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various localities are barely separable from each other, it is safer, I 
think, to regard them all as referable to a common stock, and to 
attribute the scarcity of the male sex within the fir districts (if 
such be really the case) to some physical peculiarity of the spot (the 
character of which has become so completely altered since the de- 
struction of the native timber), than to run the risk of multiplying 
species unnecessarily in a somewhat difficult group. 
125. Tarphius sylvicola. 
Tarphius sylvicola, Woll., Ins. Mad. 137 (1854). 
Inhabits the sylvan districts in the north of Madeira proper. 
Exceedingly rare. 
126. Tarphius rotundatus. 
Tarphius rotundatus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 137 (1854). 
Inhabits the sylvan districts of Madeira ‘proper, being generally 
pretty abundant. 
127. Tarphius Lauri. 
Tarphius Lauri, Woll., Ins. Mad. 188. tab. iii. f. 4 (1854), 
Inhabits the sylvan districts of Madeira proper, being the most 
abundant of the genus. 
128. Tarphius formosus, n. sp. 
T. breviter ovatus setoso-variegatus opacus nigro-piceus, protho- 
race ad latera subsequaliter rotundato, granulis obsito, elytris 
rotundatis postice subito desilientibus sed ad apicem ipsum acumi- 
natis rugosis subnodosis, leete rufo-maculatis. 
Mas, tarsis longis gracilibus, unguiculis subrectis longissimis. 
Fem., paulo major, tarsis unguiculisque brevioribus et magis cur- 
vatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14-14. 
T. short, ovate, dull rusty-black, nearly opake, almost free from 
scales, but variegated with rather long, erect and rigid sete,— 
some of which are black, others of a yellowish-cinereous, and a 
small portion of a still paler hue. Head and prothorax rough, 
and beset with coarse granules (which are smaller, however, and 
much less flattened, than those of the 7. Lauri): the latter chan- 
neled, a good deal dilated about the middle, and almost equally 
rounded at the sides,—its widest portion, however, being narrower 
than the widest portion of the elytra. lytra somewhat ventri- 
cose and rounded, being suddenly shortened (or bent inwards) 
posteriorly, though with their extreme apex acuminated ; rough, 
the punctures and intermediate granuliform elevations being most 
