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species occurs at La Granja, specimens of which have been 

 given me by M. Bedel : this insect, too, has a green female * 

 and a grey male ; the male, however, is less elongate than 

 the Piedrahita examples of the same sex.] Another form, 

 occurring in abundance in the immediate vicinity of Bejar, 

 on Genista. Jlorida, varying greatly in size and colour, with 

 dull greyish scales, the prothorax hi- or trivittate, and the 

 elytra with the margins whitish and the disc often mottled 

 with lighter or darker colour, may be referable to 0. clispccr, 

 var. mcleagris, Graelis : all the specimens obtained at 

 Bejar appear to be of the female sex (the smallest and 

 narrowest examples have been dissected, to make certain), 

 and a few females taken at Piedrahita, on Cytisns purgans, 

 seem to belong to the fame species, which I also have 

 from Ferrol, N. Spain. A third form, represented by a 

 single female specimen from Bejar, similar in colour to 

 (and perhaps an extreme form of) the preceding, has the 

 eyes more prominent, the prothorax more transverse, and 

 the punctures of the striae closely placed and rather coarse. 

 \_C. gracllsi, Bris., quoted in Ptcitter's Catalogue as a 

 synonym of C. dis2Mr, var. mcleagris, it may be noted, is 

 recorded as having been taken in plenty at the Escorial, 

 though females only were found ; it is unknown to me. 

 The species of the Ataetogcnvs-group of Cneorrliinus 

 evidently require a thorough revision. It is a curious fact 

 that in two different localities a species has been taken in 

 abundance, without the males being obtained, and that 

 when specimens of this sex have been noticed, as at 

 Piedrahita, they were far outnumbered by the females.] 

 C. sjnnipes, Perez, sparingly on Cytisns, Bej. Tliylacitcs 

 turhatus, Gyll., in abundance on the arid hillsides, 

 under stones fully exposed to the great heat of the sun, 

 Av.; T. spp. (?), Piedr. Lixus iridis, Oliv., L. ascanii, L., 

 £. spartii, Oliv., and X. eardni, Oliv., Bej., one or two of 

 them on Cytistis or Genista. Larinus spp., Anisorrhynclius 

 spp., and Sviicronyx sp., Bej. PachytycMus sparsutus, Oliv., 

 not rare, on the woolly pods of Cytisus luelwitschi, Piedr., Bej., 

 Banos ; P. scaliricollis, Rosenh., in plenty by sweeping low 

 plants in dry places, Bej. Ceutliorrhynchidius torcns, Gyll., 

 Bej. Ceiothorrhynchus geogrcqj/iieus, Goeze, C. hiscutellatus, 

 Chevr., C. Ictrvaius, Schultze, C squavvulatus, Bris., C. 

 mclunostictus, Marsh., var. ■niurinus, Gyll. C. dcnticulatus, 



* This form should certainly be named G. pyriformis, the type of 

 which, from Lusitania, I have recently seen. 



