JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE 

 No. III.— 1873, 



A Contribution towaeds a Monograph of the Indian Passalidje, — 

 hy De. F. Stoliczka. 



[Eeceived 27tli April, read 7th May, 1873.] 



Some years ago, when I visited my veteran friend Dr. J. J. Kaup in 

 Darmstadt, I found him, quite unexpectedly, husily engaged with Passali- 

 D^. He urged me most strongly to collect Indian specimens, which I did ; 

 but the collection progressed so very slowly, — in spite of the very numerous 

 applications which I made for assistance, — that Kaup's Monograph of the 

 family appeared early in 1871* without my little contribution in the way 

 of Indian materials. 



When I saw that the geographical distribution of the PASSALiDJi; is so 

 very peculiar and interesting for the study of our Indian fauna, I resolved to 

 continue my researches, and to publish as far as possible a revised Monograph 

 of all the Indian species, with such little additions to the anatomy and de- 

 velopment, as might be obtainable. Of these points I shall, however, not 

 speak on this occasion ; they will be fuUy treated in my Monograph, which 

 will be accompanied with all the necessary illustrations. I will merely men- 

 tion that in India we meet with Passalid^ in those districts only which have 

 a Malayan fauna. No species is as yet known from the Himalayas west of 

 Nipal, or from any part of Central India or the Panjab. 



The object of the few following lines is chiefly to give a list of the In- 

 dian species with authenticated localities, together with diagnoses of the new 

 species which had lately come under my observation. I am sorry that I can- 

 not complete more fully the task which I undertook, but in the middle of pre- 

 * Berliner Eutomologisclie Zeitachrift, vol. xv. 

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