204 INSECTS OF THE FLY RIVER, NEW GUINEA, "COLEOPTERA." 



many of them undescribed. I am, however, deterred from pro- 

 ceeding with the completion of the list as I find that Mr. Martin 

 Jacoby is now engaged upon the " Descriptions of the new genera 

 and species of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of the Indo-Malayan 

 and Austro-Malayan subregions, contained in the Civic Museum of 

 Genoa," and as that museum is known to possess most of the 

 insects taken by Signor D'Albertis on the Fly River, it becomes 

 almost a certainty that, if I proceeded with my present work, Mr. 

 Jacoby and I would be, in many cases, describing the same 

 insects. 



