430 SCr.T. V. Wollaston on the Unitarian Malacoderms. 



tulatis pilisque erectis minus nigris dense obsitis, antennis paulo lon- 



gioribus. [Lis. Talma.] 

 Yar. y. gracilipes. Antennis pedibusque gracilioribus et paulo nigrescen- 



tioribus. [Ins. Gomera.] 

 Var. 8. excehm. Paulo major, nitidior, minus aenescens minusque ovatus, 



prothorace vix latiore, elytris distinctiua punctulatis. [In editioribus 



Canarise Grand is.] 

 Var. f. subopacus. Vix minus nitidus, prothorace elytrisque sat densius 



punctulatis, illo minute subruguloso punctulis subtilibus, elytris minus 



pilosis, antennis vix longioribus. [Ins. Fuerteventura. ] 

 Long. corp. lin. 1-1^. 

 Habitat in Lanzarota, Fuerteventura, Canaria, Tenerifta, Gomera et 



Palma, ad flores, passim. 



Evidently a most variable insect, but one which may be known 

 generally by its ovate (or posteriorly-expanded) outline, by the 

 greenish-brassy tinge of its dark elytra and head, by its prothorax 

 having usually only the hinder margin and angles pale (though occa- 

 sionally a larger portion of its surface), and by its tibia? and tarsi 

 (and parts of the femora) being diluted-testaceous. It appears to 

 be more widely spread over the group than any of the other species. 

 I have taken it, though very sparingly, in Fuerteventura ; through- 

 out the region of El Monte, as also at Mogan and Teror, in Grand 

 Canary (and the "var. 5," which may possibly be distinct, in the 

 lofty Pinal of Tarajana, above San Bartolome, in the same island) ; 

 at Taganana, in Teneriffe ; near San Sebastian, of Gomera (though 

 only a single example — the " var. (3 " enunciated above) ; and in the 

 Barranco above S ta Cruz, the Barranco da Agua, and the Banda, of 

 Palma ; and, since a specimen has been communicated by Dr. Heer, 

 stated to have been captured (by M. Hartung) in Lanzarote, it is in 

 all probability universal throughout the archipelago. 



7. Attains biscutyturatus, n. sp. 



A. capite prothoraceque nigris depressis opacis grosse granulato-alutaceis, 

 hoc subrotundato ad basin dilute flavo ; elytris aeneo-nigris, concoloribus, 

 nitidis, dense rugulosis (vix punctulatis), minute cinereo pubescentibus, 

 pilis nigris erectis longiusculis parce obsitis ; antennis ad basin, tibiis 

 tarsisque infuscato-testaceis. 



Lonpr. rorp. lin. 1-1-J-. 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, Aprili ineunte a.d. 1859 repertus. 



This singular little Attains may be known at once from the other 

 Canarian species here enumerated by its very remarkable sculpture, 

 — the head and prothorax (which are much depressed, particularly 

 the former) being opake and coarsely and evenly alutaeeous (or 



