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joints, moreover, bemmg much less transverse, and the legs of a 
paler hue. 
(Subfam. TacuyporipgEs.) 
Genus Hypocyprus. 
Mannerheim, Brachél. 58 [script. Hypocyphtus] (1831). 
Hypocyptus reductus, n. sp. 
H. acuminato-obovatus, convexus, niger, nitidus, pubescens; pro- 
thorace ad latera angustissime diluto; elytris valde abbreviatis, 
singulatim oblique truncatis ; antennis pedibusque piceo-testaceis, 
illarum articulo ultimo longitudine reducto. 
Long. corp. lin. 2. 
Habitat Maderam, in ipsa urbe Funchalensi a meipso semel lectus. 
H. obovate, being rounded in front and acuminated behind, 
convex, black, shining, scarcely perceptibly punctulated (even 
beneath the microscope), and sparingly clothed with a fine, de- 
cumbent, cinereous pile. Head transverse, and somewhat acu- 
minated between the eyes. Prothorax and elytra of the same 
breadth at their point of junction: the former with its hinder 
angles acute and produced, and with its extreme lateral edge 
narrowly diluted in hue ; the latter very short, and each of them 
obliquely truncated behind. Antenne but very slightly incras- 
sated at their apex, and with their ultimate joint shorter and 
rather more obtuse than in the ordinary Hypocypti, rufo-testa- 
ceous at the base; their apical portion, as well as the femora 
and tibiae, darker, or more piceous. Tarsi pale testaceous. 
A single example of the present Hypocyptus was taken by 
myself from beneath a piece of board which was lying on the 
damp earth in the garden of the American Consulate, in the 
very centre of Funchal. From the circumstances of its capture, 
one might have imagined that it was in all probability a chance 
specimen which had been accidentally imported into the island, 
did not its decided specific divergence from the European Hypo- 
cypti tend to an opposite conclusion. Apart from minor features, 
the concolorous apex of its abdomen, in conjunction with the 
structure of its antenne (which are somewhat slenderer and less 
clubbed than those of its more northern allies, and have their 
terminal joint shorter and more obtuse), will at once serve to 
characterize it. 
Genus Mycerororvs. 
Mannerheim, Brachél. 73 (1831). 
Mycetoporus Johnsoni, n. sp. 
M. rufo-testaceus, nitidus ; pectore abdomineque (ano plus minus 
ferrugineo excepto) obseurioribus ; ; oculis parvis; prothoracis 
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