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postice) plus minus obscure fuscescentioribus ; prothorace 
transverso, basi leviter bisinuato; antennis breviusculis, 
subrobustis, ad basin pedibusque saturate testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. circa 1. 
Placusa infima, Hrich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 196 (1839); 
Redt., Fna. Austr. 823 (1849); Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. 
Deutsch. ii. 333 (1858). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); sub cortice laxo in casta- 
netis longe supra urbem Funchalensem a meipso parce 
deprehensa. 
Whether the P. infima has been naturalized in Madeira, 
or whether it is truly indigenous, it is useless to speculate ; 
suffice it to observe that it was found within the cultivated 
districts, at an elevation of about 1700 feet above the 
sea, and that I did not observe it (in spite of a two 
months’ residence on the actual spot) except beneath the 
bark of a single Spanish-chestnut tree. 
p. 473 (genus ALEocHARA). 
(Sp. 1310) Aleochara mesta. 
During our sojourn (in the spring of 1870) at S. 
Antonio da Serra, on the eastern mountains of Madeira, 
we met with one more example of this common Huropean 
Aleochara—by sifting rubbish in an outhouse which 
adjomed our residence. ‘The only Madeiran example 
which, until then, had come beneath my notice was cap- 
tured by myself, in 1855, in the Ribeira de Sta. Luzia. 
After species 1312, add :— 
Aleochara clavicornis. 
A. nigra, elytris, antennarum basi, palpis pedibusque 
fusco-testaceis, nitida, grosse sed vix dense fulvo-pubes- 
cens, parce et subasperate punctata ; abdomine apicem 
versus dilutiore; antennis crassis et (basi excepta) 
piceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14. 
Aleochara clavicornis, Redt., Fna. Austr. 822 (1849); 
Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 108 (1858) ; Woll., 
Col. Hesp., Append., 277 (1867). 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1871.—ParT 1. (MAY.) x 
