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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