INSECTA MADERENSIA. 397 



ruptis subcinereis obscure ornatis, antennis gracilibus ferrugineis, pedibiis valde robustis setosis, 

 tarsis ferrugineis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. l|-2. 



Habitat per regionem Maderae sylvaticam, sub lapidibus truncisque arborum prolapsis, pestate 

 rarissimum : ad Lombo dos Pecegueiros mense Julio, uecnou ad Feijaa de Corte Augusto ineunte, 

 A.D. 1850 parce collegi. 



E. ovate, piceous, and most densely clothed with robust brownish scales, and with extremely thick, 

 rigid and erect setse intermixed, — which are partly of a darker and partly of a paler colour than 

 the scales. Rostrum rather long and almost linear (though unequally thickened in depth behind 

 its apex). Prothorax tolerably elongated, and considerably narrower than the elytra; uneven, 

 and with the sides rather undulated ; a good deal produced, and rather acuminated, anteriorly ; 

 with four (more or less distinct) denser fascicles of setae transversely arranged across its central 

 portion, — the two inner ones of which are generally very apparent, though the outer ones are 

 often nearly obsolete. Ehjtra widest behind the middle and convex ; deeply subpunctate-striated, 

 and ^"ith the surface more or less uneven, — there being small fascicles of darker sette transversely 

 placed (and usually sufficiently apparent) immediately within the extreme base, and sometimes 

 indications of others a little behind the middle ; and with two transverse and somewhat oblique 

 fasciae (one of which is medial and the other postmedial, and both of them widely inten'upted 

 along the suture) of paler, or subcinereous scales, — which are occasionally however exceedingly 

 obscure. AntenncE slender, comparatively glabrous, and ferruginous. Legs extremely thick and 

 robust, and most densely beset with rigid setae, — except the tarsi, which are ferruginous and 

 merely pubescent. 



Apparently extremely rare, and confined to remote sylvan spots of intermediate 

 altitudes. It occurs beneath stones and logs of wood, in company with different 

 species of Acalles, — under which circumstances I took it sparingly, during July 

 1850, in the dense region of the Lombo dos Pecegueiros ; and also, in August of 

 the same year, at the Feijaa de C6rte. 



(Subf. 8. MOLYTIDES.) 

 Genus 130, HYPERA. 



Germar, Mag. der Ent..\\-. 335 (1821). 



Corpus mediocre vel sat parvum, plus minusve oblongo-ovatum vel oblongum, squamoso-variegatum 

 et pilosum : rostro parum elongato teretiusculo lineari subgracili, ad apicem iutegro, leviter 

 arcuato ; scrobe obliqua, infra medium oculi retrorsum ducta sed cum vix attingente ; oculis 

 ovatis demissis : prothorace ad latera saepius subaequaliter rotundato, antice subtrancato : scutello 

 plerumque minuto triangulari : ehjtris liberis : alis saepivis (ut in speciebus Maderensibus) sat 

 amplis (rarissime obsoletis). Antenna mediocrcs subgraciles, mox pone apicem rostri insertae; 

 scapo subrecto, ad apicem subito clavato ; funiculo 7-articulato, articulis primo et secundo elon- 

 gatis obconicis (illo robustiore), reliquis brevibus latitudine vix crescentibus ; clava, elongato- 

 ovali, quadriarticulata. Pedes longiusculi : femoribus clavatis : tibiis vel rectis vel obsoletissime 

 subcuiTatis, ad apicem fere muticis. 



