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minutely granulated) throughout, whilst the elytra are shining, and 

 merely roughened in the ordinary manner. Its colour is black, 

 except the hinder part of the prothorax (which is dull yellow), and 

 the tibia?, tarsi, and base of the antennae (which are brownish- 

 testaceous). The only two examples which I have seen (a male and 

 a female) were captured by myself in Fuerteventura — I believe in 

 the Rio Palmas, early in April of 1859. 



8. Attalus rugifrons, n. sp. 



A. aenescenti-niger prothorace vel in limbo postico vel fere omnino rufo, 

 cinereo pubescens ; capite subopaco, deusissime et minute subgranulato- 

 rugoso; prothorace nitido, minutissime et parce punctulato; elytris 

 subnitidis, minute et leviter rugulosis (vix punctulatis), pilis nigris 

 erectis longiusculis obsitis ; antennis versus basin pedibusque anterio- 

 ribus (margine femorum superiore excepto) rufo-testaceis ; pedibus 

 postice nigrescentibus, femoribus infra tai-sisque (necnon interdum 

 etiam tibiis) paulo dilutioribus. 



Variat prothorace vel ad angulos posticos et per basin ipsissimam, vel in 

 limbo latissimo, vel (rarius) etiam fere omnino pallido-rufo. 



Long. corp. lin. H-lf. 



Habitat Gomeram, in collibus prope Sanctum Sebastianum mense Febru- 

 ario ineunte a.d. 1858 ad flores repertus. 



The present Attalus, which has been observed hitherto only in 

 Gomera, is, like most of the species, very variable in colour ; never- 

 theless its subopake and densely and minutely rugulose head (in 

 which respect it somewhat resembles the Pecteropus angustifrons), 

 combined with the rufo-testaceous hue of its four anterior legs and 

 the base of its antennae (the former of which, however, have the 

 upper edge of their femora, and occasionally of the tibiae also, black), 

 will sufficiently distinguish it. Its prothorax has* usually the sides 

 and base broadly testaceo-rufous ; but sometimes it is entirely dark, 

 except towards the hinder angles, whilst at others even the discal 

 patch is almost obsolete, when nearly the whole surface is pale. It 

 was taken from off flowers by Mr. Gray and myself on the hills above 

 San Sebastian of Gomera, at the beginning of February 1858. 



9. Attalus ornatissimus, n. sp. (PI. XX. fig. 2.) 

 A. vel cyaneus vel viridi-cyaneus prothorace utrinque latissime pallido- 

 rufo, cinereo pubescens, nitidus ; capite subopaco prothoraceque den- 

 sissime et minute subgranulato-rugulosis ac minutissime punctulatis ; 

 elytris densissime et minute subruguloso-punctulatis, pilis nigris erectis 

 elongatis postice obsitis ; antennis ad basin trochanteribusque plus minus 

 dilutioribus. 



