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A LIST OF LABRADOR COLEOPTERA. 



By John D. Sherman, Jr. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



• It is an eminently proper introduction to the following list of 

 Labrador beetles to express, as best I may, the great obligation I am 

 under to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, whose enthusiastic help and sug- 

 gestions put me into communication with exactly the right men to 

 collect for me, when I set out, a few years ago, to obtain Dytiscidas 

 from this region. The fact of my acquaintance with Dr. Grenfell 

 and his own personal appeals to my correspondents in my behalf, 

 aroused an interest and resulted in efTorts successful to an extent far 

 beyond my greatest hopes. But the willing cooperation of my Lab- 

 rador friends will be readily understood by those whose privilege it 

 is to know this wonderful man with his great love for his fellowmen 

 — a privilege which has been one of the great joys of my own life. 



My own Labrador material consists of about ten thousand speci- 

 mens of beetles, collected by seven residents of Labrador selected by 

 Dr. Grenfell, none of them entomologists, but some of them very 

 successful collectors nevertheless. The localities represented are 

 West St. Modest, Red Bay and Cape Charles, in the Straits of Belle 

 Isle ; Hopedale and Nain further up the coast ; Nachvak in the far 

 north ; and Fort Chimo on Ungava Bay. About one hundred species 

 are represented in my material, and as the attention of my corre- 

 spondents up to the present time has been principally directed toward 

 collecting zvatcr beetles, it is likely that several additional species will 

 be found. 



The only published list of Labrador beetles with which I am 

 familiar is that of Dr. Packard, published in its complete form in the 

 Canadian Entomologist for August, 1888, and again in Dr. Packard's 

 fascinating book, "The Labrador Coast" (1891). This list included 

 sixty-three species, mostly collected by Dr. Packard himself. The 

 collection is now contained in the entomological collections of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. There is also 

 a brief list, by the late Dr. James Fletcher, of thirteen species of 



