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HALTICIDvE. 



Haltica. It was taken by Dr. Crotch in Palma, during the spring 

 of 1862. 



999. Haltica crassipes. 



Haltica crassipes, WolL, Journ. of Ent. i. 3 (1860). 



Aphthona crassipes, All., Ann. de la Soc. EnL de France, 331 (1861). 



Haltica crassipes, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 408 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), foliis Sempervivi 

 et Sedi in intermediis editioribusque gaudens. 



A Canarian species, which appears to be attached more parti- 

 cularly to the plants of Sempervivum and Sedum which grow on the 

 rocks at intermediate and lofty elevations. I have taken it in Tene- 

 riife and Palma, and examples are now before me which were cap- 

 tured by the Messrs. Crotch in Gomera and Hierro. 



Genus 310. LONGITAKSUS. 



Latreille, Fam. Nat. des Ins. 405 [script. Longitarse] (1825). 



1000. Longitarsus cinerariae. 



Longitarsus Cinerarias, WolL, Ins. Mad. 444, tab. ix. f. 6 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 131 (1857). 



consanguineus, Id., ibid. 132 (1857). 



Teinodactyla Cinerariae, AIL, Ann. de la Soc.Ent.de Francefi\Q (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), plantas Cinerarice auritce, Herit. ( = 

 Senedonis maderensis, DC.), in editioribus crescentes colens. 



A singular and very beautiful Longitarsus, which has been ob- 

 served only in the higher altitudes of Madeira proper -where it is 

 locally abundant on the flowers and foliage of the Cineraria aurita, 

 the purple clusters of which are often so conspicuous within the 

 damp sylvan regions. Although generally a constant species, it 

 varies a little in certain districts so that all the legs, and even the 

 apex of the elytra, are sometimes pale. That particular form I 

 described in my Madeiran Catalogue under the trivial name of con- 

 sanguineus ; but I have since satisfied myself that it is a mere 

 variety, passing into the typical state gradually and completely. 



1001. Longitarsus echii. 



Haltica Echii, Illig., Mag. fur Ins. vi. 171 (1807). 

 Longitarsus excurvus, WolL, Cat. Mad. Col. 133 (1857). 

 Teinodactyla Echii, AIL, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 00 (1860). 

 Longitarsus echii, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 415 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to } et Canarienses ( Can., Ten., Gom., 

 Palma), in foliis Echiorum degens. 



