272 COLEOPTERA OF THE SOLWAY DISTRICT. 



list in the Transactions. In cases where I have not taken the 

 species myself I have given the name of the collector responsible 

 for the record. 



It will be of interest perhaps to make a short reference to 

 the various collectors who have worked in the district. The first 

 appears to have been the Rev. William Little, who was minister 

 of the Parish of Kirkpatrick-Juxta from 1841-67. He had a con- 

 siderable reputation as an Entomologist, and corresponded with 

 the leading collectors of his day. He assisted Mr J. F. Stephens, 

 the author of " Illustrations of Entomology," in 1828-32 in giving 

 Scottish localities for Coleoptera, and also was of very material 

 assistance to Mr Andrew Murray in the compilation of his " Cata- 

 logue of Scottish Coleoptera," published in 1853. In addition he 

 published a list in the " Magazine of Zoology and Botany " in 

 1838, but some of the species therein included are very doubtful. 

 Afterwards we had in the neighbourhood of Dumfries Mr William 

 Lennon, for many years a valued member of our Society, who was 

 for some time oflficially connected with the Crichton Royal Institu- 

 tion, and after his retiral lived in Brooke Street, Dumfries. He 

 was a most indefatigable and successful collector, and for about 

 35 years prior to his death in 1899 he, as he says himself, 

 " searched almost every field, moor, moss, glen, and stream in the 

 district " for beetles. Unfortunately, his early records cannot be 

 relied on implicitly. A list almost certainly compiled by him 

 appears in the " Local Parish Histories and Xew Statistical 

 Account for the Parish of Dumfries," published in the " Dumfries 

 Courier," 12th September, 1876, et seq., but many of the species 

 therein recorded are obviously in error, as also are some species 

 recorded by him in our " Transactions " as having been taken at 

 Field meetings. Two papers by him pul)lished in the early 

 numbers of our " Transactions," as well as occasional lists of 

 captures contributed to the " Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," 

 can, however, be depended on. His collection is now in the 

 Edinburgh Royal Scottish Museum, along with a most useful 

 manuscript list, which I ha\'e seen through the courtesy of Mr 

 Grimshaw, and of which I have made full use in the following 

 list. Associated with Lennon in his early collecting days we had 

 the late Dr W. R. M'Nab (afterwards Profes.sor M'Nab), who 

 resided in the neighbourhood of Dumfries from 1867-69, and Dr 

 David Sharp, M.A. (Cantab), F.R.S., who has for many years 



