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VIII. Descriptions of New Scolytidx from the Indo- 

 Malayan and Austro -Malay an Regions. By 

 Walter F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Read March 18th, 1896.] 



The purport of this paper is to describe some of the 

 moi'e important unrecownized species of Scolytidte from 

 the Tropical Old World, which are in my collection. 

 Thirty-three new species are distinguished, and of these 

 about half were collected by Dr. A. R. Wallace during 

 his travels in the Malay Archipelago. It is greatly to be 

 regretted that his collections of this family, to which he 

 paid some attention, have been broken up before an^ 

 opportunity offered of their being dealt with as a whole. 



The Platypodinas were, it is true, described by 

 Chapuis, and form no small part of the Old World 

 species enumerated in his memoir, but the collections of 

 the remaining subfamilies have been scattered, and I have 

 been able to examine only the small number of speci- 

 mens which passed into the possession of the late Mr. 

 Wilson Saunders, and subsequently of myself. No 

 attempt has been made to give an exhaustive account of 

 that material. Some examples, especially of doubtful 

 genera, are in an unfit state for critical examination ; 

 while species of Cryphalus and Hypothenemus are best 

 dealt with when reviewing those genera, or any con- 

 siderable section of them, en masse. 



The wide range of the forms described, from Southern 

 India to New Guinea, is to be justified partly by the 

 homogeneous character, so far as is known, of the 

 Scolytid fauna of the Eastern Tropics, partly by the fact 

 that considerable collections of these insects are rarely 

 made, and any attempt rigidly to confine descriptive papers 

 to the fauna of limited regions must necessarily result 

 in the multiplication of small papers, containing each 

 descriptions of a very few species, which, though often 

 necessary, are certainly inconvenient. 



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