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ST. HELENA. 
“I feel almost confident are referable to the A . fasciculatus (which is 
usually known in collections as the coffees of Fabricius), though I have 
thought it desirable to give a careful diagnosis of them, in the event, 
perhaps, of their being identified hereafter with some cognate form. 
1 he insect, however, is evidently a variable one ; and there are indi- 
viduals in the British Museum bearing the label ‘ coffees' which 
seem in no way to difter from the pair now before me ; whilst the 
fact that the species (the larva of which appears to subsist within 
various seeds and berries which are used as articles of food) has 
become naturalized, through the medium of commerce, in most of 
the warmer countries of the civilized world, would go far to render 
it probable that the St. Helena one is the true fasciculatus, and has 
been established in the island (as elsewhere) by indirect human 
agency.” 
SUB-FAM. NOT! OXEN IDES. 
Notioxenus, Woll. 
Mr. Wollaston writes of this interesting genus, that “in con- 
junction with Microxylobius, Nesiotes, and Trachypldoeosoma, of the 
Curculionides, it is amongst the most characteristic and truly indige- 
nous of the Coleopterous forms which have hitherto been detected at 
St. Helena.” 
*N. bewickii, Well.— A black Beetle, the largest of the species 
yet known, about a quarter of an inch in length, taken from the 
indigenous plants on the high land. A figure of this insect is given 
in the Journal of Entomology for Dec. 1861, pi. xiv. fm. 1. 
*N. rufopietus, Woll.— A Beetle with a shiny black surface, 
little more than half the size of the above, taken from similar 
localities by the late Mr. Bewicke, and figured in the Journal of 
Entomology for Dec. 1861, pi. xiv. fig. 2. 
*KT. dimidiatus, Woll.— A species little less than one-sixth of 
an inch in length, and very glossy. Mr. Wollaston writes: “This 
species appears to be a little more ovate, and perhaps also (on the 
average) a trifle smaller, than the N. rufopietus; and it is abundantly 
distinguished by its greenish-brassy, shining, and coarsely but 
sparingly pubescent surface, by its greatly elevated and evidently 
curved subbasal prothoracic line, and by the striae and largely- 
developed punctures becoming evanescent on the posterior half of 
its elytra.” 
