204 CAXARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



Cetonia liirta, BruUe [nee Fab.], in Webb et Berth. ( Col.) 62 (;1838). 

 Tropinota Reyi, Muls., Lnmell. de France, 575 (1842 ). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, ad flores vulgaris. 



The present insert, which occurs in the south of France, Italy, 

 Sicily, ifec, is universal in the Canaries — in the whole seven islands 

 of which I have myself captured it, and in some of them very abim- 

 dantly. It is particularly partial to the flowers of the Aspliodelus 

 Jtstulosus, on which it may often be taken in actual clusters, — as I 

 have more especially observed in the region of El GoKo on the western 

 side of Hierro, and on the mountains above S*" Cruz of Teneriffe (in 

 the direction of Las Mercedes). Nevertheless it is frequently almost 

 as common on thistles. From Teneriffe it has likewise been com- 

 municated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva and Dr. Crotch, the latter 

 of whom foimd it also in Gomera. Messrs. Webb and Berthelot's 

 examples are referred by Blanchard [Cat. CoJ. 3Ims. de Paris, p. 9] 

 to the E. hirtelJa, L. ; but aU the specimens which I have hitherto 

 seen from these islands belong certainly to the larger of the two 

 nearly allied species (in which the outer elytral costa is comparatively 

 weU developed and elevated, and obscurely bifurcate at either shoul- 

 der), namely the E. squalida. 



321. Epicometis femorata. 



Cetonia femorata, /%., Macj.fur Inseht. ii. 231 (1803). 



hispanica, Gory et Perch., Mon. des Cet. 280 (1833). 



Epicometis femorata, Burm., Handb. der Ent. iii. 435 (1842). 

 , Blanch., Cat. Col. Mas. de Paris, 9 (1850). 



Habitat Fuerteventuram borealem, in arenosis ad Corralejo capta. 



The only locality in the whole seven islands in which I have taken 

 this insect (which occurs in Spain and Algeria) is the sandy region 

 at Corralejo, in the extreme north of Fuerteventiira, — where, during 

 the spring of 1859, I captured eight specimens of it, burrowing in 

 the loose sand around the roots of the few shrubby plants which stud 

 that arid waste. It is therefore of extreme rarity at the Canaries. 



Fam. 30. BUPRESTID^. 



Genus 135. ACM^ffiODERA. 

 Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, i. 9 (1823). 



322. Acmseodera cisti. 



A. elongata, subconvexa, nigra, subtus cinerco-pilosa ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque submetallicis subnitidis profunde et dense punctatis et 



