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sent to him from St Kilda in September 1908 ; in this list 

 the following species were additions to the lists in the Atinais 

 for 1908 : — Loricera pilicornis, F. ; Homalota at7'icolor, Sharp ; 

 Conosoina lividum, Er. ; Atomaria atricapilla, Steph. ; bring- 

 ing the total recorded species up to one hundred and fifteen. 



I have recently had the opportunity of identifying the 

 extensive collection of Coleoptera made by Mr W. Eagle 

 Clarke on St Kilda in the autumns of 1910 and 191 1 — there 

 were many hundreds of specimens ; the great majority of 

 these specimens belonged to five or six dominant species, 

 namely, Pterostidms niger, Schal ; CalatJius cistelozdes, Pz. ; 

 Nebria brevicollis, F. ; Ocypu? olens, Miill. ; Q^tcdius uinbrmus, 

 Er.; and Tachinus nifipes,T)e G. — allspecies widely distributed 

 and usually common throughout the whole of Great. Britain. 



Mr Eagle Clarke informed me that the majority of the 

 specimens in the collection had been captured by children, 

 who were induced by gifts of sweets to search diligently all 

 over the island for possible specimens ; from the species 

 which form the major part of the collection, I am inclined 

 to think that the children chiefly confined their attention to 

 searching under stones, and in the droppings of the sheep 

 and cattle. 



As the fauna of this remote island is of great interest in 

 connection with the problem of the geographical distribution 

 of our insect fauna, I give a complete list of the species in 

 Mr Eagle Clarke's collection, and of the number of specimens 

 of each species. Those marked with an asterisk are addi- 

 tions to the previous lists ; it will be seen that there are ten 

 of these species, bringing the total record to date up to one 

 hundred and twenty-five. All these ten species are fairly 

 widely distributed and common throughout the kingdom ; 

 they are, indeed, what Mr W. E. Sharp {Ent. Record, 191 3, 

 p. 19, "The Coleopterist in Tiree ") calls dominant forms. 

 The only species from St Kilda so far recorded, which 

 belong to the Northern group, are : — Nebria gyllenhali, Sch. ; 

 Elaphrus lapponicus, Gyll. ; Morychus cenens, F. ; Otiorhynchus 

 blatidus, Gyll. ; and Barynotus schonkerri, Zett., although 

 some of the other species occur more abundantly in the 

 north than in the south. 



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