Mr.Waterhouse informs me, that of the Harpalidae there are eight or nine species--the forms of the greater number being very peculiar; of Heteromera, four or five species; of Rhyncophora, six or seven; and of the following families one species in each: Staphylinidae, Elateridae, Cebrionidae, Melolonthidae.

The species in the other orders are even fewer.

In all the orders, the scarcity of the individuals is even more remarkable than that of the species.

Most of the Coleoptera have been carefully described by Mr.Waterhouse in the "Annals of Natural History."); I saw very few flies, butterflies, or bees, and no crickets or Orthoptera.

In the pools of water I found but few aquatic beetles, and not any fresh-water shells: Succinea at first appears an exception; but here it must be called a terrestrial shell, for it lives on the damp herbage far from water.