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This brings the number of species of Coleoptera recorded 

 from our District, from 1819 to the present date, up to a grand 

 total of 1,738. The " Catalogue of British Coleoptera " by Prof. 

 T. Hudson Beare and Mr. H. St. J- Donisthorpe, published in 

 March, 1904, enumerates as truly British 3,274 species, to which 

 number about 75 have been added since its publication, making 

 a total of about 3,350 species. It will thus be seen that in our 

 " Preliminary List " and the two " Supplements," considerably 

 more than half the total number of our indigenous beetles are 

 recorded as having been found within the area comprised in a 

 radius of seven miles from Carfax. By a somewhat curious 

 coincidence, this number represents almost exactly i per cent. 

 of the described species of Coleoptera of the whole world 

 (172,500), according to the recent estimate of Dr. A. Hand- 

 lirsch (quoted by Nathan Banks, Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bulletin 67, U.S. National Museum, p. 4, 1909). 



JAMES J. WALKER. 

 3 1 st December, 1909. 



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