214 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Additions to the List of Scottish Coleoptera. 



By Anderson Fergusson. 



[Read 25th June, 1901.] 



In compiling the list of Coleoptera of Clyde for the Handbook to 

 be issued on the occasion of the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at Glasgow in September, I found in the material which 

 passed through my hands a number of species which appeared to 

 be new to Scotland. These species are included in the list of 

 Clyde Coleoptera, but I have thought it advisable to put them on 

 record separately, and accordingly I append a list of them hereto. 

 Strictly speaking all the species in the appended list are not new 

 to Scotland, as some of them were recorded previous to the 

 publication of Dr. Sharp's "Coleoptera of Scotland" [Scottish 

 Naturalist, 1871-81); but Dr. Sharp evidently was doubtful of 

 the authenticity of these previous records, and the species to 

 which they referred were either excluded from his list altogether, 

 or only included within square brackets as requiring confirma^ 

 tion. Their occurrence in the Clyde area now confirms these 

 doubtful records and gives the species a secure place on the 

 Scottish list. So far as I can ascertain none of the beetles in the 

 following list have been recorded from Scotland since the com- 

 pletion of Dr. Sharp's list. 



I am indebted to the gentlemen whose names are mentioned 

 below for permission to record their captures. 



I have to thank the Rev. Alfred Thornley, F.L.S., the Rev. 

 H. S. Gorham, F.Z.S., and Mr. G. C. Champion, F.Z.S., for their 

 kindness in confirming my identification of some of the followiug 

 species and identifying others for me. 



The nomenclature followed is that of Sharp and Fowler's 

 " Catalogue of British Coleoptera," 1893. 



Leistus spinibcwbis, F. — I have received a specimen of this fine 

 species from Mr. John Dunsmore, of Paisley, and there is 

 another in the collection of Mr. Robert Eden, of the same 

 city. Mr. Dunsmore and Mr. Eden inform me that they 

 take it sparingly in a wood near Paisley. 



