Excerpt from Notices of New or Little Known Genera and Species of Coleoptera Upwards of a thousand specimens, some nearly an inch long, although gene rally much smaller, enclosed in two large-sized pill-boxes, were transmitted by post in the ordinary way in a single letter. A Wine cork hollowed out in the middle, and a little trimmed at the sides, would be an excellent, and at all times available substitute for a box. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.