it s^d. have in any way affected (for even a single night) the functions of your alimentary canal; &, could I have foreseen this, I should most certainly have given an anti-dyspeptic chapter, of a sedative tendency.—³

As regards your question about the other Orders of Madeiran insects, I believe I can say thus much: that they do not, apparently, include forms generally anomalous, or at all comparable with the Coleoptera. Indeed that Atlantic region (that continuous Atlantic province which it puts you in such a rage to think about) was I believe, strictly, a Beetle-land (what a glorious place it must have been!),—a Scarabæoideous area of radiation; numbering amongst its endemic forms few remarkable modifications (I mean primary modifications, of course) which were not Coleopterous. It might be defined as a Scarabæo- and Helico-metropolis;⁴ & magnificent sport it must have been, to our Atlantic ancestors, to give free scope to their hunting propensities in such a land: it makes one’s modern entomological blood curdle