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been met with also at a great elevation on the mountains 
(namely by sifting fallen leaves near the summit of the 
Pico Gordo, far above the inhabited districts), I have 
little doubt that the species is a truly indigenous one, 
and in all probability peculiar to those wild upland 
regions. Judging from the type before me, it is consi- 
derably larger, and relatively more elongate, than the 
Huropean C. thoraciewm; and it is also less shining, 
much more densely (although minutely) punctulated, 
and its colour (instead of being dark) is altogether pale 
reddish-ferruginous ; its prothorax and elytra are longer 
in proportion, and the former has its hinder angles more 
evidently right angles, whilst the latter have their basal 
fovea, although not so deep and well defined, both larger 
and wider, and placed nearer to either shoulder. Its 
limbs, too, are longer and more robust. Its colour and 
prima facie aspect are faintly suggestive of a narrow 
Myceteea,—a circumstance which | have taken advantage 
of in selecting a specific name. 
Cephennium australe. 
C. ellipticum, nitidulum, parce sed grosse fulvo-cinereo 
pubescens, remote sed parum profunde punctatum ; capite 
prothoraceque pallide rufo-ferrugineis, illo convexo, pos- 
tice ad latera subrecto et anguste marginato ; coleopteris 
piceis vel ferrugineo-piceis, ad basin ipsam fovea media 
rotundata utrinque impressis; antennis pedibusque tes- 
taceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 3-3. 
Cephennium australe, Woll., Col. Hesp., Append. 277 
(1867). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); a meipso in castanetis 
editioribus longe supra Funchal (sc. 1800’ s. m.) mense 
Decembri, A.D. 1865, parce deprehensum. 
Obs.—Species C. thoracico, Huropeo, minor, angustior, 
minus polita, paulo densius punctata, necnon omnino 
pallidior—sc. capite prothoraceque pallide subrufescenti- 
bus, elytrisque plus minus picescentibus. 
I captured three examples of this interesting little 
Cephennium on the 19th of December, 1865, while touching 
at Madeira, with Mr. Gray, on our outward route to the 
Cape Verdes. They were taken by sifting fallen leaves 
