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brilliant surface, more quadrate prothorax, longer elytra, and more 
apparent strie,) that the name of glabratus applies; whilst the 
smaller (in which, moreover, as Dr. Schaum well observes, the tarsal 
claws are less powerfully denticulated) is the true maurus. It will 
be perceived, by a reference to the synonyms cited above, that the 
title of femoralis has the priority; nevertheless, since Marsham’s 
diagnosis was founded on an immature example of the present species, 
and is utterly worthless and undecipherable, it can scarcely be 
allowed to supersede that which was subsequently given,—accom- 
panied by a correct description, and from proper data. 
9. Dromius maurus. 
Dromius maurus (Meg.), Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, vii. 55. tab. 171. f. D 
(1827). 

, Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. i. 176 (1828). 
— angustatus et maurus, Steph., Man. 8 (1839). 
—— glabratus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 9 (1854). 
—— glabratus (p.), Davs., Geod. Brit. 13 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Dezerta Grande ; rather 
common, 
§ IL. Unguiculi simplices. (Gen. Lionychus, Schmidt-Geebel.) 
10. Dromius plagiatus. 
D. subeneo-ater, prothorace subcordato, elytris fere levibus, singulo 
plagé magna longitudinali pallida ornato, antennarum basi, tibiis 
tarsisque infuscato-testaccis. 
Long. corp. lin. vix 1}. 
Lebia plagiata (Meg.), Dufts., Fna Austr. 11, 249 (1812). 
Dromius plagiatus, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, vii. 49, tab. 170. f. D (1827). 
, Redt., Fna Austr. 76 (1849). 
—— — , Leon Fairm., Faun. Ent. Frang. ( Col.) 37 (1854). 


D. deep black, with a just perceptible testaceous or eneous tinge, 
shining. Head and prothorax as in the D. glabratus, except that 
the latter is alittle more cordate. Elytra most obsoletely striated, 
the striz being scarcely perceptible ; and ornamented on the disk 
of each witha large, pale, longitudinal dash. Antenne long, with 
the first and second joints of a bright rufo-testaceous, Z%bew and 
tarsi of a dull infuscated testaceous: the latter with the claws 
untoothed internally. 
Two specimens of the present very distinct little Dromius (which 
may be at once known by the pale longitudinal dash in the middle of 
each of its elytra, and by its simple claws) were detected by Mr. 
Bewicke in Porto Santo—one of them in a bone, and the other on 
the Campo de Baixo—during December of 1856. It is an inhabitant 
