Supplement to the "List of the Coleoptera of 

 Iowa City and Vicinity." 



By H. F. WICKHAM. 



In the year 1888 the first list of the beetles of this vicinity 

 was published in The Bulletin and all the species then known 

 to occur here were recorded — 871 in number, if we include 

 ten '-catalogue varieties." The pressure of duties since that 

 time, most felt during the best portion of the collecting sea- 

 son, has combined with the absence from home every sum- 

 mer, to prevent anv but desultory and unsystematic attempts 

 to increase our knowledge of the local fauna. Such being 

 the case, the fact of the appended list of additions being no 

 longer is explained, and that it is not shorter is due in great 

 part to the aid in collecting given by Mr. B. Shimek and by 

 my wife, who has also gone to much trouble in the work of 

 preparation for the press. 



The identifications are, for the most part, my own, though 

 many doubtful or more difficult species have been referred to 

 specialists in various families. In this way I have become 

 under obligations to Drs. Horn and Brendel, Capt. Casey, 

 and Messrs. Leng and Fauvel for aid. On the authority of 

 the last named gentleman, the European Bledins opacus 

 Block, is added to the list. 



A few errors, which occur in the first list, are herein cor- 

 rected, thus reducing the number of species somewhat, but 

 the 258 additions now made raise the total to 1121 names for 

 the immediate neighborhood of Iowa City. Those marked 

 with an asterif.k are new to the State List. 



