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340. Pecteropus angustifrons. 

 Pecteropus angustifrons, Wo/L, loc. cit. 427. pi. xx. f. 1 (1862). 



Habitat Gomeram, in collibus mox supra Sanctum Sebastianum 

 mense Februario a.d. 1858 ad flores deprchensus. 



Apart from its structural characters (of narrower and more rostrate 

 head, &c.), the present insect is prima facie remarkable amongst the 

 Attali, to which it necessarily bears a general resemblance, by its 

 brightly rufous prothorax and dark-cyaneous elytra and head (the 

 latter of which is subopake, and most densely and minutely rough- 

 ened). Its four anterior legs, also, are more or less rufo-testaceous, 

 whilst the two hinder ones are nearly black. The second joint of 

 the front feet of its males is so verj^ shghtly produced into a hood- 

 like lobe on the upper side, that the latter is scarcely perceptible ex- 

 cept beneath the microscope ; but when thus viewed it will be seen, 

 nevertheless, to be more strongly pectinated than is usually the case 

 in the true Attali. Hitherto it has been observed only in Gomera, 

 where, during February 1858, it was taken by Mr. Gray and myself 

 from off flowers on the ridge immediately to the north of San Se- 

 bastian. 



341. Pecteropus scitulus, n. sp. 



F. viridi-aenescenti-niger prothorace vel ad latera vel ad angulos pos- 

 ticos rufo-testaceo, parce et minute cinereo-pubescens, nitidus, ubi- 

 que minutissime et parce punctulatus ; capite angusto, ovali, fronte 

 dcpressa, oculis minus promineutibus, clypeo paUido ; elytris mi- 

 nute subrugulosis, pihs erectis longiuscuhs (prgesertim postice) ob- 

 sitis ; antennis bre\ibus, ad basin rufo-testaceis, 



Variat pedibus vel concoloribus, vel anterioribus (rarius posticis) plus 

 minus pallidis. — Long. corj:*. hn. 2. 



Habitat Gomeram, a cl. W. D. Crotch tempore vernali a.d. 1862 

 captus. 



In its general colouring (which is greenish -brassy, with only the 

 clypeus, either the sides or merely the hinder angles of the prothorax, 

 and occasionally the anterior legs pale) this insect is almost coin- 

 cident with the Attains ovatipennis, nevertheless it is considerably 

 larger and has its legs more elongate ; and, moreover, its somewhat 

 narrow, oval head and depressed forehead, in conjunction with its 

 but sHghtly prominent eyes and its short antennae, would all tend, 

 I think, to refer it to the Pecteropus-gvow^ rather than to Attains 

 proper. It was detected by Dr. Crotch in Gomera, during the spring 

 of 1862. 



Genus 145. ATTALUS. 

 Erichson, Uidomof/raph. 89 (1840). 



