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Cheesman, L. E. 1937a. Origin of the Papua insect fauna. Nature 139: 1094-96, 1 fig.
Zoogeogr.
1937b. The Cyclops Mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Austral. Mus. Mag. 6 (6) : 193-98, 4 fig.
Lep., Col., Dipt., Hym.: Rei. abund. various orders insects in mountain forest.
1938a. The Cyclops Mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Geogr. J. 91 (1) : 21-30, lllustr.
Environment.
1938b. Megachiline bees of New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser ll, 1(3): 241-46.
Hym., Megachil.: Megachile regina*, elegans* Aru, NG.
1938c. The land of the red bird. 8vo London, p. 1-300, lllustr., map.
Popular. Collecting insects at Humboldt Bay, Lake Sentani, Cyclops Mountains (Neth. New
Guinea). Ants: p. 221-22; blue ant, p. 135-37; nocturnal ants, p. 182; red ants, p. 47,
62, 81, 183. bees, crickets, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes, parasitic wasps, pom­
pilid wasps, termites, tiger beetles.
1940. Two unexplored islands of Dutch New Guinea, Waigeu and Japen. Geogr. J. 95 (3) : 208-
17, ill.
Exploration
1943a. Japanese operations in New Guinea. Geogr. J. 101(3): 97-110, illustr.
Refers to dry areas 1) near Port Moresby, 100 miles long reaching to opposite Yule Island.
2) a 30 mile belt SE of Buna. Annual rainfall at Port Moresesby 32", at Kokoda nr.
higher peaks 232". Reference to "black bees" and mosquitoes.
1943b. The island of New Guinea. Nature 152 (3845): 41-43.
Geol.-geogr.; ins. fauna oriental.
1948. Bees of New Guinea and the New Hebrides. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser 12, 1 (5): 318-35.
Hym., Apoid.: Many n. spp.
1949. Six-legged snakes in New Guinea. A collecting expedition to two unexplored islands.
8vo London (G. G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.), p. 1-281, 31 pl., ll line illustr.
Popular; Waigiou, Japen I.
1951a. Old mountains of New Guinea. Nature 168(4275): 597.
NG geological history; Substance of paper read before Royal Entomological Society of
London, 15 Aug. 1951.
1951b. A collection of Polistes from Papuasia in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
ser 12, 4 (46) : 982-93.
Hym., Vesp.: Sev. spp., Polistes contrarius* t nigrifrons obdurus*, comis* Aru, Papua, NG.