the Species of Catascopus. 



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" To capture them was by no means easy, as they would get 

 under the trunk where it touched the ground, if closely pursued 

 and no friendly crevice was at hand. Many an hour have I 

 pleasantly spent in hunting them in the dense swampy forests of 

 Borneo. In Malacca and Singapore the spice of fear and danger 

 would be added to the interest of the sport, owing to the probable 

 vicinity of tigers, who might at any moment be watching us as 

 eagerly and with as deadly a purpose as we were watching the 

 poor Catascopi. 



*' However closely pursued I have never seen one of these insects 

 fly in the day time, neither do they come out at all into the light, 

 except to visit some part of the trunk they reside in, to which the 

 subcortical passages do not extend. The beautiful purple-banded 

 species from Borneo, C Schaumii, W. W, S., was brought to me 

 by some Dyaks engaged in felling trees in the swampy forests 

 near Sarawack. The species and individuals of this genus are 

 much more abundant in Malacca and Borneo than in the equally 

 luxuriant forests of the Molucas and New Guinea." 



Table showing the geographical distribution of the species of 

 Catascopus detected by Mr. Wallace. 



Species. 



Schaumii, W. W. S. .. 

 WaUucei, W. W. S. .. 



facialis, Wied 



aiigulatus, Chaud 



A)uensis, W, W. S. .. 



oxygonus, Chaud 



versicolor, W. W. S. .. 

 hrachypterus, Chaud. , . 



elegans, Chaud 



punctipenitis, W. W. S. 

 amoBiius, Chaud 



aculeatus, Chaud 



riigicoUis.'W. W. S. .. 

 licvipennis, W. W. S. . . 

 lavigatus. W. W. S. .. 

 elongatiis, W. W. S. .. 



cupripennis, Thorn 



aneus, W. W. S 



splendidus, W. W. S. . . 



Continent of 

 India. 



India, Malacca 

 Malacca . . .. 



Malacca . . .. 

 Singapore . . . . 



Singapore 



Singapore 



East Indian Islands. 



Sarawack. 



Wagiou ; Dorey ; Mysol. 



rernate; Batchian; Amboina; Ceram. 



Sarawack ; Ternate; Java; Macassar. 



Aru ; Dorey. 



Sarawack. 



Sumatra. 



Sarawack. 



JCelebes; Amboina; Ceram; Bat- 



\ chian ; Macassar. 



f Dorey; Aru; Tonda; Batchian; 

 \ Amboina ; Ceram. 

 Celebes ; Macassar. 

 iVI acassar. 

 Fonda. 



Batchian ; Aru ; Ternate. 

 Dorey. 



Sarawack. 

 Sarawack. 



Making nineteen species in all discovered by Mr. Wallace, 

 showing an addition of one species to the continent of India and 



