Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 107 
joint less abbreviated; and the Madeiran example (a female) 
seems to coincide in this respect with the corresponding sex of 
more northern latitudes. — 
Genus ANTHOBIUM. 
(Leach) Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. v. 335 (1832). 
Anthobium torquatum, Marsh. 
A. rufo-testaceum; scutello, pectore, abdomine antennarumque 
_ apice nigricantibus ; elytris testaceis, amplis, ad apicem inte- 
riorem in fceminis singulatim acuminatis, in maribus postice 
_ truncatis. 
Long. corp. lin. vix 1. 
Habitat Maderam australem, a Dom. Bewicke prope Funchal semel 
lectum. 
Silpha torquata, Marsham, Ent. Brit. i. 127 (1802). 
Anthobium torquatum et mucronatum, Steph., Ill. Brit. Ent. v. 339 (1832). 
— scutellare, Erichs., Gen. et Spee. Staph. 895 (1840). 
A. rufo-testaceous, slightly shining, and sparingly clothed 
with a short, decumbent, cinereous pile. Head very finely and 
minutely punctulated, and with a large, round, and deep punc- 
ture on either side of the forehead behind ; its extreme posterior 
portion, or neck, slightly darker. Prothorar still more finely 
and lightly punctulated, the punctules being scarcely perceptible, 
even beneath a high magnifying power ; transverse, and rather 
straightened at the sides, the hinder angles being nearly right 
angles, and the anterior ones rounded off; with a dorsal line 
down the centre. ilytra much more coarsely punctured ; 
ample, and rather dilated posteriorly, covering nearly all the 
upper surface of the abdomen ; a shade paler than the head and 
and prothorax, being testaceous; their apex truncated in the 
males; but in the females each elytron is separately produced, 
or acuminated, at its inner apex. Seutellum piceous, free from 
pile, and coarsely alutaceous. Abdomen black. Antenne and 
legs testaceous ; with the apex of the former darker. 
The single specimen described above is, like the last species, 
due to the researches of Mr. Bewicke, who captured it in his 
garden at the Palmeira, above Funchal. I have no hesitation 
in referring it to the common European A. torguatum, with 
which in most respects it agrees precisely; its antenne, how- 
ever, are perhaps just perceptibly shorter than is the case in 
more northern latitudes, and the punctules of its prothorax 
(which is a /ittle less rounded at the sides) are, if possible, even 
still more obscure. Such trifling differences, however, are 
scarcely worth noticing, since the insect bears all the essential 
features of the species with which I have identified it. 
