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Coleoptera Hesperidum by T. V. Wollaston. 1867.

p. XII. The insects of several isld of Cape de Verdes very similar: but in some genera p XVII Especially some of the commonest indigenous genera each isld has its representative species, so close, that even W. is obliged to admit that probably formed by isolation &c. —

It frequently happens that the same species is common on one isld & rare on another.

p XXV a blind beetle, which inhabits ants' nest, the Cossyphodes Wollastonii — is common to these isld & Madeira & Canary Islds. —

p XXXVI. Refer to Coleoptera Atlantidum, when he has argued from state of fossils that the Land-shells must have varied suddenly & not as he thinks I wd say by increments: this is a good point: but if conditions do not go on changing the shells & insects (to which he extends this conclusion, would soon become adapted & then remain permanent — for Land-shells are not now nor have been for enormous period, advancing or changing in organisation.

p. XXXVII. Of the 278 sp. hitherto not with in C. verdes 107 are common to Madeira & Canaries — which is large proportion considering distance — & genera agree far more

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more closely; viz 123 out of 169 genera. — Special insects show affinity still more closely

p. XXXVIII. admits our knowledge of Africa too small for safe generalisation — If fauna of S. Europe & Africa formerly fairly uniform, the fauna of these isld. wd be so. —

Poor Book—