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IX. Notes on the Tyi)es of Oriental Caiabidae in the 

 Stettin Museum. By H. E. Andrewes. 



[Read March 1st, 1922.] 



On becoming aware last year that the collection of the 

 late Dr, Dohrn was now in the Stettin Museum, I wrote 

 to the authorities there to ascertain if they would send 

 me the types contained in it for examination. This they 

 agreed to do, and Dr. Schroeder has recently been kind 

 enough to send them ; I take this opportunity of expressing 

 my thanks both to him and to Dr. Janse, who brought 

 them from Stettin, for their assistance. 



Dohrn himself described, so far as I am aware, only 

 three Eastern species, but he sent a number of insects to 

 Putzeys, who described some of them and returned the 

 types. Two species were also described by Chaudoir. I 

 think it possible that other types may eventually prove 

 to be at Stettin, but I have so far only traced twelve. 

 One of these, Thlibops {Scapterus) dohrni Chaud. (Rev. et 

 Mag. Zool. 1863, 117), is a little doubtful and cannot at 

 present be found; Chaudoir does not say whether or not 

 the type was unique, but Putzeys, in his Revision Generate 

 des Clivinides (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1867, 10), tells us 

 that he had seen two examples, one in Dohrn's collection 

 and one in Chaudoir's. Mr. Rene Oberthiir informs me 

 that the latter specimen is now in his collection. Either 

 one of these might be the type. I have examined the 

 remaining eleven specimens, and, as they do not appear to 

 be at all well known, I give a list of them below, together 

 with such comments as appear necessary. As will be seen, 

 one of these specimens, though labelled as the type, proves 

 not to be the one on which the description was drawn up. 



1. Oxylobus asperulus Chaud. (Bull. Mosc. 1857, iii, 58; 

 id. Mon, des Scaritides (i), 133). A $ specimen from 

 Colombo. There is no doubt that this example is the 

 type, for Chaudoir, in his Monograph, says he no longer 

 has it in his possession. The species is not uncommon 

 in Ceylon, and occurs also in South India in the Nilgiri 

 and Palni Hills. 



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