5.68 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



local ; occui-ring beneath logs of wood, during the summer months, in the damp 

 ravines and on the densely clothed mountain-slopes. Although found through- 

 out most of the central districts, I have taken it more abundantly at the Feijaa 

 de C6rte than in any other position, — where in August of 1850 it was compara- 

 tively common. In the M-iuter it would appear to be far rarer ; nevertheless I 

 have observed it at the Ribeiro Frio, occasionally, in the early spring. 



441. Tachyponis bnmneus. 



T, nifo-testaceus subdepressus, capite, prothoracis disco, pectore abdomineque plus minusve pices- 

 centibus, antennis pedibusque testaceis. 

 Variat (forsan immaturus) colore omnino testaceo. 

 Lonp:. Corp. lin. l{-li. 



Oxyporus hrunneus, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. ii. 533 (1792). 

 Staphylinus nitidulus, Oliv. Ent. 42. 34 (1795). 

 Tacliyporus nitidulus, Grrav. Col. Micropt. 12G (1802). 

 hrunneus, Erich. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 241 (1839). 



Haltilat hinc inde iu graminosis Madera; Portusque Sancti, sat vulgaris. 



T. smaller, more depressed, and narrower than the last species, rufo-testaceous. Head and prothorax 

 veiy highly pobshed ; the former, and the disk of the latter, more or less darkly picescent. 

 Elytra closely and perceptibly puuctulatcd, pubescent, and more or less dusky about the region 

 of the scutellum. Abdomen generally piceous, with the hinder margins of the segments diluted 

 in colouring. Antenna and leys testaceous. 

 OA.s. occasionally altogether testaceous (perhaps the result of immaturity). 



Widely distributed over Madeu-a (though nowhere very abundant) below the 

 altitude of about 5000 feet. My specimens are principally from the neighbour- 

 hood of Funchal, Santa Anna, and the Feijaa de C6rte ; but there is scarcely a 

 locality, in Avhich I have collected, where I have not observed it to exist. It 

 occurs likewise in Porto Santo. It is an insect of extensive geographical range, — 

 not only inhabiting nearly every country of Eui-ope, but having been taken by 

 Professor Ehrenberg in Egyi^t, and by Zimmerman in North America. 



Geniis 193. HABROCERUS. 

 Eriehson, Kdf. der Mark Brand, i. 400 (1839). 



Corpus fere ut in Tachyporo ; capite prot/wraceqnc glaberrimis poiitissimis (hoc amplo, posticc lato 

 clytris arete applicato) : elytris glabris, ad angulum exteriorem posticum oblique truncatis : alts 

 amplis: abdomine marginato, apicem versus attenuato. Antennte valde anomahx, fere ut in 

 Trichoi)hya, capillarcs, articulis primo et sccundo robustis, rcliquis tenuissiniis nodosis verticillato- 

 pilosciiis (ultimo elliptico leviter iuflato). Instrumenta cibaria fere ut in Tachyporo, sed pat- 

 porum maMillarium articulus ultimus multo longior conicus acuminatus (nee subulatus), et ligula 



