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MALACHIADJi. 



578. Micromimetes ? jucundus. 



Micromimetes ? jucundus, Woll., Journ. of Ent. i. 441 (1862). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 228 (1864).' 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, semel tantum repertus. 



Likewise peculiar (apparently) to Grand Canary, the single speci- 

 men hitherto detected having been captured by myself in the region 

 of El Monte in that island. Being unfortunately a female one, I can- 

 not tell whether the tarsi of the male would assign it, or not, to this 

 particular group. I believe however that it is not a Micromimetes ; 

 and it is therefore only provisionally that I have placed it in its 

 present position. 



Genus 181. CEPHALOGONIA. 

 Wollaston, Journ. of Ent. \. 442 (1862). 



579. Cephalogonia cerasina. 



Cephalogonia cerasina, WolL, Journ. of Ent. i. 444, pi. xx. f. 6 (1862). 

 1 id., Cat. Can. Col. 228 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma), floribus PTiysalidis aristatce in 

 apricis inferioribus prsecipue gaudens. 



The most beautiful of the Atlantic Malacoderms, and which has 

 been observed hitherto only in TenerifFe and Palma of the Canarian 

 Group. It occurs principally at low elevations, in sunny spots, 

 and is chiefly attached to the blossoms of the Physalis aristata a 

 shrub which is rather common in certain cindery districts towards 

 the coast. 



Genus 182. CEPHALONCUS. 



Westwood, in Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 178 (1863). 



580. Cephaloncus capito. 



Cephaloncus [script. Oycocephalus] capito, Westtv., loc. cit. 178 (1863). 

 , WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 229 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can.}, rarissinius ; super arbusculas Plocamce 

 pendulce parcissime lectus. 



It is in Grand Canary only that this exceedingly rare, and beau- 

 tiful, little Malacoderm has hitherto been observed, the few speci- 

 mens brought to light having been captured by myself off some 

 shrubs of Plocama pendula at Aldea de San Nicholas, in the west of 

 that island. 



