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pube longiuscula (praesertim in illo) suberecta cinerea fulvaqxie 

 obsitis, boc leviter canaliculato ; elytris flavo multivittatis, pro- 

 fimde stiiato-pimetatis, interstitiis minute uniseriatim punctiilatis. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 2-3^. 



Acmseodei-a cisti, IVolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3rd series) ix. 439 (1862 ). 

 Habitat Canariam, TeneriiFam et Palmam, prassertim ad flores Cis- 

 torum (sc. inonspeliensls atque vagantis) in excelsioribus crescentium. 



Its very deeply and densely punctured head and protborax, in 

 conjunction witb tbe exceedingly numerous and more or less con- 

 fluent yellow vittce of its very coarsely punctate-striated elytra, wbicb 

 seem in a great measure as tbough formed by broken -up lines, will 

 sufficiently distinguisb the present Aema^odera from any of the fol- 

 lowing species*. It appears to occur for the most part in tbe higher 

 regions of Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma ; in the first of which 

 I captured it in the lofty Pinal of Tarajana, above San Bartolome, 

 during April 1858, — almost exclusively on the flowers of the Cistus 

 monspeliensis and var/ans ; whilst in the second I beat it, more 

 sparingly, from off the blossoms of the Spartium nuhigena, on the 

 Cumbre adjoining the Canadas (above Ycod el Alto), at an elevation 

 of more than 8000 feet, early in May of 1859 ; as also, at the begin- 

 ning of June of the preceding year, from amongst the herbage grow- 

 ing on the perpendicular rocks which bound the great Pinal, above 

 the plains known as " Los Llanos," in the Banda of Palma. In Tene- 

 riffe it was found also by Dr. Crotch. The Palman specimens are, 

 on the average, larger than those from Grand Canary and Teneriffe. 



323. Acmaeodera fracta, n. sp. 



A. breviuscula, subdepressa, nigra, subtus cinereo-pilosa ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque submetaUicis subnitidis ruguloso-punctatis et (una cum 

 elytris) pube brevi demissa albido-cinerea dense irroratis, hoc sub- 

 convexo leviter canaliculato et ad latera macula parva obscura 

 flavescente ornato ; elytris subdepressis, flavo multivittatis, sti'iato- 

 punctatis, interstitiis valde rugosis et minute uniseriatim punctu- 

 latis. — Long, corp. lin. lf-2i. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, in inferioribus ad El Charco necnon 

 in pineto quodam in montibus excelsis eapta. 



* In markings and general aspect the A. cisfi is closely allied to a species given 

 me by the Kev. Hamlet Clark, and whicli he captured near Algiers. It is, how- 

 ever, not quite so narrow as that insect ; its prothorax is more particularly wider, 

 as also proportionally shorter, rounder at the sides, regularly punctured (instead 

 of being rugosely imbricafed), and very much more even (being entirely free from 

 the bipartite gibbosity which forms the anterior disc in that species) ; its elytral 

 vittcB are more numerous ; its upper surface has the jjubescence both considerably 

 longer and very much more erect ; and its antennfe are less abbreviated. 



