THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 

 No. 24. DECEMBER 1869. 



XLIV. — List of ColeojJtera collected in Vancoziver^s Island hy 

 Henry and Joseph Matthews, with Descrijytions of some 

 new Sjyecies. By Dr. J. L. Leconte, Philadelphia. 



By the kindness of my friend the E-ev. A. Matthews, I have 

 been permitted to examine a very interesting series of Coleo- 

 ptera collected by his brothers Henry and Joseph Matthews in 

 Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. Though pertaining 

 to the same zoological district as Oregon and Washington 

 Territories, several species not yet obtained from other locali- 

 ties occur in Messrs. Matthews's collection ; and, what is of 

 equal interest, several species known from the eastern and 

 central parts of the continent have been found to extend their 

 range to the Pacific slope. 



Among the {ormex, Zacotus Matthewsii (a magnificent copper- 

 coloured Broscide, resembling in form Promecoderus^ but allied 

 by generic characters to Miscodera) stands preeminent as one 

 of the most remarkable additions recently made to the North- 

 American insect -fauna. Of those which have been found to 

 extend their western range beyond the limits within which 

 they were previously known may be mentioned : — Nehria 

 moesta, Psydrus piceus, Platynus cuprijpennis^ P. hemhidioides, 

 Anisodactylus nigrita^ Dytiscus Harrisiij LeistotrojyJms cingu- 

 latuSy Elater aincatus^ Corymhites inflatus^ Clerus mthiluSj 

 Trier ania Stanshuriij Tragosoma Harrisii^Acmcwps strigilata, 

 Callidium janthinum^ Monohammus scutellatus, Sajjerda calca- 

 rata^ PlatyrJiinus'7 fasciatus. 



The occurrence in a far northern locality of such forms as 

 Omus Audouinii and Dejeami, Promecognathus Icevissimus, 

 Amara calijbrnica, Chkenius harpalinus^ Dichirus piceuSj 

 Necrophorus nigrita, Necrophilus hydropMloides^ Odontceus 

 obesus^ Polycaon Stoutii^ Coelus ciliatus^ Cocloenemis dilati- 



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