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that are specially confined to that portion of the country (with 

 possibly the exception of one species of Homalota mentioned 

 later). It is a strange occurrence that the family Carabidce, of 

 which four species (three quite common) are found in the West, 

 should be so wery poorly represented, as only one species, 

 taken in a few specimens has occurred, and it is this family 

 that goes highest North, and localities occur everywhere that 

 are suitable to it. The number of imported Coleoptera in West- 

 Greenland, has, in the course of time, reached no small number, 

 of which two are found in the East {Cryptophagus validus and 

 C. acutangulus), which have without doubt been brought up 

 with the different Expeditions. 



The Hymenoptera follow after the Diptera with the greatest 

 number of species (52). With the exceptions of two Humble- 

 bees, that are common to both the East and West, and the 

 three saw-flies, of which two are found in the West and one 

 in the East, all the remainder belong to the Ichneumon-forms. 

 All four families of the Ichneumons are represented in West- 

 Greenland, but up to the present no representative of the Procto- 

 trupidœ has occurred in the East. 



Of the 52 species, 14 are common to both Coast lines, 

 whilst 34 are exclusively belonging to the West- and 4 to East- 

 Greenland, and in both localities there are a few species that 

 are at present undetermined. 



The Diptera has by far the greatest number of representa- 

 tives in the Greenland fauna, in all about 160 species, of which 

 a proportionally large number are only found in Greenland. Of 

 these only 30 (31) species are common to both the East and 

 West coasts, whilst 14 are only found in East-Greenland and 

 the rest only in the West. 



With respect to the order Sudoria, at present only 5 

 species have been found in Greenland, of which 2 are common 

 to both coast lines, 1 to the East only and 2 to the West. 



