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and refuse, in the chestnut-woods at ‘the Mount ”— 
about 1800 feet above Funchal; but their extremely 
minute size rendered them somewhat difficult to detect. 
They are smaller and narrower than the European C. 
thoracicum ; also less highly polished, rather less remotely 
punctured, and considerably paler—their head and pro- 
thorax being pale rufo-ferruginous, and their elytra more 
or less piceous; whilst the limbs, which are slender, are 
brownish-testaceous. 
Fam. PSELAPHIDA. 
p. 452 (genus PsELAPHUS). 
After species 1244, add :— 
Pselaphus minyops, 0. sp. 
P. gracilis, rufo-castaneus, nitidissimus, parcissime 
fulvo-pubescens, impunctatus; capite prothoraceque an- 
gustissimis, ovalibus, oculis minutis; elytris triangulari- 
bus, brevibus, singulis lineis duabus integris (sc. suturali 
et discali) instructis ; antennis, palpis pedibusque longis- 
simis ; palporum articulo ultimo longissimo, subflexuoso, 
gradatim facile clavato ; antennarum articulo Imo et ultimo 
robustis, illo elongato, hoc ovato, apicem versus oblique 
truncato. 
Long. corp. lin. circa 1. 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); ad S. Ant. da Serra, im 
lauretis editioribus, a meipso parcissime lectus. 
Three examples of this very distinct and interesting 
Pselaphus were taken by myself, during May of 1870, by 
sifting fallen leaves and rubbish at S. Antonio da Serra, 
in the intermediate districts of Madeira. It is a little 
larger than the European P. Heisti, with the limbs 
considerably longer, with the head and prothorax (each 
of them) narrower and more elongate, and with the eyes 
very much smaller. Its elytra also are still more 
attenuated towards their base, the apical joint of its 
palpi is more flexuose and much less suddenly clavated, 
and the basal and terminal ones of its antennz (the latter 
of which is more obliquely-truncate) are more developed. 
In its extremely narrowed head and prothorax, as well 
as in the peculiar shape of the last joint of its maxillary 
palpi, the P. minyops is in reality more on the type of 
the Canarian P. palpiger; nevertheless it may imme- 
