Lisi of the Coleoptera Observed and Collected in the Vicinity 



By Frank H. Zesch and Ottomar Reinecke. 



The materials for the appended check list of the Coleoptera of 

 Western New York, were collected by us in the vicinity of Buffalo, 

 within a radius not exceeding fifteen miles. The entire labor em- 

 braces a period of nearly fourteen years, during which time all lei- 

 sure hours were exclusively devoted to the study, accumulation and 

 exchange of the many different interesting species peculiar to this 

 neighborhood. The full life history of several species has also been 

 made during the same time the object of special investigation, the 

 results of which we hope to communicate from time to time to those 

 interested in the same field of labor. A glance at the list itself and 

 its quantitative enumeration of the orders and species most largely 

 represented, obviates all special comments upon geographical distri- 

 bution by affording instant means of comparison with other locali- 

 ties under the same climatic conditions. The specific richness of 

 the local flora exerts, in all probability, here as elsewhere, its influ- 

 ence upon the animal life, depending for its existence upon such in- 

 tervention. 



Sincerely trusting that the completion of similar compilations from 

 other points, wherever scientific observation is fostered, may be wit- 

 nessed, we submit this unpretentious beginning to all friends of nat- 

 ural history. 



CICINDELID^E. CARABID^E. 



Cicindela 6-guttata, Fab. Omophron americanum, Dej. 

 limbalis, Kl. tesselatum, Say. 



purpurea, Oliv. Elapbrus ruscarius, Say. 



ancocisconensis, Harr. Blethisa quadricollis, Hald. 



vulgaris, Say. Nebria pallipes, Say. 

 12-guttata, Dej. Eschscholtzii, Men. 



repanda, Dej. Calosoma scrutator, Fab. 

 hirticollis, Say. Willcoxi, Lee. 



punctulata, Fab. frigidum, Kirby. 



