266 Mr. T. V. "Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 



than tliose on the elytra. Prothorax transverse-quadrate (being 

 very shghtly narrowed behind), and free from all inequalities 

 and depressions. Elytra a little shorter than the abdomen 

 (which is black, and has the pygidium partially exposed), and a 

 shade darker in colour than the head and prothorax ; the punc- 

 tures without the slightest tendency to be disposed in longitu- 

 dinal rows. Limhs testaceous. 



I have but little hesitation in referring the present insect to 

 the M. jjicinus of Aube (from Corsica and Algeria), with the 

 description of which it agrees exactly. It is of about the size, 

 and nearly the outline, of the Euroj^eau M. vapurariorum ; 

 nevertheless, it is darker than that species (being rufo-piceous 

 instead of testaceous, and with its elytra almost piceous), more 

 shining, rather less pubescent, and with its punctation very 

 much larger and deeper. A single specimen of it has been 

 captured by Mr. Bewicke, in his garden at the Palmeira, above 

 Eunchal. 



Earn. Dermestidae. 



Genus Attagenus. 



Latrcille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. ii. 33 (180.2). 



Atto genus Schcefferi, Herbst. 



A. ovalis, nigro-piceus, supra uigro- et (saltern intra angulos protho- 

 racis posticos) subtlavescenti-pubesccns, infra subcinereo-flaves- 

 centi-pubesceus ; elytris plus minus distincte piccsceutioribus ; 

 antennarum basi pedibusque ferrugineis. 



Long. Corp. liu. If-2. 



Mas, antennarum articiilo ultimo longissimo, subarcuato, cnsiformi. 



Habitat urbcm Funchalensem, in doniibus mcrcatorumquc rcposi- 

 toriis a T>om. Moniz sestate 1858 detectus. 



Meyatomu Schcefferi, Ilbst., Kiif. iv. 93. 



Dermestes Schoiff'eri, Gyll., Ins. Succ. i. 152 (1808). 



Ailayenus Schafferi, Ericlis., Nat. dcr Ins. Dcutschl. iii. 440 (1848). 



A. similar to the A. megntoma, but a little larger and more 

 ])iccous (especially the elytra, which arc sometimes subrufescent), 

 and with a slight admixture of yellowish-cinereous (along with 

 the black) pile on the anterior part of its upj)cr surface, — parti- 

 cularly along the hinder margin of the prothorax, and occa- 

 sionally also toward.s the extreme base of the elytra. The mules 

 with the ultimate joint of their antenme even longer still than 

 in the A. megatomii, and slightly bent, or ensiform. 



Several specimens of this insect, which ap})roaches very closely, 

 at first sight, to the A. megatoma, but which (even though not 

 according precisely with Erichson's description) I believe to be 

 correctly referred to the European A, Schcejferi (and whicli, I 



