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peculiar to eastern Africa, Asia minor, and even southern Turkey ; whilst to the latter 
is imparted a portion of the peculiarities of the Entomology of Borneo, and. the 
other great islands lying south of the Equator. The entomological peculiarities 
of the Himalayan Mountains have been submitted to a minute analysis, by the Rev. 
F. W. Hope. 
In the order Coleoptera we accordingly find various genera and species, either 
exclusively confined to India, or occurring therein and in the countries above indicated. 
Thus the most splendid species of Cicindela, and the genera Therates, Tricondyla, and 
Colliuris, in the family Cicindelidse, do not occur beyond the limits of India and the 
Indian Archipelago. The genera Catascopus, Orthogonius, many fine Panagasi, &c. 
amongst the Carabidse ; the most splendid of all the Buprestidae, and the beautiful group 
of Elateridas, typified by Elater aureolus, (some of the species of both of which extend 
in their range to China,) occur in India. In the great group of Lamellicorn Coleoptera, 
(Scarabaeus, Linn.) the species of Onthophagus are excessively numerous, of large size 
and fine colours, whilst the giant Dynastidae, (which are so abundant in South America,) 
are here represented chiefly by the small group Chalcosoma, Hope, (S. Atlas, &c.) and 
by D. Dichotomus and D. longimanus ; the Cetoniae, Euchlorae, and Popillias, on the 
other hand, are far more numerous and beautiful. The Lucani are of much larger size, 
and far more numerous than in South America. The species of Longicorn beetles are 
numerous, but the giant Prioni are of very rare occurrence in India, as compared with 
South America. The splendid genera Sagra, Podontia, and Phyllocharis, with many 
fine Eumorphi, and various Paussidas, are especially natives of these regions. 
In the Orthoptera, many curious Phasmae, with the singular genus Phyllium, and 
numerous splendid Grylli, Linn., including the remarkable Schizodactyla monstrosa, 
may be mentioned. In the Hemiptera, the most splendid of all the species of Scutel- 
lera, and of Cicada, with several curious Fulgoras, and other Fulgorideous insects;'* 
* M. Guerin has recently elucidated this group, in Belanger’s “ Voyage aux Indes Oriental es.” 
