of tlie. Cape-Verde Islands. 2A1 



likewise that tlie Cape- Verde examples are specjiically distinct 

 from those of the more northern archipelagos (which seem to 

 be i\\Q. politusj Kiist.). 



The present Philhjdriis is decidedly more abundant than 

 the following one, having been found by IMr. Gray and myself 

 in the islands of S. Antonio, S. Vicente, S. lago, and Brava, 

 in the first of wliich it was met with likewise by Dr. H.Dohrn. 

 It is rather smaller, and just appreciably shorter, than the P. 

 politus of more northern latitudes, its prothorax is (if any 

 thing) a trifle more abbreviated, and its palpi and feet are 

 slenderer, — the latter, moreover (which differ but slightly in 

 the two sexes) , having their claws considerably less developed, 

 and armed at the inner base with a less conspicuous denticle. 



In his remarks on the Atlantic species of PInl/ii/drus, Dr. 

 Sharp observes that the P. Wollasfojii is "nearly as large as the 

 northern P. mela?iocephaIus, but is darker and more uniform in 

 colour, with its elytra sparingly and much more indistinctly 

 punctured, and with the claws of its tarsi much smaller and 

 scarcely differing in structure in the two sexes, — in which 

 last respect it resembles the P. ovalis, Th., and marginellus^ 

 Fab., and differs decidedly from P. politus^ Klist., and marl- 

 tinms, Th." 



Ph Wiydrus liesperidum. 



P. oblougo-ovalis, minus convexus, nitidus, ubiquc Icviter ct sub- 

 tilitcr piuictulatus (punctis in elytris scusim remotioribns ac siib- 

 obsoletis) ; capite nigro, maculis duabns parvis latcralibus aute 

 oculos, antennis (clava excepta), palpis (apice ipsissimo excepto) 

 tarsisque testaceis ; pedibus piceis ; prothorace brcvi, in disco 

 fusco-nigro, margiuibus (pra;sei'tim latcralibus) lurido-testaecis ; 

 colcopteris lurido-testaceis, in disco plus minus obscurioribus 

 (rarius nigrescentibus), seriebus tribus irregularibus punctorum 

 majorum notatis. 



Long. Corp. liii. l|-2. 



PhiUii/drus melanocephalus (pars), WoU. [nee Oliv.], Col. Ilesp. 44 



(1867). 

 Jiesjjcridnm, Sharp, Ann. N. II. ser. 4. vol. v. p. 10 (1809). 



Habitat S. Antonio, S. Yiccnte, S. lago, et Brava, in locis similibus 

 ac proecedcns sed raiior. 



Ohs. Speciei pra^ecdenti affinis sed (ut a cl. Sharp dicitur, et mihi 

 videtur) certc distinctus. Differt corporc minorc, minus convexo, 

 ct paulo magis oblongo, punctura (saltern in elytris) subtiliore 

 obsoletiore, prothorace scnsim brcviore, marginibus evidcntius 

 dilutioribus, elytris minus nigris (interdum fere hmdo-testaceis), 

 palpisque ad apiccm ipsissimura infuscatis. 



Apparently scarcer than the P. WoIIasfoni, but captured by 

 I\Ir. Gray and myself in S. Antonio, S. Vicente, S. lago, and 

 Brava. It is smaller and less convex than that species, and 



