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STAPHYLINID^. 



1444. Homalium pusillum. 



Omalium pusillum, Grav., Mon. 205 (1806). 



granulatum, Woll, Ins. Mad. 613 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 206 (1857). 

 Homalium pusillum, Id,, Cat. Can. Col. 603 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Ten.), in sylvaticis in- 

 termediis, vel pinetis vel castanetis, sub cortice rarissimum. 



Occurs sparingly in the intermediate sylvan districts both o 

 Madeira proper and of the Canaries. The only example however 

 which I have yet seen from the latter Group was captured by my- 

 self in Teneriffe, beneath the bark of a felled pine tree at the Agua 

 Mansa. The Atlantic specimens have their fovese altogether a trifle 

 deeper, and their elytra a little more evidently besprinkled with 

 shallow punctures, than is the case in the ordinary European type, 

 and their antennae are not in the least obscured towards the apex ; 

 but such differences are so slight and unimportant that I can scarcely 

 regard them as indicating even a decided geographical variety ; 

 though I may add that if it should be considered eventually that they 

 ought to be separated from the more northern species, the name of 

 granulatum, under which I described them in 1854, will have to be 

 retained. 



Genus 421. ANTHOBIUM. 

 (Leach) Steph., ///. Brit. Ent. v. 335 (1832). 



1445. Anthobium torquatum. 



Silpha torquata, Mshm, Ent. Brit. 127 (1832). 



Anthobium torquatum et nmcronatum, Steph., loc. cit. 339 (1832). 



scutellare, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 895 (1839). 



torquatum, Woll, Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 107 (1860). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, in horto quodam prope urbem Funcha 

 lensem a Dom. Bewicke semel captum. 



Of this common European Anthobium a single example was taken 

 by the late Mr. Bewicke in Madeira proper in his garden at the 

 Palmeira, above Funchal ; but it is the only one that I have yet 

 seen from these Atlantic islands. 



(Subfam. X. PROTINIDES.) 



Genus 422. MEGARTHRUS. 

 (Kirby) Steph., HI. Brit. Ent. v. 330 (1832). 



