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except at their base) being picescent. Its antennz, also, 
in addition to being longer, are rufo-testaceous at their 
base and apex, the intermediate joimts being reddish- 
brown. It appears to be extremely scarce, the only three 
examples which I have yet seen having been captured by 
myself, during March of 1870, beneath the loosened bark 
of a felled tree, and amongst refuse, in Madeira,—namely 
in the garden of the Quinta dos Jasmineiros, on the 
western outskirts of Funchal. 
p- 455 (genus Paimorora). 
(Sp. 1250) Phleeopora corticina. 
When compiling my Canarian Catalogue (in 1864), I 
imagined that the present Phlaopora offered a few trifling 
characters sufficient to permit of its being treated as 
distinct from the common Huropean P. reptans. It is 
the opinion, however, of Dr. Sharp that it ought not to 
be separated from that species; and, on further consi- 
deration, I agree with him in so thinking. Until our 
late visit to Madeira it had been observed only (so far as 
these Atlantic Groups are concerned) in the Canarian 
archipelago; but during the early spring of last year I 
met with two examples of it in the latter island also,— 
namely, beneath the bark of a felled Spanish-chestnut 
tree at “the Mount,” about 1700 feet above Funchal. 
Hence, its corrected habitat and synonymy will be as 
follows; and perhaps it may be desirable, also, to add an 
emended diagnosis. 
Phleopora reptans. 
P. linearis, angustula, (abdomine nitidiusculo rugosi- 
usque punctato excepto) subopaca, subtilissime punctu- 
lata, pube fulvescenti demissi grossi vestita; capite 
prothoraceque nigris, illo subconvexo, hoc (interdum 
paulo dilutiore) transverso-quadrato, angulis posticis 
obtusis sed argute determinatis; elytris rufo-ferrugineis, 
versus basin et latera plus minus obscurioribus ; abdomine 
nigro, ad apicem ferrugineo; antennis brevibus, incras- 
Satis, fuso-, ad basin pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14. 
