278 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Hab.—Maderenses (Pto. Sto.) ; exemplar unicum olim 
collegit Dom. Bewicke. 
Obs.—Species nigra, aptera, S. limnichoides propm- 
quans; sed subminor (?), magis elliptica (7. e., antice et 
postice subacutior), vix minus nitida, et conspicue levius 
minutiusque punctata, prothorace magis conico (antice 
sensim angustiore), etiam ad latera concolori, linea 
basali magis per basin ipsissiman sita, elytris paulo magis 
ventricosis (pone basin utrinque magis rotundatis) . 
In the Appendix to my ‘ Coleoptera Hesperidum’ I 
stated that “the single example from which the above 
diagnosis has been compiled was taken in Porto Santo, 
several years ago, by the late Mr. Bewicke, and was 
inadvertently identified by myself with the 8. limnichoides 
—to which in its size, general affinity, apterous body, 
and dark colour it closely approaches. The specimen 
having however, since the death of Mr. Bewicke, fallen 
into my possession, | am enabled to examine it with 
greater care, and I now perceive that it is unquestionably 
distinct from the limnichoides—though belonging clearly 
to the same type. Whether it be a trifle smaller than 
that species I can, from the evidence afforded by a single 
individual, scarcely say; but it is considerably more 
elliptical in outline, or sharper before and behind (the 
prothorax being more conical, or attenuated in front, 
and the elytra more rounded outwards behind the 
shoulders) ; it is also much more lightly, and finely, 
punctulated; and its prothorax, which has the basal line 
placed even still nearer to the extreme edge, does not 
appear (at any rate in the example before me) to be 
diluted in hue towards the sides. Although there is no 
label appended to it, I have said that it was captured in 
Porto Santo because I distinctly recollect that it was 
communicated to me by Mr. Bewicke as found by him- 
self in that island.” 
Fam. OPATRID. 
p. 414 (genus Hanrvs). 
Fairmaire (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 546; 
1856) says that the Opatrum carbonarium of Schonherr 
is a member of this genus; but, as rightly observed by 
Lacordaire (Gen. v. 274, note 1), Schénherr has no Opa- 
