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Of this common European insect I have seen as yet but a single 

 example from these Atlantic islands. It was taken by Dr. Crotch, 

 during the spring of 1862, in Palma of the Canarian Group. 



Genus 307. MNIOPHILOSOMA. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 453 (1854). 



990. Mniophilosoma laeve. 



Mniophilosoma lasve, Woll., Ins. Mad. 454, tab. ix. f. 8 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 135 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), praecipue inter muscos ad truncos arbo- 

 rum crescentes in lauretis editioribus hand infrequens. 



Peculiar apparently to the higher elevations of Madeira proper, 

 where it is far from uncommon amongst moss whether growing on 

 the trunks of trees or on rocks. 



Fam. 62. GALLERUCHXE. 



Genus 308. CALOMICBUS. 

 (Dillwyn) Steph., ///. Brit. Ent. iv. 293 (1831). 



991. Calomicrus Wollastoni. 



Calomicrus Wollastoni, Paiva, Ann. Nat. Hist. viii. 210 (1861). 

 , Wott., Cat. Can. Col. 405 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), ad flores varies 

 praBsertim Cistorum in intermediis editioribusque occurrens. 



This pallid Calomicrus would appear to be essentially Canarian, 

 occurring on various flowers and for the most part at rather lofty 

 altitudes. It has been taken in Teneriffe, Gomera, Palma, and 

 Hierro. I have usually met with it on the blossoms of the Cistus 

 vagans and monspdiensis ; but Mr. G. E. Crotch obtained it in 

 Gomera " by sweeping potatoe-plants in the laurel-region." 



Fam. 63. 



Genus 309. HALTICA. 

 Geoflroy, Hist. Air. des Ins. i. 244 [script. Altica] (1762). 



