INTRODUCTION TO PART 6 



The completion of this checldist has been long delayed. In the summer 

 of 1945, dm'ing the compiler's absence from Washington, the entire set of 

 bibliography cards for Part G was misplaced and has never been found. 

 This necessitated the rebuilding of the bibliography from the beginning. 

 A different approach was adopted, with the result that the bibliography 

 here presented is far more complete than it otherwise would have been. 



Every volume of the standard entomological jom'nals of the world was 

 individually checked for papers having any bearing on Latin American 

 Coleoptera. Hundreds of volumes of other journals were similarly checked, 

 so far as they were available in any library in Washington. Then each 

 individual reference in the Checklist was compared with the bibliography 

 to make sure it was included. Many lists of the papers published by 

 individual coleopterists were checked for pertinent items. 



The bibliography as it now stands includes all the papers published 

 before 1946 and laiown to me to apply directly to Latin American species, 

 all those general papers recognized as having useful implications in the 

 study of this fauna, and also man}'- papers which contain the original 

 references to generic synonyms but are not otherwise appropriate. AVhere 

 more recent papers were known to me, they are also listed, especially all 

 papers published in the Revista de Entomologia before its discontinuance 

 in 1951. 



Every reference has been checked against the original publication 

 unless it is followed by a bracketed statement as to other source. These 

 sources include: 



Horn — Horn, W., & Schenkling, S., Index Litteraturae Entomologicae, 



1928-1929. 

 Zool. Rec. = Zoological Record, various volumes. 

 Roy. Soc. Cat. — Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900). Compiled and 



published by the Royal Society of London. 1867-1925. 

 Sherborn = Sherborn, C. D., Index Animalium, Sectio Prima. 1902. 

 Gemm. & liar. = Gemminger, M., & Harold, E., Catalogus Coleopterorum. 



1868-1876. 

 LeConte = LeConte, J. L., The Complete Writings of Thomas Say. 1859. 

 Junk = Junk, W., & Schenkling, S., Coleopterorum Catalogus. 1909-1940. 

 Brit. Mus. Cat. — Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings 



in the British Museum (Natural History). London. 

 [Others = Personal bibliographies already published by the person cited.] 



Major works which were published in parts are usually listed in three 

 ways: By the author of each part, numerically as issued under the general 

 title, and alphabetically by the family. These include the Coleopterorum 



