REPORT ON AN ENTOMOLOGICAL REC0NN91SSANCE OF SOUTHERN 

 ALASKA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



By H. F. y:ickham. 



In the summer of 1891 the writer made a trip to the North 

 with the intention of making collections of the Coleoptera of 

 such portions of Southern Alaska as might prove accessible 

 with the few weeks of time and limited means at hand, believ- 

 ing that an examination of that region vrould be productive of 

 much of interest bearing upon Geographical Entomology. 

 Since the Russian explorations, made before the middle of the 

 present century, the results of which are embodied chiefly in 

 the writings of Eschscholtz, Ivlannerheim and Motschulsky, 

 but little has been added to our knowledge of the insect 

 fauna of our great northern territory. Even these works are 

 accessible to but a small minority of our American Entomol- 

 gists, and as a considerable propordon of the species enumer- 

 ated in the present paper are not mentioned elsewhere as 

 native to the Alaskan fauna it is hoped that this contribution 

 will prove acceptable. 



The Coleopterous fauna of the Stikine River, on which sev- 

 eral da3^s were spent, was heretofore practically unknown to 

 the world at large, the collections made by members of the 

 Telegraph Survey having been apparently, never worked up 

 for publication though many Coleoptera, part of which must 

 have been taken near the river, were distributed to different 

 collections. A Hst of Lepidoptera taken in the more or 

 less immediate vicinity of the river by Dr. G. M. Dawson 

 and his assistant Mr. J. McEvoy is published by Mr. James 



