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Insects. 



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

 same number in Ke and Am : 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.y Damis Coritus, Gue?'., D. Sebae, Bois.y and four or five 

 other species, besides many beautiful Lycenid^e, 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 



Prionidae .... 



2 



Hydradephaga . . * 



3 



Cerambycidag 



35 



Brachyelytra 



6 



Curculionidae 



92 



Xylophaga, 6cc. . 



20 



Brucbidae and Anthribidae . 



35 



Lamellicoraes . 



18 



Brentbidae 



18 



Lncaiii .... 



3 



Heteromera 



42 



Fassali .... 



6 



Cleridae .... 



16 



BuprestidaB . 



23 



Malacoderma 



45 



Elateridae .... 



30 



Cyclica .... 



68 



LamiidsB .... 



77 



Tiimera .... 



13 



Lepidoptera, 229 species, 



viz. 







Papilionidae 



16 



Eryciiiidae 



2 



Pieridae .... 



12 



Lycenidae .... 



57 



Satyridae .... 



9 



Hesperidae 



18 



Nymphalidae 



33 



Motbs .... 



72 



Datiaidae . . • . 



10 







