Coleoptera Hesperidum : being an enumeration of the coleopterous insects of the Cape Verde archipelago /

4-5 or o af +7 "a i frou | aD, Al aN Th4 ' <> °°. 5 "les ¥ ye ' PREFACE.logue which I am enabled to supply does in reality contain a very considerable proportion of the forms which would probably be found, not only during even the rainy season, but likewise in whichever island happened to be the one which was selected for investigation.The Cape Verde archipelago may be said to include within it ten islands (for a number of outlying rocks, most of them nearly inaccessible, can scarcely be taken into account) ; and indeed one of these '' ten"?(namely S" Lucia) is so small, as compared with the rest, that it might wellnigh be ignored, or at any rate affiliated to S. Vicente; in which case the number would be reduced to nine.Therefore, when I mention that the present Catalogue refers to siz out of the nine, it will at least be admitted that a tolerable amount of the entire area has been partially examined.And moreover it is especially to be noted that the three which still remain untouched are the three eastern ones of the Group-Sal, Boavista, and Maio (known generally as the "Salt Islands ")-which, from their geographical position and natural features, might almost be said to constitute a distinct assemblage of themselves.The six islands treated of in this volume are 8S.Antonio, S.