264 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptet-a. 



distinctions from the M. congener, to which it appears at first sight 

 mnch allied, may be readily 2;at]iered froui the description ; 

 nevertheless, apart from minor characters, its somewhat narrower 

 and more linear outline, in conjunction with its paler elyti'a, 

 more pubescent and less deeply sculptured surface, and its elon- 

 gate-quadrate prothorax, will at once separate it from that insect. 

 It seems to differ in no respect, so far as I can perceive, from the 

 European M. quadricollis. 



Monotoma quadrifoveolata, Aube. 



M. rufo-ferruginea, subopaca, pilis pallidioribus brevibus sat dense 

 vestita ; capita postice subquadrato ; oculis parvulis, longe ante 

 basin capitis sitis ; protborace quadrate, ad latera valde incrassato- 

 marginato recto, sulcis duobus maximis interruptis (foveas quatuor 

 efficieutibus) longitudinaliter impresso ; eljtris leviter striato- 

 puuctatis et seriatim pilosis. 



Loiig. corp, lin. ^-l. 



Habitat Maderam australem, sub osslbus desiccatis et ligno in borto 

 Leacociano prope Funchal sat vulgaris. 



Monotoma 4-foveolata, Aube, Ana. de la Soc. Ent. de France, vi. 468, 



pb 17. f. 9 (1837). 

 , Redt., Fauna Austr. 203 (1849). 



M. pale reddish-ferruginous, nearly opake, and densely clothed 

 with a short, rigid, decumbent, paler pile. Head and prothorax 

 apparently not much punctured (if indeed at all — the surface 

 being hidden by the pubescence) : the former rather large, and 

 square behind, with tbe eyes small, black, and situated at a con- 

 siderable distance from the extreme base : the latter subquadrato, 

 being quite straight at the sides, and of almost equal breadth 

 before and behind ; with the lateral edges strongly margined 

 or thickened, but only appearing minutely crenulated beneath a 

 high magnifying power ; with the angles not at all produced ; 

 and with a very broad and deep longitudinal channel on cither 

 side of the disk, each of which is a little interrupted transversely 

 in the centre, — so as to constitute, in all, four foveae. Elytra 

 faintly striate-punctate, and with the pubescence arranged in 

 longitudinal rows down each of the series of punctures. Limbs 

 (especially tbe let^s) a shade paler, or more rufescent, than the 

 x'est of tbe surface. 



The M. 4-foveolata may be at once known from its three 

 Madeiran allies by {inter alia) its pale-ferruginous hue and very 

 pubescent surface, by its comparatively large subquadrato head 

 and small eyes, and by the four deep fovcee and unproduced 

 angles of its almost square and laterally margined prothorax. 

 It was detected by myself, in December 1858, beneath bones 

 and chippings of wood, in a small out-house in Mr. Leacock's 



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