Haplothorax burchellii.
Calosoma haligena.
„ helense.
Bembidium mellissii.
Adoretus ver su t. us.
Pentarthrum subcsecum.
Nesiotes squamosus.
„ asperatus.
„ horridus.
Trachyphlceosoma setosum.
Sciobius subnodosus.
Heteronychus arator.
Mellissius eudoxus.
„ adumbratus.
Anchastus atlantieus.
Microxylobius angustus.
„ cossonoides.
„ dimidiatus.
„ westwoodii.
„ vestitus.
lacertosus.
Microxylobius lucifiigus.
terebrans.
„ obliteratus.
„ debilis.
„ chevrolatii.
„ conicollis.
„ monilicornis.
Nitioxenus bewickii.
„ ferrugineus.
„ rufopictus.
„ dimidiatus.
„ alutaceus.
Homoeodera rotundipennis.
„ coriacea.
„ alutaceicollis.
„ pygmsea.
Longitarsus helense.
„ mellissii.
Cydonia lunata.
Hopatrum hadroides.
Mordella mellissiana.
wbilst the thirty-six which he gives as having followed in the
track of civilization and commerce are these
Lsemophlceus pusillus.
Mycetsea hirta.
Typhsea fumata.
Dermestes cadaverinus.
„ vulpinus.
Attagenus gloriosa;.
Aphodius lividus.
Cryptophagus affinis.
„ badius.
„ gracilipes.
Corynetes rufipes.
Gibbium scotias.
Anobium velatum.
„ paniceum.
„ striatum.
Anobium confertum.
Homalota coriaria.
Bhizopertha bifoveolata.
pusilla.
Hylurgus ligniperda.
Sitophilus oryzse.
Otiorhynchus sulcatus.
Arseocerus fasciculatus.
Alphitobius diaperinus.
„ piceus.
Gnathocerus cornutus.
Tribolium ferrugineum.
Tenebrio obscurus.
Creophilus maxillosus.
Carpophilus dimidiatus.
IN SEC TA .
Carpophilus hemipterus. Curtomerus pilicornis,
Trogosita mauritanica. Coptops bidens. ^
Silvanus surinamensis. Philonthus longicorms.
leaving the following seventeen as “ doubtful,” but which have
most likely been, through various causes, naturalized
Pristonychus eomplanatus. Bruchus advena.
Dactylosternum abdominale. Aspidomorpha miliaris.
Sphseridium dytiscoides. Epilachna chrysomehna.
Cryptamorpha musse. Zophobas concolor.
Tribalus 4-striatus. Thea vanegata.
1 •. Unf,m Xanthohnus mono.
Tomicus semuliis. Oxytelus alutaceifrons.
' Stenoscelis hylastoides. » nitidifrons.
Bruchus rufobrunneus.
Mr. Wollaston further says ; “ I f it be permissible, from material
so limited as that which has hitherto been amassed, to build up a
rough estimate of the true Coleopterous population of St. Helena it
is clear that the ‘ cosmopolitan’ species, which have manifestly
followed in the wake of mere commerce and civilization, must be
.altogether set aside; and in that case, giving the more or less
equivocal ones the advantage of the doubt, we should have fifty-nine
to represent the aboriginal (and evidently much reduced) fauna ot
this remote deteriorated island. When commenting, in 1861, on
even the fourteen species which had been collected by Mr. Bewicke,
I called attention to the extraordinary fact that not only did the
weevils number nearly two-thirds of the entire batch, but were likewise
all of them endemic, both as regards species and genus / whilst
certainly three, if not indeed more, out of the remaining six
(belonging to other families) possess a wide geographical range. •
This led me to remark that the Curcdionidm would, m all probability,
be found to play a most important part in the Coleopterous
fauna of St. Helena; and I then expressed my belief, from the mere
diversity of configuration presented by the five species of Microxylobius
which had been brought to light, that the members of that abnormal
little group would almost certainly be ascertained to be locally
abundant, and, ‘ since the same might he urged with no less force
for that extraordinary genus Nilioxenus,' that there was ‘ every