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Remarks on the three remaining groups of the subfamily Curculioninse, the 

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The material belonging to the U.S. National Museum, the Royal Museum at 

 Dresden, and Signor A. Solari, of Genoa, has been examined, and we are again 

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Gyllenhal, Boheman, Fahraeus, and Chevrolat have been kindly communicated by 

 Dr. Sjostedt for examination, these being supplemented by a few others in the Sommer 

 Collection lent by Mr. O. E. Janson. Prof. F. H. Chittenden, too, has sent us 

 co-types of nearly all the North-American Splienophori described by himself for 

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