290 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 



tion to the fauna is extremely interesting, since it raises the 

 species of Tarphius which have now been brought to light in the 

 Madeiran archipelago alone to no less a number than twenty. 

 So that, with the nine Canarian ones and the T. gibbulus from 

 Sicily, there are exactly thirty Tarphii now on record ! 



Fam. Cryptophagidae. 



Genus Leucohimatium. 



Rosenhaur, Die Thiere Andalus. 179 (1856). 



3. Leucohimatium elongatum. 



L. fuscoferrugineum, albido pubescens ; capite protboraceque sat 

 parce punctatis, hoc subquadrato postice paulo angustiore, angulis 

 anticis oblique incrassatis, ad latera minutissime crenulato, basi 

 utrinque foveola obscura punctiformi notato ; elytris subtiliter 

 striato-punctatis, inter stitiis uniseriatim punctulatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 1^. 



Habitat supra urbem Funchalensem ; specimina duo nuper detexit 

 Dom. Anderson. 



Paramecosoma elongata, Erichs., Nat. der Ins. Deutschl. iii. 371 (1848). 

 Leucohimatium angustum, Rosenh., Die Thiere Andal. 179 (1856). 



L, narrow, parallel, brownish-ferruginous, and clothed (though 

 not very densely) with a white, robust, decumbent pile. Head 

 and prothorax punctured : the latter subquadrate and a little 

 narrowed posteriorly, with the anterior angles obliquely incras- 

 sated, with the sides very minutely crenulated, and with a small 

 punctiform impression on either side behind, at the extreme 

 base. Elytra finely striate-punctate ; the interstices with a 

 series of very minute punctules down each. Limbs scarcely 

 paler than the rest of the surface. 



Two examples of this insect, which is found sparingly through- 

 out southern (and even central) Europe, and which I have 

 myself captured in the island of Palma of the Canarian group, 

 were detected, during the spring of the present year, by Mr. F. 

 A. Anderson, who found them in a grassy spot by the side of a 

 small footpath which leads into the S ta Luzia ravine below the 

 church of San Roque. One of these specimens Mr. Anderson 

 has kindly presented to the collection of the British Museum. 



Fam. Lathridiadse. 



Genus Metophthalmus. 



Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 192. tab. iv. f. 4 (1854). 



4. Metophthalmus sculpturatus, n. sp. 



M. subovalis, rufo-ferrugineus ; capite prothoraceque inaequalibus, 



