870 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
he gives no description. Perhaps it was only a color-variety of the 
preceding, which is variable in color. He says it buries itself in sand 
instantaneously, a habit that I have noticed in the common Ber- 
muda lizard, when rocks are not available for its escape. 
The chapter of 12 pages on Entomology (pp. 198-210) is mostly 
occupied with extracts from foreign elementary or popular books, 
describing the habits, structure, and classification of foreign insects. 
The species of real Bermuda insects, specifically named by the 
author, are but few, and to most of those he gave names that belong 
to very different foreign species, so that it is, in most cases, very 
uncertain to what particular insects he refers. 
However, in some cases, he gives a few words of description or 
some original notes on habits that enable us to identify a few of his 
species with more or less certainty. See table below. Perhaps one 
or two of these are not included in my synopsis (e. g., Anobium, sp.). 
According to his statements, insects were much more numerous, 
especially in mid-summer, than later collectors have recorded. But 
it must be remembered that, so far as known, no competent ento- 
mologist has ever made collections in Bermuda in mid-summer. Nearly 
all have collected only in winter or spring. The small summer col- 
lections have been made by inexperienced persons. The following 
extracts contain all that seems of any value on this subject : 
‘“« Among the riches of the Bermudian entomology, I have noticed 
among the species of butterflies, the Pieris brassicw, the great gar- 
den butterfly, ete. The Argynnis Paphia, the Heliconia, and the 
Nymphalis, ave common enough at all times, and in almost all sitna- 
tions. Others are abundant at a particular season or locality ; but 
in general, butterflies are to be obtained only occasionally.” . . . 
“Jn the summer season, and more particularly on rainy nights, 
that section of nocturnal Lepidoptera, Noctualites, the Pyralis, the 
Phalonites, also that of the Tineites, ete., fly in at the open windows 
in great numbers, and speckle the ceiling or flutter around the 
glass shades with which the candles are protected from the draughts. 
A great number of small beetles and other insects also fly in on such 
occasions ; and several interesting species may then be met with. 
But in general beetles and the other orders are extremely scarce, and 
especially Diptera. During the month of August the shrubs and 
trees that border the roads are alive with insects of all orders, but 
particularly Coleoptera. Many species of Longicornes, Cassidarice 
(or tortoise beetles), Chrysomelius, Coccinella (or lady-birds), ete., 
occur by hundreds on the twigs and leaves ; and the air is alive with 
butterflies, Zymenoptera, and Diptera.” 
