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hind flippers were extended somewhat stiffly behind, 

 their inner surfaces meeting, and when the animal was on 

 its side they were raised considerably ; its tail was held 

 at right angles to the long axis of its body. The fore- 

 flippers were frequently held or rubbed together, like a 

 man rubbing his hands ; occasionally one was waved in 

 the air, or was used to scratch its face or other parts of its 

 body. It was apparently annoyed by the splashing of 

 the incoming tide, raising its head frequently and looking 

 round, and shifting its position to a slightly dryer part of 

 the rock, but it did not leave until the water was swirling 

 round it. Then it bumped heavily along the rock until 

 the fore part of its body overhung the water, when it 

 slipped rather than dived into the sea, almost without a 

 splash. 



Mr. T. V. Wollaston, who twice visited the island to 

 study the Coleoptera and published accounts of his visits 

 in the " Zoologist" for 1845 and 1847, was struck with the 

 similarity of its insect fauna to that of Wales ; he found 

 many beetles which at that time were only known to 

 occur in Wales and had not been found in Devon (8). 

 The later observations of Mr. F. Smith and the recent 

 work of Messrs. Norman H. Joy and J. R. le B. Tomlin 

 (9) have added much to our knowledge of the Coleoptera ; 

 many of the species unknown in Devonshire in the 

 forties have since been discovered there, and Mr. WoUas- 

 ton's theory is no longer accepted. The coleopterous 

 fauna is, however, remarkable ; Dr. Wallace (10), after 

 mentioning the two beetles then known to be peculiar to 

 the island — Ceuthorhynchus contractus \zx.pallipes. Crotch, 

 and Psylliodes luridipennis, Kuts., remarks about them : — 

 " Still more curious is the occurrence of two distinct 

 forms (a species and a well-marked variety) on the small 

 granitic Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. This 



