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to belong to these islands at all. In his ‘Catalogue of Canarian 
Coleoptera,’ Mr. Wollaston raises this number to 930, which is en- 
larged in the ‘ Coleoptera Atlantidum’ to 1007, by the addition of 
77 newly detected forms. The Madeiran Islands and the Salvages 
may be regarded as having been virgin ground up to the time of our 
author’s first researches in Madeira ; by his own investigations, and 
those of others induced by his success, he has brought the number of 
described species from the former to 661; whilst the Salvages, con- 
sisting of bare storm-beaten rocks, have furnished 24 species, 13 of 
which are peculiar to them. 
The total number of species of Coleoptera recorded by Mr. Wollas- 
ton as occurring in all the groups is 1449, of which 1234 have been 
captured by himself, whilst 935 were first described by him. The 
species belong to 423 genera, 82 of which were first characterized by the 
author. Out of this whole number a good many are of course common 
to the islands and various parts of Europe and Northern Africa ; 
and when these are deducted we find that about 700, or nearly half 
the species, may be regarded as bemg what Mr. Wollaston terms 
‘ultra indigenous,” the positive autochthones of the soil. Singularly 
enough, when we consider the general faunal resemblance running 
through the Coleoptera of the whole archipelago, the entire number of 
species common to the Madeiras and Canaries is only 238; and of these 
38 may be deducted as having been in all probability introduced by 
commerce, thus leaving only 200 presumably indigenous species 
common to the two groups. The generally European character of 
the forms met with is also remarkable ; for, except in the two eastern- 
most of the Canaries (Lanzarote and Fuerteventura), nothing of a 
truly African element is to be detected, the species and types not 
peculiar to the islands being either European or “‘ Mediterranean *” 
forms. 
Mr. Wollaston dwells particularly, in the comparison of the Coleo- 
pterous fauna of the Atlantides and the nearest mainland, upon the 
circumstance that several of the Atlantic forms differ from their 
nearest continental allies by very minuie characters, the permanence 
of which constitutes their claim to specific distinction, whilst their 
small importance seems almost to lead to the surmise that the so-called 
species may be only what Mr. Wollaston calls ‘local phases” of 
European species. Similarly several forms are indicated as differ- 
ing in the same degree in the Canaries and Madeira, or even in 
different islands of the former group, as will be easily seen by re- 
ference to Mr. Wollaston’s ‘Index Topographicus,’’ where the 
supposed possible original species are pointed out by an arrow. Mr. 
Wollaston, in fact, seems to regard these forms as of the same nature 
as those denominated ‘‘ phytophagic races”? and ‘“ phytophagic 
species ’’ by Walsh, although he is far from adopting the evolutional 
doctrines supported by that author, and maintains strongly the 
essential existence and /imited variability of species. The author’s 
remarks upon this interesting subject (Coleoptera Atlantidum, In- 
troduction, pp. xxxvili-xlvi) are of much importance, and will well 
