478 



STAPHYLINID^. 



occasionally to be met with however beneath the putrid bark oi 

 trees, where doubtless minute Cryptogams are more or less present. 



Genus 389. HYPOCYPTUS. 



Mannerheim, Srachel 58 [script. Hypocyphtus~\ (1831). 



1318. Hypocyptus reductus. 



Hypocyptus reductus, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 52 (1860). 

 , Id., Append, huj. op. 69. 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), in urbe ipsa Funchalensi semel repertus. 



The only example which I have seen of this Hypocyptus was taken 

 by myself in Madeira proper in the garden of the American Con- 

 sulate, in the very centre of Funchal. It is remarkable for the con- 

 colorous apex of its abdomen, and for having its antennae somewhat 

 slenderer and less clubbed than is the case in the ordinary Hypocypti 

 the terminal joint being a little shorter and more obtuse. 



Genus 390. CONOSOMA. 

 Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 431 (1856). 



1319. Conosoma pubescens. 



Staphylinus pubescens, Payk., Mon. Carab. App. 138 (1790). 

 Conurus pubescens, Woll., Ins. Mad. 565 (1854). 

 Conosoma pubescens, Kraatz, Nat. der Ins. Deutsch. ii. 435 (1856). 

 Conurus pubescens, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col. 184 (1857). 

 Conosoma pubescens, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 556 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Ten., Gom., Palma, 

 Hierro), sub ligno putrido foliisque dejectis, prassertim in pinetis 

 subeditioribus, occurrens. 



This common European insect is widely spread over these Atlantic 

 islands, where it occurs (beneath damp rotting wood, stones, an 

 fallen leaves) within the sylvan districts especially in the pine- 

 forests at intermediate and rather lofty elevations. In Madeira 

 proper, although extremely local, it is far from scarce. At the 

 Canaries I myself met with it only in Palma ; but the Messrs. Crotch 

 took it (in the Pinal above Ycod el Alto) in Teneriife, Gomera, and 

 Hierro. 



1320. Conosoma pedicularium. 



Tachyporus pedicularius, Grav., Col. Micropt. 133 (1802). 

 Conurus pedicularius, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 230 (1839). 

 , Woll, Ins. Mad. 565 (1854). 



