208 Notice on the Coleoptera of Hong Kong. [Aug, 



occurrence. Elateridse and Buprestidse not very abundant. Dorcus 

 on the mountain range above Victoria in June. I am not acquainted 

 with any Chinese species of Passalus, a genus abounding over India and 

 the Archipelago. The Mylabridse few in species, but these abounding 

 in numbers. The Heteromerous genera tolerably numerous, but princi- 

 pally found under stones on hills ; not on the sea-shore as in the Medi- 

 terranean. Cossyphus has not been found. The Helopidse which 

 devour Agarics under bark are scarce, for trees are restricted to a few 

 ravines in Hong Kong. Notwithstanding this there are numerous forms 

 of the Longicorni and Curculionidse. They are found on bushes if 

 trees are wanting. Mr. Bowring had a true species of Tetraglenes (a 

 Manilla genus) with the four eyes quite distinct. To one of the fami- 

 lies which bring up the rear of the Coleoptera, belongs Sagra purpurea, 

 found on Euphorbia antiquorum (S. lugubris in Ceylon, is found on the 

 Castor Oil plant) — Donacia having been found in Ceylon* may possibly 

 occur in other parts of India and China, but has not been found here* 

 There are many interesting species of Galeruca, Crioceridse, Clythridse, 

 the pretty Platycoryne bifasciatus, Tortoise Beetles, and some of our 

 early favorites the Vaches a Dieu, one of which is a very large sized 

 species. 



A few days before Mr. Bowring' s departure 9 specimens of three 

 new species of Paussus were added to the Entomology of the Island, 

 They were all found under stones, and two of the species in the nest of 

 a small yellow ant. I believe this will prove the first notice of Alpine 

 Paussi. I think Indian species have usually been recorded as being found 

 in low ground, but all these had reached the highest elevation to be 

 found in this Island : upwards of seventeen hundred feet. The three 

 species all crepitate, and at least one of them has a discharge staining 

 like that of a Brachinus. I am not certain that both sexes crepitate. 



I must leave Mr. Bowring to tell his own tale of Coccoideous para- 

 sites found on the Dragon-fly and on the common Fulgora Candelaria, 

 an inhabitant, but not illuminator, of the Pumplemos Trees. 



* When at Point de Galle I observed that the leaves of a species of Limnanthe- 

 mum (L. Wightianum) which grows in tanks, were devoured by a Carabideous larva, 

 and a few months after found a species of Donacia on it. I cannot find any notice 

 t>f Donacia as an Indian or Javanese genus. 





