262 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
After species 644, add :— 
Anobium nitidulum, n. sp. 
A. cylindricum, rufo-ferrugineum, nitidulum, grosse 
eriseo-pubescens, et parce (sed in prothorace paulo 
densius) granulatum, aut forsan asperato -punctulatum. 
A. molli similimum, sed paululum minor, clarius rufes- 
cens, nitidior, minus dense et minus rugose granulatum, 
et pube sensim longiore ac robustiore vestitum. 
Long. corp. lin. 1$—2. 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); a Dom. Anderson haud 
longe ab urbe Funchalensi, sc. ad Sanctum Antonium, 
inter pinos, olim captum. 
Several examples of an Anobiwm, which were taken in 
Madeira by the late Mr. F. A. Anderson (namely at 8. 
Antonio, near Funchal), have long been placed aside by 
me, unexamined, as in all probability small individuals 
of the European A. molle—a species which occurs, also, 
though sparingly, both in the Madeiran and Canarian 
archipelagos. A more critical inspection, however, shows 
them to be truly distinct; and I may add that Mr. Rye 
is equally of opinion that they cannot be regarded as any 
state, or variety, of the molle. They appear to differ 
from the latter in being on the average a little smaller, 
and of a clearer or more rufo-castaneous hue, in their 
granules (or asperated punctules, if so regarded) bemg 
more distant and minute, and in their surface being more 
shining, and clothed with a coarser pubescence. Mr. 
Rye has called my attention to an Anobium described by 
Mulsant (Opusc. Ent. 13, Cah. 117; 1863), under the 
name of consimile, which might possibly prove to be the 
one which we are now considering; but since the author 
says nothing about the manifest difference of sculpture 
(as compared with the A. molle), and leaves equally 
unnoticed its more shining and more coarsely pubescent 
surface, it 1s scarcely possible to treat his insect as con- 
specific with the Madeiran one. 
Fam. TOMICIDA. 
p. 236 (genus Tomicus). 
(Sp. 665) Zomdcus nobilis. 
This fine Canarian wood-borer is said by Ferrari (Berl. 
Ent. Zeitsch. 254 ; 1868) to belong to the subgenus Cyr- 
