74 MR. A. MURRAY ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF 



1. Coleoptera (continued). 



Genera. 



Microtypal stirps. 



Debatable, 

 lands. 



Brazilian stirps. | 



Indo- 



Af'rican 

 stirps. 



Europe. 



Asia. 



N.-E. America. 



N.-W. America. 



Chili. 



Australia. 



New Zealand. 



Polynesia. 



Between 

 N. and S. America. 



Between 

 Asia and India. 



Between 

 Europe and Africa. 



| Brazilian region. | 



India. 



W. Africa. 



S. Africa. 



Madagascar. 





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Notes to 1. Coleoptera. 



JSfotel. — This Table is made up to show the distribution of par- 

 ticular forms. On this point, the relative number of species is a 

 secondary consideration ; and even were it not so, we could not use 

 it ; for the statistics we have are, for any purpose requiring accu- 

 racy, wholly unreliable, from insufficient exploration and imper- 

 fect knowledge of the contents of different countries, from unna- 

 tural dismemberment of forms into new genera, and from the 

 inaccuracy or carelessness of describers, who, besides describing, 

 as new, species which have been already described, have multi- 

 plied or diminished the number of species, each according to his 

 own notions of what constitutes a species. To say nothing of 

 the number, however, might sometimes lead to an undue idea of 

 the strength of representation of the same genera in different 

 countries ; I have therefore occasionally added the approximate 

 numbers of the species known in each district, when it could be 

 done without much trouble and with some approach to accuracy. 

 Where I have not given the numbers I have marked the dis- 



