Di Mr. K. G. Blair on Coleoptera of the 
LX V.—Coleoptera of the Mt. Everest Expedition, 1921. 
By K. G. Buatr, B.Sc., F.E.S. 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 
Tun collection of Coleoptera obtained by the Expedition 
during the summer of 1921 is unfortunately very meagre, 
consisting only of twenty-one specimens belonging to eight 
species, and divided among seven families. Most of them 
were obtained in July at the camp above Rhumbu Glacier, 
north-west of Everest, at an elevation of 18,500 feet. In 
spite of its meagreness, the collection is interesting in con- 
taining three species that are here described as new to science, 
as well as two others that are probably new, but both 
are represented by single specimens, too incomplete to 
warrant description. Several of the species here recorded 
were obtained in greater number by the members of the 
Thibet Expedition of 1904 at somewhat lower altitudes. 
It is greatly to be hoped that more sustained efforts will 
be made during the coming season to secure a collection 
more representative of this faunistically interesting region. 
Opportunities of collecting in regions so difficult of access 
are few, and when they do occur it is a thousand pities if 
they are uot seized to the fullest. 
The following is a list of the species obtained, all of which 
have now been placed in the National Collection at South 
Kensington. 
Fam. Silphide. 
Necrophorus semenowi, Reitter, Ent. Nachr. ¥xi. 1887,p. 2G: 
One specimen. 
Described from Thibet, the species was not previously 
represented in the British Museum, 
Fam. Elateride. 
Lacon brunnipennis, Candéze, Mon. Elat. 1. 1857, p. 133. 
One specimen. 
Also from Tungu, Teesta Valley, Sikkim, by Thibet Ex- 
pedition, 1903-04. 
Fam. Rutelide. 
Callistopopillia iris, Candeze, Col. Hefte, v. 1869, p. 43. 
One specimen, 
Represented in the British Museum by numerous speci- 
