220 CANARIAN COLEOrTERA, 



met with also by Mr. Gray, Dr. Crotch, and the Barao do Castello de 

 Paiva. 



344. Attalus pallipes, n. sp. 



A. nitidus ; capite (vel omniuo vel autice solum) prothoraceque (vel 

 omnino vel hand in disco nigro) rufo-testaceis, minutissime et 

 parce punctulatis ; elytris subaenescenti-nigris, dense et sat pro- 

 funde ruguloso-punctatis, pilis nigris crectis longiuscidis obsitis ; 

 antennis nigris, versus basin pedibus(]ue (elongatis) testaceis. — 

 Long. Corp. lin. lf-2. 



Habitat in TenerifFa et Gomera, a Dom. W. D. Crotch deprehensus. 



I do not feel perfectly satisfied that this Attains is more than an 

 extreme modification of the ruJicolUs ; nevertheless, since the whole 

 of the specimens now before me (seventeen in number, and all of 

 them except one, which is from Gomora, captured by Dr. Crotch 

 in Teneriffe) show no tendency to merge into the type assumed by 

 that rather constant species, I do not think it would be safe to 

 treat it as such. It differs from the ruficolUs, chiefly, in its legs 

 being invariably pale (instead of black), and in the basal portion of 

 its antennae being likewise more or less brightly testaceous ; in its 

 head being either altogether pale reddish-testaceous (like the pro- 

 thorax), or else (as in that insect) with the hinder portion dark ; in 

 its prothorax being of a paler, or yellower, hue, and "with its disc 

 sometimes black ; and in its elytra being a little more roughly punc- 

 tidated. Its legs are perhaps a trifle longer; and its head just per- 

 ceptibly more produced, with the antennae inserted, if anything, some- 

 what further from either eye. 



345. Attalus ovatipennis. 



Attains ovatipennis, JFoll, he. cit. 429 (1862). 



Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura, Canaria, Teneriffa, Gomera 

 et Palma, ad flores, passim. 



E\T.dently a most variable insect (having a slightly different aspect 

 in each of the islands in which it has been observed), but one which 

 may be known generally by its ovate (or posteriorly-expanded) out- 

 line, by the greenish-brassy tinge of its dark elytra and head, by its 

 prothorax having usually only the hinder margin and angles pale 

 (though occasionally a larger portion of its surface), and by its tibiae 

 and tarsi (and parts of the femora) being diluted-testaceous. It 

 appears to be more widely spread over the Group than any of the 

 other species, Hierro being the only island in which it has not been 

 detected. I have myself taken it in Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, 



