304 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Canarian, and Cape Verde Groups, but reported also 
from Egypt, the Mauritius, Madagascar, and Assam. 
Its corrected synonymy must stand thus :— 
Philonthus turbidus. 
Philonthus turbidus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 484 
(1839). Philonthus punctipennis, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 
192 (1857); Id., Cat. Can. Col. 575 (1864); Id., Col. 
Atl. 495 (1865). Philonthus turbidus, Id., Col. Hesp. 
240 (1867). ‘ 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.), et Canarienses (Can., 
Gom.) ; sub quisquliis in humiusculis, rarior. 
(Sp. 1867) Philonthus filiformis. 
I took a single example of this very rare little Ma- 
deiran Philonthus during our late sojourn at “the 
Mount”—about 1700 feet above Funchal. It is very 
closely allied to the P. tenellus, found in Teneriffe and 
Gomera; but, in addition to the distinctive characters 
(of smaller eyes, less deeply sculptured elytra, and more 
flattened, less coarsely punctured abdominal segments) 
which I pointed out at p. 577 of my Canarian Catalogue, 
it may be further known from that species by its head 
being a little squarer and more developed (being appre- 
ciably wider behind the eyes, and more straightly 
truncated at the base), by its elytra being less picescent 
and perhaps a trifle longer, and by its antennz also 
being somewhat obscurer, and just perceptibly less 
abbreviate. 
Whether the Philonthus which is admitted by Mr. 
Crotch into his Azorean list, on the strength of “‘a single 
specimen from a mountain-stream in Fayal,” and which 
in 1867 he cited (evidently by mistake) as the “ P. 
provimus, Woll.” (vide Proc. Zool. Soc. 383), but subse- 
quently corrected (teste Godman’s Azores, 91; 1870) into 
“ P. filiformis,’ be this Madeiran species, or its near 
Canarian ally, I have no means of ascertaining; but in 
all probability Mr. Crotch is right in his subsequent 
identification, and it will prove to be the Madeiran one. » 
