160 CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



Fcem. antennainim clava paulo breviore, articulis penultimo et ante- 

 peniiltimo qiiam teiTainalis vix (singulatim) majoribus. — Long.corp. 

 lin. 1^-vix 1|. 



Telopes multifasciatus, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) xi. 218 (1863) . 



Hahitat Canariam Grandein, ad flores varios (sed prsesertim Cisti 

 moifispeliensis L.) tempore vernaK hinc hide vulgaris. 



The present Telopes seems to be the universal one of Grand Ca- 

 nary, which is the only island in which I have hitherto observed it. 

 It occurs more particiilarly at intermediate elevations, — where, during 

 the spring months, I have taken it throughout the region of El 

 Monte, in the district between Tarajana and Maspalomas, &c. ; in 

 the latter of which it abounds on the blossoms of the Cistus monsiye- 

 liensis. At first sight it very much resembles the following species 

 (from Tenerifi'e and Palma) ; but it is, on the average, a trifle larger, 

 with indications (more or less expressed) of three elytral fasciae (in- 

 stead of only two), and with the terminal joint of its club rather 

 smaller in loth sexes than either of the two which precede it, — the 

 males, moreover, having their penultimate and antepenultimate ones 

 slightly elongated, causing the entire clava to be less shortened than 

 that of the females. 



268. Telopes fasciatus. 



T. breviter ovalis, niger, nigrescenti-pubesceiis ; prothorace utrinque 

 et in maculis duabus posticis elytrisque in fasciis duabus (postica 

 subevanescente) necnon mox ante apicem pallido-pilosis ; antennis 

 nigris, ad basin pieescentibus; pedibus ])iceis,tar.sisvix pallidioribus. 

 Mas antennarum clava paulo longiorc, articulo ultimo leviter elongato, 

 Fcem. antennarum clava paulo breviore, articulis tribus inter se sub- 

 aequalibus. — Long. corp. lin. 11- vix 1|. 



Telopes fasciatus, WoIJ., Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) xi. 218 (1863). 



Hahitat in floribus Tenerifi^a% Gomeras et Palmte, tempore vernali 

 frequens. 



"Whilst the last species is the ordinary one of Grand Canary, the 

 T. fasciatus is apparently universal throughout the low and inter- 

 mediate elevations of Tenerifte, Gomera, and Palma. It will pro- 

 bably occur in Hiorro likewise, though, as we visited that island too 

 early in the season for the flower-infesting Coleoptera, I did not ob- 

 serve it there. Between the Villa and Puerto of Orotava it abounds 

 during the spring, and it is almost equally common in the Barranco 

 above S''' Cruz of Palma. In Gomera it was taken by Dr. Crotch, 

 near San Sebastian. It is, on the average, a little smaller and pro- 

 portionally shorter than the preceding species, and its elytral fascite 

 (instead of being three in numl)er) are reduced to only two ; and 



