38 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
Fam. 10. NITIDULIDZE. 
Genus 44. CARPOPHILUS. 
(Leach) Steph., Z//. Brit. Ent. iii. 50 (1830). 
107. Carpophilus mutilatus**. 
Nitidula hemiptera, Fab. [nec Linn. 1767], Ent. Syst. i. 261 (1792). 
Carpophilus mutilatus, (/offm.) Erich., Germ. Zeitsch. fiir die Ent. 1. 
258 (1843). 
— ——, —— Woll., Ins. Mad. 116 (1854). 
TInhabits the warehouses and stores of Madeira proper, occurring 
in and around Funchal,—especially in dried fruits and sugar. In- 
troduced. 
108. Carpophilus auropilosus**. 
Carpophilus auropilosus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 117 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring in similar places as the last. 
It has been taken by Mr. Bewicke (by whom the specimen in the 
British Museum collection was presented) in sugar, and by Mr. Mason 
in arrowroot. The description of this species, in the Jnsecta Ma- 
derensia, having been drawn up from a single example, one or two 
characters, to which attention should have been called, were not 
sufficiently noticed. It may be well to mention, therefore, that it is 
narrower and more oblong than the C. mutilatus, and that its abdo- 
men is more produced (or lengthened-out) behind. There are like- 
wise obscure indications of an oblique and much-suffused rufescent 
dash, reaching from the shoulder to the disk of each elytron,— 
which in some cases however would appear to be merely traceable 
about the humeral region, and in others (as, for instance, the speci- 
men which I originally described) to be altogether evanescent. 
109. Carpophilus hemipterus**. 
Dermestes hemipterus, Zinn., Syst. Nat. ii. 567 (1767). 
Nitidula bimaculata, Ohv., Ent. ii. 12. 6 (1790). 
Carpophilus hemipterus, Hrich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 185 (1848). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 117 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring (in and around Funchal) in 
similar spots as the two preceding species,—and being, like them, 
evidently introduced. It is found also in the Canary Islands. 


Genus 45. NITIDULA. 
Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 77 (1775). 
