6 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
of Central and Southern Europe, being recorded in Germany and 
Austria; and it is stated in the Faune Entomologique Francaise to 
occur beneath the bark of olive-trees in the south of France. I 
possess an example from Montpelier. The structure of its claws 
would place it in the genus Lionychus of Schmidt-Geebel ; but in all 
other respects it is so essentially a Dromius, that I doubt whether 
that character can be regarded as of more than Sectional im- 
portance. The specimen in the British Museum was presented by 
Mr. Bewicke. 
(Subfam. IT. SCARITIDES.) 
Genus 3. SCARITES. 
Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 249 (1775). 
11. Scarites abbreviatus. 
Scarites abbreviatus (Kollar), Dej., Spee. des Col. i. 8379 (1825). 
), Woll., Ins. Mad. 11 (1854). 



Inhabits everyt island of the Madeiran Group, ranging from the 
sea-shore to the summits of the peaks. 
12. Scarites humeralis. 
Scarites humeralis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 12 (1854). 
Inhabits Porto Santo, in company with the preceding species,— 
being apparently, however, more especially abundant on the upper 
slopes of the Pico do Castello. 
Genus 4. APOTOMUS. 
(Hoffmansegg) Iliger, Mag. fiir Ins. vi. 348 (1807): 
13. Apotomus rufus. 
Scarites rufus, Rossi, Fna Etrus. i. 229. pl. 4. f. 3 (1790). 
Apotomus rufus, Hoffmansegg, Ill. Mag. fiir Ins. vi. 348 (1807). 
, Dej., Spee. des Col. i. 450 (1825). 
—— — , Woll., Ins, Mad. 14 (1854). 


Inhabits Madeira and Porto Santo, during the spring,—occurring 

t+ In the Appendix to the Insecta Maderensia 1 stated, that, not having 
myself visited the remote rock of the Southern Dezerta, I could not vouch per- 
sonally for the S. abbreviatus being found there,—though I had received speci- 
mens purporting to have come from thence. I am now able to state, from 
actual investigation, that it abounds on the Bugio as much as it does upon the 
other islands of the Group; and, moreover, that the form which it there 
assumes does not differ materially from that which obtains on the Dezerta 
Grande and the Ilheo Chao. 
