394 CAJTARIAN COLEOPTERA, 



This common European insect (which is universal also at the Ma- 

 deiras — being found in Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and on the 

 Desertas) abounds in the Canarian Group, in the whole seven islands 

 of which 1 have myself captured it except in Gomera — where, how- 

 ever, it was taken by Dr. Crotch. In Lanzarote it was met with 

 likewise by M. Hartung ; in Teneriffe by the Barao do Castello de 

 Paiva and Dr. Crotch ; and in Palma by Dr. Crotch and Mr. Gray. 

 It occurs chiefly in cultivated spots, particularly corn-fields, and has 

 probably been introduced from more northern latitudes. 



Genus 233. CRIOCERIS. 

 Geoflfroy, Ins, des Env. de Paris, i. 237 (1764). 



603. Crioceris nigropicta, n. sp. 



C. pallide flava, nitida ; capite, prothoracis disco scutelloque aeneo- 

 nigrescentioribus ; iUo trapeziformi, latiusculo, intra oculos inte- 

 gros dcpresso, grosse substriguloso-ruguloso et ibidem profunde ca- 

 naliculate ; hoc breviter cylindrico (ad basin vix constricto), parce 

 punctato ; elytris profunde seriatim punctatis, laete nigro-pictis (so. 

 in sutura, humeris, plagis parvis mediis subconfluentibus subba- 

 salibus, fasciisque duabus abbreviatis subobluniformibus pone me- 

 dium positis, nigris); an tennis pedibusque robustis, iUis testaceo- 

 ferrugineis, his testaceis, tibiis (preesertim anticis) extus in medio 

 plus minus evidenter nigro-plagiatis. — Long. corp. lin. 2^. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, rarissima ; mense Aprili a.d. 1858 in 

 foliis Arundinis donacis ad Mogan parcissime capta. 



This beautiful Crioceris, so remarkable for its light-yeUow elytra 

 being prettily ornamented with black spots and broken fascise, and 

 which has the head and (though more palely so) the prothoracic disc 

 of a brassy-black, appears to be one of the rarest of all the Coleoptera 

 of this archipelago. Indeed the only four specimens which I have 

 seen were collected by myself in Grand Canary — brushed from off 

 some plants of Arundo donax, on the l(3th of April 1858, at Mogan, 

 in the south-western district of that island. 



Fam. 51. EUMOLPID^. 



Genus 234. PSEUDOCOLASPIS, 

 Laporte, Hist. Nat. des Ins. Col. ii. 514 (1840). 



§ I. Scutelhim siihsemicirculare. 



604. Pseudocolaspis divisa, n. sp. 



P. obscui'c asnea, grosse sed breviter argenteo-pubcscens, dense et 

 parum minute punctulata ; prothorace longiuscido, convexo, ad 



