370 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston 07i 



Sr. Moniz's extensive and successful capture, it has been like- 

 wise taken, though much more sparingly, by Mr. Bewicke. It is 

 very closely allied to the European P. spadix, of which it may 

 possibly be only a geographical state; but its elytra are just per- 

 . ceptibly more ovate and less rugulose, with their striae less deeply 

 impressed, and their punctures (when viewed beneath the micro- 

 scope) rather smaller and considerably more remote; its pube- 

 scence, too, is perhaps a little shorter, and itsantennal club some- 

 what less robust. 



6, Phlceopliagus lenax, WoU. (PI. 18, fig. 4.) 

 Rhyncolus tenax, Woll., Ins. Mad. 307 (1854). 



Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 100(1857). 

 Hahilat Maderam sylvaticam, sub cortice arborum laxo (prae- 

 sertim laurorum) in locis elevatioril)us vulgaris. 



An abundant insect throughout all the sylvan districts of Ma- 

 deira, occurring principally in the laurel-woods of intermediate 

 and lofty elevations. 



7. PhloeopJiagus calvus, Woll. 

 Rhijncolus calciis, Woll., Ann. of Nat. Hist. (Ser. 3), v. 448(18G0). 



Habitat Maderam australem, in ligno antiquo hand procul ab 

 urbe Funchalensi a Dom. Bewicke repertus. 



Found only, hitherto, in Madeira, and only by Mr. Bewicke, by 

 whom it was detected amongst rotten wood, in company with 

 Ilexarthnim capitulum and the Mesoxenus Be^vickiamts, during 

 May of 1857, in a small shed (or out-house) at the Praia For- 

 mosa, near Funchal. In general contour and type it approaches 

 the five Canarian species described below ; and in its rather narrow 

 outline, piceous hue, and but slightly dilated antepenultimate 

 tarsal-joint, it is, perhaps, nearer to the P. piceus than to any of 

 them. It is, however, still more piceous than that insect; whilst 

 its elytra are much less deeply punctate-striated than is the case 

 with any of the Canarian PhhcopJiagi — the punctures of the striag 

 being not only less impressed, but smaller and more remote; its 

 scutellum is i;<?r?/ minute and triangular, but quite apparent beneath 

 the microscope. 



8. Phlceopliagus caulium, n. sp. 

 P. nigro-piceus ; prothorace valde profunde punctato ; scutello 

 vix observando [oculo valde armato, minutissimo transverso]; 

 elytris oblongo-ovatis, profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis 



