Excerpt from Biologia Centrali-Americana, Vol. 15: Insecta; Coleoptera, Vol I., Part 1The present volume, the first of the Coleoptera of the Biologia centrali-americana, ' completes the first two families - Cicindelidae and Carabidae - of this great order of insects. Thanks chiey to the four years' researches of Mr. Champion in Guatemala and the State of Panama; the collections formed by M. Salle and Herr Hoge, supple mented by M. Boucard, M. Flohr, and others, in Mexico; the labours of Mr.

Belt in Nicaragua, and of Mr. Rogers and Van Patten in Costa Rica, material has been furnished to enable us to present an approximately complete fauna of the region embraced by our work in these two important families. Some parts of the region undoubtedly have not yet been sufficiently explored, and many additional species may be expected, as indeed is the case with other much better known parts of the world of similar extent; but enough is perhaps known to enable us to form some idea of the relations of the fauna in this department to those of other parts of America and other tropical countries. The few remarks which it seems necessary here to make on this subject must, however, be of a very general nature, a complete review being impossible from the circumstance that the Coleopterous fauna of no other tropical area of similar extent, at least in respect of the two families in question, has ever yet been worked out.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.

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