COLEOPTERA FROM AUSKERRY, ORKNEY 21 



COLEOPTERA FROM AUSKERRY, ORKNEY. 



By William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



The following beetles were collected by Mr P2agle Clarke on 

 Auskerry, one of the most easterly of the Orkney Islands, in 

 September 191 3. As explained by Mr Clarke in his paper 

 {Scot. A^at., 1914, p. 5) on the birds he met with there, 

 Auskerry is a small low-lying and — but for the lighthouse 

 people — uninhabited island of some 260 acres. Near the 

 cliff-edge there is, he tells me, a small loch said to be fed by 

 a spring and having no visible outlet ; from its margin most 

 of the water-beetles were olitained. Our knowledge of the 

 Coleopterous fauna of the Orkneys rests mainly on a paper 

 by B. Poppius (1904-5) in which he records not far short of 

 200 species and varieties collected in these islands by the 

 late O. M. Reuter of Helsingfors, Finland, in the summer of 

 1876. A few species from Hoy have been recorded by 

 W. E. Sharp. For the Shetlands we have Blackburn and 

 Liliey's list (1874), Hudson Beare's for Fair Isle (1906, 

 recording specimens collected by \V. E. Clarke), and that of 

 Poppius included in the paper above referred to.^ It would 

 appear that the majority (fourteen or so) of the species noted 

 below from Auskerry have not previously been recorded 

 from Orkney ; all but five (perhaps six) are, however, on 

 record for Shetland. In the case of the two Cholevas and 

 one or two other species I am indebted to Professor Beare 

 for kindly checking my determinations. 



List of Species. 



Carabus cafenu/atus, Scop. — One specimen. 

 Nebria brevicol/is, F. — Two specimens. 

 Loricera pilicornis, F. — One specimen. 

 Pterostichus nigrita, F. — One. 



^ Full references to these papers will be found at the end of 

 Anderson Fergusson's Supplement to Dr D. Sharp's " Coleoptera of 

 Scotland" published in this magazine in 1913-14. I'rof. Beare's Fair 

 Isle list appeared in the A/m. Scot. Nat. Hist, for April 1906, as well as 

 in the E>it. Mo. Mag. 



