96 Natural History Bulletin. 



•• Our knowledge of the Entomology of Bahia Honda, as 

 of other branches of shore work, was necessarily confined to 

 the strip of thirty yards' width bordering the shores of the 

 bay. The first attempts were directed toward an examina- 

 tion of an old fallen banana stem. The results were three or 

 four myriopods and a large scorpion. x\s soon as beating 

 was commenced, however, a little better luck was had, espe- 

 cially in the line of weevils, which form here, as in the Baha- 

 mas, quite a respectable proportion of the fauna. This mav 

 be owing in great part to the difficult\' with which these 

 insects are drowned, and the consequent ease, comparatively 

 speaking, with which they may thus be carried from place to 

 place by currents of water. If we add to this the fact that 

 the larva^ of many of them live in fruits or nuts, or in the' 

 stems of plants, all easily transported by the waves of ocean, 

 reasons seem not wanting why they should abound. It is 

 also remarkable that in the West Indies the same species of 

 weevil may be found on many different sorts of plants. 



" Among the weevils may be mentioned Ban's chalxbca 

 Boh., a very fine steel-blue species beaten from bushes near 

 the beach; Ban's qiiadrimacniata Boh. from a plant resem- 

 bling our jimson-weed, higher up on the hills which skirt the 

 bay. The latter is a very striking species, — black with two 

 very large reddish yellow spots before the middle of the 

 elytra, and two smaller ones at the tip. A I^achiiopiis. which 

 may hefon'dajuis Horn, was found in some numbers. — a black 

 beetle with numerous golden spots on the elytra. Under a 

 log by the beach a number of Anchoiius were found, but the 

 species has not yet been picked out from the formidable lot 

 described by Suffrian in his papers on the Rhvnchophora of 

 Cuba. 



" The Elaterid.-k were represented chiefly b}' a species of 

 Monocrepidius. The Ciirysomelid.e were not especially nu- 

 merous, but specimens were obtained of two species belonging 

 somewhere near jMctacIirojiia and of Ln penis malachioidcs 

 Chevr. besides a very pretty little halticid with red thorax 

 and green elytra. No Adephaga were found near the 



