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564. Attalus laevicollis. 



Attains leevicollis, Wott., Journ, of Ent. i. 434 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 223 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.), rarissimus ; una cum specie praecedente 

 semel repertus. 



Hitherto unique, the only example which I have seen having been 

 captured by myself (in company with the last species) in the north 

 of Lanzarote of the Canarian Group. 



565. Attalus posticus. 



Attalus posticus, Woll, Journ. of Ent. i. 434 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 224 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.}, semel tantum lectus. 



Taken by myself in Fuerteventura, of the Canarian Group close 

 to S ta Maria Betancuria, in the Kio Palmas ; but, like the last species, 

 it is hitherto unique. 



566. Attalus anthicoides. 



Attalus anthicoides, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 435, pi. xx. f. 4 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 224 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuerl.), vel ad flores vel saepius sub re- 

 cremento farris circa basin acervorum tritici sparso hinc inde 



sat vulgaris. 



Peculiar (so far as I have yet observed) to Lanzarote and Fuerte- 

 ventura, the two eastern islands of the Canarian archipelago, where 

 it occurs not merely upon flowers, but (far oftener) beneath the refuse 

 around the base of corn-stacks. Its habits indeed, no less than its 

 primd facie aspect, are quite those of the Heteromerous genus 

 Anihicus ; and in fact it so nearly resembles, at first sight, the A. 

 canariensis (with which it is frequently found in company) that 

 until carefully examined it might almost be mistaken for that insect. 



II. Prothorax cum capite elytrisque concolor (rarius ad angulos 

 ipsissimos posticos obscurissime et anguste pallidus). 



567. Attalus tuberculatus. 



Attalus tuberculatus, Wott., Journ. of Ent. i. 436 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 225 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.), ad flores minus frequens. 



Likewise a Canarian Attalus, and one which I have myself observed 



