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veritable autochthones of the soil. To these unquestionahly 

 established forms I have, in tlie subjoined list, placed (as an 

 aid to the e^'c) an asterisk (*). 



Bearing m mind, therefore, the above considerations, I may 

 add that out of the seventy-four species enumerated in the 

 present paper, only thirty-five (or less than half) appear to be 

 wimistakahhf indigenous, whilst the evidently imported ones 

 (species -which through human agencies have become widely 

 disseminated over more or less of the civilized world) amount 

 to about twenty-six, leaving a residuum of thirteen which I 

 should perhaps characterize as " doubtful," but the majority 

 of which nevertheless have in all prohaUlity been naturalized. 

 The thirty-iive which seem to be as it were the actual auto- 

 chthones of the soil, or which there is no reason to suspect have 

 been derived from any other countiy, are the followino- :— 



Haplotliorax Burchellii. 

 Calosonia haligena. I an vore. 



Helena?. f distinctcp P 



Bembidium Mellissii. 

 Adoretus versutus. 

 Pentarthrum subc£ecum. 

 Nesiotes squamosus. 



asperatus. 



Trachypliloeosoma setosum. 

 Sciobius subnodosus. 

 Ileteronychus arator. 

 Mellis.siu3 eudoxus. 



adumbratus. 



Ileteroderes puncticollis. 

 Microxylobius Westwoodii. 



vestitiis. 



lacertosus. 



lucifugus. 



Microxylobius terebrans. 



obliteratus. 



debilia. 



Chevrolatii. 



conicollis. 



monilicornis. 



Notioxenus Bewickii. 



rufopictus. 



dimidiatus. 



alutaceus. 



Ilomwodera rotundipeiiuis. 



alutaccicollis. 



pygmnea. 



Longitai'sus Helenje. 

 Cydonia lunata. 

 Opatrum liadroides. 

 Mnrdella Mellissiana. 



whilst the twenty-six which clearly have followed in the track 

 of civilization and commerce are these : — 



Laemophloeus pusillus. 

 Cryptophagus affinis. 

 Mycetfea birta. 

 Typhfea fumata. 

 Dermestes cadaverinus. 



vulpinus. 



Attagenus gloriosre. 

 Apbodius lividus. 

 Corynetes rufipea. 

 Gibhium scotias. 

 Anobium velatiim. 



paniceum. 



striatum. 



Anobium confertum. 

 Rliizoportha bifoveolata, 



pusilla. 



Ilylurgus ligniperda. 

 Sitophilu.9 or^•z■■p. 

 Oliorhynchus sulcatup. 

 Arajoperus fasciculatiis. 

 Alpbitobiu3 diaperiuus. 



piceus. 



Gnatnoconis cornutus. 

 Tribolium feiTuginoum. 

 Tenebrio oljscurus. 

 Creopbilus maxillosus. 



This leaves the following thirteen, alroadv alluded to as 



