ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 



CEYLON BRANCH. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL PAPERS; BEING CHIEFLY DES 

 CRIPTIONS OP NEW CEYLON COLEOPTERA, 



WITH SUCH OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR HABITS ? &C., AS 

 APPEAR IN ANY WAY INTERESTING. 



By J. Nietner, Esq., 



Member of the Society of Naturalists of Berlin, Entomological 

 Society of Stettin, &c, 



No, I. 



Introductory Note on the publication of New Species under 

 disadvantages such as describing Entomologists necessarily 

 labour under in countries remote from European centres 

 of science. 



I LITTLE doubt that the following descriptions of new 

 Coleoptera will meet with anything but approbation from the 

 Entomological world at home. As, however, in spite of this 

 anticipation of an ungracious reception, I do not for the 

 present intend to desist from my purpose of publishing such, 

 descriptions, I may as well try to vindicate this measure by 

 setting forth the reasons which induce me to consider the 

 difficulties which beset the path of the entomological author 

 in this country as not insurmountable. 



The objections raised against me will be these : — consider- 

 ing the state Entomological literature is still in — that is to 



