Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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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.

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