2oO On the Coleopterous Fauna of the Cajye-Verde I}>/an<ls. 



were received from the island of Fop^o*; and it ii,ives nie 

 great })loasnre to name tlic s])ecies after a naturalist so emi- 

 nent, and from whose liberality I have at various times de- 

 rived much valuable assistance in elucidating the Coleopterous 

 fauna of these immediate Atlantic groups. It is remarkable 

 for its rather large size, thickened body, and nearly opaque, 

 densely punctured surface — the elytra being, in addition, 

 sharply substriate-puuctate, and having a few lanjer punc- 

 tures scattered s})aringly down each alternate interstice. As 

 ctimpared with the 2\ moUtor and ohscurus, of more northern 

 latitudes, it may be said to be relatively a little broader and 

 not quite so strictly ])arallel (the elytra having generally a 

 slight tendency to be just appreciably dilated behind the mid- 

 dle), with its prothorax (which is neither transversely im- 

 pressed, nor bifoveolated, posteriorly) and its elytra more 

 deeply sinuate at their respective bases, and with its limbs 

 longer — the third and apical joints of the antennaj (which are 

 gradually subserrated internally, towards their apex), and the 

 first one of the four hinder feet, being, more particularly, 

 lengthened. Its sexual characters are somewhat peculiar, — 

 the male tibiae (especially the four hinder ones) being very 

 gently curved, and sparingly arnied along their inner edge 

 wath minute, distant, tuberculiform denticles. In the large 

 size of its transverse scutellum it has more in common with 

 T. molitor than with T. obscurus. 



Such are the three additions which have lately been made 

 to the Coleopterous fauna of the Cape Verdes — raising the 

 number of species which have hitherto been brought to light 

 in that barren archipelago from 278 to 281. The fact, also, 

 of the Carjwphilus mutilatus (which was taken most abun- 

 dantly by Mr. Gray and myself in S. Antonio and S. lago) 

 being included amongst some S.-Vicente insects which have 

 been given to me by ]\Ir. Gray, and of the Diplognatha ga<jates 

 (of which I obtained a single cxam})le in Brava) having been 

 communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, from Fofjo^ 

 Avill augment the heal lists of those two particular islands — 

 already increased, each of them, by one, through the new 



* I have no information as to the precise circumstances under which 

 the Tc-nchrio Paircf was found ; but there are many examples of it, mixed 

 up with the followinjr fourteen species, all of wliich ( witli the exception 

 of the l)iploynatha (/agates, whicli I met with in ]?rava only) I myself 

 captured in the low and iutenuediate districts of Fopo : — Calosoma senc- 

 yalensc and tcf/ulatum, Masoreiis spinipcs, C/ilanius nncoitynatus, Diplogna- 

 tha gagates, Coccinel/a 7-pimctata, Ilcgctcr tridis, Oxgcara siniilh, Scaurus 

 varioloms, Mclanocoina vestita, Trichosternum granulosiim, and Oputrum 

 patruele, clavipes, and hispidum. 



