302 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
the title of “ punctatissimus” in 1843, it is clear that the 
one from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, if eventually 
upheld as distinct from the Huropean cupreus, will 
require re-naming; and I would therefore cite its syno- 
nymy afresh, as follows :— 
Ocypus fortunatarum. 
Ocypus punctatissimus, Woll. [nec Duf., Bull. Soc. 
Pau, 1843], Cat. Can. Col. 568 (1864); Id., Col. Atl. 
489 (1865). 
Hab.—Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.); sub lapidibus, 
passim. 
Obs.—Species O. cupreo affinis (sec D. Fauvel etiam 
zequalis), sed, nisi fallor, aut vere distincta aut varietas 
geographica. Differt corpore sub-angustiore, sub-obscu- 
riore (minus zneo), necnon capite (sub-minore) protho- 
raceque (sub-angustiore, magis lateraliter compresso) 
densius ac multo minutius punctatis. 
p. 490 (genus PuiLonruus). 
(Sp. 1858) Philonthus scybalarius. 
It appears necessary to cite this common European 
Philonthus (which is so abundant throughout the Ma- 
deiran and Canarian archipelagos, and which is found 
also at the Azores, Cape Verdes, and even at Ascension) 
as the longicornis, Steph.,—that name having the pre- 
cedence over Nordmann’s ‘“ seybalarius ;”? moreover 
Nordmann appears to have described the species under 
two different titles—scybalarius and fuscicormis. Hence 
the synonymy will be thus:— 
Philonthus longicornis. 
Philonthus longicornis (Kby.) Steph., Il. Brit. Ent. v. 
237 (1832). Philonthus scybalarius et fuscicornis, Nordm., 
Symb. 94 et 96 (1838). Philonthus varians, Woll. [nec 
Payk.], Ins. Mad. 583 (1854). Philonthus scybalarius, 
Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 189 (1857) ; Id., Cat. Can. Col. 571 
(1864) ; Id., Col. Atl. 492 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad., Pto. Sto.), et Canariensis 
(Lanz., Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro) ; sub stercore quis- 
quiliisque vulgaris. 
