A Pimelia which appears to occur in the highest elevations of 

 Teneriffe, having been captured by MM. Webb and Berthelot on the 

 very top of the " Peak " itself (at an altitude of more than 12,000 

 feet). Their types indeed, which I examined carefully when in Paris, 

 were until quite lately all that I had seen ; but an example is now 

 before me which has just been communicated by De Marseul from 

 the collection of M. de la Perraudiere, and which (although labelled 

 merely as Teneriffan) must doubtless have been taken in the same 

 locality. As considerations of health would not permit me to venture 

 much higher than about 9000 feet on the mountains of Teneriffe, I 

 did not reach the summit of the Peak, and consequently did not ob- 

 tain this beautiful Pimelia, though the elevated Cumbre (overlooking 

 the Cafiadas) which formed the upper limit of my explorations was 

 thickly strewed with the P. ascendens. 



1112. Pimelia fornicata. 



Pimelia fornicata?, Hbst, Natursyst. viii. 79, tab. 122. f. 8 (1799). 



obesa?, Sol., Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, v. 191 (1836). 



-, Brulle, in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 67 (1838). 



fornicata, JVolL, Cat. Can. Col. 472 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (sec. DD. Webb et Berth.), mihi non obvia. 



A Pimelia of Mediterranean latitudes which is admitted by M. 

 Brulle into his short and inaccurate list of Canarian Coleoptera, on 

 the evidence of specimens supposed to have been captured by MM. 

 Webb and Berthelot. I examined the latter, whilst in Paris, and 

 they certainly are different from every other species recorded in this 

 volume, and perhaps also rightly identified with the obesa (or forni- 

 cata) of southern Europe. I need scarcely add that M. Brulle gives 

 us no kind of information about them ; and therefore, until further 

 evidence has been obtained on the subject of their habitat, I cannot 

 regard them as by any means undoubtedly Canarian and especially 

 so, since a Pimelia much resembling the fornicata swarms on the 

 opposite coast of Morocco, and I have already had occasion to com- 

 ment on the accidental importations, through the medium of trading 

 vessels, which from time to time have unquestionably taken place at 

 S ta Cruz. 



1113. Pimelia ascendens. 



Pimelia barbara, Br. [nee Sol'], in Webb et Berth. (Col.) 67 (1838). 

 ascendens, Woll, Cat. Can. Col. 473 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten.), in montibus excelsis usque ad 10,000 

 s. m. ascendens. 



