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contained descriptions of the 203 species of beetles which he 

 collected in the Island of St. Helena; of this number it would 

 appear that there is every reason to suppose that fifty -seven 

 species have been introduced into the island through various 

 external media; seventeen other species are probable intro- 

 ductions (four, indeed, possessing very slight claims to having 

 been ever found in the island) ; leaving one hundred and twenty- 

 nine species as ' the veritable descendants of the Autochthones of 

 the soil ' ; and of these, ninety-one are Rhynchophorous and 

 fourteen Geodephagous ; leaving only twenty-four species, dis- 

 tributed thus, Heteromera, six ; Brachelytra, six ; Priocerata, 

 three ; Phytophaga, three ; Lauiellicornia, two ; Pseudo-trimera, 

 two ; Trichopterygia, one ; and Necrophaga, one ; the Hydi-a- 

 dephaga, Philhydrida, and Longicornia being absent: whilst of 

 the ninety-one Bhynchophora not fewer than fifty-four belong to 

 the Cossojiidce, and twenty-six to the AnthrihidcB. The presence 

 of so many weevils and the nearly complete absence of plant 

 beetles (Phytophaga) and Lamellicorns is very remarkable. 

 The peculiar geographical position of the island renders the 

 geographical distribution of its inhabitants exceedingly interesting, 

 and we accordingly find that the author entered very fully into 

 this question in his Introduction. 



A series of articles on the Coleoptera of Japan are published 

 in the ' Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschr. ' for 1877, namely, the 

 Carahidce, by Putzeys ; Damaster, by Kraatz ; StayhylinidiB and 

 Pselaphidce, by Weise ; Silphidce, by Kraatz ; NitidulidcB, by 

 Reitter ; ScotylidcB, by Eichhoff. 



The same work contains an article on the Coleoptera of 

 Auckland Island, by Von Kiesenwetter. 



Dr. Kirsch has published a memoir, entitled, ' Neue Kafer aus 

 Malacca,' containing sixty-six species, of difierent families, in the 

 1st Heft of the * Mittheilungen ' of the Dresden Museum of 

 Zoology (4to, 1877). He has also published the descriptions of 

 one hundred and ten species of Coleoptera from New Guinea, 

 including five new genera (chiefly Rhynchophorous), in the 2nd 

 Heft of the same work. 



We are indebted to Dr. J. L. Leconte for very careful lists of 

 the Coleoptera collected, 1st, in California, and 2nd, in Southern 

 Colorado and Northern New Mexico, with descriptions of ten 

 new species collected by the expeditions for geographical surveys 



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