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by the elytra being more regularly and deeply striated than is the 
case with the typical Paromali: but as these differences are of 
scarcely more than Sectional importance, I have not thought it 
necessary to refer them to a different genus from that to which they 
have been already assigned in the Insecta Maderensia. 
Genus 82. SAPRINUS. 
Krichson, in Klug Jahrb. i. 172 (1834). 
202. Saprinus nitidulus**. 
Hister nitidulus, Fab., Syst. Eleu. i. 85 (1801). 
, Payk., Mon. Hist. 58. tab. 5. £3 (1803). 
Saprinus nitidulus, Lrich., Kaf. der Mark Brand. ii. 670 (1839). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 215 (1854). 
, De Marseul, in Ann. de la Soc. Ent.de France (3®me série), 
iii. 402. pl. 17. f. 40 (1855). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring amongst rejectamenta in and 
around Funchal. Rare. 






203. Saprinus chalcites*. 
Hister chalcites, Illig., Mag. fiir Ins. vi. 40 (1807). 
affinis, Payk., Mon. Hist. 76. tab. 7. £2 (1811). 
Saprinus chalcites, Erich., in Klug Jahrb. i. 182 (1834). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 216 (1854). 
——, De Marseul,in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France (Sime série), 
iii. 445. pl. 18. f. 71 (1855). 
Inhabits Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Dezerta Grande, occurring 
sparingly at rather low elevations. 



204. Saprinus metallicus*. 
Hister metallicus, Hbst, Nat. Syst. iv. 32. tab. 35. f. 7 (1791). 
, Fab., Syst. Eleu. i. 89 (1801). 
Saprinus metallicus, Erich., in Klug Jahrb. i. 195 (1834). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 217 (1854). 
, De Marseul,in Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France (8'*me série), 
iii. 722. pl. 20. f. 156 (1855). 
TInhabits Porto Santo, abounding at times in sandy spots near the 
sea-shore. 






Genus 83. ACRITUS. 
Le Conte, Proc. of the Acad. of Philad. iii. 288 (1853). 
It will be sufficient here to state that the little genus Acritus, 
which contains the minims of the /isteridw (some of its members 
being less than half a line in length), was separated from the Abra, 
