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Cryptophagus pilosus, Gyll., Ins. Suec. iv. 287 (1827) ; 
Sturm, Deutsch. Fna. xvi. 64, t. 313, f. A (1845) ; Erich., 
Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 352 (1846). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); in granario quodam ad 
S. Ant. da Serra, tempore vernali 1870, sat copiose re- 
pertus. 
A considerable number of examples of this EKuropean 
Oryptophagus were taken by my wife and myself at 8. 
Antonio da Serra, during our late sojourn in Madeira,— 
amongst rotten corn and refuse, in company not only 
with the preceding species but also with the C. affinis 
and dentatus. Like other insects of similar habits, it has 
doubtless become naturalized in the island from more 
northern latitudes. 
Fam. LATRIDIADAK. 
p. 148 (genus Corticarta). 
Motschoulsky having, in his recent enumeration of such 
members of this genus as were known to him (vide Bull. 
Mosc. 1867), cited no less than four Madeiran Corticaric 
which he assumed to be new, I have examined his short 
diagnosis with considerable care, and cannot feel justified 
in admitting more than one of them as indicating a 
genuine addition to the catalogue. Even that ‘ one” 
indeed has so much the prima facie aspect of the C. fulva 
(with which it is, for the most part, found in company) 
that I had until now overlooked it amongst supposed 
examples of that somewhat variable species ; but I think 
nevertheless that it may be regarded as distinct, and [ 
will therefore give a brief description of it (under 
Motschoulsky’s name of ciliata),—adding at the same time 
an emended one of what I believe to be the true C. fulva, 
in order to point out more exactly the characteristic 
features of the two. Of the three other Motschoulskian 
species I suspect that two (attenuata and unicarinulata) 
were founded upon small, accidental varieties, or states, 
of the ciliata, whilst the remaining one (fluvifrons) may 
perhaps represent a mere immature individual of my 
previously-enunciated O. inconspicua—of the existence 
of which he does seem to have been aware. Until further 
evidence has been adduced I prefer to dispose thus of at 
any rate three out of the four supposed “species” of 
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