MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA, 89 
A. Antenne basi approximate. 
§ I. Corpus plus minus oblongum pubescens alatum, prothorace gib- 
boso ad basin valde constricto, scutello distincto : antenne: filiformes ; 
tarsi longiusculi filiformes, art? 1™ leviter elongato. (Ptini per 
Europe partem majorem typici.) 
237. Ptinus testaceus**. 
Ptinus testaceus, Oliv., Ent. ix. 8 (1790). 
hirtellus, Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xii. 80. tab. 258. f. A (1837). 
—— advena, Woll., Ins. Mad. 261 (1854). 
testaceus, De Bovreldieu, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France (3isme 
série), iv. 654 (1857). 


Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring sparingly in the houses of 
Funchal. I have recently submitted the P. advena of the Insecta 
Maderensia to the inspection of M. de Boieldieu of Paris, who pro- 
nounces it to be identical with the P. testaceus of Olivier; and I 
have therefore corrected its synonymy accordingly. The single 
specimen which I described in 1854 was a female: the male is more 
elongated and parallel. 
238. Ptinus brunneus**, 
P, rufo-brunneus valde (presertim in prothorace) subsetuloso-pubes- 
cens, capite scutelloque squamis subfulvescenti-cinereis tectis, 
elytris ovalibus striato-punctatis, antennis pedibusque elongatis 
rufo-ferrugineis squamosis, 
Long. corp. lin. 13. 
Ptinus brunneus (Meg.), Dufts., Fna Austr. iii. 65 aie 
, De Boreldieu, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France (ime série), 
iv. 649 (1857). 
P, reddish-brown, and closely beset (especially on the prothorax) 
with a long, stiff, suberect, robust, somewhat setiform pile. Head 
and scutellum (which last is distinct and round) densely clothed 
with yellowish-cinereous scales. Prothorav rather wide, and 
gibbous, on the fore-disk ; suddenly, and greatly, constricted be- 
hind. Zlytra oval (being a little less rounded-off at the shoulders, 
and straighter at the sides, than in the P, testaceus), and striate- 
punctate. Limbs elongated, rufo-ferruginous, and clothed with 
yellowish-cinereous scales. 


A single example of the present Ptinus, which is doubtless an im- 
portation into Madeira, was captured by myself on the walls of the 
Quinta da Favilla, immediately outside Funchal, during April 1855. 
It has been examined by M. de Boieldieu, of Paris, who has recently 
monographed the genus, and is identified by him with the P. brunneus 
of Duftschmidt. It is a European species, being recorded in Sicily, 
Turkey, Austria and France. 
