164° MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
F. black, shining, and sparingly clothed with long griseous hairs 
(some of which are erect, and others decumbent). Head suborbi- 
cular, rather closely punctured, and somewhat roughened. Pro- 
thorax long, and much constricted behind ; a little more diluted, 
or piceous, than the rest of the surface ; and more sparingly punc- 
tured than the head. Elytra oval, and still more remotely and 
finely punctulated ; ornamented a little behind the base with a 
bright rufo-ferruginous transverse fascia, which does not extend 
however across the suture nor join the lateral margin,—the two 
broken portions, moreover, of which it is constituted being placed 
rather obliquely; the paler pubescence (which is decumbent) 
forming an obscure transverse postmedial band, and another, still 
more indistinct, towards the base. Limbs long. Antenne at base 
dull-, and femora at base bright-ferruginous. 
Male with the head a little larger than in the female sex, and with 
the elytra rather longer; the anterior thighs, moreover, armed 
beneath with a small, but robust, tooth. 
The Madeiran specimens of the F. pedestris have their prothorax 
a little darker than is usual,—it being at times scarcely more diluted 
in colouring than the rest of the surface. It is an abundant insect 
throughout Mediterranean latitudes, occurring from Spain to the 
Crimea, and being recorded also in the north of Africa, in Asia Minor, 
Syria, and Persia. It was discovered in Madeira by Edmund Lea- 
cock, Esq.,—in the garden of the Quinta dos Padres at 8. Antonio, 
near Funchal, during September 1855; and was subsequently taken 
by myself in the same locality. 
Genus 200. ANTHICUS. 
Paykull, Fina Suec. i. 258 (1798). 
472. Anthicus floralis*. 
A, niger nitidus glabriusculus dense subtiliter punctulatus, protho- 
race (presertim postice) picescentiore, elytris ad basin, antennis 
pedibusque pallidioribus. 
Long. corp. lin. 14-1. 
Meloé floralis, Linn., Fna Suec. 830 (17385). 
Anthicus floralis, Fab., Syst. Eleu. i. 29 (1801). 
» Schaudt, Stett. Ent. Zeit. ii. 131 (1842). 
— ——, La Ferté, Mon. des Anth. 150 (1848). 
A, black (sometimes with a brownish tinge), shining, comparatively 
free from pubescence (though, when highly magnified, an excess- 
ively minute, decumbent pile is perceptible), and closely and deli- 
cately punctulated all over. Head large (particularly in the male 
sex), and greatly truncated posteriorly. Prothoraw more diluted, 
or piceous, than the head,—especially behind, where it is often 
brightly ferruginous. Elytra a little expanded behind the middle; 


