20 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



NOTES ON SOME COLEOPTERA FROM 

 THE FLANNAN ISLANDS. 



By Prof. T. HUDSON BEARE, B.A., B.Sc. 



DURING a stay of sixteen days on the Flannans in the 

 autumn of 1904, from September 6 to 21, for the 

 purpose of studying bird migration, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke 

 collected Coleoptera whenever possible, and he has kindly 

 allowed me the opportunity of going through his small 

 and interesting collection in order that I might name his 

 captures. 



The Flannans are a group of small uninhabited islands 

 lying out in the Atlantic, being situated from twenty to 

 twenty-three miles west of the island of Lewis, and forty 

 miles north-east of St. Kilda. 



As Mr. Eagle Clarke has already described in this 

 number of the " Annals " (pp. S-io), the geographical position 

 of the islands, and the main physical features of Eilean 

 Mhor, on which the collection was made, it is unnecessary 

 to say more on the subject here. 



The following is a list of the species in the collection, 

 with some notes as to their general distribution in Great 

 Britain : 



Carabus catenulatus, Scop. (5 specimens) ; this species is common 

 all over Scotland, and is especially abundant in hilly districts 

 under stones ; it is also common in England. 



Pterostichus niger, Schal. (7 specimens); this species is common 

 all over the kingdom, under stones. 



Nebria brevicollis, F. (20 specimens); perhaps the most abundant 

 and widely-distributed species of the Carabidas which occurs 

 in Great Britain, and found in all sorts of localities. 



Calathus cisteloides, Pz. (6 specimens) ; this species also occurs all 

 over the kingdom, under stones. 



I used, during the time spent in camp on the island of Inch- 

 keith, when I was serving as a captain in the Forth Division 

 Submarine Miners, to find these four species very commonly 

 on that island. 



