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mote Final which occupies a small but elevated area at the southern 

 extremity of the Cumbre in the island of Hierro. Previously however 

 to this important discovery, I had received a single example of it from 

 the Barao do Castello de Paiva, by whom it was obtained from an old 

 (but accurate) collection which had been formed many years ago in 

 Teneriffe ; and it would appear, from inquiries subsequently instituted 

 by the Baron Paiva, that the Teneriffan example was professedly 

 from the Agua Garcia (or, rather, its immediate vicinity). Although 

 however I have no doubt that it was strictly TenerifFan, I do not 

 place entire confidence in the exact habitat claimed for it, but should 

 be disposed to conclude, from the positive evidence gained by the 

 Messrs. Crotch in Hierro, that it is normally a pine-destroying insect 

 and is consequently attached to the Pinals. 



Judging from the single individual just alluded to, the Hierro 

 specimens would seem to be a little larger than the TenerifFan ones, 

 with their prothorax even still more roughly punctured and having 

 its lateral yellow streak carried further back indeed almost to the 

 hinder margin. 



Genus 168. ANTHKAXIA. 

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



535. Anthraxia senilis. 



Anthraxia senilis, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 208 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.), in pinetis editioribus inter flores Cisto- 

 rum parce deprehensa. 



The few specimens of this Anthraxia which have hitherto been 

 met with I captured at a high elevation on the mountains of Grand 

 Canary, flying in the hot sunshine, amongst CfoMs-blossoms, in 

 the lofty Pinal of Tarajana (above San Bartolome). 



Genus 169. AGEILUS. 

 (Megerle) Steph., III. Brit. Ent. iii. 239 (1830). 



536. Agrilus Darwinii. 



Agrilus Darwinii, Woll, Cat. Mad. Col 82 (1857). 

 Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissimus ; semel tantum repertus. 



A Madeiran Agrilus, and evidently one of the most rare of all the 

 truly indigenous Coleoptera of these Atlantic islands. Indeed the 

 only specimen which has hitherto been brought to light was captured 



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