( 245 ) IX. Notes on the Tyi)es of Oriental Caiabidae in the Stettin Museum. By H. E. Andrewes. [Read March 1st, 1922.] On becoming aware last year that the collection of the late Dr, Dohrn was now in the Stettin Museum, I wrote to the authorities there to ascertain if they would send me the types contained in it for examination. This they agreed to do, and Dr. Schroeder has recently been kind enough to send them ; I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks both to him and to Dr. Janse, who brought them from Stettin, for their assistance. Dohrn himself described, so far as I am aware, only three Eastern species, but he sent a number of insects to Putzeys, who described some of them and returned the types. Two species were also described by Chaudoir. I think it possible that other types may eventually prove to be at Stettin, but I have so far only traced twelve. One of these, Thlibops {Scapterus) dohrni Chaud. (Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1863, 117), is a little doubtful and cannot at present be found; Chaudoir does not say whether or not the type was unique, but Putzeys, in his Revision Generate des Clivinides (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1867, 10), tells us that he had seen two examples, one in Dohrn's collection and one in Chaudoir's. Mr. Rene Oberthiir informs me that the latter specimen is now in his collection. Either one of these might be the type. I have examined the remaining eleven specimens, and, as they do not appear to be at all well known, I give a list of them below, together with such comments as appear necessary. As will be seen, one of these specimens, though labelled as the type, proves not to be the one on which the description was drawn up. 1. Oxylobus asperulus Chaud. (Bull. Mosc. 1857, iii, 58; id. Mon, des Scaritides (i), 133). A $ specimen from Colombo. There is no doubt that this example is the type, for Chaudoir, in his Monograph, says he no longer has it in his possession. The species is not uncommon in Ceylon, and occurs also in South India in the Nilgiri and Palni Hills. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1922.— PARTS I, II. (JULY)
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