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postice paulo angustiore, subsequali, basi vix emarginato ; oculis 

 elongato-reniformibus, (longitudinaliter) angustis. — Long. corp. 

 lin. 10. 



Habitat in intermediis Lanzarotae, semel tantum repertus. 



The obscurely subcyaneous and slightly shining surface of this 

 MeJoe, combined with the lightness of its under sculpture (which on 

 the head and prothorax is almost obsolete), and its narrow and 

 rather elongate (-reniform) eyes, will sufficiently distinguish it from 

 the whole of the preceding species. Its head and prothorax (the 

 former of which is imchanneled except quite in front, whilst the latter 

 is subquadrate and comparatively even) are sparingly but deeply 

 punctured. The only example of it which I have seen was taken by 

 myself in Lanzarote — I believe, on the hills immediately to the north 

 of Los Valles de S'"" Catali'na, on the road to Haria. In general aspect 

 it seems a good deal allied to a European species which I have in my 

 collection under the name of gaUicus, but is smaller and much less 

 brightly cyaneous, its head and prothorax are less deeply punctured, 

 and its eyes are longer and narrower. 



Fam. 78. MORDELLID^. 



Genus 290. MORDELLISTENA. 



Costa, Faun, del Regn. Napol, Mordcll 16 (1849?). 



771. Mordellistena pumila. 



Mordella pumila, Giill, Fna Suec. ii. 605 (1810). 

 , Steiih., ill. Brit. Ent. v. 48 (1832). 



Habitat in Canaria, Teneriffa, Gomera et Palma, ad flores havid in- 

 frequens. 



The European M. purnila is widely spread over the Canarian archi- 

 pelago, where (although I did not happen to meet with it in Hierro) 

 I believe it wiU be found to be universal in all the islands except 

 Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (in which its place is supplied by the 

 following species). Throughout the region of El Monte in Grand 

 Canary I have taken it commonly ; as also at Souzal, the Agua Garcia, 

 and around the Puerto Orotava in Teneriffe, and in the Barranco da 

 Agua of Palma — in the last two of which islands, as well as in Go- 

 mera, it was captured (during the spring of 1862) by Dr. Crotch. 



772. Mordellistena sericata, n. sp. 

 M. pumiloe similis et forsan ejus varietas insularis ; vix minor, pube 

 pallidiore subam-eo-cinerea sericea hinc inde, sed prsesertim per ely- 



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