112 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOJ<OGIST. 



TWO DISTINGUISHED SETTLERS. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA. 



In the March number of Entomological News Dr. Horn records the 

 capture at St. John, N.B., of Carabus nemoralis, Mull., by Mr. C B. 

 Riker, in April or May, 1891. I can confirm the occurrence of this 

 species in the locality mentioned and can add from it a second species to 

 our lists. On the 6th Sept., 1891, having the forenoon to spend in St. 

 John I made a visit to the celebrated falls which pour up or down the 

 river, according to the state of the tides, for which the Bay of Fundy is 

 noted. I spent about half an hour searching for Coleoptera, and among 

 the CarabidfB found under drift wood were two species of Carabus. 

 As I had never captured specimens of this genus before, I was much 

 pleased to find them, especially as they were different from any 

 American species in my collection. For some time I could not identify 

 them, but they proved to be C. nemoralis, Mull., and C. granulatus, 

 Dej. Of the former I obtained five individuals (4 (^ , i ? ), and of the 

 latter three (2 ^^ , i $ ), besides a specimen which had the elytra so 

 deformed that I let it remain, to be perhaps the progenitor of a new 

 variety. As C. cancellatus had been recorded (although it has not yet 

 been placed in the list) by Dr. Horn in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. X., 

 270, 1883, as found at Wilmington, N.C., I thought for a time that my 

 three specimens might belong to that species. I have now, however, 

 after carefully examining Dejean's description and figures, and also by 

 comparison with European specimens received as C. granulatus, satisfied 

 myself that this is the species taken. The capture of this species recalls 

 a specimen, dead and somewhat mutilated, which I picked up in Truro, 

 N.S., some years ago, and which I then supposed to be a variety of 

 mcBander. The specimen was not kept as it was too much injured to be 

 available for my cabinet, but from my recollection of it I think it must 

 have been granulatus. Unfortunately there are ityi collectors in pur 

 Maritime Province.s, so that our knowledge of the occurrence and distri- 

 bution of species is very small. 



