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CANAEIAN COLEOPTERA. 



from the bushes of Tamo.rix gallica, a short distance below the 

 town of Betancuria, in the Rio Palmas of Fuertoventnra, at the 

 beginning of April 1859. The species may be known by its small 

 size and pale yellow surface, which has ofteii a slightly roseate hue, 

 and which is ornamented with numerous black patches and spots, 

 arranged as follows — two on the forehead, seven on the prothorax, 

 and nine on each elytron. These last are placed somewhat thus : 

 (1) subhumeral, and comparatively elongate, being prodiiced ob- 

 liquely in the direction of the suture ; (2) rounded and subbasal, 

 midway between the humeral one and the suture ; (3) rounded, sub- 

 medial, and sublateral ; (4) close to, and a little larger than, the 

 last, and likewise submedial, but further removed from the lateral 

 margin ; (5 and 6) a little further behind than the last two, but 

 nearer the suture, and united so as to form a semicircle with its 

 convexity turned towards the apex, and in highly coloured examples 

 having a brownish line arising from the inner extremity of the curve 

 and produced backwards for a considerable distance, almost parallel 

 to the suture and towards the scutellum ; (7, 8, and 9) subapical, 

 and equidistant from each other, the central one being the longest of 

 the three, and the inner one the roundest*. 



Genus 250. CHILOCORUS. 



Leach, Edinb. Encycl. xv. 116 (1815). 



650. Chilocorus renipustulatus. 



Coccinella reuipustulata, Scriba, Journ. 276 (1790). 



Cacti, 3Iskm, Ent. Brit. 163 (1802). 



Chilocorus renipustulatus, Steph., III. lirit. Ent. iv. 374 (1831). 

 , 3Ms.j Semrip. ile Frfmce, 168 (1846). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, jirjesertim in apricis inferi- 

 oribus, hinc inde vulgaris. 



This common European insect is universal throughout the Canarian 

 archipelago, where it occurs principally in low and hot situations, and 

 is particularly partial to the Opimiia tuna (or Prickly Pear), as also 

 to the Plocama pendula. T have taken it in Grand Canarj', Teneriife, 

 Gomera, and Hierro ; in which last island, as well as in Lanzarote 

 and Palma, it was foimd by Mr. Gray. In Teneriffe it was likewise 

 captured by the late Eev. W. J. Armitage and Dr. Crotch ; and in 

 Gomera by Dr. Crotch ; whilst from Fuerteventura it has been com- 



* There is a CoeiuueUu included by M. Brulle in liis short and inaccurate 

 catalogue, in MM. Webb and Berthelot's gigantic work, under the title of " C. 

 scmi-pusfidafa, Oliv." ; but to what it can possibly refer I have no means of 

 ascertaining, inasinuich as he giAcs (as usual) no single observation concerning it 

 — except indeed ' Eepi-cc dii niidi dc I'Europe." 



