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at any rate, of long standing) than those species, since it has esta- 
blished itself in positions of a comparatively high elevation, and 
remote from the inhabited districts. Thus, though found likewise in 
Funchal, I have taken it at the Ribeiro Frio, at the Feijaia de Corte, 
and towards the upper extremity of the Ribeiro de S* Luzia; never- 
theless as the Cryptophagi are very active on the wing, it is possible, 
after all, that its attachment to those regions may not date beyond a 
recent period. 
163. Cryptophagus affinis**, 
C. oblongo-ovalis convexus ferrugineus pube longiore dense vestitus, 
capite prothoraceque paulo obscurioribus, hoe basin versus vix 
angustato subrotundato, angulis posticis obtusiusculis, ad latera 
bidentato. 
Long. corp. lin. 3-1. 
cyetophagus affinis, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna,xvi.79. tab. 314. fC (1845). 
, Evich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii, 360 (1848). 
—_ —, ; Redt., Fra Austr. 192 (1849), 
—— Woll., Ins. Mad. 170 (1854). 

C. oblong-ovate, being shorter (and somewhat mote convex) than 
either of the foregoing species, ferruginous, and densely clothed 
with a rather long and coarse pubescence. Head and prothorax 
very deeply and closely punctured, and of a slightly darker (or 
more reddish-brown) hue than the rest of the surface: the latter 
a trifle shorter perhaps than in the last species, and much more 
distinctly rounded at its sides, the space between the lateral den- 
ticle (the position of which is about central) and the posterior 
angle being slightly curved outwards, instead of (as in that insect) 
nearly straight,—the angle itself being obtuse (instead of acute), 
Legs testaceous : antennce brownish-ferruginous. 
The somewhat smaller size, shorter outline, and more pubescent 
surface of the present Oryptophagus, in conjunction with the rounder 
edges, and obtuser hind-angles, of its prothorax (the space between 
the latter of which and the central denticle is shorter and more 
curved than in that insect), will at once serve, apart from minor 
differences, to separate it from the C. dentatus. It is rather com- 
mon in houses and gardens around Funchal, and the other towns 
of Madeira proper; and although it has been already recorded in 
the Insecta Maderensia, yet since the description there given was 
compiled from the present species and the preceding one (which I 
had failed, until lately, to distinguish from it), I have added the 
above diagnosis, drawn out from a fresh examination of my entire 
series of specimens. 
