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Insects 



New Guinea and the adjacent islands. I have obtained exactly the 

 same number in Ke and Aru : ten of these I can identify, the other 

 nine being, I think, new. About twenty other Coleoptera peculiar to 

 New Guinea I can also easily identify, and no doubt many others 

 among the small and obscure ones will also be found to be already 

 known from that country. In Lepidoptera I have four of the New 

 Guinea Papilios, Pieris Celestina, Bois., Satyrus Osiris, Bois., Emesis 

 Leosida, Bois., Damis Coritus, Giier., D. Sebas, Bois., and four or five 

 other species, besides many beautiful Lycenidae, which will be, I 

 think, quite new. In Hymenoptera and Diptera I am very rich, having 

 bestowed much attention on these orders. Fifty-nine species of ants, 

 collected in Aru, will add much to our knowledge of the distribution 

 of this interesting family. Of other Hymenoptera there are 155 spe- 

 cies, many of them large and fine. The flies contain many brilliant 

 and many curious things, and I am rather proud, amid the attractions 

 of Ornithopterae, Lomapterae, and Paradise birds, of having collected 

 185 species of this much-neglected order; and there are yet, I am 

 sure, many more of moderate size, and hundreds too minute for any 

 but a professed dipterist to attend to. 



Deducting the time lost by illness and in travelling, I had about 

 four months' clear collecting ; and I think I cannot do better than 

 give a list of the number of species obtained in the principal groups, 

 so that English entomologists may see what a New Guinea island 

 does really produce. 



Coleoptera, 572 species, viz. : — 



Geodephaga 



20 



PrionidEB .... 



2 



Hydradephaga . 



3 



Cerambycidae 



35 



Brachyelytra 



6 



Curculionidae 



92 



Xylophaga, &c. . 



20 



Biucliidae and Anthribidae . 



35 



Lamellicornes . 



18 



Brentliidce 



18 



Lucani .... 



3 



Heleromera 



42 



Passali .... 



6 



Cleridae .... 



16 



Bupreslidse 



23 



Malacoderma 



45 



Elaleridae ...» 



30 



Cyclica .... 



68 



Lamiidse .... 



77 



Tiimera .... 



13 



Lepidoptera, 229 species. 



viz. : — 







Papilionidte . . 



16 



EryciuidaD 



2 



Pieridae .... 



12 



Lycenidae .... 



57 



SatyridsB .... 



9 



Hesperidae 



18 



Nymphalidae 



33 



Moths .... 



72 



DanaidcB .... 



10 







