250 On the Coleopterous Fauna of the Cape-Verde Islands. 



were received from the island of Fogo * ; and it gives me 

 great pleasure to name the species after a naturalist so emi- 

 nent, and from whose liberality I have at various times de- 

 rived much valuable assistance in elucidating the Coleopterous 

 fauna of these immediate Atlantic groups. It is remarkable 

 for its rather large size, thickened body, and nearly opaque, 

 densely punctured surface — the elytra being, in addition, 

 sharply substriate-punctate, and having a few larger punc- 

 tures scattered sparingly down each alternate interstice. As 

 compared with the T. molitor and ohscurus^ of more northern 

 latitudes, it may be said to be relatively a little broader and 

 not quite so strictly parallel (the elytra having generally a 

 slight tendency to be just appreciably diLatcd behind the mid- 

 dle), Avith its prothorax (which is neither transversely im- 

 pressed, nor bifoveolated, posteriorly) and its elytra more 

 deeply sinuate at their respective bases, and with its limbs 

 longer — the third and apical joints of the antennas (which are 

 gradually subserrated internally, towards their apex), and the 

 first one of the four hinder feet, being, more particularly, 

 lengthened. Its sexual characters are somewhat peculiar, — 

 the male tibise (especially the four hinder ones) being very 

 gently curved, and sparingly armed along their inner edge 

 with minute, distant, tuberculiform denticles. In the large 

 size of its transverse scutellum it has more in common Avith 

 T. molitor than with T. ohscurus. 



Such arc the three additions which have lately been made 

 to the Coleopterous fauna of the Cape Verdes — raising the 

 num1)er of species which have hitherto been brought to light 

 in that barren archipelago from 278 to 281. The fact, also, 

 of the Carpophilus mutilatus (which was taken most abun- 

 dantly by Mr. Gray and myself in S. Antonio and S. lago) 

 being included amongst some S.-Vicente insects which have 

 been given to me by Mr. Gray, and of the Diplognatha gagates 

 (of which I obtained a single example in Brava) having been 

 communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, from Fogo, 

 will augment the local lists of those two particular islands — 

 already increased, each of them, by one, through the neAv 



* I have no information as to the precise circumstances under wliich 

 the Tmebrio Pawep was found ; but there are many examples of it, mixed 

 up with the following fourteen species, all of which (with the exception 

 of the DipIor/)iafJia (jagates, which I met with in Brava only) I myself 

 captured in the low and intermediate districts of Fogo : — Calosovm sene- 

 galense and tegulatum, Masoreiis spinipes, Chlanins imcosignatus, Diplogna- 

 tha gagates, Coccinclhi 7-pnnctata, Hcgcter tristis, Oxycara siniilis, Scaurus 

 variolosus, Mclcuwcoma vestita, Trichosterimm granulusum, and Ojjatnini 

 patniele, cluvijjcs, and Mspidum. 



