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531. Acmaeodera fracta. 



Acmgeodera fracta, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 205 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses {Can.}, ad flores rarissima. 



The only two examples which I have yet seen of this Acmceodera 

 (which is closely allied to the preceding species) were captured by 

 myself in Grand Canary, one of them in the low sandy region of 

 El Charco, in the extreme south of that island, and the other in the 

 lofty Final of Tarajana (above San Bartolome). It would appear, 

 consequently, to be independent of elevation. 



532. Acmaeodera plagiata. 



Acmseodera plagiata, Wott., Cat. Can. Col 206 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Can.), rarissima; semel tantum reperta. 



Likewise found in Grand Canary, but hitherto unique a single 

 example taken by myself, beneath a stone, on an arid slope in the 

 south of Grand Canary (between Maspalomas and Juan Grande) being 

 the only one that I have yet seen. 



533. Acmaeodera ornata. 



AcmaBodera ornata, WoU., Cat. Can. Col. 207 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), semel deprehensa. 



Also unique, but found in a different island of the Canarian Group 

 from any of the preceding species namely, Fuerteventura. It 

 was captured by myself in the Rio Palmas, at the beginning of April 

 1859. 



Genus 167. BUPRESTIS. 

 Linnseus, Syst. Nat. i. ii. 659 (1767). 



534. Bnprestis Bertheloti. 



Buprestis Bertheloti, Bridle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) pi. ii. f. 12 (1838). 

 , Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 207 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Hierro), rarissima; in pinetis prsecipue 

 (an semper ?) degens. 



A large Canarian Buprestis (of excessive rarity) which entirely 

 escaped my own researches, no less than those of all other recent 

 naturalists except the Messrs. Crotch who during the summer of 

 1864 met with several dead examples of it, in spiders' webs in the re- 



