Entomology of Southern Alaska. 205 



headquarters from which I hoped to make excursions to the 

 surrounding country. Investigation showed that the Coleop- 

 terous fauna of the island presented nothing very remarkable, 

 compared with other points in the North Pacific and was by 

 no means varied. The Carabidee, Staphylinidas, Elateridaj 

 and Lampyridge were the families Ipest represented, not. how- 

 ever, because of an unusual development of these families, 

 but because of a fadingf out of others more characteristic of 

 warmer climes,^ A list of the species taken is appended to 

 this report so that a few more general notes are all that need 

 be chronicled here. 



Along the beach, the debris cast up b}^ the sea 3-ields some- 

 thing, but not very much, an occasional example of Aleochara 

 sulcicollis Mann, with here and there an Honialota being about 

 all. A little higher up, out of the reach of the high tide, 

 Cryptohypmis miisailns Esch. was taken rather common!}', 

 resting under "shingle," seldom under drift-wood. This 

 species does not occur in colonies of an}- size, usually only 

 from one to four specimens being sheltered by the same piece. 

 The pieces of drift cast high up afford protection to Cxchrus 

 tnarginattis and a few Trichopterygida3 while the very few 

 Pselaphidre taken occurred most!}' in the same places. 



Just outside of the village was a spot where a considerable 

 space, clear of bushes, was rendered almost a marsh b}' water 

 running over it from the adjacent hills. Many little blocks 

 and lojrs of vvood were resting- on the soft grround, half over- 

 grown with grass, and this proved the best place for Carabidas 

 that I found on the island. The following species occurred 

 in no other kind of situation: Ptcrostichiis vitrcus Dej., P. 

 rij)ariiis Dej., Loricera lo-^iuiciata Esch., Bembid'min favo- 

 ^icUim Mots., Bemhidium caiitinn Lee, Patrohiis seftentrionis 

 Dej., and Platyniis erasus Lee. Nearly all the water beetles 

 I got came from this little spot, searching the streams with 

 water nets yielding nothing. 



1 See Dr. Leconte's paper — "Report upon Insects collected on the Survey," 

 page 2. (U. S. P. R. R. Exp. and Surveys.) 



