Nov., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 399 



Coleoptera of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. I. 



BY C. O. HOUGHTON, Newark, Del. 



The present list of beetles embraces only those species that 

 have been taken by the writer in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 

 at odd times during the past fifteen years. No systematic col- 

 lecting has been done at any time, and during the past nine 

 years only my summer vacations in some instances less than 

 a month's time have been spent in St. Lawrence County, and 

 but very little of this time has been devoted to collecting. 



This list is, therefore, very incomplete and some families, 

 which should be represented by many species, are hardly repre- 

 sented at all. However, it is thought that the list, incomplete 

 as it is, may be of some interest to collectors, and of value as 

 giving some data relative to the geographical distribution of 

 our Coleoptera ; for so far as the writer is aware, no list of 

 the beetles of this section of New York State has ever been 

 published.* 



The collecting has been done principally at Potsdam and in 

 its immediate vicinity, but some excursions have been made 

 into the Adirondack Mountains and their foot-hills at distances 

 from Potsdam varying from ten to fifty miles. The village of 

 Potsdam, which is situated in the township bearing that name, 

 is in latitude 44 deg. 40 min., longitude 74 deg. 58 min. The 

 length of the day at summer solstice is fifteen hours, thirty- 

 nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds. The altitude above sea 

 level is about four hundred feet. Potsdam is a place of about 

 4500 inhabitants, and is located on the banks of the Racket 

 River. The surrounding country is typical of the farming 

 section of northern New York. It is fairly 'level, with scat- 

 tered pieces of woodland and occasional small brooks which 



*In the "News" for October, 1902 (p. 247), Dr. A. D. MacGillivray 

 and the writer published a list of Coleoptera taken at Axton, N. Y. ; 

 and in the "News" for Feb., 1905 (p. 50), the writer published a list 

 of beetles collected by Dr. MacGillivray and himself on the summit 

 of Mt. Seward, N. Y. These places are in Franklin Co., which ad- 

 joins St. Lawrence. None of the species which were collected only at 

 these places are given in the following list. 



