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VOL. XXVII. LONDON, JULY, 1895. No. 7. 



LIST OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED AT MASSETT, QUEEN 

 CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B. C. 



BY REV. J. H. KEEN. 



The beetles enumerated below were all taken within a circle of five 

 miles' radius from Massett, on the Northern Shore of Graham Island — 

 the most northerly of the Queen Charlotte group. This area, though 

 small, is considerably diversified, and favourable to coleopterous life. The 

 island here is flat, and covered with a forest of spruce and hemlock, with 

 a sprinkling of alder. The soil is sandy, and for the most part dry. The 

 coastline includes a stretch of level sand reached only by the highest 

 tides, and strewn with driftwood ; a protected pebbly beach and a tract of 

 rough stones, also covered by the high tides. The sandy beach I find most 

 productive, many even inland insects appearing to fall on the loose sand, 

 and, being unable to rise, crawl for shelter under the driftwood. Hills 

 and fresh-water streams (of any size) are absent, and I quite expect these 

 situations, which occur in other parts of the island, to yield, when 

 examined, several additional species. 



These islands enjoy a temperate, though extremely humid, climate. 

 Sunshine is rare, rain of almost daily occurrence. Snow seldom falls in 

 any quantity, and usually disappears quickly. " Once in six or eight years 

 the thermometer falls to zero ; usually, however, a few degrees of frost 

 mark the extreme of cold. No regular meteorological record is, I regret 

 to say, kept here. 



As intimated above, this list does not ])retend to exhaust the Coleop- 

 tera of the locality ; indeed, fresh species are still constantly occurring. 

 It has been thought well, however, to print the list as it at present stands, 

 and to supplement it with another at a later date. 



I should like to express here my great indebtedness to my friend, 

 Mr. James Fletcher, of Ottawa, as well as to the learned specialists whose 

 aid he has enlisted in the preparation of this list. Mine has been simply 

 the easy and pleasant work of collecting the specimens ; their's, the diffi- 



