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13. The Indian region, including the East Indies, the Ma- 

 layan Peninsula, the Indian Archipelago, Siam, Cochin China, 

 the south of China, the Philippine Islands, and New Guinea. 

 In any list for more general purposes, New Guinea and the 

 Philippine Islands should be kept separate ; but, looking at 

 the genera I have to deal with, this is not necessary here. 



14. The West-African region, consisting of the country from 

 Senegal to Gaboon inclusive, and eastward until it meets the 

 East African region, wherever that may be (probably in the line 

 of the lakes) . 



15. South Africa, containing Angola, Caffraria, Natal, Mo- 

 zambique, and northward to Somali-land. The south of Arabia 

 also, I believe, properly belongs to this province ; but it does not 

 happen to come into question here. 



16. Madagascar. I do not include in it the neighbouring 

 islands of Bourbon, Mauritius, Eodriguez, &c, although they do 

 belong partly to it and partly to India ; but the points in which 

 they correspond with it are those in which Madagascar also 

 coincides with Africa ; and my object in keeping Madagascar 

 separate is not to show its relation to Africa or India, but its 

 more unexpected relations with South America. When I have 

 to deal with species from the smaller islands (Bourbon, &c), I 

 carry them to the credit of India or Africa, according to which 

 the affinities of the species indicate. 



Note 3. — AncJiomenus. Some of these supposed Brazilian 

 Anchomeni are, doubtless, as suggested by Lacordaire, Dyscoli ; 

 and of others the habitat is possibly erroneous. Several of the 

 citations are of old date, when every thing from South America 

 was ticketed Brazil ; still there are undoubted species from 

 Brazil. 



Note 4. — Tachyporus. (Out of more than 250) only one occurs 

 in Nepaul, doubtless a straggler, one in Bengal (which may have 

 been derived from an Himalayan straggler), one in Java, and one 

 in New Guinea. 



Note 5. — Byrrlius. I include in this the allied genera, Curi- 

 mus, Cytilus, Morychus, and Amphicyrtus. 



Note 6. — Onitis. Tolerably numerous in Europe and Asia, 

 but only one in North America, one in India, and one in Au- 

 stralia. 



Note 7. — Aphodius. Only one recorded from Brazil, out of an 



