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Owing to great drouglits and the absence of fresh-water springs, this 

 island is not very fertile, yet a considerable amount of garden produce is 

 i-aised and finds a ready market in St. Thomas. 



Seal and Scrub are islets a little north of Angnilla, and regarded as 

 appendages to it. 



ANTIGUA. 



Situated in 17° 5' N. lat. and 61° 50' W. long., and about seventy 

 miles in circumference. The mountains reach a height of 2,200 feet, 

 but the vegetation is not so luxuriant as in most of the neighbouring 

 islands on account of the comparatively small rainfall. 



Five Islands are on the western side. 



Botany. 



Yery complete collections of plants were made in this island by 

 Wullschlagel and elaborated by Grisebach in his ' Flora of the British 

 West Indies.' Only one endemic flowering plant, a grass (Bouteloua 

 elatior) is recorded, and that, as Grisebach remarks, may occur else- 

 where. 



The vegetation of this and the other non-volcanic islands seems to be 

 of comparatively recent derivation, like that of the Bahamas and the more 

 distant Bermudas. 



' Report upon Antigua in Relation to Forestry.' By E, D. M. Hooper. 

 Indian Forest Department, Colonial Office, ] 888. 



Zoology. 



Putzeys, J. Note sur les Cicindeles et Carabiques recueillis dans 

 rile d'Antigua par M. Purves. 'Ann. Ent. Soc. Belg.' xvii. pp. 117-120. 



10 species, 2 new. 



Purves, — . Shells of Antigua. 'Bull. Make. Belg.' vii. (1872), pp. 

 xcix-ci. 



He found 38 species, only 6 being previously known from the island. 



Roelofs, "W. Note sur les Carculionides recueillis par M. Purves a 

 I'ile d'Antigua. ' C. R. Ent. Soc. Belg.' xviii. pp. 25, 26. 



The species previously described (3) are mentioned, 6 are undescribed, 

 one of them here described. 



Sharp, D. Aquatic Coleoptera collected by M. J. C. Purves in Antigua 

 during the summer of 1872. ' Ann. Ent. Belg.' xx. pp. 120, 121. 



13 species, one new. 



Lameere, A. Longicornes recueillis par M. Purves a Antigua. ' Ann. 

 Ent. Belg.' xxviii. pp. 100, 101. 



5 species. 



BARBADOS. 



Situated in 13° 4' N. lat. and 69° 30' W. long., and the most 

 easterly of the West Indian islands. It is nearly twenty- one miles 

 long by fourteen in breadth, and has an area of 166 square miles. The 

 eastern side is very rugged and the greatest elevation 1,150 feet above 

 the level of the sea. 



Botany. 



Ligon, R. A History of the Island of Barbados. London, 1657, and 

 reprinted in 1673 . . . Principal trees and plants, pp. 66-84, with curious 

 illustrations. 



1888. G G 



