peculiar to eastern Africa, Asia minor, and even southern Turkey ; whilst to the 

 latter is imparted a portion of the peculiarities of the Entomology of Borneo, and the 

 other great islands lying south of the Equator. The entomological peculiarities 

 of the Himalayan Mountains have been submitted to a minute analysis, by the Eev. 

 F. W. Hope. 



In the order Coleoptera we accordingly find various genera and species, either 

 exclusively confined to India, or occurring therein and in the countries above indicated. 

 Thus the most splendid species of Cicindela, and the genera Therates, Tricondyla, and 

 Colliuris, in the family Cicindelidge, do not occur beyond the limits of India and the 

 Indian Archipelago. The genera Catascopus, Orthogonius, many fine Panagaei, &c. 

 amongst the Carabidas ; the most splendid of all the Buprestidse, and the beautiful 

 group of Elateridas, typified by Elater aureolus, (some of the species of both of which 

 extend in their range to China,) occur in India. In the great group of Lamellicorn 

 Coleoptera, (Scarabseus, Linn.) the species of Onthophagus are excessively numerous, 

 of large size and fine colours, whilst the giant Dynastidse, (which are so abundant in 

 South America,) are here represented chiefly by the small group Chalcosoma, Rope, 

 (S. Atlas, &c.) and by D. Dichotomus and D. longimanus ; the Cetonise, Euchloras, 

 and Popilliae, on the other hand, are far more numerous and beautiful. The Lucani 

 are of much larger size, and far more numerous than in South America. The species 

 of Longicorn beetles are numerous, but the giant Prioni are of very rare occurrence 

 in India, as compared with South America, The splendid genera Sagra, Podontia, 

 and Phyllocharis, with many fine Eumorphi, and various Paussidas, are especially 

 natives of these regions. 



In the Orthoptera, many curious Phasmaa, with the singular genus PhylHum, and 

 numerous splendid Grylli, Linn., including the remarkable Schizodactyla monstrosa, 

 may be mentioned. In the Hemiptera, the most splendid of all the species of Scutel- 

 lera, and of Cicada, with several curious Fulgoras, and other Pulgorideous insects ;* 



* M. Guerin has recently elucidated this group, in Belanger's " Voyage aux Tndes Orientales." 



