RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [List of Beagle insects]. CUL-DAR29.3.37-38. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


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Look over Pill Boxes with [2 words illeg] & [entitle] each with ink. (any from Tierra del Fuego)

Babington about Australian insects

Draw up catalogue of animals & birds on opposite sides of Cordillera

Port St. Julian

Cymindis & (Harpalus near Daptus) Beetles from new barks

Make note about colours of cicindela

Where on island generally green, when near coast coppery & white

Insects which I have called Leiodes is near nitidula; not Leiodes

Waterhouse rather doubts what i say about Elater:

Waterton about Cuvier's Bats

I found when spine was cut off Elater could not jump at all

 

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Hymenoptera 1 species a Bee belonging to the genus Xyloeopa

Orthoptera – 2 species – Family Loeutidæ

Neuroptera 1 species genus Libellula

Hemiptera 2 species, 1 belonging to the genus Coreus

Diptera about 9 species – one belong[ing] to the genus anthrax – one to the genus Feronia or caracara of leach this is new

add from species in Pill boxes

very numerous species of minute Diptera

numerous spe of minute Hymenoptera

some species of 26 Erioptera

Small curious species of Homoptera

Minute species of Coleoptera many which I perceive them a spe of Haltica one or curculionidæ – one or 2 species of Seymour (a genus closely allied to coccinella) the genus Seymour is apparently one of universal distribution: all insects remarkably dull colouring & nearly all Europæan forms: = not at all appearing from Equatorial region.

 

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Galapagos Calasoma

Carabidæ Calasoma – 4 species two of which belong to the genus Calathus and two, to [illeg] Harpalus –

Dyticidæ – 1 species of the genus Hydroporus

Hydrobius 1 species

Staphlinidæ 1 species of the genus Creophilus, closely resembling the British species – C. maxillosus

Secln – Heteromera about 9 species principally belonging to the genera Pedinus, Crypticus &c

Secln – Malacoderma – 1 species belonging to the genus necrobia

Elateridæ – 1 species – genus? – belonging to Latricilles 1st section –

Dermestes 1 species, probably the Dermestes Vulpina

Curculionidæ 1 species –

Bostrichidie 1 species – genus apate? (22)

Scarabæidie 1 species, allied to genus oryeta

Lepidoptera 2 species, 1 belonging to the Family arctridæ and one to the yponomentidæ Stephen

 

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Tierra del Fuego

Among the Carabidæ scarcely any forms with which he is acquainted.

They are not of a Tropical character belongs to the Harpalidæ – there are 7-8 species

Dyticidæ 1 species Colymbetes

Staphylinidæ 1 species genus aleochara

Elateridæ 1 species

Cebrionidæ 1 species genus Cyphon

Melolonthidæ 1 species

Heteromera 4 or 5 species

Curculionidæ 6 or 7 species (1 species of the genus African)

Chrysomelidæ 2 species (1 Haltica – the other probably belongs to the genus Melasoma)

Engidæ 1 species – genus Cryptophagus

26 Erniptera 2 species

Lepidoptera 7 species

Hymenoptera 3 or 4

Bombus 1 species

Diptera 10 or 12 species

(add Babington's water beetles)


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