308 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
subquadrato; elytris longioribus, postice plus minus ob- 
solete obscurioribus; abdomine fusco, apice dilutiore ; 
antennis pedibusque subgracilibus, breviusculis, rufo- 
testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. circa 13. 
Inthocharis fuscula, Woll. [nec Mann.], Ins. Mad. 589 
(1854) ; Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 193 (1857). Lithocharis 
apicalis, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 715 (1858). 
Lithocharis fuscula, Woll., Col. Atl. 505 (1865). Litho- 
charis apicalis, Crotch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 384 
(1867). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.) ; sub quisquiliis in cultis 
inferioribus preecipue degens; etiam in hortis ipsis Fun- 
chalensibus interdum abundat. 
Obs.—Species L. fuscula, Mann., paulo minor, gracilior, 
multo subtilius (densissime) punctulata et densius griseo- 
pubescens, capite minore, nigrescentiore, elytris plus 
minus inequaliter nebulosis (sc. postice, necnon inter- 
dum in regione scutellari, gradatim obscuratis), antennis 
pedibusque paulo brevioribus, gracilioribus, clarioribus. 
L. ripicola, Kr., subminor, subgracilior, subopacior, 
paulo densius pubescens, ac sensim minutius (preesertim 
in capite quadratiore, minore) punctulata, prothorace 
paululum obscuriore et magis quadrato (7. e. postice 
minus evidenter angustato), elytris postice plus minus 
nebuloso-obscuratis, necnon antennis pedibusque vix 
sub-brevioribus. 
(Sp. 1400) Lithocharis tricolor. 
Mr. Crotch, in his list of Azorean Coleoptera, has 
mentioned (Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 384; 1867) that 
Marsham’s name “ftricolor”? cannot be retained for this 
Lithocharis, seeing that there was already a Staphylinus 
tricolor published by Fabricius in 1787, and which applied 
moreover to a totally different insect—the well-known 
European Xantholinus. Hence there appears to be no 
title for this common species (that of ‘‘ melanocephalus” 
pertaining to the cognate form with more abbreviated 
elytra) until we come to Kraatz’s “ ruficollis;” so that 
the corrected synonymy will have to stand thus :— 
