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Cossonides, " its rostrum is broader and shorter, its antennaG are still 

 more abbreviated, with their club abrupter and more straightly 

 truncated at its apex, its prothorax is much more deeply and remotely 

 sculptured, and its elytral punctures are also larger, the small inter- 

 mediate ones especially being more perceptible." 



Genus 226. CAULOPHILUS. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 315 (1854). 



707. Caulophilus sculpturatus. 



Caulophilus sculpturatus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 315, tab. vi. f. 4 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 104 (1857). 



, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 368 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, rarissimus. Exemplar unicum sub 

 lapide collegi. 



The only example of this small Cossonid which has hitherto been 

 brought to light was captured by myself in Madeira proper, during 

 the autumn of 1847 from beneath a stone on an exposed grassy 

 slope to the eastward of Funchal, in the direction of the Cabo Ga- 

 rajao (or Brazen Head). It would appear, therefore, to be extremely 

 scarce. 



Genus 227. PHLCEOPHAGUS. 

 Schonherr, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iv. 1047 (1838). 



708. Phlceophagus tenax. 



Rhyncolus tenax, Woll., Ins. Mad. 307 (1854). 



, Id,, Cat. Mad. Col. 100 (1857). 



Phlceophagus tenax, Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. L. v. 370, pi. 18. f. 4 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.),m sylvaticis editioribus prassertim lauretis 

 vulgaris. 



Peculiar apparently to Madeira proper, where it is universal 

 throughout the sylvan districts (particularly in the laurel-woods) of 

 intermediate and lofty elevations. 



709. Phlceophagus sulcipennis. 



Phlo3ophagus sulcipennis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 308 (1854). 

 -, Id., Cat. Mad, Col 100 (1857). 

 , Id., Trans. Etit. Soc. Lond. v. 369 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), lignum antiquum in inferioribus colens. 



Attached to old wood at low elevations, in Madeira proper prin- 

 cipally around Funehal. It was once captured abundantly by Senhor 



