3(J8 Mr. T. Vcinon Wollaslon ou 



still more abbreviated, with their club abniptcr and more straightly 

 truncated at its apex; its prothorax is much more deeply and 

 remotely sculptured, and its clytral punctures arc also larger, the 

 small intermediate ones especially being more perceptible. In its 

 closely-compressed funiculus-joints (the second of which is quite 

 as short as the following one), and the unexpanded third joint of 

 its feet, it agrees with the B. liiuicnnui/ ; nevertheless its funicnbis 

 (no less than the scape) is altogether shorter than is the case in 

 that insect, and the joints themselves are more transverse. It 

 appears to be confined to the Finals of tlie Canarian group, where 

 it perforates the old fir-trees, in company with the Eremotcs iras- 

 sicornis. I took several exam))les of it out of the rotten trunk of 

 a Piints Cdnnrknsis on the ascent to the Cumbre above San Bario- 

 lomao, in the district of Tarajana, of Grand Canary, during my 

 sojourn there with the Rev. R. T. Lowe, in Ajiril, 1858, but I 

 have not hitherto observed it in any of the other islands. 



Genus Caulopiiilus. 

 Woll., Ins. Mad. 315, tab. vi. f. 4 (1S5'1.). 

 I have no further rcni.'irk to nlfer on this genus llum those 

 recorded in the " Insccta Madercnsia;" the small weevil on wliivh 

 it was founded in 185 1, and which was captured in 1817, being, 

 after our coiiiI)incd (but intei mittcnt) researches for now fourteen 

 years, still unique. Whether a more critical examination of it 

 would tend to unite it with either the VlilKophci^i or Rlii/ncoli, I 

 will not (in the absence of the original type, which is no longer in 

 my possession) speculate, though I may just repeat the observation, 

 that " its linear outline, and depressed, deeply sculptured surface, 

 in conjunction with its comj)aratively large eyes and scutcUum, 

 will at once serve to separate it" from, at any rate, Caulotnqns ; 

 and I may further add, that if it has eventually to be united with 

 either of the above-mentioned genera, the chances arc that it will 

 be more easily associated with Rhijncolus than with Phlccophagiifi. 



4. Caiilophllus sculpluratus. 



Cauloph'dus sculpturafus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 315, tab. vi. f. 4 (1854). 

 Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 104 (1857). 



Habitat Maderam australem, sero aulumno a.d. 1847 specimen 

 unicum prope Funchal deprehensi. 



The single example as yet detected was captured by myself, 

 during the autumn of 181^7, from beneath a stone, on an exposed 



