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has generally only a very broad central band darker, and its usually 

 black limbs, will serve to characterize it. Its head is less shining 

 than the rest of the surface, and is very closely and most minutely 

 rugulose ; and much the same kind of sculpture exists, though less 

 densely, on its pronotum ; whilst its elytra are very thickly though 

 delicately punctulated, and with the additional erect hairs almost 

 evanescent at the base but very long towards the apex. It has been 

 observed hitherto only on the mountains of Palma. On the 12th of 

 June 1858 I captured it rather abundantly from off flowers, at a high 

 elevation, immediately below the Cumbre above Buenavista; and 

 during the preceding February it was taken more sparingly by Mr. 

 Gray at a lower altitude — I believe, in the district of Buenavista 

 itself. Mr. Gray's examples I indicated in my diagnosis as a " var. /3," 

 in which the prothorax is either almost or entirely rufous, and in 

 S07ne of which the anterior legs and the base of the intermediate 

 femora are infuscated-testaceous. The A. ornatissimus was likewise 

 met with, in Palma, by Dr. Crotch. 



349. Attains chrysanthemi. 



Attains chrysanthemi, Wall., loc. cit. 432. pi. xx. f. 3 (1862). 

 Anthoconuis analis, Hart, [nee Pnz.^ Geolog. Verhdltn. Lcmz. und 

 Fuert. 140. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, ad flores (prassertim Chri/- 

 fiiinthemi ochroleuci, W. et B.) hinc inde vulgaris, sed prcecipue in ilia. 



This beautiful and comparatively constant Attalus may immediately 

 be known by its bluish-green, and sometimes aiuescent, surface, — 

 the hinder angles and extreme base of the prothorax, together with 

 a large apical portion of the elytra (and a narrow lateral strip arising 

 out of it, and extending to about the middle of the margin) and the 

 legs, being of a pale yellow. The legs, however, which are sometimes 

 infuscated in parts, should perhaps be described as testaceous rather 

 than strictly " yellow." Its surface also is very densely and rather 

 coarsely sculptm'cd, particiilarly the head and prothorax (which are 

 less shining than the elytra) ; and its antennae are black, with the basal 

 joints more or less obscurely rufo-testaceous. That it is the species 

 referred in M. Hartung's list to the Anthocomns analis, Panzer, I am 

 enabled to state for certain, having received examples thus identified 

 from Dr. Heer (who compiled it) : it does not, however, possess a single 

 feature in common with that insect. In very rare cases the large 

 yellow portion at the apex of the elytra is much reduced both in di- 

 mensions and intensity, when the legs also are apt to bo almost, or 



