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50 NATURAL HISTORY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 



Scbonherr, the specimcus beiu<]f too much injured in transportation to 

 admit of the determination of the species. The few drops of carbolic 

 acid, added to tiie bottle of glycerine, alcohol, and water, in which they 

 were preserved, seem to have been destructive to the more minute 

 parts. 



Besides the foregoing, a single specimen of a small brown beetle, 

 supposed to be an elater, was captured and preserved, but has some- 

 how been lost in transportation. Mr. Eaton S[)eaks of finding longicorn 

 beetles, and " several species of BrachyeJytra.^^ (Ann. and Mug. Ii^at. 

 History, Oct., 1875, p. 291.)* 



It is somewhat remarkable that the prominent form in the Coleoptera 

 of Kerguelen, an island destitute of trees and shrubs, should be the 

 curculio, and that the only other form collected by our party should be 

 a water-beetle, living at a distance from any pond or i)ool. The possi- 

 bility of importation by the whalers, which have so long frequented the 

 island, should be borne in mind in this connection. 



LEPIDOPTEEA. 



The small vial containing the collection of Lepidoptera has been lost 

 in transportation. A single flying tineid moth was observ^ed soon after 

 our landing, bat supposed to be a clothes-moth from our own boxes. 

 While preparing some botanical specimens for the press on the evening 

 of December IS, I captured two lepidopterous insects of moderate size, 

 with very imperfect and abbreviated wings, active in their movements, 

 and " seeming to be provided with two pairs of antennae, one being long \ 

 and thread like, the other shorter, pectinate, and curling backward over 

 the top of the liciid." These insects are noted in my diary as ^'■Podura- 



* The lollowiufT species from Mr. Eaton's collection have been described by Mr. 

 Chas. O. Waterbouse, iu the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine (London, Aug., 1875, 

 54), as from Kergueleu's Land: 

 SuB-OitDER BRACHYELYTRA : 

 Family, Aleocharid^ : 



Phijtosns atricc2)s, sp. nov. 

 Sub-Order RHYNCHOPHORA: 



Family, Braciiyderidin^ : 



Canonopsis sericeus, gen. et sp. nov. 

 Agonclytra, gen. nov. 

 Agonehjtra angnsticollis, sp. nov. 

 Agonelytra gracUipes, sp. nov. 

 Agondytra brevis, sp. nov. 



