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veritable autochthones of the soil. To these unquestionahly 

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

 aid to the eje) an asterisk (*). 



Bearing in mind, therefore, the above considerations, I maj 

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

 present paper, onlj thirtj-five (or less than half) appear to be 

 unmistakMy indigenous, whilst the evidently im-ported 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 prohahility been naturalized. 

 The thirty-five 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 country, are the following : — 



Haplothorax Burchellii. 

 Calosoma haligena. I an vers 



Helenas. f distinctce ? 



Bembidium Mellissii. 

 Adoretiis versutus. 

 Pentartbrum subcaecum. 

 Nesiotes squamosus, 



asperatus. 



TracbyphlcBOSoma setosuni. 

 Sciobius subnodosus. 

 Heteronycbus arator. 

 Mellissius eudoxus. 



adiimbratus. 



Heteroderes puncticollis. 

 Microxylobius Westwoodii. 



vestitus. 



lacertosus. 



lucifuofus. 



Microxylobius terebrans. 



obliteratus. 



debilis. 



Cbevrolatii. 



conicoUis. 



nionilicornis. 



Notioxenus Bewickii. 



rufopictus. 



dimidiatus. 



alutaceus. 



Homoeodera rotundipennis. 



alutaceicollis. 



pygmfea. 



Longitarsus Helenee. 

 Cydonia lunata. 

 Opatrum hadroides. 

 Mordella Mellissiana. 



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

 of civilization and commerce are these : — 



Lsemopbloeus pusillua. 

 Cryptophagus affinis. 

 Mycetpea birta. 

 Typbsea fumata. 

 Dermestes cadaverinus. 



vulpinus. 



Attagenus gloriosse. 

 Apbodius lividus. 

 Corynetes rufipea. 

 Gibbium scotias. 

 Anobium velatum. 



paniceum. 



striatum. 



Anobium confertum. 

 Rhizopertha bifoveolata. 



pusilla. 



Hylurgus ligniperda. 

 Sitopbilus oryzse. 

 OtiorhjTicbus sulcatus. 

 Arseocerus fasciculatus. 

 Alpbitobius diaperinus. 



piceus. 



Gnatnocerus cornutus. 

 Tribolium ferrugineum. 

 Tenebrio obscurus. 

 Creophilus maxillosus. 



This leaves the following thirteen, already alluded to as 



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