186 



529. Epicometis femorata. 



Cetonia femorata, Illig., Mag. fur Ins. ii. 231 (1803). 



- hispanica, Gory et Perch.] Mon. des Get. 280 (1833). 

 Epicometis femorata, Burm., Handb. der Ent. iii. 435 (1842). 

 , Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 204 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert., Can.}, in aridis arenosis rarissima. 



The E. femorata, which is found in Spain and Algeria, occurs very 

 rarely at the Canaries. I captured a few specimens of it in the sandy 

 tract at Corralejo, in the extreme north of Puerteventura, burrowing 

 into the loose sand around the roots of shrubby plants ; and two more 

 were taken (dead) by the Messrs. Crotch, near Las Palmas, in Grand 

 Canary. 



Fam. 36. BUPRESTIDJE. 



Genus 166. ACMJEODERA. 

 Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, i. 9 (1823). 



530. Acmseodera cisti. 



Acmseodera cisti, Wott., Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. 439 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 204 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses {Can., Ten., Palma), ad flores prsesertim Cisti, 

 Cytisi, et Spartii in locis elevatis usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendens. 



Occurs at lofty elevations in Grand Canary, Teneriife, and Palma, 

 on the flowers of the various shrubs (such as the Spartium nubigena, 

 the Cystisus proliferus, and the Cistus monspeliensis and vagans) 

 which characterize the higher districts, ascending to at least 8000 

 feet above the sea. Judging however from a note now before me, 

 which was received from Mr. G. E. Crotch during his sojourn in 

 Teneriife, it would appear that it is not in reality attached (i. e. in 

 its previous states) to any of those particular plants ; for he mentions 

 that he had extracted it " out of the burrows where it feeds in the 

 ' gorse ' (as they term it), not in the Retama." I cannot say for 

 certain what is the exact shrub referred to by Mr. Crotch ; but I am 

 informed by the Eev. R. T. Lowe that it is probably identical with 

 the " codeso a name which in the Canaries includes several species of 

 Genista." Elsewhere, however, I see the " codeso " referred to the 

 Adenocarpus frankenoides ; but, still, whether the " codeso " and 

 "gorse" be one and the same plant remains to be proved*. 



* Since the above was written, Dr. Crotch has informed me that the " gorse " 

 and " codeso " are positively identical. 



