508 IXSECTA MADERENSIA. 



in whicli the word gigas is erased and gages substituted in its place. This 

 appears to have been understood and recognized by Fabricius, who quotes the 

 name of " gages^'' as Linna;an (which both the museum and maiutscv'qit do in fact 

 show it, in reality, to have been), — thus, very properly, making allowances for the 

 blunder ; and even identifying the insect with that of the Systema Naturce, though 

 it be there wiintentionally called "gigas." 



387. Blaps fatadica. 



B. atra crebre punctulata, labro fere integi-o, prothorace depresso subquadrato, elytris rugulosis sub- 



ovatis basi truncatis, antennis pedibusque brevioribus. 



Fam. ut in prsecedente, sed elytrorum apice minus producto. 



Long. Corp. lin. 9-12. 



Blaps fatadica, (Creutzer) Sturm, Beutsch. Fna, ii. 205. tab. 45. fig. a, h (1807). 



, Dufts. Fna Austr. ii. 282 (1812). 



oUusa, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. v. 23 (1832). 



fatadica, BruUe, in Webb et Berth. Rist. JVat. des Ties Canar. 68 (1839). 



Habitat Maderam et Portum Sanctum, in domibus, cellis, vel etiam in cavernis tufe (cum prjecedente) 

 per Oram maritimam, vulgaris. 



B. smaller, broader in proportion, and more ovate than the last species, deep black, and more coarsely 

 and closely punctulated. Lahrum almost entire in front. Prothorax more depressed than in the 

 B. gages, and nearly quadrate. Elytra somewhat more shining than the head and prothorax 

 (which are almost opake), rugulose, and with the faintest possible indications of strice ; the apex 

 of each scarcely at all produced in the males, but in the females (which, as in the B. gages, have 

 also a tuft of ferruginous hairs at the base of the second segment of the abdomen beneath) very 

 distinctly so, — the points however not diverging as in the last species. Antenna and legs much 

 shorter than those of the B. gages ; the apex of the former vei-y obscurely fuscesceut. 



The commoner of the two species in the Madeu-a Islands ; and extremely 

 abundant throughout the whole of Europe, the north of ^yrica, and in the Cana- 

 rian group. It is very plentiful in damp outhouses, cellars, and staldes near 

 Funchal ; nevertheless it is occasionally to be found (like the B. gages) in basaltic 

 caverns, or beneath stones, on the sea-shore. I have observed it Hkewise, plenti- 

 fully, in Porto Santo. 



Fam. 49. TENTYRIAL^. 



Genus 174. HEGETER. (Tab. XI. fig. 7.) 



LatreiUe, His/. Xat. des Crust, et Ins. iii. 172 (1802.) 



Corpus magnum, plus minusve elongato-subovatum : /ron/e (XI. 7 a) ad latera leviter elevate, ad 

 apiccm producta rotundata : jugulo subtus in parte media inipresso : prothorace plus minusve 



