2 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Halticidse of the Canary Islands. 



tato, postice in medio lev iter transversim impresso, marginibus ipsia 

 plus minus angustissime nigrescentibus ; elytris testaceis, sutiu'a fascia- 

 que brevi transversa media communi (extus utrinque plus minus fracta, 

 vel etiam subito abbreviata) nigris, profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis 

 pilis cinereis demissis longitudinaliter obsitis ; antennis pedibusque pal- 

 lido-testaceis, illarum apice femoribusque posticis vix obscurioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. |— 1. 



Mas, tarsorum anteriorum articulo basilari leviter dilatato. 



Variat (in utroque sexu) elji:i'is omnino immaculatis. 



Habitat in foliis Physalidis aristatce in ins. TenerifFa, circa Portxmi Orotavae, 

 tempore vernali a.d. 1858 a meipso copiose reperta. Species valde di- 

 stincta, et in honorem entomologici periti necnon Halticarum investiga- 

 tori ocidatissimi Dom. E. AUard, Parisiis, dicata. 



The present interesting little Haltica is closely allied, in affinity 

 and general facies, to the European H. atropce, of which I possess 

 specimens commimicate"d to me by M. Allard. It is, however, a trifle 

 smaller than that insect, and its head and pro thorax are pale inifo- 

 testaceous, instead of black ; its limbs also are paler, its punctuation 

 (although coarse) not quite so rugose, and the dark portions of its 

 elytra are very much narrower and less developed. I captured it 

 abundantly throughout the whole district immediately above the 

 Puerto de la Orotava, in the north of TenerifFe, during February and 

 March of 1858, — where it was entirely confined to the Phy salts 

 aristata (a plant intimately allied to the Atropa Belladonna, being of 

 the same natural family, and, as I am informed by the Eev. E. T. 

 Lowe, possessing nearly the same chemical properties), on the leaves 

 of which shrub it subsists. I have much pleasui-e in dedicating it 

 to M. Allard, to whose kindness I am indebted for an accurate com- 

 parison of my Canarian Halticidce with his large collection of Euro- 

 pean and North- African types. 



(Subgenus Aphthona, Chevr.) 

 2. Haltica Paivana, n. sp. 



H. ovato-oblonga nitida profunde dense et rugose pimctata Isete metallica, 

 modo cyanea, modo viridi-cyanea, modo asneo-cuprea, prothorace trans- 

 verso-subquadrato, ad latera marginato subrotundato, angulis ipsis pos- 

 ticis leviter prominulis acutiusculis, antenuarum basi pedibusque rufo- 

 testaceis, antennis versus apicem, femoribus anterioribus ad basin, 

 femoribus posticis omnino tarsorumque apicibus plus minus nigrescen- 

 tibus. 



Long, coi-p. lin. l-lf. 



Mas vix minor, oculis magis prominulis tarsorumque anteriorum articulo 

 basilari paulo dilatato. 



