PREFACE. Vll 



The whole of the Scottish Entomologists with whom I was 

 acquainted, and several with whom I had no previous acquaint- 

 ance, cordially aided me in making my list as complete as 

 possible, by communicating to me their several captures. I 

 owe special thanks to the Rev. William Little, Kirkpatrick- 

 Juxta, Dumfriesshire, and to Mr Hardy, Penmanshiel, East 

 Lothian, — the latter of whom was kind enough to undertake 

 almost entirely for me the family of the Staphylinidse, to which 

 (of the Coleoptera) he has more particularly directed his 

 attention ; and that family will be found to show marks of 

 the care and accuracy for which he is remarkable. 



I have had the list of species found near Edinburgh made 

 much more complete than it had previously been, by the infor- 

 mation communicated by Dr Greville, and his son, Mr R. N. 

 Greville, Dr Lowe, Balgreen, Mr R. F. Logan, Duddingstou, 

 and Dr Howden, Musselburgh. 



My information as to the insects from Lanarkshire and the 

 neighbourhood of Glasgow has been almost wholly received 

 from Mr Hislop, now at Blairlodge, near Falkirk, but formerly 

 resident in Glasgow, who was aided in his investigations in the 

 west by Mr John Gray, and Dr Colquhoun. Mr Morris .Young, 

 Paisley, has also contributed notices of some valuable captures 

 in his neighbourhood. Mr Hardy and Mr Hislop have added 

 much to the list of species found in Berwickshire. East 

 Lothian has also been thoroughly examined by Mr Hardy, a 

 work in which he has been well aided by Mr Archibald Hep- 

 burn, near Whittingham. The Aberdeenshire localities Hke- 

 wise were mostly furnished by Mr Hardy. 



Mr John T. Syme, now in London, Professor Fleming, of 

 the Free Church College, Edinburgh, Mr George A. Coventry, 

 younger of Shanwell, and myself, have more particularly worked 

 out Fife, Perth, Kinross, and Clackmannan ; and oiu: knowledge 

 of the insects of the eastern part of the first of these counties 

 has been increased by the examination of a large collection 

 made at St Andrews by Mr Harry Goodsir, one of the surgeons 



