Se ne 
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_ punctis apicalibus a margine anteriore valde remotis ; elytris con- 
vexis brevibus, punctorum seriebus fere obsoletis ; antennis palli- 
dioribus, apicem versus minus incrassatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 1— vix 13. 
Habitat Maderam editiorem sylvaticam, sub truncis prolapsis et 
cortice arborum laxo, passim. Species M. prono, Er., affinis, sed 
ab eo, nisi fallor, certe distincta, et in honorem cl. J. Y. Johnsoni, 
armigeri, scientize naturalis in Madera cultoris periti, citata. 
Mycetoporus pronus, var. 8, Woll., Ins. Mad. 573 (1854). 
M. like the M. pronus, but rather smaller, with the eyes more 
minute, with the four transverse prothoracic punctures a little 
further removed from the anterior margin ; and with the elytra 
shorter and more convex, and with their three rows of longitu- 
dinal punctures almost obsolete. The antenna, also, are rather 
paler than in that insect, and not quite so incrassated towards 
their apex. 
I am now for the first time induced to regard what I have 
hitherto considered as but a small state of the M. pronus as 
in reality specifically distinct. A recent and more thorough 
examination of it, with the advantage of a larger number of 
specimens than [ had hitherto been able to command, has con- 
vinced me that it cannot be properly referred to that insect,— 
of which, indeed, I had always considered it a very abrupt 
and extraordinary variety; I have consequently removed it 
therefrom, and have much pleasure in dedicating it to my 
friend James Yate Johnson, Esq. (the accomplished editor of 
Mr. White’s excellent ‘Handbook for Madeira’), whose care- 
ful researches in various departments of the natural history of 
the island are well known. Its distinctive features, which will 
at once separate it from the M. pronus, may be immediately 
gathered from the above description. 
(Subfam. QuEDIIDEs.) 
Genus HeTEerotuHoprs. 
(Kirby) Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. v. 256 (1832). 
Heterothops minutus, un. sp. 
H. niger; capite prothoraceque angustulis, nitidissimis ; elytris pro- 
thorace paulo longioribus, pubescentibus, picescentibus, apice 
necnon abdominis apice distincte dilutioribus ; antennis gracilibus, 
ad basin et pedibus dilute rufo-testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14-2. 
Hahitat Maderam australem, sub foliis marcidis in horto Bewickiano 
prope Funchal captus. 
H. narrow, and acuminated both before and behind (though 
especially, of course, the latter), and black. Head and prothorazx 
