59], INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Staphylinus angmtatm, Payk. Mon. Staph. Suec. 36 (1789). 



, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. ii. 528 (1792). 



Sunim angiistatus, Erich. Oen. et Spec. Staph. (540 (1839). 



-, , Heer, Fna Col. Heh. i. 229 (18 tl). 



Habitat in huniidiusculis graminosis Madera; Portusque Sancti, vel sub lapidibus, parum vulgaris. 



S. black. Head ?Lnd protkorax most closely and roughly punctured, and opake; the/on««- roundish 

 oblong and rather wide, with the palpi pale testaceous. Eli/Ira just perceptibly less opake than 

 the head and prothorax, and not quite so closely punctured ; each with their apex, and a small 

 hinder portion of the suture, testaceous. Abdomen rather more evidently shining, and less deeply 

 and more remotely punctured. AntenruB and legs pale testaceous. 



The black siu-face of the present common little European Sunius, — its limbs, 

 the hinder margin, and a small portion of the suture, of each of its elytra, being 

 alone pale, — will serve at once to distinguish it from everything else with which 

 we have here to do. It is tolerably abundant beneath stones in damp grassy spots 

 throughout the intermediate altitudes of Madeira and Porto Santo, — my specimens 

 (from the former) having been principally collected at Santa Anna and the Feijaa 

 de C6rte. On the Dezcrtas I have not hitherto detected it. It is universal in 

 Eiu-ope, and is recorded by M. Lucas in Algeria. 



465. Svuiius bimaciilatus. 

 S. angustissimus piceo-niger, capite oblongo, prothorace rutb-ferrugineo ad latera obscuriore, elytris 



brevibus testaceis, singulo macula media nigr^ ornato, abdominis segmentis ad apicem dilutiori- 



bus, antennis pedibusque paUido-testaceis. 

 Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Sunius bimaculatus, Erich. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 641 (1839). 



Habitat in locis inferioribus Maderae australis, rarissime : sub lapide ad Praya Formoza exemplar 

 unicum detexit el. Dom. Heer. 



S. exceedingly narrow and slender, black (or piceous-black). Head and prothorax closely and roughly 

 punctured, and opake ; the former oblong (being less rounded and a little narrower than that of 

 the S. angustatiis) , and with the palpi pale testaceous; the latter rufo-ferruginous, and sligluly 

 infuscated at the sides. Elytra rather more roughened, but a little less distinctly punctured, 

 than the head and prothorax, and almost as opake; short, and testaceous, — each being orna- 

 mented with a black patch in the centre. Abdomen with the hinder margin of each of its seg- 

 ments a little diluted, or piceo-testaceous. Antenna and legs pale testaceous. 



Although I have not been able to prociu-e a specimen for comparison, I have 

 but little doubt that the present very elegant Sunius is correctly identified with 

 the .S. bimaculatus of Erichson (a species discovered by Professor Gene in Sar-' 

 dinia), — with the description of which it accords precisely. Its admission into om* 

 fauna is due to the researches of Professor Ueer, who detected a single example 



