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cult and complicated task of determining and collating them. Bearing 

 this in mind, the reader will find no difificulty in rightly apportioning 

 whatever commendation he may have to bestow. 



[The extremely interesting collection of Coleoptera, of which the 

 following list gives the names of those species up to the present identified 

 with certainty, has been made by the Rev. J. H. Keen during the past 

 three years. It was hoped to have published with each species extensive 

 notes and figures of several new to science which Mr. Keen has discovered ; 

 but this proves to be impossible just now. As so little is known of the 

 fauna of the Queen Charlotte Islands, every care has been taken to ensure 

 the correct identification of the si)ecies. Thanks are particularly due to 

 the following specialists who have given much time to examining and 

 naming the different species and comparing them with Eastern forms : — 

 Dr. J. Hamilton. Dr. C. V. Riley, Mr. L. O. Howard, Dr. Geo. H. Horn, 

 Capt. T. L. Casey, Mr. H K. Wickhim, and Mons. A. Fauvel, of Caen, 

 France. Figures (now in course of preparation) and descriptions of new 

 species, together with fuller notes of the rarer species, will appear later. 

 The numbers given are those of Henshaw's list. — J. Fletcher.] 

 96, Cychrus marginaius. Fish, — Not uncommon. 



96. Cychrus marginatus, Fish., var. Fulleri, Horn. — Common under 

 logs in woods from May onwards. Several times taken in act 

 of feeding on snails. 

 106. Cychrus tuberculatus, Har. — Frequent under logs from April 



onwards. 

 169. Loricera lo-punctata, Esch. — Rare. In moss near lake in February. 

 176. Notiophilus sylvaticus, Esch. — Occasionally under logs in warm, 



dry places. 

 180. Leistus ferruginosus, Mann. — Occasionally under lotten bark of 



prostrate logs. 

 184. Nebria diversa, Lee— Numerous in spring with JV. Sahlbergl under 



driftwood on beach. 

 195. Nebria Sahlbergi, Fish. — Frequent under logs on beach from May 



onwards. 

 221. Dyschirius 3-dentatus, Lee. — Numerous on gravelly beach at high- 

 water mark in June. 

 315. Bembidium erasum, Lee — Not common. Ground, July 22, 1891. 

 375. Bembidium indistinctum, Dej. — Numerous on sandy banks of salt 

 inlet. 



