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ever to be extremely rare, since I only secured eight specimens 
during an encampment of ten days upon the spot ; and amongst the 
vast material lately submitted to me by Mr. Mason, collected in all 
parts of the island, I have merely discovered a pair,—obtained, I 
imagine (judging from the species with which it is associated), from 
the same district as my own. 
Genus 7. NOTIOPHILUS. 
Dumeril, Consid. gén. sur les Ins. 169 (1823). 
16. Notiophilus geminatus. 
Notiophilus geminatus, Dej., Spec. des Col. v. 589 (1831). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 17 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira and the two southern Dezertas, occurring (spa- 
ringly) at intermediate elevations. It is found also in the Canarian 
Group. 


(Subfam. TV. HARPALIDES.) 
(Div. 1. CHLASNIIDEA.) 
Genus 8. ELLIPTOSOMA. 
Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 18. tab. 1. f. 2 (1854). 
Although I recorded my conviction, in 1854, that the present 
genus might prove eventually to be distinct from Loricera proper, it 
is not until now that I have ventured to separate it therefrom ; and 
I have been induced to do so, mainly, through the strongly ex- 
pressed opinion of my friend Dr. Schaum of Berlin, who for some 
time past has been paying great attention to the structural details of 
the Geodephaga, and who has communicated to me his reasons for 
regarding the Madeiran insect as generically dissimilar from the 
European one. “ZL. Wollastonii,” says he, “is a very distinct 
genus (Ei/liptosoma). The Loricere form a cluster of little groups 
like those around Omophron, having a number of peculiarities which 
occur nowhere else. The insertion of the antenne is one of the 
principal characters ; others are, the organization of the jaws, of the 
maxill, the epimera of the mesothorax, touching the coxe, &e. In 
Loricera proper the epimera of the metathorax are indistinct, being 
connate with the episterna (a rare exception amongst the Carabide 
with emarginated tibie), whereas in Hlliptosoma they are distinct.” 
I call especial attention to this latter fact, observed by Dr. Schaum, 
because it was overlooked by myself in the Jnsecta Maderensia. The 
