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only near the Puerto Orotava in Teneriffe ; but several examples are 

 now before me which were captured by the Messrs. Crotch, during 

 the summer of 1864, in Gomera. The Gomeran specimens are more 

 or less appreciably reneous ; whereas the Teneriffan ones are black, 

 with only a very faint brassy tinge. 



568. Attalus obscurus. 



Attains obscurus, Woll, Journ. of Ent. i. 437 (1862). 

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



Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, ad flores in intermediis occurrens. 



I have observed this Attalus hitherto only in Grand Canary, where 

 it is not uncommon during the spring months throughout the region 

 of El Monte and towards the summit of the Bandama mountain. 



569. Attalus subopacus. 



Attalus subopacus, Wott., Journ. of Ent. i. 437 (1862). 

 } Id. t Cat. Can. Col. 226' (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), ad flores sat vulgaris. 







Detected as yet only in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the eastern 

 islands of the Canarian Group, where however it is widely spread, 

 and in certain districts rather common. 



570. Attains metallicus. 



Attalus metallicus, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 438 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 226 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Ten.), ad flores praesertim Eaphorbiarwm 

 hinc inde haud infrequens. 



A Canarian Attalus which is rather common in Lanzarote, where 

 it is particularly partial to the flowers of the various Euphorbias in 

 in the north of that island. It would seem likewise to occur in 

 Teneriffe ; for I captured a single specimen of it there (the " var. ft. 

 similis " of my diagnosis), which however differs a little from the 

 Lanzarotan type. 



571. Attalus senescens. 



Attalus senescens, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 438 (1862). 

 __ Id., Cat. Can. Col. 227 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Gom., Palmd), ab ora maritima 

 usque ad 8000' s. m. ascendens. 



A rather common little species,- and widely spread over the centr 



