294 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Water Cay, which is on the Salt Cay Bank, far to the westward of 

 the main group of the Bahamas, was the next point at which we landed, 

 and here a hard row of five miles was necessary to reach the shore. 

 Only three hours weie afforded for an examination of the place, and thus 

 few insects were found. The main inhabitants were sea birds, which 

 were excessively numerous, and bred in the crannies in the rocks, and 

 hermit crabs (Ceiiobita diogenes), which occupy the places we are used to 

 think of as belonging to the ground beetles. The rocky surface of the 

 Cay, with its patches of coral sand and occasional hollow filled with black 

 soil, was destitute of the wooded covering such as we saw on Egg Island, 

 and diversified only by a ^evf straggling bushes and herbs. A Polycesta 

 was taken, however, which seems to be velasco, while an Euphoria has 

 been referred with some doubt to E. sep7ilchraHs, from my specimens of 

 which it differs in the darker colour, with less metallic lustre, and more 

 evident white markings, as well as in the somewhat coarser sculpture. 

 The other genera that were recognized are : Scymnus, Saprinus, 

 Catorama, Cryptocephalus, Phaleria, Artipus and Dryotj-ibus ; the last 

 probably D. mimeticus, Horn, which has been taken in the Florida Keys. 



For several weeks after leaving Water Cay nothing further was done 

 in the Bahamas, the intervening time being spent in the vicinity of Cuba 

 and Florida. Returning, we finally reached Harbor Island, near the north- 

 ern end of Eleuthera, after a long run from Key West, and were promptly 

 run fast on a sand-bar by a pilot. Landing on the morning of August gth^ 

 the surface of the island was found to resemble that of Egg Island, which 

 is in the immediate vicinity ; the webs of two or three large showy spiders 

 were common in the brush, while the song of invisible Cicadas ("singers," 

 the Bahamans call them) filled the air on every side. Butterflies were 

 more numerous than usual, but not being the especial object of search 

 they were neglected for the sake of the favorite Coleoptera, since there 

 was no time to carefully collect both. Turning, therefore, to the beetles, 

 a little Plochmms was beaten from bushes as the sole representative of 

 the Carabidte. There were plenty of Capitis bistriatus on the beach 

 under sea-weed, while of the Coccinellidie there were beaten from bushes 

 specimens of C. satiguijiea, Psyllobora nana, and a little Scymnus. 

 Several of the Monocrepidius mentioned as occurring on Egg Island 

 were found here, also the Longhorn Spalacopsis filum, Klug. Of 

 Chrysomelidas there were not many — a Halticid and an Eumolpid being 

 the most showv ones — and of Tenebrionidae the most notable form was a 



