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A further contrihiition to the Fauna of Lundy Island. — At p. 131 of vol. ri of 

 the Ent. Mo. Mag. will bo found a notice of 8 species added to the Coleopterous 

 Fauna of this Island by myself during two days' excm-sious in August, 1870, the 

 principal object of which was to collect Hymenoptera, so that all my captures of 

 beetles were made on turuing up stones in search of ants' nests. On the 22nd of 

 August last, having for three weeks searched in vain for Symenoptera at and in the 

 neighbourhood of Ilfracombe, I took advantage of an excursion to Lundy, which 

 gave me about four hours for collecting, and these I devoted entirely to searching 

 for Coleoptera. 



Mr. T. V. "Wollastou has published two lists of the Coleoptera of the Island in 

 the Zoologist, the first in 1845, the second in 1817 ; and the addition of the 8 above- 

 mentioned species to the aggregate number (153) contained in tliese, increases the 

 list to 161. I have now to add 22 further species, giving a total of 183. 



Mr. Wollaston's i-esearches were made during June and July, and my own in 

 August, leaving nine months for further investigations, and the spring especially 

 would, no doubt, pi'oduce many species not yet recorded in the lists. 



In my remarks on the Hymenoptera of Limdy Island, published in the Ento- 

 mologist's Annual of 1870, I observed that it was the only locality I ever collected 

 at without finding the hive-bee, and I also suggested that the Island was so barren 

 and bleak that probably it could not exist there ; since that time a cottager has 

 imported hives, and the insect is now plentiful on the purple heath, and also on the 

 flowers of the blackberry. I may also here record the discovci-y of two species of 

 FormicidcB not enumerated in my former list, namely, Formica aliena and F. 

 cunicula/'ia. 



Sweeping over a stubble field, I was greatly surprised at the immense number 

 of grasshoppers, all apparently Stenolothrus biyicftattis. Three species of Homoptera 

 also occurred in some abundance ; these proved to bo P/yeltis lifasciatus, P. Uneatus 

 and Fvacanthus interruptui, the latter being less numerous, but not uncommon. Only 

 two butterflies attracted my notice, they being rather numerous, one was Polyom- 

 mati's Alexis, the other Chfysophanns phlaeas ; but I also observed a small pale buff- 

 coloured moth which darted out of the clumps of heath when I was beating for 

 Coleoptera. Mr. Wollaston has only recorded two other lepidoptcrous insects, 

 (Cynthia cardui and lladena \^pleheia'\ dentina). A Lepidopterist would, I have no 

 doubt, have seen many other species ; he must not, however, expect any long list of 

 rarities, the Island being for the most part scanty of vegetation, and its entire area 

 being only three miles and a-half, by little more that half-a-mile at the widest part. 



The following is a list of all the species of Coleoptera taken on this last occasion 

 by me, — such of tliem (22 in number) as were first discovered by myself to be part 

 of the Fauna of Limdy being distinguished by an asterisk. Eleven of these, marked 

 t, are not recorded in Mr. Parfitt's catalogue of the Coleoptera of Devonshire 

 (rtiough one of them, Ceuthorhynchus quadridens, is probably the insect from horse- 

 radish, referred to therein as C. quercicolaj : — *Demetrias atricapillns, Dromius 

 linearis, *Tachyporii.t brunneus, *Cercus rnjllabris, Corticaria yibbosa and *fll''ollas- 

 loni, *fMeliffethes lugubris, *\ApioH radiolum, *feneinn, carduorum, *fmarchicuin, 

 *humile, *ruJirostre, and *nigritarse, *\Tychius lineal ul us, *Miccotrogus picirostris, 

 *\&ibynes primitus, Cceliodes didymus, f Ceuthorhynchus. assimilis, contractus, and 

 viir. ? \pallipe.'!. Crotch (I liave conii)ared this insect witli typical contractus, and 



