408 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Madeiran Coleoptera. 



may be at once known from the S. Teutonus by [inter alia) its 

 rather smaller size and totally different hue, its upper surface 

 being of a dull metallic green — except the suture and the ex- 

 treme margins of the elytra and prothorax, which are paler. It 

 has been recorded as occurring in Spain, the south of France, 

 Corfu, Greece, and Egypt; and I have myself taken it in the 

 island of Grand Canary. 



Fam. Lathridiadse. 

 Genus Corticaria, Mshm. 



Corticaria maculosa, n. sp. 



C. elongato-oyata, fulvo-ferruginea, pubescens ; capite prothoraceque 

 profunde punctatis, hoc ad latera crenulato, fovea postmedia minus 

 profunda impresso ; elytris substriato-punctatis, macula nigra post- 

 media plus minus distincta in singulo ornatis ; antennis apicem 

 versus obscurioribus. 



Long. corp. lin. \-\\. 



C. elongate-ovate, pale fulvo- or rufo-ferruginous, pubescent, 

 and slightly shining. Head and prothorax beset with large but 

 not very close punctures; the latter with the edges rather 

 distinctly crenulated behind, and with the post-medial fovea 

 round and distinct, but not very deep. Elytra substriate- 

 punctate, and with a more or less apparent black patch on the 

 hinder disk of each, and occasionally with a very obscure cloud 

 towards the base of each, a little behind the scutellum. Antenna 

 rather dusky towards their apex. 



N.B. In some specimens (especially immature ones) the el)'^- 

 tral patches are entirely obsolete, under which circumstances 

 the insect is wholly ferruginous. 



Five specimens of the present Corticaria were captured by 

 myself in Madeira proper during the summer of 1855 ; but, as 

 they happened to be somewhat immature (and with the spots 

 therefore but faintly expressed), I had confounded them with 

 the C. fulva, of which I imagined them to be examples in which 

 the pubescence was rather less developed than usual. Having, 

 however, lately detected a mature and highly coloured one in 

 the collection of Mr. M. Park, I at once recognized it as identical 

 with a species which I have been recently taking in the Canarian 

 Gi'oup ; and this naturally led me to re-examine my supposed 

 individuals of fulva, amongst which I then readily perceived the 

 five above-mentioned specimens of what I now characterize as a 

 new and very interesting species. It is the only Corticaria that 

 I have yet seen in which there is any indication of distinct 

 patches of colouring ; but whether it may be identical with the 

 C. macularis, Fuss, of the European Catalogues (as the name 



