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been recognised as one of the chief authorities on Coleoptera, and 

 who for some years was Curator of the Museum of Zoology at 

 Cambridge. Dr Sharp was resident in the Thornhill district for 

 about 16 years, from 1867-83, first at Bellevue, Keir, and after- 

 wards at Eccles, Penpont, and while here collected beetles most 

 assiduously in several parts of the district. He became an ordinary 

 member of our Society in 1867, and some years afterwards was 

 made a Life Member. Lists of some of his captures in the district 

 appear in the early numbers of the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," and a valuable catalogue by him of the Coleoptera of 

 Scotland is published in the " Scottish Naturalist " of 1871-81, 

 which shews the species then recorded for the Solway district, and 

 which has been referred to by me. 



More recently Mr W. D. Robinson-Douglas, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.E.S.,. of Orehardton, near Auchencairn, worked the district in 

 his immediate neighbourhood very carefully, but since Lennon's 

 death he informs me he has done little or no collecting. He pub- 

 lished in conjunction with Lennon a list of additions to the Scot- 

 tish and Solway lists in the " Annals of Scottish Natural History " 

 in April, 1892. He has al.so furnished me with a list of the 

 species taken by him at Orehardton, and I have noted those of 

 interest. 



A few years ago Mr Frank Balfour Browne, M.A. (Oxon), 

 F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., worked up the water beetles of the district 

 (Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, etc.) very thoroughly, and published 

 a yer}' full list of these in the " Annals of Scottish Natural His- 

 tory," April-October, 1909, to Avhich reference should be made. 

 With his permission, I have incorporated his list into mine, with 

 a few additions we have been able to make. Mr J. G. Gordon, 

 F.E.S., has been doing good work in the neighbourhood of Corse- 

 malzie and other parts of Wigtownshire, and has turned up many 

 interesting species, and two useful lists of his captures appear 

 in the " Entomologist's Record," 1903-4, and he has also been 

 kind enough to assist me with further information. Mr W. H. 

 Whellens, forester, Comlongon, also has recently been devoting 

 .some attention to the order, especially to those species injurious to 

 trees, etc. 



Professor T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.E.S., of 

 Edinburgh, and Messrs W. E. Sharp, F.E.S., and H. St. J. K. 

 Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S. , of London, have also done a little 



