RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [List of Beagle insects]. CUL-DAR29.3.37-38. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. Corrections 12.2025. RN3

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. The volume CUL-DAR29.3 contains lists of specimens from the voyage of the Beagle.


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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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