Sept.,i9io.| A List of Labrador Coleoptera. 173 A LIST OF LABRADOR COLEOPTERA. By John D. Sherman, Jr. Brooklyn, N. Y. • It is an eminently proper introduction to the following list of Labrador beetles to express, as best I may, the great obligation I am under to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, whose enthusiastic help and sug-gestions put me into communication with exactly the right men to collect for me, when I set out, a few years ago, to obtain Dytiscidas from this region. The fact of my acquaintance with Dr. Grenfell and his own personal appeals to my correspondents in my behalf, aroused an interest and resulted in efTorts successful to an extent far beyond my greatest hopes. But the willing cooperation of my Lab-rador friends will be readily understood by those whose privilege it is to know this wonderful man with his great love for his fellowmen — a privilege which has been one of the great joys of my own life. My own Labrador material consists of about ten thousand speci-mens of beetles, collected by seven residents of Labrador selected by Dr. Grenfell, none of them entomologists, but some of them very successful collectors nevertheless. The localities represented are West St. Modest, Red Bay and Cape Charles, in the Straits of Belle Isle ; Hopedale and Nain further up the coast ; Nachvak in the far north ; and Fort Chimo on Ungava Bay. About one hundred species are represented in my material, and as the attention of my corre-spondents up to the present time has been principally directed toward collecting zvatcr beetles, it is likely that several additional species will be found. The only published list of Labrador beetles with which I am familiar is that of Dr. Packard, published in its complete form in the Canadian Entomologist for August, 1888, and again in Dr. Packard's fascinating book, "The Labrador Coast" (1891). This list included sixty-three species, mostly collected by Dr. Packard himself. The collection is now contained in the entomological collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. There is also a brief list, by the late Dr. James Fletcher, of thirteen species of
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