1900.] 2-58 



COLEOPTERA PROM ICELAND AND THE FAROK ISLANDS, 

 COLLECTED BY N. ANNANDALE, ESQ., IN 1900. 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. 



The fauna of Iceland has a considerable interest on account of 

 the isolated and almost arctic position of the island. Its entomology 

 is, however, far from completely known. Tn 1856 it was visited by 

 Dr. Staudinger, who published lists of the Insects in the Stettin. Ent. 

 Zeit., 1857. He procured altogether 312 species. Since then singu- 

 larly little has been added to his list. It included 81 species of 

 Goleoptera. In vol. xxvi of this Magazine, Mr. P. B. Mason gave a 

 list of the Insects he met with during a visit to the Island. He 

 mentions sixteen species of Coleoptera, three of which, viz , Aphodiiis 

 foetidus, Otiorhynclms scabrosus, and Coccinella ll-puncfafa, may be 

 considered as additions to the list published by Staudinger, though it 

 is possible that Staiidinger's 0. ruqifrons may be the same as Mason's 

 O. scabrosus. 



In 1890 Dr. F. A. Walker published the names of some species 

 of Goleoptera (Entomologist, 1890, pp. 374 and 376) he met with, but 

 I think they make no addition to the Iceland Catalogue. Neither is 

 any addition made in the paper by the same gentleman in J. Victoria 

 Inst., xxiv, 1890. 



In Bull. Soc. ent. France, 1892, p. xxviii. Dr. H. Senac mentions 

 fourteen species, three of which are not in Staudinger's list, viz., 

 Otiorhynehus atroapterus, O. ligneus var., Adalia sp. n. near hyperborea. 

 It is probable that the two Otiorhynehus were wrongly determined, but 

 the Adalia apparently is an additional and interesting form ; unfor- 

 tunately we have had no further particulars about it. 



Mr. N. Annandale was so good as to make small collections of 

 Coleoptera for me in Iceland and the Faroe Islands last summer. He 

 was at Reykjavik from July 1st to 14th, and all his Coleoptera were 

 found there. They are 46 specimens and 15 species, viz. : — 



Notiopldlus biguttatus (8), Nebria gyllenhali (G), Calathus melanocephalus 

 (8), Amara quenseli (2), Patrobus septentrionis {\), Bembidium bipunctatum (1), B. 

 islandicum, n. sp. (3), Agabus bipustulatus (7), Sydroporus nigrita (1), Creophilus 

 maxillosus (1)^ Stenus carbonarius (2), CryptoJtypnus riparius (1), Barynotus 

 Schonherri (1), Otiorhynehus blandus (3), Erirhiiius acridulus (1). 



It is probable that all these species are really included in Stau- 

 dinger's list, though if so, one or two were erroneously named. 

 Staudinger's Noiiophilus semipunctatus is probably N. biguttatus. My 

 Bembidium islandicum is almost certainly his " B. nigricorne, G-yll. ? " 

 Staudinger's Stenua opacus is a synonym of S. carbonarius ; and his 



