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and densely clothed with a short, fine, depressed pubescence. 
Head and prothoraw more deeply, and not quite so closely, punc- 
tured as in the other species here described: the /atter rather 
large and wide, scarcely more narrowed behind than in front, and 
with its sides almost equally (though but slightly) rounded ; with 
the front plait not much developed ; and the lateral denticle small, 
and situated before the middle. Elytra finely punctulated, and 
with the sides a trifle more rounded than in the other Madeiran 
species (except the Mitidulotdes). Legs concolorous with the rest 
of the surface: antenne a shade darker, 
The two specimens from which the above diagnosis has been com- 
piled were captured by Mr. Bewicke near Funchal. They appear to 
agree with the European C. saginatus, except that they are a trifle 
darker than the ordinary English examples of that species, and that 
their head and prothorax are rather more coarsely punctured. The 
individual in the British Museum was presented by Mr. Bewicke. 
161. Cryptophagus cellaris**. 
C. oblongus fusco-ferrugineus pube longiore subdepressa dense ves- 
titus, prothorace transverso basin versus angustato subrecto, angulis 
posticis acutiusculis, ad latera bidentato, dente anteriore prominulo, 
elytris seriatim pilosis. 
Long. corp. ln, 1-14. 
Dermestes cellaris, Scopol’, Ent. Carn. 16 (1763). 
Kryptophagus crenatus, Host, Kaf. iv. 177. tab. 42. f. 14 (1792). 
Cryptophagus , Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xvi.70. tab.313. f.D (1845), 
cellaris, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. i111. 861 (1848), 


©. oblong, brownish-ferruginous, and densely clothed with a long, 
subdepressed, griseous pubescence. Head and prothorax distinctly 
and closely punctured (the punctures, however, not being quite so 
deep as in either of the two following species): the latter rather 
short and transverse, narrowed behind, and with each of its sides 
nearly straight (though oblique) between the lateral denticle and 
the posterior angle,—which is, itself, rather acute; the projection 
(or shoulder-like plait) at the anterior angles more prominent and 
largely developed than in either the C. dentatus or affinis,—the 
space between it and the central tooth (which is very small, and 
nearly straight, or spine-shaped) being both longer and more 
scooped-out than in either of those insects. Hlytra with the 
pubescence denser than on the prothorax (giving them, from its 
colour, a rather paler appearance), and disposed in pretty evident 
longitudinal rows. Limbs brownish-ferruginous, the antenne, 
however, being somewhat darker than the legs. 
The common European C. cellaris (which may be readily known 
from the other Cryptophagi here described by the prominence of its 
front prothoraciec tooth, or ridge, and the greater length of the space 
