Atlantic Coleoptera. 251 
of multiplying “species” in a somewhat obscure group. 
The OC. inconspicua is far from uncommon within the in- 
habited districts of Madeira,—occurring generally in 
houses and outhouses, and sometimes even under the 
bark of trees, irrespective of elevation. I originally met 
with it, in profusion, amongst bones and chippings of 
wood, in asmall outhouse in Mr. Leacock’s garden at the 
Quinta de Sio Jodo, near Funchal; and during our late 
campaign we found it beneath the dead bark of Spanish- 
chestnut trees at “the Mount,’ as well as at 8. Antonio 
da Serra. 
After species 427, add :— 
Oorticaria transversalis. 
C. elongato-ovata, nitidiuscula, piceo-brunnea (anten- 
nis, clavi excepta, pedibusque piceo-testaceis), breviter 
cinereo-pubescens ; capite profunde sed prothorace paulo 
levius ac confuse punctatis, hoc angustulo, subcordato- 
quadrato, versus angulos anticos obtuse rotundato, 
angulis ipsissimis posticis minute subrectis, ad latera 
integro (nec crenulato), pone medium late transversim 
impresso (impressione maxima, sublunato-arcuati) ; ely- 
tris substriato-punctatis (fere quasi-subcrenulatis). 
Long. corp. lin. ?. 
Latridius transversalis, Schiippel, in litt.; Gyll., Ins. 
Suec. iv. 1383 (1827). Corticaria transversalis, Mann., 
Mon. 51 (1844). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.) ; in montibus longe supra 
Funchal, in horto quodam (inter quisquilias), semel de- 
prehensa. 
A single example of the common European C. trans- 
versalis was taken by my wife (on the 6th of January, 
1870) during our late sojourn in Madeira—namely, 
amongst vegetable refuse, in the garden of the Quinta 
do Prazer, at ‘‘the Mount,” above Funchal; and it is 
not unlikely that the species may have become natural- 
ized accidentally from more northern latitudes. If such 
be the case, however, there can be no doubt that it is 
extremely rare,—for, in spite of a subsequent residence 
of two months on the actual spot where it was captured, 
and the most careful collecting from day to day, we 
