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In the ‘ Transactions of the Zoological Society’ two or three de- — 
scriptive papers of new butterflies, by Mr. A. G. Butler, and a “ List of 
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Lepidoptera collected in the N.W. Himalayas by Capt. A. M. Lang,” | 
by Mr. F. Moore, have been the only ones pertaining to Entomology. | 
Of Mr. Hewitson’s beautiful work, ‘ Exotic Butterflies, four Parts | 
(53—56) have been published. Of the same author's ‘ Illustrations | 
of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ Part II. is devoted to the Lycenide, and 
contains fourteen exquisite plates of those beautiful insects. 
The British Museum has also published three Parts of Mr. Walker's | 
Supplement to the ‘ Catalogue of Lepidoptera-Heterocera.’ 
Mr. Wollaston has given us a complete catalogue raisonnée of the 
Coleopterous Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages and Canaries, under the © 
title of ‘Coleoptera Atlantidum.’ As he well observes, “ For a certain j 
class of naturalists, islands possess a charm which is peculiarly their |}, 
own, — each one being in itself a kind of separate, miniature world.” | 
I will attempt to give a kind of summary of Mr. Wollaston’s remarks 
from his excellent and exhaustive introduction. The total number of |}; 
species is 1449; the Madeiras having 661, the Salvages 24, and the 
Canaries 1007. Only 238 are common to these island groups, of 
which number 38 have been probably introduced by commerce. Of | 
the 1449 species 1039 are not found in the European region (including ~ 
North Africa), but of this large number Mr. Wollaston thinks that 
only about 700 can be called wltra-indigenous, or the real autoch- 
thones of the soil. It is worthy of remark that there are no Cicin- | 
dele; that of the anthophilous Lamellicorns there are ten in the 
Canaries and none in Madeira. Pimelia, with twelve species, is also 
confined to the Canaries ; one of these is found at the very top of the 
“ Peak,” at an elevation of more than 12,000 feet. The Buprestide 
are represented by a single individual taken at Madeira—Agrilus 1| 
Darwinii; the Canaries have six: the latter group has also six spe- _ 
cies of Elateride, while none have been found in Madeira, although © 
one species has been detected at Porto Santo. Twenty-two species | 
are wholly or partially blind. The"Curculionide have not Jess than 
273 representatives, and the Staphylinide 204. The Euphorbias, | 
which form so remarkable a feature in the vegetation of Teneriffe, © 
have a fauna of not less than 74 species, and at least 50 of these are . 
confined exclusively to them, by far the largest part being Canarian. | 
They are found under the dead bark, only one—Haltica Paivee—being | 
known to confine itself to the living foliage. It is to be regretted that . | 
this remarkable fauna is slowly dying out, owing to the destruction | 
