540 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Scydmanvs Helferi, Schaiun (" var. minor, ^ ' test. Dom. Sehaum) , Anal. Ent. (^Dissert, inaug.) 7 (1841) . 

 , Lucas, Col. de VAIgerie, 131 (1849). 



Habitat sub lapidibus Maderje australis, prsesertim iu graminosis maritimis prope Cabo Gerajao, 

 autunino non infrcquens ; necnon ad Rib. de Joao Gomez mense Februario nuper deprehensit 

 cl. Doiu. Hear. 



S. ovate, piccous, exceedingly sbining, and rather sparingly clothed with long cinereous, or somewhat 

 yellowish, pubescence. Head and prothorax almost impunctate ; the latter constricted and 

 foveolatcd behind. Elytra with rather large, but remote, punctures. Antenna and leys pale 

 ferruginous. 



Not very common ; occurring principally in the vicinity of Funchal, and dm-ing 

 the autumnal months. I have taken it more abundantlv to the eastward of the 

 town than elsewhere, especially in exposed grassy spots to the right of the Caniso 

 road towards the Calio Gerajao, or Brazen Head, — where it is found, in company 

 with the AnthicHs instahiUs and Holoparamecus n'lger, beneath stones, generally 

 in the neighbom-hood of Ants' nests. It is peculiar to Mediterranean latitudes, 

 being recorded in the north of Africa and in Sicily. I have not been able to pro- 

 cure typical specimens of the S. Helferi for comparison, but I am informed by 

 Dr. Sehaum of Berlin that the Madeu-an species (my o^\ti examples of which he 

 has carefully examined) diifers in no respect from the Sicilian one, except that it 

 is a little smaller : I have therefore without hesitation referred it to that insect. 



Fain. 56. STAPHYLINID^. 



(Subf. 1. ALEOCHARIDES.) 

 Genus 183. FALAGRIA. 



(Leach) Mannerheim, Bracliel. 86 (1831). 



Corpus minutum, subconvexum : capite exserto subrotundato, basi truucato pedunculate : prothorace 

 subcordato, postice attcnuato : alis amplis : ahdumine marginato lincari. Antenna ad oculorum 

 marginem internum insertse, capitis prothoracisque longitudine, apieem versus sensim incrassatae, 

 articulis tribus baseos reliquis paulo longioribus. Labi'um transversum, antice va. emarginatum. 

 Mandihulce par\a; acutaj muticaj. MaxilUe bilobaj : lobu cxtcrno apice pubescente : interna huic 

 paulo breviore, ad apieem internum oblique emarginato, per sinum spinulis brevibus ciliato. 

 Palpi maxillares elongati, articulo primo minuto, secundo et tertio elongatis longitudine sub- 

 sequalibus (hoc apice valde clavato), ultimo parvo subulato : labiates articulo primo magno sub- 

 cylindrico, secundo breviore, ultimo huic paulo longiore apice subclavato. Mentum ampluin 

 transversum, apice leviter emarginatum. Liyula augustata, apice profunde bifida ; paraglossis 

 ])arvis acuminatis, intus ciliatis. Pedes longiusculi, graciles : tarsis anticis 4-, pusterioribus 

 5-articulatis ; posticis articulo primo elongato. 



The minute genus J'rtZw^/ria maybe easily distinguished by its convex subcordate 



