250 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
thoraceque alutaceis et leviter punctatis, hoc subquadrato- 
cordato, ad latera rugose crenulato, pone discum fovea 
media magni profunda transverso-rotundata impresso ; 
elytris subrugulose substriato-punctatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 3-1. 
Latridius fulvus (Chevr.), Villa, Cat. Col. Hur. 45 
(1833). Corticaria fulva, Mann.,in Germ. Zeitsch. v. 42 
(1844); (pars), Woll., Ins. Mad. 185 (1854); Id., Cat. 
Mad. Col. 65 (1857); Id., Cat. Can. Col. 146 (1864); Id., 
Col. Atl. 148 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); et Canariensis? (Lanz., ? 
Ten. ?); praecipue in domibus, una cum specie prece- 
denti, degens. 
As already stated, the present species (which I think 
is correctly identified with the ordinary European C. ful- 
va) differs from the preceding one in being a little less 
convex and more strictly oblong (the elytra being rather 
more straightened, or less rounded at the sides), and in 
its sculpture being less coarse,—the head and prothorax 
(the latter of which is narrower and more cordate, and 
impressed with a somewhat larger, deeper, and a little 
more transverse fovea on its hinder disc) being more 
evidently alutaceous, and studded with comparatively 
shallow punctures. It is common, in company with the 
C. ciliata, in Madeira—where it may generally be found 
crawling on the inner walls of the houses; and although 
I have no access at the present moment to my late 
Canarian types (which are now in the British Museum), 
I believe that the ‘C0. fulva” recorded by me from Lan- 
zarote and Teneriffe is referable to this species (7. e., to 
what I regard as the true C. fulva), rather than to the 
ciliata. 
(Sp. 427) Corticaria inconspicua. 
Judging from the short diagnosis in the Bulletin de 
Moscou (p. 66, 1867), it seems highly probable to me 
that the C. flavifrons of Motschoulsky was founded upon 
an example (perhaps immature) of this insignificant little 
Corticaria—so like at first sight (though certainly distinct 
from) the common European C. serrata; and therefore 
until further evidence has been adduced I prefer assign- 
ing it to the C. inconspicua, rather than running the risk 
