Excerpt from Coleopterological Notices, Vol. 4The following pages are principally confined to studies in our Rhynchophora, taken up some time since for the sole purpose of distributing the nondescript material, forming a considerable part of my cabinet, with a measurable degree of scientific order and succession. As usual in such cases, the compass of the work gradu ally outgrew the limited and personal objects had in view at the beginning, and the investigations in several genera and groups became sufficiently advanced to suggest the propriety of publishing them, With the hope that they might prove useful to others similarly engaged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.