Dear Darwin

I returned here yesterday evening & found your letter lying upon my table. Will you tell Hope that I have only one insect from Australia, that is K. Georges Sound. It is an Hydroporus allied to 12–punctatus but smaller & less marked with yellow. I will endeavour to complete a description of it during the following week & send it to you for Hope.¹ I have only one species from New Zealand, it appears to be an Hydrobius. From Terre del Fuego the species are more numerous, namely, a small & imperfect specimen of Hydrobius, (a single specimen of Corixa,) 4 specimens of a very pretty species of Hydroporus allied to lineatus, 5 species of Colymbetes, allied respectively to our pulverosus, femoralis?, & oblongus.

I am sorry to say that I have been prevented from examining the insects with care, but propose doing so & drawing up the descriptions after the long vacation. I have been very fully employed since you left Cambridge & am now on the point of starting for Jersey where I intend to pass the greater part of this month, & next in botanicaal research. I will however endeavour to comple[te] the K.G.S. species for Hope & leave it with you or Waterhouse as I pass through town. I propose sending my complete account of your Insects to the Entom^l. Society when finished,² but will not do so if you wish any other plan to be adopted. Still I think that that is the best place for them.

Believe me yours truly | Charles C. Babington