LIST OF THE CURCULIONIDiE 



OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO 



COLLECTED 



by D.' ODOARDO BECCARI , L. M. D'ALBERTIS, and others, 

 by FRANCIS P. PASCOE. 



(Tav. I, n, HI). 



The Marquis Doria and D.'" Gestro having placed in my hands 

 for determination the large collection of Curculionidse formed 

 by MM. D'Albertis, Beccari , Doria, and others, and now be- 

 longing to the Museo Civico of Genoa , the following pages 

 are the result. 



Few Curculionida) were known from New Guinea and the 

 Malay Archipelago prior to the researches of Mr. Wallace in the 

 years 1854-1862. Many of his discoveries were published by me 

 in the Journal of the Linnean Society and in the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History, while nearly as many remain in 

 my cabinets unnamed. This, however, because I was unable 

 to refer the majority of them to any of the numerous genera 

 then pubhshed ; and it seemed to mo not altogether an advan- 

 tage to science to found genera on single specimens — as 

 many of them were — unless they possessed well-marked 

 characters. 



In a family so easily recognized as the Curculionidoe (num- 

 bering it is computed 30,000 species) it is only to be expected 

 that the classification would be difficult. Habitus^ Contour or 

 Fades affords, with few exceptions, very little indication of the 

 genus , which sometimes depends on characters that taken by 

 themselves, are, in many cases ^ only of specific or perhaps of 

 sexual importance, or may vary even in the species. There is, 



