^Ir. T. \'. A\'ullastoM on the Coleoj)(em of St. Ildaia. 407 



Faiii. CerambicidaB. 



Genus Curtomerus. 



Stephens, Man. Brit. Col. 269 (1839). 



Curtomerus pilicornis *. 



CaUiiUum pilicorne, Fab., Ent. Svst. ii. .'327 (1792). 



luttum (Mshni), St.-ph., llf. lint. l-:nt. iv. 249 (1831). 



Curfumcrus ludu.^, Id., Man. lirit. Col. 27o (lt<yU). 



Tlirce examples of tliis ])alo veddi.'^li-ljrown sulK-ylindrical 

 Longiconi are anlon;,^st the St.-Ilek'iia Culcdptcra which have 

 been submitted to me by ^Ir. !Melliss ; and there can be no 

 doubt, I think, that the species has been introduced into the 

 island. They were captured in Jamestown, near the sea, 

 " flying into a house at nitrht ;" and Mr. ]\Ielliss himself ob- 

 serves that " from its locality the species is ])robably an im- 

 ported one." It is the o})inion likewise of ^Ir. Pascoe that it is 

 not truly a native of 8t. Helena; for he informs me tluit its 

 proper country is the West Indies, and that it is so liable to 

 accidental transportation (I presume along "with timber) that 

 it has been taken alive on one or two occasions even in Kng- 

 land. !Mr. Pascoe adds that the insect " is very variable in 

 size, and slightly so in the comparative thickness of its 

 femora." 



Fam. Lamiidae. 



Genus Coptops. 

 Serville, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 64 (1835). 



Coptojys hidens^. 



Lamm hidens, Fab., Eut. Syst. ii. 291 (1792). 



This robust Lamia-YikQ Longicorn has been captured occa- 

 sionally by Mr. Melliss in the houses in JamestOAvn ; and he is 

 of 0])inion that, like the Curtomerus pilicornis^ it has probably 

 been naturalized at St. Helena. I am indebted to ^ir. Pascoe 

 (who equally believes it to have been imported into tlie island) 

 for identifying it with the Lamia hidens of Fabricius. 



Fam. Halticidse. 



Genus LONGITARSUS. 



Latreille, Fam. Nat. 405 (1825). 



Lonc/itarsus Mellissii, n. sp. 



L. elongato-ellipticus, obscure a;neo-viridis, uitidus ; capite fere im- 

 punctato ; prothorace puuctato, utrinque ad latera late transversim 

 biimprcsso et distincte marginato, angulis anticis inerassatis sub- 

 ferrugineis, posticis rotundatis ; elytiis profunde et rugose punc- 

 txitis, ac di^stinctc marginatis ; antennis pedibusque longissimis, 



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