296 CANARIAN COLEOPTEEA. 



TenerifFe, — occurring, beneath stones, in the region of the Spartium 

 nuh'ujena (or " Retama"), from about 6000 to 9000 feet above the 

 sea. In such situations I took it, not uncommonly, on the Cumbre 

 adjoining the Cauadas, above Ycod el Alto, during May 1859 ; as 

 well as on the opposite Cumbre, above the Agua Mansa. It is, on 

 the average, a more variegated species than any of the others hitherto 

 detected, — highly coloured and perfect examples (in which the scales 

 are uninjured) having often their paler portions very distinctly and 

 beautifully expressed. But in all instances it may be easily recog- 

 nized (at any rate when sufficiently denuded to expose the sculpture) 

 by its elytral stria; being comparativeJii fine and simply crenated, 

 with the interstices broader and less costate than is the case in the other 

 Eclihiodercn here enumerated. Even small and dark specimens may 

 always be known from corresj^ondingly obscure ones of the anrpiU- 

 penms by this character ; as also by the shape of the elytra, which 

 are more regularly elongate-ovate, being less obhquely truncated 

 both at the shoulders and along the margin of their termmal Jialf. 



472. Echinodera angulipennis, n. sp. 



E. fere ut E. crenafa, sed plennnque obscurior (minus variegata), setis 

 paulo longioribus robustioribusque obsita ; prothorace vix profun- 

 dius densiuscpie punetato ; elytris profundius crenato- (fere punc- 

 tate-) striatis, interstitiis convexioribus, paulo magis convexis, sub- 

 ellipticis (minus elongato-ovatis), versus humcros necnon postice 

 magis oblique trimcatis, quare utrinqi;e pone basin magis angulatis. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 14—2. 



Hahitat in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque Teneriffie, passim. 



The present species seems to be the universal one throughout the 

 sylvan (and even subsylvan) regions of TenerifFe, having a distinctly 

 lower range than the E. crenata. Indeed it is emphatically an insect 

 of intermediate elevations, — never ascending, apparently, above the 

 wooded districts, and only occasionally to be met with (in subsylvan 

 spots) a little below them. I have taken it at Ycod el Alto, the Agua 

 Mansa, the Agua (irarcia, at Las Mercedes, and on the laurel-clad 

 slopes above Taganana. 



The E. arir/tdipennis is usually a dull or obscurely coloured spe- 

 cies, — a more or less faintly expressed hinder fascia and a few scat- 

 tered palish scales being the only relief to its mottled-brown surface. 

 It is rather more deeply sculptured than the crenata (though much 

 less so than the hi/sfri.v), and the erect scale-like bristles with which 

 it is beset are a little longer and more robust ; its elytra too are con- 

 vexer, as also more shorfh/ elliptic (or less oblong-ovate)— a struc- 



