VIII. Types of Heteromera described by F. Walker now 
in the British Museum. By K. G. Bratr. 
[Read April 6th, 1921.] 
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British 
Museum.) 
Tur Heteromera described by Francis Walker are con- 
tained in three papers, viz. :— 
I. “Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon 
Insects,’ Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iv, 1858-1859. 
Il. “The Naturalist in British Columbia,” by J. K. 
Lord, vol. ii, App. 1866, pp. 326-331. 
Ill. “ List of Coleoptera collected by J. K. Lord in 
Kgypt,” 1871. 
The material which formed the basis of the last-named 
paper was sent to the School of Medicine at Cairo, but so 
long ago as 1884, the collection had been entirely destroyed 
by Anthrenus. A list of the species, with more precise 
localities taken from the labels that alone remained 
attached to the pins, was published by Dr. W. Innes Bey 
in the Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt, 
1911, 3rd fase., pp. 97-115. 
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The types of the Ceylon insects have long been in the 
British Museum collection, most of them having been 
presented by Dr. Templeton and bearing the register 
no. 59.106; others which were in the collection of the 
Entomological Society were later presented by that body 
to the Museum, and bear the register no. 63.52. 
The descriptions are merely brief Latin diagnoses, 
rarely more than two or three lines long, and the species 
are frequently assigned to genera and even families with 
which they have no connection. Not unnaturally there- 
fore they remain in many cases as mere catalogue names 
quite unrecognised by modern workers. 
The species are here taken in the generic order adopted 
by the authors of the respective parts of Junk’s “ Coleop- 
terorum Catalogus,’’ the names of the genera to which 
they were assigned by Walker being given in brackets. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1921.—PARTS I, Il. (OCT.) 
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