CHRYSOMELID^l. 357 



Chrysomela sanguinolenta. Hart.. Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 



141, 142. 

 , WoU., Cat. Can. Col 399 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Gom. sola baud observata), plerumque in 

 subinferioribus occurrens. 



Doubtless universal throughout the Canarian Group, in all the 

 islands of which it has been taken except Gomera where, never- 

 theless, we may be pretty sure that it exists. It appears to be 

 tolerably common in the more eastern islands (occurring principally 

 at rather low elevations), and to become scarcer as we approach the 

 western ones. Its detection in Hierro is due to the late researches 

 of the Messrs. Crotch. 



The Canarian examples differ a little from the ordinary European 

 type, and may perhaps be referable to the C. lucidieollis of Kiister ; 

 but as the latter is acknowledged to be a mere variety of the sangui- 

 nolenta, there is no reason for suspecting that the Canarian form is 

 specifically distinct. 



981. Chrysomela regalis. 



Chrysornela bicolor, Fab. [nee Linn.'], St/st. Ent. 95 (1775). 



regalis, Olw., Ent. v. 91. 538, tab. vii. f. 98 (1807). 



canariensis, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col) 73 (1838). 



regalis, JIart., Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 141. 



bicolor, Wolly Cat. Can. Col 400 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert., Can.), sub lapidibus in inferi- 

 oribus intermediisque minus frequens. 



The C. regalis of Mediterranean latitudes occurs, though locally, 

 in at any rate the eastern portion of the Canarian Group ; but it has 

 not yet been observed in the central and western islands. It has 

 been taken in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and Grand Canary 

 occurring beneath stones, principally at rather low elevations*. 



982. Chrysomela obsoleta. 



Chrysomela obsoleta, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col) 73 (1838). 



, Hart., Geolog. Verhaltn. Lanz. und Fuert. 141. 



, Won., Cat. Can. Col 401 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom.?), prascipue in sylvaticis editioribus. 



* I have indeed received the C. regalis from Paris with the label " Teneriffe " 

 attached to it ; but as it appears to be a custom of certain continental entomo- 

 logists to cite all Canarian insects as Teneriffan when they do not know the pre- 

 cise habitat, and since species undoubtedly from Lanzarote have been communi- 

 cated at the same time, bearing this universal appendage, I do not consider the 

 evidence afforded by a label of that kind as worth notice. 



