of the Ca2)e- Verde Islands, , . 247 



likewise that the Gape-Vevde examples are specifically distinct 

 from those of the more northern arcliipelagos (which seem to 

 he the pol if UN, Kiist.). 



The ])rcsont P/u'/fn/dnis is deciclodly more abundant tlian 

 the following one, having- been found by ^Ir. (Jray and myself 

 in the islands of S. Antonio, S. Vicente, S. lago, and Brava, 

 in tlie first of which it was met with likewise by Dr. H.Dohrn. 

 It is rather smaller, and just appreciably shorter, than tlie P. 

 jioUtiis of more northern latitudes, its pi'othorax is (if any 

 thing) a trifle more abbreviated, and its ]ialpi and feet are 

 slenderer, — tlie latter, moreover (which difler but slightly in 

 the two sexes), liaving their claws considerably less developed, 

 and ai-med at the inner base with a less conspicuous denticle. 



In his remarks on the Atlantic species of Philhydinis, Dr. 

 Sharp observes i\\i\.ti\\Q,P.WoUastoni is "nearly as large as the 

 noi'thern P. meIanocej)haI us, hnt is darker and more uniform in 

 colour, Avitli its elytra sparingly and mucli more indistinctly 

 punctured, and witli tlie claws of its tarsi much smaller and 

 scarcely diftering in structure in the two sexes, — -in which 

 last respect it resembles the P. ovalis, Th., and manjinellus, 

 Fab., and ditfers decidedly from P. j)olitus, Kiist., and mari- 

 iimus, Th." 



Ph illiydrus hesperidum. 



P. oblongo-ovalis, miinis convcxus, nitidus, ubique leviter ct sub- 

 tiliter punctidatus (punctis in clj-tris seusim rcmotioribus ac sub- 

 obsoletis) ; capite nigro, maculis duabus i)arvis latcralibus ante 

 oculos, antcnnis (clava cxccpta), palpis (apice ipsissimo excepto) 

 tarsisque testaceis ; pedibus piceis ; prothorace brcvi, in disco 

 fusco-uigro, margiiiibiis (prasscrtim latcralibus) lurido-testaceis ; 

 coleoptcris lurido-testaceis, in disco phis minus obscurioribus 

 (rarius nigrcsccntibus), scriebus tribus irregularibus punctorum 

 majorum notatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. l|-2. 



Philhidrus melanocephalus (pars), WoU. [nee Oliv.l, Col. Hesp. 44 



(18G7). 

 Jiespen'dtim, Sharp, Ann. N. II. ser. 4. vol. v. p. 10 (1800). 



Uahitat 8. Antonio, S. Yiccnte, S. lago, ct Brava, in locis similibus 

 ac prxccdens sed rarior. 



Ohs. .Specici pnccedcnti affinis sed (ut a cl. Sharp dicitur, ct mihi 

 videtur) ccrtc distinctus. Differt corpore minore, minus convexo, 

 et paulo magis oblongo, punctura (saltern in elytris) subtilioro 

 obsoletiorc, prothorace scnsim breviore, marginibus evidcntius 

 dilutioribus, elytris minus nigris (intcrdum fere lurido-testaceis), 

 palpisque ad apiccm ipsissimum infuscatis. 



Apparently scarcer than the P. WoUasfoni, but captured by 

 Mr. (jrray and myself in 8. Antonio, S. Vicente, vS. lago, and 

 Brava. It is smaller and less convex than that species, and 



