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during the summer of 1864. A reference to my diagnosis given in 

 the Appendix will show that it is an exceedingly peculiar and well- 

 defined species. 



407. Atomaria pusilla. 



Dermestes pusillus, Payk., Fauna Suec. i. 295 (1798). 

 Silpha phaeogaster et evanescens, Mshm., Ent. Brit. 125, 126 (1802). 

 Atomaria pusilla, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 397 (1846). 

 , Wott., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. 71 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, forsan ex Europa introducta ; exemplar 

 unicum sub ligno in montibus supra Funchal nuper detexit cl. 

 C. Wolff, M.D. 



Only a solitary example of this common European Atomaria has 

 been captured hitherto in these Atlantic Groups. It was found in 

 Madeira proper, beneath a log of wood in the cultivated district at 

 " the Mount," above Eunchal ; and its discovery is due to the late 

 researches of Dr. C. Wolff, to whom we are indebted for three more 

 additions* to the Madeiran fauna. Dr. Wolff is of opinion, from the 

 circumstances under which he found it, that the specimen could hardly 

 have been an introduced one ; nevertheless I suspect that, like many 

 other minute Coleoptera easy of transmission (in boxes of plants, &c.) 

 from more northern latitudes, the species at all events is probably of 

 recent establishment in the island. 



408. Atomaria munda. 



Atomaria munda, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 338 (1846). 

 , Redt., Fna Austr. 195 (1849). 

 , Woll, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. 64 (1857). 

 , Id,, Cat. Mad. Col. 60 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), et Canarienses (Ten.), in intermediis 

 rarissima. 



A European Atomaria which occurs very sparingly, at intermediate 

 elevations, both in the Madeiran and Canarian Groups. In Madeira 

 proper I have taken it at S. Antonio da Serra ; and in Teneriffe it 

 was captured, during the summer of 1864, by the Messrs. Crotch, 

 at Ycod el Alto. 



409. Atomaria apicalis. 



Atomaria apicalis, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 395 (1846). 

 , Woll, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. 78 (1857). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col 61 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) rarissima ; semel tantum lecta. 



* Namely, the Tarphius Wolffii, Woll. ; the Lixus anguinus? Linn. ; and the 

 Procas picipcs, Mshm. 



