RECORDS OF SCOTTISH COLEOPTERA AND HEMIPTERA 91 



SOME RECORDS OF SCOTTISH COLEOPTERA 

 AND HEMIPTERA. 



By WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



I. COLEOPTERA. 



IT is now no easy matter to add to the list of Scottish 

 Coleoptera, so well has this group of insects been already 

 investigated in several of our faunal areas. A great deal, 

 however, still remains to be done in working out the dis- 

 tribution of the various species known to occur in the 

 country. This fact was impressed upon me during the 

 publication of Canon Fowler's " Coleoptera of the British 

 Islands," 1887-91, and since then I have devoted a good 

 deal of time to beetle-hunting with the object of supple- 

 menting the published records. The number of specimens 

 collected to date is fully 16,000, obtained chiefly in the 

 Forth Area ; but not a few are from the Strathspey district 

 of " Moray," while Tweed, Clyde, and Argyll are each re- 

 presented by some hundreds. 



The serious part of the work has, as usual, been the 

 identification of the specimens, and in this connection I owe 

 a very deep debt of gratitude to my friend the Rev. Alfred 

 Thornley, F.L.S., South Leverton, Notts. Had he not been 

 willing to help me, a large portion of the collection would 

 probably have had to remain unnamed. When I mention 

 that he has examined about two -thirds of my captures, 

 checking and completing my rough and imperfect lists or 

 writing out original ones, it will be seen I am under no 

 ordinary obligation to him. 



My best thanks are also due to Dr. D. Sharp of Cam- 

 bridge, who has kindly given me his opinion regarding a 

 number of the more difficult species, a favour I greatly 

 appreciate. 



The number of species already recognised in the collec- 

 tion is rather more than 800, and many of them are from 

 faunal areas from which they have not yet been recorded, 

 the additions to the Forth district alone being over 100. 



