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XVII. Report on the Coleoptera collected hy the British Ornithologists Union 

 Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch Neio Guinea. Bij 

 Gilbert J. zIkrow, Gut A. K. Marshall, F.Z.S., C. J. Gahan, and 

 K. G. Blair, B.Sg., F.E.8. 



[Plate XXXIX.] 



Index. 



Philonthus superius, sp. n 499 



Plagiopisthen politus, sp. n 500 



Metojjodontus bison Oliv. = Umbatus 



Waterh 502 



Papuana woodlarkiana ilontr. = semi- 



striata Arrow 504 



Dipelicus nasutus Bates = quadrihiber 



Fairm 604 



Anomala discrepans, sp. u 504 



Heteronyx colossus, sp. u 505 



Cijphogastra wollastoni Waterh.., sp. n.. . 506 



Rhinoscapha demissa, sp. n 509 



Coptorrhynolms improvidus, sp. n 510 



LLvus mimiuaims, sp. n 511 



Aclees indignus, sp. n 512 



Orthorrhinus postoculatus, sp. n 513 



Alcides p>arenilieticus, sp. n 515 



A. hieomptus, sp. n 516 



Colohodes cavisquamis, sp. a 517 



Meroleptus hderosignatus, sp. n 518 



M. squalidus, sp. n. 520 



Pago 



Ptolycus nodosus, sp. n 521 



Ancliithyrus trimastus Heller, referred to 



Ptolycus 521 



Dysopirhinus costatus, sp. n 522 



Ectatocyba verrucosa, sp. u 523 



Lophocheirus wollastoni, gen. et sp. ii. . . 524, 525 



Arachnopus bipilagiatus, sp. u 526 



A. laiiceolatus, sp. n 528 



A. planatus, sp. n 529 



A. incanus, sp. n 530 



Sparganobasis subaruciaiiis, gen. et sp. n. 531, 532 



Ceropria papuana, sp. n 534 



C. intermedia Har.= C. insignis Chevr.. . .5-35 



Setciiis costipennis, sp. n .53-5 



Espites obscurus, sp. n 536 



Amarygmus viridiceneus, sp. n . 536 



A. utahwensis, sp. n 537 



A. wollastoni, sp. n 537 



Strongylium ivoUastoni, sp. n 538 



Mordella serieeobrunnea, sp. u .539 



Sessinia stotherti, sp. n 540 



PART I. 



Gilbert J. Arrow. 



[Received December 23, 1914 ; Eead March 9, 1915.] 



A CATx^LOGUE of the known Coleoptera of New Guinea and the adjacent islands, 

 compiled by the late G. Masters in 1888 (Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. iii. 

 parts 1 & 2), containing all the species described previous to that date, enumerates in 

 all two thousand and seventy-five. Probably those since described raise this total to 

 three thousand. Those collected during the present Expeditions number about two 

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