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Show 334 ISLAND LIFE. (L'AR'l' IT. 43. TR!CIIOPTERYX SEMINlTENS (Matthews). 44. , SUFFOCATA (Haliday). Ireland. 45. , DISPAR (Matthews). 46 . " CARRON~RIA (Matthews). 47. PTILlUM HALIDAYI (Matthews). 48. " CALEDONICUM (Sharp). Scotland; very marked form. 49. , . INSIGNE (Matthews). 50. Ao~'IDIUM coN COLOR (Sharp). Scotland ; very marked. 51. PTENIDIUM KRAA'l'Zll (Matthews). ANISOTOMTDlE. 52. *A GATHIDIUM RHIN OCEP•. os (sharp) · Old fir-woods in Perthshire ; local many specimens ; a very marked species. 53. ANISO;OMA SIMILATA (Rye). Unique I South of England. "q,, * LUNICOLLIS (Rye). North-east and South of :England, a v " • very marked form; several specimens. 55. * ,, cLA vrcoRNIS (Rye). Unique ! Scotland. p liALACRID.iE. 56. *PIIALACRUS BRISOUTI (Rye). A few specimens. South of England, 0RYPTOPIIAGID1E. 57. ATOMARIA woLLASTON! (Sharp). Unique I Scotland. 58. , DIVISA (Rye). Unique! South of England. LATHRIDID.lE. 59. ConTICARIA woLLASTON! (Waterhouse). South coast. BYRRHID.JE. 60. SYNCALYPTA HIRSUTA (Sharp). ELA'l'ERID.lE .. 61. ELATER coccrNATUS (Rye). Very marked, but possibly a variety of tho European E. prmu:;tus. South of England. TELEPHORID.lE. 62. *TELEPHORUS DA.RWINIANUS (Sharp). Scotland, sea-coast. A stunted form of abnormal habits. 0YPHON [DJE. 63. 0YPHON PUNCTIPENNIS (Sharp). Scotland. AN'l'HICIDlE. 64. ANTmcus SALINUS (Crotch). South coast. . . . 65. * 11 scoTICUS (l~ye). Loch Leven; very d1stn?-ct; many speCimens. ClJ AP. X VI.] 1'11E BlUTISII ISLES. 335 CuRCULIONID..E. G6. *CATITORMIOCERUS MARITlMUs (Rye). A few specimens on our south coast. A curious genus, only found elsewhere on the coasts of the Mediterranean ! G7. ~•-Ceuthorhynchus contractus, Va?'. PALLIPES (Crotch). Lundy Island; several specimens. A curious vctriety only known from this island. GS. *LrosoMus TROGLODY'l'ES (Rye). A very quem· form. Two or three specimens. South of England. 6D. *ArroN RYEI (Blackburn). Shetland Islands. Several specimens. HALTlCID.lE. 70. TnYA.Mrs AGJLTS (Rye). South of England; many specimens. , nrs·rrNOUENDA (Rye). Sonth of England; many specimens. 71. *PsYLLIODES LURIDIPENNIS (Kutschera). Lundy Island. A very curious form, not uncommon iu this small i~land, Lo which it nppearl:l to be confined. CoccrNELLIDlE. 72. ScYMNUS Lrvmus (Bald). Northumberland.' A doubtful species. Of the seventy-two species of beetles in the preceding list, a considerable number no doubt owe their presence there to the fact that they have not yet been discovered or recognised on the continent. This is almost certainly the case with many of those which have been separated from other species by very miuute and obscure characters, and especially with the excessively minute Trichopterygidro described by Mr. Matthewg, There are others, however, to which this mode of getting rid of them will not apply, as they are so marked as to be at once ,recognised by any competent entomologist, and often so plentiful that they can be easily obtained when searched for. Of this class are the twenty-three species whose names are marked with an asterisk (*), being those which, in Mr. Rye's opinion, are most likely to be peculiar to the localities where they arc found if any are,_-but of this he is still somewhat sceptical. Six of these are unique, leaving seventeep. which have occurred either rarely or in some abundance. Dividing the probably peculiar species according to locality, we find that the South of England has produced 9, North of England 2, Scotland 6, .Ireland 1, Shetla.nd Islands 1, and Lundy Island 2. Those |