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Show 332 · ISLAND LIFE. [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. Dianthrecia 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. Dianthrocia cresia, var. This is another dark form of a rare Irish and continental species. 5. 1.'ephrosia biundula1·ia, var. This is an exceedingly dark form, and differs so much from North of England specimens as to have all the appearance of another species. Mr. Birchall has bred it from captured parents, and findo 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 anc.l carefully studied by British entomologists. List of the Species of Beetles which, so far as at present known, a1·e confined to the B1·itish Islands. CARABIDJE. 1. DROMIUS VECTENSIS (Rye). Common in the Isle of Wight, not known elsewhere. 2. *Harpalus latus, var. METALLESVENS (Rye). Unique, but very marked! South coast. . 3. STENOLOPHUS DERELICTUS (Dawson). Unique! North Kent. HELOPIIORIDJE. 4. *OcHTHEBIUS POWER! (Rye). Very marked. S. coast. A few specimens only. BI~AOHYELYTRA, 5. * ALEOOHARA HIBERNICA (Rye). Ireland. Mountain tops. 6. *0XYPODA RUPICOLA (Rye). Scotland. MQ?-ntain tops ; sev~rfl.l specimens. CHAP. XVI.) , THE BRITISH ISLES. 333 7. -x·OxYPODA EDINENSIS (Sharp). Scotland. 8. , VERECUNDA (Sharp). Scotland. 9. , WATERHOUSE! (Rye). London district. 10. !IO:MALOTA EXIMIA (Sharp). 11. , CLAVI PES ( Sha1·p ). Scotland on mountains ; not rare. 12. , OBLONGIUSCULA (Sharp). [Scotland, perhaps also Swiss. 13. , PRINCEPS (Sharp). A coast insect. 14. , CURTJPENNJS (Sharp). 15. , l!:XARATA (Sharp). 16. , PUBERULA (Sharp). 18. , A TRICOLOR (Sharp). Some continental authors deny that 17. , INDISCRE'l'A (Sharp).} 19. , GERMAN A (Sharp). there are good species (Sharp). 20. , SET!G.ERA (Sharp). 21. * , SHARP! (Rye). Very marked, unique! 22. *'-BRYOPORUS OASTANEUS (Hardy and Bold). Very marked, unique ! Northumberland Hills. 23. *STENUS osorLLA'rOR (Rye). Unique! South coast. 2"1. *ScoP.£US RYEI (Wollaston). Very distinct; Dorset coast; several specimens. 25. lfTlWGOPHLJEUS SPINICOLLIS (Rye). Mersey estuary, unique! Most distinguishable, nothing like it in Europe. 26. LESTEVA SHARPI (Rye). Scotch hills. 27. EuoF:CTUS WHITEr (Sharp). Scotch hills. Probably a variety of E. Giraudi of Austria (the only European species) fide Kraatz (Sharp). 28. *HoMALIUM RUGULIPENNE (Rye). Bxceedingly marked form. Northern, weHtern, and sonthern coasts ; rare. PsELAPHIDJE. 29. BRY AXIS COT US (Sharp). Coast. 30. , WATERHOUSE! (Rye). Coast. 31. *BYTHINUS GLABRATUS (Rye). Sussex coast; a few specimens; very distinguishable ; myrmecophilous (lives in ants' nests). TRICHOPTERYGIDJE. 32. PTINELLA MARIA (Matthews) 33. TRICHOPTERYX SAI~JE ( " ) 34. " POWERI ( " ) 35. " EDITHlA ( " ) 36. " CANTIANA ( " ) 37. " FUSCULA ( " ) 38. " KIRBII ( " ) :39. " FRATERCULA ( " ) 40. " W ATERHOUSII ( " ) 41. " CHAMPIONIS ( " ) 42. , JANSON I ( " ) |