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| Keywords: Malay Archipelago Beetles.jpg aurifaber <small> White 1853 </small><br/> Top right Megacriodes Saundersii Batocera saundersii <small> Pascoe 1866 </small><br/> Center Diurus furcellatus sic Diurus furcillatus <small>Gyllenhal 1833</small><br/> Bottom left Cladognathus tarandus Cyclommatus tarandus <small> Thunberg 1806 </small><br/> Bottom center Ectatorhinus Wallacei Ectatorhinus wallacei <small>Lacordaire 1866</small><br/> Bottom right Cyriopalpus sic Wallacei Cyriopalus wallacei <small>Pascoe 1866</small><br/> Remarkable beetles found at Simunjon River Borneo When I arrived at the mines on the 14th of March 1855 I had collected in the four preceding months 320 different kinds of beetles In less than a fortnight I had doubled this number an average of about 24 new species every day On one day I collected 76 different kinds of which 34 were new to me By the end of April I had more than a thousand species and they then went on increasing at a slower rate so that I obtained altogether in Borneo about two thousand distinct kinds of which all but about a hundred were collected at this place and on scarcely more than a square mile of ground The most numerous and most interesting groups of beetles were the Longicorns and Rhynchophora both pre-eminently wood-feeders The former characterised by their graceful forms and long antenna were especially numerous amounting to nearly three hundred species nine-tenths of which were entirely new and many of them remarkable for their large size strange forms and beautiful colouring The latter correspond to our weevils and allied groups and in the tropics are exceedingly numerous and varied often swarming upon dead timber so that I sometimes obtained fifty or sixty different kinds in a day My Bornean collections of this group exceeded five hundred species A R Wallace 1890 10th edition from http //www papuaweb org/dlib/bk/wallace/03 jpg PapuaWeb Drawn on wood by E W Robinson 1869 Context PD-old-100 Insects of Sarawak Aeolesthes aurifaber Batocera saundersii Diurus furcillatus Cyclommatus tarandus Ectatorhinus wallacei Cyriopalus wallacei Beetles in art The Malay Archipelago book E W Robinson Insects of Borneo | ||||
