CANARIAN COLEOPTEEA. 409 



in TeneriiFe ; and from plants (I believe Semperviva) growing on the 

 damp rocks in the deep sylvan ravines of Palma — especially the Bar- 

 ranco da Agua, towards the north-east of that island. 



Genns 242. LONGITAESUS. 



Latreille, Fam. Nat, des Ins. 405 [script. Longitarse] (1825), 



626. Longitarsus kleiniiperda. 



Longitarsus Kleiniiperda, WoIL, Journ. of Ent. i. 4 (1860). 

 Teinodact\la Kleiniiperda, Allurd, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 325 

 (1862)." 



Habitat in Teneriifa, Gomera, Palma et Hierro, folia Kleinim nerii- 

 folloi destniens. 



This large and pallid Longitarsus appears to be peculiar (or nearly 

 so) to the foliage of the Kleinia neriifolia, DeCand., whole plants of 

 which I have frequently observed to be destroyed by it entirely. I 

 have taken it abundantly in the waste cindery district above the 

 Puerto Orotava, as well as near S*'' Cruz and in the sylvan regions of 

 Taganana and the Agua Garcia, in Teneriffe ; in the Barranco above 

 !S''' Cruz in Palma ; and in the lower part of El Golfo on the western 

 side of Hierro. In Teneriffe and Gomera it was found also by Dr. 

 Crotch. At first sight it somewhat resembles the L. tabidus of more 

 northern latitudes ; it is, however, less convex and more strongly 

 punctured than that species, its prothorax is less abbreviated and 

 rather more narrowed in front, its limbs are longer, and the basal 

 joint of its four front male feet is altogether larger and broader. 



627. Longitarsus persimilis. 



Longitarsus persimilis, WoH., Journ. of Ent. i. 4 (1860). 

 Teinodactyla persimilis, Allard, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France^ 319 



(1862). 



Habitat in Teneriffa ot Hierro, foliis Ecliiorum (prsesertim E. sim- 

 plicis) in subeditioribixs crescentium gaudens. 



This beautifvd Lomjitarsus is at once remarkable for its testaceous 

 prothorax and elytra, the latter of which have a large patch on the 

 disc of each, a smaller dash at either shoulder, and their suture (ex- 

 cept at the extreme apex) more or less black. Its head, together 

 with the apical half of its two hinder femora, and its antennae (ex- 

 cept the two or three basal joints) are either piceous or piceous- 

 black ; and its elytra are densely and coarsely punctured, and longi- 

 tudinally striated — especially towards either side. It appears to be 

 peculiar to the foliage of the various Echia — particularly to a gigantic 

 species allied to the Madeirun E. camlicans, and which the llev. R. 



