248 Mr. T. V. WoUaston on the CohojAerous Fauna 



relatively a little iiarnnvcv and more oblong ; its prothorax is 

 just appreciably shorter and more distinctly pale at the mar- 

 gins (not only' laterally but, narrowly so, even Ix't'ore and be- 

 hind) ; its elytra are less black (being often scarei-ly more than 

 a lurid testaceous brown even on the disk), and ratlier niore 

 finely and obsoletely punctulatcd ; and the extreme tips of its 

 pal])i are usually infuscate. 



Dr. Sharp, in alluding to this Philh/drus, remarks that it 

 is closely allied in form and appearance to the European P. 

 marqineUus, but that it is not quite so large as that species, 

 and' that it is at once distinguishable from it by, inter aliuj its 

 very sparingly and obsoletely punctured elytra. 



Fam. Coccinellidae. 

 Genus ScYMNUS (Col. Hesp. p. 159). 

 After S.fon'coJa and immediately before S.fractus (p. 163), 

 insert the following : — 



Sci/m7iits conjunctus, n. sp. 



S. oralis, nigcr, subnilidus, grossc, longe et vix demissc cinerco- 

 pubcscens ; prothorace subconcolori (aut ad latera vix dilutiorc), 

 minute punctato, basi in medio levitcr sinuato ; dytris paulo 

 densius ac midto distinctius punctatis, singulis ad apicem macula 

 subluniformi (in disco postico sita), altera ovali longitudinal! 

 (intra discinn posita), et tertia (longe ante humoinim tcrminata, 

 necnon in subluniformcm postmcdiara longitudinaliter recte 

 colhmtc), rufo-testaceis ornatis; pcdibus saturate testaceis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1. 

 Ilahitat ins. 8. Vicente, a Dom. Gray scmel deprehcnsus. 



The present Sa/mnus, in its general aspect and coloration, 

 and much enlarged eyes, belongs to the same type as the 

 fracfiis, pictitratus, &c. of the Cape-Verde archipelago, as 

 well as the Canarian maculosus and the ]\ladeiran jlavo- 

 jnctus ; but, judging from the single example now before me, 

 it appears to be a tiitic larger than any of them, as well as a 

 little less shining and much more strongly punctured. From 

 the fractus ixud/jicfuraius (with which alone it could be con- 

 founded in the Caj)e-Verdc fauna) it may further be known 

 by its prothorax being somewhat broader and more sinuated 

 at the base, and by the subhumeral patch on each of its elytra 

 being confluent laterally with the exterior curve of the sub- 

 apical (or ])Ostmedial) lunate one. The specimen from which 

 my diagnosis has been drawn out was taken by IMr. Gray in 

 the island of 8. Vicente, and was overlooked by myself (when 

 compiling the ' Coleoptera liesperidum ') from the fact of its 

 being mixed up, at the time, in a small tube, with various 

 common forms which had been given to me by Mr. Gray. 



