338 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleopter'a. 



immense, more or less confluent spots, of which two large ones 

 join each other at the extreme base (behind the scutellum), whilst 

 those immediately behind coalesce so as to form an oblique ante- 

 medial zigzag fascia, reaching from either shoulder to about the 

 middle of the suture ; then follows a longitudinal patch on the 

 outer posterior disk, and then a larger one (near the suture) 

 behind it, both of which merge into a marginal one; after which 

 there is a small rounded spot at the apex itself. Antenna and legs 

 brownish-testaceous: the former rather slender, with their club 

 (which is a little darker) only slightly enlarged ; the latter robust, 

 with the outer edge of their tibiae and the apical joint of their 

 tarsi infuscated. 



Referring to this interesting addition to the Madeiran fauna, 

 Mr. Bewicke has transmitted to me the following note : — " Mr. 

 Anderson captured the first, from off a clump of Stone Pine 

 (Pinus pined) to the south of S. Antonio church, about two miles 

 from Funchal. I think this was taken in May. A few days 

 afterwards I obtained four more — two from off the same trees 

 as Mr. Anderson's, and two from off others of the same species 

 about half a mile distant — below S. Martinho. On a subsequent 

 day I met with four more, on trees in the same district ; and I 

 have recently found one in Mr. Grimes's garden, on the Saltos 

 road, above Funchal. It is only on trees in floiver that I have 

 hitherto observed them ; but I failed in detecting any Aphides 

 on which they might feed." 



Fam. Helopidae. 



Genus Helops. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 257 (1775). 



11. Helops arboricola, n. sp. 



H. subcylindrico-oblongus, ater, subopacus ; capite protboraceque 

 confertissime punctulatis (punctis subconfluentibus), hoc longius- 

 culo, utrinque versus basin plus minus valde sinuato, angulis pos- 

 ticis plus minus acutis ; elytris subparallelis, densissime et minute 

 granulatis (granulis versus suturam obsoletis), crenato-striatis, 

 interstitiis tuberculis parvis remotis longitudinaliter obsitis ; an- 

 tennis pedibusque elongatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 7. 



Habitat in intermediis Maderae, sub cortice arborum laxo emortuo 

 a Dom. Bewicke captus. 



Helops arboricola, Bewicke, in litt. 



H. subcylindrical-oblong, black, and subopake. Head and 

 prothorax most densely punctulated, the punctures being sub- 

 confluent and a little coarser on the former than on the latter ; 

 the latter rather elongate, with the anterior angles somewhat 



