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in shady places, a splendid new species of Carabidse (Ca- 

 rabus monilifer, Tatum,*) is met with in considerable 

 bundance. Dull green Cetoniida are also numerous 

 among the grassy parts of the islands ; and a species of 

 Passalus is found among the dried Algae along the strand. 

 In the evening Lampyridce and several species of Stag- 

 beetles (Lucani) fly about in company with Geotrupes 

 and Apliodii. Hundreds of the long-horned, beautiful, 

 little Adelce, day-flying Moths, with wings that in 

 glossiness and brilliancy resemble burnished steel, 

 were flying in companies of thirty and forty in rapidly 

 revolving circles above the low bushes, thus disporting 

 themselves in the heat of the noon-day sun, contrary to 

 the usual custom of nocturnal Lepidoptera. Some other 

 insects, as (Ecocophorts, Sesiidce, or diurnal humming- 

 bird-Hawkmoths, and various Uraniidce have the same 

 habits. Flying heavily about the lower bushes, or cling- 

 ing to the stalks of the tall grass, were several species of 

 Trochilium, some very handsomely marked, and others 

 apparently similar to those of Europe. A species of Ear- 

 wig, very closely allied to our Forficula auricularia, but 

 somewhat larger, was observed to be common among the 

 dead leaves that cover the ground in the pine-woods ; and 

 here the huge Dynastida and Onthophagi of the tropics 

 seemed to have given place to the numerous sub-genera of 

 the GeotrupidfS of more temperate regions, and I began 

 to recognise many forms belonging to this extensive family 

 once familiar to my eye in England. A Spider, belonging 

 to the genus Attus, was observed by me among the 

 thousands of dead Tmncatella, that occupy the holes and 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx, p. 15. 



