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Teneriffe, Gomera, Palma, and Hierro. It is found principally in the 

 lower districts, and seems to subsist for the most part on the Kleinia 

 neriifolia. At least I believe that to be the plant which I have often 

 observed absolutely devoured by it ; and it is merely through the 

 fact of Mr. G. E. Crotch having assured me that he has met with it 

 in Teneriffe on Euphorbias that I am inclined to question the possi- 

 bility of my having mistaken the shrub on which my own specimens 

 were captured. 



1007. Longitarsus saltator. 



Longitarsus saltator, WolL, Ins. Mad. 445 (1854). 



, Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 132 (1857). 



fractus, Id., ibid. 133 (1857). 



Teinodactyla saltator, AIL, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 319 (1861). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.}, in inferioribus et intermediis rarissimus. 



A large Longitarsus which has been captured hitherto only in 

 Madeira proper, where it occurs very rarely at rather low and inter- 

 mediate elevations. I have taken it beneath stones at a short distance 

 (probably about 800 feet above the sea) outside Funchal ; and a 

 single example was found by the late Mr. Bewicke at the Eibeiro 

 Frio. It was this latter specimen, which happened to be an un- 

 usually highly coloured one, that I described under the trivial name 

 of fractus ; but as I have since ascertained that the saltator is deci- 

 dedly a variable insect (being sometimes of a uniform lurid or 

 yellowish brown, and at others ornamented with an obscurely dark- 

 ened sutural band, as well as with a broken lateral dash), I have no 

 hesitation in regarding the fractus as a variety of it. 



The L. saltator in its unmaculated state has a good deal in common 

 with the European L. verbasci. It is, however, a little smaller than 

 that species, with its head, posterior femora, and the apical portion 

 of its antennas darker ; and the punctation of its elytra is finer and 

 less dense. 



1008. Longitarsus brevipennis. 



Longitarsus brevipennis, WolL, Journ. of Ent. i. 8 (1860). 

 Teinodactyla brevipennis, AIL, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. deFr. 320 (1861). 

 Longitarsus brevipennis, WoU., Cat. Can. Col. 412 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz.}, ad plantam Heliophyti erosi, Lem., per 

 litus arenosum crescentem deprehensus. 



Taken by myself in Lanzarote, of the Canarian Group off a plant 

 of the Heliopliytum erosum, growing in the loose sand behind the sea- 

 beach, about a mile to the south of Arrecife. 



