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[part II. 
being found to equal the smallest English specimens ; so that 
we must look upon it as dwarf race developed in the Island and 
confined to it. 
The following moths also present definite peculiarities : 
1. Agrotis lucernea , var. This is of a grayish- black colour, with hardly any 
markings. All are alike, and are very distinct from the common type 
of the species, which is abundant in Wales. 
2. Cirrhcedia xerampelina, var. This is much darker and more richly 
coloured than the English form, the yellow band being reduced to a 
narrow line, sometimes a mere thread. This would doubtless be 
regarded as a distinct species if it occurred with equal constancy in 
some more remote island. 
3. Dianthcecia capsophila, var. This is an exceedingly dark and richly 
marked form of the Irish D. capsophila, itself a local variety, Mr. 
Birchall thinks, of D. carpophaga. 
4. Dianthcecia cassia, var. This is another dark form of a rare Irish and 
continental species. 
5. Tephrosia biundularia, var. This is an exceedingly dark form, and differs 
so much from North of England specimens as to have all the appear- 
ance of another species. Mr. Birchall has bred it from captured 
parents, and finds that the produce is this dark form only. 
We will now pass on to the Coleoptera, or beetles, an order 
which has been of late years energetically collected and 
carefully studied by British entomologists. 
List of the Species of Beetles which , so far as at present known , are confined 
to the British Islands. 
Carabid.®. 
1. Dromius vectensis (Rye). Common in the Isle of Wight, not known 
elsewhere. 
2. *Harpalus latus, var. metallescens (Rye). Unique, but very marked ! 
South coast. 
3. Stenolophus derelictus (Dawson). Unique ! North Kent. 
Helophorid^e. 
4. *0chthebius poweri (Rye). Very marked. S. coast. A few specimens 
only. 
Brachyelytra. 
5. *Aleochara hibernica (Rye). Ireland. Mountain tops. 
6. *Oxypoda rupicola (Rye). Scotland. Mountain tops ; several 
specimens. 
