434 On Ascension-Island Zoology. 
In regard to the distribution of the species, I have 
already (/. ¢.) noted the occurrence of X. melanodactylus at 
Madeira and Cape St. Vincent, in the Cape-Verd Islands. 
Pachygrapsus transversus, Gibbes, is a very common and 
widely distributed form, occurring on the coast of Brazil, on 
the shores of the West-Indian islands, at Nicaragua, Vera 
Cruz, on the coast of Florida, &c.; also on the west coast of 
Central America (Capt. Dow, in coll. Brit. Mus.), California 
(Kingsley), Vancouver Island (var. socéus, Stm., J. K. Lord, 
Esq., in coll. Brit. Mus.), at Madeira (Rev. R. B. Watson), 
&e. Mr. Kingsley, in his recently published and very useful 
synopsis of the Grapside*, mentions specimens (identified by 
himself) occurring at Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. 
Letolophus planissimus also occurs at various localities on 
the eastern and western coasts of America, and at Madeira, 
and is widely distributed throughout the Oriental region {. 
Myriopopa. 
Scolopendra Leachit, Newport. 
From West and South Africa. 
COLEOPTERA. 
1. Dermestes vulpinus, Fabr. 
Cosmopolitan. 
2. Dermestes felinus, Fabr. 
This species was described from Tasmania. A specimen 
in the Banksian collection is marked “ Kerguelen I.” It is 
a species which might be found anywhere, but is not nearly 
so frequently met with as D. vulpinus. 
3. Alphitobius piceus, Oliv. 
A warehouse insect. 
4. Anthicus floralis, Linn. 
A European species. 
5. Phlyctinus callosus, Bohem. 
From the Cape of Good Hope. 
with some specimens of Plagusia depressa; and no species of Plagusia is 
mentioned by Mr. Spence Bate in his report. 
* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. p. 200 (1880). 
t Vide Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 5) i. p. 153 (1878). 
