138 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
and very closely and finely punctulated. Hlytra rather wider at 
their base than the prothorax, and with the shoulders slightly 
prominent; much more coarsely punctured than the head and pro- 
thorax,—the punctures being more or less confluent, giving the 
surface a subrugulose appearance ; each ornamented with five tes- 
taceous patches,—one of which (somewhat rounded) is situated 
considerably before the middle, midway between the suture and 
lateral edge; another (large and elongate) on the inner disk; a 
third (smaller, but likewise elongate) between the hinder disk and 
the lateral edge; and the remaining two (which are almost con- 
fluent) towards the apex. Limbs piceo-ferruginous. 
Whether the present addition to our Catalogue (since the malls 
cation of the Jnsecta Maderensia) belongs to Scymnus proper, or to 
one of the closely allied groups, as defined (on somewhat slender 
characters) by Mulsant, I will not undertake to pronounce for cer- 
tain; but its wider head and prothorax, in conjunction with the 
unequal breadth of the latter and elytra, at their point of union, 
would seem prima facie to favour its separation from the normal 
members of the genus. Be this however as it may, it appears to be 
certainly new specifically. It inhabits the moist sylvan districts of 
Madeira proper, from whence I obtained three specimens of it during 
the summer of 1855,—two at 8. Antonio da Serra (at the head of 
the Santa Cruz ravine), and the other one in the north of the island, 
at the Lombo dos Pecegueiros. 
415. Scymnus arcuatus. 
Coccinella arcuata, Ross, Mant. Ins. 1. 88 (1794). 
» Schon., Syn. Ins. i. 2. 207 (1808). 
Scymnus arcuatus, Muls., Sécuripalp. de France, 245 (1846). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 487 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, abounding on the leaves of certain trees 
and plants at low elevations. 




416. Scymnus flavopictus. 
Scymnus flavopictus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 469. tab. x. f. 2 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira and the northern Dezerta (at low and interme- 
diate altitudes), being rare in the former island, and common in the 
latter. 
417. Scymnus minimus. 
Coccinella minima, Ross?, Mant. Ins. ii. 89 (1794). 
» Gyll., Ins. Suec. iv. 195 (1827 
Scymnus minimus, Muls., Sécuripalp. de Fr ance, 260 (1846). 
——, Woll., Ins. Mad. 470 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, abounding on certain plants at low ele- 
vations, 



