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numbers on the wild cabbage, which seems only to grow at the south- 

 east corner of the island. The Ceutliorrliynclius I found was accom- 

 panied by the type form, seven specimens belonging to the type out 

 of thirty-four taken. It is curious to note that just two-thirds of 

 my specimens w^ere maimed in some way, one antenna or a tarsus 

 being often missing. 



"Wollaston remarks on the fact that none of the characteristic 

 beetles of the North Devon coast are found on the island, and many 

 species occur on Lundy which are absent from the neighbouring 

 Devonshire coast. This is not so surprising w^hen we consider how 

 very different the two coasts are geologically. There is no sand on 

 Lundy Island, and no granite on the North Devon coast. He suggests 

 that the Coleopterous fauna more nearly resembles that of the Welsh 

 coast (where, however, granite does not occur either) ; and he in- 

 stances the abundance of Cteniopus sulplmreus, L., in both localities. 

 I only had two days' collecting on the North Devon coast, so can 

 form no opinion on this point, but it is just worth recording that I 

 found the somewhat local Falagria tJioracica^ Curt., very common both 

 on Lundy and at Woolacombe. Since waiting the above I have had 

 the opportunity of seeing the MS. of the Devonshire list of Coleopfera, 

 and I find there are twenty-four species recorded from Lundy Island 

 which are not recorded from the rest of the county. 



Lundy Island is evidently an exception to the rule that the insect 

 life on an island is poorer both in individuals and in species than the 

 adjoining mainland, for I do not think I have ever seen beetles more 

 numerous. There must be exceptional conditions prevailing to account 

 for its possessing two species not found elsewhere in the British 

 Islands, and two distinct varieties peculiar to it, and also for this 

 reason it is probable that it has for a very long time been separated 

 from the mainland. The climate no doubt is very favourable, being 

 even more equable than on the north coast of Devon, and it has a 

 considerably less rainfall. As might almost be expected, the Phyto- 

 phaga are on the whole abnormally small ; all my specimens of 

 Crepidodera ferruginea, Scop., belong to a distinctly small race. 



As Wollaston's Lundy list of Coleoptera is not easily accessible, 

 and as so many of the names are now obsolete, I have thought it best 

 to give a complete list of the Coleojptera of the island, marking my 

 own captures not included in Wollaston's and Smith's lists with an * 

 I have little doubt there is still a large number of species to be 

 discovered. 



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