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LATRIDIAD^E. 



Fam. 23. LATEIDIAD^E. 



Genus 128. CHOLOVOCERA. 



Motschulsky, Bull, de Moscou, 177 (1838). 



416. Cholovocera Maderae. 



Coccinella succina, Heinefan, in litt. 

 Cliolovocera MadereB, Westw., in litt. 



1 Wall, Ins. Mad. 180, tab. x. f. 1 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 64 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissima ; a cl. Heineken, M.D., semcl 

 reperta. 



The single example, captured many years ago by tbe late Dr. 

 Heineken in Madeira proper, is all that has yet been brought to 

 light of this insect ; which is a somewhat remarkable fact, when we 

 consider how long and carefully the islands of the Madeiran Group 

 have now been (at intervals) investigated. Yet there is no reason 

 for suspecting that it was taken elsewhere, for the species has not 

 been observed in any other country. In all probability it is an 

 inhabitant of ants' nests. 



Genus 129. ANOMMATUS. 

 Wesmael, Bull, de VAcad. de Bruxell. ii. 339, tab. 4 (1836). 



417. Anommatus 12-striatus. 



Lyctus 12-striatus, Mull, in Germ. Mag. iv. 190 (1821). 

 Anommatus terricola, Wesm., loc. cit. 339 (1836). 



12-striatus, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 286 (1845). 



, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 258 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub ligno recenter secto truncisque 

 arborum prolapsis in cultis intermediis rarissimus. 



This minute European insect has been observed hitherto only in 

 Madeira proper, of all these Atlantic islands, where it was detected 

 by myself, during December 1858, 'beneath the trunk of a felled 

 cherry-tree which was lying on the damp ground at the bottom of 

 the Curral das Freiras ; subsequently, however, it has been captured 

 by Senhor Moniz, under the chippings of Spanish chestnut-trees at 

 S ta Anna, in the north of the island*. 



* For observations on the structure and affinities of Anommatus, compare my 

 remarks in the ' Ann. of Nat. Hist/ (3rd series) v. pp. 257 & 258. 



