288 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
An abundant Homalota throughout the entire sylvan 
districts of Madeira,—occurring, normally, from about 
2000 to 5000 feet above the sea. It appears to belong 
to the same group as the Huropean H. fungi. 
Homalota Sharpiana, n. sp. 
H. precedenti similis, sed plerumque paulo major et 
vix sublatior; capite (sensim latiore) , prothorace elytris- 
que conspicue clarioribus, sc. lete rufo-testaceis aut 
testaceo-rufis: abdomine utin H. sanguinolenta sed magis 
setoso et versus apicem leetius dilutiore; antennis sub- 
robustioribus, ac paululum minus obscurioribus. 
Long. corp. lin. 13-13. 
Homalota sanguinolenta, var. 8, Woll., Ins. Mad. 547 
(1854); (pars), Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 173 (1857); (pars), 
Id., Col. Atl. 459 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); in regionibus sylvaticis una 
cum specie precedente degens, sed in locis valde humidis 
precipue abundat. Species in honorem cl. D. Sharp 
citata, Staphylinorum indefessi oculatissimi scrutatoris. 
This is on the average a trifle larger, and perhaps 
broader, than the H. sangwinolenta, and its head (which 
is appreciably more developed), prothorax, and elytra 
are of a much paler and redder hue,—being clear rufo- 
testaceous ; its abdomen is more diluted at the apex, and 
more densely studded with long sete ; and its antennz 
are a little more robust, and not quite so dark. It is 
found in company with the H. sanguinolenta, but is usually 
the rarer of the two; nevertheless during the spring of 
1870 I met with it in great abundance throughout the 
entire region of 8. Antonio da Serra,—perhaps, on the 
whole, in somewhat wetter places than those which are 
generally most favourable to its ally. I have much 
pleasure in naming it after Dr. D. Sharp, whose indefati- 
gable labours amongst the European Staphylinide are 
well known, and to whom I have been much indebted for 
many valuable remarks on the affinities of some of the 
Atlantic species. 
(Sp. 1262) Homalota haligena. 
Although manifestly allied (as I have elsewhere stated) 
to the H. sanguinolenta, Dr. Sharp is of opinion that the 
