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brecht, de Man, Horst, de Marseul , Candèze, v. Lans- 

 berge and Heylaerts , in which important parts of our 

 Liberian collections are treated of and several new species 

 described , without exhaustive systematical lists having been 

 given of our collections , sent in during our 2^/^ years stay 

 in Liberia. 



This paper now is intended to open, under the general 

 title of » Zoological researches in Liberia" a series of lists 

 which subsequently will treat of the different groups of our 

 collections , as well as those expected in from Mr. Stampfli , 

 which gentleman has been busy for a year in carrying on 

 our zoological explorations of that little known country. 



Before entering upon my subject, I may be allowed to 

 give , as an introduction to the following notes on Liberian 

 zoology , some particulars about the country , especially that 

 part which formed our field of explorations. To make my 

 task more easy , I have adjoined a rough sketch of Western 

 Liberia, showing our different hunting stations and the 

 most important routes taken during our travels through 

 that country (see Plate 6^). 



Liberia , as far as this district is under legal domination 

 of the Negro-Republic, lies between 4° 20' and 7° N. L. 

 and has, along the coast, an extent of about 300 miles. 

 Towards the interior its frontiers are by no means defi- 

 ned, though they are exactly drown in the map of the 



Monograph of the African Squirrels; Kevision of the Manidae in the Leyd. 

 Mus. (Vol. IV). 



Br. HubrecJit, on a collection of fishes from the St. Pauls River, with 

 description of three new species (Vol. Ill), 



£>r. de Man, carcinological studies in the Leyd. Mus. (Vol. III). — id., 

 with description of a new species (Vol. V). 



Br. Horst, on two new species of Acanthodrilas from Liberia (Vol. VI). 



5. de Marseul, a new^ Afr. species of the Coleopterous genus Hister (Vol. IV). 



Br. E. Candèze, a new Afr. species of the Coleopterous family Elateridae 

 (Vol. IV). 



.T. W. V. Lansberge, description de trois espèces nouvelles A'Onthopkagus 

 (Vol. Vj. 



F. J. M. Heylaerts, on the exotic Psychids in the Leyd. Mus. (Vol. VI). 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , "Vol. VII. 



