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rean Peninsula, is grey, flecked with dirty opake white. The 

 animal is very like that of Cyclostoma proper. The muzzle is 

 broad and ringed ; the tentacles are cylindrical, short, and ob- 

 tuse at the end. The foot is short, and obtuse behind and in 

 front. The operculum is borne on the hind part of the foot, 

 close to the shell. 



I obtained figures of these animals, which possibly may be 

 published, with some others, at a future period. Meanwhile I 

 consider it advisable to forward brief notices of the animals for 

 the information of zoologists and other parties interested in 

 these matters. 



XXIV. — On certain Coleoptei'a from the Island of St. Vincent. 



By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 



[Continued from p. 103.] 



Fam. Tentjrriadse. 



(Subfam. Tentyriades.) 



Genus Hegeter. 



Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. iii. 173 (1802). 



19. Hegeter elongatus, Oliv. 



Blaps elongata, Oliv., Ent. iii. 60, pi. 1. f. 7 (1795). 



Hegeter striatus, Latr., Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. x. 276 (1804). 



• • , Solier, Ann. de la See. Ent. de France, iv. 377 (1835). 



elongatus, WolL, Ins. Mad. 510, tab. 11. f. 7 (1854). 



The H. elongatus appears to be a common insect at the Cape 

 de Verdes, having been taken abundantly at St. Vincent by Mr. 

 Gray and the Rev. Hamlet Clark, in December 1856, and sub- 

 sequently by Mr. Fry. It is essentially au Atlantic species, 

 extending even to the Azores, where it is recorded by M. Morelet. 

 I have myself captured it in profusion in ]\Iadeira and Porto 

 Santo, as well as (I believe I may add, without reference to my 

 material) on the whole seven islands of the Canariau group. 



Genus Oxycaha. 



Solier, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, iv. 254 (1835). 



The Oxycarce (= the Melancri of Dejean's Catalogue) appear 

 to be common in these islands, — or, at any rate, the two species 

 enumerated below. The genus is remarkable amongst the true 

 Tentyriades for the form of its mesosternum, which is much 

 thickened and horizontal in the centre, and, in the typical mem- 

 bers of the group, bifid in front, where it receives the backwardly 

 produced lobe of the prosternum. In the normal species (which. 



