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NOTES TO ACCOMPANY FIGURES OF BOISDUVAL'S 

 TYPES OF SIX SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 CURCULIONID.E, BASED UPON OBSERVATIONS 

 AND SKETCHES BY M. P. LESNE. 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. 



(Plate xxx.) 



Some years ago I wrote to my valued correspondent, Monsieur 

 P. Lesne, of the Paris Museum, asking him if Dr. Boisduval's 

 types of Australian Coleoptera were in that Museum. In reply, 

 he informed me that they were not there but in the Brussels 

 Museum . 



As it is impossible to recognise many of Boisduval's species 

 from his descriptions,* and as I was desirous of knowing more 

 about his Australian Cryptorhynchides, Monsieur Lesne very 

 kindly promised that, when an opportunity offered, he would 

 examine such of the types as remain; and would write to me 

 about them. 



This he has now done, not only supplying notes on a number 

 of species, but also sending sketches of Cryptorhynchus ephippiger, 

 C. lithodermus, C. fuliginosus, C. dromedarius, Gonipterus noto- 

 graphus and G. reticulatus. 



These sketches are in pencil, with explanatory notes in French. 

 They were intended to be working drawings, and not finished 

 illustrations. But even so, it seems desirable that the informa 

 tion which M. Lesne has brought together with some trouble 

 should be published for the information and guidance, of other 

 Australian entomologists. For process reproduction I have 



* Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Entomologie, 2 me Partie [1835]. 

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