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Carpophilus hemipterus. 
Trogosita mauritanica. 
Silvanus surinamensis. 
Curtomerus pilicornis. 
Coptops bidens. 
Philonthus longicornis. 
leaving the following seventeen, as “ doubtful, but which have 
most likely been, through various causes, naturalized 
Pristonychus complanatus. 
Dactylosternum abdominale. 
Sphseridium dytiscoides. 
Cryptamorpha musae. 
Tribalus 4-striatus. 
Saprinus lautus. 
Tomicns semulus. 
Stenoscelis hylastoides. 
Bruchus rufobrunneus. 
Bruchus advena. 
Aspidoraorpha miliaris. 
Epilaehna clirysomelina. 
Zophobas concolor. 
Thea variegata. 
Xantliolinus morio. 
Oxytelus alutaceifrons. 
„ nitidifrons. 
Mr. Wollaston further says : “ If it be permissible, from material 
so limited as that which has hitherto been amassed, to build up a 
rough estimate of the true Coleopterous population of St. Helena, it 
Is clear that the ‘ cosmopolitan’ species, which have manifestly 
followed in the wake of mere commerce and civilization, must be 
altogether set aside ; and in that case, giving the more or less 
equivocal ones the advantage of the doubt, we should have fifty-nine 
to represent the aboriginal (and evidently much reduced) fauna of 
this remote deteriorated island. When commenting, in 1861, on 
even the fourteen species which had been collected by Mr. Bewicke, 
I called attention to the extraordinary fact that not only did the 
Weevils number nearly two-thirds ol the entire batch, but were like- 
wise all of them endemic , both as regards species and genus! whilst 
certainly three, if not indeed more, out of the remaining six 
(belonging to other families) possess a wide geographical range. 
This led me to remark that the Curculionidce would, in all pro- 
bability, be found to play a most important part in the Coleopterous 
fauna of St. Helena ; and I then expressed my belief, from the mere 
diversity of configuration presented by the five species of Mieroosylolius 
which had been brought to light, that the members of that abnor- 
mal little group would almost certainly be ascertained to be locally 
abundant, and, * since the same might be urged with no less force 
for that extraordinary genus Niiioxenus,' that there was ‘every 
