THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. [FOURTH SERIES.] No. 24. DECEMBER 1869. XLIV. — List of ColeojJtera collected in Vancoziver^s Island hy Henry and Joseph Matthews, with Descrijytions of some new Sjyecies. By Dr. J. L. Leconte, Philadelphia. By the kindness of my friend the E-ev. A. Matthews, I have been permitted to examine a very interesting series of Coleo-ptera collected by his brothers Henry and Joseph Matthews in Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. Though pertaining to the same zoological district as Oregon and Washington Territories, several species not yet obtained from other locali-ties occur in Messrs. Matthews's collection ; and, what is of equal interest, several species known from the eastern and central parts of the continent have been found to extend their range to the Pacific slope. Among the {ormex, Zacotus Matthewsii (a magnificent copper-coloured Broscide, resembling in form Promecoderus^ but allied by generic characters to Miscodera) stands preeminent as one of the most remarkable additions recently made to the North-American insect -fauna. Of those which have been found to extend their western range beyond the limits within which they were previously known may be mentioned : — Nehria moesta, Psydrus piceus, Platynus cuprijpennis^ P. hemhidioides, Anisodactylus nigrita^ Dytiscus Harrisiij LeistotrojyJms cingu-latuSy Elater aincatus^ Corymhites inflatus^ Clerus mthiluSj Trier ania Stanshuriij Tragosoma Harrisii^Acmcwps strigilata, Callidium janthinum^ Monohammus scutellatus, Sajjerda calca-rata^ PlatyrJiinus'7 fasciatus. The occurrence in a far northern locality of such forms as Omus Audouinii and Dejeami, Promecognathus Icevissimus, Amara calijbrnica, Chkenius harpalinus^ Dichirus piceuSj Necrophorus nigrita, Necrophilus hydropMloides^ Odontceus obesus^ Polycaon Stoutii^ Coelus ciliatus^ Cocloenemis dilati-Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. iv. 27
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