248 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the CoIeojHewus Fauna 



relatively a little narrower and more oblong ; its protliorax is 

 just ajjpreciably shorter and more distinctly pale at the mar- 

 gins (not only laterally but, narrowly so, even before and be- 

 hind) ; its elytra are less black (being often scarcely more than 

 a lurid testaceous brown even on the disk), and rather more 

 finely and obsoletely punctulated ; and the extreme tips of its 

 palpi are usually infuscate. 



Dr. Sharp, in alluding to this Philhydrus, remarks that it 

 is closely allied in form and appearance to the European P. 

 marginellus, but that it is not quite so large as that species, 

 and that it is at once distinguishable from it by, i?iter alia^ its 

 very sparingly and obsoletely punctured elytra. 



Fam. Coccinellidae. 

 Genus Scymnus (Col. Hesp. p. 159). 



After B.floricola and immediately before S. fractus (p. 163), 

 insert the following : — 



Scymnus conjunctus^ n. sp. 



S. ovalis, niger, subnitidus, grosse, louge ct vix demisso cinereo- 

 pubesceiis ; prothoracc subconcolori (aut ad latcra vix dilutiore), 

 minute punetato, basi in medio levitcr sinuato ; dytris paulo 

 dcnsiiis ac miilto di.stinctius punctatis, singulis ad apiccm macula 

 subliniiformi (in disco postico sita), altera ovali longitudinali 

 (intra discum posita), et tertia (longe ante humcrum tcrminata, 

 necnon in subluniformcm postmcdiam longitudinaliter rccte 

 coovuitc), rufu-testaceis ornatis ; pedibus saturate testaceis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1. 



JIahitat ins. S. Vicente, a Dom. Gray semel deprehensus. 



The present Sci/))inus, in its general aspect and coloration, 

 and much enlarged eyes, belongs to the same type as the 

 fractus, picturatus, &c. of the Cape-Yerde archipelago, as 

 well as the Canarian maculosns and the Madeiran J/avo- 

 pictus ] but, judging from the single example now before me, 

 it appears to be a triile larger than any of them, as well as a 

 little less shining and much more strongly punctured. From 

 i\\(i fractus nndpicturaius (with Avhicli alone it could be con- 

 founded in the Cape-^'erde fauna) it may further be known 

 by its prothorax being somewhat broader and more sinuated 

 at the base, and by the subhumeral patch on each of its elytra 

 being confluent laterally with the exterior curve of the sub- 

 apical (or postmcdial) lunate one. The specimen from which 

 my diagnosis has been draAvn out was taken by Mr. Gray in 

 the island of S. Vicente, and was overlooked by myself (when 

 compiling the ' Coleoptera Hesj^eridum ') from the f-dct of its 

 being mixed up, at the time, in a small tube, with various 

 conmion forms which had been given to me by Mr. Gray. 



