402 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



614. Chrysomela fortunata, n. sp. 



C. praocedenti similis,secl cyanescens (nee viridi-feneus),antenms pcdi- 

 busque Isete rufo-fcrnig-ineis ; prothoracc distinctius (sed minute 

 et le\assinie) puuctulato, antice paulo magis aequaliter angustato, 

 angulis auticis sensini acutioribus ; elytronim punctis minoribus. 

 — Long. Corp. lin. 4|. 



Habitat Palmarn, in montibus supra Sanctam Crucem semel lecta. 



Whether the single individual from which the present diagnosis 

 has been compiled, and which was taken by myself in the Barranco 

 above S*'' Cruz in the island of Palma, be indicative of a species truly 

 distinct from the preceding one, or merely of a well-marked insular 

 variety, it is scarcely possible, in the absence of further material, to 

 decide ; nevertheless, since the differential characters which separate 

 it from that insect, although perhaps not very important in Ic'ind, are 

 so extremely conspicuous, I think that it would scarcely be safe to 

 treat it as a phasis of the O. ohsoleta. If the example now before 

 me be a normal one, the C. fortunata may be known from that species 

 by its bluish (instead of brassy-green) hue and bright rufo-fernxgi- 

 nous limbs. Its prothorax, likewise (though very minutely and 

 lightly so), is rather more evidently punctulated, and is a little more 

 regularly attenuated in front (causing the anterior angles to be per- 

 ceptibly acuter) ; and its elytral punctures are altogether smaller. 



615. Chrysomela rutilans, n. sp. 



C similis C obsoletcp, sed nitidissima (nee minute alutacea), Isetissime 

 ssneo-micans ; prothoracc majore, longiore, transverso-subquadrato 

 (antice minus angustato), paulo distinctius (sed minute et levissime) 

 punctulato necnon utrinque ad latera multo profimdius impresso 

 (impressione fere ad marginem anticum ducta) ; elytrorum punctis 

 minoribus, sed magis numerosis ; alis par^-is, angustis (vix minu- 

 tissimis angustissimis) et ad apicem fusco-maculatis. — Long. corp. 

 lin. 4|-5. 



Habitat Gomeram, rarissima. 



Hitherto three specimens only of this large and superb Chrysomela 

 have come beneath my notice. They were all of them taken in the 

 Barranco above San Sebastian in the island of Gomera, — one by Mr. 



but I have not the slightest hesitation in regarding this habitat as erroneous ; 

 and more particularly so since I have already had occasion to notice other 

 instances in wiiich a confusion has manifestly arisen through his having mixed 

 up his material frtm the different islands — which was, in consequence, misquoted 

 subsequently by Dr. Heer (who prepared the Catalogue for M.Hartung's volume). 

 And this is all the more probable, inasmuch as I have received the species from 

 Dr. Heer himself (from M. Ilartung's collection) labelled as coming from " Te- 

 neriffe." 



