United States or Montenegro ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The Physapoda, which will probably be soon incorporated with them, are likely to be numerous, though only one species has as yet been noticed. Order NEUROPTERA. "The list here given is chiefly taken from the catalogue published by Dr. Hagen, and containing descriptions of the species named by him or by M. Nietner. They were found in the most elevated parts of the island, near Rangbodde, and Dr.
M. Nietner, a German entomologist, who has spent some years in Ceylon, has recently published, in one of the local periodicals, a series of papers on the Coleoptera of the island, in which every species introduced is stated to be previously undescribed. Nat. COLEOPTERA. Buprestidæ; Golden Beetles.
Jerdan, in a series of papers in the thirteenth volume of the Annals of Natural History, has described forty-seven species of ants in Southern India. But M. Nietner has recently forwarded to the Berlin Museum upwards of seventy species taken by him in Ceylon, chiefly in the western province and the vicinity of Colombo. Of these many are identical with those noted by Mr.
Word Of The Day