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ST. HELENA. 
Fam. Aphodiadce. 
Aphodius, Illig. 
A. lividus, Oliv. — A light-brown, glossy Beetle, a quarter of an 
inch in length, taken amongst decaying oak leaves and herbage in 
gardens on the high land. Mr. Wollaston says of it : “ This widely 
spread European Aphodius — which occurs throughout Northern and 
Western Africa, and in the Azorean, Madeiran, Canarian, and Cape 
Yerde archipelagos — is an insect which easily becomes disseminated 
through indirect human agencies (particularly the transportation of 
cattle), and I feel satisfied has no connexion whatever with the 
original fauna of so remote an Island.” 
Fam. Fidelidce. 
SUB-FAM. ANOPLOGNATHIDES. 
Adoretus, Castln. 
*A. versutus, Harold. — Well known at St. Helena as the Vine 
Beetle, in consequence of the devastation it causes to the grape-vines. 
It is abundant, generally inhabiting the low, warm parts of the 
Island, especially at The Briars, Maldivia Gardens, Southens, 
&c., where it is a terrible pest, devouring the leaves and young 
shoots of the vines so voraciously as very soon to reduce a vine from 
full leaf to bare stems. As it hides away under stones and wood- 
work during daylight, only emerging as night comes on, the 
gardener finds it requires special exertion to keep it in check. 
The first time I saw this insect was at The Briars, when I was 
much puzzled to make out what the gardener was about groping 
under the vines with a lantern in one hand and a soda-water bottle 
containing hundreds of captured beetles in the other. 
Fam. Dgnastida. 
SUB-FAM. PENTODONTIDES. 
Heteronychus, Burm. 
*H. arator, Fab. — A very shiny black Beetle, half an inch 
long, and stout in proportion, very common on the upper central 
land, where it seems to prefer the neighbourhood of grass-lands and 
