Mr. T. \. Wollastoa 07i Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 217 



^'^l^^-—Oii Additions to the Madeirmi Coleoptera. 

 By T. ViniNON- Wollastox, M.A., F.L.S. 



Fam. Carabidae. 

 Genus Apotoaius. 

 (Hoffm.) Illiger, Mag. fiir lus. vi. 348 (1807). 

 Apotomus Chaudoirii. 

 A. rufo-ferrugiueus, dense pubescens, capite prothoraceque nitidis- 

 simis ; elytris profunde punctato-striatis ; antennis, palpis pedi- 

 busque pallido-testaceis, auteunarum articulis quiiito, sexto et 

 septimo nigrescentibus. 

 Long. Corp. liu. 2. 



Apotomus rufus. Well, [nee Rossi], Ins. Mad. 14 (1854). 

 , Well., Brit. Mus. Cat. 6 (1857). 



Habitat sub lapidibus in locis maritimis iMadera; et Portus Sancti 

 tempore vernali, passim. 



Although I can scarcely persuade myself that the Madeirau 

 Apotomus is anything more than a geograjihical state of the 

 Mediterranean A. rufus (to which I have hitherto referred it), I 

 am nevertheless induced to separate it therefrom on the high 

 authority of the Baron Maxmillian de Chaudoir, who has lately 

 informed me that he considers it specifically distinct; and I 

 feel the more bound to do this on account of tlie great attention 

 which he had paid for many years to the Carabidte. I have 

 therefore much pleasure in dedicating it to him. It seems to 

 differ from the ordinaiy European form in the much paler 

 colom- of Its antennae, palpi, and legs, the first of which, more- 

 over, have their fifth, sixth, and seventh joints very much darker 

 than the remainder,— the basal four and apical four being al- 

 ways pale. The Baron Chaudoir also pointed to some differ- 

 ence in the pubescence ; but, on comparing the Madeiran ex- 

 amples with specimens which I possess from the south of France 

 and Corfu, I cannot detect anything peculiar in this respect. 



Genus Zargus. 



Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 22, tab. i. f. 4, 5, 6 (1854). 



Zargus Monizii, n. sp. 



Z. nigro-piceus, fere concolor (marginibus vix dilutioribus), nitidus, 

 subdepressus ; prothorace parvo angusto subquadrato ; elvtris 

 striatis ; antennis basi pedibiisqne jiallidis, infuscatis, illis apicem 

 versus fusco-piceis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 3i-3|. 



Hahitat in Madera anstrali, a cl. Doni. Moniz. meuse Decembri 

 A.D. 1858 repertus. 



Z. dark-piceous, and almost concolorous (the margins of the 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Scr. '). I 'ol. v. 1.5 



