MADEIRAN COLEOPTERA, 179 
507. Homalota lividipennis*. 
Oxypoda lividipennis, Mann., Brachel. 70 (1831). 
Homalota lividipennis, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 129 (1839). 
, Woll., Ins. Mad. 557 (1854). 
—— — , Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 311 (1856), 


Inhabits Madeira and Porto Santo; occurring in the dung of cattle, 
in similar places as the last species. 
Genus 210, OXYPODA. 
Mannerheim, Brachel. 69 (1831). 
508. Oxypoda lurida, n. sp. 
O. lineari-fusiformis fusco-testacea sericeo-pubescens subnitida crebre 
subtiliter punctulata, capite abdominisque segmentis intermediis 
nigricantibus, prothorace convexo postice lato, elytris plus minus 
ineequaliter fuscescentibus, antennarum basi, palpis pedibusque 
testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14-11. 
O. linear-fusiform and narrow, dull brownish-testaceous, very slightly 
shining, minutely and closely punctulated all over, and densely 
clothed with a fine, sericeous, decumbent pubescence. Head and 
more or less of the abdomen (except the apex, and the hinder 
margins of the segments) blackish: the former subrotundate, and 
less closely punctured than the rest of the surface. Prothorax 
convex, rather compressed in front, and almost as broad behind as 
the elytra. Hlytra usually a little more fuscescent than the pro- 
thorax,—at any rate about the scutellum, suture, and lateral 
margins. Antenne about as long as, or a little shorter than, the 
head and prothorax; fuscous: their base, the palpi, and the legs, 
testaceous. 
The Oxypoda from which I have compiled the above diagnosis 
was identified by Dr. Kraatz with the evoleta of Erichson ; neverthe- 
less it does not appear to me to accord entirely with the description 
of that insect, nor with a series of specimens collected by myself in 
the Isle of Wight and in Huntingdonshire ; and I have consequently 
regarded it as a new, though a nearly allied, species. It differs from 
the evoleta in having its antenne a little more robust, its head and 
prothorax rather longer, its elytra very perceptibly longer, and its 
entire outline not quite so narrow. It was detected by myself in 
Madeira proper, where it is exceedingly rare, during the summer of 
1845. It occurs beneath stones and fallen leaves, in the damp 
ravines of intermediate altitudes ; and in such positions I captured 
it towards the upper extremity of the Ribeira de S‘* Luzia, in the 
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