Descriptions Of New Genera And Species Of Coleoptera Vol 5 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera, Vol. 5 The ten new genera and 197 species herein described form a total of species of New Zealand Coleoptera now known; and, as it was impossible to examine all the specimens that were mounted and preserved, there can be no doubt that these remaining ones, when named, will increase the number to four thousand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera, Vol. 4 It contains descriptions of ten new genera and 173 species. All the new genera, and 140 Of the species, are the result Oi Mr. T. Hall's Skill and untiring perseverence, during the winter as well as the more favourable and pleasanter collecting seasons. Mr. A. E. Brookes, Of Mount Albert, discovered eleven, Mr. A. Philpott, of Invercargill, Six, Mr. H. W. Sim monds, of Wellington, Six, Mr. J. H. Lewis, one the remainder belong to my own collection. The delay In publishing my last paper, the work Of 1914, added greatly to the difficulties encountered when investigating the structural details of the species enumerated in the following list. Only those actually engaged in scientific work of this kind can form any idea of the complications created by inability to refer to printed descriptions Of previously named members of an Order now known to exceed four thousand species. Even the nomenclature, especially when species belong to genera represented in other parts of the world, has become a Very troublesome undertaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera Glossy. Head rufescent, thorax dark fuscous but broadly testaceous at the sides; elytra rufo-fuscous but. Becoming darker behind. Their sides and apices broadly testaceous; the legs. Palpi, and basal joint of the antennae also yellowish. Remaining articulations and the tibiae slightly rufescent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera, Vol. 7 Head, including the prominent eyes, longer and slightly broader than thorax, broadly depressed between the eyes, longitudinally strigose along side these, elsewhere densely, finely, and irregularly rugose or subgranular. Labrum pallid, transverse, subtruncate in front, with a simple triangular median tooth in the male, the outer angles obtuse. Thorax a fourth broader than long, its sides moderately rounded, somewhat abruptly contracted behind, more depressed across the base than near the apex, with a fine stria along the centre, its sculpture is dense, fine, irregularly rugose or sub granular: the duplicate lateral margins are for the most part distinct, but the upper or inner become obsolete towards the base. Scutellum large, triangular, minutely and closely sculptured. Elytra Oblong, slightly wider behind than at the base, a third broader and nearly five times longer than thorax, curvedly narrowed apically, with acute, slightly projecting sutural Spines, lateral bands with many concolorous punctures. Fern - Labrum fulvescent, with an indistinct short tooth at each side of the fuscous central one, the apex therefore appears bisinuate at each side; apical sutural spines of elytra variable, either quite indefinite or forming acute but not prolonged angles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Notices of New or Little Known Genera and Species of Coleoptera Upwards of a thousand specimens, some nearly an inch long, although gene rally much smaller, enclosed in two large-sized pill-boxes, were transmitted by post in the ordinary way in a single letter. A Wine cork hollowed out in the middle, and a little trimmed at the sides, would be an excellent, and at all times available substitute for a box. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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