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Scarcely had I entered the forest when I found some beautiful little green and gold speckled weevils allied to the genus Pachyrhynchus, a group which is almost confined to the Philippine Islands, and is quite unknown in Borneo, Java, or Malacca. The road was shady and apparently much trodden by horses and cattle, and I quickly obtained some butterflies I had not before met with.
Underside of the mesothorax and metathorax with many greenish scales. Legs thick, polished, and with scattered grey hairs proceeding from the punctures. I have named this somewhat mourning Pachyrhynchus after Captain Owen Stanley and his father, the late venerable Bishop of Norwich and President of the Linnean Society.
A fine species of the class Crustacea, discovered by him, has been described and figured in the Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological Society. Chrysodema pistor, Laporte and Gory. Buprestidae, t. 6, f. 33. Mr. Pachyrhynchus stanleyanus.* Tab. 4 fig. 1, 2. Pachyrhynchus nigerrimus, maculis parvis squamosis plurimis viridiscenti-albidis. Habitat: Pariwara Islands, New Guinea. Four specimens.
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