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time of his death, LeConte had described over two-fifths. In his day he was 

 particularly noted for his distributional studies and his suggestion that the 

 Rhynchophora constitute one of the two primary subdivisions of the Coleoptera. 

 In our greater perspective, it is realized that his real claim to fame is the broad 

 descriptive basis that he laid for the study in North America of the entire order. 

 Among the younger contemporaries and successors of LeConte who produced 

 important monographic studies were George H. Horn (b. 1840, d. 1897), who 

 described 1,582 new species, Frederick Blanchard (1). 1843, d. 1912), William G. 

 Dietz (b. 1848, d. 1932), John B. Smith (b. 1858, d. 1912), Charles W. Leng (b. 

 1859, d. 1941), Roland Hayward (d. 1906) H. C. Fall (b. 1862, d. 1939), who 

 described 1,453 new species, Charles F. A. Schaeffer (b. 1860, d. 1934), and 



E. C. Van Dyke (b. 1869, d. 1952). 



IVIeanwhile the indigenous study of beetles was spreading. By 1869 Johnson 

 Pettit (d. 1898) was publishing on beetles in Ontario and Abbe Leon Provancher 

 (b. 1820, d. 1892) in Quebec. H. G. Hubbard (b. 1850, d. 1899) and E. A. 

 Schwarz (b. 1844, d. 1928) were at work in Detroit in the middle 'seventies, 

 and by the late 'seventies Charles Dury (b. 1847, d. 1931) at Cincinnati and 



F. H. Snow (b. 1840, d. 1908) at Lawrence, Kansas, had taken up their investi- 

 gations. The 'eighties saw John Hamilton (b. 1827, d. 1895) busy at Pittsburgh, 



G. W. Taylor (b. 1851, d. 1912) at Victoria, B. C, and H. F. Wickham (b. 1866, 

 d. 1933) at Iowa City; and by the 'nineties H. C. Fall and Frank E. Blaisdell 

 (b. 1862, d. 1947) were at work in California. 



Turning to synthetic works, catalogues or supplements to catalogues of Nearc- 

 tic species have been produced in 1863-1866, 1873, 1880, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1895, 

 1920, 1927, 1933, 1939, and 1948. Provancher in 1877 published a Petite Faune 

 Entomologique du Canada, Vol. I. "Les Coleopteres," describing about 950 species 

 from Quebec and Ontario. Hamilton's Catalogue of the Coleoptera Common to 

 North America, Northern Asia, and Europe (Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, XVI :88- 

 162, 1889; ed. 2, ibid., XXI: 345^16, 1894) and Catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Alaska (ibid., XXI : 1-38, 1894) were important synthesizing works. Wickham in 

 his "Coleoptera of Canada" (1894-1899), published in parts in the Canadian 

 Entomologist, gave keys to the species of a number of families for Ontario and 

 Quebec. 



In 1910 appeared The Coleoptera of Indiana by W. S. Blatchley (b. 1859, 

 d. 1940), which, in conjunction with Blatchley and Leng's Rhynchophora of 

 North Eastern America (1916), provided a descriptive catalogue of 2,954 species 

 of beetles from Indiana. Written in the tradition of LeConte and Horn, with its 

 division into Genuina and Rhynchophora, this is the only complete descriptive 

 beetle fauna, except Provancher's provisional work, produced so far in North 

 America. 



Leng's catalogue of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico (1921), broke 

 with the LeContian tradition and integrated American studies with those that 

 had been going on in Europe. M. H. Hatch's (b. 1898) Indices to keys and local 

 lists (1927-1928) (Journ. New York Entom. Soc, XXXV :279-306, 1927; 

 XXXVI :335-354, 1928; XXXVII :135-143, 1929; XLIX:21^2, 1941) organ- 

 ized aspects of the literature, and J. C. Bradley's (b. 1883) Genera of Beetles 

 of America North of Mexico (1930) provided a much-needed revision of LeConte 

 and Horn's Classification. 



