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with the native fauna of the Island, yet, as the species is allowed to 
figure in the local list of nearly every civilized country, we can scarcely 
deny it a place in our present enumeration.” It is, like many of the 
imported species, found amongst dead leaves and vegetation in 
gardens. 
Fan. Cryp top lay ides. 
Cryptophagus, Ilbst. * 
C. badius, St. — A small light-brown Beetle, which, Mr. 
Wollaston says, “ seems to be the common European cryptophagus 
badius ; and I may add that Mr. Bye is likewise of opinion that it 
should be referred to that species. I have therefore little hesitation 
in recording the C. badius amongst the insects which have been 
naturalized in the Island through the medium of commerce, though 
the individual now before me presents perhaps a slight shade of 
difference from the ordinary type.” 
C. afidnis, St. — A somewhat smaller species than the last, of 
which Mr. Wollaston writes : “A common European cryptophagus 
which — like Lcemophlceus pusillus, Mycetcea hirta, and others — must 
clearly have been imported into the Island from more northern 
latitudes ; and therefore, even if fairly established (as is the case with 
it in the Azorean, Madeiran, and Canarian groups), it can of course 
have no connexion whatever with the original fauna of St. Helena.” 
C. gracilipes, Woll. — A still smaller species than the others, 
taken on the high land amongst garden rubbish, &c. Mr. Wollaston 
says : “ Several examples of this most distinct and interesting little 
Cryptophagus are amongst the Coleoptera collected at St. Helena. It 
differs very essentially from every member of the genus with which 
I am acquainted ; and Mr. Bye, who has paid unusual attention to 
the Cryptophagi, assures me that he is not aware of any species upon 
record with which it can be made to agree. Apart from its rather 
small size, convex body, and dark rufo-ferruginous hue, its most dis- 
tinctive features consist in its extremely coarsely and densely 
punctured surface, which is beset all over (though especially on the 
elytra) with very elongate and nearly erect, soft, whitish hairs. Its 
limbs, too, are marvellously slender — even more so, perhaps, than is 
the case in the particular section of the group (represented by the 
C. Vini in Europe, and C. hespcrius in the Canarian archipelago) to 
which it belongs. Its incrassated anterior prothoracic angle is 
