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The very remarkable colour of this beautiful insect — the head (!) 

 and prothorax being of a clear cherry-red, whilst the elytra and legs 

 are dark-cyaneous — will, apart from its structural peculiarities, im- 

 mediately distinguish it from everything else here enumerated. Its 

 legs are extremely long and slender, and its surface is almost glabrous. 

 I have myself observed it only around the Puerto Orotava and Ilealejo, 

 in the north of Teneriife — where it is not uncommon during the spring- 

 months, making its appearance about the end of February. I have 

 examined, however, a specimen which was taken in Palma, during 

 the spring of 1862, by Dr. Crotch. It is particularly attached to the 

 flowers of the Phy sails aristata ; indeed I have never yet detected it 

 upon any other plant or shrub. 



Genus 148. CEPHALONCUS. 

 Westwood, m Proc. Ent, Soc. Loud. (1863). 



Caput in vnanhus postice excavatum, excavatione lata, antice trisinuatd, 

 in medio tuberado minuto obscure instructd. Tarsi omnes (in utro- 

 que sexii) 5-articulati. 



362. Cephaloncus capito. 



C.subtilissime pubescens, flavus ; capite in maribus plerumque nigro- 

 maculato, sed in foeminis nigro ; prothorace brevi, transverse, 

 subrufescenti-flavo, nigro uni- vel trimaculato (macidis interdum 

 transversim confluentibus) ; elytris macuhs duabus (sc. unji hume- 

 rali, sed altera in medio longe ante apicem sita) in singulis necnon 

 communi scutellari (ssepius in humerales utrinque mergente) nigris 

 ornatis ; antennis, palpis pedibusque pallidis. — Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Ogcoceplialus capito, Westtc, he. cit. (1863). 

 Habitat Canariam Grandem ; super arbusculas Plocanice pendulce 

 juxta Aldea de San Nicholas die 18. Apr. a.d. 1858 parcissime collegi. 



The comparatively minute size and yellow surface of this insect, the 

 head of which is black in the females, but (judging from the single 

 male example now before me) only spotted with black in the opposite 

 sex, whilst the prothorax has three more or less distinct (though 

 sometimes transversely confluent) patches across its disc, and each of 

 the elytra two larger ones (namely at the shoidders and towards the 

 apex, respectively), render it as easy to be recognized, even prima 

 facie, as the last species. Its limbs, which are relatively not so elon- 

 gated as those of the Cephalogonia cerasina, are entirely pale ; the 

 whole of its tarsi (in botJi sexes) are 5-articulate ; its siu'face is more 

 perceptibly, though very minutely, pubescent ; and the excavation on 

 the head of its males is wider and reversed — being behind instead of 



