74 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST., 



The pin on which the specimen is fixed is passed through the centre 

 of this disk, so as to allow it to rest about an eighth of an inch from thei 

 bottom of the drawer or case. This would not be practical in the low- 

 setting m'ethod, to which many British entomologists still adhere — a 

 method which should be condemned as putting the insect in easy reach 

 of parasites and being an exhibition more of pins than of insects. . s 



All this will make considerable extra labour, but 

 will, after a time, be found well worth it ; for the' 

 collector himself often forgets where or when he got 

 a certain specimen. The name label could be made 

 more interesting to non-entomologists by having the 

 common local name, where known, under the scientific 

 one, and would tend to make the study of insect life 

 more i)opuIar. . '• i 



A NEW SPECIES OF AEGIALITES. 



BY THE LATE M. L. LINELL, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



During his visit in 1896 to Robben Island, a low rock only 2,000 

 feet long, situated near the eastern coast of Sakhalin Island, in Okhotsk 

 Sea, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger collected only two species of insects, both 

 Coleoptera. One of them is a species of Benibidiu?n, possibly new, but 

 it should be compared with the numerous species from the mainland, 

 which cannot be done at present. The other species belongs to the highly 

 interesting genus Aegialites, and is described below as a new spfcies. 

 Aegialites Stejneger i, Linell, new species. 



Elongate, convex, piceous ; upper surface with faint greenish lustre. 

 Antennas piceous, apruptly clavate. Head broad, finely coriaceous and 

 sparsely punctate. Eyes strongly prominent, very coarsely granulate. 

 Thorax very narrow, distinctly longer than wide, a little broader at base 

 than at apex, widest in front of middle ; sides slightly arcuate ; disc 

 coriaceous, very sparsely and irregularly punctate, the median line 

 impressed and a shallow fovea on each side. Elytra very short and 

 ovate, abruptly and broadly pedunculate at the humeri, strongly rounded 

 on the sides and very much wider behind the middle, the apices separately, 

 strongly rounded ; disc finely rugose, the striae narrow, scarcely impressed, 

 with small but distinct punctures, entirely effaced at apex. Pygidium 

 and propygidium exposed. Prosternum smooth, meso- and metasternum 

 vaguely rugose, side-pieces sparsely coarsely punctate. Abdomen cori- 



