464 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



pale anterior margin of its protliorax being very broad and deeply trifurcate, and 

 l)y the extremely irregular, longitudinal, more or less confluent and greatly 

 (Milarged blotches of its el\i;ra. It appears to be somewhat scarce, or at any x*ate 

 local, and occurs during the summer months (principally in gardens), both in the 

 north and south of the island. I have taken it near Funchal in June, and at 

 Santa Anna and Sao Vincente in July, — especially on the leaves of a gigantic 

 JlibiscHS (in company wdth the Scymnus Durantce), to AAliich it seems to be parti- 

 cularly partial. I have retained the name which was proposed for it by the late 

 Dr. Hoinccken, whose specimens (communicated by the llev. R. T. Lowe, with the 

 original label still attached to them) I possess. 



356. Coccinella Genistse, Well. (Tab. X. fig. 5.) 



C. nigra fortius punctata, capitis maculis duabus, et prothoracis lateribus margineque antico (posticc 

 in medio integro, sed utrinque longissime et oblique producto), diluto-tiavis, elytris diluto-flavis, 

 sutura, macula sub-basali communi et lineis duabus longitudinalibus in singulo positis nigris 

 ornatis, tarsorum basi fusco-ferruginea. 



Long. corp. lin. Ij-l^ 



Habitat in montibus Maderse, rarissima : in campo cxcelso "Paul da Serra" dicto pauca specimina 

 supra plantas Genista scoparia ibidem crescentes d. 3 Jul. 1850 inveni, necnou ad Cruzmhas 

 atque prope cacumen mentis Ruivensis (SOOCy s. m.) banc Coccinellam sestate media observavi. 



C. small, black, and rather more distinctly punctulated than any of the other species. Head with a 

 triangular dash at the inner margin of each eye, and the prothorax with the sides and the front 

 margin (the latter of which is perfectly entire in the middle, having no tendency to be back- 

 wardly ])roduced, but is elongated on either side into an oblique narrow bar, — the two approxi- 

 mating behind the centre of the disk) pale diluted-ycllow. Eli/tra, likewise, of a pale diluted- 

 yellow, the suture, a small patch, common to both, behind the scutellum, and two longitudinal 

 lines on each (of which the inner one is abbreviated, especially in front), being black. Antenjice 

 (except their basal joint, which is black) pale ferruginous. Le</s slender and black, — the tarsi at 

 base being dull brownish-ferruginous. 



This elegant little siiecies, which is apparently the most truly indigenous, and' 

 constant in colouring, of all the Madeiran Coccinellce, may be at once recognised 

 from the remainder by its smaller size and slenderer legs, by its more distinctly 

 punctulated sm-face, and by the peculiarity of its markings, — the form of which 

 wUl be best understood by a reference to the Plate. It is exceedingly rare, and 

 confined to lofty altitvides, — where it occiu's, solely (so far as I have hitherto 

 observed), on the Genista scoparia, or common Broom, which clothes the uplaiuls 

 in many of the elevated districts of the island. I first detected it on the Paul da 

 Serra, July the 3rd, 1850 : and I subsequently met with it at the Cruzinhas ; as 

 also (dm-ing August) on the Enciuniado exactly opposite to the Pico Euivo (on the 

 descent from the latter towards Santa Anna), — about 0000 feet above the sea. 



