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with distorted win^- cases, were found, and amono^ 

 them six new species. A large Cychrus was also 

 found, and a species closely resembling the Manti- 

 cora, together with many other Carabides, of which 

 we collected, in all, fifty different species. 



It was at the Sandwich Isles that the greatest 

 number of fishes and Crustacea were collected : of 

 the former the greatest variety, and the most re- 

 markable, were kept in the fish preserves of the 

 royal family. Of other classes of animals, but few 

 are to be met with. Among the dense woods that 

 cover the backs of the mountains, there must be a 

 number of land-birds, but we met only Meiithreptus 

 lestianus, and two sorts of the Diccemn; in the 

 fields laid under water were the Gallinula chloropus 

 and a Fiilka. Of corals there is but little variety ; 

 these islands being situated nearly in the highest 

 latitude in which coral is ever found. In the vici- 

 nity of the harbour are two sorts of Astrcea, +wo 

 Porites, a Paioiiia, and a Horuera. The number of 

 insects is small, as is indeed the case with all land 

 animals ; it is therefore creditable to our industry, 

 that we are able to muster twenty sorts of beetles. 

 A small Platymis is the only Carabide ; in the water, 

 two Colymbetes and a Hydrophilus were found. The 

 only Elater belongs to a species (Agrypnus Nj in 

 which we reckon various specimens found only in 

 the Old World, such as Elater tomentusus, fuscipes, 

 senegaknsis, &c. ; beetles which have two deep fur- 

 rows in the lower part of the neck-shield, to receive 



