228 CANAEIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



it would be taken), I -will just add that it may readily be known from 

 its apparent allies by its subopake and entirely alutaceous surface ; 

 by its dull brassy-black hue (which has often a slightly greenish 

 tinge), the hinder margin of the prothorax, the extreme apex and 

 lateral edges of the elytra, and the limbs (except occasionally a portion 

 of the posterior legs) being pale-yellow ; by its head and pronotum 

 being convex, whilst the elytra are somewhat parallel and depressed ; 

 and by the latter being almost entirely free from any indication of 

 adflitional erect pile. The few specimens which I have seen (only 

 fourteen in number) were captured by myself, during April 1858, 

 in the sandy district at Maspalomas, in the extreme south of Grand 

 Canary. 



300. Micromimetes ? jucundus. 

 Mieromimetes? jucundus, If 'oil., loc. cit. 441 (1802). 

 Habitat Canariam Grandem; in regione El Monte exemplar unicum 

 (foemineum), tempore vernali a.d. 1858 coUegi. 



I have placed the present insect here merely provisionally, and 

 not with the idea that it is truly a second species of Micromimetes ', 

 but having unfortunately only a single individual to judge from, and 

 that a female, I am unable to conjecture to what group the fore tarsi 

 of its males would tend to assign it. From the shape however of its 

 posteriorly contracted prothorax, which is raised in the centre behind, 

 as well as from its general fades and nearly glabrous surface, I feel 

 pretty confident that it is not an Attains. But, apart from these 

 particular featui'es, it may readily be known from aU the Attali here 

 enumerated (with which in some respects it of course agrees) by its 

 rather large, convex, oval, and regularly punctured head; by its 

 bright-rufous and nearly unsculptured prothorax ; and by its dark- 

 cyaneous elytra, which apparently have no minute under-pile, and 

 merely an exceedingly few and remote additional erect hairs. My 

 unique example was captured in the region of El Monte, in Grand 

 Canary, during the spring of 1858. 



Genus 147. CEPHALOGONIA. 



Wollaston, Journ. of Ent. i. 442 (1862). 

 Capnt in marihus antice excavatinn, excavatione postice trisinuatd, in 

 medio tnhercnlo sat magno (ciliato) instructd. Tarsi antici in ma- 

 ribiis -i-articidati. 



301. Cephalogonia cerasina. 



Cephalogonia cerasiua, TVull., loc. cit. 444. pi. xx. f. G (1862). 

 Hcdiitnt in TenerifFa et Palma. floribus P?i)/.mlidis aristatcn gaudens. 



