COLEOPTERA FROM FAIR ISLE 257 



COLEOPTERA FROM FAIR ISLE. 



By Professor T, HUDSON Beare, B.Sc, F.E.S. 



In Vol. XLII. of The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 

 (1906), p. T]} I gave a list of Coleoptera which had been 

 collected on Fair Isle by Mr Eagle Clarke in September and 

 October 1905. Thirty-five species were included in the list. 

 The majority of these were species which are common and 

 widely-distributed throughout Great Britain. I have recently 

 had an opportunity of examining another collection, made 

 by Mr Eagle Clarke on Fair Isle in September 1907, and I 

 give below a complete list of all the species in the collection, 

 with the number of specimens found in each case. Species 

 which were not in the first collection made in 1906 are 

 indicated by an asterisk. It will be observed that there are 

 ten new species, bringing the total number of species from 

 this island recorded up to the present date to forty-five. 



Of the new species two are typically northern species, 

 viz., Nebria gyllenhali, Sch., and Barynotus schonherri^ Zett. ; 

 the remainder are fairly widely-distributed species. 



It is interesting to note that two species of Harpahis 

 occurred in the recent collection, but only a single specimen 

 of each ; the genus Harpahis is poorly represented in 

 Scotland. 



In view of the exposed position of this small island, it 

 is certainly somewhat unexpected to find two species of 

 Geotrupes, but the powerful wings of the species of this genus 

 no doubt enable them to cross a fairly wide stretch of water 

 when favourable winds blow ; the probability is, therefore, 

 that these two species are merely casual visitors to the island, 

 though the conditions are favourable enough for the species 

 to establish themselves should the immigrants reach the 

 island during the breeding season. 



1 See also Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, pp. Si -83. 



