378 



W.-Gr. 



9. Achoi'utes unguiculatus TuUb 



10. Xenylla maritima Tullb x 



11. Lipura ambulans 0. Fabr x 



12. Aiiura muscorum Tempi x 



13. Podura hyperborea Boh x 



List of tbe Literature that contains Notices 

 on Greenlands Insects. 



1. Will. Scoresby jr.: Journal of a voyage to the northern Whale Fishery, 

 including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern coast of West-Green- 

 land made in the summer of 1822 in the Ship Baffin of Liverpool. Edin- 

 burgh 1823. 



This work is the first that contains notices of the insects from the East- 

 Coast. Two species of Lepidoptera, Papilio palœno L. (Colias hecla) and 

 Papilio dia L. (Argynnis chariclea var. arctica), are mentioned as found 

 in numbers at Jamesons Land, Cape Lister and at Cape Hope. Besides 

 these Gnats and Humble-bees are mentioned. 



2. Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfart in den Jahren 1869 und 1870 

 unter Führung des Kapitän Koldewav. 2. Bd. Wisseuschafthche Ergebnisse. 

 Leipzig 1874. II. Zoologie. 



Of the collections made by the Expedition, the Hymenoptera and Diptera 

 were Avorked out by A. Gerstäcker p. 403 — 405. Of Hymenoptera are men- 

 tioned Bombus pratorum (most probably B. hyperboreus), Cryptus sponsor 

 {C. arcticus), Limneria difformis, and of Diptera, Echinomyia aenea, Cyno- 

 myia alpina and Calliphora groenlandica. v. Hofmeyer p. 407— 409 has 

 made a list of the Lepidoptera that includes Argynnis polaris, A. chariclea, 

 Colias hecla, Larentia polaris, Geometra sp. and Dasychira groenlandica. 



3. Chr. Aurhillius; Grønlands Insektfauna I. Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera 

 iBih. till Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar Band 15, Afd. IV. No. 1. Stockholm 

 1890.) 



This work contains both West- and East-Greenlands Insect Fauna. The 

 material used as the basis of this work was conservator G. KoUhoffs Collec- 

 tions made during Nordenskiolds Greenland Expedition in 1883. From the 

 East coast he mentions Argynnis chariclea v. arctica, Colias hecla, Dasy- 

 chira groenlandica, Cidaria polata and Bombus hyperboreus. 



A. H. Deichmann and W. Lundbeck: Østgrønlandske Insekter (Med- 

 delelser om Grønland XIV. Hefte, 1895, p. 97). 



In the first part of this work Deichmann mentions the methods of col- 

 lecting used on Ryders Expedition, together with biological observations 

 especially with reference to hibernation. Lundbeck adds to this a provisional 

 List of the Insects that were brought home, but for the greater part only 

 the genera are given. The List of the Lepidoptera, Mallophaga, Pseudo- 



