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corresponds to the broad fascia oC the inner middle area, 

 and a fourth small sjjot just before the knee black ; the 

 base of the knee also bl^lek inside and below. Ilind tibiic 

 pale, witli the spines black-tipped. The underside pale 

 olivaceous. 



c? (tjpe). 2 (paratypo). 

 mm. mm. 



Length of body 18 25 



,, pronotum .... 4 5 



„ elytra 16 20 



„ hind femora . . 10 14 



Described from 15 males and 23 females from Entebbe, 

 Banda, Kampala, and Mabira Forest, in U<i:anda (C. C. 

 Gowdey) ; two females, also from Entebbe (7'. J. Anderson)^ 

 one male from Kikandue, British East Africa ( W. L. Sclater). 



A very inconspicuously marked species, belonging to the 

 group with the hind femora unicolorous outwardly. The 

 general coloration and the markings on the inner side of 

 the hind femora are very much the same as in Catantopsis 

 tcenioIatnSy Karsch, but the new insect is, though not larger, 

 more robustly built, with the pronotum more conical, and 

 the male cerei are not bifurcate apically. In some more 

 darkly coloured specimens there is a pale oblique streak on 

 the mesopleurse. 



LXXVIII. — The Coleoptera of the Madeira Islands^. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



The Coleoptera of Madeira have been famous ever since 

 Darwin wrote (' Origin of Species,' chap, v.) : " Mr. Wollaston 

 has discovered the remarkable fact that 200 beetles, out 

 of the 550 species (but more are now known) inhabiting 

 Madeira, are so far deficient in wings that they cannot fly ; 

 and that, of the 29 endemic genera, no less than 23 have all 



* I am greatly indebted to Dr. G. A. K. Marshall and Mr. K. G. JMair 

 for the deteimination of Madeira Islands Coleopteia, and to the latter for 

 assistance in making comparisons with the specimens in the J3riti3h 

 Museum. I also examined the Madeira collection at Oxford, purchased 

 by Hope from Wollaston and presented in 1801. At Oxford, one Canary 1. 

 drawer had got into the Madeira cabinet — a possible source of coufusiuii, 

 as there are no locality-labels. 



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