LIST OF THE COLEOPTERA OF SOUTHERN CALI- 

 FORNIA, WITH NOTES ON HABITS AND 

 DISTRIBUTION AND DESCRIPTIONS 

 OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY H, C. FALL. 



Introduction, 



The Coleoptera of California, or of any considerable 

 part thereof, have never been made the subject of exclu- 

 sive treatment by any of our entomologists. Portions of 

 the State have, it is true, formed a part of much more ex- 

 tensive areas treated in some of the earlier faunal papers 

 of Le Conte, but in none of importance have the Califor- 

 nian species been so numerous as to constitute a majority 

 of those listed. Of these papers, two are especially 

 worthy of mention, viz: The Report on the Insects col- 

 lected on the Pacific R. R. Survey adjacent to the 47th 

 parallel (1857), and the Catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 the Region adjacent to the Mexican boundary line (1858). 

 In the former, 1,173 species are listed from Northern 

 California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, of which 

 520 are Calif ornian; in the latter, of about 1,000 species 

 mentioned, 300 are credited to Southern California. 

 To both of these, short supplements were added in 1858 

 and 1859. In an earlier paper (1851), Le Conte had 

 published descriptions of 335 species from various parts 

 of California, all of which are incorporated in the two 

 lists above mentioned. 



[ 1 ] December 29, 1900. 



