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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN GURGULIONIO/E 



in the Belgian Museum 



■\A7"itlx IDesc2?ix>tioi3.s of IDTe-w- Sipecies 

 by Arthur Rl- Lea 



PART I 



Some times ago I was informed by Mr. G. Severin of the Belgian 

 Museum that in that institution there was a large number of 

 AustraUan weevils, principally from the collection of the late 

 Count Gastelnau, but with others from various sources. Most of 

 these specimens were unnamed and I was asked to try and name as 

 many as possible ; on my agreeing to do this they were at once sent 

 to me. 



Many of the specimens I was able to name at sight, but others 

 have been worked up from descriptions and many were found to be 

 undescribed. Whilst working up the specimens belonging to the 

 Museum, I had and still have many specimens, belonging to other 

 European museums, to work up. 



Some of the specimens sent were labelled as Australian, which 

 I am quite certain are not Australian; these were returned with 

 notes to that effect and no record has been kept of them. Some were 

 labelled as from undoubtedly wrong localities in Australia ; a 

 number of Queensland and North-Western forms for instance being 

 labelled as from Victoria; some of these doubtless owing to Count 

 Castelnau's residence in Victoria, and some apparently through 

 having been received from Mr.C. French of Melbourne. In several 

 instances Tasmanian species were labelled as from Queensland, 

 and from Queensland as Tasmanian, owing to confusion arising 

 apparently from Mr. Aug.SiMSON's change of residence. M. Simson's 

 neat blue la]:)els are well known and unmistakable, and all his 

 specimens so labelled arc Tasmanian; his specimens from Queens- 

 land usually bear labels that were originally white. A few Queens- 

 land species are labelled as from King George's Sound, &c. 



Most of the specimens, however' bear no other lal^els than as 



having been in Castelnau's and Roelofs' collections.Many of them 



also are in very bad condition owing to age, grease, verdigris and 



abrasion. 



Of most of the species I have had representatives in my own 



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