590 IXSECTA MADERENSIA. 



tured, — the punctures being large, but not vei-y deep ; with the eyes minute. Prothorax rather 

 narrowed behind ; much more finely (but not quite so closely) punctured as the head, and with a 

 central glabrous line (which is a little elevated posteriorly). Elytra about as finely punctulated 

 as the prothorax, and occasionally a little darkened, or infuscated, in parts. Abdomen of an 

 obscurer hue than the prothorax and elytra. Antenna, palpi and legs pale ferruginous, — the 

 frsf being a little obscured. 



A very distinct species*, readily known by its bright rufo-ferruginous hue, by 

 its large, subquadi-ate, densely and rugosely punctured, and dark-piceous bead, by 

 its exceedingly small eyes, and by its somewhat posteriorly-narrowed prothorax. 

 It is a truly indigenous insect in Madeii-a, l)ut apparently extremely rare, — and 

 confined, so far as I have hitherto observed, to the north of the island. I have 

 taken it, dm-ing May, from beneath leaves at the edges of a small stream at Santa 

 Anna, leading from the Quinta of Senhor Louiz Acciaioly down to the sea ; and I 

 also captured it, in a precisely similar position, on the 20th of June 1850, at the 

 sides of the fii-st large waterfall which finds its way across the beach (from the 

 lofty ravines above) on the coast-road from Sao Yincente to Scisal. It occurs, 

 though not very abundantly, throughout central Europe, being recorded in France, 

 Germany, Smtzerland and Austria ; and I have occasionally met with it in 

 England. 



461. Lithocharis ochracea. 

 Ij. infuscato-ferruginea subnitida, capite triangulari-subquadrato nigro dense et subtilissime punctu- 



lato, oculis majoribus, prothorace subtiliter punctulato quadrato, abdomine obscuriore, antennis 



pallido-ferrugineis, pedibus testaceis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 2. 



Pmderus ochraceus, Grav. Col. Micropt. 59 (1802). 

 Lithoeliaris ochracea, Erich. Oen. et Spec. Staph. 623 (1829). 



, Heer. Fna Col. Helv. i. 236 (1841). 



, Kc'dt. Fna Austr. 718 (1819). 



Habitat IMaderam australem, rarior : in hortis prope Funchal duo specimina per aerem volitantia 

 depreheusi. 



Ij. brownish-ferruginous (being usually more infuscated and less rufous than the last species), slightly 

 shining, and rather densely clothed with a minute, decumbent, griseous, and somewhat sericeous 

 pubescence. Head rather smaller and shorter than that of the L.fuscula (being more triangular), 

 and also darker (being apparently quite black) ; likewise (although densely) very much more 

 finely punctulated than in that insect, — the punctures being exceedingly minute ; and with the 



* The L.fuscitla is very nearly akin to the L. hrunnea of Erichson, from which however it differs in 

 its rather smaller and generally darker head, in the clearer colour of its prothorax .ind elytra (the latter 

 of which are longer and more closely pimetulated than is the ease in that insect), .and in the somewhat 

 denser pubescence of its entire surface. 



