THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. XVII. 



[VOLUME XLII]. 

 THE COLEOPTjERA OF LUNDY ISLAND. 



BY NORMAN H. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. 



Lundy Island was first visited by a Coleopterist in June, 1844, 

 when Mr. YV^oUaston stayed for five days on the island and collected 

 sixty-five species (Zoologist, vol. iii, p. 897) ; among these were two 

 of special interest, PsylUodes luridipennis, Kuts., and Ceuthorrliynchus 

 contractus, v. paJlipes, Crotch, two forms which had not occurred else- 

 where. AVollaston again made an excursion to the island in July, 

 1845, stopping nearly a week, and adding eighty-eight species to his 

 list (Zoologist, vol. V, p. 1753). In the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. vi, p. 

 134, Mr. E. Smith gives a description of two short visits in August, 

 1864, in quest chiefly of ir?/?«e?2op^6'rff, enumerating eight more species 

 of Coleoptera ; and, again, in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xi, p 111, the same 

 author records the capture in August, 1874, of twenty-two additional 

 species, thus making a total of 183 species. I find, however, that Mr. 

 Smith has made several mistakes in recording a species a second time, 

 and Mr. Wollaston has marked some of his with a ?, so that the com- 

 plete list should only amount to 164. Considering the shortness of 

 the expeditions made by Wollaston and Smith, and the number and 

 interest of their captures, it is surprising that there is no record of 

 the island having been searched for Coleoptera during the last thirty 

 years ; and it was on this account that I determined to make a short 

 stay there last August, hoping to add a few more species to the local 

 list ; nor was I disappointed, as out of 164 species collected in a little 

 over two days ninety- seven are new to the list. One of these, 

 MelanophtTialma distinguenda, Com., has not before been recorded 

 from Britain, and another I here describe as a new^ variety under the 

 name IStenus ossium, v. insularis, var. n. 

 'aet, 1906. 



