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five) punctures down either side of their prothoracic disk, will 
at once distinguish them from the rest of the Madeiran Philonthi. 
In more northern latitudes, the species generally occurs about 
hotbeds,—under which circumstances it was discovered by M. 
Rouzet in Paris; and I have myself taken it in similar positions 
in England. 
(Subfam. PapERipzs.) 
Genus ScoPrzvs. 
Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 604 (1839). 
Scopeus subopacus, 0. sp. 
S. angustus, nigro-piceus, subopacus ; capite prothoraceque dense 
alutaceis, fere pilis carentibus, illo subrotundato-quadrato ; elytris 
dense et minute punctulatis et pilis brevibus demissis cinereis 
vestitis; antennis rufo-testaceis, apicem versus fuscescentibus ; 
pedibus infuscato-testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 17. 
Habitat Maderam, una cum precedente a Dom. Bewicke detectus. 
8S. narrow, blackish-piceous, and nearly opake. Head and 
prothoraz densely alutaceous, but scarcely punctured, and almost 
free from pile: the former roundish-quadrate (being truncated 
behind, but not very abruptly so), and with the eyes rounded, 
and rather small: the /atter oblong, and rather acuminated in 
front. Hlytra closely and minutely punctulated all over, and 
(together with the abdomen) more evidently pilose than the 
head and prothorax—being clothed with a fine and very short, 
decumbent, cinereous pubescence. Abdomen concolorous, even 
the extreme apex being scarcely more diluted in colouring than 
the rest of the surface. Antenne reddish-testaceous at their 
base, but browner towards their apex. Legs brownish-testaceous, 
being unequally infuscated all over. 
The unique example from which the above description has 
been compiled was detected by Mr. Bewicke, who captured it 
(along with the last species) beneath hay-stack refuse at S. An- 
tonio da Serra, during the summer of 1859. It has much the 
appearance of a small dark Lithocharis; but the generic cha- 
racters of Scopeus, which mainly consist in its more robust legs 
(especially the anterior pair) and its small tricuspid corneous 
ligula, will, apart from the diminished bulk of the species which 
compose the group, readily distinguish it. Judging from the 
description, it seems somewhat allied (particularly in its opake 
surface) to the L. infirmus, Erichs., from Egypt; nevertheless 
its uniformly dark hue and the densely alutaceous (but appa- 
rently unpunctured) sculpture of its head and prothorax are of 
themselves sufficient to separate it therefrom. 
