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A striking thing about the country is the absence of trees and 

 shrubs: pass outside the town and you find low grass-clad hills cut 

 by narrow ravines draining on the one hand into the Golden Horn, 

 and on the other into the Bosphorus ; except for a group of tall 

 cypresses marking here and there a cemetery, trees are practically 

 absent. It is much the same at Scutari on the Asiatic side. 



This barrenness, however, must not be thought to be the feature 

 of the Bosphorus generally ; further north along its shores the most 

 varied country presents itself, rivulets, low wooded hills and valleys 

 making a most picturesque scene. Unfortunately, I had no oppor- 

 tunity of collecting in any of these charming spots, and the present 

 paper deals entirely with Ooleoptera obtained within about six or 

 seven miles of the centre of the town, from December 1st, 1001, to 

 April 2()th, 1902, during which period also I had opportunities of 

 collecting in other parts of Turkey when cruising. 



Constantinople is an extensive city, its suburbs spreading far 

 along the shore of the Golden Horn on the one hand, and the Bos- 

 phorus on the other, also directly northward. The roads are, however, 

 so bad as to preclude the use of the bicycle to reach the open country, 

 but advantage may be taken of the tram, which runs along the shore 

 of the Bosphorus to near Bebek in one direction, and directly north 

 to Chichli in another, the continuation of which is the main road to 

 Therapia, a charming spot, the summer resort of the various Em- 

 bassies. In this direction will be found the best collecting grounds, 

 notably in the " Valley of the Sweet Waters of Europe " (or Kia- 

 tbani Valley), which empty themselves into the top of the Golden 

 Horn, or at scattered spots along the road itself. The limits of the 

 area collected over are the Golden Horn on the one side, the Bos- 

 phorus on the other, and a line joining the lip of the former with the 

 old Jewish Cemetery at Rumeli Hissar on the latter. 



The list is as follows : — 



Carabus coriaceus, v. rugosus, Dej., common, and generally distributed ; C. 

 montivagus, Palld., under stones on the low hills around Kiathani Valley, not 

 common. Nebria brevicoUis, F., generally distributed. Notiophilus suhstriatus, 

 Waterh., a single specimen in Kiathani Valley. Bemhidion lampros, Herbst ; B. 

 castaneipenne, Duv. ?, one example near streamlet on the Kiathani Hills ; B. mon- 

 ticola, Sturm, common ; B. 4-ffutiatum, F., not uncommon. Tachys hisulcatus, 

 Nicol., two or three specimens in shingle in the valley ; T. hcBmorrhnidnlis, Hej., 

 common. Perileptus areolatus, Creutz., sparingly, with T. hisulcatus. Trechus 

 ^•striatus, Schrank, common. Agonum viridiciipreum, Goeze, very common over a 

 limited moist area in the valley ; A. numidicum, Luc., one or two in same locality ; 



