Insects. 1753 



remark that many of the specimens described in the ' Monographia 

 Apum Anglise' are in a worn and faded condition, which will account 

 for the difference in many of my descriptions compared with Mr. 

 Kirby's ; but I always, if possible, describe from a recent specimen ; 

 due allowance must therefore be made for age, which greatly changes 

 the colour. 



Frederick Smith. 

 5, High Street, Newington, 

 May 13th, 1847. 



Further Notes on the Entomology of handy Island. 

 By T. Vernon Wollaston, Esq., B.A., F.L.S. 



In a former volume of the ' Zoologist,' I gave a slight sketch of the 

 Entomology of Lundy Island, the result of a five day's expedition in 

 June, 1844, undertaken by myself for the purpose of investigating, as 

 far as was practicable, its indigenous Coleoptera. From its peculiar 

 position, its small extent, and the extremely barren aspect of the coast, 

 I before stated, that, to an entomologist, nothing could possibly be 

 more unpromising than its whole appearance. And so, in the first 

 instance, it proved. Nevertheless, by dint of perseverance, I managed, 

 during my stay in 1844, to number in all sixty-five species. Since 

 that time I have had another opportunity of exploring the same 

 locality and testing my previous observations. In July, 1845, I 

 started from Ilfracombe on a second visit to the island, resolved to 

 make the most of a week's excursion and ascertain more accurately 

 the real nature of its Coleopterous Fauna. The result was far more 

 satisfactory than on the previous occasion ; the number of species this 

 time amounting to one hundred and twenly-one, eighty-eight of which 

 were altogether distinct from those collected in 1844. Considering 

 the short space by which the island is separated from the coasts of 

 Devonshire and Cornwall (the nearest point of land being less than 

 fourteen miles distant), I before expressed my surprise at not finding 

 the Entomological Fauna in most respects identical. Yet both oc- 

 casions have proved them to be quite dissimilar. 



Inasmuch as the only opportunity I have had of exploring the op- 

 posite coast of Wales was not until 1845, I was unable, after my first 

 excursion to the island in 1844, to give any particulars as to how far 



