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Trichoptera collected by Prof. J. Illies in New Guinea and New Caledonia

Abstract: The following are described: Caledonotrichia (n. g.) illiesi, C. minor, Cheu­ matopsyche amiena, and Gracilipsodes (n. g.) psocopterus from New Caledonia; and Chi­ marra sedlaceki, C. goroca, C. gressitti and Diplectrona triangulata from New Guinea. During the period of his expedition to Australia and New Zealand Prof. J. Illies also made collections on New Guinea and New Caledonia. Through his courtesy I have been able to study this material. The collections were not large in numbers, but during the short period that Illies work­ ed on New Guinea and New Caledonia no fewer than ll species were collected; all but 3 are described as new in this paper. Specimens captured on Mount Wilhelm in New Guinea are not included in this paper and will be described in a special study. The caddis flies of New Guinea are scarcely known and have been little studied. Ul­ mer (1915, 1938) described some species from New Guinea; Ross (1951) discovered 3 species of the genus Agapetus. As a result of a very intensive collection made by Miss Cheesman on her expedition to New Guinea, Kimmins (1962) wrote a fundamental study on Trichoptera of this region and described 50 new species, bringing the total recorded up to 86. On the other hand the Trichoptera of New Caledonia appear to be almost com­ pletely unknown. The first records of New Caledonian Trichoptera were by Kimmins (1953) who described 4 new species from this island. On the basis of this relatively poor material it is impossible to make any definite state­ ment on the affinities and origin of New Guinean and especially New Caledonian Tri­ chopteran fauna but the greater part of the species seems to be endemic. Except where noted, types described in this paper are deposited in the collection of Bishop Museum (BISHOP), Honolulu, Hawaii.

Associates of the coconut rhinoceros beetle in Western Samoa

Abstract: The genus is divided into the subgenus Franciscoloa, which includes all 9 species previously recognized in the genus in addition to a new species, erythropteri from Aprosmictus erythropterus, collected in New Guinea and the new subgenus Cacamenopon, which includes 2 new species, hodsoni and kiwi, both from Kakatoe ducrops, collected in the Solomon Islands. In a recent review of the genus Franciscoloa Conci, 1942, Price and Beer (1966) discuss the features in common to individuals in this genus and give descriptions for each of the 9 recognized species. It is the purpose of the present paper to describe 3 new species of Franciscoloa, and, at the same time, divide the genus into 2 subgenera, Franciscoloa and Cacamenopon. The subgenus Franciscoloa, with the type-species F. pallida (Piaget) ( = F . cacatuae Conci), includes all 9 species previously recognized in the genus in addition to a new species herewith described. Cacamenopon, new subgenus, is described to include 2 new species from a parrot of the Solomon Islands. I thank Dr J. L. Gressitt and Dr Nixon Wilson, Bishop Museum, for making these specimens available to me for study, and Mr P. Shanahan and Mr H. Clissold for their role as collectors of these specimens for the Bishop Museum. 1. Paper No. 6227, Scientific Journal Series, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101. 2. Partial results of fieldwork supported by a grant to the Bishop Museum from the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (G-65).

Notes on Neotropical Tabanidae (Diptera). 10. The species described by J. R. Schiner and others

Abstract: Notes are given on types of 37 species of Neotropical Tabanidae described by Sch iner, van der Wulp, Macqu art and others. Six new synonymies and 6 new combina­ tions are establi shed. Types or authentic specimens of 12 species are figured. This article concludes the results of a study of types of Neotropical Tabanidae under­ taken in 1964 with the aid of a travel grant from the Bache Fund of the National Academy of Sciences. I here include the results of studies of the types of J. R. Schiner and F. M. van der Wulp, to which are a dded notes on a number of species of Macquart, Bigot, Walker and Ricardo, which I either did not see in 1953 (Fairchild 1956) , or which need­ ed further clarification. Two species described by Krober which I saw too late to include in my notes on Krober's species are discussed here, as well as several species of other authors. Types of all 15 Neotropical species described by Schiner are in Vienna, and I am much obliged to Dr Max Beier for the privilege of studying them. The types of two of van der Wulp's species are in Amsterdam, one in Brussels and the remaining three apparently destroyed by pests. The location of the other types is stated in the discussion of each species. The species are discussed in alphabetical order, and listed at the end of the discussion, where the valid names are given in boldface.