70 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
Mycetca, in conjunction with its rounded upper lip and the differ- 
ently proportioned joints of its antenne and palpi, the former of 
which are inserted at a greater distance from the (much smaller and 
less prominent) eyes, and have the basal articulation of their club 
considerably less enlarged, would seem to be sufficiently important, 
apart from its external characters of outline and sculpture, to render 
its separation from Microchondrus at any rate desirable. 
188. Mycetza hirta*. 
M. obovato-elliptica postice acuminata, rufo-ferruginea nitida longe 
pilosa, prothorace punctato, ad basin linea transversim impresso et 
intra marginem lateralem utrinque costato, elytris profunde punc- 
tato-striatis. 
Long. corp. lin, 3—4. 
Dermestes fumatus, Mshm [nee Linn. 1767], Ent. Brit. i. 65 (1802). 
Cryptophagus hirtus, Gyl/. [nec Mshm, 1802}, Ins. Suec. i. 184 (1808). 
Myceteea fumata, Steph., Ill, Brit. Ent. iii. 81. pl. 17. £1 (1880). 
hirta, Redt., Fna Austr. 197 (1849). 


M. obovate and somewhat elliptical,—being however more acuminated 
behind than in front; rufo-ferruginous, shining, and clothed with 
exceedingly long, suberect and very coarse pubescence. Head and 
prothorax distinctly, but rather remotely, punctured: the former 
with the eyes very small, and scarcely at all prominent: the latter 
transverse, with the edges appearing a little uneven beneath a 
high magnifying power, but not crenulated (as in Microchondrus); 
with an impressed transverse line at the base, and within either 
lateral margin a raised costa, or ridge. Elytra deeply punctate- 
striate,—the punctures being very large and deep, but the striz 
shallow; widest a little behind the base, and then regularly atte- 
nuated. Limbs somewhat paler. 
Detected by myself, in abundance, on the inner walls of the Pil- 
erims’ House at S, Antonio da Serra (in Madeira proper), on the 11th 
of June 1855; and a specimen has been lately communicated to me 
by Mr. Bewicke, captured beneath the bark of a Spanish-chestnut 
tree at the Mount, above Funchal. With respect to its synonymy, 
we may observe, that, since Marsham misapplied a Linnean name 
and Gyllenhal a Marshamian one, in their descriptions of this insect, 
the title of fwmatus, Mshm (though not Linn.), would in right of 
priority have been adopted, instead of hirtus, Gyll. (though not 
Mshm), had not the diagnosis of the former been absolutely incor- 
rect,—so as, in point of fact, to become no diagnosis at all, Marsh- 
am’s name therefore has of necessity to be cancelled, and Gyllenhal’s 
(which is accompanied by a full and accurate description) to be ac- 
cepted instead. 
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