Atlantic Coleoptera. 295 
tempta”’ is likewise referable to the parva—which would 
consequently seem to be very widely spread over these 
various Atlantic islands. In Madeira it is exceedingly 
common (amongst refuse, and under the bark of felled 
trees) throughout the cultivated districts—particularly 
in gardens around Funchal; and in order that it may not 
be confounded with the still more minute, and darker, 
O. pusillima (which occurs also in the Madeiran Group), 
I subjoin the diagnosis of it given in my ‘ Coleoptera 
Hesperidum,’ along with its corrected synonymy and 
habitat. 
Oligota parva. 
O. linearis, subnitida, parce griseo-pubescens, fusco- 
nigra elytris plus minus fuscis, abdominis apice testaceo ; 
capite prothoraceque minutissime punctulatis; elytris 
abdomineque densius rugosiusque subasperato-punctatis ; 
antennis pedibusque saturate testaceis, illarum articulis 3 
ulterioribus parum abrupte incrassatis. 
Long. corp. lin. $-vix 3. 
Oligota inflata, Woll. [nee Mann.], Ins. Mad. 562 
(1854); Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 184 (1857). Oligota pygmea, 
Kraatz [nec Sol.], Berl. Ent. Zeitsch. 852 (1858). Oligota 
parva, Id., Ibid. 300 (1862). Oligota inflata, Woll., Cat. 
Can. Col. 555 (1864); Id., Col. Atl. 476 (1865). Oligota 
contempta, Id., Col. Hesp. 231 (1867). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); inter quisquilias, necnon 
sub cortice laxo emortuo, preecipue in cultis abundans. 
Amongst a large number of specimens of the O. parva 
(and a few of the pusillima) , which I collected in Madeira 
during the spring of 1870, there is one which has been 
identified by Dr. Sharp with his European O. rujficornis, 
and which appears to agree perfectly with English exam- 
ples (in my own collection) of that species. This there- 
fore is an undoubted addition to the Atlantic catalogue, 
and consequently I will briefly record it as follows :— 
Oligota ruficornis. 
O. linearis, subnitida, parce griseo-pubescens, nigra ; 
capite prothoraceque minutissime punctulatis ; elytris 
abdomineque densius rugosiusque subasperato-punctatis ; 
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