4U8 CAJTARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



624. Haltica plenifrons, n. sp. 



H. oblongo-ovata, parum iiitida, la^te cyanea; capitc omnino pro- 

 thoraceque fere impunctatis, illo subrotundato couvexo, hoc bre\i 

 transverse, postice in medio brevissime at obsolete carinato, angnlis 

 ipsissimis posticis acute et conepicue exstantibus, ad latera antice 

 distincte sed postice (necnon per marginem posticiim) vix margi- 

 nato ; elytris ovalibus, minute subpunctulato-rugulosis ; antonnis 

 femoribusque postieis fusco-j)iceis, illis versus basin pedibusqiie 

 anterioribus infuscato-testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. 1|. 



Habitat Palmam, mihi non obvia, aW. D. Crotch semel tantum lecta. 

 The single individual from which the above description has been 

 compiled was taken by Dr. Crotch, during the spring of 1862, in the 

 island of Palma. In its bright-cyaneous hue it is very similar to the 

 majority of the examples of the H. Paivana ; nevertheless it is larger 

 and broader than that species, not quite so shining, and very much 

 less coarsely punctured. Indeed its head and prothorax (particularly 

 the former, which is rounded and convex) are almost unsculptured, 

 and its elytra (although rather rugulose) are but very minutely punc- 

 tulated. Its prothorax is relatively shorter and more transverse than 

 in the //. Paivana, with its lateral edges distinctly margined ante- 

 riorly, but (like the basal one) scarcely at all so behind, and has its 

 extreme posterior angles more conspicuously, though minutely, pro- 

 minent ; and the apices of its tarsi are less evidently darkened. 



025. Haltica crassipes. 



Ilaltica crassipes, WulL, Jount. of Ent. i. 3 (1860). 



Aphthona crassipes, Allard, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 331 (1862). 



Habitat Teneriffam et Palmam, prsesertim in foliis plantarum 

 {Sempervivi, et ca>t.) ad rupes locorum editiorum crescentium. 



The present insect and the Longitarsus Meiniiperda are prima facie 

 somewhat ahke ; nevertheless, apart from the generic characters (of 

 the longer logs and hind feet, &c.) of the latter, the H. crassipes may 

 be recognized by its more quadrate prothorax, stouter antennae (which 

 have foiu' of their basal joints, instead of only three, more or less tes- 

 taceous), and by its more finely punctured elytra. Its four anterior 

 male tarsi have their basal joint greatly dilated, so as far to exceed 

 the second — a structure which is more or less expressed in most of 

 the Halticiche, but which in the H. crassipes is peculiarly conspicuous. 

 M. Allard says, " Cette espece a beaucoup d'analogie avec VA.Jlavi- 

 ceps, milii, cependant cette derniere est plus etroite, son prothorax et 

 ses antennes sont plus courts et les tarses du <S sont moins dilates." 

 It is a])parcntly rare ; nevertheless I have taken it at the Agua Mansa 



