ter; the forty species
belonging to thirty-three genera and eighteen families. It is taken from
Mr. Waterhouse's enumeration in the _Proceedings of the Zoological Society_
for 1877 (p. 81), with a few additions collected by the U. S. Fish
Commission Steamer _Albatross_, and published by the U. S. National Museum
in 1889.

CARABIDAE. ELATERIDAE.
Feronia calathoides. Physorhinus galapagoensis
,, insularis. HETEROMERA.
,, galapagoensis. Allecula n. s.
Amblygnathus obscuricornis. Stomion helopoides.
Solenophorus galapagoensis. ,, laevigatum.
Notaphus galapagoensis. Ammophorus obscurus.
DYTISCIDAE. ,, cooksoni.
Eunectes occidentalis. ,, bifoveatus.
Acilius incisus. Pedonoeces galapagoensis.
Copelatus galapagoensis. ,, pubescens.
PALPICORNES. Phaleria manicata.
Tropisternus lateralis. CURCULIONIDAE.
Philhydrus sp. Otiorhynchus cuneiformis.
STAPHYLINIDAE. Anchonus galapagoensis.
Creophilus villosus. LONGICORNIA.
NECROPHAGA. Mallodou sp.
Acribis serrativentris. Eburia amabilis.
Phalacrus darwinii. ANTHRIBIDAE.
Dermestes vulpinus. Ormiscus variegatus.
MALACODERMS. PHYTOPHAGA
Ablechrus darwinii. Diabrotica limbata.
Corynetes rufipes. Docema galapagoensis.
Bostrichus unciniatus. Longitarsus lunatus.
Tetrapriocerca sp. SECURIPALPES.
LAMELLICORNES. Scymuns galapagoensis.
Copris lugubris.
Oryctes galapagoensis.

[114] Mr. H. O. Forbes, who visited these islands in 1878, increased the
number of wild plants to thirty-six, and these belonged to twenty-six
natural orders.

[115] Juan Fernandez is a good example of a small island which, with time
and favourable conditions, has acquired a tolerably rich and highly
peculiar flora and fauna. It is situated in 34deg S. Lat., 400 miles from
the coast of Chile, and so far as facilities for the transport of living
organisms are concerned is by no means in a favourable position, for the
ocean-currents come from the south-west in a direction where there is no
land bu