334 THE ASIATIC PUR-SEAL ISLANDS. 



Family BYEEHID^. 



(39) Byrrhm fasdatua Olivier. Ent., II, 13, p. 6, t. I, f. 2. Fabr. Eat. Sus., I, p. 85. Stefif. Mon., p. 



18. Ericlis., Nat. Ins., Ill, p. 485. 

 doraalis Panz., Faun. Germ., 104, 3. Sturm, Ins., II, p. 101. Duft. Faun. Austr. Ill, p. 11. 

 stoicus Fabr., Faun. Gronl., p. 184. 

 var. cinctus 111., Kaf. Preuss., p. 91. 



var. arcuatus Sturm, Dej. Cat. Sd ed., p. 145. Zenker. Sturm, Cat. 1843, p. 98. 

 var. dorsalis Kuyel, Sohneid. Mag., IV, p. 354. 

 var. DiancB Faljr., Syst. El., I, p. 103. Illig., Kaf. Preues., p. 92. 

 var. cinctus Sturm, Ins., II, p. 98, t. 34, f. D. 



YHT.pilula var. c. Payk. Faun. Suec, I, p. 74. Gemminger et Harold, Cat. Coleop., Ill, p. 925. 

 Copper Island. Two examples, 1897 (Barrett-Hamilton); Bering Island, one 

 example, 1897 (Dr. Stejneger). 



Family ELATBEID^. 



(40) Cryptohtjpnus liUoralis Esohsoholtz. Thon. Arch., II,p. 34. Cand., Mon., Ill, p. 75, t. 2, f.4. Gem- 



minger et Harold, Cat. Coleop., V, p. 1544. 

 Bering Island. One example (Dr. Stejneger); Copper Island, one example, 

 August, 1897 (Barrett-Hamilton). 



Geographical distribution. — Kamchatka, Unalaska, Kenai. 



(41) Cryptohypnus musoalus Eschscholtz. Eutomogr., 1, 1822, p. 70. Cand., Mon., Ill, p. 64. Gemminger 



et Harold, Cat. Coleop., V, p. 1544. 



Nikolski, Bering Island. Two examples, July, 1882 (Stejneger); six examples, 

 August, 1897 (Barrett-Hamilton); Copper Island, five specimens, August, 1895 

 (Stejneger); one example, August, 1897 (Barrett-Hamilton). 



Geographical distribution. — Aleutian Islands, Queen Charlotte Island. 



(42) CorymbUes lignetis C'andeze. 



Bering Island. Two specimens (Barrett-Hamilton), and three specimens by 

 Dr. Stejneger in July- August, 1897. 



Family PTINID.E. 



(i3) Ptinus fur hmnieua. Fn. Siiec, 1761, p. 190. Boield., Mon.,p. 642. Sturm. Fn., XII, p. 48, t. 249. 

 DeGeer, Mem., 1752, IV, 5, p. 234, t. 9, f. 1-3. Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust., IX, p. 164, etc. Gem- 

 minger et Harold, Cat. Coleop., VI, p. 1764. 

 Copper Island, one example, July, 1883 (Stejneger). 

 Geographical distribution. — Cosmopolitan . 



Family JSGIALITID^. 



(44) JEgialites californicus Motscliulsky. Bull. JIosc, I, 1845, p. 33. 



debilis Mannerheim, 1. c, 1853, III, p. 180. Gemminger et Harold, Cat. Coleop., VII, p. 2041. 



Bering Island. One example, 1882 ; eight specimens, 1895 ; Topokoff, one example, 

 1883; Staraya Cavan, seven examples, April 24, 1883; Preobrazhenski, Copper Island, 

 eight specimens, June 28, 1883. 



This remarkable insect was for a long time known in only a single specimen in 

 the cabinet of Motschulsky, labeled "California," and was placed in the Dejean cata- 

 logue of 1837, among the Scydniiimidse. 



Mannerheim, Bull. Mosc, 1853, III, p. 180, had seen two more specimeus, one 

 taken at Sitka by Fred. Sahlberg ; the other by Holmberg at Workneseutk Bay, Kenai. 



