STAPHYLINID.E. 477 



Oligota inflata. Woll., Ins. Mad. 562 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 184 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 555 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Lanz., Ten., Oom.\ sub 

 quisquiliis, necnon sub recremento ad basin acervorum foeni et 

 tritici sparse. 



The European 0. inflata seems to be widely spread over these 

 islands, where it occurs beneath vegetable refuse and under rubbish 

 around the base of hay- and corn-stacks. It has been taken in 

 Madeira proper ; as well as in Lanzarote, Teneriffe, and Gomera, of 

 the Canarian Group. Some of the Madeiran examples now before 

 me, from the collection of the late Mr. Bewicke, might almost be 

 referred to the preceding species ; nevertheless I suspect that they 

 are but highly-coloured ones (in which the elytra are rufescent, and 

 the apex of the abdomen brightly testaceous) of the 0. inflata. 



1316. Oligota pusillima. 



Aleochara pusillima, Grav., Col. Micropt. 175 (1802). 

 Oligota pusillima, Mann., Bracket. 72 (1831). 



, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 179 (1839). 

 , Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 183 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, sub lapidibus in graminosis subinferiori- 

 bus, passim. 



Not uncommon at rather low and intermediate elevations in Ma- 

 deira proper, where it occurs for the most part beneath stones and 

 scoria) in open grassy spots. It is the smallest of the three Oligotas 

 here enumerated, and I believe that it is correctly referred to the 

 European 0. pusillima. 



(Subfam. II. TACHYPOBIDES.) 



Genus 388. SOMATIUM. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 563 (1854). 



1317. Somatium anale. 



Somatium anale, Woll, Im. Mad. 563, tab. xiii. f. 5 (1854). 

 , ld. t Cat. Mad. Col. 184 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissimum ; plerumque fungos in hu- 

 midis lauretis editioribus parce colens. 



Confined apparently to the damp sylvan regions of Madeira proper, 

 where it is extremely rare and occurs normally in fungi. It is 



