CASSIDID^E. 375 



Fam. 64. HISPID-flJ. 



Genus 314. HISPA. 

 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (1776). 



1029. Hispa occator. 



Ilispa occator, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 73, pi. i. f. 17 (1838). 

 , WoU., Cat. Can. Col. 418 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma, Hierro}, prgesertim ad folia Cis- 

 torum in pinetis editioribus crescentium hinc inde vulgatissima. 



An abundant insect throughout certain regions of a rather high 

 altitude in the Canarian Group, where it may be looked upon as the 

 representative of the H. testacea of southern Europe (to which indeed 

 it is closely allied). I have captured it in profusion off the shrubs 

 of the Cistus monspeliensis and vagans in TeneriiFe and Palma, par- 

 ticularly in the districts occupied by the Finals ; and two examples 

 are now before me, taken by M. de la Perraudiere in the island of 

 Hierro, which differ from the Palman and Teneriffan ones in being 

 uniformly of an obscure black (even the limbs being darkened). But, 

 after a very careful examination of them, I can detect no character 

 to warrant the supposition that they are specifically distinct ; and I 

 conclude, therefore, that they must represent some insular phasis of 

 the occator, peculiar to Hierro. I would however record them as the 

 " var. /3. adumbrata" in the event of future material rendering their 

 separation desirable. I am informed by De Marseul that these in- 

 dividuals from Hierro were found (along with many others) on the 

 shrubs of Cistus monspeliensis, in the district of El Golfo. 



Fam. 65. CASSIDIRffi. 



Genus 315. CASSIDA. 



Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. (1735). 



1030. Cassida nebulosa. 



Cassida nebulosa, Linn,, Fna Suec. 468 (1761). 

 , Steph., Ill JSrit. Ent. iv. 367 (1831). 

 -, WoU., Ins. Mad. 439 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 129 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), a Dom. Heineken, M.D., semel lecta. 

 The only example of this European Cassida which I have yet seen 



