60 Mr. F. Holme’s Notice of Coleopterous Insects 
Harpalus ceneus and rufcornis. — Abundant, as well as the varieties 
or allied species, ceneopiceus, confnis, & c. 
*Anisodactylus spurcaticornis. — Common : none agreeing with A. 
binotatus. 
Peryphus tetraspilotus, Notiophilus biguttatus. — Neither common : 
the Notiophili were a variety of a long narrow figure : I sent 
a pair to Mr. Waterhouse for examination. 
Hygrotus incequalis and affinis ? Laccophilus interruptus. — These 
were the only species I could find round the margin of the 
Abbey Pond, above-mentioned, but I had not time to examine 
minutely. 
*Cercyon littorale, *binotatum, *dilatatum, and * depression , Sphae- 
ridium scarabceoides, bipustulatum, and *lunatum ? — Found in 
plenty on the beach on fish bones and other animal rejecta- 
menta. The three first are unquestionably only different 
states of colour and maturity in the same species, as Mr. Ste- 
phens suspects. I have a complete connecting series through 
every shade of colour : they vary greatly in size. C. depression 
may perhaps be only another variety, though the differences 
are greater than in the others. 
Phosphuga atrata. — I took a single specimen, on the wing : I men- 
tion this from several eminent entomologists, among whom were 
Mr. Stephens and Mr. Hope, having told me that they were 
not aware that the insect possessed the power of using its rudi- 
ments of wings for flight : I have several times taken it on the 
wing in the sunshine. 
Simplocaria semistriota. — At the roots of sand plants on the beach. 
*Hister maritimus and *quadristriatus. — I found two or three spe- 
cimens of each of these under stones in the loose soft sand in 
the Island of Sampson, but I had no time to search for more : 
I thought it singular that I did not find H. ceneus in the Islands, 
as it swarms in the Land’s End district. 
Onthopliagus nuchicornis, Dilwynii. — Not in great numbers: Dil- 
wynii most numerous. 
Typhaeus vulgaris.- — In great abundance on the Garrison Hill in St. 
Mary’s, and on other parts of the island, but not in such num- 
bers. 
Geotrupes mutator. — One specimen, I think on Bryer Island. 
vernalis, sylvaticus, niger f, puncticolUs , and stercorarius. 
— All common, but the three first, or smooth species, by far 
the most numerous : G. stercorarius the least plentiful of any. 
* sublcevigatus. — I took one specimen, which appeared to 
agree with Mr. Stephens’s description of this species : I pos- 
