46 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
132. Tarphius testudinalis. 
Tarphius testudinalis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 141 (1854). 
Inhabits the sylvan districts of Madeira proper, in the higher ele- 
vations. Rare. Although the tarsi of this species are simple in 
both sexes, attention might have been called, in the Insecta Made- 
rensia, to the fact, that the feet and claws are shorter, slenderer, and 
less curved in the male sex than in the female. 
133. Tarphius sculptipennis, n. sp. 
T. subquadrato-ovatus subnitidus fusco-piceus, prothorace latiusculo 
ad latera subeequaliter rotundato, granulis obtusis obsito et leviter 
canaliculato, elytris concoloribus subzequalibus, profunde seriatim 
punctatis, sutura leviore, interstitus alternis vix elevatis nodos 
vix formantibus. 
Long. corp. lin. 1}. 
T.. squarish-ovate (being much of the same form as the 7’. compactus), 
light brownish-piceous (or almost ferruginous), slightly shining, 
and a great deal incrusted with scales,—though apparently almost 
free from sete. Head and prothorax beset with close and obtuse 
granules: the latter lightly channeled, large and wide, dilated 
about the middle, and almost equally rounded at the sides. Elytra 
concolorous, and comparatively free from inequalities, deeply and 
regularly seriate-punctate (being scarcely at all transversely 
wrinkled, and with the punctures exceedingly large and well 
defined) ; the suture brighter and flatter than the rest of the sur- 
face; the alternate interstices but very slightly raised, and forming 
therefore but small nodules in the usual positions (at any rate in 
the sex from which the above description has been compiled). 
Limbs pale rufo-ferruginous. 
The present well-marked Tarphius, though possessing the general 
outline of the 7’. compactus, 1s more nearly akin to the 7. testudi- 
nalis than to any other of the species here enumerated. It may, 
however, be at once known from that insect by its very much smaller 
size, and by its more even and regularly punctured elytra,—which 
are not only free from the greatly-developed elevations and inequa- 
lities which are there so conspicuous, but have their immense punc- 
tures even better defined (although perhaps not quite so large) and 
more regular: the brightness and breadth moreover of the sutural 
space, or line, will serve additionally to characterize it. Two 
examples (both, I believe, males) were detected by myself in the 
north of Madeira proper, during the summer of 1855,—one at the 
Lombo dos Pecegueiros, and the other from off the rocks at the base 
of the perpendicular mountains immediately above the Forno de Cal. 
