356 CHRYSOMELID^E. 



Universal, though by ho means abundant, throughout the Cana- 

 rian archipelago, in the whole seven islands of which it has been 

 captured, occurring from, the sea-level to an altitude of about 9000 

 feet. In the higher elevations it varies a good deal in colour its 

 limbs, and the obscurer portions of its surface, becoming at times 

 nearly black. This is particularly the case with many of the speci- 

 mens which I have taken off the blossoms of the Retama, on the 

 upland Cumbres of Teneriffe. 



978. Cryptocephalus puncticollis. 



Cryptocephalus puncticollis, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 398 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), in intermediis parce 

 degens. 



Likewise Canarian, but perhaps somewhat scarcer than the last 

 species, occurring at intermediate altitudes. I have taken it in Tene- 

 riffe, Palma, and Hierro; and it was found by the Messrs. Crotch 

 (" above Hermigua, towards the Valle Hermoso ") in Gomera. 



Genus 302. STYLOSOMUS. 

 Suffnan, in Linn. Ent. iii. 146 (1848). 



979. Stylosomus biplagiatus. 



Stylosomus biplagiatus, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 399 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Fuert.), ad folia Tamarids galliccein intermediis 

 deprehensus. 



The present Canarian Stylosomus, which appears to be quite dis- 

 tinct from the European S. tamarisci, I took rather abundantly in 

 Fuerteventura off shrubs of the Tamarix gallica, in the Eio Palmas ; 

 but it has not yet been observed elsewhere. 



Fam. 61. CHRYSOMELID^E. 



Genus 303. CHRYSOMELA. 



Linnseus, Syst. Nat. edit. 1. (1735). 



980. Chrysomela sanguinolenta. 



Chrysomela sanguinolenta, Linn., Fna Suec. 165 (1761). 



sanguinea, Xrullt, in Webb et Berth. (Col.} 73 (1838). 



lucidicollis?, Kiist. Kaf. Europ. ii. 73 (1844). 



