JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



No. I.— April 1860. 



I. — On the Halticidae of the Canary Islands. By T. Vernon 

 WOLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S. 



In the following paper I propose to enumerate such members of the 

 HaUicidoi, amounting in all to eighteen well-defined species, which 

 have been hitherto observed in the Canarian archipelago. Their 

 detection is due to the combined researches of John Gray, Esq., and 

 myself, in January and Februaiy of 1858 (whilst visiting the various 

 islands in his yacht, the " Miranda," in which he afterwards sailed 

 for the West Indies) ; and to those, subsequently, of myself alone 

 during the five following months of the same year, as also during 

 February, March, April and May of 1859. And since, therefore, the 

 whole seven islands have been explored (indeed foui* of them twice 

 over, and some very carefully), it is believed that the subjoined list 

 will give a fair approximate idea of the entire Halticideous fauna of 

 that sub-African Group. I have been mainly induced to undertake 

 it through the instigation of my friend M. Allard, of Paris, who is 

 prepainng a Monograph of the European and North- African forms, 

 and in which therefore the species of these Atlantic islands should 

 be properly inserted. 



Genus Haltica. 

 Geoffi-oy, Hist. Abr. des Ins. de Paris, i. 244 [script. Altica'] (1762). 



(Subgenus Cre/pidodera, Chevi-.) 



1. Haltica AUardii, n. sp. 



H. ovata convexa subnitida subtu.s nigra, capite prothoraceque rufo-tes- 

 taceis, illius fronte fere impunctata, hoc brevi profunde et dense punc- 

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