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MALACHIADJE. 



Genus 178. ATTALUS. 

 Erichson, Entomograpk. 89 (1840). 



I. Protliorax plus minus (i. e. vel omnino, vel in parte majore, vel 

 versus angulos solos posticos) pallidus. 



555. Attains pellucidus. 



Pecteropus pellucidus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 247 (note) (1854), 

 Attalus pellucidus, Id., Journ. of Ent. i. 429 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 219 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.}, ad flores vulgaris. Ab ora maritimi 

 usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendit. 



A Canarian Attalus which, has been detected hitherto only in 

 Teneriffe, where it occurs on flowers (often very abundantly) at 

 nearly all elevations. 



556. Attalus ruficollis. 



Attalus ruficollis, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 428 (1862). 

 , Id.. Cat. Can. Col. 219 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma, praecipue illam), vulgaris, in locis 

 similibus ac praecedens. 



Found in Teneriffe, generally in company with the last species to 

 which indeed it is so closely allied that it appears to differ from it 

 merely in having its prothorax red, instead of black. As stated 

 however in my Canarian Catalogue, I can nevertheless scarcely treat 

 it as a variety of that insect, inasmuch as I have not yet been able 

 to procure even an approximation to anything like an intermediate 

 link between the two ; and that the differences are not sexual ones 

 is certain, for the males and females of each form remain perfectly 

 constant to each other. Moreover the specific distinctness is perhaps 

 rendered still more probable through the circumstance that there is 

 a small state of the ruficollis (the " var. fi. pauper culus" of my dia- 

 gnosis) peculiar to Palma, and I have seen no Attalus in that island 

 at all analogous to the pellucidus of Teneriffe ; whereas had the 

 latter been a modification which the ruficollis is so eminently liable 

 to assume, we might certainly have expected to meet with some 

 traces of it in Palina in like manner as we do (thus abundantly) 

 in Teneriffe. 



557. Attalus pallipes. 

 Attalus pallipes, Woll., Cat. Can. Col 220 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.f), a W. D. Crotch deprehensus. 



