296 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
antennis pedibusque saturate testaceis, illarum articulis 
3 ulterioribus parum incrassatis, ultimo seepius plus minus 
infuscato. 
Long. corp. lin. 3. 
Oligota ruficornis, Sharp, Ent. Month. Mag. vi. 232 
(1870). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.) ; tempore vernali, A.D. 1870, 
a meipso capta. 
This species is a little larger and relatively broader 
than the O. parva ; it is also blacker (neither the elytra nor 
the apex of the abdomen being much, if at all, diluted in 
hue), and its antennz are yellowish-testaceous, the apical 
joint only being usually a trifle infuscate. The only ex- 
ample which I have yet seen from any of these Atlantic 
islands was (as above stated) taken by myself, during 
the spring of 1870, in Madeira,—I believe near Funchal.* 
p. 477 (genus Somatium). 
(Sp. 1317) Somatium anale. 
Until our late visit to Madeira, I had considered this 
insect as one of the rarest of the native Coleoptera; but 
during a residence at S. Antonio da Serra, in the spring 
of 1870, | met with it in tolerable abundance—not only 
by sifting dead leaves and rubbish in sylvan cultivated 
spots, but more especially by shaking piled-up masses of 
rotten sticks which were thickly overgrown with lichen. 
Dr. Sharp has called my attention to the fact that it is 
certainly congeneric with the section of broad-bodied 
Oligotas represented in Europe by the O. wanthopyga, api- 
cata, and flavicornis,—which will probably combine, there- 
*In addition to the O. parva, ruficornis, pusillima, and the Canarian 
castanea, there is probably yet one more Atlantic Oligota, at least, which 
remains to be recorded; but as my material (at present available) is too 
scanty to render it desirable to erect a species in a group thus minute and 
obscure, I prefer putting it aside until more satisfactory examples shall 
hhave enabled me to pronounce upon it with precision. A single specimen 
however, which I took in Madeira during our late campaign, was singled 
out by Dr. Sharp as probably distinct (in its somewhat smaller head, 
longer elytra, &c.) from the remainder, and it seems likely also that three 
(rather imperfect) individuals which I captured formerly in Lanzarote of 
the Canarian archipelago are conspecific with it. These latter are what I 
assigned in my Canarian Catalogue to the inflata, Mann.; so that it is 
probable that a fifth species (perhaps as yet undescribed) remains to be 
recorded, and one which will be found to permeate both the Madeiran 
and Canarian Groups. 
