386 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



indeed tlieii- antennae and tiljiio, they are remarkably well-defined, since, irrespect- 

 ively of their comparative robustness and diminished length, the former have the 

 basal joint of their funiculus much larger and broader than the second, and their 

 club very much rounder and more ovate than is the case with any of the preceding 

 forms ; whilst the latter have their extremity (either in all the legs or else in the 

 two hmder pair only) suddenly (and in one instance considerably) expanded, so as 

 to cause both angles to be not only somewhat acute, but siihequalhj prominent. 

 And if we look at tlieir secondary characters we shall not fail to discover other 

 features likewise, which (whilst of a less imjiortant nature in themselves), when 

 combined with those just mentioned, will additionally tend to render the isolation 

 of the species in question both natiu-al and convenient. Thus, in theu* excessively 

 small eyes and laterally-rounded prothorax, as well as in theii" very lightly striated 

 sm'faces and their rather shorter rostral groove, they would appear, scarcely less 

 evidently, to merit detaclmient from the remainder of the minute Cyclomides with 

 which we have here to do : and I think it far from improbable that they may in 

 reality constitute a portion of a little geographical assemblage indigenous (if not to 

 Porto Santo exclusively, at any rate) to the islands of the Madeii-an group. With 

 the exception of the lower elevation to wliich theu* range is confined, the Anemo- 

 j)hili, in their haljits, have a good deal in common mth the members of the last 

 genus, residing beneath stones in the most exposed and barren spots : nevertheless 

 they would appear also to harbour amongst lichen in the crevices of the rocks, — a 

 propensity which is never indicated, so far as I am aware, in any of the Omiades. 



§ I. Tibia ad apieem valde dilatatw, anticw ad angulum externum suh2)roduct<s : antennarum scapus leviter 



curvatus : scuteUum minutissimuvi punctifurme. 



295. Anemophilus crassus, WoU. (Tab. VII. fig. 7.) 



A. subrotundato-ovatus convexus fusco-niger vel fuscus, pube cuprescenti-cinerea subtLli depresssi 

 parce variegatus, prothorace ruguloso-subpunctato, elytris leviter punctato-substriatis, autennis 

 tarsisque fusco-ferrugineis, oculis minutissimis demissis. 



Long. Corp. lin. l^-lf . 



Habitat Portum Sanctum, sub lapidibus in rupium fissmis, necnon inter lichenes ibidem nascentes, 

 tempore biberno et vemali vulgaris : in asccnsu moutis Pico d'Anua Ferreira dicti abundat, qua 

 Dccembri mcnse a.d. 1848 copiosissime inveni. 



A. sbort, roundish-ovate and convex, brownish-black, or of an entirely rusty-brown hue, and rather 

 sparingly clothed with an excessively fine, decumbent, and somewhat ashy pubescence, — which, 

 when viewed obliquely, reflects more or less of a cojjpery tinge. Rostrum very short and thick ; 

 and considerably attenuated towards the apex : the eyes exceedingly small, and very much de- 

 pressed. Prothorax convex, with the sides regularly and considerably rounded, being widest 

 about the middle ; roughened, and obscurely punctulated. ScuteUum extremely minute, and 

 punctiform. Elytra convex, especially behind the middle, and rather suddenly shortened, or 



