APPENDICES 
I 
INSECTS OF LABRADOR 
The Insects, excluding the Beetles 
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON 
Our knowledge of the insects of Labrador is based largely on 
the various papers by Alpheus 8. Packard. The lists of the species 
recorded in these papers were later brought together and pub- 
lished in his work, The Labrador Coast. In this work about two 
hundred and twenty species are mentioned. A few additional 
species from the interior are listed in A. P. Low’s Report on Ex- 
plorations in the Labrador Peninsula.’ These, with a few scattered 
species, make the total number about two hundred and fifty. 
This is a small number if we consider the whole Labrador penin- 
sula, but a large number when we take into account the limited 
amount of entomological work which has been done and the small 
area covered. 
A. P. Low defines the southern boundary of the Labrador pen- 
insula as a straight line extending nearly east from the south end 
of James Bay, near lat. 51°, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence near 
Seven Islands, in lat. 50°. This gives a clearly defined geograph- 
ical area, which, bordered by Arctic seas, and a more elevated 
interior, gives quite uniform climatic conditions, and would make 
it possible to study the insect fauna to better advantage than if 
it were limited by political boundaries. 
The section from which nearly all the insects have been collected 
(the immediate coast-line) is in that portion of the boreal region 
which has been designated as Arctic, the flora and fauna of which 
are largely governed by the effect of the winds from the cold Arctic 
seas. On the other hand, a short distance inland, we enter the 
subarctic forest belt, or Hudsonian Zone, with a much richer 
insect fauna than could exist on the bleak, storm-swept coast. 
1Am. Rep. Geol. Survey of Canada, Vol. VIII, 1895. 
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