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rather largely developed, with the hinder point of it more or less 
acute ; hut there seems to be no central lateral denticle, the sides 
being merely minutely crenulated — so minutely, indeed, as some- 
times to appear nearly simple.” 
Fain. Mycetophagidce. 
Mycetsea, Steph. 
M. hirta, Gyll. — A very small, widely distributed, European 
Beetle, which Mr. Wollaston considers to have been naturalized in 
St. Helena, as it has been in the Azorean and Madeiran archi- 
pelagos. 
Typhsea, Steph. 
T. fumata, Linn. — A reddish-brown Beetle, about one-eiglith of 
an inch in length, of which Mr. Wollaston writes: “ There is scarcely 
any insect which has acquired (doubtless through human agencies) a 
wider geographical range than the common European T. fumata ; and 
therefore it is not surprising that it should have been met with by 
Mr. Melliss at St. Helena. It occurs in the north of Africa, and 
abounds in the Azores, Madeiras, Canaries, and Cape Verdes ; and it 
has even been reported likewise from the United States.” 
Fam. Dermestidce, 
Dermestes, Linn. 
D. cadavei-inus, Eab. — I have not detected this Beetle at St, 
Helena, but Mr. Wollaston has included it because of its having 
originally been described by Fabricius (in 1775) from a St. Helena 
example in the collection of Sir J oseph Banks. “ Being peculiarly 
liable to transmission, in various articles of merchandize and com- 
merce, throughout the civilized world, it lias been made to acquire a 
very extensive geographical range — being recorded not only in Europe, 
but even from South America, Mexico, Otaheite, the East Indies, 
Siberia, Arabia, &c. ; and it was obtained abundantly, by the late Mr. 
Bewicke, at Ascension.” 
D. vulpinus, Fab. — A somewhat oval-shaped, black Beetle, half 
an inch in length, common about the town and low land in its 
neighbourhood. It is evidently an introduced insect, which, Mr. 
Wollaston says, “is eminently liable to accidental dissemination 
