igCX)] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 459 



List of a Small Collection of Coleoptera from Arctic 



Alaska. 

 By H. C. Fall, Pasadena, Cal, 



In his Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Alaska the author, the 

 late Dr. John Hamilton, remarks that " there is no record of 

 any named species of coleoptera having been taken in North 

 America, within the Arctic Circle, except Qiiedius fulgidjis at 

 Discovery Bay beyond the 82° of latitude." In view of this 

 fact the following list of a small collection of beetles, made for 

 the most part in Arctic Alaska, will be of interest : 



In the early summer of 1898 a party of gold seekers left 

 South California for Kotzebue Sound. They spent the fol- 

 lowing winter at a point some three hundred miles up the 

 Kowak River (latitude 67° 30') and arrived home in Novem- 

 ber, 1899, after spending some time at Cape Nome — a little 

 to the south of Behring Strait — on the way back. 



My ornithological friend Mr. Grinnell, of Pasadena, was a 

 member of the party, and it is to his kindness that we are 

 indebted for the opportunity of making a few additions to 

 Dr. Hamilton's list of one. 



Mr. Grinnell does not hesitate to assert that, next to gold, 

 beetles are about the scarcest things to be found in Arctic 

 regions. This is probably not very wide of the mark, still, 

 beetles are always scarcer with ornithologists than with en- 

 tomologists, and we who seek the smaller game cannot help 

 feeling that had we been there — well, we should have needed 

 another box. 



Altogether the collection contains thirteen species and about 

 fifty specimens, and these, so far as it is possible to identify 

 them at the present writing, are as follows : 

 Garabus truncal icoUis Fisch. 



I S , Cape Nome, July 27. 

 Garabns chamissonis Fisch. 



One pair ( ^ 9 ), Cape Blossom, July 26. 

 Pterostichus sp. near riparius Dej. 



Two examples, Kowak Delta, June 20 and 24. 



Two examples, Cape Blossom, July 10 and 26. 



One example. Cape Nome, July 26. 



