PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE 
OF 
AIRICS 2INUD) SCHUBINGIES 
VoL. Il JANUARY 1924 IPATRIP i 
LIST OF THE COLEOPTERA OF STATEN ISLAND, 
NEW YORK 
CHARLES W. LENG AND WILLIAM T. Davis 
The authors of this list are native Staten Islanders and have 
spent many happy days together since 1879 in rambling over the 
Island and in collecting Coleoptera and other insects. It, how- 
ever, did not occur to them until recently to make a list of the 
beetles of the Island, almost too late in fact, as many of the old 
time captures had been parted with, and the rich woods in which 
the species once lived have been cut away or burned so often 
as to permanently destroy the natural conditions. On the other 
hand there are still a considerable number of species that can be 
added. The dead or dying timber probably contains species of 
Scolytide that have not been recorded, and there are still other 
beetles to be found by sifting. Many of the beetles collected 
years ago bear no date of capture and are simply labeled “S. I.,” 
but where possible the months when the specimens have been 
taken are recorded in the list. This usually offers a fair criterion 
as to their relative abundance. 
In the early eighties many Coleoptera were collected on the 
Island, not only by the authors, but by Louis H. Joutel, Martin 
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