MALACHIAD^. 203 



A most elegant species, and likewise peculiar to Gomera having 

 been taken by Mr. Gray and myself on the hills above San Sebastian, 

 during our short sojourn in that island in February 1858. 



576. Pecteropus scitulus. 



Pecteropus scitulus, Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 218 (1864). 

 Habitat Canarienses (6rom.), a DD. Crotch repertus. 



Observed as yet, like the two preceding species, only in Gomera 

 where it was taken first by Dr. Crotch during the spring of 1862, 

 and subsequently by himself and his brother during their late 

 Canarian expedition. As implied in my Canarian Catalogue, it has 

 so much the general colouring and aspect of a true Attains that at 

 first sight it might appear doubtful whether it should not be assigned 

 to that group rather than to Pecteropus ; nevertheless its more pro- 

 duced head and narrower, flatter forehead, in conjunction with its 

 less prominent eyes, are more in accordance with the Pecteropi than 

 with the Attali. It is extremely variable in colour, its prothorax, 

 which has generally only the sides and hinder region broadly rufous, 

 being sometimes entirely red ; whilst its elytra are either dark- 

 cyaneous or else with a greenish, or greenish-brassy, tinge ; and its 

 front legs, which are usually but partly pale, are sometimes entirely 

 so. Its primd facie aspect is consequently more suggestive of such 

 species of the normal Attali as the ruficollis and ornatissimus than 

 of the totally metallic Porto Santan P. rostratus (which I would 

 regard as the type of its particular group) ; nevertheless with its 

 immediate ally, the P. atiyustifrons (which is likewise peculiar to 

 Gomera), it has much in common. 



Genus 180. MICROMIMETES. 

 Wollaston, Journ. of Ent. i. 439 (1862). 



577. Micromimetes alutaceus. 



Micromimetes alutaceus, Wott., Journ. of Ent. i. 441. pi. xx.f.5(1862). 

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



Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, rarissimus ; ad flores in aridis arenosis 

 parce captus. 



The only examples which I have yet seen of this Malacoderm were 

 captured by myself, during April 1858, in the sandy district at Mas- 

 palomas in the extreme south of Grand Canary. 



