Economic Chrysomelid Beetles from New Guinea, with New Species.

Abstract

The following notes and descriptions concern species of the beetle family Chrysomelidae found associated with economic plants in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Most of the specimens were collected by Dr. J. J. H. Szent-Ivany and some by J. H. Ardley, Mrs. E. Anderson, J. H. Barrett, W. W. Brandt, W. E. Casey, A. Catley, B. G. Griffith, D. E. Hardy, F. Kingsford-Smith, T. C. Maa, C. D. Michener, J. Pendergast, J. Sedlacek and J. Sedlacek, Junior. In this paper 23 species are recorded, of which seven are described as new species. One new genus is described. I am indebted to Dr. Szent-Ivany for the privilege of studying the bulk of this material. I am grateful to Mrs. Maria Szent-Ivany for her painstaking preparation of the principal illustrations and to Miss Carol Nakashige for the drawings of the aedeagi.