SOME QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS SOMELID FAUNA OF THE RYUKYU ON THE CHRY-ARCHIPELAGO

Abstract

Recently the faunistic investigation of leaf beetles (or Chrysomelidae) of the Ryukyu Archipelago has been progressed remarkably. Those are mostly resulted by the project of " Zoogeography and Ecology of Pacific Area Insects" in connection with the Japan-U. S. Cooperative Science Program, "Scientific Expedition to the Yaeyama Group," organized by the Scientific Expediton Society of Kyushu University, " Scientific Expedition to the Tokara Islands " organized by the Osaka Museum of Natural History and so on.