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which island it was taken by Mr. Gray and myself, during January 

 1858, from off the flowers of Euphoi'bias; in which district I again 

 met with it early in March of the following year. I also captured a 

 single sjiecimen (the " var, /3. similis " of my diagnosis) in TenerifFe, 

 which is altogether a little more deeply and closely punctured, and 

 has the base of its pronotum a trifle raised and uneven ; but I cannot 

 think that it is specifically distinct. 



358. Attains senescens. 



Attalus ajnescens, WolL, loc. cit. 4.38 (1862). 

 Habitat in Canaria, Teneriifa, Gomera et Palma, ab ora maritima 

 usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendens. 



A variable insect, in size, hue, and sculpture ; nevertheless it may 

 be known generally by its oeneous tint, and the small bulk to which 

 it descends ; by its rather pubescent and finely punctulated surface ; 

 and by its usually dark and more or less slender limbs. The state 

 which I should regard as its typical one is eminently attached to the 

 intermediate and higher elevations of Tenerifl^e, occurring at the Agua 

 Mansa and on the lofty Cumbre above it, as well as on the opposite 

 Cumbre adjoining the Canadas : it is almost always of a bright-reneous 

 hue, and has its prothorax moderately punctured. The examples 

 in the lower regions have their prothoracic punctures perhaps a trifle 

 more dense, whilst those from the wooded slopes above Taganana 

 have them denser still. The specimens from Palma have, also, their 

 prothorax very thickly, though minutely, punctulated ; whilst the 

 few that I met with in the district of El Monte, in Grand Canary, 

 are of a blacker tint. It was taken by the Rev. E.. T. Lowe at Gara- 

 chico, in Teneriff'e ; and by Dr. Crotch on the Canadas, in the same 

 island, as well as in Gomera and Palma. 



Genus 146. MICROMIMETES. 



WoUaston, Joiirn. of Eat. i. 439 (1862). 



Corpus (in utroque sexu) alatum, instrumenta cibaria et pedes fere ut 

 in Attalo et Pecteropo ; sed capite paulo majore et (una cum pro- 

 thorace) convexiore ; et tarsis antlcis masctdis 4-articulatis, sim- 

 plicibus [nee 5-artieulatis art° 2'^" supra in lobnm producto]. 



359. Micromimetes alutaceus. 



Micromimetes alutaceus, IVoIL, loc. cit. 441. pi. xx. f. 5 (1862). 

 Habitat Canariam Grandem australem, ad Maspalomas repertus. 

 Although perfectlj^ distinct from it in real structure, yet, regarding 

 the present insect superjicialhf as an Attains (for which at first sight 



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