240 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Fam. ENDOPHL@IDA. 
p. 120 (genus Tarpuivs). 
After species 338, add :— 
Tarphius lutulentus, n. sp. 
T. subcylindrico-oblongus, subopacus, piceo-niger, 
setulis brevissimis fulvescentibus parce obsitus ; protho- 
race subquadrato (ad latera paululum subeequliter facile 
rotundato) , vix canaliculato; elytris concoloribus, rugose 
substriato-punctatis, fere simplicibus (¢. e., interstitiis 
alternis vix etiam obsolete interrupto-elevatis) ; antennis 
(breviusculis) pedibusque vel rufo-piceis, vel piceo- 
ferrugineis; tarsis (nisi fallor) in utroque sexu simplici- 
bus, similibus. 
Long. corp. lin. 14-2. 
Tarphius inornatus (pars), Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 43 
(1857) . 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); castaneta pinetaque in 
montibus supra Funchal sita (preecipue inter 1700’ et 
2000’ s. m.) colens,—vel sub ligno humi jacente vel 
sub cortice laxo emortuo, vulgaris. 
Obs. —T. inornato (et spinipedi, olim.) plerumque paulo 
minor angustior, vix minus rugose sculpturatus, et 
setulis etiam sub-brevioribus (sc. brevissimis) obsitus, 
prothorace antice subangustiore, elytrorum interstitiis 
fere simplicibus (7. e., minus evidenter subelevatis), 
antennis obsolete brevioribus, pedibus szpius paululum 
minus obscuratis, necnon precipue (ut mihi videtur) 
tarsis in utroque sexu simplicibus, nec in maribus subtus 
spinosis. 
When compiling my Madeiran Catalogue, in 1857, I felt 
it necessary to unite the T’. inornatus and spinipes (both 
of which had been published in the ‘ Ins. Mad.’) ,—further 
material having convinced me that the type on which 
I had established the latter was but a highly organized 
male, in reality, of the former, in which the front feet 
were quite as powerfully armed as the hinder ones; and 
every opportunity for observation has since satisfied me 
that I was correct, for the male tarsi of the inornatus are 
eminently variable as to the exact amount of their deve- 
lopment,—occasional examples having only the posterior 
pair conspicuously spined, whilst in others (and indeed 
