Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps- Societcteus Förhandlingar.. 

 XLVII. 1904—1905. N:o 17. 



Coutribiitious to the Imowledge of tlie Coleopteroiis^ 

 Fauna of tlie Slietland- and Orkney-Islands. 



by 

 B. Poppius. 



Tlie knowledge of the coleopterous Fauna of the Shet- 

 land- and Orkney-Islands has not been great. Two lists have- 

 been published from the Shetland-Islands, itis true, bnt the 

 number of kinds is not great and conld no doubt be niuch. 

 increased, as will be seen from the following list. In j,The 

 scott. Nat." Yol. II, p. 346, Bläckhorn gives a list of the- 

 different Coleoptera found by him here; a short leport of 

 collections made here has also been published in „The Entom.- 

 Montl. Mag." XI, p. 112. A great number of the Coleoptera 

 mentioned here is not mentioned in the following list. Sa- 

 mewat låter another report of coUection of Coleopera from 

 Shetland is to be found in „Ann. de la soc. Ent. Belg." XXI,- 

 p. XII, made by Nilis, and consists of kinds collected by 

 him the 12:th — 13:th of July 1877. It was therefore with 

 great interest the author looked trough another rich 

 coUection of Coleoptera, collected in the Shetland- and- 

 Orkney-Islands by Prof. D:r O. M. Eeuterin 1876. A great 

 many of the kinds here mentioned have already been known 

 heretofore, but my taking them up in this list is of interest 

 on account of the fact, that reports may be obtained about 

 the localities where the kinds have been found, as well as 

 about their frequency. 



The coUection made by Prof. Eeuter, comprises 130 

 different kinds; hereto may be added following kinds found 

 by Bläckhorn, which were not represented in the former 



