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wards either edge. Elytra generally a little diluted in colouring 

 posteriorly, but always with the outer apical angle testaceous, 

 very sparingly seriate-punctate (more evidently so towards either 

 side). Antenna brownish piceous, but a little brighter at their 

 base. Legs piceo-testaceous. 



A single specimen of the common European L. parumpunctatus 

 has lately been forwarded to me by Mr. Bewicke, by whom it was 

 captured, amongst hay-stack refuse, at the Palheiro (in Madeira 

 proper), during November 3 860. Though probably an intro- 

 duced insect from more northern latitudes, this is the second 

 species of Leptacinus which the researches of Mr. Bewicke have 

 added to the fauna, — theL. linearis, Grav., having been recorded 

 by me last year, on the authority of five examples which he de- 

 tected (under similar circumstances) at S. Antonio da Serra. I 

 may add that I have also taken it in Lanzai'ote, Fuerteventura, 

 Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma, of the Canary Islands. 



At the close of my last year's Papers (published in the ' Annals 

 of Natural History') on "Additions to the Madeiran Coleo- 

 ptera," I stated that the species which had been detected in 

 those islands up to that date amounted to 642. Since, however, 

 through not having the original type any longer in my posses- 

 sion, I had inadvertently re-described an insect (the Rhjncoltis 

 capitulum) which had been already characterized by me during 

 the preceding year, the number should properly have been 641; 

 so that, when the five * species here enumerated are taken into 

 account, we shall have 646 as the total number which has 

 hitherto been ascertained to occur at the Madeiras. I have still 

 two or three doubtful forms which, from being represented by 

 single specimens, I cannot safely pronounce upon until further 

 material has been obtained ; nevertheless, from the slowness with 

 which additions to the fauna are now brought to light — and 

 that, too, despite the careful researches of Mr. Bewicke, Senhor 

 Moniz, the Barao do Castello de Paiva, and Mr. E. Leacock 

 (particularly, however, of Mr. Bewicke, to whose indefatigable 

 labours the present novelties are due) — we may fairly conclude 

 that we are fast approaching the maximum to which our list can 

 be expected, as limited by the existing fauna, to reach. Fresh 

 importations will almost certainly from time to time take place ; 

 for since it is an undoubted fact that minute Coleoptera are 

 frequently naturalized in the island (which indeed must be the 

 case so long as the gardens of the English residents are liable 

 to be replenished, year after year, with various plants, whether 

 for use or ornament, from more northern latitudes), it is evident 



* I say " five," and not six, because the Zonitis imperialis is merely an 

 old species under a new name. 



