50 NATURAL HISTORY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 



Sclionberr, the specimens beiui^ too mucb injured in transportation to 

 admit of the determination of the species. The few drops of carbolic 

 acid, added to the bottle of glycerine, alcohol, and water, in which they 

 were preserved, seem to have been destructive to the more minute 

 parts. 



Besides the foregoing, a tingle specimen of a small brown beetle, 

 supposed to be an elater, was captured and preserved, but has some- 

 how been lost in transportation. Mr. Eaton speaks of finding longicorn 

 beetles, and " several species of Br achy elytra.^'' (Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 History, Oct., 1875, p. 291.)* 



It is somewhat remarkable that the prominent form in the Coleoptera 

 of Kerguelen, an island destitute of trees and shrubs, should be the 

 curcuiio, and that the only other form collected by our party should be 

 a water-beetle, living at a distance from any pond or pool. The possi- 

 bility of importation by the whalers, which have so long frequented the 

 island, should be borne in mind in this connection. 



LEPIDOPTEEA. 



The small vial containing the collection of Lepidoptera has been lost 

 in transportation. A single flying tineid moth was observed soon after 

 our landing, but supposed to be a clothes-moth from our own boxes. 

 While preparing some botanical specimens for the press on the evening 

 of December 18, I captured two lepidopterous insects of moderate size, 

 with very imperfect and abbreviated wings, active in their movements, 

 and " seeming to be provided with two pairs of antennse, one being long 

 and thread-like, the other shorter, pectinate, and curling backward over 

 the top of the head." These insects are noted in my diary as '■'•Podura- 



* The follow! nf^ species from Mr. Eaton's collection have been described by Mr. 

 Chas. O. Waterhouse, in the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine (London, Aug-> 1875, 

 54), as from Kerguelen's Land: 

 SuB-OnDER BRACHYELYTRA : 

 Family, ALEdCHARiDJE : 



Phyfosus atriceps, sp. nov. 

 Sub-Order RHYNCHOPHORA: 



Family, Brachyderidin^ : 



Canonopsis sericeus, gen. et sp. nov. 

 Agonelytra, gen. nov. 

 Agoneljjtra angusticolUs, sp. nov. 

 Agonelytra gracilipes, sp. nov. 

 Agonelytra brevis, sp. nov. 



