100 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
275. Hylastes clavus. 
Hylastes clavus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 306 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring beneath logs, and the bark of 
trees, at rather low and intermediate altitudes. 
Fam. 35. CURCULIONIDE. 
(Div. I. MECORHYNCHL.) 
(Subfam. 1, COSSONIDES.) 
Genus 116. RHYNCOLUS. 
(Creutzer) Germ., Ins. Spec, 307 (1824). 
276. Rhyncolus tenax. 
Rhyncolus tenax, WWoll., Ins. Mad. 307 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, abounding beneath bark and in rotten 
wood throughout the sylvan districts. 
Genus 117. PHLG@OSPHAGUS. 
Schonherr, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 1047 (1838). 
277. Phieophagus sulcipennis*, 
Phleophagus sulcipennis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 308 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, the only two specimens which I have 
seen (and which are now in the British Museum) being from the 
collection of the late Dr. Heineken. 
Genus 118. LEIPOMMATA (nov. gen.). 
Corpus parvum, fusiformi-ovatum, sculpturatum, valde pubescens : 
rostro breviusculo, crassiusculo, vix arcuato, leviter deflexo ; oculis 
nullis (omnino obsoletis): prothorace ad latera rotundato: scutello 
minuto: elytris subovatis basi truncatis, subconnatis : abdomine e 
segmentis 5 composito, segm® 1™° et 2” magnis inter se arcte con- 
natis, reliquis liberis (3° 4*°que brevibus, apicali paulo longiore) : 
alis obsoletis. Antenne breves, crasse, vix ante medium rostri 
insertee ; scapo clavato, robusto, leviter arcuato; funiculo 7-art?, 
art? 1™° majore, reliquis longitudine eequalibus, latitude paulo 
crescentibus, ultimo clave haud arcte adpresso; capitulo solido, 
ovato, obscurissime annulato. Pedes breves, validi, subzequales, 
antici basi approximati, postict distantes : femoribus muticis : tbus 
subrectis, ad apicem externum in uncum maximum valde incurvum, 
sed adinternum in spinam magnam, productis ; anticis intus versus 
