53G INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Notoxus hispidus, Eossi, Mant. i. 46 (1792). 



licohr, Oliv. Ent. m. 51. 3 (1795). 



hirteUiis, Fab. Unf. Si/st. %;/)/. 67 (1798). 



Anthicus hiipidus, Schmidt, in Stett. Ent. Zeit. iii. 132 (1842). 

 , La Ferte, Mon. des Anth. 209 (1848). 



Habitat sub lapidibus in niontibus Madera;, rarissimus. 



A. black, shining, deeply but not very closely punctured, and clothed with exceedingly long and erect 

 paler flexible hairs. Head rather larger in proportion than that of the A. imtabilis, and a little 

 more truncated (or suddenly shortened) behind ; but with the eyes not quite so prominent. Pro- 

 thorax short and convex ; and more or less rufescent, especially posteriorly. Elytra with a broad 

 well-defined transverse fascia (common to both), just behind their extreme base, testaceous; and 

 occasionally with their apex obscurely rufescent. Antenna, tibia and tarsi testaceous, or pale 

 diluted ferruginous ; femora at base ferruginous, at apex piceous. 



Also very scarce. I have seen but two Madeiran specimens, — both of which 

 were captured by myself frorii under stones on the mountains above Funchal, 

 immediately below the base of the Pico da Silva (at an altitude of about 3000 feet 

 above the sea). It is found throughout central and southern Europe ; and, like 

 tlie J. instobiUs, is more especially abundant in Mediterranean latitudes, — Greece, 

 Asia Minor, Syria and Georgia being amongst its recorded couutries. In England 

 it does not appear to exist ; and is rare in northern Em-ope, although reported to 

 have occurred both in Sweden and Germany. 



407. Anthicus tristis. 

 A. niger subopacus leviter sed confertissime punctulatus et cinereo-pubescens, capite magno, antennis, 

 tibiis tarsisque infuscato-ferrugineis. 

 Var. /3. elytro singulo macula humerali obscurissima fuscescente ornato, antennis, tibiis tarsistpie 

 srepius infuscato-testaceis. 

 Long. corp. lin. Ij-lf. 



Anthicus fenesfratus, Dej. Cat. (nee Schmidt) 238 (1837). 



tristis (var.), Schmidt, in Stett. Ent. Zeit. iii. 172 (1842). 



(vars. /3. et y.), La Fert^, Mon. d^s Anth. 196, 197 (1848). 



Habitat sub lapidibus in niontibus superioribus Madera;, a 3000' s. m. usque ad cacumina ascendens, 

 autumno copiosissimus. 



A. t)lack, less shining than any of the other species, exceedingly closely and very finely punctulated, 

 and more or less densely clothed (especially on the elytra) with a fine, decumbent, silken, 

 cinereous pubescence. Head larger than in any of the foregoing species, and round, with a 

 glabrous longitudinal line down the centre; and with the eyes small and very slightly prominent. 

 Prothora.r rather longer, proportionably, than in the A. hispidus, and not so convex. Antenna, 

 tibice and tarsi ferruginous, and more or less infuscated in parts ; femora at base ferruginous, at 

 apex piceous. 



