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Tribolium, Tenebrio, Alphitobius, Trogosita, &c.) which have 

 become gradually naturalized through the direct agency of com- 

 merce, and it cannot therefore be properly ignored. As above 

 stated, several specimens of it were captured by Mr. M. Park in 

 a cask of bad flour (he believes American) which had remained 

 for more than a year in the Custom-House at Funchal. 



Fam. Anthicidae. 

 Genus OcHTHENOMUS, Schmidt. 



Ochthenomus punctatus. 



Ochthenomus punctatus, Dej. Cat. des Col. 239 (1837). 



, Lafeite, Mou. des Anth. 283 (1848). 



, Lucas, Col. de I'Algerie, 380 (1849). 



A single specimen of this insect was captured by Mr. M. Park 

 beneath a stone, in the Ribeira de S'^ Luzia, near Funchal. 

 Since it belongs to a genus new to the Madeiran fauna, it may 

 be as well to state that the Ochthenomi are insects of Mediter- 

 ranean latitudes, and apparently but few in number. They may 

 be known from the true Anthici by the very peculiar structure 

 of their upper surface, which is coriaceous and opake, and is 

 densely beset with excessively short and stiff silvery hairs, which 

 have the appearance of very minute scales. Their limbs are 

 elongated and slender; their head oblong and more or less rect- 

 angular, being generally a little wdder than (and about as long 

 as) the prothorax, from which it is detached by a very evident 

 and narrow neck ; and their eyes are smaller and less prominent, 

 and the penultimate joint of their maxillary palpi is rather longer 

 and less transverse, than is the case in Ant.hicus proper. The 

 O. punctatus is recorded as occurring in Spain, the south of 

 France, Sardinia, and Algeria ; and I have taken a closely allied 

 species in the island of Palma of the Canaries. 



Such are the ten additions which I have been enabled, princi- 

 pally through the successful researches of Mr. M. Park (to whom 

 the discovery of no less than seven of them are due), to make to 

 the ^Madeiran Coleoptera during the past year. In January last 

 1 had to record (vide ^Annals,' ser. ii. vol. xx. pp. 504, 505) three 

 species wliich were not included in my then recently published 

 Catalogue, which raised the entire number (from 580) to 583. 

 Even that, however, is now still further increased, — the species 

 which have been observed in the Madeiras up to the present 

 date {i. e. October 1858) amounting to 593. 



