426 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Canarian Malacoderms. 



from the vicinity of Orotava, S ta Cruz, Taganana and Ycod el Alto, 

 and the Palman ones from the Barraneo da Agua. 



2. Malthinus croceicollis, n. sp. 



M. rufo-flavus ; capite postice nigro, attenuato ; prothorace transverso- 

 subquadrato, immaculato ; elytris brevibus, nigris, ad apicem solum 

 flavis ; antennis nigris, ad basin fusco-testaceis ; pedibns nigresceutibus, 

 anticis plus minus dilutioribus. 



Long. corp. lin. l|-2. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, ad flores in regione "El Monte" captus. 



In general colour and aspect this species a good deal resembles the 

 European sanguinolentus ; nevertheless, by the construction of its 

 anteriorly widened and posteriorly contracted head, it is a true 

 Malthinus, and no MaltJwdes. Apart from which, it is considerably 

 smaller than that insect, its forehead and the extreme apex of its 

 elytra are more broadly flavescent, and its limbs are shorter, darker, 

 and less robust. Hitherto I have observed it only in Grand Canary, 

 where it is not uncommon, during the spring months, on flowers 

 throughout the region of El Monte. 



Fam. 2. Malackiidse. 



Genus Pecteropus. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad. 247 (1854). 

 Whether my genus Pecteropus can be upheld as truly distinct from 

 Attains, I will not undertake to pronounce for certain, seeing that 

 the greater number of its structural characters are apparently 

 identical with the corresponding ones of the Attali. I am inclined, 

 however, to think that, if limited in the Madeiran group to the P. 

 rostratus (from Porto Santo and the Desertas), and at the Canaries 

 to the P. angustifrons (from Gomera) — in both of which the head 

 is narrower and much more oval, with the forehead concave, the 

 eyes less prominent, the epistome more produced in front, and the 

 neck relatively broader, whilst the maxillary palpi are somewhat 

 longer, the entire surface more densely sculptured, and the outline 

 more acuminated anteriorly — it may be retained as separate ; under 

 which circumstances the two genera would bear much the same 

 relation to each other as do Malthinus and Malihocles in the Telepho- 

 ridae. At any rate for the present I prefer this adjustment of the 

 species, which seems a sufficiently natural one, to an indiscriminate 

 amalgamation of the whole. 



