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what limited insect fauna supported b}- this barren rock. 

 The space under loose stones which in more northern climates 

 would be occupied by numerous beetles of various species, 

 was here given over to hermit crabs, a number of which 

 would scurrv away when the protecting cover was disturbed. 

 A single scorpion was seen, but escaped, and a species of 

 Phrxmis was captured. Xo butterflies were seen, and only a 

 few inconspicuous moths, none of which were taken. Ants 

 were rather numerous, and some of the species appear not to 

 have been met with elsewhere during the trip. A Tabanid fl}' 

 was seen, and a few flesh flies were attracted by the carcasses 

 of birds shot for skinning. 



•• The coleoptera were not numerous eitherin specimens or 

 species, the most remarkable capture being a Cetoniid. which 

 I take to be Euphoria sepidchralis Fabr.. though it is not 

 exactlv like those found in the United States. It was at rest 

 under a spreading vellow-flowered plant, which grew quite 

 commonlv wherever a little soil was to be found in hollows of 

 the rock. A Mordellid was beaten from another species of 

 plant (not then in flower. I think), and with it several speci- 

 mens of a minute black weevil, totally unlike anything with 

 which I am acquainted, and a few Arfipus near foi'idamn. 

 The sea-weed along the beach covered a number of PhiJcria. 

 of course. Thev seem to occur on sandy sea-shores every- 

 where." 



