yit'h which I have associated it, yet its general habits and contour 

 Ijcspoak such a far closer connection 'VA'ith the members of the second section than 

 with those of the first, that I have considered its present position to be the most 

 natm-al to it. It is confined to the moist sylvan districts of iatermediate eleva- 

 tions, and is apparently extremely rare. It is however widely distributed over 

 the island, and ocem's dm'iug the summer months. I have captured it on the 

 Loml)o das Vacas in June, at the Loml)o dos Pecegueu'os ia July, and in the region 

 of the llibeiro Frio in August. 



263. AcaUes lumilatus, Woll. 



A. oblongo-subovatus angustus, squamis nigi-o-brunneis variegatus ; prothorace transversim setuloso- 

 subtuberculato, ad apicem sub-bifasciculato-setuloso ; scutcllo valde distincto ; elytris punctato- 

 striatis, ad latera vix rotundatis, nodulis minutis setosis nigrescentibus (prresertim antice, medio, 

 et post medium) instructis, plaga lunulata communi postmedia, et fascia anteraedia obliqua 

 fracta, plus minusve distinctis, ornatis. 



Long, coi-p. lin. l^-l^- 



Habitat Maderam, in convallibus humidisque sylvaticis inter 2000' et 4000* s. m. sitis, rarissime. 



A. oblong-subovate and narrow, densely variegated with dark-brown scales. Rostrum of the males 

 less roughlv punctured than in any of the other s])ecies, and that of the females rather coarsely 

 sculptured at its base, — so that the sexes are not, at first sight, veiy easily separable. Prothorax 

 with scarcely any indications of a dorsal channel, and with two very small and subsctosc tubercles 

 across the central portion (the two lateral ones being almost obsolete) ; produced, and slightly 

 setose, at the apex, where however the seta; are scarcely disposed in fascicles. Scutellum large 

 and rounded, and covered with pale-brown scales. Elytra punctate-striated ; and with the sides 

 very slightly rounded ; with several minute, more or less distinct, and somewhat darker fasci- 

 culated nodules distributed, more or less evidently, in three transverse rows, the first of w^hich is 

 immediately behind the base, the second across the disk, and the third (where, as in the other 

 species, they are rather more distinct) behind the middle; with a transverse, extremely lunu- 

 lated, abbreviated, postmcdial patch, common to both (and bounded before and behind, especially 

 the former, by a darker portion of the sui-face), usually very distinctly, — and with the rudiments 

 before the outer disk of each of an oblique, broken, antemedial fascia more or less indistinctly, 

 paler (occasionally pure snowy-white) : also with the darker central portion gradually fading-oflf 

 towards the base into a paler brown. Antenna' and leys as in the preceding species, only of a 

 somewhat more ferruginous hue. 



■•d' 



A well-defined species, and distinguished by its narrow form, comparatixely 

 apparent scutoUuni, l)y its exceedingly lunulate postmcdial patch, its more or less 

 evident antemedial fascia, and by its nodules having a tendency to be arranged in 

 three transverse rows. Like the A. globuUpenms, it would seem to be peculiar to 



