312 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
lutely referred to the latter; for Mr. Rye, alluding to 
the double mistake of Fauvel, and after a very careful 
inspection of my type of the ocellatum (now in the British 
Museum), adds that the H. ocellatum, when compared 
with the Allardi, “appears to be lighter, shorter, and 
broader, with bright yellow ocelli and clear testaceous 
legs, and with a more transverse thorax—of which the 
sides are more rounded and more contracted behind, and 
the hinder angles more prominent (the fovea there being 
deeper), with rather shorter and less parallel elytra, 
which are less strongly and scarcely rugosely punctured, 
and with the abdomen not so dull, but with evident 
scattered punctuation.” And Mr. Rye then goes on to 
observe that ‘if, nevertheless, in spite of these discre- 
pancies, Mr. Wollaston’s imsect is to be considered 
identical with the H. Allardii, it will not disturb any 
references,—for the ocellatwm was described in the ‘ In- 
secta Maderensia’ in 1854, and Fairmaire’s species in the 
French ‘Annales’ for 1859.” [Vide Ent. Month. Mag. 
iv. 236. ] 
(Sp. 1443) Homalium clavicorne. 
This very distinct Madeiran Homalium, although so 
greatly attached to the rotten wood of the decaying 
Huphorbias, does not appear to be (as I had supposed) 
peculiar to that singular race of plants; for during our 
residence at ‘‘ the Mount” (about 1700 feet above Fun- 
chal), in the winter and spring of 1870, I took it in 
tolerable profusion out of the soft putrid stems of the 
fragrant Cestrum vespertinum, known as the “ Béllas- 
noites” by the Portuguese inhabitants of the island. 
Still, I believe it to be normally a Huphorbia-infesting 
species—for the “ Béllas-nédites” is not indigenous in 
Madeira, and it is hkewise reported by Mr. Crotch (Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond. 385; 1867) to have been met with 
abundantly “in Huphorbia-stems in Flores,” the most 
western island of the Azorean archipelago. 
After species 1444, add the following :-— 
Homalium concinnum. 
H. elongatum, subdepressum, nitidum, (abdomine 
excepto) minutissime vix pubescens; capite (triangulari, 
