458 Mr. T. V. Vv^ollaston on Additions to Madeiran ColeojHera. 



larger and more conspicuous. JLhjtra rather more parallel at 

 the sides than in that insect^ with the interstices moi'e evidently 

 punctured, and with the white spots larger and more confluent 

 — forming a more or less conspicuous (though broken) fascia 

 on each behind the middle. Pygidium more variegated than in 

 the B. rufimanus, the two black patches at the apex being larger. 

 Antermte rather short and very robust ; their base, as well as the 

 front tibice and tarsi, the apical portion (sometimes the whole) of 

 the intermediate tibice, and the intermediate tarsi dull rufo-testa- 

 ceous. Hinder femora with a very large and acute tooth beneath. 

 The distinctions between the B. Pisi and the common B. ru- 

 Jimanus will be at once gathered from the above comparative 

 diagnosis. I find a single example among some old insects col- 

 lected by Mr. M. Park near Funchal ; and four more were com- 

 municated to me a year ago by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, 

 amongst a quantity of common and ordinary species stated to 

 have been taken at Cani5al. It is abundant in the Canaries (as 

 it is throughout central and southern Europe and the north of 

 Africa), where I have brushed it from out of the pea-tields in at 

 least three of the islands ; and it will probably be found equally 

 common in such localities in Madeira also. 



Fam. HalticidsB. 

 Genus Longitarsus. 

 Latreille, Fam. Nat. du Regne Anim. 405 (1825). 

 Longitarsus abdominalis, Dufts. 



L. ovatus, convexus, subnitidus, rufo-ferrugineus ; capite, antennis 

 (breviusculis) apieem versus necnon apice femorum posticorum 

 picescentibus ; elytris minus rufescentibus, levissime subseriatim 

 punctatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. vix^. 



Habitat in graminosis Maderse, sestate 1855 a meipso detectus. 



Haltica abdominalis, Dufts., Fua. Austr. iii. 262 (1825). 



L. ovate, convex, slightly shining, and reddish-ferruginous. 

 Head of a darker, or more piceous hue than the prothorax, 

 which is very lightly and obscurely subpunctulatcd. Elytr-a a 

 little paler than the prothorax, and regularly ovate, being rounded 

 inwards towards the shoulders ; very finely, but more perceptibly 

 punctured than the prothorax, the punctures having the slight- 

 est possible tendency to be disposed in longitudinal rows; and 

 with the suture a trifle darker than the rest of the surface. An- 

 tennte rather short ; dusky towards their apex ; their base, the 

 four anterior legs, and the tiro hinder tibia; and tarsi, testaceous. 



Three specimens of this insect I had inadvertently mixed up. 



