MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. tS7 
(or common Broom) at the loftiest altitudes. It is very nearly allied, 
in general aspect and markings, to the C. phalerata (Dahl), Lucas, 
from Sicily and the north of Africa, and which is well figured in the 
magnificent work published by the French Government on the Cole- 
optera of Algeria; nevertheless it is truly distinct therefrom, possess- 
ing small structural characters (apart from sculpture, outline, and 
colour) which will at once separate it from that species. Thus, it is 
a little larger and more oblong than the phalerata, it is much more 
perceptibly punctulated, cts scutellum is very much less minute, its eyes 
are larger, and its elytra are less curved inwards (or emarginated) at 
the base. Its legs also (except the tarsi), its head (except two tri- 
angular frontal patches), and its prothorax (except the edges, and 
two oblong bars, inwardly-directed from the anterior angles) are 
black,—whereas in that insect they are all (with the exception of 
six small prothoracic spots) pale; its inner elytral stripe is much 
more abbreviated anteriorly, and its dark sutural line is expanded 
into a rounded patch just behind the scutellum. 
Genus 167. SCYMNUS. 
Kugelann, in Schneid. Mag. 515 (1794). 
412. Scymnus Duranta. 
Scymnus Durante, Woll., Ins. Mad. 465 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring on the foliage of Duranta Plu- 
miert and the various species of Hibiscus, principally at low ele- 
vations. 
413. Scymnus marginalis. 
Coccinella marginalis, Rosst, Mant. Ins. ii. 87 (1794). 
morio, Fub., Syst. Eleu. i. 380 (1801). 
Scymunus marginalis, Muls., Séewripalp. de France, 244 (1846). 
, Woill., Ins. Mad. 466 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring on the leaves of various plants, 
principally at low elevations. 



414, Scymnus decemplagiatus, n. sp. 
S. hemispheericus niger pilis erectis cinereis robustis obsitus, capite 
prothoraceque latis creberrime punctulatis, elytris profundius et 
subrugose punctulatis, singulo plagis quinque testaceis ornato, an- 
tennis pedibusque piceo-ferrugineis. 
Long. corp. lin. 1. 
S. hemispherical, black, slightly shining, and beset all over with 
robust, erect, pale-cinereous hairs. Head and prothorav broad, 
