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the common, North and Central European forms; a few of the 

 species occur as alpine forms in the Central European moun- 

 tains and the Pyrenees, and are conspicuous by their absence 

 in the intermediate low lying countries. Besides these, the 

 Fauna includes pure arctic forms, that for the greater part 

 have a wide distribution round the Polar Regions, and a pro- 

 portionally large quantity are described for the first time from 

 Greenland and it is at present unknown whether they occur in 

 other localities; they will most probably be found to have a 

 much greater range, however, when the other Arctic countries 

 are as carefully worked as Greenland. 



With the exception of the Strepsi'ptera^ all the Orders of 

 Insects are represented, but in a proportionally great difference 

 of numbers. The Diptera are by far the largest order, with 

 about 160 species, from this is a large spring to the Hymeno- 

 ptera, Mallophaga, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera with 52, 40, 39 

 and 26 species respectively; after these follow the Collembola 

 and Neuroptera with 13 and 6, while the remaining Orders are 

 only represented by very few species. 



The East-Greenland Fauna is, to a great extent, the same 

 as the West-Greenlands, the same species occurring in both 

 places. The number of species appears to be lower in the 

 first, than in the last named place ; but this difference will, in all 

 probability, be altered when the East coast has been more fully 

 worked. While since Otto Fabricius' time, collections have 

 been made by the Danish inhabitants and Naturalists in West- 

 Greenland, and the only special Entomological Expedition 

 (Lundbeck 1889 — 90) alone worked the West, all that has 

 been done with the Insects from the East coast, has been 

 done the few times that Expeditions have visited that part of 

 the country. 



The order Coleoptera is represented in West-Greenland by 

 26 species, of which 8 (9) occur in the East, which has no species 



