396 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



Varkit femoribus plus minus obscure nigro-maculatis. — Long. corp. 

 lin. 11-21. 



Pseudocolaspis spleudidula, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 442 (1862). 



Hahitat in Canaria, Palma et Hierro, in locis inferioribus et inter- 

 mediis (prsesertim illis) degens. 



This is certainly the most beautiful of the four species of Pseudo- 

 colaspis here enumerated ; and it would seem likewise to be more 

 widely spread over the archipelago, having been observed in Grand 

 Canary, Palma, and Hierro — occurring principally in low and sunny 

 spots, and becoming gradually rarer to an elevation of about 1000 feet 

 above the sea. Thus, in the low sandy region around Maspalomas, 

 in the extreme south of Grand Canary, it abounds, on various shrubs 

 which stud that arid tract ; and extends also to a certain distance on 

 the mountains which rise gradually to the north of it. In Palma I 

 took it sparingly in the Barranco above S*** Cruz. And in Hierro a 

 single example was captured by Mr. Gray — at a low altitude (scarcely 

 indeed above the sea-level) on the ascent fi'om Port Hierro to Val- 

 verde, on the 11th of February 1858. 



The P. splendidula may easily be recognized by its more beautifully 

 metallic surface (which is generally of a coppery-brassy hue) and by its 

 brightly rufo-ferruginous limbs (the club of the antennae being alone 

 obscured). The short silvery pubescence with which it is clothed is 

 perhaps somewhat denser than is the case in the ohscuripes, and is on 

 the elytra rather less evidently disposed in longitudinal lines ; never- 

 theless the individuals now before me from Palma and Hierro have this 

 latter peculiarity a little less apparent than in the ordinary Grand- 

 Canarian ones. 



607. Pseudocolaspis obscuripes. 



P. obscure senea, grosse sed breviter argenteo-pubescens, dense et pa- 

 rum minute punctulata ; elytris obsolete seriatim pubescentibus ; 

 antennis nigrescentibus, articulo secundo ad basin rufescentiore ; 

 pedibus submetallico-nigris. — Long. corp. lin. li-S. 



Pseudocolaspis obscimpes, Wall., Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 441 (1862). 



Hahitat Canariam Grandem, ad flores Cistorum (sc. C. monspeliensis 

 et vagantis) in montibus excelsis crescentium, deprehensa. 



The altogether obscurer surface of this Pseudocolasjyis, which is of 

 a dull-brassy hue with the limbs (except the second antennal joint) 

 of a metallic black, in conjunction with the short silver}^ pile with 

 which it is clothed being on the elytra perhaps rather more percepti- 

 bly disposed in longitudinal rows, will serve to distinguish it from the 

 P. splendidida. I have observed it hitherto only in Grand Canary, 



