APPENDIX, 



Fam. 



Genus APOTOMUS. 

 (Hoffmansegg) Illiger, Mag. fur Ins. vi. 348 (1807). 



Apotomus testaceus. 



A. rufo-ferrugineus, subnitidus, pube minuta omnino adpressa paulo 

 pallidiore vestitus ct pimctulis minutissimis (oculo fortissime ar- 

 mato) sat crebrc ubique obsitus; elytris punctato-striatis; an- 

 tennis pedibusque gracilibtis, illis concoloribus, his rufo-testaceis. 

 Long. corp. lin. 1|-. 



Apotomus testaceus, Dcj., Spec. Gen. des Col. i. 451 (1825). 

 Habitat Salvages, ab ins. majore (boreali) a Barone de Paiva missus. 



Obs. Species ab A. rufo et Chaudoirii valde distincta; differt 

 corpore paulo minore, ubique minutissime et sat crebre punctulato 

 (primo visu quasi subalutaceo) necnon pube minuta brevi subtili 

 omnino demissa vestito (nee pilis elongatis erectis obsito), elytris 

 minus grosse punctato-striatis, antennis pedibusque gracilioribus, 

 illis rufo-ferrugineis concoloribus (i. e. articulis intermediis vix 

 reliquis obscurioribus). 



A single example of this Apotomus has lately been communicated 

 by the Barao do Castello de Paiva, by whom it was obtained from 

 the Great Salvage. It is an interesting addition to our fauna, as 

 being identical with an Egyptian species captured by Schaum at 

 Cairo, and which (judging from the diagnosis) I cannot separate from 

 the A. testaceus of Dejean, from the south of Russia. It is a little 

 smaller than the A. rufus and Chaudoirii, and is entirely destitute of 

 the long erect hairs which stud those insects (being merely clothed 

 with a short, delicate, and entirely decumbent pubescence) ; its sur- 

 face also when viewed beneath the microscope will be seen to be 

 rather thickly and uniformly covered with excessively minute punc- 

 tules (which at first sight give it almost the appearance of being 

 alutaceous) ; and its limbs are perceptibly slenderer, the antenna, 



