Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Coleoptera from Ascension. 299 



4. Odostomia bulimella, A. Adams. 



O. testa oblonga, profunde rimata, alba, solida ; anfractibus norma- 

 libus 4, planis, suturis impressis ; anfractu ultimo elongate, ad 

 pei'ipheriam rotundato ; apertura oblonga, antice effusa et pro- 

 diicta ; labio recto ; plica parietali superiore ; labro margine recti- 

 usculo. 



Hab. Gulf of Pe- chili; 3 fathoms (mud). 



5. Odostomia hrevicula, A. Adams. 



O. testa OTato-conoidali, alba, opaca, solidiuscula, vix rimata ; spira 

 brevi ; anfractibus normalibus 2, ultimo ventricoso, ad peripheriam 

 rotundato ; apertura acuminato-ovata ; plica parietali parva, trans- 

 versa, mediana. 



Hab. Shan-tung (Kala-hai). 



6. Odostomia lepidula, A. Adams. 



O. testa oblonga, alba, vix opaca ; anfractibus normalibus 3, planis, 

 ultimo magno, elongato, ad peripheriam rotundato, antice pro- 

 ducto ; apertura acuminato-ovata ; plica parietali parva, obliqua. 



Hab. Lian-tung (Hulu-Shan) ; 3 fathoms. 



7. Odostomia pyramidalis, A. Adams. 



O. testa pyramidali-conica, alba, vix opaca, solidiuscula ; anfractibus 

 normalibus 5, planis, suturis impressis ; anfractu ultimo ad peri- 

 pheriam vix angulato ; apertura ovata, postice acuminata ; plica 

 parietali mediana, transversa, conspicua. 



Hab. Shan-tung (Kala-hai) ; Lian-tung (Hulu-Shan). 



Ta-Lien-Whan, China, 

 August 1, 1860. 



XXXVI. — On certain Coleopterous Insects from the Island of 

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



There is probably no spot in the world more utterly hopeless 

 to a naturalist than the island of Ascension. My friend Mr. 

 Bewicke of Madeira, who spent a week there in April last {en 

 route to the Cape of Good Hope), says, "Ascension is, I think, 

 nearly barren of interest to an entomologist — indeed, to any 

 one ;" and after having been only a couple of days on shore, he 

 wrote as follows : " We landed on this heap of dust and cinders 

 on Friday, and I never saw a place I was so anxious to leave. 

 How men and women sustain life here is to me inconceivable : 

 everything, except the shrubs on the ' green mountain,' is inde- 

 scribably dreary : the thermometer stands high (from 80° to 90°), 

 but the heat is nevertheless very endurable." He then referred 



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