ALBERT

Description: It is for me a pleasure to contribute the following descriptions of chosen rarities to the Jubilary Volume in honour of the highly esteemed Prof. Dr. L. F. DE BEAUFORT and Prof. Dr. J. E. W. IHLE, of the University of Amsterdam.\nI wish to express my gratitude to Dr. J. WILCKE, Wageningen, and to Mr. W. F. BREURKEN, Amsterdam, for the execution of the drawings.

Description: Mr. E. A. CHAPIN (in \xe2\x80\x9cClassification of the Philippine Components of the Coleopterous family Cleridae\xe2\x80\x9d; Philipp. Jrn. Sc. Vol. 25, No. 2, 1924, p. 165\xe2\x80\x94 251) was the first to recognize the Thaneroclerinae as a distinct subfamily of the Cleridae, characterized chiefly by the broadly dilated anterior tarsi and the almost entire eyes. The discovery of a new species from Kashmir and of one from Sumatra has gradually led me to make a complete revision of this interesting group, in which I was very materially assisted by my friend Mr. P. VAN DER WIEL, who also executed all the figures, which accompany this paper, with one exception \xc2\xb9).\nFurther this work was supported very largely by the help of almost all important scientific institutions and that of some private collectors; most of these have entrusted to me all the materials which they possessed of this group. Therefore my grateful acknowledgments are due to: British Museum, London; Deutsches Entomologisches Institut der Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, Berlin\xe2\x80\x94Dahlem; Mr. F. C. DRESCHER, Bandoeng, Java; Mr. H. K\xc3\x94NO, Sapporo, Japan; Dr. D. MAC GILLAVRY, Bergen-Binnen (Netherl.); Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova; Mus\xc3\xa9um national d\xe2\x80\x99Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Museum nationale hungaricum, Budapest; Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel; Naturhistorisches Museum, Hamburg; Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien; Naturkundemuseum der Stadt Stettin; Mr. R. OBERTH\xc3\x9cR, Rennes; Mr. Maurice PIC, Digoin; Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden; Staatliche Museen f\xc3\xbcr Tierkunde und V\xc3\xb6lkerkunde, Dresden; University Museum, Oxford; U.S. National Museum, Washington; Dr. D. L. UYTTENBOOGAART, Heemstede; Zoologisches Institut der Universit\xc3\xa4t in M\xc3\xbcnchen; Zoologisches Museum der Universit\xc3\xa4t, Berlin.