164 The American Naturalist. [February, 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
On a Small Collection of Coleoptera from the High 
Mountains of British Columbia.—A small series of Coleoptera 
furnished the writer by Messrs A. G. Smith and F. Russell is of inter- 
est sufficient to deserve notice; the collection was made near Donald, 
B. C., on the top of the first range of mountains to the northeast and 
above the base of the snow line. Some of the beetles are circumpolar 
species, others are melanistic forms of those found in more favored sit- 
uations. A list of them with remarks is appended : 
Carabus oregonensis Lec. 
One specimen of the insect was taken ; it is darker than those found 
on the coast and somewhat smaller., 
Nebria sahlbergii Fisch. 
Numerous specimens of small size and with rather dark legs. This 
seems to have been the most common beetle on the mountain, and is 
characteristic of boreal or mountainous districts; it extends from the 
hite Mountains of New Hampshire to Alaska, and Dr. Hamilton 
writes that he has it from the Coast Range of the south of California. 
Bembidium incertum Mots. i 
One specimen ; this is reported from Sitka, Alaska. 
Pterostichus riparius Dej. 
Four specimens; these are a little smaller than those from the coast 
of Southern Alaska, but about the same as a number from the Stikine 
River of British Columbia. It has been reported from Gray’s Peak, 
Colo., at an elevation of 12,000 feet. Dejean described it from our 
northwest coast in 1828 (Species General des Coleopteres, iii, 333). 
Amara remotestriata Dej. 
Three specimens were brought from the mountain top. It occurs in 
mountainous and northern regions of our continent. 
Harpalus innocuus Lec. 
- Two specimens of this species are very black, but present no other 
difference. 
Hippodamia 5-signata Kirby. 
_A series of five specimens show great variation in size and color 
the smallest one being also the darkest. One of them is remarkable 
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