The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma: Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Cetoniinae and Dynastinae)

Abstract

THE beetles of India are an enormous subject, and the volume before us only deals with two sub-families of the great group Lamellicornia, the first of which, though comprising the well-known and extremely interesting rose-chafers, is only represented by a few species in Britain, while the Dynastinae, though a few species are found in southern Europe, is not represented in the British fauna at all. Two hundred and eighty-seven species of these two subfamilies are here described as belonging to the Indian fauna, but the editor's estimate of these being “perhaps less than one-sixth of the great ‘series’ of Lamellicornia,” is perhaps somewhat too high, when we consider that the Lamellicornia include the whole of the chafers, the sacred beetles, and the stag-beetles.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma: Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Cetoniinae and Dynastinae).

By G. J. Arrow. Pp. xiv + 322 + ii coloured plates, and 76 illustrations in the text. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1910.)