176 MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA. 
subpunctulated and alutaceous all over. Antenne long, slender, 
and fuscous. Legs short, and diluted-testaceous. — 
Readily known by its minute size and narrow, parallel outline, by 
its much depressed and finely pubescent body, its long and slender 
antenne, and by its deeply channeled prothorax. It resides amongst 
the wet shingle at the edges of the streams,—under which cireum- 
stances I captured it, abundantly, in the Ribeira de Sao Vincente (in 
the north of Madeira proper), during July 1855. It has been 
examined by Dr. Kraatz, and identified with his H. T'hinobioides, of 
the Insecten Deutschlands. 
498. Homalota analis. 
Aleochara analis, Grav., Col. Micropt. 76 (1802). 
Bolitochara evanescens, Mann., Brachel. 81 (1831). 
Homalota analis, Hrich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 114 (1839). 
—— tantilla, Woll., Ins. Mad. 553 (1854). 
analis, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 256 (1856). 

Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring under vegetable refuse at inter- 
mediate and lofty altitudes. The name of tantilla, proposed for it in 
the Insecta Maderensia, must be suppressed, the species having been 
satisfactorily shown by Dr. Kraatz to be but a small state of the 
common European H. analis. 
499. Homalota plebeia. 
Homalota plebeia, Woll., Ins. Mad. 553 (1854). 
Inhabits Madeira proper, occurring sparingly at most elevations. 
It is possible that this species may be referable to the H. clientula of 
Erichson ; nevertheless since Dr. Kraatz, to whom it was submitted 
for inspection, was not quite certain that such should be the case*, 
and since the specimens which I sent him for examination were not 
altogether satisfactory ones, I have thought it desirable (at any rate 
for the present) not to identify it with that insect. 
500. Homalota montivagans, n. sp. 
H, linearis piceo-nigra remote punctulata nitida convexa, prothorace 
obsolete canaliculato ad latera subsqualiter rotundato, elytris 
circa humeros leviter rufescentibus, antennis fusco-piceis, pedibus 
pallido-testaceis. 
mode 
Long. corp. lin, 1}. 
H., linear, piceous-black. Head and prothorawv distinctly but remotely 
punctulated (the latter very remotely so), and with scarcely any 

+ “Colore tantum,” says he, “ab H. clientula, Er., differt ; verisimile cum 
hae conjungenda,” 
